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Oct 26, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Dena Merriam
The Wright Show
- Commonalities between Hindu and Buddhist meditation
- What a Buddhist calls “non-self,” a Hindu might call “oneness”
- Dena decries the commercialization of meditation
- The work of the Global Peace Initiative of Women
- An alliance of contemplative practitioners
- Could meditation help solve the Israeli/Palestinian conflict?
Oct 24, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Aliou Niang
Conversations@Union
- Parallels between Christianity and Africa’s Diola religion
- Essential Diola ritual practices
- How economics caused the French Imperial powers to suppress the Diola tradition
- The land as a “living being”
- Aliou’s path to Christianity via Diola and Sufi traditions
- Reading Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians from a Diola perspective
Oct 20, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Jay Michaelson
The Wright Show
- Jay’s new book on sadness, The Gate of Tears
- The most common mistake we make in dealing with sadness
- Examining the contours of your negative emotions
- Connections between Jewish and Buddhist teachings
- Jay: Pushing away the difficult is 90% of the difficult
- Spirituality and the power of negative thinking
Oct 19, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Jorge Ferrer
The Wright Show
- Do all religions have the same “esoteric core?”
- The psychedelic origins of transpersonal psychology
- Aligning your instincts, consciousness, and heart through “participatory spirituality”
- Constructing reality through “embodied cognition”
- Why Jorge would object to making participatory spirituality a religion
- The complicated morality of “enlightened” spiritual teachers
Oct 11, 2015 —
David Bryce Yaden & Crystal Park
Science of Spirituality
Oct 4, 2015 —
Jonathan Phillips & Steven Frankland
- How the brain builds complex thoughts out of reusable parts
- More fodder for the brain-as-computer model
- Sorry, we’re not quite there with the mind-reading thing
- Possible reasons for the brain’s topographic organization
- Why Steven’s paper is controversial (and exciting)
- Cognitive neuroscience questions for the near future
Oct 3, 2015 —
Daniel Kaufman & Massimo Pigliucci
Sophia
- “Virtue ethics” vs. typical modern understandings of morality
- What do you need to live a “flourishing” life?
- How to tell the difference between a Cynic and a Stoic
- When our moral intuitions and our moral systems conflict
- What Massimo finds appealing about a Stoic lifestyle
- Why you shouldn’t focus on external outcomes
Oct 1, 2015 —
Robert Wright & D.T. Max
The Wright Show
Sep 19, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Salman Hameed
The Wright Show
Sep 9, 2015 —
Robert Wright & John Thatamanil
Conversations@Union
- Paul Tillich’s conception of God as “the ground of being”
- Viewing the Christian tradition as symbolic, not literal
- Tillich’s engagement with Eastern mysticism
- How Tillich wrestled with the problem of evil
- Tillich’s recasting of the idea of divine revelation
- Is there consolation in Tillich’s view of death?
Sep 6, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Clayton Critcher
The Wright Show
- Clayton’s research into the psychology of religious belief
- The difference between awe and inspiration
- Evidence that inspiration causes belief in God
- The effects of remembering personally inspiring events
- What happens during moments of spiritual transcendence
- Believing in a loving God vs. a controlling God
Aug 22, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Jerusha Lamptey
Conversations@Union
- Why Jerusha doesn’t call her path to Islam a “conversion”
- Jerusha: In Islam, science and belief are not in opposition
- Constructing a Muslim feminist theology
- Taqwa, the egalitarian idea of “God consciousness”
- What the Koran says about the salvation of non-Muslims
- Female Muslim scholars are between a rock and a hard place
Aug 21, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Dacher Keltner
The Wright Show
Aug 15, 2015 —
Robert Wright & John Thatamanil
Conversations@Union
- The Hindu idea that you are one with the universe
- Moral implications of this idea of oneness
- How different are Hindu and Buddhist philosophy?
- Grappling with the Buddhist doctrine of “emptiness”
- Connecting Hindu belief with the Christian Trinity
- John: No, believers are not all “climbing the same mountain
Aug 4, 2015 —
Daniel Kaufman & Massimo Pigliucci
Sophia
- The “strong AI thesis”: Can a machine think?
- Debating the usefulness of the Turing test
- Could your brain be swapped with a silicon replica?
- Massimo: You’ll never be able to upload your consciousness
- Digging into the famous “Chinese room” thought experiment
- Dan: Neuroscience won’t solve philosophy of mind puzzles
Aug 1, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Karl Giberson
The Wright Show
- Why Adam is crucial to Christian theology
- What happens when the Biblical Adam encounters modern genetics
- The “slippery slope” of critical inquiry
- What do you need to believe to be a Christian?
- Trying to reconcile God as Creator with natural selection
- Evolutionary psychology and the doctrine of original sin
Jul 25, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Gary Dorrien
Conversations@Union
Jul 19, 2015 —
Robert Wright & David Sloan Wilson
The Wright Show
Jul 18, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Judith Shulevitz
The Wright Show
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