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Thinky Thinks with Matthew Foust
by Matthew Foust
Are you thinky thinking what I'm thinky thinking? Let's read, discuss, and think new thinks!
Episodes
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Can Science Determine Human Values?
Lets get an overview of Sam Harris' argument that we can and should look increasingly to science to help us determine human values through the maximization of well-being for life on Earth. This is an overview of Sam's 2010 book, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values....
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Thank Goodness for Daniel Dennett and his essay, Thank Goodness
Is "thank goodness" just a euphemism, or does it really mean something? Daniel Dennett, after nearly dying, reflects on goodness, thanking it, and receiving prayer from friends of faith.
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The Most Good You Can Do, Chapter 2
Continuing into Peter Singer's look at effective altruism
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Effective Altruism, with Peter Singer's The Most Good You Can Do
Peter Singer's earlier book, The Life You Can Save, kicked off a movement which is continuing to grow. The Most Good You Can Do deals with the results and is here to get the word out about just that, the most good we can do! Peter Singer no longer has to speak to us in ideas, because the movement...
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Wine Drinkers of the World, Unite, Christopher Hitchens
Another interjection for a work of "the Hitch" never fails to entertain, almost always informs, and rarely disappoints. While in his own world he says "I am perfectly well aware that there are many graver problems facing civilization, and many grosser violations of human rights being perpetrated…
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The Luckiest MILF in Brooklyn, Lynn Melnick
Lynn Melnick emphasizes the issue of the victim being called "lucky". Victim blaming, "it could have been worse", and it's "not that bad", all of which feed into the cycle of lies told to primarily to women, something like "what you've got is good and you should be happy with it".
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So Many Men's Rooms, So Little Time, Christopher Hitchens
This essay, a excellent blend of comic aside and stark relevance to modern politics, is by the late writer, polemicist, intellectual, and moral inspiration Christopher Hitchens, published in Slate in 2007.
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& the Truth Is, I Have No Story, Claire Schwartz
Another story from a great many of those which people would rather not hear, but need to hear.
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Slaughterhouse Island, by Jill Christman
What can anyone ever do to deserve to be raped? Nothing, clear and simple. Christman's essay emphasizes this truth through a wrenching anecdotal tale.
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Introduction and First Story in "Not That Bad", a Collection
This is my reading of the introduction, by Roxane Gay, to her anthology of stories, as well as the first story, "Fragments", by Aubrey Hirsch. It's a monotonous and boring reading, and I apologize, and this is exacerbated by the fact that when I actually think about what I am reading I am prone…
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Are you thinky thinking what I'm thinky thinking? Let's read, discuss, and think new thinks!
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