The Valmy

Podcast : Subversive w/Alex Kaschuta Episode : Patrick Deneen - Liberalism & The Meaning of Freedom Release date : 2021-03-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization You can support this podcast at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive ​Or check out my writing on Substack at https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/ I talk with Patrick Deneen about why Li...

Podcast : Many Minds Episode : Culture, innovation, and the collective brain Release date : 2021-02-03 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Greetings friends and happy February! Today's episode is a conversation with Dr. Michael Muthukrishna, an Associate Professor of Economic Psychology at the London School of Economics. Michael's research tak...

Podcast : Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS Episode : Bentham on Pleasure Release date : 2021-02-09 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Jeremy Bentham’s Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation is a definitive early statement of the basis of utilitarianism: how do we achieve the greatest happiness of the greatest number? ...

Podcast : Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS Episode : Butler on Machines Release date : 2021-02-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Samuel Butler’s Erewhon (1872) is a strange and unsettling book about a world turned upside down. Usually classified as utopian or dystopian fiction, it also contains an eerie prophecy about the coming of...

Podcast : Hear This Idea Episode : #16 – SJ Beard on Parfit, Climate Change, and Existential Risk Release date : 2020-09-30 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Dr S. J. Beard is a research associate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge, and an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker. With a background in philo...

Podcast : In Our Time Episode : Utilitarianism Release date : 2015-06-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization A moral theory that emphasises ends over means, Utilitarianism holds that a good act is one that increases pleasure in the world and decreases pain. The tradition flourished in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with Jeremy Bentham...

Podcast : The a16z Show Episode : GPT-3: What's Hype, What's Real on the Latest in AI Release date : 2020-07-30 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode -- cross posted from our 16 Minutes show feed -- we cover all the buzz around GPT-3, the pre-trained machine learning model from OpenAI that’s optimized to do a variety of natural-l...

Podcast : TALKING POLITICS Episode : Helen's History of Ideas Release date : 2020-07-09 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization David talks with Helen to get her take on the history of ideas - both what's there and what's missing. Why start with Hobbes? What can we learn from the Federalist Papers? Where's Nietzsche? Plus we ta...

Podcast : New Books in Philosophy Episode : Elijah Millgram, "John Stuart Mill and the Meaning of Life" (Oxford UP, 2019) Release date : 2019-11-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization According to an intuitive view, lives are meaningful when they manifest a directedness or instantiate a project such that the disparate events and endeavors “add...

Podcast : Philosophy Bites Episode : Aaron Ridley on Nietzsche on Art and Truth Release date : 2008-08-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Friedrich Nietzsche's ideas about art and truth run through much of his philosophical writing, but are most apparent in his first book, The Birth of Tragedy. In this episode of Philosophy Bites Nigel War...

Podcast : Philosophy Bites Episode : Christopher Janaway on Nietzsche on Morality Release date : 2008-09-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Friedrich Nietzsche's The Genealogy of Morality provides a radical view of the origins of our values. Nigel Warburton interviews Christopher Janaway about this important book in this episode of the Phi...

Podcast : Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford Episode : The Spreadsheet of Life and Death Release date : 2020-06-26 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Clive had a deadly form of cancer, but fortunately there was a new drug to treat it. Imagine his anger when he was told the treatment was too expensive. He’d entered a world where unique human li...

Podcast : Philosophize This! Episode : Episode #142 ... Richard Rorty Release date : 2020-04-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Today we begin our discussion of the work of Richard Rorty.  Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help.  Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/phi...

Podcast : TALKING POLITICS Episode : Democracy For Young People Release date : 2018-12-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization As a follow-up to last year's How Democracy Ends lecture, David talks about how divisions between young and old are threatening representative democracy. He traces the story from Ancient Greece to Br...

Podcast : The Portal Episode : 23: Agnes Callard - Courage, Meta-cognitive detachment and their limits Release date : 2020-02-24 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Philosopher and University of Chicago Professor Agnes Callard sits down with Eric on this episode of the portal. Agnes is a champion of the philosophical tradition of attempting to...

Podcast : EconTalk Episode : Agnes Callard on Philosophy, Progress, and Wisdom Release date : 2020-06-22 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Philosopher and author Agnes Callard talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of philosophy, the power of philosophy, and the search for wisdom and truth. This is a wide-ranging conversation...

Release date : 2020-06-19 Notes from The Valmy : Source: YouTube (The Torch of Progress) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rxS6kj5Zt0 Release date: 2020-06-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization

Podcast : Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy Episode : John Collison – Growing the Internet Economy - [Invest Like the Best, EP.178] Release date : 2020-06-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization My guest today is John Collison, the Co-Founder of the digital payments company Stripe. Stripe’s mission is to increase the GDP of the in...

Podcast : Rationally Speaking Podcast Episode : Rationally Speaking #141 - Dan Sperber on "The Argumentative Theory of reason" Release date : 2015-08-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The traditional story about reason is that it evolved to help humans see the world more clearly and (thereby) make better decisions. But on that view, some...

Podcast : EconTalk Episode : Rory Sutherland on Alchemy Release date : 2019-11-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Author and Advertising Executive Rory Sutherland of Ogilvy talks about his book Alchemy with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Sutherland makes the case for the magic (yes, magic!) of advertising and branding in helping markets work...

Release date : 2020-06-14 Notes from The Valmy : Source: YouTube (Stanford Ethics in Society) https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/essays/economic-growth-moral-imperative Release date: 2019-11-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization

Podcast : FT Alphachat Episode : Tyler Cowen's stubborn attachments Release date : 2017-04-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Economist and polymathic author Tyler Cowen talks to Cardiff about his essay, "Stubborn Attachments", in which he shares his vision for a free and prosperous society - and the philosophical foundations necessary to...

Release date : 2020-06-14 Notes from The Valmy : Source: YouTube (University of California, Berkeley) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szgMiqbR57s Release date: 2002-10-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization

Podcast : Philosophy Bites Episode : Adrian Moore on Bernard Williams on Ethics Release date : 2013-11-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Bernard Williams was one of the most brilliant philosophers of his generation. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Adrian Moore discusses his ideas about Ethics.

Podcast : Elucidations Episode : Episode 118: Tyler Cowen discusses Stubborn Attachments Release date : 2019-09-12 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode, Tyler Cowen lays out an interesting normative ethical theory according to which we should be utilitarians, but with a twist: we should be utilitarians who care just as much abou...