AS36: Scientism, with Massimo Pigliucci, Part 2
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Thomas Smith
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🗓️ 29 May 2014
⏱️ 68 minutes
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In this episode we finish off the interview with the great Massimo Pigliucci. There's much more back and forth in this part, which was a lot of fun for me. We discuss Sam Harris and how exactly we make moral decisions. After that, I have a lot to say on the entire interview. I think … Continue reading AS36: Scientism, with Massimo Pigliucci, Part 2
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Welcome to episode 36 of atheistically speaking. I'm your host Thomas Smith. |
| 0:35.6 | In this episode we have the rest of the Massimo Pilaeuchi interview. |
| 0:40.2 | Episode one was great but but episode two, there's even better, I think there's more back and forth. |
| 0:48.0 | And I was really grateful to at least get a start on a lot of the questions that I had and I think there's more to say on that. |
| 0:55.9 | So stick around afterwards. |
| 0:57.4 | I've got a ton of things to say about this entire experience. |
| 1:01.6 | But in the meantime, let's go ahead and get right back to the interview here it is. Let me go ahead and try to attempt to defend Sam Harris if you don't mind and feel |
| 1:30.0 | feel free to pick this apart if you want. I want to first say, and I think you made this observation as well, but I'm pretty sure that though that quote is pretty damning, I want to say first off, I'm guessing you know this, but Harris does have a degree in philosophy. So he's not completely ignorant of philosophy. I believe that when he talks about the boredom of that he feels for that I don't |
| 1:54.8 | think it's because he picked it up and dropped it I think it's because he studied it and |
| 1:58.3 | then now for whatever reason he doesn't have an interest in in it anymore I do I |
| 2:02.4 | believe that he has an undergraduate minor. |
| 2:04.9 | He has a bachelor's in philosophy. |
| 2:06.7 | That was what he did for his undergrad, yeah. |
| 2:10.5 | So I'm not saying he's an expert to the extent that you are or anything, but I do think that he's done a little more than just pick it up and drop it. |
| 2:20.0 | But the only reason I say that is that I don't believe that his main battle is with philosophy. |
| 2:25.6 | I think that it's he I saw a few talks when he did this book. |
| 2:31.4 | I actually went and saw him because I really enjoy his thinking. |
| 2:36.0 | And I think his main concern was with losing sight of an objective morality in our society. |
| 2:44.5 | I think that he may have inadvertently picked |
| 2:48.7 | too big of a battle with philosophy and doing that, |
| 2:51.0 | but I think that is, what he wanted to do was say that and |
| 2:56.2 | and you read that I was actually going to read this his definition of science and |
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