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Robert’s essay examining whether pansexuality is obligatory 0:36
Orientation vs. desire 13:49
Is the push for trans rights undermining gay and lesbian rights? 20:01
Dan: Sexual attractions can’t be subject to moral scrutiny 31:06
Kant and the malleability of sexual consciousness 36:22
Dan fears the totalitarian impulse 45:59
Trans activists vs. lesbians 61:42
Daniel Kaufman (Missouri State University, The Electric Agora) and Robert Gressis (CSU Northridge)
Recorded February 12, 2020
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Robert’s essay examining whether pansexuality is obligatory 0:36
Orientation vs. desire 13:49
Is the push for trans rights undermining gay and lesbian rights? 20:01
Dan: Sexual attractions can’t be subject to moral scrutiny 31:06
Kant and the malleability of sexual consciousness 36:22
Dan fears the totalitarian impulse 45:59
Trans activists vs. lesbians 61:42
Daniel Kaufman (Missouri State University, The Electric Agora) and Robert Gressis (CSU Northridge)
Recorded February 12, 2020
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![Is Pansexuality Obligatory? | Daniel Kaufman & Robert Gressis [Sophia]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hJC-v-5qxIw/hqdefault.jpg "Is Pansexuality Obligatory? | Daniel Kaufman & Robert Gressis [Sophia]
Robert’s essay examining whether pansexuality is obligatory 0:36
Orientation vs. desire 13:49
Is the push for trans rights undermining gay and lesbian rights? 20:01
Dan: Sexual attractions can’t be subject to moral scrutiny 31:06
Kant and the malleability of sexual consciousness 36:22
Dan fears the totalitarian impulse 45:59
Trans activists vs. lesbians 61:42
Daniel Kaufman (Missouri State University, The Electric Agora) and Robert Gressis (CSU Northridge)
Recorded February 12, 2020
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![Why I Am Not a Buddhist | Robert Wright & Evan Thompson [The Wright Show]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/heSq98tNTlM/hqdefault.jpg "Why I Am Not a Buddhist | Robert Wright & Evan Thompson [The Wright Show]
Evan’s new book, Why I Am Not a Buddhist 0:22
Evan’s critique of “Buddhist modernism” and “Buddhist exceptionalism” 11:15
Which of Buddhism’s major claims are naturalistic? 21:39
Is Buddhism fundamentally different than other religions? 35:30
Bob defends Buddhist insights into human psychology 41:39
Evan’s case against “neural Buddhism” 1:02:00
Does a clearer view of reality make you more equanimous? 1:14:38
All about nirvana 1:35:30
Debating evolutionary psychology 1:46:59
Evan: This book is friendly criticism 2:11:57
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Evan Thompson (University of British Columbia, Waking, Dreaming, Being)
Recorded March 31, 2020
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1:14 Defining effective altruism
7:46 Rob explains the meaning of ‘80,000 Hours’
18:27 Should young people dedicate their careers to fighting climate change?
25:59 The Apocalypse Aversion Project
30:02 How cognitive biases fuel tribalism
43:12 Bob: We need a psychological revolution
59:19 Are external threats the best way to bring people together?
1:11:57 The balance between surveillance and public safety
1:20:23 Bob: Lets retire the word apologist
1:25:55 Making rationality cool
1:44:20 Rob challenges Bob to find flaws in The Moral Animal
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Rob Wiblin (80,000 Hours). Recorded May 8, 2021.
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![The Microfoundations of Marxism | Robert Gressis & Jaime Edwards [Sophia]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/icn02zUn6Gk/hqdefault.jpg "The Microfoundations of Marxism | Robert Gressis & Jaime Edwards [Sophia]
0:00 Jaime explains how Marx understood ideology
11:58 Our tendency to get facts wrong in a self-serving way
24:27 Cognitive biases that lead the working class astray
35:09 Why do we have reason?
58:42 “Thank God for the ruling class!”
70:46 How do the elite get what they want?
89:17 Imagining the meetings of the megarich
Robert Gressis (CSU Northridge) and Jaime Edwards (St. Norbert College)
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![Just Faith | Robert Wright & Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons [The Wright Show]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ifoqPDl91nA/hqdefault.jpg "Just Faith | Robert Wright & Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons [The Wright Show]
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0:00 Guthrie’s new book, Just Faith: Reclaiming Progressive Christianity
6:41 Guthrie’s personal faith journey
10:34 The tradition of liberal Protestantism
18:56 Human sexuality and evangelicalism
26:35 Guthrie sees a liberatory counternarrative in Scripture
42:22 What drives militant atheism?
47:02 What happened to Christian antiwar activism?
50:56 Do young progressives privilege identity over class?
1:03:17 Why Guthrie prays for President Trump
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons (Just Faith, Center for American Progress). Recorded October 7, 2020.
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![Ten Keys to Reality | Robert Wright & Frank Wilczek [The Wright Show]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jnEe-8XkEqk/hqdefault.jpg "Ten Keys to Reality | Robert Wright & Frank Wilczek [The Wright Show]
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0:00 Intro
1:11 What got Frank his Nobel Prize
03:22 Franks new book, Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
12:49 Solving the mystery of dark matter
19:36 Can quantum physics make sense?
41:38 Frank: Mind emerges from matter, not the other way around
51:34 Can you love an automaton?
1:03:44 Complementarity as scientific concept and everyday attitude
1:10:49 How Franks Catholic upbringing influenced his scientific work
1:16:11 Is reality an algorithm?
1:23:45 The limits of human intelligence
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Frank Wilczek (Fundamentals, MIT). Recorded on February 1, 2021.
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![Prolegomena for a Pluralist Metaphysics | Daniel Kaufman & Crispin Sartwell [Sophia]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/k8AVh30DaOg/hqdefault.jpg "Prolegomena for a Pluralist Metaphysics | Daniel Kaufman & Crispin Sartwell [Sophia]
Dan’s in-progress book, Prolegomena for a Pluralist Metaphysics 9:20
Avoiding the “crazy positions” 17:43
A stereoscopic view of the “scientific” and “manifest” images 20:18
Dan: A world with people in it is only explainable in fragmentary terms 26:20
Crispin sees the leading edge of the new dualism 32:32
On the ontological status of coming-of-age stories 50:01
Previewing future fights 1:05:56
Daniel Kaufman (Missouri State University, The Electric Agora) and Crispin Sartwell (Eye of the Storm, Entanglements: A System of Philosophy)
Recorded May 14, 2020
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![Philosophy and the City | Daniel Kaufman & Joseph Biehl [Sophia]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kAaCfdvkS_g/hqdefault.jpg "Philosophy and the City | Daniel Kaufman & Joseph Biehl [Sophia]
Why Joe left academia 4:41
Bemoaning the apathy of today’s college students 11:06
Joe’s nonprofit, the Gotham Philosophical Society 19:44
How can philosophers help improve a place like New York City? 33:12
Should philosophy be parochial or universalist? 56:06
Philosophical anti-realism and parochialism 69:19
Neighborhood pride in the cosmopolitan city 76:11
Daniel Kaufman (Missouri State University, The Electric Agora) and Joseph Biehl (Gotham Philosophical Society)
Recorded December 19, 2019
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