Freedom Center Today

On this episode of the Freedom Center Today he talks about games, gamification, and the danger of assigning numeric scores as we try to deal with thorny social problems.

Thi Nguyen is a philosophy professor at the University of Utah. Dr. Nguyen studies trust, art, games, and communities.

You can read more about him and follow him on Twitter at the links below:

https://objectionable.net/

https://twitter.com/add_hawk?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Chad Van Shoelandt earned his PhD at the University of Arizona, where he was involved with the Freedom Center. He is presently a professor of philosophy at Tulane University in New Orleans.

You can find out more about Chad at the links below:

https://sites.google.com/view/chad-van-schoelandt/home

https://sites.google.com/view/chad-van-schoelandt/home

He is co-editor of  The Routledge Handbook of Anarchy and Anarchist Thought.

Tony Gill earned his PhD at UCLA, and is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington, adjunct professor of Sociology at the UW, and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion. He served as a research associate to the Religious Freedom Project at Georgetown University from 2014-17. Professor Gill specializes in political economy and religion & politics, with an emphasis on church-state relations, religious liberty, and religious economies. Additionally, he also works on tipping.

He is author of The Political Origins of Religious Liberty (Cambridge 2007) and Rendering unto Caesar: The Catholic Church and the State in Latin America (University of Chicago Press, 1998), and is a frequent contributor at AIER.

You can find his complete biography here: https://www.polisci.washington.edu/people/anthony-gill

Kathryn Norlock is the inaugural Kenneth Mark Drain Endowed Chair in Ethics, Full Professor the Department of Philosophy, an affiliated faculty member in Sustainability Studies, and an associated faculty member in Gender and Women's Studies at Trent University.

Dr. Roger Kreuz is Associate Dean and Director of Graduate Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Psychology at the University of Memphis. He is the coauthor of Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language, Getting Through: The Pleasures and Perils of Cross-Cultural Communication, and Changing Minds: How Aging Affects Language and How Language Affects Aging.

You can learn more about Dr. Kreuz and his work below:

https://www.rogerkreuz.net/

https://www.memphis.edu/psychology/people/faculty/kreuz.php

In this Freedom Center Today episode we have Alfred Archer and Natascha Rietdijk talking about the modern press, fake news & what needs to be done to avoid further polarization in the world of partisan politics.

Natascha's Bio: https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/staff/n-w-rietdijk Alfred's Bio: https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/staff/a-t-m-archer

Dr. Travis Timmerman is a philosophy professor at Seton Hall University. He earned his PhD at Syracuse University after completing his undergraduate education at Arizona State University. You can find his online bio below:

https://www.travistimmerman.com/

You can find links to his work below:

https://setonhall.academia.edu/TravisTimmerman

https://philpapers.org/s/Travis%20Timmerman

Chris Surprenant is a professor of philosophy at the University of New Orleans, where he directs the UNO Honors Program and is founding director of the UNO Urban Entrepreneurship and Policy Institute.

Chris Surpenant Info:

https://www.uno.edu/profile/faculty/chris_surprenant

http://www.chriswsurprenant.com/

Bob Chitester is the founder, and executive chairman of the board of Free To Choose Network, a 501(c)(3) public foundation housing Free To Choose Media, an award-winning global entertainment company which produces and distributes thought-provoking public television programs and series; izzit.org, an educational initiative that produces video-centric teaching units for a large network of K-College educators; and Free To Choose Press publishing company.

You can read his full bio here:

https://www.freetochoosenetwork.org/about/team/b_chitester.php

Bob Chitester is the founder, and executive chairman of the board of Free To Choose Network, a 501(c)(3) public foundation housing Free To Choose Media, an award-winning global entertainment company which produces and distributes thought-provoking public television programs and series; izzit.org, an educational initiative that produces video-centric teaching units for a large network of K-College educators; and Free To Choose Press publishing company.

You can read his full bio here:

https://www.freetochoosenetwork.org/about/team/b_chitester.php