Rationally Speaking
By New York City Skeptics
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Podcast Description
Rationally Speaking is the bi-weekly podcast of New York City Skeptics. Join hosts Massimo Pigliucci and Julia Galef as they explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense, likely from unlikely, and science from pseudoscience. Any topic is fair game as long as we can bring reason to bear upon it, with both a skeptical eye and a good dose of humor! We agree with the Marquis de Condorcet, who said that in an open society we ought to devote ourselves to "the tracking down of prejudices in the hiding places where priests, the schools, the government, and all long-established institutions had gathered and protected them." Rationally Speaking is produced by Benny Pollak and is recorded in the heart of New York City's Greenwich Village.
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Rationally Speaking #61 - Willpower | -- | 5/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #60 - Q&A With Massimo and Julia | -- | 5/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #59 - Live at NECSS: David Kyle Johnson on the Simulation Argument | -- | 4/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #58 - Intuition | -- | 4/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #57 - Peer Review | -- | 3/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #56 - Howard Schneider on Science News Literacy | -- | 3/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #55 - Spirituality | -- | 2/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #54 - The 'isms' Episode | -- | 2/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #53 - Parapsychology | -- | 1/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #52 - Donald Prothero on the Holocaust-Deniers' Playbook | -- | 1/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #51 - Joseph Heath on Economics Without Illusions | -- | 1/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #50 - Neurobabble | -- | 12/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #49 - Eugenie C. Scott on Denialism of Climate Change and Evolution | -- | 12/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #48 - Philosophical Counseling | -- | 11/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #47 - SETI | -- | 11/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #46 - The Varieties of Skepticism | -- | 10/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #45 - Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on Spinoza, Göedl, and Theories of Everything | -- | 10/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #44 - Fluff that Works | -- | 9/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #43 - Women in Skepticism | -- | 9/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #42 - On the Limits of Reason | -- | 8/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #41 - Robert Zaretsky on Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding | -- | 8/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #40 - Q&A With Massimo and Julia | -- | 7/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #39 - The Science and Philosophy of Free Will | -- | 7/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #38 - Holden Karnofsky on Evidence-based Philanthropy | -- | 7/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #37 - The Science and Philosophy of Happiness | -- | 6/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #36 - Why Should We Care About Teaching the Humanities? | -- | 6/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #35 - What is Philosophy of Science Good for? | -- | 5/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #34 - Celebrities and the Damage They Can Do | -- | 5/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #33 - Live at NECSS: New Dilemmas in Bioethics | -- | 4/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #32 - Value-free Science? | -- | 4/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #31 - Vegetarianism | -- | 3/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #30 - Cordelia Fine on Delusions of Gender | -- | 3/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #29 - Q&A Live! | -- | 2/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #28 - Live! How To Tell Science From Bunk | -- | 2/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #27 - The Perihelinox Episode, With Historian Timothy Alborn on Anniversaries | -- | 1/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #26 - Is Anthropology Still a Science? | -- | 1/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #25 - Q&A With Massimo and Julia | -- | 1/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #24 - Memetics! | -- | 12/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #23 - Carol Tavris on Everybody Making Mistakes, Except Us... | -- | 12/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #22 - Steven Novella on Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science | -- | 11/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #21 - Joshua Knobe on Experimental Philosophy | -- | 11/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #20 - Q&A With Massimo and Julia | -- | 10/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #19 - Brendan Nyhan on False Beliefs that Refuse to Die | -- | 10/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #18 - Evolutionary Psychology | -- | 9/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #17 - Transhumanism | -- | 9/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #16 - Defrerring to Experts | -- | 8/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #15 - Q&A With Massimo and Julia | -- | 8/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #14 - Jennifer Michael Hecht on Science, Religion, Happiness, and Other Myths | -- | 8/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #13 - Superstition, Is It Good For You? | -- | 7/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #12 - What About Thought Experiments? | -- | 7/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #11 - Guest Eugenie Scott on the Status of the Creationism and ID Wars | -- | 6/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #10 - Nonsense on Stilts | -- | 6/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #9 - When Smart People Endorse Pseudoscience | -- | 5/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #8 - The Anthropic Principle | -- | 5/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #7 - Peter Woit discusses whether string theory is “not even wrong” | -- | 4/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #6 - Fluffy Thinking | a peculiar type of uncritical thinking | 4/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #5 - Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Need for a Space Program | -- | 3/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #4 - The Great Atheist Debate Over the Limits of Science | -- | 3/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #3 - Can History Be a Science? | -- | 2/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #2 - Love, a Skeptical Inquiry | -- | 2/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rationally Speaking #1 - Why be rational? | -- | 1/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 61 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Fantastic
This is fantastic. Massimo and Julia make a great duo. The intro and transition music runs a bit long and seems to be misplaced (odd house music), but the conversation between Massimo and Julia is essentially an intellectual orgasm for the ears (and brain I suppose).
Rationally Lavishing
I'm a big fan of the Rationally Speaking blog, but I worried that it wouldn't translate to audio. I worried the arguments would become jumbled without having them laid out on the page - Will I have to take notes? I haven't been this pleasantly wrong about something in quite some time. Massimo and Julia play off each other very well, similar enough to engage in conversation but different enough to perpetuate argument. I love that they set up future debates on the first episode - my hopes are with you Massimo, but my fears of personal inadequacy lie with you Julia and your assertion that a philosopher "has no expertise." I love that Rationally Speaking doesn't shy from discussing complex ideas like Godel's Incompleteness and Hume's take on the passions, and at the same time avoids trotting these concepts out like lesson plans. Instead they manage to frame them within the context of more broad (or would it be more narrow?) conversations. In conclusion, I just want to say how much I enjoy hearing skeptical conversation taking place under a philosophical schema. I enjoy many skeptical podcasts and blogs, but I finally have one that speaks my language.
1st impression...wow!
If this first episode is indicative of what's to come, I may have just found my new favorite podcast. It feels like a modern-day Socratic dialogue and is a pleasure to listen to.
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