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March 23, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Massimo Pigliucci
The Wright Show
- Massimo's new edited volume, Science Unlimited?: The Challenges of Scientism
- What is scientism?
- Science and the challenge of studying subjective experience
- And about those pesky fundamental questions of existence...
- How philosophical thought underpins all research methodology
- Massimo: Core concepts across science have competing interpretations
- The importance of distinguishing "is" from "ought"
- What neuroscience can never explain about human consciousness
October 18, 2019 —
Robert Wright & John Horgan
The Wright Show
- What is scientism, and who is doing it?
- Postmodernism and whether science just tells "stories"
- John criticizes the "ideological fervor" of evolutionary psychology
- The hubris of scientists in the '80s and '90s
- Has science reached its fundamental limits in trying to explain consciousness?
- John wins his Nobel Prize "long bet" on string theory
- The various corrupting influences on scientists
- A brief debate on higher purpose
February 13, 2016 —
Daniel Kaufman & Massimo Pigliucci
Sophia
- What constitutes an explanation in the natural sciences?
- Looking for a categorical difference between natural and social sciences
- Biological and social explanations of human behavior
- The difference between the narratives of social and physical sciences
- Does social science explain events or their interpretations?
- Must a science have "laws"? Are there social scientific laws?
June 06, 2017 —
Daniel Kaufman & Massimo Pigliucci
Sophia
- "Purpose" in science and morality
- What Aristotle thought about purpose in nature
- Why asking "what is it for?" makes sense in biology but not other sciences
- Does form dictate function?
- Is there a "law" of morality?
- The paths to human flourishing
- Why a "scientific" approach to ethics a la Sam Harris doesn't work
July 04, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Lee McIntyre
The Wright Show
- Lee's new book The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience
- Why scientific theories are never "proved"
- Karl Popper's principle of falsification explained
- Why the philosophy of science hasn't been useful to scientists
- Why philosophers of science need a new way to talk about evidence
- Can philosophy of science help refute science deniers?
- Flat Earthers, science denial, and the scientific attitude
- Cognitive bias, ideology, and the social sciences
- Lee: There is no consensus about the epistemological status of science
- The hubris of "naive realism"
August 22, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Dacher Keltner
The Wright Show
December 16, 2017 —
Robert Wright & John Horgan
The Wright Show
- The pervasiveness of sexual harassment
- Human nature according to Socrates, the Google memo guy, and Bob
- Are gendered behavioral differences innate or learned?
- John: Scientists keep trying, and failing, to discern the roots of human behavior
- Can you be both enlightened--in the Buddhist sense--and immoral
- Sexual harassment in science and philosophy
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