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September 2019
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Sep 24, 2019 — David Ottlinger & Carson Young
Our era of boycotts, from Jimmy Johns to Uber to Nike
The ethics and political philosophy of boycotts
“Society is not a person”
Waheed Hussein’s concept of social change economic consumerism
Group power and coercion
Why boycotts usually fail
How can we judge the worthiness of a boycott’s goals?
Sep 20, 2019 — Robert Wright & Agnes Callard
Why Agnes once lay down on the yellow line in the middle of the road
What explains “akrasia,” or weakness of will?
Agnes’s book,
Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming
How Agnes views free will and self-creation
How do you become the “you” that you want to be?
Aspiration and the divine
Agnes’s forthcoming book on how Socrates changed the rules
Sep 18, 2019 — Nikita Petrov & David Poleski
Nikita’s Soviet experience
The individual in Russian and English languages
Toska
, the noble Russian sadness
Nikita’s American friend, the murderer
David’s Negative Mystical Experience and brush with Sai Baba
What Nikita learned from DMT trips
Creativity and depression
Sep 16, 2019 — Daniel Kaufman & David Ottlinger
The fight, and meta-fight, in philosophy over trans issues
David’s essay on philosophy and activism
The admonition to “go read the literature”
Dan: The profession needs to push back against the mob
Should philosophers avoid signing petitions?
David regrets the “neglect of the ordinary virtues” in this battle
How professors should teach controversial subjects
Sep 11, 2019 — Robert Wright & Nina Strohminger
Nina’s research on how we understand the self
The traits that make your self yourself
Buddhism and the continuity of self through time
The link between egocentrism and an equanimous attitude toward death
Bob: Not-self is hard to experience and very hard to understand
Asian Buddhists vs. “white boy Buddhists”
Does a happy life require virtuous behavior?
Sep 3, 2019 — Daniel Kaufman & E. John Winner
A brief history of 20th-century literary criticism
John’s battles against radical feminists as a grad student at SUNY Albany
Post-structuralism and “how modernity failed itself”
English department politics
John: “Postmodernity is all around us”
Postmodernity in the world vs. in the academy
Post-postmodernism and cultural stagnancy
Sep 1, 2019 — Robert Wright & Alexander Wendt
Why Alex shifted from international relations to quantum physics
Alex: “We are walking wave functions”
Do the origins of consciousness and free will lie in the wave collapse?
Quantum decision theory and human irrationality
The advantage of viewing humanity as quantum rather than classical
How a nation-state is like a quantum state
Alex: Language is best understood quantumly
The possibility of collective consciousness
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