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MeaningofLife.tv videos — May 2020
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May 27, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Andrew Sullivan
- Remembering Andrew’s recently deceased dog Eddy
- Can we explain the bond between dogs and people?
- The many disgusting things that dogs love
- Andrew angers the cat lovers in the audience
- Are there actually “cat people” and “dog people”?
- Dogs’ use of affection as a tool
- What can we learn from dogs about how to be present?
- Andrew: “I do think that after death I will be with my dogs”
- Andrew wants the economy to open up—a little
May 24, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Jacqueline Novogratz
- Jacqueline’s new book, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World
- Female saints as childhood role models
- How Jacqueline helped start Rwanda’s first microfinance bank
- Jacqueline’s “patient capital” investment nonprofit, Acumen
- The four steps toward building moral imagination
- Toilet entrepreneurship in Nairobi
- Changing the market for coffee and chocolate farmers
- Can identity connect as well as it divides?
- Jacqueline: A moral revolution must come from inside us
May 20, 2020 —
Daniel Kaufman & Crispin Sartwell
- Dan’s in-progress book, Prolegomena for a Pluralist Metaphysics
- Avoiding the “crazy positions”
- A stereoscopic view of the “scientific” and “manifest” images
- Dan: A world with people in it is only explainable in fragmentary terms
- Crispin sees the leading edge of the new dualism
- On the ontological status of coming-of-age stories
- Previewing future fights
May 12, 2020 —
Robert Wright & John Horgan
- John fails the coronavirus antibody test; Bob consoles him
- Science fiction, free will, and robot sex
- The Devs interpretation of quantum mechanics
- The Wright-Horgan interpretation of Devs, part 1 (spoilers)
- The Wright-Horgan interpretation of Devs, part 2 (lots of spoilers)
- John: we need the concept of free will more than we need God
- Is the many worlds interpretation consoling or terrifying?
May 11, 2020 —
Daniel Kaufman & Jesse Singal
- The continuing battle over gender in philosophy
- Harm avoidance vs. competing interests
- Jesse: There’s disagreement within the trans community over what it means to be trans
- Dan: “This is madness to everyone other than the people inside the tent”
- The social dynamics of philosophy
- Ordinary language and “they”
- Will the trans movement moderate?
- Dan: Philosophy is in trouble and the pandemic is making it worse
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