Podcast Mentions
Rationality What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
Steven Pinker
NEW YORK TIMES
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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Steven Pinker listed Rationality as one of his earlier books and later recalled writing it during a discussion about his bibliography.
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His books are Rationality, Enlightenment Now. That's a great one. The Blank Slate, The Sense of Style, and his new book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...
— Episode: Steven Pinker Returns (on common knowled...
Episode: Steven Pinker Returns (on common knowledge)
Steven Pinker listed Rationality as one of his earlier books and later recalled writing it during a discussion about his bibliography.
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His books are Rationality, Enlightenment Now. That's a great one. The Blank Slate, The Sense of Style, and his new book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...
And I wrote a book called Rationality. That's right.
Podcast
Honestly with Bari Weiss
It was mentioned as one of Steven Pinker's nine books and discusses rationality, its scarcity and why it matters.
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He's the author of nine books, including Enlightenment Now, The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, and most recently, Rationality, What It Is, Why It Seemed Scarce, and Why It Matters.
— Episode: Steven Pinker: Why Smart People Believe...
Episode: Steven Pinker: Why Smart People Believe Stupid Thi...
It was mentioned as one of Steven Pinker's nine books and discusses rationality, its scarcity and why it matters.
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He's the author of nine books, including Enlightenment Now, The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, and most recently, Rationality, What It Is, Why It Seemed Scarce, and Why It Matters.
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The Jordan Harbinger Show
It was discussed in the context of how human risk and probability assessments are often driven by narratives and anecdotes rather than data, and the importance of considering data and graphs when forming beliefs about the world.
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I also go into the psychology and more detail in my new book rationality which is among other things about how our sense of risk and probability and prevalence are driven by images and anecdotes and n...
— Episode: 593: Steven Pinker | Why Rationality See...
Episode: 593: Steven Pinker | Why Rationality Seems Scarce
It was discussed in the context of how human risk and probability assessments are often driven by narratives and anecdotes rather than data, and the importance of considering data and graphs when forming beliefs about the world.
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I also go into the psychology and more detail in my new book rationality which is among other things about how our sense of risk and probability and prevalence are driven by images and anecdotes and narratives and not by data.
Episode: 593: Steven Pinker | Why Rationality Seems Scarce
It was discussed as a book that delves deeper into the psychology of risk, probability, and prevalence, explaining how our sense of these is driven more by images and anecdotes than data.
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I also go into the psychology and more detail in my new book rationality which is among other things about how our sense of risk and probability and prevalence are driven by images and anecdotes and narratives and not by data.
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The Daily Stoic
The podcast host interviewed Steven Pinker about his book, focusing on the pursuit of rationality, effective altruism, and the role of institutions in protecting the common good. They also discussed its connection to Pinker's previous works, such as "Better Angels of Our Nature."
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This new book is great, I read it, I really enjoyed it, we talked about that in the interview.
— Episode: Steven Pinker on the Pursuit of Rational...
Episode: Steven Pinker on the Pursuit of Rationality | Neve...
The podcast host interviewed Steven Pinker about his book, focusing on the pursuit of rationality, effective altruism, and the role of institutions in protecting the common good. They also discussed its connection to Pinker's previous works, such as "Better Angels of Our Nature."
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This new book is great, I read it, I really enjoyed it, we talked about that in the interview.
We also talked about his book, The Language Instinct, his book The Blank Slate and most famously and most provocatively and more recent, his book Better Angels is about the decline of violence and the progress we've made as a species.
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