Embrace The Void

"Oh no, Not again" - Bowl of Petunias

EV - 171 Cheap Talk with C Thi Nguyen

My returning guest this week is C Thi Nguyen (@add_hawk), a philosophy professor at University of Utah with a special interest in gaming and porn. We discuss porn, cheap talk, value capture, conspiracy theories and just so much other stuff. Highly recommend listening back to C Thi's first episode as we basically pick up where we left off there: https://voidpod.com/podcasts/2019/6/19/ev-094-echoes-in-the-void-with-c-thi-nguyen 

C Thi's Website: https://objectionable.net/

Invocation: Aaron's Void

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

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Recent Appearances: Aaron was recently on Cog Dis to talk Monster Island. Show some cult love! https://dissonancepod.libsyn.com/episode-547-aaron-rabinowitz-v4c-2019-part-9?tdest_id=124104

Next week: Woking Up with Eiynah

EV - 170 State of the IDW with Chris Kavanagh

My guest this week is Chris Kavanagh (@C_Kavanagh), a cognitive anthropologist/social scientist and cohost of the Decoding the Gurus podcast. We assess the state of the Intellectual Dark Web post election and discuss why conspiracy theories appear to be rampant in the IDW.

Decoding the Gurus: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/

Invocation: Alan Moore

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

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Recent Appearances: Aaron was recently on Cog Dis to talk Monster Island. Show some cult love! https://dissonancepod.libsyn.com/episode-547-aaron-rabinowitz-v4c-2019-part-9?tdest_id=124104

Next week: Cheap Talk with C Thi Nguyen

EV - 169 Carceral luck with Emma McClure

My guest this week is Emma McClure, a parole solicitor who frequently works with prisoners with mental health issues. We discuss the role of luck in the criminal justice system, possible reforms, and the impacts of Covid.

Invocation: Watership Down

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

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Recent Appearances: Aaron was recently on Cog Dis to talk Monster Island. Show some cult love! https://dissonancepod.libsyn.com/episode-547-aaron-rabinowitz-v4c-2019-part-9?tdest_id=124104

Next week: State of the IDW with Chris Kavanagh

EV - 168 Philosopher Queens with Rebecca Buxton and Lisa Whiting

My guests this week are Rebecca Buxton (@RebeccaBuxton) and Lisa Whiting (@lisawhiting_), the editors of this year's best philosophy book, Philosopher Queens. We discuss the overlooked history of women in philosophy and cutting edge work they did dealing with totalitarianism and reply guys.

Philosopher queens: https://unbound.com/books/philosopher-queens/ 

Invocation: Martha Nussbaum

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

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Recent Appearances: Aaron was recently on Cog Dis to talk Monster Island. Show some cult love! https://dissonancepod.libsyn.com/episode-547-aaron-rabinowitz-v4c-2019-part-9?tdest_id=124104

Next week: Carceral luck with Emma McClure 

EV - 167 Masculinity and Morality with Tom Curry

My guest this week is Tom Curry (@dissonance_pod), co-host of the Cognitive Dissonance pod and one of the hive of villainy on the Citation Needed pod. We discuss Tom's letters to his sons and how to teach healthy masculinity.

Tom's Blog: https://dangerousletters.wordpress.com/

Cog Dis: https://dissonancepod.com/

Citation Needed: http://citationpod.com/

Invocation: https://dangerousletters.wordpress.com/2020/11/05/you-are-not-a-good-person/

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Recent Appearances: Aaron was recently on Cog Dis to talk Monster Island. Show some cult love! https://dissonancepod.libsyn.com/episode-547-aaron-rabinowitz-v4c-2019-part-9?tdest_id=124104

Next week: Philosopher Queens with Rebecca and Lisa

EV - 166 Cancer Pseudoscience with Alice Howarth

My guest this week is Dr. Alice Howarth (@AliceEmmaLouise), co-host of the Skeptics with a K podcast and postdoc in pharmacology at the University of Liverpool. We discuss cancer treatment and pseudoscience alternative medicines that are targeted at cancer patients. 

Alice's Blog: https://dralice.blog/

Skeptics with a K: http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/category/podcast/skeptics-with-a-k/

Invocation: Robert Heinlein

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Recent Appearances: Aaron was recently on Cog Dis to talk Monster Island. Show some cult love! https://dissonancepod.libsyn.com/episode-547-aaron-rabinowitz-v4c-2019-part-9?tdest_id=124104

Next week: Healthy Masculinity with Tom Curry

EV - 165 Black Male Studies with DR. TJ Curry

My guest this week is Dr. TJ Curry (@DrTJC), chair of Africana studies and Black Male Studies at Edinburgh University. We discuss violent decolonialization, intersectionality, and Black Male Studies.

Invocation: The book of the Living, from Parable of the Talents by Butler

The Man-not: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072Q2JXW9/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

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Recent Appearances: Aaron was recently on Cog Dis to talk Monster Island. Show some cult love! https://dissonancepod.libsyn.com/episode-547-aaron-rabinowitz-v4c-2019-part-9?tdest_id=124104

Next week: Pseudoscience skepticism with Alice Howarth

EV - 164 The Far Right Wing with Daniel Harper

My guest this week is Daniel Harper, co-host of the I Don't Speak German Podcast. We discuss the many flavors of the far right and where that energy is headed after the election.

Invocation: Fantasy High S1E7

I don't Speak German Podcast: https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

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Recent Appearances: Aaron was recently on Cog Dis to talk Monster Island. Show some cult love! https://dissonancepod.libsyn.com/episode-547-aaron-rabinowitz-v4c-2019-part-9?tdest_id=124104

Next week: Man-nots with Tommy Curry

EV - 163 Animal Consciousness with Jeff Sebo

My guest this week is Jeff Sebo (@jeffrsebo) director of the NYU animal studies MA program and author of Chimpanzee rights and Food, Animals, and the Environment. We discuss animal consciousness and the implications for animal ethics.

Invocation: The Aarononomicon

Jeff's website: https://jeffsebo.net/

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

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Recent Appearances: I was on The Philosophy Guy podcast discussing whether Social Justice is a Religion (it's not). https://thephilosophyguy.fireside.fm/92

Next week: Proud Boy Whispering with Samantha Kutner

EV - 162 CRT Diversity Training with Casey Petersen pt.2

My guest this week is Casey Petersen (@CaseyAPetersen), a research and development electrical engineer at Sandia National Labs who took issue with the diversity and racial awareness training at the National Labs. We discuss his video challenging Critical Race Theory and its use in diversity training and school curriculums. (NOTE: This discussion happened prior to the release of Breonna Taylor's grand jury testimonies)

Casey's Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyNW9nlFDBk

Study on bias perpetuation through AI lending: https://news.berkeley.edu/story_jump/mortgage-algorithms-perpetuate-racial-bias-in-lending-study-finds/

Brookings Age Racial Disparities in Covid Deaths: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/06/16/race-gaps-in-covid-19-deaths-are-even-bigger-than-they-appear/

Racial Disparities in Covid Deaths: https://voxeu.org/article/racial-disparity-covid-19-deaths

Fryer Story: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/upshot/surprising-new-evidence-shows-bias-in-police-use-of-force-but-not-in-shootings.html

Response to Fryer: https://scholar.harvard.edu/jfeldman/blog/roland-fryer-wrong-there-racial-bias-shootings-police

DHS Violent White Supremacist Threat: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/08/politics/white-supremacy-dhs-draft-assessment/index.html

DHS Violent White Supremacist Definition: https://www.dhs.gov/publication/reference-aid-us-violent-white-supremacist-extremists

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

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Recent Appearances: I was on The Philosophy Guy podcast discussing whether Social Justice is a Religion (it's not). https://thephilosophyguy.fireside.fm/92

Next week: Animal consciousness with Jeff Sebo

EV - 161 CRT Diversity Training with Casey Petersen pt.1

My guest this week is Casey Petersen (@CaseyAPetersen), a research and development electrical engineer at Sandia National Labs who took issue with the diversity and racial awareness training at the National Labs. We discuss his video challenging Critical Race Theory and its use in diversity training and school curriculums.

 Casey's Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyNW9nlFDBk 

Study on bias perpetuation through AI lending: https://news.berkeley.edu/story_jump/mortgage-algorithms-perpetuate-racial-bias-in-lending-study-finds/

Brookings Age Racial Disparities in Covid Deaths: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/06/16/race-gaps-in-covid-19-deaths-are-even-bigger-than-they-appear/ 

Racial Disparities in Covid Deaths: https://voxeu.org/article/racial-disparity-covid-19-deaths 

Fryer Story: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/upshot/surprising-new-evidence-shows-bias-in-police-use-of-force-but-not-in-shootings.html 

Response to Fryer: https://scholar.harvard.edu/jfeldman/blog/roland-fryer-wrong-there-racial-bias-shootings-police 

DHS Violent White Supremacist Threat: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/08/politics/white-supremacy-dhs-draft-assessment/index.html 

DHS Violent White Supremacist Definition: https://www.dhs.gov/publication/reference-aid-us-violent-white-supremacist-extremists 

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

Music by GW Rodriguez

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Recent Appearances: I was on The Philosophy Guy podcast discussing whether Social Justice is a Religion (it's not). https://thephilosophyguy.fireside.fm/92

Next week: CRT in Federal Diversity Training with Casey Petersen pt.2

EV - 160 Vaxxer Conspiracies with Matt Browne

My guest this week is Matt Browne (@ArthurCDent), a psychology professor at central Queensland Australia and cohost of the new Decoding the Gurus podcast. We discuss conspiracy theories within the Anti-vaxxer community and what they can tell us about a world inundated with conspiracy theories.

Matt's Vaccination Paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29863949/

Decoding the Gurus: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/

Convocation: Richard Hofstadter's The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Harper Magazine 1964

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

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Recent Appearances: I was on The Philosophy Guy podcast discussing whether Social Justice is a Religion (it's not). https://thephilosophyguy.fireside.fm/92

Next week: CRT in Federal Diversity Training with Casey Petersen

Rebroadcasting ETV101+102: Social Progress in the Void with Bo Winegard pt.1

My guest this week is Bo Winegard, Assistant Professor at Marietta College, cohost of the psyphilopod podcast, and frequent contributor to Quillette. We've engaged in several disagreements on twitter and thought it could be valuable to debate some of these issues on the show. We focused our debate on the question "should society attempt to promote social progress by changing human nature". The argument is naturally wide ranging.

Invocation: The Tower of Babel

Bo's article on Progressivism and the West: https://quillette.com/2019/03/09/progressivism-and-the-west/

Psyphilopod: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/psyphilopod/id1446215479

Editing by Brian Ziegenhagen, check out his pod: http://youarehere.libsyn.com/s02e02-rex-manning-day?fbclid=IwAR2L2_YIJvQpcw0nx6nTSfz0GmyJ1DtWsF--vvdI9W1ug3XW7IAtU6dQ36s

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Next Week: Part two of my discuss with Bo.

Rebroadcasting ETV11+12: Trump's Malignant Narcissism

Taking a two week break to commune with the void. In the meantime enjoy this double wide rebroadcast of our discussion of Trump's narcissism and diagnosing at a distance.

Here's a link to the DSM-5 definition of narcissism:
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-personality-disorder/basics/symptoms/CON-20025568

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

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Recent Appearances: I was on the Zachrilege podcast talking about grievance hoaxers and various other topics. Check it out! https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ndkpx-e7846b?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share&fbclid=IwAR3qXqJBRxZh7qjfczUFHA1fTIqPz9M1TbHWAYc4Gk7LFsFiSY8aspbOZZI

Next week: Rebroadcast ETV101+102 Social Progress in the Void with Bo Winegard

EV - 159 Racial Capitalism with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

My guest this week is Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (@OlufemiOTaiwo), assistant professor at Georgetown university with an interest in pan African community action. We discuss a recent exchange that he and Liam Bright had with Michael Wazler on the issue of Racial Capitalism.

Wazler's article: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/a-note-on-racial-capitalism

Liam and Femi's response article: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/a-response-to-michael-walzer

Femi's website: http://www.whyeverythingcostsmoney.com/

Convocation: John Holloway, Crack Capitalism

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Next week: Rebroadcast ETV11 Trump's Narcissism with Jesse Rabinowitz

EV - 158 The Tragedy of the Epistemic Commons with Kevin Dorst

My guest this week is Kevin Dorst (@kevin_dorst), a philosopher at Oxford University and University of Pittsburg with a particular interest in polarization and irrationality. We discuss why current polarization involves elevated levels of demonization and if there's any way to break out of this spiral.

Kevin's Website: https://www.kevindorst.com/ 

Convocation: The Tower of Babel

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

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Next week: Racial Capitalism with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

EV - 157 GPT-3 with Raphaël Millière

My guest this week is Raphaël Millière (@raphamilliere), a philosopher of mind and cognitive science at Columbia university’s Center for Science and Society. We discuss the new natural language processor GPT-3 and it's potential benefits and risks to various parts of society.

Raphaël's website: http://raphaelmilliere.com/

Convocation: GPT-3's Manifesto of Void Art

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

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Next week: The tragedy of the Epistemic Commons with Kevin Dorst

EV - 156 Convergence vs. Consensus Liberalism with Marcus Schultz-Bergin

My guest this week is Marcus Schultz-Bergin (@schultzbergin), a teaching professor in philosophy at Cleveland State University who’s interests include ethics and political philosophy. Marcus is also a former colleague of mine from the Colorado State masters program. We discuss different kinds of Liberalism and what the view can still bring to the table.

Marcus's Website: http://schultzbergin.xyz/

Convocation: Simón Bolívar

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

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Next week: GPT-3 with Raphaël Millière

EV - 155 Reviewing Cynical Theories with Sam Hoadley-Brill

My guest this week is Sam Hoadley-Brill (@deonteleologist), a grad student in philosophy at CUNY Graduate Center with interests in moral, social, and political philosophy. We discuss his forthcoming review of Cynical Theories by James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose.

Convocation:  Terry Pratchett

Helen Longino "Cognitive and Non-Cognitive values in science": https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-1742-2_3

Alison Wylie "Why Standpoint Matters": https://philpapers.org/rec/WYLWSM 

Charles Mills "Black Rights/White Wrongs": https://www.amazon.com/Black-Rights-White-Wrongs-Transgressing/dp/0190245425

Charles Mills "Black Radical Kantianism": https://simpsoncenter.org/sites/simpson/files/Charles-Mills-Black-Radical-Kantianism.pdf 

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

Music by GW Rodriguez

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Recent Appearances: Friend of the pod Thomas Smith had me on SIO to discuss the recent revelations around the ownership of New Discourses's, James Lindsay's laundering operation for for far right talking points and conspiracy theories. If you're lost on what this is about check out ETV150 first. https://seriouspod.com/sio250-james-lindsays-new-discourses-funded-by-far-right-christian-nationalist/

Next week: Consensus Liberalism with Marcus Schultz-Bergin

EV - 154 Better know Richard Rorty with Adrian Rutt

My guest this week is Adrian Rutt  adjunct at Cleveland state, editor at Liberal Currents, and the manager of the Rorty Stan Account on twitter (@Adrian_Rutt). Adrian helps me to better understand Richard Rorty and his roll in all of this ::gestures wildly at the culture war::

Convocation:  Richard Rorty

Editing by Callie Wright

Music by GW Rodriguez

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Next week: Cynical Theory with Samuel Hoadley-Brill