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Steven Pinker is an experimental psychologist who conducts research in visual cognition, psycholinguistics, and social relations. He grew up in Montreal and earned his BA from McGill and his PhD from Harvard. Currently Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard, he has also taught at Stanford and MIT. He has won numerous prizes for his research, his teaching, and his nine books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and The Sense of Style. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Humanist of the Year, a recipient of nine honorary doctorates, and one of Foreign Policy’s “World’s Top 100 Public Intellectuals” and Time’s “100 Most Influential People in the World Today.” He is Chair of the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary, and writes frequently for The New York Times, The Guardian, and other publications. His tenth book, is called Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress.
Recorded live at the Tabernacle in London on 21st March 2019.
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I like to think of Steven Pinker as a Greatest Hits Collector, who cherry picks the best ideas, the ones most likely to have created the best results, and who explains them eloquently and persuasively, and with humor and grace. Listening to Arthur Morey read Enlightenment Now can carry the emotional weight of a speech by Abraham Lincoln, or the hilarity of a Seinfeld episode.
1:15:38 “I myself am not a meditator, maybe I should be. Perhaps I would be less anxious and more mindful if I did”
Meditation is such an interesting and important subject but by its nature is so difficult to investigate objectively
Great interview; a work of cooperation by Amol Rajan and Steven Pinker.
Simon D Rattle, Conductor and Steven Pinker are like twins; and or look alike.
Damn good interviewer. We need more journalists that well read and intelligent.
Happiness has mildly increased.