An Epidemic Transformed Medicine, Animal Welfare, and the Modern City – Prof. Lee Dugatkin
The interview explores how the 1872 equine influenza outbreak, known as the Great Epizootic, brought North American cities to a standstill and triggered lasting changes across medicine, animal welfare, and urban transport. In the late nineteenth century, steam engines...
Podcast
An Epidemic Transformed Medicine, Animal Welfare, and the Modern City – Prof. Lee Dugatkin
The interview explores how the 1872 equine influenza outbreak, known as the Great Epizootic, brought North American cities to a standstill and triggered lasting changes across medicine, animal welfare, and urban transport. In the late nineteenth century, steam engines...
Stefano Bigliardi: New Religious Movements, Islam and science, and other topics
Who is Stefano Bigliardi? This is a new episode of Real Sciences podcast and in this episode we are welcoming professor Stefano Bigliardi. He is a professor of philosophy in Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. He is interested in research about Islam and...
The Negative Impacts of Adopting the Classical View of Emotions on Law Enforcement
Many injustices and unfair judgments occur within legal systems that adopt the classical view of emotions. This view assumes that we possess innate, animalistic emotions that are governed by rational thought. These injustices manifest in judicial rulings in cases...
Are emotions universal across individuals and cultures?
The Emotion-Guessing Experiment: Can We Know Others' Emotions from Their Faces? Studies conducted on people's attempts to guess the emotions of others by looking at their faces show that we accurately lack this ability. Recognizing emotions in others' faces also...
Is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome a Psychological or Physical Illness?
Psychologically, some scientists view Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) as a psychological illness, meaning that the psychological factor has a major impact that is no less significant than the physical factor. There is a common misconception that what is psychological...
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Psychology
The Negative Impacts of Adopting the Classical View of Emotions on Law Enforcement
Many injustices and unfair judgments occur within legal systems that adopt the classical view of emotions. This view assumes that we possess innate, animalistic emotions that are governed by rational thought. These injustices manifest in judicial rulings in cases...
Are emotions universal across individuals and cultures?
The Emotion-Guessing Experiment: Can We Know Others' Emotions from Their Faces? Studies conducted on people's attempts to guess the emotions of others by looking at their faces show that we accurately lack this ability. Recognizing emotions in others' faces also...
Is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome a Psychological or Physical Illness?
Psychologically, some scientists view Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) as a psychological illness, meaning that the psychological factor has a major impact that is no less significant than the physical factor. There is a common misconception that what is psychological...
Philosophy
The reality of selves – Daniel Dennett’s “Consciousness Explained
It might be an unpleasant idea, but if you spit in a cup, can you re-drink your saliva? It seems like once something leaves your body, It’s no longer part of you, similar to hair or nails. This explains how we get our sense of self. Similarly, our bodies are home to...
Qualia Disqualified – Daniel Dennett’s “Consciousness Explained
In Chapter 12, Dennett addresses the concept of qualia—the way we subjectively experience things. Many philosophers argue that colours, for instance, are merely mental constructs rather than real properties of objects. Some argue that certain main features, like red,...
Dismantling the witness protection program – Daniel Dennett’s “Consciousness Explained
In Chapter 11, Dennett starts investigating the implications of the multiple drafts model, revisiting the reporting problem introduced in the previous chapter. Chapter 11 is called "dismantling the witness protection program". Titled "Dismantling the Witness...
Linguistics
Reporting Our Thoughts: Dennett vs. Folk Psychology – Daniel Dennett’s “Consciousness Explained
After discussing speech production, Dennett shifts his focus to reporting and expressing our thoughts. The problem with reporting is that it could undo the parallel models that Dennett worked to prove in previous chapters. Multiple drafts, or collaborative demons,...
Language and the brain – Language and the Mind
Can we now say that no single part of the brain that is specific for language? What are the main parts, and what are the other functions that they serve? This vision is, of course, adopted by Elizabeth Bates, which you mentioned multiple times. This will help someone...
Language as an emotionally safe environment – Language and the Mind
The experiment that you mentioned about the Turks and the English speakers was very interesting. The native English speakers acted differently to emotionally loaded words than Turks who learned English later in life. Can we run away from a time or a place that we...