The Received Wisdom

Episode 30: The Future of Academic Culture, Cryptocurrency, and Abortion ft. Aziza Ahmed

Dec 9, 2022

57:30

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Effective Altruism

01:50

The Effective Altruism Movement and Its Relationship With Cryptocurrency

02:49

The Roe vs Wade Case, Justice Blackman's View on Abortion Law

03:55

Introduction

2min

The Process of Constructing That Intellectual Rigorousness

2min

How to Produce a Different Kind of Culture

2min

Is There a Limit to What We Can Say Now?

2min

Crypto, Big News the Last?

3min

Is Crypto Really Changing the World?

2min

Effective Altruism

2min

The Effective Altruism Movement and Its Relationship With Cryptocurrency

3min

Is There a Space for for Guys?

2min

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The Politics of Knowledge in the Context of the Abortion Debate

2min

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What's Going on With Abortion Law in the US?

3min

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The Roe vs Wade Case, Justice Blackman's View on Abortion Law

4min

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The Politics of Abortion in the United States

4min

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The Politics of Abortion and Expertise

3min

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Is There a Reversal of Abortion Policy in the US?

4min

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The Link Between Abortion and Mental Health

5min

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Are We Going to See a Backlash to Dobbs?

4min

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Is There a Pushback to the Constitutional Right to Abortion?

2min

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Is There a Daubert Challenge in the Abortion Case?

5min

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Feminist Expertise in AIDS

4min

This month, Shobita and Jack talk about the recent concerns about academic culture in the science and technology studies community, how to understand FTX's recent implosion, and the bizarre logics of effective altruism. And we chat with Boston University law professor Aziza Ahmed about how the politics of knowledge are shaping abortion politics in the United States.

- Darren Tseng, Stephen Diehl, Jan Akalin (2022). Popping the Crypto Bubble: Market Manias, Phony Populism, Techno-Solutionism. Consilience Publishing.

- Concerned.Tech (2022). "Letter in Support of Responsible Fintech Policy."

- Aziza Ahmed (2022). "These are the gray areas for women’s privacy now in a post-Roe world." CNN Opinion. August 4.

- Aziza Ahmed (2021). "The Future of Facts: The Politics of Public Health and Medicine in Abortion Law." University of Colorado Law Review. 92: 1151-1162.

- Aziza Ahmed (2020). "Weaponizing Objectivity: The Politics of the CDC." Ms. Magazine. October 28.

- Aziza Ahmed (2020). "Will the Supreme Court legitimate pretext?" SCOTUSblog. January 31.

- Aziza Ahmed (2017). "Abortion in a Post-Truth Moment: A Response to Erwin Chemerinsky and Michele Goodwin." Texas Law Review. 95: 198-203.

Transcript available at thereceivedwisdom.org.

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