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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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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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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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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? 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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7:49 Roger’s new book, Faith and Evolution: Grace-Filled Naturalism
12:00 The intractability of the problem of evil
19:10 Ways to understand God not as a big person in the sky
38:21 Is natural selection an instrument of divine creation?
53:20 Roger’s heterodox view of Jesus of Nazareth
66:14 Roger’s problem with original sin
72:49 What is a “grace-filled naturalism”?
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Roger Haight (Union Theological Seminary)
Recorded November 4, 2019
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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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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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