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EPISODE · Sep 25, 2025 · 17 MIN

Steven Pinker and Enlightenment Philosophy

from The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast · host Robert West

In this episode, Dr West reviews Steven Pinker's version of Enlightenment philosophy as a way of summing up how thinking and rationality have been traditionally portrayed in mainstream Psychology - and how this explains mainstream views about LLMs

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