Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2018-02-04
Joe Rogan & Steven Pinker: books mentioned on The Joe Rogan Experience #1073
#1073 - Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker is a cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author. He is Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, and is known for his advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.
Steven Pinker discussed The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. Joe Rogan recommended Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Selfish Gene
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins is a prominent popular science book exploring evolution through a gene-centric view of natural selection.
Discussed“going back to Richard Dawkins his famous book The Selfish Gene where he posed the question how could niceness and generosity and cooperation evolve given that in Darwinian competition you'd expect the the most aggressive the most selfish to predominate”
Where to get it
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Enlightenment Now
Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker is a widely acclaimed book that uses data and numerous charts to argue for long-term human progress, global prosperity, and the triumphs of reason and science.
Recommended“thank you so much for being here your book one more time enlightenment now the reason science humanism and progress”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“absolutely so I second to last book the one just before my current book enlightenment now”
“absolutely so I second to last book the one just before my current book enlightenment now but the previous book was called the sense of style it was a writing manual where I began to began”
“he wrote the foreword to the french translation of the better angels of our nature”