Decision-making with Daniel Kahneman and Michael Ignatieff
Tom Sutcliffe looks at decision-making with Nobel-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman, former politician Michael Ignatieff, brain surgeon Henry Marsh and writer Lisa Appignanesi.
Tom Sutcliffe discusses how we make decisions with the Nobel prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman. Moral choices in politics can be a complicated business, according to the academic and former politician Michael Ignatieff, who explores whether the age of international intervention is over. Doctors work under the oath 'do no harm', but the neurosurgeon Henry Marsh says the decision whether to operate on a brain is rarely that simple. High emotion can cloud your judgement and the writer Lisa Appignanesi looks back at sensational crimes of passion to ask how far the perpetrators were responsible for their actions.
Producer: Katy Hickman.
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Daniel Kahneman
A Nobel laureate in economics, Daniel Kahneman is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Princeton University and Professor of Psychology Public Affairs Emeritus at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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Daniel is giving a talk, ‘how to: Thinking, Fast and Slow’, on Tuesday 18 March at the Methodist Central Hall in London at 7.15pm.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow is published by Penguin.
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Henry Marsh
Henry Marsh is Consultant Neurosurgeon at Atkinson Morley's/St George's Hospital in London.
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Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
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Lisa Appignanesi
Lisa Appignanesi is a writer, novelist and broadcaster.
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Trials of Passion: Crimes in the Name of Love and Madness is published by Virago.
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Michael Ignatieff
Michael Ignatieff is an author, academic and former politician.
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He is giving a talk at Chatham House, 'Is the Age of Intervention Over?', on Wednesday 19 March at 6.00pm.
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Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics is published by Harvard University Press.
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In the studio
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Tom Sutcliffe |
| Interviewed Guest | Daniel Kahneman |
| Interviewed Guest | Michael Ignatieff |
| Interviewed Guest | Henry Marsh |
| Interviewed Guest | Lisa Appignanesi |
| Producer | Katy Hickman |
Broadcasts
- Mon 17 Mar 2014 09:00Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
- Mon 17 Mar 2014 21:30Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
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