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Jul 11, 2015 — Daniel Kaufman & Massimo Pigliucci
Defining moral realism—it’s harder than you’d think!
Why Massimo is not a moral realist
Are utilitarians moral realists? Are Kantians?
Why we’ll never arrive at a single ethical theory
Human nature and why there’s no Marxist utopia
What happens to those who refuse to play the “moral game”?
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Jul 8, 2015 — Robert Wright & Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Was Spinoza spiritual but not religious?
Why Rebecca left Orthodox Judaism for atheism
Transcendent experiences within a materialist universe
Is science displacing philosophy?
Finding Plato’s mysticism
Rebecca: In moments of despair, I turn to Spinoza
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Nov 1, 2014 — Daniel Kaufman & Massimo Pigliucci
Stoic Week is almost here—get that catering order in!
Wrestling philosophy out of the ivory tower and onto the street
Neo-Stoicism: Like the ancient kind, but with less Zeus
A day in the life of a practicing modern Stoic
Can Stoicism be a secular replacement for traditional religion?
That guy who always cries at weddings? Probably a philosopher
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Aug 17, 2014 — Daniel Kaufman & Massimo Pigliucci
The case against “scientism”
Quantum mechanics can’t help us understand a dollar bill
What’s the point of knowledge?
Beyond the Enlightenment
What is science, exactly?
Extrascientific ways of knowing
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Aug 2, 2014 — Robert Wright & Miri Albahari
Why understanding “no-self” matters: it might get you to Nirvana
“Tanha”—the root of our suffering
Miri’s maverick interpretation of the no-self doctrine
Miri and Bob talk about their meditation retreats
Things get weird: A universal field of consciousness?
Does losing your self making you a better (non-)person?
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Jan 27, 2013 — Robert Wright & Gary Weber
Gary describes happiness beyond thought
Life without anger and lust
Why has Gary meditated so much for so long?
Buddhist teachings on suffering and selfhood
Explaining the experience of no-thought
Does Buddhism lead to nihilism?
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Nov 17, 2012 — Laurie Santos & Dan Ariely
On
The Mind Report
, Laurie interviews Dan Ariely about his recent book,
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty
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psychology of cheating and lying
in competitive cycling, at Harvard, and in business. Dan explains how
non-human animals
are more rational than we are, and Laurie asks whether the media has contributed to people
cheating more lately
. Dan reveals how his research on dishonesty has affected
his personal life
. In closing, Dan offers some tactics to fight the
eroding trust
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