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.
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Wednesday May 01, 2019
Wednesday May 01, 2019
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Dr. Patricia Churchland is a Canadian-American Philosopher noted for her contributions to neurophilosophy and the philosophy of mind. She is UC President's Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). She has also held an adjunct professorship at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies since 1989. She is a member of the Board of Trustees Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies of Philosophy Department, at Moscow State University. In 2015, she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She’s also the author of a number of books, including Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain, and Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality.
In this episode, we talk about neurophilosophy and the philosophy of mind. Topics include: how neuroscience informs philosophy; some implications to Epistemology; the issue with evolutionary psychology and cognitive modules; consciousness; the notion of “self”; morality in the brain; free will and moral responsibility; reductionism and emergentism; the future of Philosophy; science and the meaning of life.
Time Links:
00:55 What is neurophilosophy?
04:50 The philosophical relevance of the structure of our nervous system
10:43 Does neurophilosophy give ground to other philosophical disciplines?
18:11 Kant’s distinction between the phenomenon and the numenon
21:25 Do we have a priori knowledge?
27:36 Evolutionary Psychology and cognitive modules
37:02 The problems of consciousness
43:54 António Damásio’s hierarchy of consciousness
52:45 Is there a “self”?
55:31 Morality in the brain
1:02:18 Free will and personal responsibility
1:12:51 Reductionism vs emergentism
1:19:45 Can Philosophy become obsolete?
1:22:09 Science and the meaning of life
1:28:20 Follow Dr. Churchland’s work
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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:
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Tuesday Apr 30, 2019
Tuesday Apr 30, 2019
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Dr. Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is an American philosopher, novelist and public intellectual. She is a MacArthur Fellow and has received the National Humanities Medal of the US, the National Jewish Book Award, and numerous other honors. She’s the author of ten books, both fiction and nonfiction, including The Mind-Body Problem, Betraying Spinoza, and Plato at the Googleplex.
Today, we talk about the relation between philosophy and science, and how each can inform the other. Other specific topics include sophistry in the modern age, how we develop moral system, and the relation between science and nihilism.
Time Links:
00:43 What drew Dr. Goldstein to science and philosophy?
06:20 Why is philosophy still relevant in a scientific world?
14:55 Is there anything that science can’t study?
22:26 Does science turn us into better philosophers?
28:04 The modern relevance of ancient philosophy
39:19 Sophistry in the modern age
43:55 Can we derive morality just from scientific knowledge?
50:30 Does science lead to nihilism?
55:34 Follow Dr. Goldstein’s work
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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
Monday Apr 29, 2019
Monday Apr 29, 2019
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Dr. Steven Hales is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Bloomsburg University, US. His areas of specialization include epistemology and metaphysics. He’s the author of books like Metaphysics, A Companion to Relativism, Nietzsche’s Perspectivism, and This Is Philosophy.
In this episode, we talk about the philosophy of luck, and relativism. First, we discuss what is luck from a philosophical perspective, including the differences between epistemic and moral luck and the most prominent theories of luck. We also refer to some of the ways people tend to think about luck, according to the time frame and their worldviews. In the second part of the discussion, we talk abut relativism, is relationship with perspectivism and approaches to morality and moral relativism.
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Monday Apr 29, 2019
Monday Apr 29, 2019
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Dr. Lewis Goldberg is an American personality psychologist and a Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon. He is closely associated with the lexical hypothesis, that says that any culturally important personality characteristic will be represented in the language of the particular culture. This hypothesis led to the discovery of a five-factor structure of personality trait adjectives (which he dubbed the Big Five).
In this episode, we talk about: the scientific history behind the lexical hypothesis; what happened in the 70’s that led to the development of the Big Five personality inventory; the limitations of the Big Five, and comparison with other personality inventories, like the HEXACO and the Myers-Briggs; personality traits in other animals; the distinction between temperament and personality; the ten aspects of the Big Five; the possibility of applying the Big Five to clinical psychology; and the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP).
Time Links:
01:00 The lexical hypothesis, or studying personality through word frequencies of usage
03:00 The history behind the Big Five
09:04 Specific work done by Dr. Goldberg
12:35 Does the Big Five cover all aspects of personality
16:06 Big Five vs HEXACO
19:19 The problem with other personality inventories
21:52 Do all traits in the inventories have to be heritable and partially innate?
23:21 Personality traits in other animals
25:07 Temperament vs personality
26:58 The ten aspects of the Big Five
28:16 Gender differences in personality traits
29:36 About the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP)
35:11 Could we apply the Big Five to clinical psychology?
38:35 Follow Dr. Goldberg’s work
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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:
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Saturday Apr 27, 2019
Saturday Apr 27, 2019
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Dr. Oliver Scott Curry is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, at the University of Oxford. He received his PhD from the London School of Economics in 2005. In addition to his research, which focuses a lot on morality, Dr. Curry has previously taught courses on evolution and human behavior, covering evolutionary theory, animal behavior, evolutionary psychology, cross-cultural psychology, statistics and research methods. He is also a consultant for kindness.org.
In this episode, topics of conversation include: the evolution of cooperation in humans; game theory; if human morality if evolved or cultural; culture via nature; the relation between the development of killing tools and cooperation; how do we deal with sociality in studies of morality; gossip; sociality and morality; kin selection and human life history; kin selection vs reciprocal altruism; cooperation and conflict; the periodic table of ethics as developed by Dr. Curry and colleagues; the shortcomings of Jonathan Haidt’s Moral Foundations and Alan Fiske’s Relational Models; the relation between morality and sociality; the problem with the term “moral norms”; and the relationship between Evolutionary Psychology and Evolutionary Anthropology.
Time Links:
01:00 The lexical hypothesis, or studying personality through word frequencies of usage
03:00 The history behind the Big Five
09:04 Specific work done by Dr. Goldberg
12:35 Does the Big Five cover all aspects of personality
16:06 Big Five vs HEXACO
19:19 The problem with other personality inventories
15:45 Friends of friends get more help from us
18:32 Gossip
19:37 Are sociality and morality distinct entities?
20:39 Kin selection and human life history
24:02 Alloparenting and extended kin
26:27 Kin selection vs reciprocal altruism
29:23 How do we distinguish cooperation from conflict?
32:56 The periodic table of ethics and the shortcomings of other systems to classify morality
40:03 The problems with Jonathan Haidt’s Moral Foundations
48:02 The relation between morality and personality
57:38 Is “moral norms” a useful term?
1:01:13 Does it make sense to talk about Evolutionary Psychology and Evolutionary Anthropology in separate?
1:04:00 Follow Dr. Curry’s work!
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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:
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ANTHROPOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/y8b42r7g
Friday Apr 26, 2019
Friday Apr 26, 2019
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Dr. Bo Winegard is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Marietta College. He generally approaches psychological puzzles from an evolutionary perspective, applying Darwin's theory of natural selection to the human mind. He focuses mostly on status, group differences, individual differences, bias, methods, and political psychology. He’s also the cohost, together with Cory Clark, of the Psyphilopod podcast.
In this episode, we talk about the study of group differences in Psychology. We also discuss the importance of acknowledging the impact of liberal political biases in psychological research, and even research in the social sciences at large, and science denialism by people from both sides of the political spectrum. Toward the end, we discuss some issues in Evolutionary Psychology, like trying to reconcile research on human universals and a panhuman nature perspective with intergroup and interindividual variation, and the strawman arguments drawn against Evolutionary Psychology, and also the way it gets misrepresented in and Gender textbooks.
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Friday Apr 26, 2019
Friday Apr 26, 2019
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Gapminder Foundation is a non-profit venture based in Stockholm, Sweden, that promotes sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.
Fernanda Drumond is the Head of Operations at Gapminder. She holds a Master of Science degree in Development Studies, with background in International Relations. Fernanda likes to lecture about Dollar Street, showing how people really live across different income levels. She also talks about the mega misconceptions that skew people’s worldview in lectures and workshops to companies, universities, schools and non-profits.
In this episode, we talk about the possible consequences of having wrong ideas about progress and the current state of the world; the pros and cons of Big Data; a pragmatic attitude vs an ideological one in solving problems; if Gapminder could back up the effective altruism movement from a moral standpoint; the role of media in giving people a much more pessimistic and negative view of reality than it really is; how most problems stem from nature, and it is society that solves them; History as not being cyclic; the problem with predictions coming from specialists and activists; time and progress from a human perspective; and a perspective on climate change.
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A Gapminder Foundation é uma organização não-governamental com base em Estocolmo, Suécia, que promove o desenvolvimento global sustentável dos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento do Milénio das Nações Unidas, através do aumento do uso e compreensão de estatísticas e outros tipos de informação sobre o desenvolvimento social, económico e ambiental a nível local, nacional e global.
A Fernanda Drumond é a Chefe de Operações da Gapminder. Tem um Mestrado em Estudos do Desenvolvimento/Estudos Sobre Desenvolvimento, com background em Relações Internacionais. A Fernanda gosta de dar palestras sobre o Dollar Street, mostrando como as pessoas vivem verdadeiramente em diferentes níveis de rendimento. Ela também gosta de falar sobre como grandes equívocos moldam a visão do mundo que as pessoas têm, em palestras e workshops dirigidos a empresas, universidades, escolhas e organizações sem fins lucrativos.
Neste episódio, falamos sobre as possíveis consequências de ter ideias erradas acerca do progresso e do estado atual do mundo; os prós e contras da Big Data; atitude pragmática vs atitude ideológica na resolução de problemas; a possível relação da Gapminder com o movimento do altruísmo efetivo; o papel dos media em criar uma visão muito mais pessimista e negativa da realidade do que realmente é; como a maior parte dos problemas deriva da natureza, e é a sociedade que os soluciona; a História não é cíclica; o problema com as previsões de especialistas e ativistas; tempo e progresso de uma perspetiva humana; e uma perspetiva sobre alterações climáticas.
Time Links:
00:29 Having wrong ideas about progress / Quando se tem ideias erradas sobre progresso
04:20 Pros and cons of Big Data / Prós e Contras da Big Data
07:45 Being realistic / Ser realista
09:13 Pragmatism vs ideology /Pragmatismo vs ideologia
15:00 Would Gapminder be into effective altruism? / Apoiaria a Gapminder o altruísmo efetivo?
25:24 The role of media in misinforming people / O papel dos media na desinformação
Thursday Apr 25, 2019
Thursday Apr 25, 2019
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Dr. Anthony Biglan is a Senior Scientist at Oregon Research Institute and the Co-Director of the Promise Neighborhood Research Consortium. He has been conducting research on the development and prevention of child and adolescent problem behavior for the past several decades. His work has included studies of the risk and protective factors associated with tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use; high-risk sexual behavior; and antisocial behavior. He and colleagues at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences published a book summarizing the epidemiology, cost, etiology, prevention, and treatment of youth with multiple problems, called Helping Adolescents at Risk (2004). He is a former president of the Society for Prevention Research. He was a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Prevention. He’s also the author of The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World.
In this episode, we focus on some of the main topics of Dr. Biglan’s book, The Nurture Effect. We refer to the role of evolution in the behavioral sciences, and to aspects of the environment from families to schools and societies, and the negative effects of coercive environments. We also discuss specifically addictive behaviors involving tobacco, alcohol and drugs, risky sexual behavior, and anti-social behavior. In the latter part of the interview, we also talk about cultural evolution, psychological flexibility, and their relationship to the development of nurturing socities.
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Thursday Apr 25, 2019
Thursday Apr 25, 2019
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Dr. Peter Kappeler is a Professor at the faculty of Zoology and Anthropology at Göttingen University, Germany, and at the Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology department at the German Primate Center. He also teaches as a guest lecturer at the University of Antananarivo, Madagascar. He’s the author or editor of books like Mind the Gap: Tracing the Origins of Human Universals, Animal Behaviour: Evolution and Mechanisms, and The Evolution of Primate Species.
In this episode, the conversation revolves around sexual selection in primate species, and human universals and the contributions of primatology to a better understanding of human behavior. Starting with the conditions to lead to the development of sexual dimorphisms, we then move on to talk about intersexual and intrasexual selection; the ecological conditions that favor male and female philopatry, that is, for males or females to stay in their troops of origin; pair-bonding in animals, and the problem with explaining monogamy; how ratios influence reproductive strategies; life history, and what it tells us about the evolutionary history of a particular species; primatology and the study of human universals; the relevance of the unique events in Homo sapiens’ evolutionary history; and also the studying of other animal taxa.
Time Links:
00:47 How sexual dimorphism develops?
03:48 Intersexual and intrasexual selection
07:48 Relation between sociality and sexual dimorphism
10:38 Female and male philopatry, and sociality
13:56 What favors pair-bonding in primates?
20:05 The problem with understanding monogamy
22:40 ratios and reproductive strategies
24:23 The importance of life history in primate studies
28:18 Primatology and the studying of human universals
33:28 Humans’ evolutionary history, and differences between humans and other primates
35:25 How do other animal taxa contribute to studying human behavior?
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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
Wednesday Apr 24, 2019
Wednesday Apr 24, 2019
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Dr. April Bleske-Rechek is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. As a researcher, she focuses on human mating, friendship, cognitive abilities and intellectual giftedness, and science literacy.
In this episode, the conversation revolves around the evolutionary psychology of friendship and mate selection. She gives a personal account of the development and importance of evolutionary psychology. And then we move on to talk same- and opposite- friendship; friendship rivalry and its bases; the evolutionary bases of friendship; differences in friendship initiation and dissolution; the studying of friendship and mate preferences; cues and signals in mate selection, and clarifying the difference between waist-to-hip ratio and body mass index; exaggerated physical cues and pornography; the effects of pornography in men’s minds; advantages and disadvantages of robots; assortative mating, and its evolutionary advantages; a specific study of Dr. Bleske-Rechek’s involving the trolley problem; the contribution of evolutionary psychology to human relationships; if evolutionary psychology should be the core theory of modern Psychology, and why; if Psychology should be looked at as a branch of Biology; and the relationship between Evolutionary Psychology and Behavioral Genetics.
Time Links:
00:32 Dr. Bleske-Rechek’s personal account of the development and importance of evolutionary psychology
05:45 Studying friendship from an evolutionary perspective
10:17 Friendship rivalry and its bases
15:50 Do women prefer uglier friends?
18:13 Do opposite- friendships fail often?
20:43 Why do people seek friends of the other ?
23:04 differences in friendship initiation
25:32 Friendship dissolution
27:11 The studying of friendship and mate preferences
31:41 Clarifying waist-to-hip ratio and body mass index
34:56 Cues and signals in mate selection
41:18 Exaggerated physical cues and pornography
49:20 robots: yes or no?
53:29 Assortative mating
56:32 People save 1 person in the trolley problem if they are young, genetically related, or a romantic partner
1:03:21 Can you learn to deal better with other people with help from evolutionary psychology?
1:09:38 Should evolutionary psychology be the core theory of modern psychology?
1:11:57 Psychology as a branch of Biology?
1:15:17 The relationship between Evolutionary Psychology and Behavioral Genetics
1:19:14 Follow Dr. Bleske-Rechek’s work
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Tuesday Apr 23, 2019
Tuesday Apr 23, 2019
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Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a critically-acclaimed best-selling author, speaker, educator, and one of the world’s foremost bitcoin and open blockchain experts. He is a teaching fellow at the University of Nicosia, and serves on the Oversight Committee for the Bitcoin Reference Rate at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He’s also the author of three books, including Mastering Bitcoin, The Internet of Money, and The Internet of Money Volume Two. His fourth book, Mastering Ethereum (O’Reilly Media) will be available in the fall of 2018.
In this episode, we talk about Bitcoin and the Blockchain; the philosophy and politics of the Bitcoin and digital currencies; and the prosocial aspects of Bitcoin.
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00:45 What is bitcoin?
04:30 The blockchain
06:00 The philosophy behind Bitcoin
07:54 Regulation
09:49 Does Bitcoin promote monopolies?
15:32 Fighting crime
21:09 Can Bitcoin replace common currencies?
25:49 Can Bitcoin help fighting poverty?
30:34 Charity through digital currency
31:33 Is Bitcoin accessible to common people?
36:12 Follow Mr. Antonopoulos’ work
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Monday Apr 22, 2019
Monday Apr 22, 2019
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Dr. Rani Lill Anjum is Research Fellow in Philosophy at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) School of Economics and Business, and Leader of the CAPS – Center for Applied Philosophy of Science since 2018. She spent two years at the University of Nottingham, working with Professor Stephen Mumford on dispositions and causation from 2007 to 2009. Together they developed a new theory of causation. After Nottingham, she got funding from FRIPRO NFR for a 4-year research project, Causation in Science (CauSci), hosted by the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) from January 2011. In May 2014 she was offered a permanent contract as Research Fellow at HH NMBU. In December 2014 her new research project Causation, Complexity and Evidence in Health Sciences (CauseHealth) got funded by FRIPRO and started up in the spring 2015 at NMBU. In 2018 she established NMBU CAPS – Centre for Applied Philosophy of Science. Dr. Lill Anjum has coauthored 4 books with Dr. Stephen Mumford: Getting Causes from Powers (2011), Causation: A Very Short Introduction (2013), Causation in Science and the Methods of Scientific Discovery (2018), and What Tends to Be: The Philosophy of Dispositional Modality (2018).
In this episode, we talk about the philosophy of causation, and a new approach to causation in philosophy and science developed by Dr. Lilla Anjum in collaboration with Dr. Stephen Mumford, base on a metaphysics of powers or dispositions. We discuss how we should think about causality when there are we get several factors acting on a particular phenomenon; the intrinsic limitations of scientific models of the world; how can shifting from neuron diagram of causal relations to vectors might improve those same models; and reductionism and emergentism. Throughout the interview, Dr. Lill Anjum illustrates all of these issues with examples coming from medicine, an area she has been focusing a lot of her work on causation recently.
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Monday Apr 22, 2019
Monday Apr 22, 2019
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Part 2 of the conversation with Dr. Simon Blackburn: Moral Relativism, Free Will, Meaning of Life.
Time Links:
00:00 Contradictions of moral relativism
05:17 Nihilism
10:21 Free will and personal responsibility
15:22 Can truth be cruel?
19:17 Pleasure in ethics
23:22 Religion, science, and the meaning of life
26:36 Immortality
29:53 How is beauty related to truth and morality?
34:50 Follow Dr. Blackburn’s work
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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:
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Saturday Apr 20, 2019
Saturday Apr 20, 2019
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Part 1 of the conversation with Dr. Simon Blackburn: The Sources of Metaethics.
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01:05 What is metaethics?
04:05 Evolutionary theory as the basis of morality
10:41 The trouble with reason
22:53 The is-ought problem
29:36 About moral axioms
38:50 The ethics of religion
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Friday Apr 19, 2019
Friday Apr 19, 2019
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Dr. Daniel Nettle is Professor of Behavioural Science at Newcastle University, where he is a member of the cross-disciplinary Centre for Behaviour and Evolution. He studies a number of different topics relating to behaviour, ageing and wellbeing. He mainly studies humans, but sometimes other animals (especially starlings) too. Dr. Nettle is the author of several books, most notably, Happiness: The Science Behind Your Smile (2005), Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are (2007), and Tyneside Neighbourhoods: Deprivation, Social Life and Social Behaviour in One English City (2015).
In this episode, we talk about personality from an evolutionary perspective. We refer to the importance of individual variation and things like behavioral flexibility. Also, the Big Five, and a couples of examples of how such traits might have evolved, and their neuroscientific underpinnings. Finally, how environmental effects are biologically mediated, and the ways by which personality changes during the life course of people.
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Twitter handle: @danielnettle
Books/articles referenced in the interview:
Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are: https://amzn.to/2TmiJta
Hanging on to the Edges: Essays on Science, Society and the Academic Life: https://bit.ly/2T1rUAe
Status and Mating Success Amongst Visual Artists: https://bit.ly/2XpW3rh
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Friday Apr 19, 2019
Friday Apr 19, 2019
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Dr. Simon Blackburn taught Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He is a distinguished research professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also a Fellow of Trinity College, and a member of the professoriate of New College of the Humanities. He was previously a Fellow of Pembroke College, and has also taught full-time at the University of North Carolina as an Edna J. Koury Professor. He is a former president of the Aristotelian Society. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2002, and a Foreign Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2008.
In this episode, the conversation centers around metaethics. We talk about evolutionary theory as the basis of morality; the shortcomings of reason; the is-ought dichotomy; the properties of moral axioms; the ethics of religion; the internal contradictions of moral relativism; the condition of nihilism; free will and personal responsibility; truth and cruelty; pleasure in ethics; religion, science, and the meaning of life; the philosophical problem of immortality; and the relationship between beauty, truth, and morality.
Time Links:
01:05 What is metaethics?
04:05 Evolutionary theory as the basis of morality
10:41 The trouble with reason
22:53 The is-ought problem
29:36 About moral axioms
38:50 The ethics of religion
42:28 Contradictions of moral relativism
47:45 Nihilism
52:49 Free will and personal responsibility
57:50 Can truth be cruel?
1:01:45 Pleasure in ethics
1:05:30 Religion, science, and the meaning of life
1:09:04 Immortality
1:11:21 How is beauty related to truth and morality?
1:17:18 Follow Dr. Blackburn’s work
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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:
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Thursday Apr 18, 2019
Thursday Apr 18, 2019
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Part 2 of the conversation with Dr. Bradley Campbell: Issues with Sociology, Victimhood on the Right, the Alt-Right.
Time Links:
00:00 The problem within sociology
10:39 What’s the role of moral status?
13:35 Could victimhood culture lead to tyranny?
29:54 Discriminating against conservatives
39:04 Victimhood culture on the right and the alt-right
46:20 Where can you follow Dr. Campbell’s work?
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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:
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Thursday Apr 18, 2019
Thursday Apr 18, 2019
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Dr. Stephen Law is formally Reader in Philosophy at Heythrop College, and before that Research Fellow at The Queen’s College Oxford. He is currently editor of the Royal Institute of Philosophy journal THINK. He has published several books, including The Philosophy Gym, A Very Short Introduction to Humanism, and Believing Bullshit. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts and Commerce and in 2008 became the provost of the Centre for Inquiry UK.
In this episode, we start off by talking about the limitations of naturalism in terms of knowledge acquisition, the is-ought problem, and the flaws of relativism. Then, we move on to discussing Liberalism, as is presented by Stephen Law in his book, The War for Children’s Minds, and the important distinction between freedom of thought and freedom of action. We also deal with the issue of religion in a scientific world and the approach of the New Atheists. We question the idea that the West is going through some sort of “moral crisis”, and the bad outcomes that pushing for that narrative might have. And, finally, we address the flaws in arguments between religious people and atheist when it comes to the problem of evil and the Evil-God challenge.
Time Links:
00:54 The limitations of naturalism
09:12 The is-ought distinction
13:56 The flaws of relativism
17:09 Liberalism and freedom of thought
25:20 Religion in a modern scientific world
28:24 The New Atheists
31:44 Freedom of thought is not freedom of action
36:04 Are we really going through a “moral crisis” in the West?
41:33 The problem of evil and the Evil-God challenge in debates between religious people and atheists
48:25 Follow Dr. Law’s work!
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Twitter handle: @stephenlaw60
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Wednesday Apr 17, 2019
Wednesday Apr 17, 2019
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Part 1 of the conversation with Dr. Bradley Campbell: Culture of Victimhood, Its Historical Precedents and Influences.
Time Links:
00:26 Cultures of honor, cultures of dignity, and cultures of victimhood
17:36 Historical precedents of victimhood culture and the boom in 2013/2014
38:41 The religious aspects of victimhood culture
53:37 Postmodern and Marxist influences
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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:
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Tuesday Apr 16, 2019
Tuesday Apr 16, 2019
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Dr. Bradley Campbell is an Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University. He’s also the author of books like The Geometry of Genocide, and, more recently, The Rise of Victimhood Culture.
In this episode, the conversation centers around the book The Rise of Victimhood Culture, co-authored with Jason Manning. We talk about the distinction between cultures of honor, cultures of dignity, and cultures of victimhood; the historical precedents of victimhood culture and the boom in 2013/2014; the religious aspects of victimhood culture; the influences from postmodernism and Marxist conflict theories; the problem within sociology; the role of moral status; the possibility of victimhood culture leading to political tyranny; discrimination against conservative people; the manifestations of victimhood culture on the right, and particularly the alt-right.
Time Links:
00:26 Cultures of honor, cultures of dignity, and cultures of victimhood
17:36 Historical precedents of victimhood culture and the boom in 2013/2014
38:41 The religious aspects of victimhood culture
53:37 Postmodern and Marxist influences
1:03:56 The problem within sociology
1:14:35 What’s the role of moral status?
1:17:31 Could victimhood culture lead to tyranny?
1:33:50 Discriminating against conservatives
1:43:00 Victimhood culture on the right and the alt-right
1:50:16 Where can you follow Dr. Campbell’s work?
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Faculty page: http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/bradley-campbell
Book The Rise of Victimhood Culture: http://victimhoodculture.com/
Dr. Campbell’s books: https://www.amazon.com/default/e/B014N9MW86?redirectedFromKindleDbs=true
Twitter handle: @CampbellSocProf
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Monday Apr 15, 2019
Monday Apr 15, 2019
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Dr. Herbert Gintis is External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He and Professor Robert Boyd (Anthropology, UCLA) headed a multidisciplinary research project that models such behaviors as empathy, reciprocity, insider/outsider behavior, vengefulness, and other observed human behaviors not well handled by the traditional model of the self-regarding agent. Professor Gintis is also author of several books including Game Theory Evolving, The Bounds of Reason, A Cooperative Species, Game Theory in Action, and Individuality and Entanglement and also coeditor, with Joe Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, and Ernst Fehr, of Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-scale Societies, and with Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd and Ernst Fehr of Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: On the Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life.
In this episode, we talk about sociobiology, game theory, and behavioral science in general. First, we talk about the historical and scientific relevance of sociobiology. Then, we go through one of the big projects of Dr. Gintis’ work for the last two decades - a framework for the unification of the behavioral sciences – and the several obstacles that we have to that, including the fact that different behavioral sciences have different approaches and focus on different aspects. We also talk about the relationship between culture and biology. Finally, we go from there to the particularities of human cooperation, group selection, and the role that social institutions play.
Time Links:
01:03 Sociobiology and human behavior
04:37 A framework for the unification of the behavioral sciences
10:52 It makes no sense to talk about individuals or collectives
17:20 Culture and biology, and gene-culture coevolution
21:50 The particularities of human cooperation
25:55 About group selection
35:24 The function of social institutions in social species
42:30 The importance of group identity (distributed cognition)
48:50 Humans are rational, but not in the way you think
59:05 What is human nature?
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Articles on Researchgate: https://tinyurl.com/y5dzoe2l
Books: https://tinyurl.com/y6ot643p
Books referenced in the int