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February 21, 2018 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Catherine Nichols
Culturally Determined
- Why is pop culture obsessed with good guy vs. bad guy stories?
- Catherine: Modern stories don't let the villain be fully human
- World War II and the trope of the ragtag band of misfits
- Shakespeare vs. comic book movies
- Storytelling about why we go to war
- What pop culture best represents moral complexity?
January 11, 2016 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Jason Eberl
- Star Wars Philosophy 101
- St. Augustine on why people join the Dark Side
- What makes Jedi better than terrorists, and the Empire worse than the U.S.
- Midi-chlorians and the mind-body problem
- The Lucas Empire v. the Fan Alliance: battle for the imaginary universe
- The Force Awakens: spoilers and speculations
April 24, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Richard Wrangham
The Wright Show
- Richard's new book, The Goodness Paradox
- Why Jane Goodall's view of chimpanzees took a turn for the darker
- Proactive violence (a human specialty) vs. reactive violence
- Richard's "execution hypothesis" for how early humans dealt with violent males
- Bob offers an alternative explanation for the domestication of our species
- How our cousins the bonobos became nicer than our cousins the chimps
- Richard's explanation for the evolution of moral sense
- Is war a part of human nature?
January 14, 2017 —
Robert Wright & Mark Juergensmeyer
The Wright Show
- How Mark got his start studying under Reinhold Niebuhr
- Using religion to justify violence
- The appeal of ISIS's apocalyptic vision
- What Obama got right--and wrong--in his response to terrorism
- Will Trump's war on terrorism lead to another 9/11?
- What would Reinhold Niebuhr say about religion and violence today?
- Reinhold Niebuhr's Christian realism
April 20, 2020 —
John Horgan & Errol Morris
Mind-Body Problems
- Can we ever really know the world?
- Debating the ideas of Thomas Kuhn, famous philosopher of science
- Will we ever see the end of war?
- Errol's book about Kuhn, The Ashtray: (Or the Man Who Denied Reality)
- Errol: Science without truth cannot live
- John sticks up for Kuhn
- Errol's vexed personal relationship with Kuhn
- Stephen Hawking's sense of humor
- Errol: "We're a dumbass species"
- The glass is half empty and filled with poison
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