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Oct 31, 2015 — Daniel Kaufman & Daniel Tippens
What guides our moral decision-making?
Dealing with conflicting moral obligations
Distinguishing feelings from beliefs
What makes an expert?
What a moral theory does
Why “effective altruism” isn’t compelling
Oct 30, 2015 — David Bryce Yaden & Julien Musolino
Yes, you can be a “spiritual atheist”
Intuitive beliefs about the body and the soul
Julien: The soul (most likely) doesn’t exist
How believing in the soul makes you more punitive
Crime, moral responsibility, and a suffering boulder
Julien: We don’t need God to provide us with meaning
Oct 26, 2015 — Robert Wright & Dena Merriam
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
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 21, 2015 — Joshua Knobe & Abigail Marsh
Abby’s research on children with psychopathic traits
Why psychopaths are good manipulators
Are psychopaths born or made?
Inside the brain of a psychopath
“Anti-psychopaths”—people with very high empathy
The link between empathy and recognizing fear
Oct 20, 2015 — Robert Wright & Jay Michaelson
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
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 16, 2015 — Robert Wright & Lee Smolin
What Lee means when he says “time is fundamental”
Understanding the universe as a network
A (very) tentative theory of consciousness
Did the laws of physics evolve?
Is the universe fine-tuned for the emergence of life?
Applying Lee’s theories of time to everyday life
Oct 12, 2015 — Robert Wright & David Frum
David’s “noodle art” metaphor for religious truth
Would aliens have the same morality as humans?
Why we need rituals
What Judaism offers to non-believers
David: Heaven doesn’t sound very interesting
Leaving the right kind of legacy
Oct 11, 2015 — David Bryce Yaden & Crystal Park
Distinguishing between spirituality and religion
The bonus benefits of searching for the sacred
Measuring one’s religiosity and spirituality
States of mind fostered by spiritual practices
Meaning as a predictor of well-being
The Protestant ethic and the science of spirituality
Oct 10, 2015 — Robert Wright & John McWhorter
What gives John’s life meaning?
Unorthodox views on evolution and natural selection
Can art provide a spiritual experience?
The difference between consuming art and making it
Fear of infirmity … but not death
John on doing what he was meant to do
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
“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
Why Daniel wrote a biography of David Foster Wallace
“This Is Water” and Wallace’s search for meaning
How Wallace’s depression shaped his worldview
The double-edged sword of self-consciousness
Wallace’s effort to see reality through the eyes of others
Wallace’s suicide and literary legacy
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