Speakers: Rebecca Goldstein, Steven Pinker

Rebecca Goldstein is glamorous, incredibly bright and has a great sense of humour. Together with her husband, Steven Pinker, his generation’s most influential cognitive theorist, they form ‘America’s brainiest couple’ according to Salon magazine. Here they discussed Goldstein’s hilarious new novel, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God.

They explored the mystery of consciousness, the dynamic between reason and emotion and the pettiness of academic ambitions as well as simply tackling the very existence of God.