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Latest episodes

• Rationally Speaking #169 - Owen Cotton-Barratt on "Thinking About Humanity's Far Future"

  January 3, 2021 · 45 min

  What can we do now to affect whether humanity is still around in 1000 years (and what life will be like then)? In this episode, Julia talks with Owen Cotton-Barratt, a mathematician at Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute. They cover…

• Rationally Speaking #168 - Don Moore on "Overconfidence"

  January 3, 2021 · 44 min

  This episode features a chat with Don Moore, professor of management of organizations at the University of California Berkeley's Haas School of Business, and an expert in overconfidence. Don and Julia discuss the various forms of…

• Rationally Speaking #167 - Samuel Arbesman on "Why technology is becoming too complex"

  January 3, 2021 · 48 min

  As the technology we rely on every day becomes increasingly sophisticated, it's getting to the point where it's too complicated to understand -- not just for individual users, but for any human at all. In this episode, Julia talks with…

• Rationally Speaking #166 - Eric Schwitzgebel on "Why you should expect the truth to be crazy"

  January 3, 2021 · 52 min

  Some theories violate common sense so wildly that you want to just reject them out of hand. For example, "The United States is conscious," or "The most moral act would be to replace all living beings with an orgasmic blob." On the other…

• Rationally Speaking #165 - Robert Frank on "Success and Luck"

  January 3, 2021 · 52 min

  If someone asks you, "What caused your success (in finance, your career, etc.)?" what probably comes to mind for you is a story about how you worked hard and made smart choices. Which is likely true -- but what you don't see are all the…

• Rationally Speaking #164 - James Evans on "Using meta-knowledge to learn how science works"

  January 3, 2021 · 46 min

  Has science gotten slower over the years? Does the proliferation of jargon make it harder for scientists to collaborate? What unstated assumptions -- "ghost theories" -- are shaping our research without us even realizing it? In this…

• Rationally Speaking #163 - Gregg Caruso on "Free Will and Moral Responsibility"

  January 3, 2021 · 57 min

  If people don't have free will, then can we be held morally responsible for our actions? And what would happen to society if we were to collectively shed our belief in free will? In this episode Julia talks with philosopher Gregg Caruso…

• Rationally Speaking #162 - Sean Carroll on "Poetic Naturalism"

  January 3, 2021 · 49 min

  Naturalism is the stance that everything that exists in the universe arises from "natural" causes, of the sort observable by science -- not supernatural ones. It's practically a foundational tenet of skepticism. But does it imply that…