The Dissenter
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.
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.
Episodes

Tuesday Jun 04, 2019
#88 David Buss: Evolutionary Psychology, and the Basics of Human Mating
Tuesday Jun 04, 2019
Tuesday Jun 04, 2019
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Dr. David Buss is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He’s one of the founders of the field of evolutionary psychology. His primary research focus is on strategies of human mating. He’s the author of many books, including The Evolution of Desire, and the first textbook in Evolutionary Psychology, Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind.
In this episode, we start off by talking a bit about Dr. Buss’ background, and what led him to Evolutionary Psychology. Then, we get into his research on human mating, from the conceptual foundations to universal differences in mate preferences, and mate retention tactics. We also discuss how modern technology might be tweaking our brains into preferring short-term mating strategies, namely with things like dating websites and online pornography. And we finish with some current work he’s doing on sexual morality, and if all of this knowledge can help couples with their intimate relationships.
Time Links:
00:51 How Dr. Buss got into Evolutionary Psychology
05:13 What is Evolutionary Psychology?
08:35 Basic concepts to understand human mating
18:59 Universal differences in mate preferences
28:46 Mate retention tactics and jealousy
41:15 Sexual effects of dating websites and online pornography
47:40 Sexual morality
51:20 Can we use Evo Psych to improve intimate relationships?
54:03 Follow Dr. Buss’ work!
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Buss Lab: https://labs.la.utexas.edu/buss/
Articles on Researchgate: https://tinyurl.com/ycfdj4a2
Books: https://tinyurl.com/ybpered3
Twitter handle: @ProfDavidBuss
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Monday Jun 03, 2019
Monday Jun 03, 2019
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Dr. Helen Fisher is a biological anthropologist, and a Senior Research Fellow at The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University. She has written six books on the evolution, biology, and psychology of human sexuality, monogamy, adultery and divorce, gender differences in the brain, the neural chemistry of romantic love and attachment, human biologically-based personality styles, why we fall in love with one person rather than another, hooking up, friends with benefits, living together and other current trends, and the future of relationships-- what she calls: slow love. She’s the author of books like Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love, Why Him? Why Her?: How to Find and Keep Lasting Love, and Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray.
In this episode, we focus on romantic love. We start off by talking about its evolutionary and neurobiological bases. We also refer to differences and the extent to which they apply to romantic love. We go through the main symptoms of love that occur cross-culturally, as well as the hormones and neurotransmitters associated with it. Then, we discuss the several factors that go into who people fall in love with, including personality types. We also talk about the pattern of 3-4 years of romantic relationships in humans, and what’s being it, and if we can really talk about a preferred mating system in humans. We focus on the problems associated with polyamory relationships, and also on slow love as a possible preferred approach to relationships in the future.
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The Anatomy of Live website: https://theanatomyoflove.com/
Helen Fisher’s Personality Test: https://bit.ly/2pE7ONo
Amazon Page: https://amzn.to/2P7mazL
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Monday Jun 03, 2019
#87 Helen Steward: Philosophy of Action, Free Will, Moral Responsibility
Monday Jun 03, 2019
Monday Jun 03, 2019
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Dr. Helen Steward is a Professor of Philosophy of Mind and Action at the University of Leeds, in the UK. Her research focusses on Philosophy of Action, Free Will, Philosophy of Mind and Metaphysics. In February 2015 she was awarded a Research Leadership Fellowship by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. She’s an associate editor for the journal Philosophical Explorations. And she’s also the author of the books The Ontology of Mind, and A Metaphysics for Freedom.
In this episode, we talk about Philosophy of Action. What is the importance of understanding action and what causes action in studying agency and free will; action as downward causation; how to deal with other animals at a moral level; and the relationship between free will, determinism, moral responsibility, and social stability.
Time Links:
00:57 Why is it important to understand how we produce actions?
03:54 What causes actions?
08:36 The relationship between agency, action, and free will
15:17 What is an agent?
18:07 Action as downward causation
23:17 Studying agency in other animals to better understand free will
27:01 If other animals are agents, do they stand on the same moral level as we do?
30:48 Does lack of free will imply inevitable actions?
35:00 The relationship between free will and moral responsibility
39:23 Should people and legislators know that we don’t have free will?
44:39 Where to follow Dr. Steward’s work
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Books: https://tinyurl.com/yb7wazo5
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Friday May 31, 2019
#184 Hector Garcia: , Power, And Partisanship
Friday May 31, 2019
Friday May 31, 2019
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Dr. Hector A. Garcia is a clinical psychologist specializing in the treatment of combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). He’s Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He has published extensively on the treatment of PTSD in combat veterans, masculine psychology in the aftermath of war, the evolutionary roots of political partisanship, and the interplay between religious practice and psychopathology. He’s also the author of Alpha God: The Psychology of Religious Violence and Oppression, and , Power, and Partisanship: How Evolutionary Science Makes Sense of Our Political Divide.
In this episode, we focus our conversation on Dr. Garcia’s latest book, “, Power, and Partisanship”. We talk about how the liberal and conservative political tribes evolved from the standard masculine and feminine psychologies. We discuss how traits that might have served an evolutionary function in the past are not necessarily good for us in our modern environments, the phenomenon of instinct blindness, and the naturalistic fallacy. We refer to the fact that most human societies have been patriarchal and how the systems of rule and law favored men, and allowed for them to control women’s behavior, with focus on their sexual behavior. Finally, we talk about our current polarized political environment, and how we can apply this knowledge to counter it, and also what could be the best ways to deal with gender equality in politics.
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Academia.edu profile: https://bit.ly/2I5kjux
Psychology Today blog (Alpha God): https://bit.ly/2UzIKWP
Books:
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, Power, and Partisanship: How Evolutionary Science Makes Sense of Our Political Divide: https://amzn.to/2EEvszs
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Friday May 31, 2019
#86 Colin McGinn: Types of Minds, Consciousness, Animal Rights
Friday May 31, 2019
Friday May 31, 2019
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Dr. Colin McGinn has taught philosophy at institutions of higher learning including University College London, Rutgers University, and Oxford University. He’s the author of over two dozen books including The Character of Mind, Consciousness and Its Objects, and The Making of a Philosopher, and he has also written for the London Review of Books, The New Republic, Wall Street Journal, The New York Review of Books, and other publications.
In this episode, I talk with Dr. McGinn about minds and consciousness. More specifically, about what is a mind; the different types of minds; how to avoid dualism; if the phenomenology of consciousness can be scientifically explained; the continuity of mental capacities between animals; a couple of science fiction proposals, like creating conscious machines, and mind uploading; and animal rights.
Time Links:
00:54 Types of minds
02:16 But, what is a mind?
06:20 Is the mind a single entity?
09:06 Does dualism still make sense?
14:08 The mind of a bat
19:28 Are mental capacities continuous between species?
21:48 The mysteriousness of consciousness
28:48 Does consciousness have several parts?
32:32 Are there degrees of consciousness along the animal kingdom?
34:49 Is language important for consciousness?
40:09 Is it possible to create conscious machines?
44:07 And what about uploading minds to computers?
48:25 Types of minds and animal rights
55:20 Where to follow Dr. McGinn’s work
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Thursday May 30, 2019
#183 Charles Lineweaver: Astrobiology, And What Is Life
Thursday May 30, 2019
Thursday May 30, 2019
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Dr. Charles H. Lineweaver is the convener of the Australian National University's Planetary Science Institute and holds a joint appointment as an associate professor in the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the Research School of Earth Sciences. He was a member of the COBE satellite team that discovered the temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background. Before his appointment at ANU, he held post-doctoral positions at Strasbourg Observatory and the University of New South Wales where he taught one of the most popular general studies courses "Are We Alone?". His research areas include cosmology, exoplanetology, and astrobiology and evolutionary biology.
In this episode, we talk about astrobiology. We go through some general topics, like complexity in the Universe; Darwinian and Lamarckian evolution; multilevel selection; looking for life on other planets, the extremophile life forms, and if we could find life that is not carbon-based, and related issues. In the end, we also discuss the scientific relevance of discovering life elsewhere, and also the new perspective it would bring to humanity.
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Goldilocks principle: https://bit.ly/2H94YVD
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Thursday May 30, 2019
#85 Debra Lieberman: Disgust, Morality, and the Law
Thursday May 30, 2019
Thursday May 30, 2019
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Dr. Debra Lieberman is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Miami, US. She recently published a book, Objection: Disgust, Morality, and the Law.
In this episode, we talk about some of the topics of the book Objection: Disgust, Morality, and the Law. We first discuss what are emotions. Then, we move on to disgust specifically, and what domains it gets applied to. We also talk a bit about kin recognition and incest avoidance. As we finish with how moral norms derived from disgust might have been crystallized in the form of laws.
Time Links:
00:50 What are emotions?
06:40 The function of disgust
11:49 What disgust deals with
14:06 Kin recognition and incest avoidance
30:23 The relationship between disgust and morality
41:39 The possible role of religion in promoting moral norms based on disgust
44:52 Are laws derived from disgust useful nowadays?
53:34 Evaluating our legal system
57:59 Where to follow Dr. Lieberman’s work
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Book Objection: Disgust, Morality, and the Law: https://tinyurl.com/ycee4plh
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Wednesday May 29, 2019
#84 Garett Jones: Hive Mind, The Importance of National IQ, and Immigration
Wednesday May 29, 2019
Wednesday May 29, 2019
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Dr. Garett Jones is Associate Professor of Economics and BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism at the Mercatus Center, at George Mason University. His research interests include macroeconomics, monetary economics, and the microfoundations of economic growth. His work has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of Economic Growth, and Critical Review. His first book, published in 2015 by Stanford University Press, is entitled Hive Mind: How Your Nation's IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own.
In this episode, we focus on Dr. Jones’ book, Hive Mind. Topics include: the individual and collective benefits of higher national IQs; how IQ correlates with emotional and social skills; its effects in the political realm; how it relates to current immigration issues; and possible solutions to improve IQ in the countries that lack it the most.
Time Links:
01:04 Why your nation’s IQ matter
04:29 Benefits at the collective level
05:57 Individual IQ is not as important
08:25 Benefits for people on the low-end of the IQ scale
12:25 Other tests to evaluate academic skills
15:38 IQ correlates with emotional and social skills
18:40 More than genetics
20:56 IQ effects on politics
29:28 How are average national IQs relevant to immigration policy?
42:29 Possible solutions to improve IQ in the least resourceful nations
46:16 Where to follow Dr. Jones’ work
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Faculty page: https://economics.gmu.edu/people/gjonesb
Hive Mind: https://tinyurl.com/y9w2rdea
Twitter handle: @GarettJones
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Tuesday May 28, 2019
#83 Richard Wilkinson: The Spirit Level, How to Seek Equality
Tuesday May 28, 2019
Tuesday May 28, 2019
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Dr. Richard Wilkinson is Professor Emeritus of Social Epidemiology at the University of Nottingham, having retired in 2008. He is also Honorary Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London and Visiting Professor at the University of York. In 2009, he co-founded The Equality Trust. He was also awarded a 2013 Silver Rose Award from Solidar for championing equality and the 2014 Charles Cully Memorial Medal by the Irish Cancer Society. Finally, he’s the co-author of the greatly influential book, along with his wife, Dr. Kate Pickett, The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better.
In this episode, we focus on Dr. Wilkinson’s book, The Spirit Level, and discuss some of the main topics about economic inequality. Topics include: how to define economic inequality; the social and individual benefits of equality; Martin Daly’s work and sexual inequality; the case of Scandinavian countries; possible ways to fight inequality and its effects; and Universal Basic Income.
Time Links:
01:22 What is economic inequality?
04:16 What should we aim at?
07:16 How to evaluate inequality
08:25 The benefits of more equality
09:41 How do we get at those benefits?
13:53 Things people are deprived of in unequal societies
18:10 Martin Daly’s work and men being deprived of sexual access to women
23:37 Can rich people use economic resources to tilt politics in their favor?
26:36 Have we been getting more unequal worldwide?
32:02 The case of Scandinavian societies and social homogeneity
35:48 Possible solutions to fight inequality and its pernicious effects
40:11 And what about Universal Basic Income?
42:17 Follow Dr. Wilkinson’s work!
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The Equality Trust: https://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/
The Spirit Level: https://tinyurl.com/y98rujpl
The Inner Level: https://tinyurl.com/yax4ek7k
Twitter handle: @ProfRGWilkinson
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Monday May 27, 2019
#182 David Bjorklund: Evolution, Child Development, And Modern Environments
Monday May 27, 2019
Monday May 27, 2019
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Dr. David F. Bjorklund is a Professor of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in developmental and evolutionary psychology. He served as Associate Editor of Child Development (1997-2001) and is currently serving as Editor of the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. His books include The Origins of Human Nature: Evolutionary Developmental Psychology (with Anthony Pellegrini), Origins of the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Child Development (edited with Bruce Ellis), Why Youth is Not Wasted on the Young: Immaturity in Human Development, Child and Adolescent Development: An Integrative Approach (with Carlos Hernández Blasi), and Children's Thinking: Cognitive Development and Individual Differences, now in its fifth edition. His current research interests include children's cognitive development and evolutionary developmental psychology.
In this episode, we talk about evolutionary developmental psychology. We discuss the role that development plays in biology; the importance of the field of evolutionary psychology; the current state of the art of human epigenetics; behavioral genetics and the nature-nurture debate; what is “innate” in human psychology; behavioral plasticity; our long period of development as a species and what we acquire through it; some species-typical mental abilities, like imitation, theory of mind and culture; the importance of play; and implicit knowledge. We wrap up the interview by talking about evolutionary mismatch and how we are not adapted to certain aspects of our modern environment, and the problems that might bring; and also how we can apply this knowledge to develop better education systems.
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Monday May 27, 2019
#82 Maurício Martins: Cérebro, Mente, Comportamento e Livre Arbítrio
Monday May 27, 2019
Monday May 27, 2019
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O Dr. Maurício Martins encontra-se neste momento a fazer um pós-doutoramento na Berlin School of Mind and Brain, da Humboldt Universtät zu Berlin, e também do Instituto Max Plack para as Ciências Cognitivas Humanas e do Cérebro. É doutorado em Neurociência, pela Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa.
Neste episódio, falamos sobre dualismo, ou a dicotomia cérebro-mente; questões sobre causalidade e correlação entre atividade cerebral e comportamento; e sobre como se deve abordar o problema do livre arbítrio.
Time Links:
00:42 Faz sentido falar do cérebro e da mente em separado?
06:00 É a atividade no cérebro a causa de comportamentos?
10:26 Diferentes áreas do cérebro podem assumir as funções de outras
13:14 Mas depende do tipo de informação que seja preciso processar
22:57 Como se deve falar sobre livre arbítrio
34:06 Mas pode-se dizer que existe livre arbítrio, ou não?
37:03 Sigam o trabalho do Maurício!
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Página no Instituto Max Planck: https://tinyurl.com/y97kbdc3
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Saturday May 25, 2019
Samuel Andreyev Part 2: The Purpose and Function of Music and Art
Saturday May 25, 2019
Saturday May 25, 2019
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Part 2 of the conversation with Mr. Samuel Andreyev: The Purpose and Function of Music and Art.
Time Links:
00:00 Music applied to other forms of art
05:09 Does music have a purpose?
09:24 What is represented in music?
16:44 Can artists have a saying on human nature?
21:46 What about modernist and postmodernist art?
35:51 Where to follow Mr. Andreyev’s work
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Friday May 24, 2019
#181 Cory Clark: The Psychology of Moral Judgment And Political Bias
Friday May 24, 2019
Friday May 24, 2019
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Dr. Cory Clark is an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Psychology at Durham University, UK. Dr. Clark does research in Moral Psychology, Political Psychology, Experimental Philosophy, and Motivated Cognition. She’s also the cohost of Psyphilopod.
In this episode, we focus on experimental philosophy, moral judgment, beliefs in free will and determinism, and political bias. We first talk about the new field of experimental philosophy, and how it differs from how philosophy was traditionally done. We then get into some specific topics like people’s belief in free will and their need to attribute moral responsibility, and how they deal with a deterministic view of the world that comes from science. Also, how people judge themselves and others differently, or the fundamental attribution error. And how liberals and conservatives think about free will, determinism and compatibilism. We then move on to discuss biases, starting off with what is the best way to think about them; in what ways political biases are special; and the impact they have on science. Finally, we got through what we know about how liberals and conservatives deal with different viewpoints and ideas, and several hypotheses to explain where that comes from.
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Twitter handle: @ImHardcory
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Friday May 24, 2019
Samuel Andreyev Part 1: How To Evaluate Music
Friday May 24, 2019
Friday May 24, 2019
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Part 1 of the conversation with Mr. Samuel Andreyev: How To Evaluate Music.
Time Links:
00:48 Can any person evaluate music?
07:03 Is music training important?
12:36 Exposing oneself to music from different cultures
14:57 The relationship between music and speech
18:27 What is music, really?
21:24 The performative aspects of music
25:54 The emotional component of music
30:51 Can we separate music from its performance?
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Thursday May 23, 2019
#180 Joseph Bulbulia: Religion, Cognition, Ritual, Morality, And Meaning
Thursday May 23, 2019
Thursday May 23, 2019
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Dr. Joseph A. Bulbulia is a Professor in the School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts at the University of Auckland, where he was appointed the Maclaurin Goodfellow Chair in Theological and Religious Studies in 2018. Dr. Bulbulia is regarded as one of the founders of the contemporary evolutionary religious studies. He is a past President of the International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion and is currently co-editor of Religion, Brain & Behavior. Dr. Bulbulia is one of four on the Senior Management Team of the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study, a 20-year longitudinal study tracking over 15,000 New Zealanders each year. He is an associate investigator for Pulotu, a database of 116 Pacific cultures purpose-built to investigate the evolutionary dynamics of religion. In 2016, Dr. Bulbulia won a Research Excellence Award at Victoria University.
In this episode, we talk about the cognitive science of religion. First, we discuss how religion is a multifaceted phenomenon, its evolutionary bases, and the complicated causal relationship between beliefs and actions. Then, we talk about religions rituals, what they are about, and the effects they have on people, particularly the high-arousal ones. We also refer to costly signaling in the context of religion, and its relationship to trust, and how socioeconomic factors and natural disasters influence adherence to religion. Finally, we talk about some philosophical aspects of religion, like the one related to meaning, and how by studying religion we can get insights into other social domains of human life.
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The Database of Religious History: https://bit.ly/2WFDiPl
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Thursday May 23, 2019
#81 Samuel Andreyev: Philosophy of Music and Art
Thursday May 23, 2019
Thursday May 23, 2019
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Samuel Andreyev is a Canadian music composer and writer residing in France. He also has a YouTube channel with his name.
Mr. Andreyev is a return guest on the show. Please go check out our first conversation, “Music Across Times and Cultures”: https://youtu.be/9UENs9ia6Zo
In this episode, we focus on philosophy of music, and go through how to properly evaluate a piece of music, by itself and in its performative aspects, and we also talk about the aesthetic purpose of music. Toward the end, we also discuss if artists can also have a saying on human nature. And we finish by talking a bit about modernist and postmodernist art, and if they really ruined the artistic enterprise.
Time Links:
00:48 Can any person evaluate music?
07:03 Is music training important?
12:36 Exposing oneself to music from different cultures
14:57 The relationship between music and speech
18:27 What is music, really?
21:24 The performative aspects of music
25:54 The emotional component of music
30:51 Can we separate music from its performance?
35:45 Music applied to other forms of art
40:54 Does music have a purpose?
45:09 What is represented in music?
52:29 Can artists have a saying on human nature?
57:31 What about modernist and postmodernist art?
1:11:36 Where to follow Mr. Andreyev’s work
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Wednesday May 22, 2019
#80 Stephen Hicks: Nietzsche, the , and the Postmodernists
Wednesday May 22, 2019
Wednesday May 22, 2019
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Dr. Stephen Hicks teaches at Rockford University, where he also directs the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. He is the author of books like Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault, and Nietzsche and the . Additionally, he has published articles and essays on a range of subjects, including entrepreneurism, free speech in academia, the history and development of modern art, Ayn Rand's Objectivism, business ethics and the philosophy of education, including a series of YouTube lectures.
Dr. Hicks is a return guest on the show. Please go check out our first conversation, “Postmodernism: From Rousseau to the Present”: https://youtu.be/rBTPMBKCZLs
In this episode, we focus on Nietzsche’s philosophy, and some of Dr. Hicks’ views about it, as exposed in his book, “Nietzsche and the ”. As the title of the book implies, we talk about how Nietzsche might have influenced the German National-Socialist political ideology, and, toward the end, we also get a little bit into the connections between Nazism and Postmodernism, and how Nietzsche was one of the major influences in both these political opposite ideologies. Specific topics include Nietzsche’s reactionary views against the values of the Enlightenment, namely rationality and objectivity, individualism, progress, and science as whole.
Time Links:
00:59 Nietzsche’s take on Rationality and Objectivity
03:58 Was he an individualist?
18:47 What about progress, democracy, human rights?
26:14 About science and values
31:27 Did Nietzsche influence Nazism? Was he anti-Semitic?
35:08 Did his sister, Elisabeth, really distorted his views in The Will to Power?
44:33 In what specific ways did Nietzsche influence Nazism?
51:23 The interesting ideological parallels between Nazism and Postmodernism
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His book, Nietzsche and the : https://tinyurl.com/y8y2vyhf
Also, Explaining Postmodernism: https://tinyurl.com/yarexghn
And follow him on Twitter: @SRCHicks
And Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Stephen.R.C.Hicks
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Monday May 20, 2019
#179 Justin Barrett: Cognition And Development In Religion
Monday May 20, 2019
Monday May 20, 2019
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Dr. Justin L. Barrett is Professor of Psychology at Fuller Graduate School of Psychology and Chief Project Developer for the Office for Science, Theology and Religion Iniciatives at Fuller Theological Seminary. Professor Barrett is regarded as one of the founders of the cognitive science of religion field. He’s also the author of books like Why Would Anyone Believe in God?, Cognitive Science, Religion, and Theology: From Human Minds to Divine Minds, and Born Believers: The Science of Children's Religious Belief.
This is another episode about the cognitive science of religion. First, we discuss the aspects of religion that science can tackle and determine as right or wrong. After that, we briefly establish what a “belief” is. Then, we refer to some of the main cognitive mechanisms and aspects of child development associated with religious thinking. We also discuss if religion is better understood as a by-product of evolution or an adaptation itself. Toward the end, we talk about John Calvin’s sensus divinitatis, and also how the New Atheists tend to oversimplify religion.
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Religion, Brain & Behavior (journal): https://bit.ly/2V2hUmY
Journal of Cognition and Culture: https://bit.ly/2THai8a
Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion: https://bit.ly/2gTYw9g
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Monday May 20, 2019
Monday May 20, 2019
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Dr. Catherine Wilson is Anniversary Professor of Philosophy at the University of York. She holds degrees in Philosophy from Yale, Oxford and Princeton and has taught in the USA, Canada, and Germany. Dr. Wilson teaches and writes in the history of modern philosophy and on early modern science and also works in the areas of ethics and aesthetics with a special interest in the evolution of morality and the science behind visual experience. She’s the author of the book Moral Animals: Ideals and Constraints in Moral Theory.
Today, the entire conversation revolves around the major topics covered in Dr. Wilson’s book, Moral Animals. We start with an exploration of the sources of morality, from primatology to science. We then move on to talk about some forms of morality, like moral realism, moral relativism, and Rawls’ veil of ignorance. And we end up with a discussion of some topics like egalitarianism, feminism, meritocracy, and income inequality.
Time Links:
00:52 The role of our evolved sentiments in morality
03:08 Morality as a set of advantage-reducing imperatives
05:11 Primatology as a basis for morality
06:39 Do other animals have morality?
08:14 Can science inform morality?
10:10 Could this be how morality evolved in humans?
17:20 What are moral rules?
20:09 Moral realism
22:34 About ideals
24:53 Moral relativism
29:04 The role of self-interest
32:05 The problem with Rawls’ veil of ignorance
35:11 Egalitarianism, affirmative action, and feminism
47:02 The role of monogamy in society
50:35 Meritocracy and motivation
53:20 The importance of income inequality
58:46 Follow Dr. Wilson’s work
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Book Moral Animals: https://tinyurl.com/y9rbtvbl
Free ebook Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint: https://tinyurl.com/yc7e4oc2
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Saturday May 18, 2019
#77 Nuno Lobo Antunes: Novo Projeto de Lei do PAN, Metilfenidato e Atomoxetina, PHDA
Saturday May 18, 2019
Saturday May 18, 2019
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Nuno Lobo Antunes nasceu em Lisboa, e é neuropediatra. Licenciado em Medicina pela Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa. Recebeu treino pós-graduado em Portugal e Nova Iorque. Fez um Internato policlínico em pediatria. Teve também uma Residência em Neurologia em Nova Iorque. Diretor clínico do PIN. Neuropediatra especialista em perturbações do desenvolvimento. Autor de vários artigos científicos nacionais e internacionais, e livros. Ganhou o Prémio Feiser para Jovens Investigadores em 1974, 1976, e 1998 em Nova Iorque. E foi eleito Profissional do Ano pelo Rotary Club Lisboa Norte, em 2013.
Neste episódio, encontramo-nos para falar acerca de um novo projeto de lei do PAN, o 984/XIII, intitulado “Assegurar a não prescrição e administração de metilfenidato e atomoxetina a crianças com menos de 6 anos de idade” (https://tinyurl.com/y78ggz82), que foi noticiado como indo a votos na primeira quinzena de outubro.
Time Links:
01:26 O que é a Perturbação de Hiperatividade com Défice de Atenção (PHDA)?
06:38 Existe um sobrediagnóstico?
10:32 Sobre o metilfenidato e a atomoxetina
22:00 Há algo de fonte científica contra a sua utilização em menores de 6 anos?
27:39 Utilização abusiva de uma citação do Dr. Lobo Antunes
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Página na Wikipedia: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuno_Lobo_Antunes
Livros na Wook: https://www.wook.pt/autor/nuno-lobo-antunes/48359
PIN – Centro de Desenvolvimento: http://pin.com.pt/
Canal do Youtube do PIN: https://www.youtube.com/user/PINprogressoinfantil
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Friday May 17, 2019
#76 David Christian: Big History, and the Unity of Knowledge
Friday May 17, 2019
Friday May 17, 2019
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Dr. David Christian is Professor at the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University. He is notable for teaching and promoting the discipline of Big History. He is credited with coining the term Big History and he serves as president of the International Big History Association. He’s the author of several books, including Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History, and the recently published Origin Story: A Big History of Everything.
In this episode, we focus on Big History. Topics include: the methodological differences between Big History and traditional History; new views on the human condition and the meaning of life; the impact agriculture had on human life; how to look at progress; predictions about the future; and how Big History can contribute to establish a common ground for the sciences and the humanities.
Time Links:
00:46 What is Big History?
03:17 The methodological differences between Big History and traditional History
05:37 The place of humans in the Universe
09:35 Human existence and the meaning of life
13:44 Can History become scientific?
16:51 The place for evolutionary psychology in Big History
27:38 The advent of agriculture, and its impact
33:18 If we lead ourselves to extinction, is this progress?
36:46 It’s much easier to predict cosmological rather than human events
39:55 What common threads can we use to connect all the sciences?
45:04 Can Big History help to establish bridges between the sciences?
48:14 How to reconcile the sciences and the humanities?
51:57 The problem with the lack of paradigms in the humanities
55:14 Follow Dr. Christian’s work
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Follow Dr. Christian’s work:
Big History Project: https://www.bighistoryproject.com/home
Big History Institute: https://www.mq.edu.au/bighistory
Big History on The Great Courses: https://tinyurl.com/y8lq5e2v
Books: https://tinyurl.com/ycwvqwqc
Twitter handle: @davidgchristian
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A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, JUNOS, SCIMED, PER HELGE HAAKSTD LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, RUI BELEZA, MIGUEL ESTRADA, ANTÓNIO CUNHA, CHANTEL GELINAS, JIM FRANK, JERRY MULLER, FRANCIS FORD, AND HANS FREDRIK SUNDE!
I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:
https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo
And check out my playlists on:
PSYCHOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/ybalf8km
PHILOSOPHY: https://tinyurl.com/yb6a7d3p
ANTHROPOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/y8b42r7g
