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    Rationally Speaking #196 - Eric Schwitzgebel on "Weird ideas and opaque minds"

    Rationally Speaking #196 - Eric Schwitzgebel on "Weird ideas and opaque minds"

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    Rationally Speaking #196 - Eric Schwitzgebel on "Weird ideas and opaque minds"

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    Length:
    66 minutes
    Released:
    Oct 29, 2017
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Description

    Philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel returns to the show to explore several related questions: His taxonomy of the three different styles of thinker -- "Truth," "Dare," and "Wonder" -- and whether one of them is better than the others. His case for why it's bad to interpret people "charitably." And his seemingly paradoxical claim that we are frequently wrong about our own conscious experience.
    Released:
    Oct 29, 2017
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    Rationally Speaking is the bi-weekly podcast of New York City Skeptics. Join host Julia Galef and guests as they explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense, likely from unlikely, and science from pseudoscience. Any topic is fair game as long as we can bring reason to bear upon it, with both a skeptical eye and a good dose of humor! We agree with the Marquis de Condorcet, who said that in an open society we ought to devote ourselves to "the tracking down of prejudices in the hiding places where priests, the schools, the government, and all long-established institutions had gathered and protected them."Rationally Speaking was co-created with Massimo Pigliucci, is produced by Benny Pollak, and is recorded in the heart of New York City's Greenwich Village.