Tonight: Don't miss Steven Pinker and Tim Harford | Watch the Baillie Gifford Prize ceremony

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Rationality

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Tuesday, November 16th
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** Tonight: Don't miss Steven Pinker & Tim Harford
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This evening join 5x15 online for an enlightening discussion between renowned experimental cognitive scientist Steven Pinker and behavioural economist, broadcaster and writer Tim Harford.

In the twenty-first century, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding - and at the same time appears to be losing its mind. How can a species that discovered vaccines for Covid-19 in less than a year produce so much fake news, quack cures and conspiracy theorizing?

In his new book, Rationality, Steven Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are simply an irrational species - cavemen out of time fatally cursed with biases, fallacies and illusions. After all, we discovered the laws of nature, lengthened and enriched our lives and set the benchmarks for rationality itself. Instead, he explains, we think in ways that suit the low-tech contexts in which we spend most of our lives, but fail to take advantage of the powerful tools of reasoning we have built up over millennia: logic, critical thinking, probability, causal inference, and decision-making under uncertainty.
Rationality leads to better choices in our lives and in the public sphere, and is the ultimate driver of social justice and moral progress. Brimming with insight and humour, this is a conversation that will enlighten, inspire and empower.

Steven Pinker is an experimental cognitive scientist. Currently Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard, he has also taught at Stanford and MIT. He has won many prizes for his research, teaching, and his eleven books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Humanist of the Year, a recipient of nine honorary doctorates, one of Foreign Policy's 'World's Top 100 Public Intellectuals' and Time's '100 Most Influential People in the World Today'.

Tim Harford is a behavioural economist, BBC radio and TV presenter and award-winning Financial Times columnist. He offers a distinctive blend of storytelling, humour and intelligence. The presenter of the BBC’s More or Less and Fifty Things That Made The Modern Economy, FT columnist, Oxford Fellow and million-selling business author is a compelling storyteller on economics, management, psychology and the unexpected bits in between. Books include The Undercover Economist and How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers.

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** Steven Pinker and Tim Harford

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** The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction – Winner Announcement and Win the Longlist
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You can watch a livestream of the ceremony and find out who wins the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction 2021 via a video link - live from the Science Museum in London on Tuesday 16 November at 9.20pm. The livestream can be accessed on both Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/events/592471198567705)  or YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKDruKVpJ5s) .

During the ceremony you will hear from the judges as they talk through the shortlist, and the winner of the £50,000 accolade of the best non-fiction book of the year will be announced by Chair of Judges, and Literary Editor of The Sunday Times, Andrew Holgate.

There is also an opportunity for you to win the 13 books longlisted for this year’s prize, along with a mixed case of fine wine. Dazzlingly diverse in subject matter, the books longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize tend to share some common features: Originality in approach, diligence in research and the ability to make their readers see familiar and unfamiliar subjects through fresh eyes.

For a shot at winning, all you need to do is subscribe to Baillie Gifford’s monthly Trust magazine newsletter. Trust is full of insightful articles on the innovations that are transforming the way we live and work, along with exclusive author interviews and promotions from their busy literary sponsorship programme. The closing date is midnight on 5 December, allowing for the prize to be delivered in time for Christmas.

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