In the following excerpt from his interview with Dr. Jordan Peterson, Dr. Hicks explains why he sees Cognition as an ongoing scientific enterprise — that it’s early days in a complex field — and why he is not a skeptic.
Here’s the full interview, with timestamps for sub-topics, filmed in Arizona in November 2024:
Related: Stephen Hicks’s essay “Objectivity for Actual Human Beings” and his books Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault and Nietzsche and the Nazis.
Peterson and Hicks’s first interview, in 2018, on diagnosing postmodernism and its history: