Julia Galef – Michael Shermer

Julia Galef is an interview host, an author, and a philosopher. Michael Shermer is an interview host, an author, and a historian. We found 3 podcast interviews connecting Julia Galef and Michael Shermer.

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Episodes with Julia Galef & Michael Shermer

When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. We have what Julia Galef calls a “soldier” mindset: a drive to defend the ideas we most want to believe — and shoot down those we don’t. But if we want to get things right more often, argues Galef, we should train ourselves to have a “scout” mindset. U

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Common wisdom holds that the world is getting more violent, but is that really true? Leading skeptic Michael Shermer, professor and author of many books on science, morality and skepticism, argues to the contrary. Shermer's thesis in his recent book, "The Moral Arc: How Science Leads Humanity Toward Truth, Justice, and

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Massimo Pigliucci + Julia Galef & Michael Shermer 21 Apr 2013 • EN

Rationally Speaking #85 - Live From NECSS With Michael Shermer On the Role of Science in Morality

In a special live Rationally Speaking, taped at NECSS 2013, Julia Galef moderates a lively discussion between Massimo and Michael Shermer, head of the Skeptic Society and founding publisher of Skeptic Magazine. The topic: Can science tell us what is "moral"? This discussion comes after both men have tackled the questio

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