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This episode was recorded on November 25, 2021.

Sam Harris is a neuroscientist, philosopher, New York Times best-selling author, host of the Making Sense podcast, and creator of the "Waking up" app.

Dr. Harris and I discuss the is/ought problem, dreams, attention, evidence, consciousness, logic, psychedelics, religion, Waking Up, and much more.

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Timestamps

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[00:00] Intro

[02:48] Background

[06:04] The debates

[12:25] Waking Up 

[16:18] The is/ought problem (1)

[23:42] (Breaking out of) everyday patterns

[24:22] Experience & Expectations

[32:26] Evidence & Logic

[33:10] The is/ought problem (2)

[34:56] The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception

[40:52] Attention

[42:38] Carl Rogers

[49:21] (Dis)satisfaction

[51:01] Discomfort

[51:17] Entering meditative states

[54:06] Being like a mirror

[55:58] Thoughts & The Self

[56:56] Suffering

[01:01:03] Dreaming

[01:09:15] The Self & Psychedelics

[01:14:29] Prayer

[01:18:24] Organized religion

[01:25:33] The postmodern predicament

[01:41:54] Sacred texts

#Philosophy #Ethics #Meditation #Mindfulness #SamHarris 

All of us have been wrong about things from time to time. But sometimes it was a simple, forgivable mistake, while other times we really should have been correct. Properties that systematically prevent us from being correct, and for which we can legitimately be blamed, are “intellectual vices.” Examples might include closed-mindedness, wishful thinking, overconfidence, selective attention, and so on. Quassim Cassam is a philosopher who studies knowledge in various forms, and who has recently written a book Vices of the Mind: From the Intellectual to the Political. We talk about the nature of intellectual vices, how they manifest in people and in organizations, and what we can possibly do to correct them in ourselves.

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Quassim Cassam received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Oxford University. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He previously held faculty positions at Cambridge University and University College London. He has served as the president of the Aristotelian Society, and was awarded a Leadership Fellowship by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK.

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