73 episodes
Minds Almost Meeting Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson
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4.2 • 22 Ratings
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Imagine two smart curious friendly and basically truth-seeking people, but from very different intellectual traditions. Traditions with different tools, priorities, and ground rules. What would they discuss? Would they talk past each other? Make any progress? Would anyone want to hear them? Economist Robin Hanson and philosopher Agnes Callard decided to find out.
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The Two Cultures (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)
Minds Almost Meeting: Season 8, Episode 11.
View the transcript for this episode here: https://mindsalmostmeeting.com/episodes/the-two-cultures
Imagine two smart curious friendly and basically truth-seeking people, but from very different intellectual traditions. Traditions with different tools, priorities, and ground rules. What would they discuss? Would they talk past each other? Make any progress? Would anyone want to hear them? Economist Robin Hanson and philosopher Agnes Callard decided to find out.
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Multiculturalism (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)
Minds Almost Meeting: Season 8, Episode 10.
View the transcript for this episode here: https://mindsalmostmeeting.com/episodes/multiculturalism
Imagine two smart curious friendly and basically truth-seeking people, but from very different intellectual traditions. Traditions with different tools, priorities, and ground rules. What would they discuss? Would they talk past each other? Make any progress? Would anyone want to hear them? Economist Robin Hanson and philosopher Agnes Callard decided to find out.
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Cultural evolution (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)
Minds Almost Meeting: Season 8, Episode 9.
View the transcript for this episode here: https://mindsalmostmeeting.com/episodes/cultural-evolution
Imagine two smart curious friendly and basically truth-seeking people, but from very different intellectual traditions. Traditions with different tools, priorities, and ground rules. What would they discuss? Would they talk past each other? Make any progress? Would anyone want to hear them? Economist Robin Hanson and philosopher Agnes Callard decided to find out.
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3 Body Problem (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson, with Arnold Brooks)
Minds Almost Meeting: Season 8, Episode 8.
View the transcript for this episode here: https://mindsalmostmeeting.com/episodes/3-body-problem
Imagine two smart curious friendly and basically truth-seeking people, but from very different intellectual traditions. Traditions with different tools, priorities, and ground rules. What would they discuss? Would they talk past each other? Make any progress? Would anyone want to hear them? Economist Robin Hanson and philosopher Agnes Callard decided to find out.
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Corpses (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)
Minds Almost Meeting: Season 8, Episode 7.
View the transcript for this episode here: https://mindsalmostmeeting.com/episodes/corpses
Imagine two smart curious friendly and basically truth-seeking people, but from very different intellectual traditions. Traditions with different tools, priorities, and ground rules. What would they discuss? Would they talk past each other? Make any progress? Would anyone want to hear them? Economist Robin Hanson and philosopher Agnes Callard decided to find out.
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Nostalgia (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)
Minds Almost Meeting: Season 8, Episode 6.
View the transcript for this episode here: https://mindsalmostmeeting.com/episodes/nostalgia
Imagine two smart curious friendly and basically truth-seeking people, but from very different intellectual traditions. Traditions with different tools, priorities, and ground rules. What would they discuss? Would they talk past each other? Make any progress? Would anyone want to hear them? Economist Robin Hanson and philosopher Agnes Callard decided to find out.
Visit the Minds Almost Meeting website here: https://mindsalmostmeeting.com
Customer Reviews
amazing philosophy pod
Two extremely smart, extremely original philosophers coming from very different traditions to grapple with puzzles of human nature and the human world. Best podcast I’ve heard in a very long time
Technical problems mar an otherwise good show
Some episodes have gaps and silences. Guests are also sometimes mindful of their audience. It is very interesting stuff but it would benefit from better production
All hail Queen Callard
Started listening to this podcast after reading a New Yorker article that described the bumbling and banal events of Callard’s life in a tone of breathless fascination and deference. I thought: maybe the writer isn’t up to capturing the dimensions and subtleties of Callard’s charisma and brilliance? Nope, it simply isn’t there. But keep listening because the cluelessness and self-regard of this pair becomes fun camp once you adjust your expectations. (1)Callard says it’s a huge problem for her that she never fails to charm everybody. (2)Or when her cohost (designated flatterer) describes Callard as being in the top 99.99% of communicators and she fails to object.(3) in one episode Callard describes how philosophy professors all so fully embody their roles that there is not enough friction and conflict in the profession and then in the Irving Goffman episode largely dismisses his ideas as interesting but as a time capsule. And most of the episode is given over to congratulating ourselves for great gains in authenticity since the 1950s. Great stuff! Great stuff!