EV - 120 Debating Scientific Racism with Dr. Mansa Keita

My guest this week is Dr. Mansa Keita (@rasmansa), a computer science PHD who spends a substantial amount of time engaging on academic twitter on issues like race that we've covered on the show before. We discuss his experiences with these conversations and why race is such a pervasive topic right now.

Invocation: Michael Novak, Experience of Nothingness

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Next week: Aristotle with Aristotle.

EV - 119 Discordianism with Brian Henriksen

My guest this week is my longtime friend Brian Henriksen, who joins me to discuss our shared love of Discordianism, the most important of all parody religions. The convo is a bit chaotic as befits the material.

Principia Discordia: https://www.principiadiscordia.com/book/1.php

Invocation: Apocrypha Discordia pg.9

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Next week: Computer Science and HBD debates with Dr. Mansa Keita

EV - 118 Community Parkour with Kel Glaister

My guest this week is Kel Glaister, an instructor with Melbourne in Motion. We discuss her use of parkour and other exercise activities as a way to build inclusive communities and manage challenges like depression.

Melbourne in Motion: https://www.melbinmotion.com/

Invocation: Justin K. McFarlane Beau

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Next week: Discordianism with Brian Henrickson

EV - 117 Letters.Wiki with Clyde Rathbone

My guest this week is Clyde Rathbone (@ClydeRathbone), co-founder of the social discourse site letter.wiki, where people can engage each other in constructive dialogue through a long form letter writing format. We discuss the origin of the project and its impact on people's style of engagement. 

Clyde's Website: Letter.Wiki 

Invocation: Thomas Merton

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Next week: Melbourne in Motion with Kel Glaister

EV - 116 Zhuangzi and Scientific Realism with Aaron Novick

My guest this week is Aaron Novick (@AmneMachin), assistant professor of philosophy at Purdue University. We combine together two often requested topics that might not seem related at first glance. We look first at the work of Zhuangzi, a 4th century Chinese philosopher, and then consider how it informs our modern discussion of the nature of science.

Aaron's Website: https://www.aaronnovick.com/

Invocation: Zhuangzi's Butterfly Dream

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EV - 115 Automation and Utopia with John Danaher

My guest this week is John Danaher, author of Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World Without Work. We go long to do a deep dive into every word in that title, and a few other topics as well. I really enjoyed John's book and highly recommend it to folks interested in the map of possible futures.

Automation and Utopia: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674984240

Invocation: Aaron's fevered mind

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Next week: Zhuangzi and Scientific Realism with Aaron Novick 

EV - 114 Neuro-Yogacara with Bryce Huebner

My guest this week is Bryce Huebner (@distributedcog),  a Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor in Philosophy at Georgetown University. We discuss the distributed nature of cognition from both an analytic and Yogacara buddhist perspective, plus we talk meditation and metal!

Bryce's personal page: https://brycehuebner.weebly.com/

Yogacara: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogachara

Invocation: Rachel Sontag, House Rules

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EV - 113 Expressivist Kantianism with Florence Bacus

My guest this week is Florence Bacus (@morallawwithin),  a grad student in the Tufts terminal masters program and an impressive consumer of great philosophical works. We discuss some of her recent work on epistemology as well as a deep dive into Kantian ethics and expressivist metaethics, with the tantalizing idea that maybe they're compatible in some way.

Florence's Curious Cat page: https://curiouscat.me/morallawwithin

Invocation: Avatar, the Last Airbender 

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EV - 112 Leftist Martial Arts with Sam Yang

My guest this week is Sam Yang (@StuffFromSam), cohost of the Southpaw podcast and a strong advocate for more leftist philosophy in the world of marital arts. We grapple with the challenges in that Joe Rogan dominated community. Sam does a great job pinning down some tricky points.

Southpaw Podcast: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/must-triumph/southpaw-2

Invocation: Jean-Luc Godard (suggested by the great Michael Morenko) 

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Next week: Kantian Expressivism with Florence Bacus

EV - 111 Plato v Aristotle v Nagel with Fabien-Denis Cayer

My guest this week is Fabien-Denis Cayer (@OldAristocles), a PHD student at the University of Ottawa and a writer at buriedincontemplation.com. He joins me to dive deeper into our discussions on Plato, Aristotle, and Nagel. All favorites!

Fabien's work: https://buriedincontemplation.com/

Invocation: The Changing Room

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EV - 110 Community Atheism with Stephanie Zvan

My guest this week is Stephanie Zvan, cohost of the Minnesota Atheists’ radio show and podcast, a regular contributor at The Orbit, and a board member of Secular Woman and Minnesota Atheists. She graciously cheers me up about the direction of the atheist movement.

The Orbit: https://the-orbit.net/

Invocation: The Book of Genesis

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Next week: Plato, Aristotle, and Nagel with Fabien-Denis Cayer

EV - 109 Human Biodiversity with Kevin Bird

My guest this week is Kevin Bird (@itsbirdemic), a PhD student in evolutionary systems biology. Kevin helps guide me through the level of hell that is learning about the Human Biodiversity "Movement". Careful what you say about this one on twitter. They're listening.

Kevin's Website: https://kevinabird.github.io/

Invocation: Lovecraft's "Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family"

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Next week: Skeptical community organizing with Stephanie Zvan 

EV - 108 Logical Positivism with Dr. Liam Bright

My guest this week is Dr. Liam Bright, Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the London School of Economics and a thought leader on philosophy twitter (@Lastpositivist). Liam joins me for an informal installment in our "better know a philosopher series" where he puts in a heroic effort to rehabilitate my dim view of the Logical Positivists.

Liam's Page: https://www.liamkofibright.com/

Study on replication and political bias: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330935931_Is_the_Political_Slant_of_Psychology_Research_Related_to_Scientific_Replicability

Invocation: Carnap

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Next week: Human Biodiversity with Dr. Kevin Bird (@itsbirdemic)

EV - 107 Gender Wars in the Void with Dr. Rachel McKinney

This week I'm joined by Dr. Rachel McKinney, Program Director for Politics, Philosophy & Economics at
Suffolk University and Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Suffolk University. Dr. Mckinney studies the relationship between language, knowledge, and power. She also deals with the realities of communication every day debating the issue of trans rights and the science of gender on twitter. We discuss how these interests connect and dive into the historic background of the gender critical/TERF position.

Dr. McKinney's Website: https://sites.google.com/site/rachelannmckinney/

Follow Dr. McKinney on Twitter @rachiestar 

Invocation: Nietzsche

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Aaron's Sydney Skeptics Moral Luck Talk

Hey friends, here's the audio from my talk in Sydney at Skeptics in the Pub. We've got video but it needs a bit of editing together so in the meantime hope you enjoy. Thanks again to Sydney skeptics in the pub for having me, and if anyone else is interested in a skeptics themed ethics talk send me a message through a social media!

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EV - 106 Taxiderming the Void with Brant MacDuff

This week I'm joined by Brant MacDuff, taxidermist and conservation activist. I had a great time chatting with Brant at NECSS and was happy to have him on the show to discuss how an art about death can inspire concern for life.

Brant's website: https://www.immortalanimals.com/about

Invocation: Will Price (feel better!)

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Next week: The Gender Wars with Rachel McKinney 

EV - 105 Public Philosophy in the Void with Greg Sadler

This week I'm joined by Greg Sadler (@philosopher70). Greg is a public philosopher and cofounder of ReasonIO. We discuss the shifting trends in public philosophy and how philosophy can help us address important parts of our lived experiences, especially involving anger.

ReasonIO: https://reasonio.wordpress.com/

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Next Week: Taxadermy and Conservation with Brant MacDuff 

EV - 104 Deeply Learning the Void with Michael Cogswell

I'm joined this week by a friend of a friend of the show. Michael Cogswell is currently studying Deep Learning at Georgia Tech, and he helps me work through some of the important basics of deep learning and what it can mean for life in the void.

Deep Learning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_learning

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Next Week: Philosophy of Anger with Greg Sadler

EV - 103 The Panpsychic Void with Hunter Ash

I'm joined this week by Hunter Ash, longtime friend of the show and my go to source for a variety of sciency philosophy questions. He came to me with a really interesting argument to follow up on the brief discussion of panpsychism back in our Frankish episodes. I definitely recommend giving those a re-listen alongside this episode.

Invocation: In the Metaphysicians office by Daniel Cappell

Panpsychism primer: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/panpsychism/

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Next Week: Understanding Machine Intelligence with Michael Cogswell

EV - 102 Social Progress in the Void with Bo Winegard pt.2

Part two of my debate with Bo Winegard, Assistant Professor at Marietta College, cohost of the psyphilopod podcast, and frequent contributor to Quillette. We've engaged in several disagreements on twitter and thought it could be valuable to debate some of these issues on the show. We focused our debate on the question "should society attempt to promote social progress by changing human nature".

Invocation: Dril https://twitter.com/dril/status/473265809079693312?lang=en

Bo's article on Progressivism and the West: https://quillette.com/2019/03/09/progressivism-and-the-west/

Psyphilopod: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/psyphilopod/id1446215479

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Next Week: For reals Panpsychism with Hunter Ash