The Dissenter

   ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter ------------------Follow me on--------------------- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedissenteryt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDissenterYT Samuel Andreyev is a Canadian music composer and writer residing in France. He also has a YouTube channel with his name. Mr. Andreyev is a return guest on the show. Please go check out our first conversation, “Music Across Times and Cultures”: https://youtu.be/9UENs9ia6Zo In this episode, we focus on philosophy of music, and go through how to properly evaluate a piece of music, by itself and in its performative aspects, and we also talk about the aesthetic purpose of music. Toward the end, we also discuss if artists can also have a saying on human nature. And we finish by talking a bit about modernist and postmodernist art, and if they really ruined the artistic enterprise.  Time Links: 00:48 Can any person evaluate music?    07:03 Is music training important?  12:36 Exposing oneself to music from different cultures 14:57 The relationship between music and speech 18:27 What is music, really?     21:24 The performative aspects of music    25:54 The emotional component of music  30:51 Can we separate music from its performance? 35:45 Music applied to other forms of art 40:54 Does music have a purpose? 45:09 What is represented in music? 52:29 Can artists have a saying on human nature? 57:31 What about modernist and postmodernist art? 1:11:36 Where to follow Mr. Andreyev’s work   -- Follow Mr. Andreyev’s work: His personal website: http://www.samuelandreyev.com/ His Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI_dcH8Zr2UqNT1EqvMNgTg Twitter handle: @SamuelAndreyev Support Samuel’s work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/samuelandreyev -- A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, JUNOS, SCIMED, PER HELGE HAAKSTD LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, RUI BELEZA, MIGUEL ESTRADA, ANTÓNIO CUNHA, CHANTEL GELINAS, JIM FRANK, JERRY MULLER, FRANCIS FORD, AND HANS FREDRIK SUNDE! I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018: https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo And check out my playlists on: PSYCHOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/ybalf8km PHILOSOPHY: https://tinyurl.com/yb6a7d3p ANTHROPOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/y8b42r7g

------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 10 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y9r3fc9m PayPal Subscription 20 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y95uvkao ------------------Follow me on--------------------- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedissenteryt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDissenterYT Dr. Joseph A. Bulbulia is a Professor in the School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts at the University of Auckland, where he was appointed the Maclaurin Goodfellow Chair in Theological and Religious Studies in 2018. Dr. Bulbulia is regarded as one of the founders of the contemporary evolutionary religious studies. He is a past President of the International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion and is currently co-editor of Religion, Brain & Behavior. Dr. Bulbulia is one of four on the Senior Management Team of the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study, a 20-year longitudinal study tracking over 15,000 New Zealanders each year. He is an associate investigator for Pulotu, a database of 116 Pacific cultures purpose-built to investigate the evolutionary dynamics of religion. In 2016, Dr. Bulbulia won a Research Excellence Award at Victoria University. In this episode, we talk about the cognitive science of religion. First, we discuss how religion is a multifaceted phenomenon, its evolutionary bases, and the complicated causal relationship between beliefs and actions. Then, we talk about religions rituals, what they are about, and the effects they have on people, particularly the high-arousal ones. We also refer to costly signaling in the context of religion, and its relationship to trust, and how socioeconomic factors and natural disasters influence adherence to religion. Finally, we talk about some philosophical aspects of religion, like the one related to meaning, and how by studying religion we can get insights into other social domains of human life. -- Follow Dr. Bulbulia’s work: Faculty page: https://bit.ly/2uJbwp6 Pulotu Database of Pacific Religions: https://bit.ly/2TW3lAk Articles on Researchgate: https://bit.ly/2VtD9xY The Database of Religious History: https://bit.ly/2WFDiPl -- A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, SCIMED, PER HELGE HAAKSTD LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, RUI BELEZA, MIGUEL ESTRADA, ANTÓNIO CUNHA, CHANTEL GELINAS, JIM FRANK, JERRY MULLER, FRANCIS FORD, HANS FREDRIK SUNDE, BRIAN RIVERA, ADRIANO ANDRADE, YEVHEN BODRENKO, SERGIU CODREANU, ADAM BJERRE, JUSTIN WATERS, ŁUKASZ STAFINIAK AND AIRES ALMEIDA! A SPECIAL THANKS TO MY FIRST PRODUCER, Yzar Wehbe!

------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter ------------------Follow me on--------------------- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedissenteryt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDissenterYT Dr. Stephen Hicks teaches at Rockford University, where he also directs the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. He is the author of books like Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault, and Nietzsche and the Nazis. Additionally, he has published articles and essays on a range of subjects, including entrepreneurism, free speech in academia, the history and development of modern art, Ayn Rand's Objectivism, business ethics and the philosophy of education, including a series of YouTube lectures. Dr. Hicks is a return guest on the show. Please go check out our first conversation, “Postmodernism: From Rousseau to the Present”: https://youtu.be/rBTPMBKCZLs In this episode, we focus on Nietzsche’s philosophy, and some of Dr. Hicks’ views about it, as exposed in his book, “Nietzsche and the Nazis”. As the title of the book implies, we talk about how Nietzsche might have influenced the German National-Socialist political ideology, and, toward the end, we also get a little bit into the connections between Nazism and Postmodernism, and how Nietzsche was one of the major influences in both these political opposite ideologies. Specific topics include Nietzsche’s reactionary views against the values of the Enlightenment, namely rationality and objectivity, individualism, progress, and science as whole. Time Links: 00:59 Nietzsche’s take on Rationality and Objectivity    03:58 Was he an individualist?  18:47 What about progress, democracy, human rights? 26:14 About science and values 31:27 Did Nietzsche influence Nazism? Was he anti-Semitic?     35:08 Did his sister, Elisabeth, really distorted his views in The Will to Power?    44:33 In what specific ways did Nietzsche influence Nazism?  51:23 The interesting ideological parallels between Nazism and Postmodernism   -- Follow Dr. Hicks’ work: His Website: http://www.stephenhicks.org/ His book, Nietzsche and the Nazis: https://tinyurl.com/y8y2vyhf Also, Explaining Postmodernism: https://tinyurl.com/yarexghn And follow him on Twitter: @SRCHicks And Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Stephen.R.C.Hicks -- A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, JUNOS, SCIMED, PER HELGE HAAKSTD LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, RUI BELEZA, MIGUEL ESTRADA, ANTÓNIO CUNHA, CHANTEL GELINAS, JIM FRANK, JERRY MULLER, FRANCIS FORD, AND HANS FREDRIK SUNDE! I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018: https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo And check out my playlists on: PSYCHOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/ybalf8km PHILOSOPHY: https://tinyurl.com/yb6a7d3p ANTHROPOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/y8b42r7g 

------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 10 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y9r3fc9m PayPal Subscription 20 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y95uvkao ------------------Follow me on--------------------- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedissenteryt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDissenterYT     Dr. Justin L. Barrett is Professor of Psychology at Fuller Graduate School of Psychology and Chief Project Developer for the Office for Science, Theology and Religion Iniciatives at Fuller Theological Seminary. Professor Barrett is regarded as one of the founders of the cognitive science of religion field. He’s also the author of books like Why Would Anyone Believe in God?, Cognitive Science, Religion, and Theology: From Human Minds to Divine Minds, and Born Believers: The Science of Children's Religious Belief. This is another episode about the cognitive science of religion. First, we discuss the aspects of religion that science can tackle and determine as right or wrong. After that, we briefly establish what a “belief” is. Then, we refer to some of the main cognitive mechanisms and aspects of child development associated with religious thinking. We also discuss if religion is better understood as a by-product of evolution or an adaptation itself. Toward the end, we talk about John Calvin’s sensus divinitatis, and also how the New Atheists tend to oversimplify religion. -- Follow Dr. Barrett’s work: Faculty page: https://bit.ly/2FJQcpZ Articles on Researchgate: https://bit.ly/2T8ZtjB Amazon page: https://amzn.to/2TIvURj Referrenced books/other sources: Why Would Anyone Believe in God?: https://amzn.to/2CLDHbz Cognitive Science, Religion, and Theology: https://amzn.to/2FHDZC7 Born Believers: https://amzn.to/2HW4RQt Science, Theology, and Religion Initiatives: https://bit.ly/2uy5w2E International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion: http://www.iacsr.com/ Religion, Brain & Behavior (journal): https://bit.ly/2V2hUmY Journal of Cognition and Culture: https://bit.ly/2THai8a Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion: https://bit.ly/2gTYw9g -- A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, SCIMED, PER HELGE HAAKSTD LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, RUI BELEZA, MIGUEL ESTRADA, ANTÓNIO CUNHA, CHANTEL GELINAS, JIM FRANK, JERRY MULLER, FRANCIS FORD, HANS FREDRIK SUNDE, BRIAN RIVERA, ADRIANO ANDRADE, YEVHEN BODRENKO, SERGIU CODREANU, ADAM BJERRE, JUSTIN WATERS, ŁUKASZ STAFINIAK AND AIRES ALMEIDA! A SPECIAL THANKS TO MY FIRST PRODUCER, Yzar Wehbe!

------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter ------------------Follow me on--------------------- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedissenteryt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDissenterYT Dr. Catherine Wilson is Anniversary Professor of Philosophy at the University of York. She holds degrees in Philosophy from Yale, Oxford and Princeton and has taught in the USA, Canada, and Germany. Dr. Wilson teaches and writes in the history of modern philosophy and on early modern science and also works in the areas of ethics and aesthetics with a special interest in the evolution of morality and the science behind visual experience. She’s the author of the book Moral Animals: Ideals and Constraints in Moral Theory. Today, the entire conversation revolves around the major topics covered in Dr. Wilson’s book, Moral Animals. We start with an exploration of the sources of morality, from primatology to science. We then move on to talk about some forms of morality, like moral realism, moral relativism, and Rawls’ veil of ignorance. And we end up with a discussion of some topics like egalitarianism, feminism, meritocracy, and income inequality. Time Links: 00:52 The role of our evolved sentiments in morality    03:08 Morality as a set of advantage-reducing imperatives  05:11 Primatology as a basis for morality 06:39 Do other animals have morality?  08:14 Can science inform morality?   10:10 Could this be how morality evolved in humans?    17:20 What are moral rules?  20:09 Moral realism 22:34 About ideals 24:53 Moral relativism 29:04 The role of self-interest  32:05 The problem with Rawls’ veil of ignorance  35:11 Egalitarianism, affirmative action, and feminism 47:02 The role of monogamy in society 50:35 Meritocracy and motivation 53:20 The importance of income inequality 58:46 Follow Dr. Wilson’s work     -- Follow Dr. Wilson’s work: Faculty page: https://www.york.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/catherine-wilson/#profile Book Moral Animals: https://tinyurl.com/y9rbtvbl Free ebook Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint: https://tinyurl.com/yc7e4oc2 -- A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, JUNOS, SCIMED, PER HELGE HAAKSTD LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, RUI BELEZA, MIGUEL ESTRADA, ANTÓNIO CUNHA, CHANTEL GELINAS, JIM FRANK, JERRY MULLER, FRANCIS FORD, AND HANS FREDRIK SUNDE! I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018: https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo And check out my playlists on: PSYCHOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/ybalf8km PHILOSOPHY: https://tinyurl.com/yb6a7d3p ANTHROPOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/y8b42r7g 

------------------Apoiem o canal------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter ------------------Sigam-me em--------------------- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedissenteryt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDissenterYT Nuno Lobo Antunes nasceu em Lisboa, e é neuropediatra. Licenciado em Medicina pela Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa. Recebeu treino pós-graduado em Portugal e Nova Iorque. Fez um Internato policlínico em pediatria. Teve também uma Residência em Neurologia em Nova Iorque. Diretor clínico do PIN. Neuropediatra especialista em perturbações do desenvolvimento. Autor de vários artigos científicos nacionais e internacionais, e livros. Ganhou o Prémio Feiser para Jovens Investigadores em 1974, 1976, e 1998 em Nova Iorque. E foi eleito Profissional do Ano pelo Rotary Club Lisboa Norte, em 2013.  Neste episódio, encontramo-nos para falar acerca de um novo projeto de lei do PAN, o 984/XIII, intitulado “Assegurar a não prescrição e administração de metilfenidato e atomoxetina a crianças com menos de 6 anos de idade” (https://tinyurl.com/y78ggz82), que foi noticiado como indo a votos na primeira quinzena de outubro. Time Links: 01:26 O que é a Perturbação de Hiperatividade com Défice de Atenção (PHDA)? 06:38 Existe um sobrediagnóstico?      10:32 Sobre o metilfenidato e a atomoxetina    22:00 Há algo de fonte científica contra a sua utilização em menores de 6 anos?  27:39 Utilização abusiva de uma citação do Dr. Lobo Antunes   -- Sigam o trabalho do Dr. Lobo Antunes: Página na Wikipedia: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuno_Lobo_Antunes Livros na Wook: https://www.wook.pt/autor/nuno-lobo-antunes/48359 PIN – Centro de Desenvolvimento: http://pin.com.pt/ Canal do Youtube do PIN: https://www.youtube.com/user/PINprogressoinfantil -- UM MUITO OBRIGADO AOS MEUS PATRONOS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, BRENDON J. BREWER, JUNOS, SCIMED, PER HELGE HAAKSTD LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, RUI BELEZA, MIGUEL ESTRADA, ANTÓNIO CUNHA, CHANTEL GELINAS, JIM FRANK, E JERRY MULLER! Também vos deixo com uma montagem que fiz das entrevistas que realizei no meu canal até junho de 2018: https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo Podem também ver as minhas listas de reprodução: PSICOLOGIA: https://tinyurl.com/ybalf8km FILOSOFIA: https://tinyurl.com/yb6a7d3p ANTROPOLOGIA: https://tinyurl.com/y8b42r7g 

------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 10 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y9r3fc9m PayPal Subscription 20 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y95uvkao ------------------Follow me on--------------------- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedissenteryt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDissenterYT     Dr. Stephen Shennan is Professor of Theoretical Archaeology in the Institute of Archaeology at University College London. Dr. Shennan focuses on cultural evolution and Darwinian archaeology, applying theories from evolutionary ecology and cladistics to archaeology. In July 2006, he was elected Fellow of the British Academy. He’s the author of several books, including Genes, Memes and Human History: Darwinian Archaeology and Cultural Evolution, Mapping Our Ancestors: Phylogenetic Approaches in Anthropology and Prehistory, and The First Farmers of Europe: An Evolutionary Perspective. In this episode, we talk about Darwinian Archaeology. We start off by addressing the differences in terms of theoretical foundations and methodology between traditional Archaeology and Darwinian Archaeology. Then, we talk about we talk about some basilar aspects of the study of cultures, like the importance of innovation, how to delimitate cultures from one another, and “folk science”. In the second part of the interview, we discuss the origins and spread of agriculture, as informed by archaeological findings. We talk about how agriculture spread through Europe, and aspects related to demography, diet, famine and disease. At the end, Dr. Shennan also explains what the Neolithic was about.  -- Follow Dr. Shennan’s work: Faculty page: https://bit.ly/2JJ7nvM Articles on Researchgate: https://bit.ly/2Xw556c Academia.edu profile: https://bit.ly/2FGbEwd Amazon page: https://amzn.to/2Ot9hiV Referrenced books/articles: Genes, Memes and Human History: https://amzn.to/2uwm7UE Mapping Our Ancestors: https://amzn.to/2TXYrYl The First Farmers of Europe: https://amzn.to/2TYGYPy -- A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, SCIMED, PER HELGE HAAKSTD LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, RUI BELEZA, MIGUEL ESTRADA, ANTÓNIO CUNHA, CHANTEL GELINAS, JIM FRANK, JERRY MULLER, FRANCIS FORD, HANS FREDRIK SUNDE, BRIAN RIVERA, ADRIANO ANDRADE, YEVHEN BODRENKO, SERGIU CODREANU, ADAM BJERRE, JUSTIN WATERS, ŁUKASZ STAFINIAK AND AIRES ALMEIDA! A SPECIAL THANKS TO MY FIRST PRODUCER, Yzar Wehbe!

------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter ------------------Follow me on--------------------- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedissenteryt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDissenterYT Dr. David Christian is Professor at the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University. He is notable for teaching and promoting the discipline of Big History. He is credited with coining the term Big History and he serves as president of the International Big History Association. He’s the author of several books, including Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History, and the recently published Origin Story: A Big History of Everything.  In this episode, we focus on Big History. Topics include: the methodological differences between Big History and traditional History; new views on the human condition and the meaning of life; the impact agriculture had on human life; how to look at progress; predictions about the future; and how Big History can contribute to establish a common ground for the sciences and the humanities. Time Links: 00:46 What is Big History?    03:17 The methodological differences between Big History and traditional History  05:37 The place of humans in the Universe 09:35 Human existence and the meaning of life  13:44 Can History become scientific?   16:51 The place for evolutionary psychology in Big History    27:38 The advent of agriculture, and its impact 33:18 If we lead ourselves to extinction, is this progress? 36:46 It’s much easier to predict cosmological rather than human events 39:55 What common threads can we use to connect all the sciences? 45:04 Can Big History help to establish bridges between the sciences? 48:14 How to reconcile the sciences and the humanities? 51:57 The problem with the lack of paradigms in the humanities 55:14 Follow Dr. Christian’s work -- Follow Dr. Christian’s work: Big History Project: https://www.bighistoryproject.com/home Big History Institute: https://www.mq.edu.au/bighistory Big History on The Great Courses: https://tinyurl.com/y8lq5e2v Books: https://tinyurl.com/ycwvqwqc Twitter handle: @davidgchristian -- A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, JUNOS, SCIMED, PER HELGE HAAKSTD LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, RUI BELEZA, MIGUEL ESTRADA, ANTÓNIO CUNHA, CHANTEL GELINAS, JIM FRANK, JERRY MULLER, FRANCIS FORD, AND HANS FREDRIK SUNDE! I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018: https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo And check out my playlists on: PSYCHOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/ybalf8km PHILOSOPHY: https://tinyurl.com/yb6a7d3p ANTHROPOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/y8b42r7g

------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter ------------------Follow me on--------------------- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedissenteryt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDissenterYT Dr. Andrew Thomas is a Lecturer in Psychology at Swansea University, UK. His research is concerned with the differences in mating strategies within and between the sexes. This includes environmental and social factors which contribute to this variance and whether mating preferences themselves are reactive to environmental changes over short term periods. He also has a secondary interest in cyber-psychology and online interaction; particularly how one represents oneself using internet avatars and aliases. In this episode, we talk about some of the knowledge coming from evolutionary psychology about the mating preferences of men and women, and also about some of the research from Dr. Thomas on that matter. More specifically, we discuss if the idea of more than 2 genders has any scientific plausibility, and if sex and gender are two distinct entities; the model of Males Compete Females Choose (MCFC) that is still dominant in evolutionary psychology, and the alternative of MMC (Mutual Mate Choice); and we end up addressing some of studies done in cyberpsychology, namely in online games and social media, and their limitations. Time Links: 00:33 Sex differences in mating strategies    06:47 Are there more than two genders?  15:40 Are sex and gender two separate things? 19:16 Do males compete and females choose?    27:14 Do women invest more than men in their offspring?   32:13 Do people care about the number of people their partners slept with?    36:16 Cyberpsychology, and can we generalize from virtual to real-life situations?  43:54 Studying sex differences on social media and dating websites  47:38 Do virtual environments properly emulate real-life situations? 50:36 Follow Dr. Thomas’ work     -- Follow Dr. Thomas’ work: Faculty page: https://tinyurl.com/y9ymb8f9 And a couple of papers. Mating strategy flexibility in the laboratory: Preferences for long- and short-term mating change in response to evolutionarily relevant variables: https://www.ehbonline.org/article/S1090-5138(17)30017-X/abstract The Ape That Thought It Was a Peacock: Does Evolutionary Psychology Exaggerate Human Sex Differences?: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1047840X.2013.804899 -- A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, JUNOS, SCIMED, PER HELGE HAAKSTD LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, RUI BELEZA, MIGUEL ESTRADA, ANTÓNIO CUNHA, CHANTEL GELINAS, JIM FRANK, JERRY MULLER, FRANCIS FORD, AND HANS FREDRIK SUNDE! I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018: https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo And check out my playlists on: PSYCHOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/ybalf8km PHILOSOPHY: https://tinyurl.com/yb6a7d3p ANTHROPOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/y8b42r7g 

------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 10 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y9r3fc9m PayPal Subscription 20 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y95uvkao ------------------Follow me on--------------------- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedissenteryt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDissenterYT Anchor (podcast): https://anchor.fm/thedissenter Dr. Azim Shariff is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is a social psychologist whose research focuses on where morality intersects with religion, cultural attitudes and economics. Another rapidly expanding part of his research looks at human-technology interactions and the ethics of automation, including self-driving cars. In this episode, we talk about the science of religion, and the ethics of self-driving cars. First, we refer to the role that the science of religion plays in the integration of the Humanities and the Sciences. Then, we address the prosocial and moral aspects of religion, starting with the role that Big Gods played in allowing for cohesion in large societies, and also the traits that work better in them. Also, why it is more difficult to explain religious misbelief than religious thinking. Finally, we discuss the ethics of self-driving cars, what people prefer to be their decisions, and what the future might hold for this technology. -- Follow Dr. Shariff’s work: Faculty page: https://bit.ly/2U4Xj4b Articles on Researchgate: https://bit.ly/2NCo2PZ The Science of Religion MOOC (Edx): https://bit.ly/2lsl41X Twitter handle: @azimshariff Paper referenced in the interview + comment: Complex societies precede moralizing gods  throughout world history Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history: https://go.nature.com/2CxTVoy Corrected analyses show that moralizing gods precede complex societies but serious data concerns remain: https://psyarxiv.com/jwa2n -- A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, SCIMED, PER HELGE HAAKSTD LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, RUI BELEZA, MIGUEL ESTRADA, ANTÓNIO CUNHA, CHANTEL GELINAS, JIM FRANK, JERRY MULLER, FRANCIS FORD, HANS FREDRIK SUNDE, BRIAN RIVERA, ADRIANO ANDRADE, YEVHEN BODRENKO, SERGIU CODREANU, ADAM BJERRE, JUSTIN WATERS, ŁUKASZ STAFINIAK AND AIRES ALMEIDA! A SPECIAL THANKS TO MY FIRST PRODUCER, Yzar Wehbe!