Ep. 435: Steven Pinker Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

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4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Steven Pinker, a Canadian-born American cognitive scientist, psychologist, linguist, and popular science author. He is Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, and is known for his advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. He covers phenomena that have traditionally not been looked at scientifically such as: visual perception, war and peace, and differences in writing styles. He has authored numerous books with his most recent being, "The Sense of Style."

The topics are his books The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century and Blank Slate.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Evolution
Natural selection
War statistics
Cognitive science
Evolutionary psychology

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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

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0:00.0	This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.1	I am your host, Michael Covel.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.1	My guest today is Stephen Pinker.
0:35.6	He's an American cognitive scientist, psychologist, linguist, and popular science author.
0:42.6	He is the Johnson family professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University,
0:47.3	and is well known for his advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.
0:55.8	I won't name all of his books, but some that you may have read,
0:59.4	the blank slate, the stuff of thought, the better angels of our nature,
1:04.7	and most recently the sense of style.
1:08.1	I hope you enjoyed this conversation with Stephen Pinker.
1:18.1	I think one of the most fascinating things that I've read about your career, and we've
1:22.7	got a lot of, there's a lot of things that I want to talk about today in a short amount
1:25.9	of time.
1:26.7	Your career is very diverse, but I found it fascinating to see that I want to talk about today in a short amount of time. Your career is very diverse.
1:28.5	But I found it fascinating to see that you knew that you were an atheist at the age of 13.
1:35.5	Talk to that.
1:36.2	How did you come to that revelation as such a young man?
1:39.9	I don't think it was an explicit conversion or deconversion.
1:43.8	I just didn't devote a whole lot of thought to it.
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