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A Cultural Biology of Sex, Love, and Monogamy ~ Helen Fisher
Season 1 Episode 11
Why do we love? And how much does our culture shape the way we do so?
In this episode, Ilari talks with Helen Fisher about the powers that drive and s…
3 years, 5 months ago
What Can Science Tell Us About Happiness? ~ Anna Alexandrova
Season 1 Episode 10
In this episode, a philosopher of science from Cambridge offers us a cautiously optimistic guide to the science of happiness. Dr Anna Alexandrova, th…
3 years, 6 months ago
Do Dogs Feel Love & Other Questions in Animal Neuroscience ~ Gregory Berns
Season 1 Episode 9
What is it like to be a non-human animal? Can neuroscience tell us the answer?
In one of the most famous philosophy essays of the 20th century, Thomas…
3 years, 6 months ago
Is War Natural For Humans? ~ Douglas P. Fry
Season 1 Episode 8
Thomas Hobbes famously wrote that life in the state of nature was “nasty, brutish, and short”. Recently, various scholars have claimed that Hobbes wa…
3 years, 7 months ago
Psychology of Love & Hate ~ Robert Sternberg
Season 1 Episode 7
We often treat love as a single emotion. But simple questions like “how much do you love me?” can be misleading. Love is not a single dimension. It i…
3 years, 7 months ago
Are Grandmothers the Key to Our Evolutionary Success? ~ Kristen Hawkes
Season 1 Episode 6
Humans live long, much longer than any of our closest relatives. For human females, this means living a large part of adulthood without being able to…
3 years, 7 months ago
Psychology of Conspiracy Theories & The Limits of Science ~ Michael Shermer
Season 1 Episode 5
Why do conspiracy theories seduce the minds of so many?
Michael Shermer is a historian of science, best-selling author, founder of the Skeptic Societ…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Harmful Delusion of a Singular Self ~ Gregory Berns
Season 1 Episode 4
We like to box things into neat categories. We like to box ourselves into a ‘Self’, a ‘Me’, an independent ‘Soul’, caged away from the rest of the wo…
3 years, 8 months ago
A Musical Biology of Love ~ Ruth Feldman
Season 1 Episode 3
Can biology expand our appreciation of love? What is the relationship between jazz and neuroscience? What does it mean to be in "synch" with someone?…
3 years, 8 months ago
Humanistic Ethics in a Darwinian World ~ Philip Kitcher
Season 1 Episode 2
Is there a tension between biology and philosophy? Why should Homo sapiens care about ethics? What, if anything, does evolution tell us about human n…
3 years, 8 months ago