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Episode 158: Marshall Abrams discusses the nature of the evolutionary process

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Episode 157: Robin Hanson discusses prediction markets

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Episode 156: Oliver Traldi discusses political expertise

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Episode 155: Rebecca Lowe discusses speaking freely

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Episode 154: Greg Salmieri discusses free speech, "cancel culture," and "academic freedom"

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Episode 153: Sam Enright discusses lifelong learning

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Epsiode 152: Luca Gattoni-Celli discusses the housing crisis

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Episode 151: Witold Więcek discusses statistics and academic research

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Episode 150: Shruti Rajagopalan discusses talent in India

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Episode 149: Lainie Ross and Christos Lazaridis talk about defining death

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Episode 148: Christos Lazaridis discusses brain death

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Episode 147: Gabriella Gonzalez discusses the intersection of algebra and programming

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Episode 146: Gaurav Venkataraman discusses memory in DNA and RNA

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Episode 145: Andrew Sepielli discusses quietism and metaethics

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Episode 144: Christopher Beem discusses democratic virtues

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Episode 143: Mark Linsenmayer discusses alternative models of education

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Episode 142: Emily Dupree discusses the rationality of revenge

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Episode 141: Rob Goodman discusses eloquence

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Episode 140: Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko discuss the good life

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Episode 139: Jessica Tizzard discusses the philosophy of pregnancy

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Episode 138: Toby Buckle discusses Mill's liberty principle

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Episode 137: Bryan Caplan discusses open borders

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Episode 136: Christian Miller discusses virtue and character

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Episode 135: Sara Protasi discusses the philosophy of envy

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Episode 134: Claire Kirwin discusses value realism

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Episode 133: Aristotle discusses his philosophy

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Episode 132: Rebecca Valentine discusses queer hackerspaces

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Episode 131: Greg Salmieri discusses egoism and altruism

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Episode 130: Jessica Tizzard discusses weakness of the will

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Episode 129: Nethanel Lipshitz discusses discrimination

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Episode 128: Melissa Fusco discusses free choice permission

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Episode 127 - Nic Koziolek discusses self-knowledge

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Episode 126 - Listener Q&A with Agnes Callard and Ben Callard

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Episode 125: James Koppel discusses counterfactual inference and automated explanation

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Elucidations Episode 124: Graham Priest discusses Buddhist political philosophy

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Episode 123: Graham Priest discusses Buddhist metaphysics

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Episode 122: Frithjof Bergmann and David Helmbold discuss new work, new culture

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Episode 121: Aaron Ben Ze'ev discusses the arc of love

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Episode 120: Robin Dembroff on going beyond the gender binary

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Episode 119: Stephanie Kapusta discusses misgendering

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Episode 118: Tyler Cowen discusses Stubborn Attachments

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Episode 117: Brian L. Frye says to plagiarize this podcast

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Episode 116: Tommy Curry discusses black male studies

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Episode 115: Katherine Ritchie discusses social groups

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Episode 114: Sally Haslanger discusses ideology

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Episode 113: Tom Pashby discusses quantum mechanics

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Episode 112: Myisha Cherry discusses the skill of conversation

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Episode 111: Greg Kobele discusses mathematical linguistics

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Episode 110: Chike Jeffers discusses the social and political philosophy of W.E.B. Du Bois

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Episode 109: Bonus Episode with Matt Teichman and Toby Buckle

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Episode 108: Mariam Thalos discusses freedom

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Episode 107: Linda Martín Alcoff discusses identity and history

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Episode 106: R. A. Briggs discusses gender

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Episode 105: R. A. Briggs discusses epistemic decision theory

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Episode 104: Seth Yalcin discusses the question-sensitivity of belief

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Episode 103: Brian Leiter explains why we should think about Marx

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Episode 102: Josh Knobe discusses the true self

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Episode 101: Miranda Fricker discusses blame and forgiveness

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Episode 100: Agnes Callard discusses aspiration

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Episode 99: Steven Nadler discusses Spinoza on freedom

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Episode 98: Jennifer Lackey discusses credibility

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Episode 97: Meghan Sullivan discusses time biases

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Episode 96: Nic Koziolek discusses the role of belief in reasoning

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Episode 95: Zed Adams discusses the genealogy of color

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Episode 94: Zsofia Zvolenszky discusses fictional names

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Episode 93: Barry Lam discusses obligations after death

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Episode 92: Kristie Dotson discusses epistemic oppression

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Episode 91: Paolo Santorio discusses counterfactuals

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Episode 90: Ásta Sveinsdóttir discusses social construction

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Episode 89: John Collins discusses language universals

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Episode 88: Kent Bach discusses jumping to conclusions and knowing when to think twice

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Episode 87: Susanna Schellenberg discusses perceptual particularity

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Episode 86: Daniel Smyth discusses photographs and their vicissitudes

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Episode 85: Bryce Huebner discusses race and cognitive science

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Episode 84: Amanda Greene discusses the legitimacy of democracy

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Episode 83: Bob Simpson discusses genealogical anxiety

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Episode 82: Robert May discusses Frege and the problem of identity

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Episode 81: Cathy Legg discusses what Peirce's categories can do for you

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Episode 80: Mark Hopwood discusses love and moral value

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Episode 79: Anthony S. Gillies discusses conditionals

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Episode 78: Stephen Engstrom discusses the categorical imperative

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Episode 77: Mark Schroeder discusses reasons for action and belief

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Episode 76: Barbara Herman discusses gratitude

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Episode 75: Malte Willer discusses non-monotonic logic

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Episode 74: Christina van Dyke discusses gender and medieval mysticism

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Episode 73: Greg Salmieri discusses Ayn Rand's moral philosophy

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Episode 72: Robert May discusses pejorative expressions

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Episode 71: Kent Schmor discusses Carnap's Aufbau

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Episode 70: Susan James discusses Spinoza on the good embodied life

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Episode 69: Christel Fricke discusses Adam Smith's theory of moral sentiments

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Episode 68: Mark Lance discusses anarchism

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Episode 67: John Protevi discusses Darwin, disaster, and prosociality

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Episode 66: Haim Gaifman discusses mathematical reasoning

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Episode 65: Julian Savulescu discusses doping in sports

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Episode 64: James Conant and Jay Elliott discuss the analytic tradition

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Episode 63: Michael Devitt discusses reference

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Episode 62: Sally Sedgwick discusses Hegel’s critique of Kant

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Episode 61: Jeff Buechner discusses Kripke and functionalism

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Episode 60: Fabrizio Cariani shares some thoughts about oughts

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Episode 59: Quill Kukla discusses reproductive risk