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Monday, May 18, 2020

Mindscape Podcast Interview on Automation and Utopia

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Sean Carroll is one of my favourite authors and podcasters. He is a great cosmologist and defender of philosophical naturalism. His po...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Will COVID-19 Spark a Moral Revolution? Eight Possibilities

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The dust has not settled yet, and it may not settle for some time, but already people are wondering what kind of society we will have ...
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Saturday, April 18, 2020

76 - Surveillance, Privacy and COVID-19

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How do we get back to normal after the COVID-19 pandemic? One suggestion is that we use increased amounts of surveillance and tracking to ...
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Friday, April 17, 2020

The Future of Humanity: Automation and Utopia

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Above is a video of a Zoom talk that I gave to the Oxford PPE society. The talk was about my book Automation and Utopia and I gave an...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2020

75 - The Vital Ethical Contexts of Coronavirus

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There is a lot of data and reporting out there about the COVID 19 pandemic. How should we make sense of that data? Do the media narrative...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2020

The Epistemic Puzzle of Rashomon

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Rashomon Gate - from the movie [What follows are some thoughts on the movie Rashomon. These were prepared for a class I teach on crit...
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Sunday, April 12, 2020

Pandemics and Collective Grief

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"Yet what do we see when we unravel the scroll of the twentieth century? Two world wars, the rise and fall of communism, perhaps ...
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