Episode 44, The Steven Pinker Interview

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Jack Symes | Andrew Horton, Oliver Marley, and Rose de Castellane

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4.8 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

As Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, Steven Pinker’s list of accomplishments is incredible; he has been named Humanist of the Year, a top “100 Global Thinker” by Foreign Policy and included in Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World Today.”

Steven has also been awarded eight honorary doctorates and his research on language, vision and social relations has won prizes from the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Institution of Great Britain, the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, the American Psychological Association, and the Association for Psychological Science.

Needless to say, that Steven’s work has been deeply influential. Amongst his most well-read works, Steven in the author of, The Language Instinct, How The Mind Works, Words and Rules, The Blank Slate, The Stuff of Thought, Better Angels of Our Nature, and most recently, Enlightenment Now.

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0:00.0	As Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, Stephen Pinker's list of accomplishments is incredible.
0:13.3	He has been named Humanist of the Year, a top 100 global thinker by foreign policy, and included in Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world today.
0:22.9	Stephen has also been awarded eight honorary doctorates and his research on language vision and social relations
0:28.2	has won prizes from the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Institution of Great Britain,
0:33.2	the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, the American Psychological Association, and the Association for
0:39.2	Psychological Science. Need us to say that Stephen's work has been deeply influential. Amongst
0:45.0	his most well-read works, Stephen is the author of The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works,
0:50.4	Words and Rules, The Blank Slate, The Stuff of thought, the better angels of our nature,
0:56.0	and most recently, Enlightenment Now.
0:58.3	Links to all of these works can be found on our website.
1:01.8	In this episode, we're going to be talking to Stephen Pinker about his latest book, Enlightenment Now.
1:07.1	We highly recommend picking up a copy of the book.
1:09.7	A link is in our iTunes description. We're also giving away three copies of Enlightenment now. So head over to our Twitter page or our Facebook page to be in with a chance of winning. Thank you as well to all of our listeners who submitted questions for today's interview. We received over 150 questions from you. That's just not viable, as I'm sure
1:29.7	you'll understand, to include in this episode. What we did is we took all the main themes from
1:34.4	those questions and used them to inform our questions for today. We do apologise that you
1:39.6	haven't been named specifically. Hopefully we've had chance to get your question answered
1:43.9	today. We recommend
1:45.3	just tweeting Stephen directly at at S.A. Pinker and we're forwarding them onto him as well for him
1:51.0	to look at in his own time. So you never know you might be referenced by him in the future.
1:57.0	Well, I wouldn't count on it.
2:21.7	Hello and welcome to episode 44 of the Pan Scicast. I'm Jack Symes. I'm joined once again by the Enlightened Mr Andrew Horton. Hello. The progressophobic, Mr. Oli-Marly. Hello.
2:27.9	And Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, Stephen Pinker. Wow. So, Stephen, the question we ask all of our guests to start
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