Rational Animals | Steven Pinker, Daniel Kahneman, Shami Chakrabarti

Philosophy For Our Times

English - November 03, 2020 11:49 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MB - ★★★★ - 260 ratings
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Are humans incapable of weighing up risk rationally? And are governments any better? Should we seek to reduce all risks and outlaw activity we deem dangerous?

Nobel Prize winning economist Daniel Kahneman, Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker and Labour MP, barrister and human rights activist Shami Chakrabarti explore risk, rationality and coronavirus. Anil Ananthaswamy hosts.

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