Evolution, Human Universals, Arts, and Literature w/ Patrick Colm Hogan

Hi, everybody! Today, I have an interview with Dr. Patrick Colm Hogan for you. Dr. Colm Hogan is Distinguished Professor of the Department of English, and the Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, at the University of Connecticut, US. His specialties are: literary theory, cognitive and affective science of literature, and world literature. He’s the author of several books, including The Mind and Its Stories, What Literature Teaches Us About Emotion, and Beauty and Sublimity.

In this episode, we talk about human universals. First, we discuss what are human universals, and how we can determine them. Then, we talk more specifically about aesthetic human universals, including their evolutionary bases; sexual selection; Individual and social experiences of aesthetics; universals in literary fiction; the social function of literature; and literature, storytelling and theory of mind.

Complete: https://youtu.be/pcbSQQEfiZc Part 1: https://youtu.be/zdpGuOHv4O0 Part 2: https://youtu.be/et1OvryJ0B8

Links to podcast version (Anchor). Complete: https://tinyurl.com/y8dhsdg2 Part 1: https://tinyurl.com/y85j8g72 Part 2: https://tinyurl.com/yb3jxfop