Editor of Skeptic Magazine, Michael Shermer, delivers an entertaining lecture on his book Why People Believe Weird Things.
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Michael Shermer on why people believe weird things
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Keith Stanovich - Robot’s Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin
November 30 2007 - Keith Stanovich talks about the implications of universal darwinism.
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J.D. Trout - The Empathy Gap
http://www.pointofinquiry.org/jd_trout_the_empathy_gap/
J.D. Trout is a professor of philosophy at Loyola University Chicago, and an adjunct professor at the Parmly Sensory Sciences Institute. He writes on the nature of scientific and intellectual progress, as well as on the contribution that social science can make to human well-being. He is the author of Measuring the Intentional World, and co-author of Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment. His most recent book is The Empathy Gap: Building Bridges to the Good Life and the Good Society.
In this interview with D.J. Grothe, J. D Trout draws distinctions between empathy and sympathy. He talks about the "empathy gap," which is a set of natural, evolved limits on empathy, and how these limits negatively affect society, such as when people experience difficulties trying to empathize with others who are religiously, culturally or psychologically different from themselves. He talks about how the results of empathy can actually be crippling for an individual. He talks about how we should use new research in the social sciences to overcome the empathy gap. He explores if new social science questions the basic capitalistic assumptions of the American Dream and also calls into question basic philosophical concepts, such as free-will.
Tagged with empathy science social science psychology book:author=j.d. trout
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Idea Arena Podcast - Drive Interview with Dan Pink
Tagged with business motivation dan pink book:author=dan pink science psychology
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How Much is Too Much? RadioLab on Giving People Choices
Tagged with design choice science psychology