The Effect of the Climate Survey on Philosophy

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In the fall, we're going to try Tim O'Keefe as our grad instructor. And he had the idea of let's just add more women to the syllabi and see what happens. So we're having the grad students have at least 20% female authors on their syllabi. They disagree with that more than men. That response has a mediation effect on whether they say they'll take more philosophy. Then you also have these professors who say they're going to jerk off to the thoughts of you. Well, yeah, I mean it's not that that can't help, right?

Our streak of very special guests continues! Philosopher Eddy Nahmias joins the podcast to us why people mistakenly think they're not morally responsible, and how his new study casts doubt on Sam Harris's "pamphlet" on free will. Eddy also describes his new project (with Toni Adleberg and Morgan Thompson) on why women leave philosophy. Plus Dave and I discuss some reasons for having children, and eat a little Partially Examined Life crow.

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"Name five women in philosophy. Bet you can't." Tania Lombrozo, [npr.og]

"Do Women Have Different Philosophical Intuitions than Men?" Eddy Nahmias (philosophyofbrains.com)

"Is Neuroscience the Death of Free Will?' Eddy Nahmias. [nytimes.com]

Eddy on Bypassing [agencyandresponsbility.typepad.com]

Edd trashing Tamler's Book [agencyandresponsbility.typepad.com]

Special Guest: Eddy Nahmias.

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