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Dr. Rebecca Roache is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London. She teaches practical ethics, logic, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychiatry, philosophy of language, and early modern philosophy. She’s also been Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics and Programme Manager of the Oxford Loebel Lectures and Research Programme, at the University of Oxford. Before that, she was James Martin Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute. Since 2013, Dr. Roache has been an Associate Editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics, and since 2007 she has also been a contributor to Oxford's Practical Ethics: Ethics in the News blog.

In this episode, the central topic of discussion is philosophy of psychiatry. We go through some of the difficulties in classifying something as a “mental disease”, and even the social and moral aspects of it. We also talk about certain specific issues, like depression, mental suffering, suicide and euthanasia; human enhancement in psychiatry, the difference between enhancement and therapy, and the ethics behind it; and also when and how people should resort to psychiatry and neuroscience in the penal system, and issue regarding free will and moral responsibility. Toward the end, Dr. Roache also tells us about her upcoming book on swearing.

Time Links:

01:06 What is philosophy of psychiatry?

06:05 The problems with classifying something as a mental disease              

13:34 Moralism in psychiatry          

16:52 About evolutionary psychiatry and the evolution of mental conditions, like depression     

25:37 How pathologizing certain conditions might serve the social interest of eradicating behaviors people don’t like  

29:57 Depression, mental suffering, suicide and euthanasia  

40:23 Human psychological enhancement      

49:00 Psychiatry, neuroscience, free will, criminality and moral responsibility    

59:18 Dr. Roache’s upcoming book on swearing  

1:02:28 Follow Dr. Roache’s work!   

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Personal website: https://rebeccaroache.weebly.com/

Twitter handle: @rebecca_roache

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Claire Lehmann is an Australian writer and the editor and founder of the online magazine Quillette.

Here, we talk her academic background; what led her to launch Quillette; the philosophy being Quillette; its recent expansion; the Big Five personality traits, and which of them are important to leadership in the feminine; and fighting the current social, political, and academic trends by giving space to science and truth. 

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A Claire Lehmann é uma escritora australiana e a editora e fundadora da revista online Quillette.

Aqui, falamos sobre o seu background académico; o que a levou a criar a Quillette; a filosofia por detrás da Quillette; a sua recente expansão; as características da personalidade Big Five, e quais delas são importantes para a liderança no feminino; e combater as atuais tendências sociais, políticas e académicas ao dar espaço à ciência e à verdade.

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Website: http://quillette.com/

Twitter handle: @QuilletteM

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Quillette

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Mr. Jared Brown is the Lead Counsel at Brown Litigation, based in Toronto, Canada. He’s a member of Law Society of Upper Canada. He participated in the hearing at the Canadian Senate with Dr. Jordan B. Peterson, about Bill C-16.

Here, we talk about Bill 75/XIII, which got passed at the Portuguese Parliament on the 6th of April (2018), and allows, among others things, for 16-year-olds to change sex and name at the civil registry, without the need for any kind of medical report. We go through the main problematic points of the Bill; we compare it to the Canadian Bill C-16, which got passed in 2017; and we also talk a bit about compelled speech at the Law Society of Ontario.

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O Sr. Jared Brown é o Assessor Principal na Brown Litigation, com base em Toronto, Canadá. É também um membro da Law Society of Upper Canada. Participou com o Dr. Jordan B. Peteron na audição sobre a Lei C-16, no Senado canadiano.

Aqui, falamos sobre a Lei 75/XIII, que acabou de ser aprovada no Parlamento português, no dia 6 de abril (de 2018), e permite, entre outras coisas, que menores de 16 anos mudem de sexo e nome no registo civil, sem qualquer necessidade de apresentar qualquer tipo de relatório médico. Analisamos os principais pontos problemáticos da Lei; comparamo-la com a Lei canadiana C-16, que foi aprovada em 2017; e falamos também um pouco sobre discurso forçado na Law Society of Ontario.

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Portuguese Bill 75/XIII/ Lei portuguesa 75/XIII:

Bill 75/XIII (translated): https://pt.scribd.com/document/369016598/Bill-n-75-XIII-EN

I will put up the link to the translation of the final document, as soon as I can.

Lei 75/XIII: http://app.parlamento.pt/webutils/docs/doc.pdf?path=6148523063446f764c324679626d56304c334e706447567a4c31684a53556c4d5a5763765130394e4c7a464451554e45544563765247396a6457316c626e527663306c7561574e7059585270646d46446232317063334e686279387a5a4755304d44417a5a4330324d6a686a4c5451335a6a4d7459544d314f53307a4d475a6c4e5445794f544d304d6a51756347526d&fich=3de4003d-628c-47f3-a359-30fe51293424.pdf&Inline=true

Canadian Bill C-16/Lei canadiana C-16: 

https://lop.parl.ca/content/lop/LegislativeSummaries/42/1/c16-e.pdf

Jordan Peterson’s and Jared Brown’s Senate hearing on Bill C-16/Audição de Jordan Peterson E Jared Brown no senado sobre a lei C-16: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnIAAkSNtqo

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This is the second interview in a series I have planned, in which I will have people who were personally affected by gender ideology, in a way or another. 

My guests are Kara Dansky and Meg Kilgannon, both members of Hands Across The Aisle, an organization that tries to fight gender ideology, and brings together people which personally experienced the effects of gender ideology. 

Kara is a radical feminist and a political leftist, who views gender identity ideology as misogynistic and homophobic. 

Meg is a religious person from the political right, who worries about public schools being contaminated by gender ideology, and the targeting of children.

Again, two very brave ladies that deserve to be heard and have their struggle supported.

Some relevant links:

Hands Across The Aisle: https://handsacrosstheaislewomen.com/

Twitter handle: @BiologicalWMN

Kara’s Twitter handle: @kdansky

Meg’s Twitter handle: @meg_kilgannon

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Dr. Peggy Mason is a Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the University of Chicago. She received both her BA in Biology and her Phd in Neuroscience from Harvard. Professor Mason has been on the faculty of University of Chicago since 1992. She has taught undergraduate, graduate and medical students and has received numerous teaching awards. Using her nearly 15 years of experience teaching medical students, Professor Mason wrote a single-author textbook designed for medical students (Medical Neurobiology, Oxford University Press, 2017). Professor Mason's research focuses on the neurobiological basis of empathy and helping.

In this episode, we talk about empathy and helping behavior in humans and other animal models, namely rats. We discuss first how empathy might have evolved, and the neurobiological bases of it, including the roles played by the amygdala, the hypothalamus, the prefrontal cortex and the temporo-parietal junction. We also talk about the flaws with the research surrounding mirror neurons. Then, we talk about the situations that invoke empathy. We also refer to Paul Bloom’s book, Against Empathy, and the difference between emotional empathy and cognitive empathy, and between empathy and compassion. We also briefly refer to how empathy might work in psychopaths. Finally, we talk about oxytocin and other hormones and neurotransmitters that participate in mediating empathic behavior, and the differences between pro-social behavior in humans and other animals. 

Time Links:

00:52 How empathy evolved

04:55 How the brain processes empathy (amygdala, hypothalamus, prefrontal cortex)              

08:57 The trouble with mirror neurons          

11:44 The temporo-parietal junction     

14:59 The types of behavior that invoke empathy 

17:58 It also depends on the context and on the individual in question 

25:25 Paul Bloom, Against Empathy, and emotional and cognitive empathy      

29:55 Emotions as cognitive tools   

33:32 Psychopathic behavior 

38:24 What happens when individuals get distressed  

41:48 Oxytocin, hormones, and neurotransmitters associated with empathy

47:04 Pro-social behavior in humans and other nonprimate mammals  

50:50 People’s reports of their behavior and what they feel are very unreliable

54:18 Follow Dr. Mason’s work!   

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Olof Gränström is the Project Manager at Gapminder. He is a political scientist with a background as an educator.

Here, we talk about some of the background story of Gapminder and Hans Rosling; the sources for the data Gapminder collects; the importance of the industrial revolution for world development; we have a short discussion about what could be considered the best socioeconomic model; the decrease in the number of children per couple shortly after the first industrial revolution, in the more developed countries; the doubling in longevity; the counterintuitive fact about the relation between the level of pollutants and economic growth; rates of violent crime; terrorist attacks; the importance and degree of economic inequality; and other impressive findings.

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Olof Gränström é o Gestor de Projetos da Gapminder. É um cientista político com background como educador.

Aqui, falamos sobre a história da Gapminder e do Dr. Hans Rosling; as fontes para os dados que a Gapminder reúne; a importância da revolução industrial para o desenvolvimento mundial; temos uma discussão breve acerca de qual poderia ser considerado o melhor modelo socioeconómico; a diminuição do número de filhos por casal pouco depois da primeira revolução industrial, nos países mais desenvolvidos; o aumento da longevidade para o dobro; o facto contraintuitivo sobre a relação entre os níveis de poluentes e o crescimento económico; as taxas de crimes violentos; ataques terroristas; a importância e o grau da desigualdade económica; e outros achados impressionantes.

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Book Factfulness: https://www.amazon.com/Factfulness-Reasons-World-Things-Better/dp/1250107814

Twitter handle: @Gapminder

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Gapminder Foundation is a non-profit venture based in Stockholm, Sweden, that promotes sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.

Fernanda Drumond is the Head of Operations at Gapminder. She holds a Master of Science degree in Development Studies, with background in International Relations. Fernanda likes to lecture about Dollar Street, showing how people really live across different income levels. She also talks about the mega misconceptions that skew people’s worldview in lectures and workshops to companies, universities, schools and non-profits.

In this episode, we talk about the possible consequences of having wrong ideas about progress and the current state of the world; the pros and cons of Big Data; a pragmatic attitude vs an ideological one in solving problems; if Gapminder could back up the effective altruism movement from a moral standpoint; the role of media in giving people a much more pessimistic and negative view of reality than it really is; how most problems stem from nature, and it is society that solves them; History as not being cyclic; the problem with predictions coming from specialists and activists; time and progress from a human perspective; and a perspective on climate change.   

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A Gapminder Foundation é uma organização não-governamental com base em Estocolmo, Suécia, que promove o desenvolvimento global sustentável dos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento do Milénio das Nações Unidas, através do aumento do uso e compreensão de estatísticas e outros tipos de informação sobre o desenvolvimento social, económico e ambiental a nível local, nacional e global.

A Fernanda Drumond é a Chefe de Operações da Gapminder. Tem um Mestrado em Estudos do Desenvolvimento/Estudos Sobre Desenvolvimento, com background em Relações Internacionais. A Fernanda gosta de dar palestras sobre o Dollar Street, mostrando como as pessoas vivem verdadeiramente em diferentes níveis de rendimento. Ela também gosta de falar sobre como grandes equívocos moldam a visão do mundo que as pessoas têm, em palestras e workshops dirigidos a empresas, universidades, escolhas e organizações sem fins lucrativos.

Neste episódio, falamos sobre as possíveis consequências de ter ideias erradas acerca do progresso e do estado atual do mundo; os prós e contras da Big Data; atitude pragmática vs atitude ideológica na resolução de problemas; a possível relação da Gapminder com o movimento do altruísmo efetivo; o papel dos media em criar uma visão muito mais pessimista e negativa da realidade do que realmente é; como a maior parte dos problemas deriva da natureza, e é a sociedade que os soluciona; a História não é cíclica; o problema com as previsões de especialistas e ativistas; tempo e progresso de uma perspetiva humana; e uma perspetiva sobre alterações climáticas.

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Time Links:

00:29 Having wrong ideas about progress / Quando se tem ideias erradas sobre progresso

04:20 Pros and cons of Big Data / Prós e Contras da Big Data 

07:45 Being realistic / Ser realista 

09:13 Pragmatism vs ideology /Pragmatismo vs ideologia 

15:00 Would Gapminder be into effective altruism? / Apoiaria a Gapminder o altruísmo efetivo? 

25:24 The role of media in misinforming people / O papel dos media na desinformação&nb

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Dr. Filipe Nobre Faria currently works as a post-doctoral researcher in ethics and political philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy of the Nova University of Lisbon (IFILNOVA). Furthermore, he lectures on subjects of his expertise at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences/Nova. Previously, he earned his PhD in Political Theory (2016) from King’s College London and his master degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (2011) from the University of East Anglia. He also taught within the areas of political theory and political economy at King’s College London. His main research interest lies in applying the insights of the behavioural and evolutionary sciences to issues in social and political philosophy.

In this episode, we talk about the relationship between evolutionary theory, philosophy, ethics and politics. We refer to the role of philosophy in a scientific world; the importance of selfishness and altruism in moral philosophy; evolutionary processes like kin selection, reciprocal altruism and group selection; how our moral values are influences by our personality and other innate proclivities; what is mora important for societies; the is-ought dichotomy, and if the naturalistic fallacy really exists; and also about the work of Friedrich Hayek, Karl Polanyi, and the positive aspects and limitations of market liberal morality, both at the individual and collective levels. 

Time Links:

01:32 How to apply evolutionary theory to philosophy, ethics and politics

08:11 Philosophy in a scientific world               

15:16 Selfishness and altruism in ethics and morality          

20:14  Kin selection, reciprocal altruism, and group selection     

31:02 Does it really matter if we behave well, but for selfish reasons? 

35:06 Personality and preferences in morality 

38:51 If we have to choose, what is more important in a society? Stability, or humanism?     

45:09 The is-ought dichotomy, and the naturalistic fallacy   

49:33 Is there really a naturalistic fallacy?

53:44 Philosophy, innateness, and political correctness  

57:38 Friedrich Hayek, Karl Polanyi, and the evolutionary bases of market liberal morality

1:18:43 Biological and moral arguments for markets and liberalism (including group identity, selfishness, birth rates, and so on)

1:32:51 Follow Dr. Nobre Faria’s work!   

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Articles on Researchgate: https://tinyurl.com/y7jakylj 

Twitter handle: @filipefaria

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A SPECIAL THANKS TO MY FIRST PRODUCER, Yzar Wehbe!

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Dr. Norman Sandridge has a B.S. in Physics, with a minor in Mathematics by the University of Alabama; a M.A. in Latin by Florida State University; a M.A. in Greek by the University of North Carolina; and a Ph.D. in Classics also by the University of North Carolina. He’s an Associate Professor of Classics, Fellow in Leadership Studies and Greater Washington Outreach at Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies. He’s been involved in the development of hybrid-online education programs on Classicism. And he also wrote the 2012 book, Loving Humanity, Learning, and Being Honored: The Foundations of Leadership in Xenophon’s Education of Cyrus; and has several essays on Leadership published on his Medium account.

Here, we talk about the notion of leadership for Xenophon and the Hellenists; the three main leadership traits – philanthropia, philomatheia, philotimia; the influence of Socrates on Xenophon and Plato; the psychopathic personality and its relationship with leadership; Alcibiades; the Hero’s Journey applied to higher education; and more.

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O Dr. Norman Sandridge tem uma Licenciatura em Física, com um minor em Matemática pela Universidade do Alabama; um Mestrado em Latim pela Florida State University; Um Mestrado em Grego pela Universidade da Carolina do Norte; e um doutoramento em Clássicos, também pela Universidade da Carolina do Norte. É um professor associado de Clássicos, fellow em Estudos de Liderança e Greater Washington Outreach no Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies. Está envolvido no desenvolvimento de programas educativos online híbridos de Classicismo. Também escreveu o livro de 2012, Loving Humanity, Learning, and Being Honored: The Foundations of Leadership in Xenophon’s Education of Cyrus; e tem vários ensaios publicados na sua conta Medium.

Aqui, falamos sobre a noção de liderança para Xenofonte e os helénicos; as três principais características de liderança – philanthropia, philomatheia, philotimia; a influência de Sócrates em Xenofonte e Platão; a personalidade psicopata e a sua relação com liderança; Alcibíades; a Jornada do Herói aplicada ao ensino superior; e mais.

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Check out Dr. Sandridge’s work:

Faculty Page: http://classics.coas.howard.edu/fac_sandridge.htm

Book Loving Humanity, Learning, and Being Honored: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674067028

Medium essays: https://medium.com/@normansandridge

Twitter handle: @NormanSandridge

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Dr. David Zaruk is the Risk-Monger. He has been an EU risk and science communications specialist since 2000, active in EU policy events from REACH and SCALE to the Pesticides Directive, from Science in Society questions to the use of the Precautionary Principle. He was part of the team that set up GreenFacts to encourage a wider use of evidence-based decision-making in the EU on environmental health matters. Dr. Zaruk is a professor at Odisee University College where he lectures on Communications, Marketing, EU Lobbying and PR.

In this episode, we start off by talking about the tactics that bad environmental activists use, how they oversimplify complex problems, and their anti-capitalism ideology. After referring to the importance of experts consulting environmental and health policy, we talk about the antiscientific approach that has been dominating the European Union, when it comes to agriculture, energy and the environment. We then move on to the SlimeGate series that Dr. Zaruk has been releasing, and an exposé of how tort law firms, scientists, NGOs, activists and politicians get together to promote pseudoscience and get easy money. Toward the end, we speak about the important difference between hazard and risk, and how fearmongers exploit people’s ignorance about that topic, and also about how the incidence of cancer has been declining over time.

Time Links:

01:04 Good and bad environmental activism

03:00 Oversimplifying complex problems              

05:04 Anti-corporativism and anti-capitalism approaches          

08:29 We need more experts in politics     

15:00 The EU, glyphosate, GMOs, and organic farming 

28:33 EU’s policies on climate change, nuclear energy, and renewables  

36:43 The SlimeGate series: tort law firms, paid scientists, NGOs, activists and politicians      

50:40 Hazard vs Risk, and how fearmongers exploit this difference   

1:01:34 The incidence of cancer is going down  

1:05:28  Follow Dr. Zaruk’s work!   

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Risk-Monger blog: https://risk-monger.com/

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Twitter handle: @zaruk

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