NonzeroClips | The Decline of Great Philosophers | Daniel Kaufman & Robert Gressis [Sophia] @MeaningoflifeTV | Uploaded December 2020 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
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0:00 Intro
3:30 Robert's essay, "The Philosophy Rapture"
16:32 What counts as "relevant" philosophy?
32:38 Philosophy's "dirty insider game"
40:16 Why are great philosophers overrepresented at elite universities?
48:40 Generational decline, intellectual and attitudinal
1:00:05 Do intellectual celebrity cultures produce shrinking intellectual gene pools?
1:11:02 Dan: Our present-day celebrity philosophers will destroy the discipline
Daniel Kaufman (Missouri State University, The Electric Agora) and Robert Gressis (California State University, Northridge). Recorded December 7, 2020.
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0:00 Intro
3:30 Robert's essay, "The Philosophy Rapture"
16:32 What counts as "relevant" philosophy?
32:38 Philosophy's "dirty insider game"
40:16 Why are great philosophers overrepresented at elite universities?
48:40 Generational decline, intellectual and attitudinal
1:00:05 Do intellectual celebrity cultures produce shrinking intellectual gene pools?
1:11:02 Dan: Our present-day celebrity philosophers will destroy the discipline
Daniel Kaufman (Missouri State University, The Electric Agora) and Robert Gressis (California State University, Northridge). Recorded December 7, 2020.
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![The Decline of Great Philosophers | Daniel Kaufman & Robert Gressis [Sophia]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dJ7ZdaEHG48/hqdefault.jpg "The Decline of Great Philosophers | Daniel Kaufman & Robert Gressis [Sophia]
Support MeaningofLife.tv on Patreon: https://patreon.com/nonzerofoundation
0:00 Intro
3:30 Roberts essay, The Philosophy Rapture
16:32 What counts as relevant philosophy?
32:38 Philosophys dirty insider game
40:16 Why are great philosophers overrepresented at elite universities?
48:40 Generational decline, intellectual and attitudinal
1:00:05 Do intellectual celebrity cultures produce shrinking intellectual gene pools?
1:11:02 Dan: Our present-day celebrity philosophers will destroy the discipline
Daniel Kaufman (Missouri State University, The Electric Agora) and Robert Gressis (California State University, Northridge). Recorded December 7, 2020.
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![Overdoing Democracy | Daniel Kaufman & Robert B. Talisse [Sophia]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ddbuU5HLWl4/hqdefault.jpg "Overdoing Democracy | Daniel Kaufman & Robert B. Talisse [Sophia]
Robert’s new book, Overdoing Democracy 2:20
The revealing differences between Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts 18:07
The diminishing importance of place in American culture 32:55
How homogeneity distorts groups 39:51
Partisan identity has become the core of our social selves 52:30
Is this the inevitable product of late capitalism? 59:22
What happens after Trumpism runs its course? 68:37
Robert finds optimism in a Nashville bluegrass club 74:13
Daniel Kaufman (Missouri State University, The Electric Agora) and Robert B. Talisse (Vanderbilt University)
Recorded March 9, 2020
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Spencer describes being quarantined in Wuhan, China 0:30
What is “moral realism”? 6:11
Can you be a moral realist and a moral subjectivist at the same time? 28:10
Revisiting Plato’s Ring of Gyges 35:51
Dan: There’s no evidence of morality beyond performances 56:46
The trouble with giving advice 70:52
“All things considered,” what ought you to do? 95:23
What we lost in the Scientific Revolution 104:54
Daniel Kaufman (Missouri State University, The Electric Agora) and Spencer Case (Wuhan University)
Recorded January 31, 2020
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0:00 Intro
19:44 Why Kevin chose not to vote
32:03 The two-party system vs. a multiparty parliamentary system
38:11 Dan accuses Kevin of not confronting what the election was about
47:13 Is Kevin acting like a spoiled brat?
1:00:53 The logic of straight-ticket voting
1:08:10 Kevin accuses Dan of having a pessimistic view of democracy
Daniel Kaufman (Missouri State University, The Electric Agora) and Kevin Currie-Knight (East Carolina Universitys College of Education). Recorded November 15, 2020.
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![Who Is Entitled? | Daniel Kaufman & Robert Gressis [Sophia]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fd3ZiHPu0tQ/hqdefault.jpg "Who Is Entitled? | Daniel Kaufman & Robert Gressis [Sophia]
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0:00 A review of Kate Manne’s book Entitled sparks an online philosophy feud
16:13 Is America systematically misogynistic?
25:51 How Twitter incentivizes bad behavior
31:56 The professional norms around book reviewing
39:09 Dan sees “no honor all the way down” on the other side
54:24 Self-immolating philosophers
1:09:05 Is there a case for keeping some topics off limits?
Daniel Kaufman (Missouri State University, The Electric Agora) and Robert Gressis (CSU Northridge). Recorded October 5, 2020.
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![Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation | Robert Wright & David Bentley Hart [The Wright Show]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/g2faD3JJ8DE/hqdefault.jpg "Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation | Robert Wright & David Bentley Hart [The Wright Show]
David’s new book, That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation 0:38
What does the New Testament actually say about Hell? 12:14
Original sin and the crucifixion of Jesus 25:12
David’s case against eternal damnation 30:50
Free will, sin, and freedom 38:41
What did “the Kingdom of Heaven” mean to Jesus? 48:56
David: Envisioning the afterlife “always results in a kind of cartoon” 56:25
David’s quick thoughts on the mind-body problem 58:36
Mysticism in the Eastern Orthodox Church 64:36
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and David Bentley Hart (University of Notre Dame)
Recorded February 24, 2020
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How Massimo’s midlife crisis moved him from biologist to philosopher 1:18
What’s the point of philosophy? 7:50
Philosophical doubt as as a counterweight to scientific confidence 16:31
John mistrusts science’s yearning for certainty 27:42
Massimo’s path to stoicism 37:26
Can reason make you happier? 48:22
Abusive Buddhist gurus and other unexpectedly bad people 57:44
Was Seneca a hypocritical asshole? 68:28
John Horgan (Stevens Center for Science Writings, Mind-Body Problems) and Massimo Pigliucci (CUNY Graduate Center, Platos Footnote, How To Be a Stoic)
Recorded January 15, 2020
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Paul describes the view from Toronto 2:28
Zero- and non-zero-sum aspects of the pandemic 15:47
Paul: Canada’s multiparty system helps defuse polarization 27:09
A disaster without solidarity 32:19
How our emotions caused us to underreact to the pandemic 35:07
Masks and mobs 45:50
Trump’s fragile feelings 49:30
Why has the external threat of the disease not united humanity? 56:48
A deep dive into the meaning of statistical significance 1:04:18
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Paul Bloom (Yale University, Against Empathy, Just Babies)
Recorded June 1, 2020
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![Are Philosophers Experts? | Daniel Kaufman & Massimo Pigliucci [Sophia]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/h6YWt5TEn08/hqdefault.jpg "Are Philosophers Experts? | Daniel Kaufman & Massimo Pigliucci [Sophia]
Are philosophers experts? 0:24
Socrates didn’t have a PhD 5:10
Massimo hates when teachers claim to learn “just as much” from their students 18:15
What does philosophers’ expertise actually consist of? 29:35
How much is philosophy like mathematics? 37:54
What philosophers of science can teach scientists 53:50
The disappointing personal morality of moral philosophers 62:42
Grandmothers, the examined life, and the people who live best 77:47
Daniel Kaufman (Missouri State University, The Electric Agora) and Massimo Pigliucci (CUNY Graduate Center, Platos Footnote, How To Be a Stoic)
Recorded November 18, 2019
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