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#449 Adaner Usmani: Mass Incarceration, Black Subordination, and Modern Democracies

Mar 29, 2021

Dr. Adaner Usmani is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Studies at Harvard University. His research is driven by two questions: Why do some people flourish while others suffer? And, what explains why, in some places but not others, movements or policies emerge to challenge or moderate this inequality? In one project, he explores when and why ordinary individuals manage to coordinate collective action, and how well these patterns explain the forward march of democracy and the extent of economic redistribution. More»
#448 Touré Reed - Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism

Mar 26, 2021

Dr. Touré Reed is a professor in the History department at Illinois State University. Dr. Reed earned his BA in American Studies from Hampshire College (Amherst, MA), and his PhD in History from Columbia University (New York, NY). Dr. Reed's research interests center on race, class, and inequality. He’s the author of Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism. More»
#447 W. Keith Campbell: The New Science of Narcissism

Mar 25, 2021

Dr. William Keith Campbell is a professor in the Department of Psychology in the University of Georgia's Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed papers and a number of books, including The Handbook of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Theoretical Approaches, Empirical Findings, and Treatments (with Joshua Miller) and The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement (with Jean Twenge). Dr. Keith Campbell’s new book, in collaboration with Grady College alumna Carolyn Crist, was recently released: “The New Science of Narcissism: Understanding one of the greatest Psychological challenges of our time – and what you can do about it”. More»
#446 Pedro Galvão: Três Diálogos Sobre a Morte

Mar 22, 2021

THIS INTERVIEW IS IN PORTUGUESE. More»
#445 Kateřina Lochmanová: The History and Philosophy of Antinatalism

Mar 19, 2021

Kateřina Lochmanová is currently finishing her postgraduate studies of philosophy at the University of Ostrava, where she graduated with a diploma thesis entitled Iracionality of a Wager on Life in the Context of Benatar’s Antinatalism. She is one of the coorganisators of conferences on antinatalism in Ostrava as well as in Prague (with Vlastimil Vohánka, Filip Svoboda, David Černý and Tomáš Hříbek). At present, she is primarily concerned with geometry and metaphysics of space by a German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, but peripherally she is still interested in the subject of antinatalism too, especially in (the history of) Benatar’s asymmetry argument. She is the editor of History of Antinatalism: How Philosophy Has Challenged the Question of Procreation. More»
#444 Joel Paris: Psychoanalysis and Modern Psychiatry

Mar 18, 2021

Dr. Joel Paris is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University, and Research Associate in the Department of Psychiatry at Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital. His research interests include developmental factors in personality disorders (especially borderline personality), and culture and personality. He’s the author of many books, including An Evidence-Based Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, The Fall of an Icon: Psychoanalysis and Academic Psychiatry, and Fads and Fallacies in Psychiatry. More»
#443 Christopher Holden: The HEXACO, Romantic Relationships, Mate Retention, Humor, and Self-esteem

Mar 15, 2021

Dr. Christopher Holden is Professor of Psychology and Principal Investigator of the Personality and Romantic Relationships Lab at Appalachian State University. His research focuses on topics like personality and evolutionary psychology, romantic relationships, the HEXACO model of personality, self-esteem, mate retention behavior, and others. More»
#442 Nathan Lents - Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes

Mar 12, 2021

Dr. Nathan H. Lents is Professor of Biology and director of the honors program and the campus Macaulay Honors College program at John Jay College. Dr. Lents is noted for his work in cell biology, genetics, and forensic science, as well as his popular science writing and blogging on the evolution of human biology and behavior. He is the author of books like Not So Different: Finding Human Nature in Animals, and Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes. More»
#441 Francesca Minerva: Abortion, Cryonics, Lookism, and the Journal of Controversial Ideas

Mar 11, 2021

Dr. Francesca Minerva is a research fellow at Warwick University and a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Ghent. She is the co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Controversial Ideas. Her research focuses on applied philosophy, including lookism, conscientious objection, abortion, academic freedom, and cryonics. More»
#440 James Lenman: Ethics, Motives, Consequentialism, and Morality

Mar 8, 2021

Dr. James Lenman is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. He is known for his expertise on ethics. Dr. Lenman is a former president of the British Society for Ethical Theory (2002-2008). More»