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Mar 29
Nikita Kaur Simpson, "Tension: Mental Distress and Embodied Inequality in the Western Himalayas" (Duke UP, 2026)
In Tension: Mental Distress and Embodied Inequality in the Western Himalayas (Duke UP, 2026), Dr. Nikita Kaur Simpson examines the effects of rapid development in the Himalayas on the minds and bodies of the Gaddi people who inhabit them through attention to the multifaceted stat ... Show More
49m 41s
Mar 26
167* Addiction with Gina Turrigiano (EF, JP)
In Recall This Book's second episode (January 2019) John and Elizabeth spoke with their brilliant Brandeis colleague, the MacArthur-winning neuroscientist Gina Turrigiano, about a number of different facets of addiction. The conversation seems as timely as ever. What makes an add ... Show More
46m 53s
Mar 23
Steven Pinker, "When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life" (Scribner, 2025)
Common knowledge is necessary for coordination, for making arbitrary but complementary choices like driving on the right, using paper currency, and coalescing behind a political leader or movement. It’s also necessary for social coordination: everything from rendezvousing at a ti ... Show More
34m 30s
Nov 2018
Disembodied survival النجاة الروحية اللاجسدية
6m 18s
Mar 2023
Ioannis Gaitanidis, "Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan: Beyond Religion?" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Ioannis Gaitanidis' book Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan: Beyond Religion? (Bloomsbury, 2022) critically examines the spirituality phenomenon in contemporary Japan by looking at the main actors involved in the discourse: spiritual therapists as practitioners, ... Show More
49m 33s
Jun 2024
Our God-Shaped Brains
<p>Some think of religious faith as just that: a leap of faith. But psychologists are increasingly filling in the gaps in our understanding of how beliefs shape — and are shaped by — the human mind. This week, psychologist <a href="https://psych.ubc.ca/profile/ara-norenzayan/">Ar ... Show More
50m 18s
Aug 2023
#96 — The Nature of Consciousness
Sam Harris speaks with Thomas Metzinger about the scientific and experiential understanding of consciousness. They also talk about the role of intuition in science, the ethics of building conscious AI, the self as an hallucination, how we identify with our thoughts, attention as ... Show More
40m 37s
Dec 2018
A psychological understanding of religious experience التفسير النفسي للتجارب الدينية
6m 9s
Mar 2019
The Origin of Religious Phenomena أصل الظاهرة الدينية
10m 29s
Jan 2019
The Argument from Religious Experience الحُجة من التجربة الدينية
3m 3s
Feb 2019
The will to believe ارادة الايمان
8m 45s
Hans Van Eyghen's book The Epistemology of Spirit Beliefs (Routledge, 2023) assesses whether belief in spirits is epistemically justified. It presents two arguments in support of the existence of spirits and arguments that experiences of various sorts (perceptions, mediumship, possession, and animistic experiences) can lend justification to spirit-beliefs.
M ... Show More
Disembodied survival النجاة الروحية اللاجسدية من حلقة الحياة بعد الموت EP46: Life After Death "كثير من الفلاسفة فى مختلف الثقافات وعبر العصور نظروا لفكرة النجاة الروحية اللاجسدية. من المهم اننا نشير الا ان اى حجج ضد النظرية المثنوية بالضرورة هتعد حجج ضد فكرة النجاة اللاجسدية. وبا ... Show More
من حلقة التجارب الدينية و المعجزات EP45: Religious Experiences and Miracles هناك العديد من التفسيرات السيكولوجية للتجارب الدينية، احد اشهرها واهمها على الاطلاق قدمها الطبيب وعالم النفس النمساوى مؤسس علم التحليل النفسي psychoanalysis سجموند فرويد Sigmund Freud اللى طرحها للمرة الا ... Show More
من حلقة الدين فى عصر العلم EP44: Religion in an Age of Science فى العقود الاخيرة تحدى اخر للفكرة الدينية ظهر من العلم فى مجال علم النفس التطورى Evolutionary psychology اللى مجال دراستة بيركز على محاولة فهم الطريقة اللى اثرت بيها قوى التطور فى الماضى على تشكيل ادراك، وعى، وتصرفات ... Show More
من حلقة التجارب الدينية و المعجزات EP45: Religious Experiences and Miracles الحُجة من التجربة الدينية، هى حجة الانتقال من تجربة الاحساس بوجود الله لأثبات وجود الله، فى اقوى صورها. وبتستند على فكرة انه من الممكن فقط الاحساس بشئ ما من خلال اى تجربة فقط ان كان الشئ له وجود، وبالتالى ... Show More
من حلقة الدين فى عصر العلم EP44: Religion in an Age of Science رؤية اخرى للعلاقة ما بين الايمان والعقلانية مشابهة لأيمانية كيركجارد، قدمها فيلسوف وعالم النفس الامريكى ويليام جيمس William James فى مقال شهير بعنوان "إرادة الايمان The will to believe" وجادل فيه ان على النقيض من اللى ... Show More
