Steven Pinker
Professor of Psychology and Director of the Centre of Cognitive Neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2 episodes
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Human Nature
Melvyn Bragg discusses human nature. Are humans born as blank slates and our natures are defined by upbringing and experience or is human nature innate and pre-destined, regardless of time and place?
7 November 2002
Also featuring: Janet Radcliffe Richards, John Gray
Language and the Mind
Melvyn Bragg discusses whether the formation of language is innate or cultural and examines how ideas about language are being radically challenged and altered in the 20th century.
11 February 1999
Also featuring: Jonathan Miller