Archive - Against Habit

#91: Nick Seaver on How Technology Shapes Taste Earlier this week, my colleague Adam Mastroianni published an essay on what he called "cultural oligopoly." An increasingly smaller number of artists…

May 6

#90: Stephen Kosslyn on How We Conceptualize the World Stephen Kosslyn is a foundational figure in the field of cognitive science. It is only fitting that he is the final guest in my Cognitive Revolution…

Apr 26

#89: Tom Griffiths on Formalizing the Mind Tom Griffiths is Professor Psychology and Computer Science at Princeton University, where he directs the Computational Cognitive Science Lab. Tom uses…

Apr 25

#88: Leyla Isik on Combining the Rigorous with the Realistic Leyla Isik is Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University. She did her PhD at MIT with Nancy Kanwisher and…

Apr 20

Re-Viewed: "Heart of Darkness"The Congo, Anthony Bourdain, and the Nightmare of One's Choice.

Apr 14

#87: Antonio Damasio on When Self Comes to Mind Cognitive Revolution | The famous neuroscientist muses on his life in science and writing.

Apr 12

Winter Round-up: Books, TV, & Movies This season's theme: leaning into more complicated narratives. Featuring — Jonathan Franzen, Cixin Liu, Rachel Cusk, Salley Rooney, Adam Grant, David…

Apr 6

#86: Tom Pettigrew on How Experience Shapes Belief Tom is the progenitor of intergroup contact theory in social psychology. In this episode, we talk about where the ideas behind that theory came from.

Apr 4

Where Good Ideas Come From Charles Duhigg says that habits will take you to the next level. But he isn't telling you the whole story. This is Exhibit A in the case against habit.

Mar 27

New Name!!I'm making some changes to the platform. The podcast is no longer Cognitive Revolution. I'm calling it: Against Habit.

Mar 22

These were the notes I took when the whole thing went down.

Mar 15

#85: Alan Fiske on Why It's Hard to Understand Humans This week’s guest is Alan Fiske. Alan is a professor of anthropology at UCLA, who is known for his unique brand of mixing approaches from psychology and…

Mar 8

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