EV - 244 Semantics of Consciousness with Jacy Reese Anthis
My guest this week is Jacy Reese Anthis (@Jacyanthis), a PhD student in machine learning at the University of Chicago, and the co-founder of the Sentience Institute. We discuss his recent paper arguin...
9 Jun 20221h 21min
EV - 243 Back to Camp Quest with Sarah Miller
My guest this week is Sarah Miller, Executive Director of Camp Quest. We discuss the camp's goals of providing outdoor summer experiences free of religious indoctrination, and how that project looks i...
2 Jun 202257min
EV - 242 Sensemaking with David Fuller
My guest this week is David Fuller (@fullydavid), a journalist who’s made documentaries for Channel 4 and the BBC and co-founded the Rebel Wisdom content platform. We discuss sensemaking and rebel wis...
26 Mai 20221h 10min
EV - 241 Persisting White supremacy in movement secularism with Mandisa Thomas
My guest this week is Mandisa Thomas (@mandy0904), founder and president of Black Nonbelievers. We discuss her recent American Atheist convention talk and the backlash it received.Black Nonbelievers: ...
19 Mai 20221h 7min
EV - 240 Meta-analysis skepticism with Jonathan Jarry
My guest this week is Jonathan Jarry (@crackedscience), a science communicator with McGill University’s Office of Science and Society, and cohost of the independent podcast The Body of Evidence. We di...
12 Mai 20221h 5min
EV - 239 Open discourse in movement secularism with Seth Andrews
My guest this week is Seth Andrews (@SethAndrewsTTA), host of the thinking atheist podcast and author of several books including most recently Christianity Made Me Talk Like an Idiot. We discuss freed...
5 Mai 20221h 12min
EV - 238 Movement secularism and far-right cultural collapse narratives with Martin Rooke
My guest this week is Martin Rooke (@DrMRooke), a research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School who’s currently studying the evolution of the far-right “cultural collapse” narrative. We compare notes ...
28 Apr 20221h 8min
EV - 237 Defining "religion" with Chris Kavanagh
My returning guest this week is Chris Kavanagh (@C_Kavanagh), a cultural anthropologist and co-host of the Decoding the Gurus pod. We discuss competing accounts of how to define "religion" and their i...
21 Apr 20221h 6min
