Aporia Podcast

Eric Schwitzgebel is an American philosopher and professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. His main interests include connections between empirical psychology and philosophy of mind and the nature of belief. Support the show with a dollar/pound per video and get your name in the credits and my heart:   https://www.patreon.com/Ideas_Sleep

Dr Leor Zmigrod is a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Her research combines methods from experimental psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience to investigate the psychology of ideological adherence and group identity formation. In particular, she is interested in investigating cognitive characteristics that might act as vulnerability factors for radicalization and ideologically-motivated behaviour.  She completed her PhD at the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. Leor’s doctoral research, funded by a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, explored the psychological processes underpinning political, religious, and nationalistic beliefs.

Alexandre Christoyannopoulos is a senior lecturer in politics and international relations at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of Loughborough University. He is the author of Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel, and Tolstoy's Political Thought: Christian Anarcho-Pacifist Iconoclasm Then and Now.   Read more about Alex here: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/crcc/about/people/alexandre-christoyannopoulos/  I got good Tweets: https://twitter.com/Ideas_Sleep Support the show with a dollar/pound per video and get your name in the credits and my heart: https://www.patreon.com/Ideas_Sleep

Kurt Gray is an Associate Professor in Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he directs the Deepest Beliefs Lab and the Center for the Science of Moral Understanding. Kurt is a strong critic of Haidt's Moral Foundations Theory (MFT). In this podcast we detail what MFT gets right and wrong, and why Dyadic Morality is a better cognitive theory of the moral mind. I got good Tweets: https://twitter.com/Ideas_Sleep​  Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/Ideas_Sleep

Jon Roozenbeek is the Google Jigsaw Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab in the Department of Psychology. His research focuses on inoculation theory. Aside from this, he works on media theory, content analytics, social media, the dynamics of online debate, and development of the mass media landscape in Eastern Ukraine. He co-developed the award-winning Fake News Game, Bad News, and coordinates the testing of this game. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge and his research won the 2020 Frank Prize in Public Interest Communications from the University of Florida College of Journalism.