Society & Culture: Philosophy

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Top episodes in Society & Culture: Philosophy

Russ Roberts & Stephen J. Dubner 20 Oct 2025 • EN

Twenty Years of Freakonomics (with Stephen Dubner)

Quantitative, contrarian, and nuanced: these are the hallmarks of the Freakonomics approach. Hear journalist and podcaster Stephen Dubner speak with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the 20th anniversary of the popular-economics book Dubner co-authored with Steven Levitt. They discuss how the book came to be, how the journ

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Sean Carroll & Steven Pinker 22 Sep 2025 • EN

Steven Pinker on Rationality and Common Knowledge

Getting along in society requires that we mostly adhere to certainly shared norms and customs. Often it's not enough that we all know what the rules are, but also that everyone else knows the rules, and that they know that we know the rules, and so on. Philosophers and game theorists refer to this as common knowledge.

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Freddie Sayers & Steven Pinker 06 Oct 2025 • EN

Steven Pinker: Questions that shouldn't be asked

Freddie Sayers sits down with renowned cognitive psychologist, author, and Harvard Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker to discuss his latest book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows... and explore how common knowledge shapes our social, political, and economic worlds. Their conversation delves into the power and

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Coleman Hughes & Steven Pinker 29 Sep 2025 • EN

Steven Pinker on How Common Knowledge Rules Our Lives

Recorded live at the Comedy Cellar in New York City: I sat down with Steven Pinker, Harvard psychologist, best-selling author, and world-class debunker of doom, to talk about his new book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows…:Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life.  We got into this i

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Russ Roberts & Steven Pinker 22 Sep 2025 • EN

Steven Pinker on Common Knowledge

Why are Super Bowl ads so good for launching certain kinds of new products? Why do we all drive on the same side of the road? And why, despite laughing and crying together, do we often misread what others think? According to bestselling author and Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, it all comes down to common knowledg

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Coleman Hughes & Nicholas Wade 13 Oct 2025 • EN

Can Evolution Explain Our Politics? Nicholas Wade Thinks So

Nicholas Wade is a former science writer for The New York Times and author of several books on human evolution, including A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race, and Human History and his new book, The Origin of Politics: How Evolution and Ideology Shape the Fate of Nations. Today, I invite Wade on to discuss some of t

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