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#944 Ann Pellegrini & Avgi Saketopoulou: Gender Without Identity

May 23, 2024

Dr. Ann Pellegrini is Professor of Performance Studies & Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, and a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. Their previous books include Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race (Routledge, 1997) and the 2014 Lambda Finalist in Best LGBT Non-Fiction “You Can Tell Just by Looking” and 20 Other Myths About LGBT Life and People, coauthored with Michael Bronski and Michael Amico (Beacon Press, 2013). More»
#943 Hyrum Lewis - The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America

May 20, 2024

Dr. Hyrum Lewis is a Professor of History at Brigham Young University-Idaho and was previously a visiting scholar at Stanford University. His research interests include the early U.S., Modern China, American intellectual history, and the history of American culture and film. He is the author of The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America. More»
#942 Fernanda Ferreira: Linguistics, Fluency, Speech Disfluencies, and Comprehension

May 17, 2024

Dr. Fernanda Ferreira is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Fair Open Access journal Glossa Psycholinguistics. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Cognitive Science Society, the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), and the Association for Psychological Science (APS). Dr. Ferreira’s area of research is psycholinguistics. She uses basic insights from formal linguistics, especially theories in sentence phonology and syntax, to develop models of processing. The fundamental aim of her research is to uncover the mechanisms that enable humans to understand and generate language in real-time and in cooperation with other cognitive systems. More»
#941 Anthony Volk: The Evolutionary and Developmental Psychology of Bullying

May 16, 2024

Dr. Anthony Volk is Professor in the Department of Child and Youth Studies, and Associate Member in the Department of Psychology at Brock University. He is a developmental scientist interested in the separate, but related, areas of bullying, parenting, personality, psychopathy, and the evolution of childhood. A strong believer in multidisciplinary studies, Prof. Volk’s overall interest is to gain an evolutionary, psychological, biological, neurological, health-based, Indigenous, cross-cultural, social, historical, and (if possible) transdisciplinary understanding of why individuals do what they do. More»
#940 Andrew Delton & Talbot Andrews - Climate Games: Experiments on How People Prevent Disaster

May 13, 2024

Dr. Andrew Delton is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, the Center for Behavioral Political Economy, and the College of Business at Stony Brook University. More»
#939 Michael Petraglia: The Origins and Migrations of H. Sapiens

May 10, 2024

Dr. Michael Petraglia is Director of the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution at Griffith University, Australia. Dr. Petraglia’s archaeological research is interdisciplinary, involving collaboration with geneticists, physical anthropologists, paleontologists, geographers, geologists, and environmental scientists, amongst others. His research has centered on a range of subjects concerning human evolution, including the evolution of cognition, the evolution of behavior, and the relations between climate change and hominin dispersals. More»
#938 Duncan Pritchard: Truth, and Cultivating Intellectual Virtues

May 9, 2024

Dr. Duncan Pritchard is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy in the Philosophy School of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Oxford University Press's Oxford Bibliographies: Philosophy and the co-Editor-in-Chief (and co-Founder) of the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism. Dr. Pritchard mostly works in epistemology, and has written on most of the topics in this field, including radical skepticism, theory of knowledge, virtue epistemology, modal epistemology, epistemic luck/risk, social epistemology, understanding, inquiry, know-how, and so on. More»
#937 Oliver Traldi - Political Beliefs: A Philosophical Introduction

May 6, 2024

Dr. Oliver Traldi is a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the James Madison Program at Princeton University. He studies epistemology, focusing on questions about the nature of epistemic norms and the epistemology of the social world, especially the epistemology of politics. He works on norms of inquiry, conceptual engineering, reasons for belief, inferring beliefs from actions, the epistemology of disagreement, and the epistemology of moral progress. He is the author of Political Beliefs: A Philosophical Introduction. More»
#936 David Pietraszewski: Alliances, Intergroup Conflict, Politics, and the Science of Psychology

May 3, 2024

Dr. David Pietraszewski is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is an experimental psychologist who applies evolutionary theorizing to Social, Cognitive, and Developmental questions. He is particularly interested in characterizing the psychology of multi-agent conflict and cooperation ("coalitional psychology"). More»
#935 Mazviita Chirimuuta: The Brain Abstracted

May 2, 2024

Dr. Mazviita Chirimuuta is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy in the School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. She has focused on philosophical issues around vision, mind-brain and consciousness, and in the last few years she has mostly been writing about the problem of color, and how ideas from neuroscience can bring fresh light on the realism vs. anti-realism debate. She is the author of Outside Color: Perceptual Science and the Puzzle of Color in Philosophy, and The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience. More»