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Feb 13, 2016 —
Daniel Kaufman & Massimo Pigliucci
- What constitutes an explanation in the natural sciences?
- Looking for a categorical difference between natural and social sciences
- Biological and social explanations of human behavior
- The difference between the narratives of social and physical sciences
- Does social science explain events or their interpretations?
- Must a science have “laws”? Are there social scientific laws?
Jan 25, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Jeremy England
- Jeremy’s new theory and the origins of life
- Wrestling with the second law of thermodynamics
- Self-organizing systems and self-replicating ones
- Natural selection as a special case of more general physical laws
- The role of ritual in Jeremy’s Jewish faith
- The laws of physics were written by people, not God
Dec 13, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Donald Hoffman
- Natural selection doesn’t build brains to see the truth
- How perception is like a graphical computer interface
- Don’s theory: It’s consciousness all the way down
- Is there a chicken-and-egg problem with this theory?
- Don describes his consciousness formula, sans math (phew)
- With this theory, life is more interesting—and painful
Aug 1, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Karl Giberson
- Why Adam is crucial to Christian theology
- What happens when the Biblical Adam encounters modern genetics
- The “slippery slope” of critical inquiry
- What do you need to believe to be a Christian?
- Trying to reconcile God as Creator with natural selection
- Evolutionary psychology and the doctrine of original sin
Jul 19, 2015 —
Robert Wright & David Sloan Wilson
TAGS altruism | evolution | genetics | nationalism | philosophy | psychology | religion | Richard Dawkins | science | self
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