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Rebuilding Democracy (Pt. 2) - Disagreement and Civility
On Opinion - September 23, 2020 13:08 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings“Democracy runs on disagreement: it is by means of citizens hashing out their differences that democracy can achieve better political outcomes.” In Part 2 of their podcast, Turi and Bob Talisse follow on from their discussion of Equal Citizenship (and why polarization strains that ideal), to d...
Rebuilding Democracy (Pt. 1): Equal Citizenship, with Robert Talisse
On Opinion - September 16, 2020 10:04 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings"Democracy is the thesis that a decent and stable political order is possible amongst equal citizens who disagree, but only if that disagreement is made to work in the service of democracy through civility." In this two-part podcast, Turi and Bob Talisse explain these core ideas of Equal Citiz...
Why we lie to ourselves, with Adrian Bardon
On Opinion - September 09, 2020 09:17 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing” Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670 The Mind is embodied - it is a bodily function. What causes it to function in the way that it does. What motivates it? And here’s the rub. Because the mind has two, often contradictory, reasons for working. ...
John Stuart Mill and Free Speech today, with Nigel Warburton
On Opinion - September 02, 2020 08:56 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings“John Stuart Mill would be the kind of person who would argue for following people with whom you strongly disagree because they’re the ones that are gonna make you think.” Turi talks with the philosopher Nigel Warburton about free speech and its foundational text - John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty...
Why do we believe Conspiracy Theories, with Karen Douglas
On Opinion - August 26, 2020 12:52 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings“People are drawn to conspiracy theories to satisfy particular unmet psychological needs - epistemic, existential and social.” Turi talks with Professor Karen Douglas of the University of Kent, to understand where conspiracy theories come from. Karen has surveyed all the literature on conspira...
Can we trust what we believe, with Miriam Schoenfield
On Opinion - August 19, 2020 14:49 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings"A lot of beliefs that are fundamental to who we are and to how we think about the world are influenced by things that appear to be arbitrary and irrelevant to the truth of the matter.” Turi talks with Professor Miriam Schoenfield, of the University of Texas at Austin, to understand whether we ...
Emotional Politics: how ‘angry populism’ made President Trump, with Karin Wahl-Jorgensen
On Opinion - August 12, 2020 16:43 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsTuri speaks with Professor Karin Wahl-Jorgensen about how emotion drives the political agenda. What are emotional epochs? Are we all responsible for the growth of "angry populism"? Is it justified? How is social media putting emotion at the heart of the global news agenda? How is collective trau...
How intelligence works, with David Robson
On Opinion - August 05, 2020 08:27 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings"The more intelligent someone is, the more polarized their opinions on climate change become. More intelligent Republicans are actually more likely to be climate change deniers, while more intelligent Democrats are more likely to endorse the scientific consensus. So, at the extremes of intellige...
How polarisation ends, with Eve Pearlman
On Opinion - July 29, 2020 09:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings“The struggle [is]...because of some of the ethics and practices of traditional journalism, there's an inclination or habit to quote both sides. Even though there really aren't both sides." Turi talks to Spaceship Media founder Eve Pearlman about growing media polarisation, fake news and how we...
How technology rewires our thoughts, with Shumon Basar
On Opinion - July 22, 2020 08:36 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings“You may think that the feeling you're feeling is happening because of you. But in reality that's actually a performance that's being scripted by some very clever search engine in Silicone Valley." Turi talks to futurist Shumon Basar about how technology is transforming the way we think and fee...
How humans become moral animals, with Dr Oliver Scott Curry
On Opinion - July 15, 2020 10:24 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings“When it comes to morality, we have our moral taste buds, most people are motivated to do good...But there’s still quite a lot of wiggle room...a lot of uncertainty...that creates an opportunity for decision making” Turi talks with Research Director for Kindlab, at www.kindness.org, Dr Oliver S...
How lies became the world’s most powerful political tool, with Peter Pomerantsev
On Opinion - July 08, 2020 15:27 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings"You can write a blog, every time you do, you are distributing information - propagandizing. And, in that sense the day's propaganda is very similar to this virus, because what's been fascinating...is that you are very aware that you're not just a victim of it, but that you may [also] have sprea...
How extremists think with Gabrielle Rifkind
On Opinion - July 01, 2020 14:24 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings“People are not born extremists. What are the social circumstances that have created the ground for radicalisation?” Turi talks with psychotherapist and conflict resolution expert Gabrielle Rfikind about what extremists think. What makes societies susceptible to radicalisation? Are people born ...
How our tribes fail us with James Mumford
On Opinion - July 01, 2020 14:22 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings"We are responding in ways, which are...imaginative and potentially dangerous...terrifying...mass information surplus really destabilizes people's understanding of where they sit in the world. When you've got thousands of different competing narratives attacking you at all times it's extremely d...
Introducing The Parlia Podcast
On Opinion - June 26, 2020 07:57 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsWhy do we think what we think? Find out more about The Parlia Podcast with host Turi Munthe. The Parlia Podcast will ask: what is an opinion? Do we ‘think’ our worldviews, or ‘feel’ them? Are they inherited? What do our beliefs mean for politics and society? Our ideas make us who we are, and ye...
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