NonzeroClips | The Philosophy of Aspiration | Robert Wright & Agnes Callard [The Wright Show] @MeaningoflifeTV | Uploaded September 2019 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
00:15 Why Agnes once lay down on the yellow line in the middle of the road
11:39 What explains “akrasia,” or weakness of will?
21:57 Agnes’s book, Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming
35:41 How Agnes views free will and self-creation
48:29 How do you become the “you” that you want to be?
59:13 Aspiration and the divine
62:32 Agnes’s forthcoming book on how Socrates changed the rules
Recorded September 5, 2019
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00:15 Why Agnes once lay down on the yellow line in the middle of the road
11:39 What explains “akrasia,” or weakness of will?
21:57 Agnes’s book, Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming
35:41 How Agnes views free will and self-creation
48:29 How do you become the “you” that you want to be?
59:13 Aspiration and the divine
62:32 Agnes’s forthcoming book on how Socrates changed the rules
Recorded September 5, 2019
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![The Philosophy of Aspiration | Robert Wright & Agnes Callard [The Wright Show]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EFqUahbPP2Y/hqdefault.jpg "The Philosophy of Aspiration | Robert Wright & Agnes Callard [The Wright Show]
00:15 Why Agnes once lay down on the yellow line in the middle of the road
11:39 What explains “akrasia,” or weakness of will?
21:57 Agnes’s book, Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming
35:41 How Agnes views free will and self-creation
48:29 How do you become the “you” that you want to be?
59:13 Aspiration and the divine
62:32 Agnes’s forthcoming book on how Socrates changed the rules
Recorded September 5, 2019
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![Western Philosophy as White Supremacism | Daniel Kaufman & Crispin Sartwell [Sophia]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FONZEhQFXq4/hqdefault.jpg "Western Philosophy as White Supremacism | Daniel Kaufman & Crispin Sartwell [Sophia]
4:29 Crispin’s recent essay, “Western Philosophy as White Supremacism”
14:59 Dan accuses Crispin of ahistorical revisionism
23:38 Descartes as a product of his age
33:55 Privileging the intellectual over the physical
38:04 Is “the conquest of nature” a good or bad thing?
46:48 Crispin: Metaphysics and racism feed each other
62:45 Is self-mastery a key to freedom, or antithetical to it?
69:57 The worst political philosophy, except for all the others?
Daniel Kaufman (Missouri State University, The Electric Agora) and Crispin Sartwell (Eye of the Storm, Entanglements: A System of Philosophy)
Recorded July 30, 2019
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0:32 David’s new book, This View of Life
10:41 In what sense, if any, could evolution be conscious?
17:22 The need to complete the Darwinian revolution
25:42 An evolutionary psychology discussion makes Bob tape his mouth shut
39:00 How successful groups avert the tragedy of the commons
53:45 Convergent cultural evolution
61:16 David: Evolution shows that neither laissez faire nor centralized planning works
63:43 A preview of the coming Bob vs. David showdown over group selection
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and David Sloan Wilson (Does Altruism Exist?, Binghamton University)
Recorded May 15, 2019
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0:23 Rachel’s essay on her mother’s death, “The Fraught Culture of Online Mourning”
9:35 Aryeh recalls mourning his father in the pre–social media era
18:38 A moment when language fails
24:31 Is it possible to talk about death with sincerity on Twitter?
39:25 The many (often gendered) Victorian rituals of mourning
52:03 Rachel’s forthcoming book, Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today
65:17 Do you want to be memorialized for eternity on Facebook?
Aryeh Cohen-Wade (Joking on the Square, @AryehCW) and Rachel Vorona-Cote (rachelvoronacote.com)
Recorded June 3, 2019
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Richard Dawkins helps Michael lose his faith. Michaels infatuation with a 16th-century quantum astrologer. Are dreams of a final theory delusional? Johns new stream-of-consciousness memoir Pay Attention.
John Horgan (Stevens Institute of Technology, The End of Science) and Michael Brooks (The Quantum Astrologers Handbook). Recorded December 5, 2020.
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![Moralitys Limit | Daniel Kaufman & Robert Gressis [Sophia]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HxsQB8u1NqY/hqdefault.jpg "Moralitys Limit | Daniel Kaufman & Robert Gressis [Sophia]
01:05 Is the “Morality Everywhere Problem” really a problem?
08:24 Why Robert finds the moral question difficult to dispel
16:41 Peter Singer’s “drowning child” thought experiment
28:17 Is weakness of will keeping Robert from volunteering at the soup kitchen?
43:19 Dan: “Embrace the normal”
59:50 What do those living in dire poverty want first-worlders to do?
1:08:10 Why Rob is repulsed by utilitarianism
1:19:46 Dan: The end goal of charity is human flourishing
1:32:02 Were people less sensitive in the past?
Daniel Kaufman (Missouri State University, The Electric Agora) and Robert Gressis (CSU Northridge)
Recorded June 3, 2019
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