Sound volume is too low

These are great conversations, but sometimes the moderator will ask the speaker to get back on track in a way that deprives audiences of the full thought. This is particularly frustrating when sophisticated speakers make comments that ultimately loop back around to the main point. Let people finish! Many of the best points would have been missed had the speakers heeded the moderator’s demands.

Hard to hear in outside.

Glad for Rupert Sheldrake adding a voice to these science programs.

Takes too long to get going, repetitive commercials, annoying jokes…to have to do the work to get the decent content

Rupert sheldrake??? Seriously? Is this a philosophy or a pseudoscience podcast?

A lot of the episodes are related to the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and the philosophy of science. I love this stuff.

I love the show but the audio quality is often bad.

I’ve now listened to my first episode. The guest, Santiago Zabala, seems generally to be quite intelligent and thoughtful. However he belies his bias or, at best, his ignorance of the IDW when he makes the preposterous claim that they are in effect willfully blind to a variety of existential emergencies and instead favor order for its own sake. Specifically, he mentions Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris. I don’t listen much to Peterson, so I can’t speak to his views. But having listened to and read Sam Harris, Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying, and Eric Weinstein for several years now, there is a preponderance of evidence FAR beyond a shadow of a doubt that those 4 individuals are quite terrified indeed about climate change. They speak about it frequently and characterize it as the greatest emergency of our time. So when Zabala takes such a cheap shot and grossly mischaracterizes a diverse group of thinkers, he not only insults the intelligence of his listeners, but his own intelligence, as well.

*Humans wouldn’t do well ‘in the wild’ either *Would it be ok for aliens to let humans live 1/8th of their lifespan in ‘good conditions’ and then eat them? Does quality of such a short life mitigate early cessation of that life? *Just because humans have costume parties, does it make it ok to wear another species? Would an alien wearing your harvested face to the Universal Ball be ok? - the arguments for animals as meat or clothing were weak

Whether you’re well established as someone who can translate creative energy into the impact you want to have on the world, or just getting started making sense of our ever changing culture - this is a must-listen podcast for you! The entire IAI team does an incredible job leading conversations that cover a huge breadth of topics related to the ins and outs of living a life you can be proud of - from leaders who’ve actually walked the path. Highly recommend listening and subscribing!

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Great episode. Background music out in the hallway is distracting. Truly annoying.

Love it

Fascinating debates and an overall wonderful set of interesting episodes. However very disappointed by the Rupert Sheldrake appearances; I was shocked by his nonsense having a place among such otherwise wonderful guests.

Great way to broaden your mind and see the world from a different perspective

This is basically women hating on white men.For some reason they never mention any other race harming women🤔 or doing Horrible things for some odd reason. So If you to have hate in your heart you will enjoy this. I personally find people like this absurd. They spend their lives talking about treating people all the same and with respect -but then only find the negatives in White men. Stereotyping (all ) white men is just as ugly as stereotyping any other group. Aren’t we all supposed to be individuals? What ever happened to we are the same on the inside? Stop being hypocrites your messing up kids minds especially in the arts world and your also creating hate and division.People like you are the racist you are the ones that see everything as race and gender.

I noticed a heavy feminist bias for shows perspectives. This is not an accident. So I will look elsewhere for objective philosophic content.

These episodes get me thinking through stuff! Love the various viewpoints! Shows how unique all of our realities must be!

Essential to my life. A way into thinking critically about life. Constantly illuminating and stimulating. Indispensable.

This podcast makes up for the subpar philosophy education I have acquired thus far via my American higher education institution. I'm so happy to hear topics like biological determinism AND participation from brilliant people like Nancy Cartwright. Thank you so very much.