#328 Iris Berent - The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason About Human Nature
RECORDED ON April 2nd, 2020.
Dr. Iris Berent is Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, US. Her research examines the nature of linguistic competence, its origins, and its interaction with reading ability. She’s the author of the book The Phonological Mind. She is also the author of a new book, The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason About Human Nature.
In this episode, we talk focus on Dr. Berent’s new book, The Blind Storyteller. Topics include: the empiricist-nativist debate; core knowledge; dualism and essentialism; ideas and emotions; embodied cognition; neuroscience; psychiatric disorders and dyslexia; and the afterlife.
Time Links:
The main thesis of the book
The empiricist-nativist debate
About core knowledge
Empiricist biases arise from (innate) core knowledge
Dualism and essentialism
How we think about emotions
Embodied cognition
The allure of neuroscience
People’s intuitions about psychiatric disorders
The case of dyslexia
The afterlife
Follow Dr. Berent’s work!
Follow Dr. Berent’s work:
Faculty page: https://bit.ly/34bdSOD
Phonology and Reading Laboratory: https://bit.ly/3ayWpC6
Amazon page: https://amzn.to/2UZRvHG
The Blind Storyteller: https://amzn.to/2JAcdZy