Stephen Fry Meets Steven Pinker - The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Stephen Fry Meets Steven Pinker - The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

In anticipation of Steven Pinker's return to How To Academy later this month, this episode of the podcast revisits his conversation with Stephen Fry on stage in London in 2018. The challenges we face today are formidable, including inequality, climate change, Artificial Intelligence and nuclear weapons. But the way to deal with them is not to sink into despair or try to lurch back to a mythical idyllic past; it's to treat them as problems we can solve, as we have solved other problems in the past. In conversation with actor and author Stephen Fry, Steven Pinker makes the case for an Enlightenment newly recharged for the 21st century, urging us to use our faculties of reason and sympathy to solve the problems that inevitably come with being products of evolution in an indifferent universe. We will never have a perfect world, but - defying the chorus of fatalism and reaction - we can continue to make it a better one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Denne episoden er hentet fra en åpen RSS-feed og er ikke publisert av Podme. Den kan derfor inneholde annonser.

Episoder(527)

Therapist Emmy van Deurzen – The Philosopher’s Guide to Everyday Existence

Therapist Emmy van Deurzen – The Philosopher’s Guide to Everyday Existence

How can we find our own direction and purpose in a world of endless possibilities? When life feels too much, is it possible to free ourselves from the concerns that weigh us down? Psychotherapist and...

9 Jul 1h 6min

Bill Browder and Jamison Firestone: Chaos and Murder in Putin's Russia

Bill Browder and Jamison Firestone: Chaos and Murder in Putin's Russia

Neither Bill Browder, a hedge fund manager, nor Jamison Firestone, a corporate lawyer ever intended to become activists fighting the Russian government. Both were building businesses in Moscow, great...

7 Jul 1h 15min

Tom McTague – Britain in Europe: The Hidden History of a Revolution

Tom McTague – Britain in Europe: The Hidden History of a Revolution

How did a country go from joining the Common Market in 1973, only to leave the European Union in an explosive referendum a little over forty years later? Acclaimed political writer Tom McTague chronic...

30 Jun 57min

Malala Yousafzai - Finding My Way

Malala Yousafzai - Finding My Way

Thrust onto the public stage at just fifteen years old after the Taliban’s brutal attack on her life, Malala quickly became an international icon — but away from the cameras and crowds, she was a youn...

26 Jun 1h 19min

M. John Harrison - The End of Everything

M. John Harrison - The End of Everything

One of the leaders of British science fiction's 1960s New Wave, M. John Harrison has spent the subsequent five decades inventing new and exhilarating literary worlds that push against the boundaries o...

23 Jun 44min

Antonia Senior – The Cambridge Five and the Making of The Soviet Empire

Antonia Senior – The Cambridge Five and the Making of The Soviet Empire

Why did five gilded, charming men, blessed with brains, beauty, and opportunity, choose to betray their country? During their time at Cambridge University in the 1930s, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Ki...

23 Jun 55min

Mark Williamson – How To Live a Happier Life

Mark Williamson – How To Live a Happier Life

What does it mean to be happy? Whilst it’s not always possible to change our circumstances, Action for Happiness founder Mark Williamson believes that we all have the potential to take action to feel ...

16 Jun 1h 1min

Carol Cadwalladr Meets Karen Hao - Sam Altman, ChatGPT, and the Global Resistance

Carol Cadwalladr Meets Karen Hao - Sam Altman, ChatGPT, and the Global Resistance

Karen Hao joins The Nerve's Carole Cadwalladr for an eye-watering insider account of Sam Altman’s Open AI and the burgeoning resistance against it. When it comes to Artificial Intelligence, what do w...

13 Jun 1h 15min

Populært innen Fakta

fastlegen
dine-penger-pengeradet
relasjonspodden-med-dora-thorhallsdottir-kjersti-idem
rss-kunsten-a-leve
foreldreradet
treningspodden
mikkels-paskenotter
sinnsyn
rss-strid-de-norske-borgerkrigene
jakt-og-fiskepodden
gravid-uke-for-uke
rss-sarbar-med-lotte-erik
fryktlos
uroskolen
hverdagspsyken
rss-mind-body-podden
rss-impressions-2
rss-var-forste-kaffe
takk-og-lov-med-anine-kierulf
level-up-med-anniken-binz