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Dec 5, 2016 —
Daniel Kaufman & Massimo Pigliucci
- How do ancient and modern philosophy differ?
- Philosophy as a way of life
- How the scientific revolution changed philosophy
- Has modern ethics gone down the wrong path?
- Why did ethicists turn away from virtues and toward moral rules?
- Do universal ethical principles exist?
- What Sam Harris gets wrong about ethics
Nov 22, 2016 —
Oliver Burkeman & Jonathan Shedler
- Debunking the debunking of psychoanalytic theory
- Can thoughts change emotions?
- The patient-therapist relationship as a window into the self
- Therapy’s modest goal
- Psychotherapy’s struggle to escape Freud’s shadow
- Psychoanalyzing the urge to engage in psychoanalysis
- Looking at politics through a psychoanalytic lens
Nov 21, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Gad Saad
- How hormones drive consumer and mating behavior
- How your fingers give your testosterone level away
- Why some people seem taller than they are
- Why grandfathers get fewer gifts than grandmothers
- Is religion at the root of bad behavior?
- Is Islam more conducive to violence than other religions?
- Evolutionary perspectives on religion
Nov 14, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Daniel Kaufman
- Announcing a series of “sixty-second sermons”
- Tribalism and Trump’s success
- Apocalypse now?
- Dan vs. Bob on whether a global community is possible
- The moral dimensions of the election
- The backlash against political correctness
- What it feels like to be an outsider
- A closer look at MeaningofLife.tv’s “sermons” and other local news
Nov 4, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Christof Koch
- The search for non-human consciousness
- Consciousness in the organic and inorganic worlds
- Measuring consciousness
- Lucky us: The universe breeds consciousness
- How scientific and spiritual worldviews can enrich each other
- Artificial intelligence is not (necessarily) artificial consciousness
- The Allen Institute for Brain Science and its mission
Oct 19, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Sam Harris
- Sam Harris, mystic and atheist
- The mystery of consciousness
- Is mysticism more like science than like religion?
- How religion makes progress
- Sam’s case for intolerance
- The root causes of extremism
- Religious and secular reasons to do good
- Ways religion may be closer to the truth than atheism
- A secular approach to death
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