SIO250: James Lindsay's "New Discourses" Funded By Far Right Christian Nationalist
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
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🗓️ 13 August 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Today I'm joined by philosopher Aaron Rabinowitz of Embrace the Void and Philosophers in Space to discuss the some revelations about James Lindsay's organization "New Discourses." If you're a long time listener, you'll remember James Lindsay from this show back when he didn't totally suck. Well he now very much sucks, and to no one's surprise, he's being propped up by right wing Christian Nationalist Michael O'Fallon. PZ Myers has a good writeup of it on his blog. Aaron and I talk about that, our history with James, and what to make of all this.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to serious inquers only this is episode 250. Wow quite a milestone and since that's happening I'm |
| 0:37.3 | Happy to be joined by Aaron rabbinowitz. How you doing Aaron? |
| 0:40.5 | Great Thomas. It's been a long time time I feel like I haven't seen you in |
| 0:43.5 | forever yeah it's nice to hang out again yeah talking about this time are we |
| 0:47.8 | talking about moral realism again I feel like it's well on this show it's kind of weird. It's sort of like a married couple that has a kink of like |
| 0:56.3 | we'll pretend we're strangers at a bar, you know, or something. It's like that, it's like that. It feels like that because we don't. |
| 1:04.3 | All of our shipping fans just got really excited. |
| 1:07.5 | That's true. Of course, Aaron is over on Embrace the Void and our podcast philosophers in space which you know people if they hear the |
| 1:16.8 | latest episode maybe they'll be surprised that we're so still deeply entangled |
| 1:20.5 | because it got heated we were arguing but it's okay. It was pretty wild. It's also part of our kink, so it's fine. |
| 1:28.1 | Pretending we don't know each other in bars, then hitting on each other with like rigorous philosophical debates that's us that's right |
| 1:34.8 | talk meta ethics to me and then like someone tries to hit on you and we get to start a fight |
| 1:39.9 | it's a whole thing it's you know what let's not explain it here. It's too much. But yeah, this is the where do we even begin |
| 1:46.9 | Aaron. I don't know where to begin. We wanted to talk about James Lindsey and this whole |
| 1:56.1 | you know new discourses, what do you even call it? |
| 2:00.8 | And there's so much history there because people, if they've been listening to this for a long time, will remember that I had James on as a not shit person like |
| 2:06.5 | having him on as just like as a person like hi how who are you let's get you know |
| 2:11.4 | back years ago. Probably I don't know five six years ago it could |
| 2:16.9 | at the could be sooner but anyway or more recent and you know we had the book everybody's |
| 2:22.0 | wrong about God he's of course a mathematician. He's not, which we'll talk, we'll get to this too. There seems to be a common trend in this sort of writing and I don't know what you would call it |
| 2:36.2 | punditry of kind of posing as a philosopher a lot of times Peter |
| 2:40.9 | Burgosian does that James Lindsay that. James Lindsay would be so angry if he heard you say that. |
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