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Jun 18, 2016 —
Suzanne Koven & Jo Marchant
- Why Jo wrote Cure: A Journey Into the Science of Mind Over Body
- The rift between alternative and traditional medicine
- The real effects of “fake” medicine
- Jo: Science needs to take alternative treatments seriously
- The problem with focusing on pharmaceuticals
- Bringing science and alternative medicine together
May 16, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Anantanand Rambachan
- The Hindu philosophy of Advaita Vedanta
- The nature of reality according to the Upanishads
- Anant explains “not-two is not one,” the subtitle of his book
- Is “unity” in Hinduism the same as “emptiness” in Buddhism?
- Comparing Hindu and Buddhist views of suffering
- The meaning of “liberation”
- Caste in India as an example of religion gone wrong
Apr 4, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Evan Thompson
- Time travel and other features of everyday awareness
- Lucid dreaming is to ordinary dreaming as mindfulness is to waking life
- Meta-awareness and the search for the true self
- Self is a construction, says Evan, but not an illusion
- Near-death and out-of-body experiences
- Ways to approach the problem of consciousness
Mar 25, 2016 —
Daniel Kaufman & Daniel Tippens
- Rationalism, its virtues and ideals
- Manifestations of rationalism in epistemology …
- … in ethics …
- … and in political philosophy
- Critique of rationalism: It can’t be reasons all the way down
- Dan K. claims rational ethicists don’t really exist …
- … and if they did, you wouldn’t like them
- How philosophy turned to rationalism, and Dan K. turned away from it
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