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Dr. David Wootton is Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York. He works on the intellectual and cultural history of the English-speaking countries, Italy, and France, from the 17th to the 19th centuries. His most recent book is Power, Pleasure, and Profit published by Harvard University Press, and he’s also the author of The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution. He has given the Carlyle and Besterman Lectures at Oxford, the Raleigh Lecture at the British Academy and the Benedict Lectures at Boston.

In this episode, we talk about some of the main topics explored by Dr. Wootton in The Invention of Science. We discuss the historical precursors of science, and the new conceptual framework that developed around the 17th century. We also refer to the progress of science, where Thomas Kuhn failed, the relationship between philosophy and science, and science as a cultural construct. We go through the earliest developments in Astronomy and Earth geography, the discovery of the Americas and the historical relationship between science and political power. We discuss some hypotheses for why China did not get to develop science before Europe, and the relationship between science and technology. Finally, we look into how science might have influenced the development of capitalism (and vice-versa).

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Dr. Robert Plomin is Professor of Behavioural Genetics at the Social Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Center at King’s College London, and Research Professor at the Medical Research Council (MRC). He’s one of the leading figures in the entire field of Behavioral Genetics. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Dr. Plomin as the 71st most cited psychologist of the 20th century. And he’s also the author of many books, including Behavioral Genetics: A Primer (1989), Separate Lives: Why Siblings Are So Different (1992), Nature And Nurture: An Introduction To Human Behavioral Genetics (2004), Nature and Nurture During Infancy and Early Childhood (2006), G Is for Genes (2013), and, the most recent one, Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are (2018).

In this episode, we start off by talking about the history and development of the field of Behavioral Genetics. We also address the issue of environmentalism in Psychology and the behavioral sciences. We also go through some of the basic concepts in Behavioral Genetics, like heritability, gene-environment correlations, and twin and adoptee studies. We also tackle the problems with environmental factors in human behavior. We also deal with GWAS (Genome-Wide Association Studies), polygenic scores and the type of information we can obtain from them and what we can do with it. We also talk about how clinical psychology and psychiatry should revise the way they classify mental conditions, moving from a qualitative to a quantitative approach, and some of the current limitations in these fields. Toward the end, we also briefly discuss the potential of gene editing technologies.

Time Links:

01:07 The history of Behavioral Genetics

09:13 Environmentalism in the history of Psychology            

14:22 Normative vs individual differences        

19:32 Twin studies    

26:12 The effects of the environment are mediated by genetics; gene-environment correlations  

33:17 Uncontrolled accidents and unique life events   

40:02 Actively seeking environments    

42:47 All behavioral traits are heritable 

50:00 Genome-wide association studies and identifying genes

1:00:29 Making good use of polygenic scores, and issues regarding society and equality of opportunity

1:17:28 Science does not dictate moral nor social values

1:22:14 About clinical psychology, and the classification of mental conditions

1:37:50 Certain biases in clinical psychology, and what happens when children develop in deprived environments

1:44:43 Is gene editing around the corner for complex psychological traits?

1:48:30 How pleiotropy complicates gene editing

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A Dra. Eugénia Cunha é Professora Catedrática de Antropologia no Departamento de Ciências da Vida da FCTUC (Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra). É, desde 2018, Diretora do Instituto de Medicina Legal de Lisboa, Coordenadora do 2º ciclo em Evolução e Biologia Humana na FCTUC, sendo igualmente co-editora de um livro internacional em Antropologia Forense e autora de diversos artigos científicos e de divulgação. A sua investigação foca-se na biologia do esqueleto no âmbito da Antropologia Forense e da Evolução Humana.

Neste episódio, falamos sobre Antropologia Biológica, Antropologia Forense e alguns aspetos da nossa história evolutiva. Começamos por falar sobre o que é a Antropologia Biológica, dificuldades e limitações em reconstruir a nossa história evolutiva, a descoberta recente do H. luzonensis, a iliteracia científica generalizada e o cuidado que é necessário ter na comunicação da ciência. Abordamos também tópicos específicos, como a classificação de espécies de hominídeos, o caso dos Neandertais e das suas capacidades e porque é que se extinguiram, e a evolução do bipedismo e da dieta humana. Terminamos com uma curta exposição acerca do que é a Antropologia Forense e aquilo que estuda.

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Dr. David Sloan Wilson is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology at Binghamton University. He applies evolutionary theory to all aspects of humanity in addition to the rest of life, both in his own research and as director of the Evolution Institute, a unique campus-wide evolutionary studies program that recently received NSF funding to expand into a nationwide consortium. His books include Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society; Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin’s Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives; The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time and Does Altruism Exist? Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others; and a recently edited book, Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science.

In this episode, our conversation we focused initially on Evolutionary and Contextual Behavioral Science, the recently published book edited by Dr. David Sloan Wilson and Dr. Steven C. Hayes. We discuss what evolutionary theory brings to the table, and its shortcomings in dealing with behavior (human and non-human), and the contributions of Skinner, behaviorism and contextual science that have been mostly ignored by mainstream Psychology. We then talk about the extended evolutionary synthesis, and how Lamarckism might still have a saying in how evolution by natural selection works. Finally, we briefly talk about religion as a human construct, and what the New Atheist get wrong about it; and about group selection included in a multilevel selection process.

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01:05 Evolutionary and Contextual Behavioral Science

06:26 The work of B. F. Skinner            

12:32 What contextual behavioral science adds to the cognitive picture of the human mind        

20:51 Modularity of the human mind, innate and environmental mechanisms    

31:24 Environment, development, and phenotypic plasticity  

36:58 The extended evolutionary synthesis   

43:36 Lamarckism, Darwinism, and the new synthesis    

49:27 Religion as a human construct 

1:01:01 About group selection

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Dr. Mark Blyth is William R. Roads Professor of International Economics at Brown University. His research interests lie in the field of international political economy. More specifically, his research trespasses several fields and aims to be as interdisciplinary as possible, drawing from political science, economics, sociology, complexity theory, and evolutionary theory. His work falls into several related areas: the politics of ideas, how institutions change, political parties, and the politics of finance. He’s also the author of books like Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century, and Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea.

In this episode, we talk about the origins of the economic idea of austerity, and its development over history. We also tackle the notion of ordoliberalism, and how it connects with Germany, and how the European Union was economically structured. How the 70’s stagflation and the global financial crisis of 2007/2008 changed the course of economics and politics. And also what Dr. Blyth calls the phenomenon of Global Trumpism, and political populism on both the right and the left. We finish up by talking a bit about current economic issues, notably economic inequality in the West and global warming, and how to deal with them.

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00:40 The origins of austerity

04:34 Ordoliberalism           

07:41 The economic structure of the European Union       

12:13 The 70’s stagflation and austerity worldwide      

16:59 The global financial crisis of 2007/2008   

22:13 Could it have been handled differently in the EU?

26:13 Global Trumpism, and populism on the right and the left   

31:55 How to properly deal with the current economic issues 

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Dr. Alan Fiske is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He’s a psychological anthropologist studying how natural selection, neurobiology, ontogeny, psychology, and culture jointly shape human sociality. He’s also the author of the books Structures of Social Life: The Four Elementary Forms of Human Relations, and Virtuous Violence: Hurting and Killing to Create, Sustain, End, and Honor Social Relationships.

In this episode, we talk about the four relational models at the basis of human sociality – Communal Sharing, Authority Ranking, Equality Matching, and Market Pricing -, their universality, and also how they vary cross-culturally. We also talk about the relationship between sociality and morality, and the moral bases of violence. By the end, we also discuss moral relativism, and how science can inform morality.

Time Links:

00:51 The four Relational Models – Communal Sharing, Authority Ranking, Equality Matching, and Market Pricing

09:09 How do they vary cross-culturally?           

14:21 About kin selection and reciprocal altruism          

17:48 Sociality and morality       

20:05 The moral bases of violence      

26:39 Moral motivations to commit violence   

28:44 Is some degree of violence (or threat of violence) necessary to keep societies functioning?

36:08 Are people always emotional and impulsive when they act violently?   

38:00 Conformation systems theory – how people represent a relationship, and employ means for creating and maintaining the relationship  

42:00 How to prevent violence 

44:07 About moral relativism

49:25 How can science inform morality?

51:14 Follow Dr. Fiske’s work!  

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Dr. Derek Leben is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown. He works at the intersection of ethics, cognitive science, and emerging technologies. In his new book, Ethics for Robots, Dr. Leben argues for the use of a particular moral framework for designing autonomous systems based on the Contractarianism of John Rawls. He also demonstrates how this framework can be productively applied to autonomous vehicles, medical technologies, and weapons systems.

In this episode, we focus on the main topics of Dr. Leben’s Ethics for Robots. We first discuss the types of robots that need to have ethical systems programmed into them. Then, we get into the issue of how to establish an objective moral system. Dr. Leben explains Contractarianism ethics. We also go over some specific technologies, like self-driving cars, carebots, police-bots, and others, and we refer to specific issues like discrimination and consent. Finally, we talk about the role of science fiction in providing us with thought experiments about emergent and future technology, and to what extent that has a positive or a negative effect.

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Dr. Michael Bang Petersen is Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University, in Denmark. He also directs The Politics and Evolution Lab (PoNE Lab) there. He investigates how the adaptive challenges of human evolutionary history shape the way modern citizens think about mass politics. 

In this episode, we talk about evolutionary political psychology. We discuss what is to be understood as political behavior; the emotions, heuristics and biases that are more relevant to understand people’s political behavior (and also in other animals); the deservingness heuristic; the biological bases of our progress from small-scale hunter-gatherer societies to modern states, and the expansion of group identities; the cues that lead people to support the welfare system more easily; intentionality; how to tackle issues of political polarization; and also the benefits that politicians can take from learning more about evolutionary psychology, and how human psychology generally works.

Time Links:

00:37 What is evolutionary political psychology?

02:58 What is political behavior?           

08:27 Emotions in politics           

11:19 Heuristics and biases       

14:06 The deservingness heuristic      

20:05 How to we go from small-scale groups to modern societies?   

24:38 The expansion of group identities

26:32 Danes, Americans, and the welfare system   

32:21 How to promote support for the welfare state   

33:25 The importance of intentionality 

34:46 Men with greater upper-body strength are less in favor of economic redistribution

39:23 People and their relationship with their political parties

44:20 How societies might have expanded 

47:20 Can people with different group identities cooperate?

53:15 Political animals that do not understand much about political systems

58:43  Trying to avoid political polarization

1:01:49 How to educate better politicians

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This is Part 2 of the conversation with Dr. Terrence Deacon: Consciousness, Semiotics, Symbolism and Language.

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00:00 Consciousness, and unconscious mental processes

06:52 Semiotics, and studying how we deal with symbols 

16:51 The biological bases of language 

28:30 Cultural sources to understand the evolution of language 

40:39 Follow Dr. Deacon’s work! 

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Dr. Laura Cabrera is Assistant Professor in the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences and the Department of Translational Science & Molecular Medicine at Michigan State University. Dr. Cabrera's interests focus on the ethical and societal implications of neurotechnology and neuroscientific advances. She has been working on projects that explore the media coverage and the attitudes of the general public toward pharmacological and novel neurosurgical interventions for the treatment of psychiatric disorders. She has also worked on the public perceptions towards the use of different modalities of neuromodifiers for enhancement purposes, as well as their normative implications. Her current work focuses on the ethical and social implications of environmental changes for brain and mental health. She’s also the author of the book Rethinking Human Enhancement: Social Enhancement and Emergent Technologies.

In this episode, we discuss human enhancement from a philosophical perspective. We talk about the difficulty in defining “enhancement”, and also about the three paradigms of human enhancement, as defined by Dr. Cabrera in her book, Rethinking Human Enhancement: the biomedical, the transhumanist, and the social.

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