Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, and a popular writer on linguistics and evolutionary psychology. Angela Tan interviews him about politics, language, death, and reasons to be optimistic.
Thomas Duddy & Irish Philosophy
Tim Madigan travels through time to seek the essential nature of Irish thought.
Irish Philosophy & Me
Cathy Barry charts her journey through historical Irish thought.
Edmund Burke & the Politics of Reform
Jon Langford outlines conservative insights gained from revolutionary failures.
Philip Pettit & The Birth of Ethics
Peter Stone thinks about a thought experiment about how ethics evolved.
Today’s edition features Harvard professor Steven Pinker. As an experimental psychologist, Steven has written extensively about violence – and for his choice from the gallery’s collection he has selected two of Pablo Picasso’s most gruesome depictions of man’s inhumanity, Charnel House and Guernica, now housed in Madrid.
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