Deconstructing Liberal Intellectuals: Peterson, Harris, and Pinker

Revolutionary Left Radio

Breht O'Shea

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🗓️ 23 April 2018

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Aimee Terese (@AimeeTerese on twitter) joins Brett, all the way from Australia, to critically analyze the work of Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, and Steven Pinker and shine a light on the broader socio-political interests they serve.

Resources for further study:

Psychoanalyzing the Politics of the New Brain Sciences Author: Samuels, Robert (2017)

After the Neutrality Ideal: Science, Politics, and "Strong Objectivity"

Author: Sandra Harding (1992)

THE MYTH OF SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVITY

Author: William A. Wilson (2017)

Available at: https://www.firstthings.com/article/2017/11/the-myth-of-scientific-objectivity

Have wars and violence declined?

Author: Michael Mann (2018)

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1:12.6	Fred O'Shea and today we have on Amy Torees to talk about basically liberal intellectuals
1:18.7	focusing on Sam Harris, Stephen Pinker and Jordan Peterson. Amy would you like to introduce
1:24.5	yourself and say a little bit about your background?
1:26.5	Hey there. I'm Amy. I'm a former philosophy major and current law student in Sydney, Australia.
1:36.1	And I've developed a particular affinity for criticizing this centrist liberal intellectuals
1:42.9	online and Brett kind of picked up on that and here I am today to talk about it.
1:47.7	Yeah that's one of the amazing things of how this episode and some episodes in the past have
1:51.9	actually come about was I'm just online interacting with you know different people and I saw you
1:57.7	making really interesting points and doing threads on like Stephen Pinker I believe and I was
2:02.3	like wow I really enjoy your analysis so let's have you on the show and that's kind of cool
2:06.3	because I like to give platforms to people that aren't necessarily already platformed you know
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