Rationally Speaking #15 - Q&A With Massimo and Julia

Rationally Speaking Podcast

New York City Skeptics

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

4.6 • 787 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2010

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In the first of what we hope will be a regular feature of Rationally speaking, Massimo and Julia answer listeners' questions. These range from what are M & J's sacred cows, to how we should approach morally repugnant claims made by venerated philosophers, to whether we are deluding ourselves believing that our votes count.

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0:00.0	Rationally speaking is a presentation of New York City skeptics dedicated to promoting critical thinking, skeptical inquiry, and science education.
0:22.6	For more information, please visit us at NYCCEptics.org.
0:31.1	Welcome to Rationally Speaking, the podcast where we explore the borderlands between reason and
0:39.8	nonsense. I am your host, Massimo Pilucci, and with me as always is my co-host, Julia Galev.
0:45.2	Julia, what are we going to talk about today?
0:47.6	Massimo, this is a very special episode. This is going to be twice our normal length.
0:52.9	Oh, no. Yeah, I know. Sorry to break it to you. We are going to be twice our normal length. Oh, no.
0:54.9	Yeah, I know.
0:55.8	Sorry to break it to you.
1:02.0	We are going to also forego our usual rationally speaking picks because we have so much to cover.
1:02.7	So what's happening?
1:05.6	So this is our first open mic episode.
1:07.8	So it's kind of an experiment we wanted to do.
1:12.8	We asked our readers on the rationally speaking blog and listeners of the podcast to submit questions that they were wondering about, that they wanted to know our
1:18.2	opinion of, and we got a pretty good crop of questions. I got to say, you guys do not pull any
1:24.8	punches. I think one of our easiest questions was about, you know,
1:28.8	the meaning of life, the universe, and everything. Well, that's the answer is easier. We know. It's 42, right?
1:33.6	Right. So it's one of the easiest. No, this is a serious list of questions. And we'd really better
1:39.0	get started because we have a whole lot of ground in philosophy, science, and logic to cover in the next hour. I'm sure
1:45.8	it'll go by fast. So yeah, let's jump right in and start with a question that was asked by,
1:53.3	in different ways by two of our questioners, heuristicist, and also, let me pronounce this correctly,
1:59.7	incredulidad rational. They asked about...
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