Holiday Highlights ~ Patricia Churchland on Free Will & Neurophilosophy
Ilari is taking some time off for Christmas and New Year. Instead of new episodes, this holiday season features some highlights from this fall's conversations. This highlight revisits episode 1, where...
1 Jan 202317min
Holiday Highlights ~ Ruth Feldman on Empathy, Xenophobia, and Gay Dads
Ilari is taking some time off for Christmas and New Year. Instead of new episodes, this holiday season features some highlights from this fall's conversations. This highlight revisits episode 3, where...
29 Dec 202218min
Holiday Highlights ~ Philip Kitcher on Secular Humanism & Religion
Ilari is taking some time off for Christmas and New Year. Instead of new episodes, this holiday season features some highlights from this fall's conversations. This highlight revisits episode 2, where...
27 Dec 202216min
A Cultural Biology of Sex, Love, and Monogamy ~ Helen Fisher
Why do we love? And how much does our culture shape the way we do so?In this episode, Ilari talks with Helen Fisher about the powers that drive and shape our romantic relationships. Ilari and Professo...
22 Dec 20221h 37min
What Can Science Tell Us About Happiness? ~ Anna Alexandrova
In this episode, a philosopher of science from Cambridge offers us a cautiously optimistic guide to the science of happiness. Dr Anna Alexandrova, the author of A Philosophy for the Science of Well-be...
10 Dec 20221h 16min
Do Dogs Feel Love & Other Questions in Animal Neuroscience ~ Gregory Berns
What is it like to be a non-human animal? Can neuroscience tell us the answer?In one of the most famous philosophy essays of the 20th century, Thomas Nagel suggested that we can never use science to k...
3 Dec 202241min
Is War Natural For Humans? ~ Douglas P. Fry
Thomas Hobbes famously wrote that life in the state of nature was “nasty, brutish, and short”. Recently, various scholars have claimed that Hobbes was basically right: our ancestors lived in a state o...
19 Nov 20221h 13min
Psychology of Love & Hate ~ Robert Sternberg
We often treat love as a single emotion. But simple questions like “how much do you love me?” can be misleading. Love is not a single dimension. It is a multitude. To really understand romantic bonds,...
12 Nov 202241min
