LOAF Season 5 Ep. 4 - Steven Pinker
Manage episode 404272834 series 3531293
Join us on The LOAF Podcast as we sit down with Dr Steven Pinker, cognitive psychologist at Harvard, prolific author, and public intellectual.
Dr Pinker is renowned for his academic work in language acquisition, his defence of the computational theory of mind, and visual cognition. Aside form his academic work, he writes for a popular audience about rationality, human progress, the decline of violence, and much more.
In this episode we discuss cognitive biases, the border between pseudoscience and science, free speech, Trump, and inequality.
40 episodes