The resurgence of civic duties | Simon Reid-Henry
Civic duties are essentially the ways in which citizens agree to abide by the rules and to contribute to the life of a national society. About Simon Reid-Henry "I am a research professor at the Peace ...
16 Mar 14min
What is "prejudice" ? | Jessie Munton
I think prejudice is best conceptualized as a phenomenon that can be supported by a whole range of mental states that will include beliefs, habits, emotions, and also attentional dispositions. About J...
12 Mar 16min
Global Public Investment | Simon Reid-Henry
The world today is overburdened with challenges that supersede the boundaries of nation states, and therefore of national governments, to address on their own. About Simon Reid-Henry "I am a research ...
9 Mar 18min
On ignorance and forgetting | Jessie Munton
I'm interested in the beliefs that we're not forming, the evidence that we're not attending to or using, the belief states that perhaps we form. What I think of as negative epistemology is the project...
5 Mar 19min
The empire of democracy | Simon Reid-Henry
"How do we understand, as it were, our era of democracy, which I argue began really as recently as the 1970s from previous eras, and what is it that is fundamentally at the core of the democracy we li...
2 Mar 19min
The life of the mind | Jessie Munton
On the one hand, we have that sense of really close identification with our minds. On the other hand, we're often surprised at the ways in which they operate. About Jessie Munton "I'm an Associate P...
26 Feb 19min
Volcanoes and the origins of life | Tamsin Mather
We don't really understand how life got going on this planet. There are various candidates for where the first molecules of life might have evolved, and some of those candidates are deeply volcanic. A...
23 Feb 18min
The origin myth of the modern West | Naoíse Mac Sweeney
We in the modern West still look back to ancient Greece as our imagined origin. We're still obsessed with ancient Greece. About Naoise Mac Sweeney "I'm Professor of Greek Archaeology at the Universit...
19 Feb 14min
