Welcome friends, to a podcast for a darker timeline. Maybe the darkest of all timelines. Definitely not one of the good timelines. Maybe it’s always been a dark timeline, maybe the Hadron collider screwed us over. Science may never know. What we do know is that we live in the void. The void, a place where a chittering mass of void crabs can infest a person suit and win the presidency. The void, a place where we're just clever enough to know that climate change is happening, but not quite clever…
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My guest this week is Dr. Steve Novella, one of the founding hosts of Skeptics Guide to the Universe. We discuss the recent issue with one of the SGU cohosts making public posts of an extreme and dehumanizing nature and how to craft guidelines for both what happens on air and for deciding who to collaborate with in general. Music by GW Rodriguez Editing by Adam Wik Sibling Pod: Philosophers in…
My returning guest this week is Jeff Sebo, associate professor of Environmental Studies, Affiliated Professor of Bioethics, Medical Ethics, Philosophy, and Law, Director of the Center for Environmental and Animal Protection, Director of the Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy, and Co-Director of the Wild Animal Welfare Program at New York University. He’s recently coauthored two articles on AI…
My guest this week is Fabrizio Bernardi (@fabriberna.bsky.social), a Sociologist at UNED in Madrid who works on educational inequality, social mobility, and social demography. He’s also the editor at European Sociological Review and has co-authored several articles on luck. We discuss how sociology has dealt with luck and how his work seeks to improve that approach. Music by GW Rodriguez Editing…
My guest this week is Dr. Kathryn Ford, a postdoctoral research fellow at Brunel University where she’s currently working on a project called Spirits and Sources which focuses on issues around belonging among spiritual folks. We discuss the costs and benefits of these sorts of approaches and what it can feel like to live in spaces focused around spirituality. Music by GW Rodriguez Editing by Adam…
My guest this week is Aidan McGlynn, a senior lecturer in philosophy at University of Edinburgh and author of the book Epistemic Injustice: An Introduction. We discuss the various facets of epistemic injustice, the impact it has on people's lives, and how we should think about debates over objective truth. Epistemic Injustice:…
My guest this week is Darrel Ray, an organizational psychologist and founder of Recovering from Religion, the Secular Therapy Project, and the Institute for Secular Leadership. Darrel has a new leadership course aimed at helping secular community organizers gain practical tools for thinking about everything from big picture mission questions to the nitty gritty of setting up meetings and…
My guest this week is Matthew Sheffield, a writer, producer, and media entrepreneur. He hosts The Theory of Change podcast on The Flux network and when he’s not writing about our current political chaos he’s working away at an equally hard problem, that of consciousness in the age of AI. Matt's recent article on AI and consicousness: https://plus.flux.community/p/its-like-this-why-your-perception…
My guest this week is Alex Guerrero, a professor of philosophy at the Rutgers University and author of the book Lottocracy: Democracy without Elections. We talk through the major problems with democracy and how a lottocracy might avoid them, as well as unique concerns of its own. Lottocracy: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/lottocracy-9780198938989 Music by GW Rodriguez Editing by Adam Wik…
My returning guest this week is C. Thi Nguyen, a professor of philosophy at the University of Utah, and author of the new book The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else’s Game . We discuss the nature of games, why it's problematic to build a society based on keeping score, and whether or not the real monster is always capitalism. Enjoy! The Score:…
My guest this week is Matt McManus, an assistant professor in Political Science at Spelman College, and author of The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism. We discuss his new book and why both liberalism and socialism are essential to move towards a flourishing society. The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism:…
