Aporia Podcast

Anthony Magnabosco is a skeptic, well-known for his YouTube channel where he practices Street Epistemology (SE). Like a modern day Socrates he stops random people to have conversations about factual claims they make, in order to see if they have a good reason to believe them. His calm demeanour and ability to set people at ease makes for a wonderful antidote to a world of "Ben Shapiro DESTROYS SJW Feminist". As Anthony says in the interview, he distinguishes between beliefs and people -- an approach which anybody who interacts with him can attest to. In this interview we talk about the tools you can use to help deconstruct arguments (both your own and other people's) and the future of the "sense making" movement.   Anthony's channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/magnabos... His Twitter:  https://twitter.com/magnabosco Read more about Anthony here:   https://intellectinterviews.com/2020/... Street epistemology subreddit:  https://www.reddit.com/r/StreetEpiste... ---------  I got good Tweets, too:  https://twitter.com/Ideas_Sleep Support the show on Patreon and get your name in the credits as well as my heart ❤️ (+ other goodies like early access to videos and Zoom calls with myself):  https://www.patreon.com/Ideas_Sleep

David Goodhart is a British journalist, commentator and author. He is the founder and a former editor of Prospect magazine. He's probably most famous for his 2017 book The Road to Somewhere in which  he argued that a fault line existed in Britain between "Somewheres", those people firmly connected to a specific community which consists of about half the population, and "Anywheres", those usually living in cities, who are socially liberal and well educated, the latter being only a minority of about 20% to 25% of the total population, but who in fact had "over-ruled" the attitudes of the majority. This divide is something which is by no means unique to Britain, it's highly relevant to America with both Brexit and Trump being a revolt led by the Somewheres.   In this conversation, David and I talk about his most recent book, Head Hand Heart, in which he argues that a good society needs a balance between aptitudes relating to cognitive skills, manual skills, and caring skills. David argues that the recent decades in the West have seen far too much emphasis on rewarding cognitive ability as the gold standard of human esteem. For David, readjusting this balance is the story of the struggle for status and dignity in the 21st century.

Macer Gifford is the pseudonym of a British former currency trader who travelled to Syria to fight with the Kurdish YPG militia against the Islamic State group. Macer went to fight ISIS not just once but twice. First in 2015 and again in 2016. In 2020, he released a book called Fighting Evil about his experience in Syria.  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

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.