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July 2020
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Jul 28, 2020 — Robert Wright & Bruce Feiler
Bruce’s new book,
Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age
Debunking the idea of the “predictable crises of adult life”
Two kinds of life changes: “disruptors” and “lifequakes”
Does Bob need a lifequake?
Bruce: “The linear model of life transitions is just wrong”
Millennials zigging and zagging
The ABCs of meaning: agency, belonging, cause
How to write your own life story
Are the stories we tell about ourselves just BS? And is that okay?
How to change the meaning of your life
Jul 26, 2020 — Daniel Kaufman & Russell Blackford
Russell’s book,
The Tyranny of Opinion: Conformity and the Future of Liberalism
Preserving the liberal tradition
Can the genie of stakes-inflation be put back in the bottle?
Dan: Woke illiberalism is a kind of luxury
Russell’s recommendations for keeping the liberal tradition alive
The role of legislation and institutions in tamping down illiberalism
Jul 21, 2020 — Robert Wright & David Livingstone Smith
David’s new book,
On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It
The tension at the heart of dehumanization
David: Genocides are moralistic
The essential role of psychological essentialism
Dehumanization in American politics
When David received death threats after critiquing Jordan Peterson
The “Great Chain of Being” and our complex conception of monsters
Why David doesn’t like the term “the banality of evil”
How to resist dehumanization
Jul 19, 2020 — John Horgan & Philip Goff
Philip’s 2019 book,
Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness
What’s the difference between panpsychism and philosophical idealism?
John: Solipsism is “an absolute impediment to a truly scientific theory of consciousness”
Does panpsychism “cheat” when it comes to philosophy’s fundamental problems?
The moral dimension of panpsychism
Hallucinogens and mystical experience
Jul 14, 2020 — Robert Wright & Bhikkhu Bodhi
Buddhism and the military atrocities in Myanmar and Sri Lanka
The early political history of Buddhism
Varieties of Buddhist rationales for nonviolence
The history of war between Southeast Asian nations
Is warfare antithetical to attaining enlightenment?
Justifications for non-pacifism
Meditation and the antiwar mindset
Foreign policy, anti-China sentiment, and BLM protests
Jul 13, 2020 — Daniel Kaufman & Crispin Sartwell
What are persons?
Why don’t we say “my legs went to the store”?
Actions and intentions
The case of the robot who voted
Are addicts in control of their actions?
The moral culpability of a naughty dog
Jul 7, 2020 — Robert Wright & Rutger Bregman
Rutger’s new book,
Humankind: A Hopeful History
Debunking the “veneer theory” of human nature
Are violence and war intrinsic to human nature?
The human self-domestication thesis
Why Bob doesn’t like the idea of people “deserving punishment”
Is it bad to emphasize the dark side of human nature?
What the debunking of the Stanford Prison Experiment can teach us
Giving money to rich people: Why the U in UBI?
Would UBI turn us all into couch potatoes (or worse)?
Jul 6, 2020 — Robert Gressis & Douglas Edwards
Doug’s new book,
Philosophy Smackdown
Plato’s Cave and the three layers of wrestling reality
What it means when wrestlers break the fourth wall
Real life can be “just as scripted as wrestling, if not more so”
How and why moral virtue changed in wrestling
The only performance where people say “you know it’s fake, right?”
What philosophers could learn from professional wrestling
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