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Aporia Podcast is a social science publication and podcast. Listen to fascinating guests from the world of genetics, psychology, sociology, economics & more. You can find our articles and bonus content here: https://www.aporiamagazine.com

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01:06:50

Academic selection and grammar schools | Peter...

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2021/09/12

Peter Hitchens is an English journalist and author. He writes for The Mail on Sunday and is a former foreign correspondent in Moscow and Washington. Peter has contributed to The Spectator, The American Conservative, The Guardian, First Things, Prospect, and the New Statesman. Peter has published numerous books, including The Abolition of Britain, The Rage Against God, The War We Never Fought and The Phoney Victory. In this interview we talk about education, grammar schools, and the family. ---------

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02:42:06

The possibilities and limitations of anarchism | Matt...

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2021/08/31

Matt Wilson is the author of Rules Without Rulers: The Possibilities and Limits of Anarchism. He is currently doing his second PhD at the University of Nottingham. The book is about the possibility of organising society without the state, but, crucially, it makes the claim, contrary to much anarchist theory, that such a life would not entail absolute freedom; rather, as the title suggests, it would mean creating new forms of social organisation which, whilst offering more freedom than

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01:05:58

The British working classes read the canon | Jonathan...

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2021/08/22

Prof Jonathan Rose is the William R. Kenan Professor of History. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Cambridge and Princeton University and he reviews books for the The Times Literary Supplement and the Daily Telegraph. His fields of study are British history, intellectual history and the history of the book. We mainly talk about his magnum opus, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, which won the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, the Longman-History Today

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01:16:31

How to deconstruct an argument | Anthony Magnabosco -...

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2021/08/08

Anthony Magnabosco is a skeptic, well-known for his YouTube channel where he practices Street Epistemology (SE). Like a modern day Socrates he stops random people to have conversations about factual claims they make, in order to see if they have a good reason to believe them. His calm demeanour and ability to set people at ease makes for a wonderful antidote to a world of "Ben Shapiro DESTROYS SJW Feminist". As Anthony says in the interview, he distinguishes between beliefs and people -- an approach

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01:02:51

Smart people are too powerful | David Goodhart -...

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2021/08/02

David Goodhart is a British journalist, commentator and author. He is the founder and a former editor of Prospect magazine. He's probably most famous for his 2017 book The Road to Somewhere in which he argued that a fault line existed in Britain between "Somewheres", those people firmly connected to a specific community which consists of about half the population, and "Anywheres", those usually living in cities, who are socially liberal and well educated, the latter being only a minority of about

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02:27:36

Fighting ISIS | Macer Gifford - Ideas Sleep Furiously...

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2021/07/18

Macer Gifford is the pseudonym of a British former currency trader who travelled to Syria to fight with the Kurdish YPG militia against the Islamic State group. Macer went to fight ISIS not just once but twice. First in 2015 and again in 2016. In 2020, he released a book called Fighting Evil about his experience in Syria. I got good Tweets: https://twitter.com/Ideas_Sleep Support the show with a dollar/pound per video and get your name in the credits and my heart:

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01:20:52

Skepticism & Consciousness | Eric Schwitzgebel -...

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2021/07/11

Eric Schwitzgebel is an American philosopher and professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. His main interests include connections between empirical psychology and philosophy of mind and the nature of belief. Support the show with a dollar/pound per video and get your name in the credits and my heart: https://www.patreon.com/Ideas_Sleep

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00:30:56

Ideology & The Brain | Leor Zmigrod

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2021/06/27

Dr Leor Zmigrod is a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Her research combines methods from experimental psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience to investigate the psychology of ideological adherence and group identity formation. In particular, she is interested in investigating cognitive characteristics that might act as vulnerability factors for radicalization and ideologically-motivated behaviour. She completed her PhD at the Department of Psychology, University of

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01:50:53

Christian Anarchism | Alex Christoyannopoulos - Ideas...

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2021/06/13

Alexandre Christoyannopoulos is a senior lecturer in politics and international relations at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of Loughborough University. He is the author of Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel, and Tolstoy's Political Thought: Christian Anarcho-Pacifist Iconoclasm Then and Now. Read more about Alex here: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/crcc/about/people/alexandre-christoyannopoulos/ I got good Tweets: https://twitter.com/Ideas_Sleep Support the

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01:26:24

What is morality? | Kurt Gray - Ideas Sleep Furiously...

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2021/05/28

Kurt Gray is an Associate Professor in Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he directs the Deepest Beliefs Lab and the Center for the Science of Moral Understanding. Kurt is a strong critic of Haidt's Moral Foundations Theory (MFT). In this podcast we detail what MFT gets right and wrong, and why Dyadic Morality is a better cognitive theory of the moral mind. I got good Tweets: https://twitter.com/Ideas_Sleep Support the show:

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00:58:25

How can we beat fake news? | Jon Roozenbeek

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2021/05/25

Jon Roozenbeek is the Google Jigsaw Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab in the Department of Psychology. His research focuses on inoculation theory. Aside from this, he works on media theory, content analytics, social media, the dynamics of online debate, and development of the mass media landscape in Eastern Ukraine. He co-developed the award-winning Fake News Game, Bad News, and coordinates the testing of this game. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge

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