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MeaningofLife.tv videos — December 2020
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Dec 28, 2020 —
John Horgan & Amanda Gefter
A conversation about nothing inspires a career in science writing. Physicist John Wheeler’s participatory cosmos. A new interpretation of quantum mechanics. Amanda’s second-person solution to the mind-body problem.
Dec 23, 2020 —
Daniel Kaufman & Megan Fritts
- Megan: philosophy of religion shouldn’t focus on “proofs for God”
- Determining rational grounds for supernaturalism
- Why Dan rejects epistemic foundationalism
- Megan’s Christian agnosticism, Dan’s Jewish atheism
- Wittgenstein’s engagement with philosophy of religion
- What kind of authority would it be good for us to submit to?
- Dan has a revelation
- Has philosophy forgotten that it’s a humanistic discipline?
Dec 21, 2020 —
Daniel Kaufman & Robert Gressis
- Robert’s essay, “The Philosophy Rapture”
- What counts as “relevant” philosophy?
- Philosophy’s “dirty insider game”
- Why are great philosophers overrepresented at elite universities?
- Generational decline, intellectual and attitudinal
- Do intellectual celebrity cultures produce shrinking intellectual gene pools?
- Dan: Our present-day celebrity philosophers will destroy the discipline
Dec 16, 2020 —
John Horgan & Michael Brooks
How Richard Dawkins helped Michael lose his faith. Michael’s infatuation with a 16th-century “quantum astrologer.” Are dreams of a final theory delusional? John’s new stream-of-consciousness memoir “Pay Attention.”
Dec 14, 2020 —
Daniel Kaufman & Milton Lawson
- The new issue of Milton’s comic book, Thompson Heller: Detective Interstellar
- Christopher Hitchens’ influence on Milton’s comic
- The anxieties of robot personhood
- The economic determinants of comic book production
- How a new comic writer finds an artist
- The comic book art division of labor
- Thompson Heller’s future
Dec 8, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Massimo Pigliucci
- Could evolution have a higher purpose?
- The value of (some) untestable hypotheses
- What zombies can (and can’t) teach us about consciousness
- Evolutionary teleology vs. evolutionary teleonomy
- Why does evolution produce increasingly complex forms of life?
- Distinguishing between physical laws and natural processes
- Could the hypothesis that evolution is serving a larger purpose be tested?
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