Stephen Stich: The Evolution of Morality?
[56:10] This lecture was hosted by the Murphy Institute at Tulane University on Friday, April 4, 2014. About the Speake…
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Steven Pinker: The Elephant, the Emperor, and the Matzo Ball
[43:38] William James Fellow Award Address recorded May 2016 in Chicago at the 28th Annual Convention of the Associati…
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What our Wedding Vows should Say
[5:38] Some of the trouble of long-term relationships comes from the vows we say at the beginning. We should learn to ref…
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Why Socrates Hated Democracy
[4:21] We’re used to thinking hugely well of democracy. But interestingly, one of the wisest people who ever lived, S…
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Empathy, Is It All It’s Cracked Up to Be?
[56:43] Empathy is typically seen as wonderful, central to cooperation, caring, and morality. We want to have empathi…
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Walter Sinnott-Armstrong: Is God Temporal or Timeless?
[6:29] Is God temporal, existing in time as we humans do? Or is God outside of time, eternal, and living a radically diffe…
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Leah Remini on Finding Out About Xenu
[12:32] Leah Remini talks about reaching OT III and having Scientology’s origin story revealed to her. Taken fr…
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Joe Rogan Smacks Up Milo Yiannopoulos On Religion
[8:27] A comedian and a gay conservative Christian journalist got into an explosive feud over the latter’s sexualit…
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Daniel Dennett: Memes 101 – How Cultural Evolution Works
[7:04] We are what we are because of genes; we are who we are because of memes. Philosopher Daniel Dennett muses on an idea …
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Leonard Mlodinow: The Rise of Scientific Atheism
[4:56] There have always been people who did not believe in God, but science today has made it more acceptable to be an ath…
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