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Part 1 of the conversation with Dr. Bradley Campbell: Culture of Victimhood, Its Historical Precedents and Influences.

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00:26 Cultures of honor, cultures of dignity, and cultures of victimhood

17:36 Historical precedents of victimhood culture and the boom in 2013/2014

38:41 The religious aspects of victimhood culture

53:37 Postmodern and Marxist influences

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Dr. Bradley Campbell is an Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University. He’s also the author of books like The Geometry of Genocide, and, more recently, The Rise of Victimhood Culture.

In this episode, the conversation centers around the book The Rise of Victimhood Culture, co-authored with Jason Manning. We talk about the distinction between cultures of honor, cultures of dignity, and cultures of victimhood; the historical precedents of victimhood culture and the boom in 2013/2014; the religious aspects of victimhood culture; the influences from postmodernism and Marxist conflict theories; the problem within sociology; the role of moral status; the possibility of victimhood culture leading to political tyranny; discrimination against conservative people; the manifestations of victimhood culture on the right, and particularly the alt-right.

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00:26 Cultures of honor, cultures of dignity, and cultures of victimhood

17:36 Historical precedents of victimhood culture and the boom in 2013/2014

38:41 The religious aspects of victimhood culture

53:37 Postmodern and Marxist influences

1:03:56 The problem within sociology

1:14:35 What’s the role of moral status?

1:17:31 Could victimhood culture lead to tyranny?

1:33:50 Discriminating against conservatives

1:43:00 Victimhood culture on the right and the alt-right

1:50:16 Where can you follow Dr. Campbell’s work?

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Follow Dr. Campbell’s work:

Faculty page: http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/bradley-campbell

Book The Rise of Victimhood Culture: http://victimhoodculture.com/

Dr. Campbell’s books: https://www.amazon.com/default/e/B014N9MW86?redirectedFromKindleDbs=true

Twitter handle: @CampbellSocProf

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Dr. Herbert Gintis is External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He and Professor Robert Boyd (Anthropology, UCLA) headed a multidisciplinary research project that models such behaviors as empathy, reciprocity, insider/outsider behavior, vengefulness, and other observed human behaviors not well handled by the traditional model of the self-regarding agent. Professor Gintis is also author of several books including Game Theory Evolving, The Bounds of Reason, A Cooperative Species, Game Theory in Action, and Individuality and Entanglement and also coeditor, with Joe Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, and Ernst Fehr, of Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-scale Societies, and with Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd and Ernst Fehr of Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: On the Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life. 

In this episode, we talk about sociobiology, game theory, and behavioral science in general. First, we talk about the historical and scientific relevance of sociobiology. Then, we go through one of the big projects of Dr. Gintis’ work for the last two decades - a framework for the unification of the behavioral sciences – and the several obstacles that we have to that, including the fact that different behavioral sciences have different approaches and focus on different aspects. We also talk about the relationship between culture and biology. Finally, we go from there to the particularities of human cooperation, group selection, and the role that social institutions play.

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01:03 Sociobiology and human behavior

04:37 A framework for the unification of the behavioral sciences    

10:52 It makes no sense to talk about individuals or collectives        

17:20 Culture and biology, and gene-culture coevolution       

21:50 The particularities of human cooperation          

25:55 About group selection     

35:24 The function of social institutions in social species    

42:30 The importance of group identity (distributed cognition)  

48:50 Humans are rational, but not in the way you think 

59:05 What is human nature?

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Articles on Researchgate: https://tinyurl.com/y5dzoe2l

Books: https://tinyurl.com/y6ot643p

Books referenced in the int

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Part 3 of the conversation with Dr. Robin Hanson: Changing Behavior, Modern Life, Capitalism, Social Progress.

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00:00 The narrative of the self

03:19 Enlightened self-interest

06:16 Being humble

11:31 Balance between subconscious drives and exerting control over them

17:58 Individual vs collective change

30:32 Niche communities

35:18 Modern life and personal identity

39:45 Capitalism and social progress

44:45 Where can you follow Dr. Hanson’s work? 

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I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:

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Part 2 of the conversation with Dr. Robin Hanson: Hidden motives in Advertising, Charity, Education, and Medicine.

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00:00 The social aspects of advertising

06:10 Art and conspicuous signaling

12:20 Charity, waste, and effective altruism

20:55 The social value of education

30:45 Thought experiment on a society of inconspicuous consumption

33:43 Conspicuous effort and waste in medicine

43:48 Reactions to the book

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Dr. Sarah Brosnan is a Professor in the departments of psychology and philosophy and the Neuroscience Institute at Georgia State University. She is also a member of the Brains & Behavior program and the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience. She directs the Comparative Economics and Behavioral Studies Laboratory (CEBUS Lab) and does research with nonhuman primates at both the Language Research Center of Georgia State University and the Michale E. Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine and Research of the University of Texas Anderson Cancer Center. She studies the mechanisms underlying cooperation, reciprocity, inequity, and other economic decisions in nonhuman primates from an evolutionary perspective. She looks at the decisions individuals make and how they make them, how their social or ecological environments affect their decisions and interactions, and under what circumstances they can alter their behaviors depending on these conditions.

In this episode, we talk about biology, comparative psychology, and moral behavior. First, Dr. Brosnan tells us about the primates that she studies the most and the sorts of behaviors she’s most interested in. Then, we discuss how to properly do comparative psychology, and compare the behavior of humans to other species, particularly primates. We also talk about what is morality from a biological perspective and its functions. And very important to understand morality are the processes of kin selection, reciprocal altruism, and the contentious topic of group selection. After that, we talk about some specific moral behaviors, like inequity aversion and the sense of fairness, and the endowment effect and the sense of property, in nonhuman primates. 

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00:55 The primates Dr. Brosnan studies, and the types of behavior she’s most interested in

02:00 Morality and moral behavior           

04:40 How to properly do comparative psychology    

06:27 What is necessary to have moral behavior?        

10:29 The functions of morality       

12:13 On group selection         

14:00 Reciprocal altruism     

17:28 Inequity aversion and sense of fairness in primates   

23:56 The evolutionary relevance of emotions 

25:44 Philogeny and ontogeny, evolution and development 

29:41 Economics games to study animal behavior

31:52 The endowment effect and a sense of property

40:13 Comparing humans to other primates in their cognition and morality

42:57 Should chimps make economic decisions for us?

44:10 Follow Dr. Brosnan’s work!   

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Dr. Philip Goff is a philosopher and consciousness researcher at Durham University, UK. His main research focus is trying to explain how the brain produces consciousness. He thinks we need to radically rethink our understanding of matter in order to explain consciousness, in something like the way Einstein radically rethought the nature of space and time. Dr. Goff also has a sideline in political philosophy, focusing on issues pertaining to taxation, globalization and social justice. He’s also the author of the book Consciousness and Fundamental Reality.

In this episode, we talk about consciousness, materialism and the nature of reality. We start off by discussing the philosophy of materialism and its limitations when it comes to account for phenomena like consciousness. We also talk about illusionism as a theory of consciousness, and the difficulties in trying to understand consciousness from an objectivist perspective, and the inherent limitations that our theory of mind has. Then, Dr. Goff explains his approach to consciousness, and what he thinks is the best way to know its nature, based on Russellian monism and panpsychism. 

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00:53 The philosophy of materialism, and what might be some of its limitations

08:51 Causal relationships vs. the nature of the Universe           

11:47 Mind-brain dualism    

14:08 Phenomenal consciousness, and the hard problem         

15:27 On Illusionism       

19:36 Does it matter if our intuitions about the mind are wrong?         

21:50 Dr. Goff’s approach to consciousness, and Russellian monism     

25:58 About panpsychism  

28:41 How would we know what consciousness is? 

33:31 Individual variation of conscious experience, and issues about subjectivism 

49:18 Consciousness, the external world, and our cognitive/epistemological limitations 

52:54 Follow Dr. Goff’s work!   

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Consciousness and Fundamental Reality Book: https://tinyurl.com/y48f5y5r

Twitter handle: @Philip_Goff

Some relevant links:

Russellian monism: https://tinyurl.com/y6qsb989 / https://tinyur

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Dr. Robin Hanson is an Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He’s also the author of books like The Age of Em, and The Elephant in the Brain.

In this episode, the conversation centers around the book The Elephant in the Brain. We talk about subconscious motivations; selfishness and prosociality; rationalizations; strong and weak social norms; personality variability and hidden motivations; conspicuous consumption; prestige status; bragging and self-esteem; costly signaling; self-deception; the social role of laughter; the limits of comedy; the social importance of gossip; the prosociality of nepotism; the social aspects of advertising; art and conspicuous signaling; charity, waste, and effective altruism; the social value of education; conspicuous effort and waste in medicine; the narrative of the self; enlightened self-interest; being humble; individual vs collective change; niche communities; capitalism and social progress; and related topics.

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00:36 The elephant in the brain

02:30 Evolutionary perspectives on hidden motives

04:43 The Dissenter strikes back on disagreeable ends

08:04 Rationalizations

10:02 Selfishness and prosociality

12:49 We can get away with violating weak norms

14:11 Bragging about positive motivations

17:58 Adding personality variability to the picture

21:05 Conspicuous consumption

23:25 Signaling positive personality traits through material means

25:08 Prestige status

27:21 – Bragging and self-esteem

30:00 The drawbacks of costly signaling

31:25 Self-deception

33:22 The interpreter module

34:53 Norms as rationalizations

36:11 The social role of laughter

44:20 The limits of comedy

50:45 The social importance of gossip

55:26 The prosociality of nepotism

57:08  The social aspects of advertising

1:03:18 Art and conspicuous signaling

1:09:28 Charity, waste, and effective altruism

1:18:03 The social value of education

1:27:53 Thought experiment on a society of inconspicuous consumption

1:30:51 Conspicuous effort and waste in medicine

1:40:56 Reactions to the book

1:46:25 The narrative of the self

1:49:44 Enlightened self-interest

1:52:41 Being humble

1:57:56 Balance between subconscious drives and exerting control over them

2:04:27 Individual vs collective change

2:16:57 Niche communities

2:21:43 Modern life and personal identity

2:26:10 Capitalism and social progress

2:31:10 Where can you follow Dr. Hanson’s work?  

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O Dr. Robin Hanson é um Professor Associado de Economia da George Mason University e um investigador associado do Future of Humanity Institute da Universidade de Oxford. É também o autor de livros como The Age of Em, e The Elephant in the Brain.

Neste episódio, a conversa é centrada no livro The Elephant in the Brain. Falamos sobre motivações subconscientes; egoísmo e prossocialidade; racionalizações; normas sociais fortes e fracas; variabilidade de personalidade e motivações escondidas; consumo conspícuo; status de prestígio; relação entre gabarolice e autoestima; sinalização dispendiosa; autodeceção; o papel social do riso; os limites da comédia; a importância social da fofoquice; a prossocialidade do nepotismo; os aspetos sociais da publicidade; arte e sinalizaç

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Mr. Johan Norberg is an author and historian from Sweden. He’s been a senior fellow at the Cato Institute since 2007, and the executive director at Free To Choose Media since 2017. He is the author of books like In Defense of Global Capitalism (2001) and Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future (2016). 

In this episode, we talk about some of Mr. Norberg’s personal story, as he moved from being a left-anarchist to a classical liberal capitalist; capitalism from a historical perspective, and a comparison with feudalism; how material wealth and economic growth set the bases for human progress and flourishing; the varieties of capitalism, and the Swedish model; the problem with state-guided capitalism, interventionism and protectionism; the problem with the term “trickle-down economics”; economic inequality; and the Cato Institute.

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O Sr. Johan Norberg é um autor e historiador sueco. É um membro sénior do Cato Institute desde 2007, e o diretor executivo da Free to Choose Media desde 2017. É autor de livros como In Defense of Global Capitalism (2001) e Progresso: Dez razões para ter esperança no futuro.

Neste episódio, falamos sobre parte da história pessoal do Sr. Norberg, e como passou de um anarquista de esquerda a um liberal clássico capitalista; capitalismo de uma perspetiva histórica, e uma comparação com o feudalismo; como a riqueza material e o crescimento económico deram as bases ao progresso e desenvolvimento humano; as variedades do capitalismo, e o modelo sueco; o problema com o capitalismo de Estado, o intervencionismo, e o protecionismo; o problema por detrás do termo “trickle-down economics”; desigualdade económica; e o Cato Institute.

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Twitter handle: @johanknorberg

His books: https://www.amazon.com/Johan-Norberg/e/B001KCORWY

Livro “Progresso”: https://www.wook.pt/livro/progresso-johan-norberg/19094935

And check out other related interviews:

Fernand Drumond (Gapminder): https://youtu.be/Pqoil02RlOU

Olof Gränström (Gapminder): https://youtu.be/3y-KOM2YiVY

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Dr. Eric Turkheimer is the Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, US.

In this episode, we talk about some concepts coming from Behavior Genetics; the four laws of Behavior Genetics; gene-environment correlations (active, passive, and reactive); gene-environment interactions; and genetics and environment in the study of IQ.

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O Dr. Eric Turkheimer é o Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor de psicologia da Universidade da Virgínia, EUA.

Neste episódio, falamos sobre conceitos da Genética Comportamental; as quatro leis da Genética Comportamental; correlações genes-ambiente (ativa, passiva, e reativa); interações genes-ambiente; e genética e ambiente no estudo do QI.

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Twitter handle:  @ent3c

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Dr. Matt McGue (Behavior Genetics): https://youtu.be/Wl_w9DJ1R88

Dr. James Flynn (IQ and Intelligence): https://youtu.be/FwhEktBbGmQ

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