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Life In The Den04: Why You Cant Be A Disciple Without AccountabilityThis week join us as we dive into why accountability is key to the success of people who want to be like Jesus.https://www.hopefaithprayer.com/john-wesley-holy-club-questions/2023-03-0620 min
Journal EntriesTracking Hate Speech with Shannon FyfeWhen does hate speech cross the line into incitement of violence? And how does incitement get prosecuted around the world when it leads to violent atrocities like genocide? Are legal categories like incitement to genocide in international law all that effective at preventing or deterring this kind of speech? In her paper, Shannon Fyfe walks us through these complicated legal and philosophical questions as they played out in the trial of three media executives held by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda for incitement during the Rwandan genocide. She also discusses incitement in domestic jurisdictions and the January 6 attacks...2021-09-2433 minJournal EntriesFoul Behavior with Victor KumarDisgust is often thought of as a negative emotion, and even moreso when it comes to morality. Many have argued that the feeling we have when we are morally disgusted by others has a questionable evolutionary history, is not always reliably produced, and has inspired acts of great evil in our past. In his paper, Victor Kumar argues that it's not all bad though, and that moral disgust can sometimes be a fitting response to moral wrongs. Specifically, he argues that disgust is fitting when it is evoked by moral wrongs that pollute social relationships by eroding shared expectations...2021-09-1327 minJournal EntriesAlive Inside with Andrew PetersonAs we learn more and more about the brain, researchers are developing new neuroscientific methods that can help diagnose patients with traumatic brain injury. For example, some of these methods might even be able to tell us that patients who otherwise appear unresponsive are actually still "alive inside". That's an amazing idea, but the story doesn't stop there. As such technology develops, it raises a number of ethical questions about how it works and how to use. In this paper, Andrew and his coauthors investigate the benefits, harms, and costs of using neuroimaging to detect human consciousness.
...2021-09-0629 minJournal EntriesKnowledge Before Belief with Jonathan PhillipsAn enormous amount of research in philosophy and cognitive science has been devoted to belief representation in theory of mind, or the capacity we have to figure out what other people believe. Because of all this focus on belief, one might be tempted to think that belief is one of the most basic theory of mind capacities we have. But is that really what the evidence shows? Jonathan and his coauthors argue that it doesn’t show that at all. Instead, they argue that it’s actually the capacity to figure out what others know—rather than what they believ...2021-08-3132 min
KZMU Public AffairsArt Talks - Art in Museums, Parks, and in MiniatureIt's a little bit of everything on the latest Art Talks. Host Richard Codd starts things off with guest Candice Cravins, the executive director of the John Wesley Powell River History Museum. Candice talks about their latest and upcoming exhibits. Then - Julia Buckwalter, the 2021 Community Artist in the Parks, discusses her artistic process and what she's looking forward to about working 'en plein air.' And finally, a chat with local artist Chrissy Kinslow on her unique miniature works of fine art. Tune in for a great, diverse Art Talks.
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John Wesley Powell River History Museum
http...2021-04-241h 00Journal EntriesEvidentialism and Moral Encroachment with Georgi GardinerCan the fact that something is morally wrong to believe affect whether the evidence you have justifies that belief? In her paper, Georgi Gardiner argues that the answer is "no". We should follow the evidence where it leads and align our beliefs with the evidence. And if we do that, she argues, we’ll discover that morally wrong beliefs—such as racist beliefs--simply don’t align with the evidence. On this view, racist beliefs are irrational because they are unsupported by evidence or reflect cognitive errors in statistical reasoning, not because they are immoral.
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Ge...2020-10-1638 minJournal EntriesThe Science of Wisdom with Igor GrossmannYou've heard about "social-distancing" but what about emotional "self-distancing", can that help make you wiser? Are different people wiser than others and why? Is wisdom a stable trait and if so how should we measure it? In recent years there's been an explosion of research in cognitive science into answering these questions. But along with this there's also been many disagreements between researchers about what wisdom is, how best to measure it, how it develops, and how it manifests across different situations or cultures. In this episode, Igor Grossmann discusses the efforts of the Wisdom Task Force, a group...2020-10-0543 min
Teoria ImpuraSó sei que isso aí é fake newsNo segundo episódio, Danilo Almeida (FURG), Guilherme de Almeida (FGV-RJ) e Pedro Chrismann (IBMEC-RJ) produzem fake news, discutem pós-verdade e conversam sobre o artigo "Knowledge, adequacy, and approximate truth" de Wesley Buckwalter e John Turri. Será que conhecimento é realmente crença verdadeira e justificada? Quem liga? 2020-06-081h 05Journal EntriesCan’t Complain with Kathryn NorlockComplaining about our pains is often viewed as weak or soft. Kant and Aristotle went so far as to say that it should never be done. And they say it's something a real man would never do. But could complaining actually be a virtue, even when you can't fix the thing that makes you sad or mad? When done well, complaining can expose our vulnerabilities, invite others to commiserate over share pains, affirm and validate experiences, and just maybe--help us all feel a little less alone.
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Kathryn Norlock
The paper
Self-respect and protest...2020-06-0433 minJournal EntriesSituating Feminist Epistemology with Natalie Alana Ashton and Robin McKennaThere is often resistance to the claim from feminist philosophy that knowledge is somehow "socially constructed", but what does that actually mean and is it really all that radical? Sometimes, our social situations or experiences dictate the kind of evidence we are likely to encounter and put us in a better position than others to know what's going on around us. Other times, these experiences can impact what we consider to be good evidence or what a community considers to be justified in the first place. Or maybe here's a simpler way to frame some of these ideas: when...2020-04-2840 minJournal EntriesGames and the Art of Agency with Thi NguyenAre games art and if so, why? Are they important or valuable and if so, how? A lot of work tries to answer these questions in aesthetics by comparing games to various properties of traditionally acknowledged works that scholars already agree are art. But does this obscure basic features of what games are all about? Unlike most fictions, game designers don't just create a stable object, like a book or a movie. Insead, they create goals, rules, and abilities that people slip into when playing and that guide their experiences. In other words, to some extent games also recreate...2020-04-1532 minJournal EntriesThe Unreliability of Naive Introspection with Eric SchwitzgebelHow well do you know your own feelings? Is our ability to know this about ourselves less reliable than what we know about the outside world around us? Is there anything we can do to make ourselves less "naive" and improve the reliability of introspection about conscious experiences?
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Eric Schwitzgebel
The Paper
The Splintered Mind
Alison Gopnik
Introspection
Self-Knowledge
Edward Titchener
Introspective Training Apprehensively Defended: Reflections on Titchener's Lab Manual
Paper Quotes
Descartes, I think, had it quite backwards when he said the mind—including especially current conscious experience—was bett...2020-04-0830 minJournal EntriesRedefine Statistical Significance with Edouard MacheryAre decisions made by scientists one century ago still with us and weigh down science? One decision involves the rules scientists play by when it comes to statistical significance, and more specifically, the rule that results fall below a .05 threshold to count as significant. The point of this threshold is to help minimize false positives. But .05 is consistent with at least 33% of results being false...or worse!
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Edouard Machery
The paper
What a nerdy debate about p-values shows about science — and how to fix it
The Alpha War by Edouard Machery
Justify your Al...2020-04-0451 minJournal EntriesStop Talking About Fake News! with Joshua Habgood-CooteWhat, if anything, does "fake news" or "post truth" actually mean? Are they thinly veiled political strategies that do as much harm to democracy as the things they attempt to describe? And if so why did so many academics and philosophers get caught up in using a series of terms with such serious problems?
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Joshua Habgood-Coote
The paper
Blog version of the paper
Response articles to the original paper by Etienne Brown and Jessica Pepp, Eliot Michaelson & Rachel Sterken
Wardle: Let's retire the phrase 'fake news' and Fake news. It's complicated.
The Trouble...2020-04-0434 minJournal EntriesOn Having Bad Persons as Friends with Jessica Isserow"Nietzsche was friends with Wagner, Copperfield with Steerforth, Rick
Blaine with Louis Renault...one who enters into a friendship with a bad person very much seems to have gone wrong somewhere," writes Isserow. But what is wrong, exactly, with choosing to make friends with bad people? Does it tell us something important about ourselves and could this fact maybe even reveal a glimmer of truth about cancel culture?
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Jessica Isserow
The paper - "On Having Bad Persons as Friends"
Background on philosophy of friendship
Interview with Alexander Nehamas
Paper by Cocking & Kennett "...2020-04-0428 minJournal EntriesCausing and Nothingness with Helen BeebeeCan the absense of something ever be a cause? For example, image you forget to water your plants and your plants all die. Did your failure to water them cause the plants to die? Many people report the intuition you obviously have caused your plants to die, but shocking as it may at first seem, could this intuition actually be wrong?
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Helen Beebee
The paper - "Causing and Nothingness"
The volume - Counterfactuals and Causation
Background on The Metaphysics of Causation
On the Notion of Cause 'Philosophically Speaking' by Helen Steward
Background...2020-04-0439 min