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My name is Ricardo Lopes, and I’m from Portugal. Thank you for visiting my podcast. Over the past few years, I have conducted and released more than 700 interviews and talks with experts and academics from a variety of areas and disciplines, ranging from the Arts and Philosophy to the Social Sciences and Biology. You will certainly find a subject of your interest covered here. New interviews are released on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays.
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Friday Jan 13, 2023
Friday Jan 13, 2023
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Victoria Dougherty is the author of The Bone Church, Welcome to the Hotel Yalta, and Cold. She writes fiction, drama, and essays that revolve around lovers, killers, curses, and destinies. Her work has been published or profiled in the New York Times, USA Today, The International Herald Tribune, and elsewhere. Her blog – COLD – features her short essays on faith, family, love, and writing. WordPress, the blogging platform that hosts some 70 million blogs worldwide, has singled out COLD as one of the Top 50 Recommended Blogs by writers or about writing.
This is our fourth talk. This time, we go through topics like the relationship between science and fictional literature; how to create compelling characters; issues with character development in recent superhero movies and villains; “realism” in art, and what it means; the limits of free speech and humor; and being “genuine”, trolling, and over-sharing on the internet.
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Thursday Jan 12, 2023
Thursday Jan 12, 2023
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Dr. Gregory Forth received his doctorate at Oxford and was a professor of anthropology at the University of Alberta for more than three decades. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and is the author of more than one hundred scholarly papers and several academic books. His latest book is Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid.
In this episode, we focus on Between Ape and Human. We first talk about Homo floresiensis: its discovery, its traits, and its relation to other hominins. We then get into the ethnographic work Dr. Forth did with peoples from the island of Flores. We go into more detail about the Lio people and their myth of the “ape-man”. We discuss if the “ape-man” could be H. floresiensis. We talk about the extent to which anthropologists can rely on people’s claims. Finally, we discuss how humans relate to (and think about) “not-quite-human” animals.
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Monday Jan 09, 2023
#728 Filipe Nobre Faria: The Evolutionary Limits of Liberalism
Monday Jan 09, 2023
Monday Jan 09, 2023
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Dr. Filipe Nobre Faria currently works as a researcher in ethics and political philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy of the Nova University of Lisbon. He applies the insights of the behavioral and evolutionary sciences to issues in social and political philosophy. He is the author of The Evolutionary Limits of Liberalism: Democratic Problems, Market Solutions and the Ethics of Preference Satisfaction.
In this episode, we focus on The Evolutionary Limits of Liberalism. We start with the premise of the book, and discuss what liberalism is; the opposing force of communitarianism; and individual preferences. We talk about free markets and liberal democracies in their capacity to satisfy preferences. We discuss the multilevel selection framework adopted in the book, and morality from an evolutionary perspective. We talk about moral types, and if it makes sense to distinguish between liberals and conservatives. We then discuss what really limits liberalism evolutionarily, individualism versus collectivism, and if liberal values will go extinct. Finally, we talk about the is/ought distinction.
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Saturday Jan 07, 2023
I Need Help
Saturday Jan 07, 2023
Saturday Jan 07, 2023
I need help. I’ve been struggling recently. Due to the awful effects of inflation, a few of my dear patrons had to cancel or reduce their support. Over the course of November and December 2022, I lost almost a third of my monthly support on Patreon.
In less than 5 years, I’ve already released more than 720 interviews, have many more scheduled to release, already have a full calendar until May 2023, and thousands of other potential guests on my list. I will release interview number 800 in June.
I’ve been doing my very best to bring you rigorous interviews on Science and Philosophy. I’ve been working very hard, and it takes a lot of time to prepare each interview.
People have been incredibly supportive in many different ways over the years, including with their very kind words about my work, and their encouragement.
The only thing I want is to be able to continue doing this work, which has been extremely rewarding.
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Friday Jan 06, 2023
Friday Jan 06, 2023
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Dr. Robert Talisse is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. His main area of research is political philosophy, with an emphasis on democratic theory and liberalism.
In this episode, we talk about pragmatism, democracy, and liberalism. We start by talking about what pragmatism is, and how it applies to political philosophy. We then discuss democracy, on what grounds it is justified, and the problems of pluralism and public ignorance. Finally, we talk about liberalism, and how it connects to democracy.
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Thursday Jan 05, 2023
#726 Cristina Moya: Ethnic Categories, and Social Effects on Reproduction
Thursday Jan 05, 2023
Thursday Jan 05, 2023
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Dr. Cristina Moya is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. She is an evolutionary anthropologist interested in how humans respond adaptively to culturally structured social worlds. Two main foci of her research are: intergroup interactions and social cognition; and cross-cultural variation in social effects on reproduction.
In this episode, we talk about ethnic categories, and social effects on reproduction. We start by defining ethnic categories, and we talk about their evolutionary bases; the fact that there is no correlation between “race” and culture; stereotyping, essentialism, and ethnocentrism; how people think about ethnic groups; child development; and gene-culture coevolution in ethnic psychology. We then get into social effects on reproduction, with a focus on the impact of family members. We discuss reproduction in industrialized societies; religiosity; and female-dispersing groups, and age at menopause. Finally, we talk about potential explanations for the demographic transition in industrialized societies.
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Monday Jan 02, 2023
#725 Sarah Mathew: Human Sociality, Cooperation, Reciprocity, and Warfare
Monday Jan 02, 2023
Monday Jan 02, 2023
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Dr. Sarah Mathew is Associate Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. She studies the evolution of human ultra-sociality and the role of culture in enabling it. She is especially interested in how humans evolved the capacity to cooperate with millions of genetically unrelated individuals, and how this links to the origins of moral sentiments, prosocial behavior, norms, and large-scale warfare.
In this episode, we talk about the evolution of human sociality. We start by talking about how human sociality differs from the sociality of other closely-related species, and what enables it. We get into perception errors, what they are, and how they impact reciprocity. We discuss how humans cooperate with an immense number of genetically unrelated individuals. We talk about what leads to warfare, and the phenomenon of moral injury and how it relates to PTSD. Finally, we talk about the role of culture in facilitating small-scale cooperation.
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Friday Dec 30, 2022
#724 Lucia Melloni: Consciousness, Language, and Neuroplasticity
Friday Dec 30, 2022
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Dr. Lucia Melloni is a Research Leader of the Neural Circuits, Consciousness and Cognition Group at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics. Her research areas include domain-general cortical computations, neural mechanisms by which the brain predictively controls sensory processing and perception, brain mechanism subserving language comprehension, and possibilities and limits of brain plasticity to restore cognitive functions.
In this episode, we talk about consciousness, language, and neuroplasticity. We start with consciousness, how it is studied in neuroscience, the neural correlates of consciousness, the hard problem of consciousness, and its causal power over behavior. We discuss conscious perception, and how language connects to consciousness. Finally, we talk about the limits of neuroplasticity.
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Thursday Dec 29, 2022
#723 William Harris - Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built
Thursday Dec 29, 2022
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Dr. William Harris is Professor Emeritus of Anatomy at Cambridge University and fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. He was head of the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience since its formation in 2006 until his retirement in 2018. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2007, and a member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation in 2012. He is the author of Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built.
In this episode, we focus on Zero to Birth. We talk about neural development, starting at its early stages, the genetic and environmental factors behind it, and how neural stem cells divide and proliferate. We get into post-natal brain growth, the regeneration of neurons, how different types of neurons develop, how the brain gets wired up and how neurons establish synapses. We also talk about critical periods in brain development, the limits of neuroplasticity, what is special about the human brain, and lateralization (with a focus on language and handedness). We end with a summary of the main messages of the book.
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Monday Dec 26, 2022
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Dr. Martin Lang is an Assistant Professor at Masaryk University investigating the evolution of ritual behavior and the relationship between anxiety and rituals.
In this episode, we first talk about synchrony in the context of ritual, its psychological effects, identity fusion, how rituals might help internalize norms, and the effects of religious music. We then get into anxiety, what induces it, and how ritualized behavior helps control it. We also talk about the psychological effects of extreme religious practices. We discuss the cultural evolution od moralizing gods, and the relationship between religiosity and prosociality. Finally, we talk about a complex adaptive systems approach to the study of religion.
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Friday Dec 23, 2022
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Dr. Bart Streumer is Professor and Vice-Dean at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Groningen. His expertise is in metaethics and ethics. He is the author of Unbelievable Errors: An Error Theory About All Normative Judgements.
In this episode, we talk about metaethics. Topics include: the questions metaethics deals with; moral concepts, moral truths, and moral facts; challenges to moral realism; Dr. Streumer’s metaethical stance, based on error theory; and what moral anti-realists get wrong.
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Thursday Dec 22, 2022
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Dr. Patrick McNamara is an Associate Professor of Neurology in the Department of Neurology at the BU School of Medicine and Professor of Psychology at National University, and Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience of Religion Project, along with Dr. Jordan Grafman. He is the author of The Cognitive Neuroscience of Religious Experience: Decentering and the Self.
In this episode, we focus on The Cognitive Neuroscience of Religious Experience. We start by talking about the use of neuroscience in the study of religion, the evolution of religion, its role in gene-culture coevolution, and religion as a transformational technology. We then go through decentering, the divided self, the cognitive mechanisms and brain conditions that give rise to religiosity, psychedelics, mystical experiences, supernatural agents, rituals, and the relationship between language and religion.
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Monday Dec 19, 2022
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Dr. Dimitris Xygalatas is Associate Professor in Anthropology and Psychological Sciences and head of the Experimental Anthropology Lab at the University of Connecticut. He has also served as President of the International Association for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Sciences of Religion. He is the author of Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living.
In this episode, we focus on Ritual. We first ask what is a ritual, and how common it is. We talk about the functions of rituals, and how they relate to meaning. We discuss the hypothesis that rituals drove the evolution of civilization. We talk about the individual and social benefits of rituals, and causal opacity as a feature of rituals. We discuss modes of religiosity theory, and get into fire-walking rituals, and the psychological effects of costly rituals. We also talk about the relationship between ritual and sexual selection, and the role that drugs play in some rituals. Finally, we discuss the benefits and obstacles to an interdisciplinary approach in the social sciences.
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Friday Dec 16, 2022
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Dr. Moshe Hoffman is a Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology and Lecturer at Harvard's Department of Economics. He applies game theory, models of learning and evolution, and experimental methods, to try to decipher the (often subconscious and subtle) incentives that shape our social behavior, preferences, and ideologies.
Dr. Erez Yoeli is a Research Scientist at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where he directs the Applied Cooperation Team (ACT). His research focuses on altruism: understanding how it works and how to promote it.
They are both authors of Hidden Games: The Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrational Human Behavior.
This time, we cover topics like strategic ignorance; learning, from the perspective of game theory; the hawk-dove game; where rights come from; why apologies work; why people buy luxury items; why people sometimes hide positive traits of achievements; evidence games; repeated prisoner’s dilemma, and human cooperation; how to promote cooperation and altruism; continuous vs. categorical norms, and how they arise; and how and why people develop passions.
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Thursday Dec 15, 2022
#717 Allan Horwitz - DSM: A History of Psychiatry’s Bible
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
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Dr. Allan Horwitz is Board of Governors Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Rutgers University. He has also chaired the Mental Health and Medical Sociology Sections of the American Sociological Association, as well as the Psychiatric Sociology Section of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. His research has focused on the sociology of mental health and illness. In addition, he has published several books, the most recent one being DSM: A History of Psychiatry's Bible.
In this episode, we focus on DSM. We start with a bit of the history of Psychiatry, and how the first psychiatric diagnoses appeared. We talk about the creation of the DSM, and its cultural impact. We cover three interpretations of the DSM: scientific progress; harmful impacts; and the social perspective. We talk about how mental disorders are researched, and their characteristics. We get into the DSM-5, and its promises. We discuss the merits and shortcomings of a biological approach to mental disorders. Finally, we talk about the future of the DSM, its positive impact, and what should be changed.
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Monday Dec 12, 2022
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Dr. Azar Gat is the Ezer Weizman Professor of National Security at Tel Aviv University, in Israel. He is the founder and head of the University's International Program in Security and Diplomacy Executive Master’s Program in Diplomacy and Security. His most recent book is Ideological Fixation: From the Stone Age to Today’s Culture Wars.
In this episode, we focus on Ideological Fixation. We start by addressing the premise of the book, and the current relevance of understanding ideology. We talk about ideology and its psychological foundations. We discuss what truth is, and the postmodernist challenge. We talk about the conflict between religion and science, and go through ideologies like liberalism, socialism, and fascism. We also discuss the ideological conflict between the “West” and the “Rest”, the biggest debates in contemporary liberal democracies, and the “culture wars”. We talk about intellectuals as the source of most ideologies. Finally, we discuss if having an ideology is something bad, how to best understand how ideologies develop, and if there are solutions for the current ideological conflicts.
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Friday Dec 09, 2022
#715 Lee Edelman - No Future: Theory and the Death Drive
Friday Dec 09, 2022
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Dr. Lee Edelman is Fletcher Professor of English Literature at Tufts University. Dr. Edelman began his academic career as a scholar of twentieth-century American poetry. He has since become a central figure in the development, dissemination, and rethinking of theory. His current work explores the intersections of sexuality, rhetorical theory, cultural politics, and film. He is the author of books like No Future: Theory and the Death Drive; and , or the Unbearable.
In this episode, we focus on No Future. Topics include: the relationship between symbolism and politics; the “Child”; reproductive futurism; fighting for the children; queerness and politics; sinthomosexuality; a culture of death; anti-homosexuality and anti-abortion movements; and antinatalism.
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Thursday Dec 08, 2022
#714 Robert Cialdini - Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Thursday Dec 08, 2022
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Dr. Robert Cialdini is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Arizona State University. He has spent his entire career researching the science of influence, earning him an international reputation as an expert in the fields of persuasion, compliance and prosocial behavior. He is the author of Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, a New York Times No. 1 bestseller, now in its third edition with over 5 million copies sold worldwide, and in over 40 languages.
In this episode, focus on Influence. We talk a bit about the psychology of compliance, and go through the seven principles of persuasion: reciprocation, liking, social proof, authority, scarcity, commitment and consistency, and unity. We talk about how Dr. Cialdini got at these principles. We discuss if there could be more principles, if they apply in any social context, if any of them is more important than the others, and what their goals are. Finally, we talk about how to learn and apply the principles, and how we can protect ourselves from manipulation and deception.
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Monday Dec 05, 2022
#713 Lucy Cooke - : On the Female of the Species
Monday Dec 05, 2022
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Lucy Cooke is a New York Times best-selling author, award-winning documentary filmmaker and broadcaster, National Geographic explorer and TED talker with a Masters in Zoology from the University of Oxford. Her latest book is : A Revolutionary Guide to , Evolution and the Female Animal.
In this episode, we focus on . We start by discussing the difference between and gender, and where assumptions regarding the female come from. We talk about behavioral differences, and how is defined. We go through sexual selection, and what females gain by mating with multiple partners. We talk about how the study of female genitalia has been neglected. We discuss if the female is an adaptation, and if there really is such a thing as a “maternal instinct”. We talk about mother-offspring conflict, and female intrasexual competition. We discuss primate societies, and phylogenetic comparisons. We talk about menopause and grandmothers. We discuss asexual reproduction, and if the Y chromosome is disappearing. Finally, we talk about the origins of gender inequality, and what needs to be revised in the field of evolutionary biology.
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A SPECIAL THANKS TO MY PRODUCERS, YZAR WEHBE, JIM FRANK, ŁUKASZ STAFINIAK, IAN GILLIGAN, LUIS CAYETANO, TOM VANEGDOM, CURTIS DIXON, BENEDIKT MUELLER, VEGA GIDEY, THOMAS TRUMBLE, AND NUNO ELDER!
AND TO MY EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS, MICHAL RUSIECKI, JAMES PRATT, MATTHEW LAVENDER, SERGIU CODREANU, AND BOGDAN KANIVETS!

Friday Dec 02, 2022
Friday Dec 02, 2022
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Dr. Lionel Page is a Professor of Economics and Director of the Behavioural and Economic Science Cluster at the University of Queensland. He is interested in understanding how people make decisions, alone or in groups. He is the author of Optimally Irrational: The Good Reasons We Behave the Way We Do.
In this episode, we focus on Optimally Irrational. We start by discussing what it means to be optimally irrational, and how rationality has been traditionally studied in economics. We talk about biases, replacing the H. economicus model, and adding an evolutionary lens to human behavior. We then go through some psychological phenomena, including rules of thumb and gut feelings; reference-dependence and loss aversion; overweighting the probabilities of extreme outcomes; preferences; kindness and reciprocity; emotions; commitment; social identity; indirect speech, ambiguity and innuendos; and overconfidence and self-deception. Finally, we discuss what rationality is.
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A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS/SUPPORTERS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, PER HELGE LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, JERRY MULLER, HANS FREDRIK SUNDE, BERNARDO SEIXAS, HERBERT GINTIS, RUTGER VOS, RICARDO VLADIMIRO, CRAIG HEALY, OLAF ALEX, PHILIP KURIAN, JONATHAN VISSER, JAKOB KLINKBY, ADAM KESSEL, MATTHEW WHITINGBIRD, ARNAUD WOLFF, TIM HOLLOSY, HENRIK AHLENIUS, JOHN CONNORS, PAULINA BARREN, FILIP FORS CONNOLLY, DAN DEMETRIOU, ROBERT WINDHAGER, RUI INACIO, ARTHUR KOH, ZOOP, MARCO NEVES, COLIN HOLBROOK, SUSAN PINKER, PABLO SANTURBANO, SIMON COLUMBUS, PHIL KAVANAGH, JORGE ESPINHA, CORY CLARK, MARK BLYTH, ROBERTO INGUANZO, MIKKEL STORMYR, ERIC NEURMANN, SAMUEL ANDREEFF, FRANCIS FORDE, TIAGO NUNES, BERNARD HUGUENEY, ALEXANDER DANNBAUER, FERGAL CUSSEN, YEVHEN BODRENKO, HAL HERZOG, NUNO MACHADO, DON ROSS, JONATHAN LEIBRANT, JOÃO LINHARES, OZLEM BULUT, NATHAN NGUYEN, STANTON T, SAMUEL CORREA, ERIK HAINES, MARK SMITH, J.W., JOÃO EIRA, TOM HUMMEL, SARDUS FRANCE, DAVID SLOAN WILSON, YACILA DEZA-ARAUJO, IDAN SOLON, ROMAIN ROCH, DMITRY GRIGORYEV, TOM ROTH, DIEGO LONDOÑO CORREA, YANICK PUNTER, ADANER USMANI, CHARLOTTE BLEASE, NICOLE BARBARO, ADAM HUNT, PAWEL OSTASZEWSKI, AL ORTIZ, NELLEKE BAK, KATHRINE AND PATRICK TOBIN, GUY MADISON, GARY G HELLMANN, SAIMA AFZAL, ADRIAN JAEGGI, NICK GOLDEN, PAULO TOLENTINO, JOÃO BARBOSA, JULIAN PRICE, EDWARD HALL, HEDIN BRØNNER, DOUGLAS P. FRY, FRANCA BORTOLOTTI, GABRIEL PONS CORTÈS, URSULA LITZCKE, DENISE COOK, SCOTT, ZACHARY FISH, TIM DUFFY, TRADERINNYC, SUNNY SMITH, AND JON WISMAN!
A SPECIAL THANKS TO MY PRODUCERS, YZAR WEHBE, JIM FRANK, ŁUKASZ STAFINIAK, IAN GILLIGAN, LUIS CAYETANO, TOM VANEGDOM, CURTIS DIXON, BENEDIKT MUELLER, VEGA GIDEY, THOMAS TRUMBLE, AND NUNO ELDER!
AND TO MY EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS, MICHAL RUSIECKI, JAMES PRATT, MATTHEW LAVENDER, SERGIU CODREANU, AND BOGDAN KANIVETS!

Thursday Dec 01, 2022
Thursday Dec 01, 2022
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Dr. Daniel Williams is a Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, and an Associate Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI). He works mostly in the philosophy of mind and psychology. His primary research interest at the moment is on how various forms of irrationality and bias are socially adaptive, enabling individuals to achieve social goals that are in conflict with epistemic goals.
In this episode, we talk about beliefs, rationalization markets, misinformation, and motivated cognition. We start with beliefs: what they are, where they stem from, and why we hold them. We discuss the social functions of beliefs, and get into socially adaptive beliefs, and their relationship with confabulation, rationalization, positive illusions, and identity-protective cognition. We talk about rationalization markets, politics, and understanding misinformation. Finally, we discuss absurd beliefs, irrationality, and motivated cognition, with a focus on motivated ignorance.
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A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS/SUPPORTERS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, PER HELGE LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, JERRY MULLER, HANS FREDRIK SUNDE, BERNARDO SEIXAS, HERBERT GINTIS, RUTGER VOS, RICARDO VLADIMIRO, CRAIG HEALY, OLAF ALEX, PHILIP KURIAN, JONATHAN VISSER, JAKOB KLINKBY, ADAM KESSEL, MATTHEW WHITINGBIRD, ARNAUD WOLFF, TIM HOLLOSY, HENRIK AHLENIUS, JOHN CONNORS, PAULINA BARREN, FILIP FORS CONNOLLY, DAN DEMETRIOU, ROBERT WINDHAGER, RUI INACIO, ARTHUR KOH, ZOOP, MARCO NEVES, COLIN HOLBROOK, SUSAN PINKER, PABLO SANTURBANO, SIMON COLUMBUS, PHIL KAVANAGH, JORGE ESPINHA, CORY CLARK, MARK BLYTH, ROBERTO INGUANZO, MIKKEL STORMYR, ERIC NEURMANN, SAMUEL ANDREEFF, FRANCIS FORDE, TIAGO NUNES, BERNARD HUGUENEY, ALEXANDER DANNBAUER, FERGAL CUSSEN, YEVHEN BODRENKO, HAL HERZOG, NUNO MACHADO, DON ROSS, JONATHAN LEIBRANT, JOÃO LINHARES, OZLEM BULUT, NATHAN NGUYEN, STANTON T, SAMUEL CORREA, ERIK HAINES, MARK SMITH, J.W., JOÃO EIRA, TOM HUMMEL, SARDUS FRANCE, DAVID SLOAN WILSON, YACILA DEZA-ARAUJO, IDAN SOLON, ROMAIN ROCH, DMITRY GRIGORYEV, TOM ROTH, DIEGO LONDOÑO CORREA, YANICK PUNTER, ADANER USMANI, CHARLOTTE BLEASE, NICOLE BARBARO, ADAM HUNT, PAWEL OSTASZEWSKI, AL ORTIZ, NELLEKE BAK, KATHRINE AND PATRICK TOBIN, GUY MADISON, GARY G HELLMANN, SAIMA AFZAL, ADRIAN JAEGGI, NICK GOLDEN, PAULO TOLENTINO, JOÃO BARBOSA, JULIAN PRICE, EDWARD HALL, HEDIN BRØNNER, DOUGLAS P. FRY, FRANCA BORTOLOTTI, GABRIEL PONS CORTÈS, URSULA LITZCKE, DENISE COOK, SCOTT, ZACHARY FISH, TIM DUFFY, TRADERINNYC, TODD SHACKELFORD, AND SUNNY SMITH!
A SPECIAL THANKS TO MY PRODUCERS, YZAR WEHBE, JIM FRANK, ŁUKASZ STAFINIAK, IAN GILLIGAN, LUIS CAYETANO, TOM VANEGDOM, CURTIS DIXON, BENEDIKT MUELLER, VEGA GIDEY, THOMAS TRUMBLE, AND NUNO ELDER!
AND TO MY EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS, MICHAL RUSIECKI, ROSEY, JAMES PRATT, MATTHEW LAVENDER, SERGIU CODREANU, AND BOGDAN KANIVETS!