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 Dr. Lewis Goldberg is an American personality psychologist and a Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon. He is closely associated with the lexical hypothesis, that says that any culturally important personality characteristic will be represented in the language of the particular culture. This hypothesis led to the discovery of a five-factor structure of personality trait adjectives (which he dubbed the Big Five). In this episode, we talk about: the scientific history behind the lexical hypothesis; what happened in the 70’s that led to the development of the Big Five personality inventory; the limitations of the Big Five, and comparison with other personality inventories, like the HEXACO and the Myers-Briggs; personality traits in other animals; the distinction between temperament and personality; the ten aspects of the Big Five; the possibility of applying the Big Five to clinical psychology; and the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP).  Time Links: 01:00 The lexical hypothesis, or studying personality through word frequencies of usage 03:00 The history behind the Big Five  09:04 Specific work done by Dr. Goldberg  12:35 Does the Big Five cover all aspects of personality  16:06 Big Five vs HEXACO  19:19 The problem with other personality inventories  21:52 Do all traits in the inventories have to be heritable and partially innate?  23:21 Personality traits in other animals  25:07 Temperament vs personality  26:58 The ten aspects of the Big Five 28:16 Gender differences in personality traits 29:36 About the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP) 35:11 Could we apply the Big Five to clinical psychology? 38:35 Follow Dr. Goldberg’s work -- Follow Dr. Goldberg’s work: Faculty page: https://psychology.uoregon.edu/profile/lewg/ International Personality Item Pool (IPIP): https://ipip.ori.org/ -- 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 

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------------------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. Oliver Scott Curry is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, at the University of Oxford. He received his PhD from the London School of Economics in 2005. In addition to his research, which focuses a lot on morality, Dr. Curry has previously taught courses on evolution and human behavior, covering evolutionary theory, animal behavior, evolutionary psychology, cross-cultural psychology, statistics and research methods. He is also a consultant for kindness.org. In this episode, topics of conversation include: the evolution of cooperation in humans; game theory; if human morality if evolved or cultural; culture via nature; the relation between the development of killing tools and cooperation; how do we deal with sociality in studies of morality; gossip; sociality and morality; kin selection and human life history; kin selection vs reciprocal altruism; cooperation and conflict; the periodic table of ethics as developed by Dr. Curry and colleagues; the shortcomings of Jonathan Haidt’s Moral Foundations and Alan Fiske’s Relational Models; the relation between morality and sociality; the problem with the term “moral norms”; and the relationship between Evolutionary Psychology and Evolutionary Anthropology. Time Links: 01:00 The lexical hypothesis, or studying personality through word frequencies of usage 03:00 The history behind the Big Five  09:04 Specific work done by Dr. Goldberg  12:35 Does the Big Five cover all aspects of personality  16:06 Big Five vs HEXACO  19:19 The problem with other personality inventories  15:45 Friends of friends get more help from us  18:32 Gossip  19:37 Are sociality and morality distinct entities?  20:39 Kin selection and human life history 24:02 Alloparenting and extended kin 26:27 Kin selection vs reciprocal altruism 29:23 How do we distinguish cooperation from conflict? 32:56 The periodic table of ethics and the shortcomings of other systems to classify morality 40:03 The problems with Jonathan Haidt’s Moral Foundations 48:02 The relation between morality and personality 57:38 Is “moral norms” a useful term? 1:01:13  Does it make sense to talk about Evolutionary Psychology and Evolutionary Anthropology in separate? 1:04:00 Follow Dr. Curry’s work! -- Follow Dr. Curry’s work: Faculty page: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-oliver-scott-curry Twitter handle: @Oliver_S_Curry -- 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. Bo Winegard is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Marietta College. He generally approaches psychological puzzles from an evolutionary perspective, applying Darwin's theory of natural selection to the human mind. He focuses mostly on status, group differences, individual differences, bias, methods, and political psychology. He’s also the cohost, together with Cory Clark, of the Psyphilopod podcast. In this episode, we talk about the study of group differences in Psychology. We also discuss the importance of acknowledging the impact of liberal political biases in psychological research, and even research in the social sciences at large, and science denialism by people from both sides of the political spectrum. Toward the end, we discuss some issues in Evolutionary Psychology, like trying to reconcile research on human universals and a panhuman nature perspective with intergroup and interindividual variation, and the strawman arguments drawn against Evolutionary Psychology, and also the way it gets misrepresented in Sex and Gender textbooks.    Follow Dr. Winegard’s work: Faculty page: https://tinyurl.com/y47etnem Articles of Researchgate: https://tinyurl.com/yyxfysaq Quillette essays: https://tinyurl.com/y2ght8va Psyphilopod podcast: https://tinyurl.com/y3ny5tkw Twitter handle: @EPoe187 -- 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, AND ŁUKASZ STAFINIAK! 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 Gapminder Foundation is a non-profit venture based in Stockholm, Sweden, that promotes sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels. Fernanda Drumond is the Head of Operations at Gapminder. She holds a Master of Science degree in Development Studies, with background in International Relations. Fernanda likes to lecture about Dollar Street, showing how people really live across different income levels. She also talks about the mega misconceptions that skew people’s worldview in lectures and workshops to companies, universities, schools and non-profits. In this episode, we talk about the possible consequences of having wrong ideas about progress and the current state of the world; the pros and cons of Big Data; a pragmatic attitude vs an ideological one in solving problems; if Gapminder could back up the effective altruism movement from a moral standpoint; the role of media in giving people a much more pessimistic and negative view of reality than it really is; how most problems stem from nature, and it is society that solves them; History as not being cyclic; the problem with predictions coming from specialists and activists; time and progress from a human perspective; and a perspective on climate change.    -- A Gapminder Foundation é uma organização não-governamental com base em Estocolmo, Suécia, que promove o desenvolvimento global sustentável dos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento do Milénio das Nações Unidas, através do aumento do uso e compreensão de estatísticas e outros tipos de informação sobre o desenvolvimento social, económico e ambiental a nível local, nacional e global. A Fernanda Drumond é a Chefe de Operações da Gapminder. Tem um Mestrado em Estudos do Desenvolvimento/Estudos Sobre Desenvolvimento, com background em Relações Internacionais. A Fernanda gosta de dar palestras sobre o Dollar Street, mostrando como as pessoas vivem verdadeiramente em diferentes níveis de rendimento. Ela também gosta de falar sobre como grandes equívocos moldam a visão do mundo que as pessoas têm, em palestras e workshops dirigidos a empresas, universidades, escolhas e organizações sem fins lucrativos. Neste episódio, falamos sobre as possíveis consequências de ter ideias erradas acerca do progresso e do estado atual do mundo; os prós e contras da Big Data; atitude pragmática vs atitude ideológica na resolução de problemas; a possível relação da Gapminder com o movimento do altruísmo efetivo; o papel dos media em criar uma visão muito mais pessimista e negativa da realidade do que realmente é; como a maior parte dos problemas deriva da natureza, e é a sociedade que os soluciona; a História não é cíclica; o problema com as previsões de especialistas e ativistas; tempo e progresso de uma perspetiva humana; e uma perspetiva sobre alterações climáticas. Time Links: 00:29 Having wrong ideas about progress / Quando se tem ideias erradas sobre progresso 04:20 Pros and cons of Big Data / Prós e Contras da Big Data  07:45 Being realistic / Ser realista  09:13 Pragmatism vs ideology /Pragmatismo vs ideologia  15:00 Would Gapminder be into effective altruism? / Apoiaria a Gapminder o altruísmo efetivo?  25:24 The role of media in misinforming people / O papel dos media na desinformação 

------------------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. Peter Kappeler is a Professor at the faculty of Zoology and Anthropology at Göttingen University, Germany, and at the Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology department at the German Primate Center. He also teaches as a guest lecturer at the University of Antananarivo, Madagascar. He’s the author or editor of books like Mind the Gap: Tracing the Origins of Human Universals, Animal Behaviour: Evolution and Mechanisms, and The Evolution of Primate Species. In this episode, the conversation revolves around sexual selection in primate species, and human universals and the contributions of primatology to a better understanding of human behavior. Starting with the conditions to lead to the development of sexual dimorphisms, we then move on to talk about intersexual and intrasexual selection; the ecological conditions that favor male and female philopatry, that is, for males or females to stay in their troops of origin; pair-bonding in animals, and the problem with explaining monogamy; how sex ratios influence reproductive strategies; life history, and what it tells us about the evolutionary history of a particular species; primatology and the study of human universals; the relevance of the unique events in Homo sapiens’ evolutionary history; and also the studying of other animal taxa.  Time Links: 00:47 How sexual dimorphism develops? 03:48 Intersexual and intrasexual selection  07:48 Relation between sociality and sexual dimorphism  10:38 Female and male philopatry, and sociality  13:56 What favors pair-bonding in primates?  20:05 The problem with understanding monogamy  22:40 Sex ratios and reproductive strategies  24:23 The importance of life history in primate studies  28:18 Primatology and the studying of human universals  33:28 Humans’ evolutionary history, and differences between humans and other primates 35:25 How do other animal taxa contribute to studying human behavior? -- Follow Dr. Kappeler’s work: Faculty page: http://www.soziobio.uni-goettingen.de/en/kappeler.php Books: https://tinyurl.com/yd6vb8zs -- 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 ------------------Follow me on--------------------- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedissenteryt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDissenterYT Anchor (podcast): https://anchor.fm/thedissenter Dr. Anthony Biglan is a Senior Scientist at Oregon Research Institute and the Co-Director of the Promise Neighborhood Research Consortium. He has been conducting research on the development and prevention of child and adolescent problem behavior for the past several decades. His work has included studies of the risk and protective factors associated with tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use; high-risk sexual behavior; and antisocial behavior. He and colleagues at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences published a book summarizing the epidemiology, cost, etiology, prevention, and treatment of youth with multiple problems, called Helping Adolescents at Risk (2004). He is a former president of the Society for Prevention Research. He was a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Prevention. He’s also the author of The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World. In this episode, we focus on some of the main topics of Dr. Biglan’s book, The Nurture Effect. We refer to the role of evolution in the behavioral sciences, and to aspects of the environment from families to schools and societies, and the negative effects of coercive environments. We also discuss specifically addictive behaviors involving tobacco, alcohol and drugs, risky sexual behavior, and anti-social behavior. In the latter part of the interview, we also talk about cultural evolution, psychological flexibility, and their relationship to the development of nurturing socities.  -- Follow Dr. Biglan’s work: Faculty page: https://bit.ly/2tPIbcv Articles of Researchgate: https://bit.ly/2XxKX3p Values To Action: https://bit.ly/2TfFi3J Evolving a More Nurturing Capitalism: https://bit.ly/2tOIrs7 Association for Contextual Behavioral Science: https://bit.ly/2NODclz Association for Behavior Analysis International: https://bit.ly/2mQqzHY Society for Prevention Research: https://bit.ly/1CiEXuR The Evolution Institute: https://bit.ly/1MmXlbv Books: The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World: https://amzn.to/2EoRwwt Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives: https://amzn.to/2NGekvV This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution: https://amzn.to/2ECm0LA -- 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, AND ŁUKASZ STAFINIAK! 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. April Bleske-Rechek is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. As a researcher, she focuses on human mating, friendship, cognitive abilities and intellectual giftedness, and science literacy. In this episode, the conversation revolves around the evolutionary psychology of friendship and mate selection. She gives a personal account of the development and importance of evolutionary psychology. And then we move on to talk same-sex and opposite-sex friendship; friendship rivalry and its bases; the evolutionary bases of friendship; sex differences in friendship initiation and dissolution; the studying of friendship and mate preferences; cues and signals in mate selection, and clarifying the difference between waist-to-hip ratio and body mass index; exaggerated physical cues and pornography; the effects of pornography in men’s minds; advantages and disadvantages of sex robots; assortative mating, and its evolutionary advantages; a specific study of Dr. Bleske-Rechek’s involving the trolley problem; the contribution of evolutionary psychology to human relationships; if evolutionary psychology should be the core theory of modern Psychology, and why; if Psychology should be looked at as a branch of Biology; and the relationship between Evolutionary Psychology and Behavioral Genetics.  Time Links: 00:32 Dr. Bleske-Rechek’s personal account of the development and importance of evolutionary psychology 05:45 Studying friendship from an evolutionary perspective  10:17 Friendship rivalry and its bases  15:50 Do women prefer uglier friends?  18:13 Do opposite-sex friendships fail often?  20:43 Why do people seek friends of the other sex?  23:04 Sex differences in friendship initiation  25:32 Friendship dissolution  27:11 The studying of friendship and mate preferences  31:41 Clarifying waist-to-hip ratio and body mass index 34:56 Cues and signals in mate selection 41:18 Exaggerated physical cues and pornography 49:20 Sex robots: yes or no? 53:29 Assortative mating 56:32 People save 1 person in the trolley problem if they are young, genetically related, or a romantic partner 1:03:21 Can you learn to deal better with other people with help from evolutionary psychology? 1:09:38 Should evolutionary psychology be the core theory of modern psychology? 1:11:57 Psychology as a branch of Biology? 1:15:17 The relationship between Evolutionary Psychology and Behavioral Genetics 1:19:14 Follow Dr. Bleske-Rechek’s work  -- Follow Dr. Bleske-Rechek’s work: Website: http://bleske-rechek.com/ Faculty page: https://www.uwec.edu/profiles/bleskeal/ -- 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:

------------------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 Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a critically-acclaimed best-selling author, speaker, educator, and one of the world’s foremost bitcoin and open blockchain experts. He is a teaching fellow at the University of Nicosia, and serves on the Oversight Committee for the Bitcoin Reference Rate at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He’s also the author of three books, including Mastering Bitcoin, The Internet of Money, and The Internet of Money Volume Two. His fourth book, Mastering Ethereum (O’Reilly Media) will be available in the fall of 2018. In this episode, we talk about Bitcoin and the Blockchain; the philosophy and politics of the Bitcoin and digital currencies; and the prosocial aspects of Bitcoin. Time Links: 00:45 What is bitcoin? 04:30 The blockchain   06:00 The philosophy behind Bitcoin  07:54 Regulation  09:49 Does Bitcoin promote monopolies?  15:32 Fighting crime  21:09 Can Bitcoin replace common currencies?   25:49 Can Bitcoin help fighting poverty? 30:34 Charity through digital currency 31:33 Is Bitcoin accessible to common people? 36:12 Follow Mr. Antonopoulos’ work  -- Follow Mr. Antonopoulos’ work: Faculty page: https://www.unine.ch/biologie/home/collaborateurs/laboratoire-deco-ethologie/redouan-bshary.html Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HdqFjgMAAAAJ&hl=en -- 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. Rani Lill Anjum is Research Fellow in Philosophy at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) School of Economics and Business, and Leader of the CAPS – Center for Applied Philosophy of Science since 2018. She spent two years at the University of Nottingham, working with Professor Stephen Mumford on dispositions and causation from 2007 to 2009. Together they developed a new theory of causation. After Nottingham, she got funding from FRIPRO NFR for a 4-year research project, Causation in Science (CauSci), hosted by the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) from January 2011. In May 2014 she was offered a permanent contract as Research Fellow at HH NMBU. In December 2014 her new research project Causation, Complexity and Evidence in Health Sciences (CauseHealth) got funded by FRIPRO and started up in the spring 2015 at NMBU. In 2018 she established NMBU CAPS – Centre for Applied Philosophy of Science. Dr. Lill Anjum has coauthored 4 books with Dr. Stephen Mumford: Getting Causes from Powers (2011), Causation: A Very Short Introduction (2013), Causation in Science and the Methods of Scientific Discovery (2018), and What Tends to Be: The Philosophy of Dispositional Modality (2018). In this episode, we talk about the philosophy of causation, and a new approach to causation in philosophy and science developed by Dr. Lilla Anjum in collaboration with Dr. Stephen Mumford, base on a metaphysics of powers or dispositions. We discuss how we should think about causality when there are we get several factors acting on a particular phenomenon; the intrinsic limitations of scientific models of the world; how can shifting from neuron diagram of causal relations to vectors might improve those same models; and reductionism and emergentism. Throughout the interview, Dr. Lill Anjum illustrates all of these issues with examples coming from medicine, an area she has been focusing a lot of her work on causation recently. -- Follow Dr. Lill Anjum’s work: Personal Website: https://ranilillanjum.wordpress.com/ Rani blogs about causation Blog: https://bit.ly/2ECdaid Faculty page: https://bit.ly/2EitXpm -- 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, AND ŁUKASZ STAFINIAK! A SPECIAL THANKS TO MY FIRST PRODUCER, Yzar Wehbe!