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Morality is a weapon | Dr. Robert Kurzban
Aporia Podcast
English - March 10, 2024 17:54 - 10 minutes - 9.49 MB - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsEducation Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Nietzsche and the Shadow of God | Dr. Michael Rosen
Rob Kurzban is an evolutionary psychologist and former University of Pennsylvania Professor who now hosts the substack Living Fossils. His book, Why Everyone Else is a Hypocrite is a great exploration of human evolved moral psychology
We talked about a number of Living Fossils Blogs like "What to do with Emotions", "The Trials of Academic Publishing", "The Existential Relief of Having Children" and "The Thief of Joy".
Rob has also written some articles for Aporia. We frequently mentioned the recently passed evolutionary scientist John Tooby, who Rob wrote an obituary for here.
We talked about many different aspects of Rob's academic work:
• The side taking view of morality