Interview with Liam Bright on Scientific Orthodoxy, Reform Efforts & DTG's Philosophy

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Science, Leisure, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 3 March 2022

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

Today we have a little mid-week treat, ahead of our next decoding episode, a discussion with the philosopher and Leverhulme Prize Winning Twitter sensation, Liam Kofi Bright.

Liam is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method at a little known degree-mill called the London School of Economics. On this episode we have a wide ranging discussion revolving around the state of the Orthodoxy in modern scientific research, the viability of proposed reforms, and finally Liam decodes whether we are mindless defenders of the status quo or the true heirs of the Logical Positivists tradition.

Along the way we also learn the three rules to master Twitter, what Open Science is all about, whether philosophers of science are good or bad, and what exactly 26+6 equals.

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0:00.0	You're going to. Oh, Hello and welcome to Decoding the Guru's the podcast for an anthropologist and the psychologist
0:31.6	and the psychologist take a look at the greatest minds that the online
0:37.1	world has to offer and try to work out what the hell they're talking about.
0:42.6	The person doing the intro today is me,
0:46.3	Christopher Kavna, cognitive anthropologist,
0:48.8	and the elder statesman on the other side of the room is a psychologist Matthew Brown.
0:55.6	G'd a Matthew how is that?
0:57.8	G'd a day Chris well done see it's not that hard you can do it that used almost all of my mental power. I'm almost out now. After that each
1:08.2	sentence was a dysphoric ritual in my mind. You do it weekend, I'm going to go it and I I just do it once and get get
1:16.3	flustered about it so you know. I've honed it. It's a fine art. It's my one skill.
1:21.6	My big contribution to this podcast.
1:23.4	Oh yeah, ma, I do have something to tell you before we shoot off very efficiently into our
1:29.2	content for this week. I appeared on this YouTube channel called The Stoa, quite an unusual channel. The presentations
1:38.0	that occurred just before me, for example, included a planetary darma with John Churchill.
1:46.4	So that's maybe a bit like Bob.
1:48.4	But we had also ecologies of the self-transformational practices, reality distortion fields and unconscious mind dynamics and so on.
2:00.0	Astrological sense making, blueprint of the soul. These are just a couple of the
2:06.4	titles so it's quite an eclectic channel. It's like your kind of people.
2:10.8	Yes indeed well it was nice of them I think to invite me on given the other
2:16.4	content that is on the channel. Our friend Jordan Hall for example has been on before but I talked about the gourometer and went through the 10 dimensions
2:28.7	of the gourometer and then we had a Q&A session and it was very enjoyable but I wanted to highlight it because you know people can check it out if they want them on YouTube but also because it means I think that's the first public presentation about the grammeter right which means I defined all of them
2:47.9	You know all those ones I get wrong right? They're now canon, the historical first presentation.
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