Daniel Kaufman and Crispin Sartwell talk about Crispin’s article for the New York Times, “Humans are Animals: Let’s Get Over It” (2/23/2021). (https://www-nytimes-com.newsproxy.inf...) Topics include: Humanism and its roots; Racism; Hume’s Naturalism; and Normativity.
:00 Crispin and Dan catch up after a hiatus
7:50 Crispin gives some background on his latest NYT article, “Humans are Animals: Let’s Get Over It”
11:15 The main thesis of “Humans are Animals”: Philosophy’s excessive investment in the humans/animals distinction since Antiquity.
20:20 Dan raises the question of Hume’s naturalism and its impact on Crispin’s thesis.
30:30 The Question of Humanism / Is a Materialist Humanism Possible?
36:40 Humanism and Racism
41:45 Etiology of the Human/Animal Distinction
1:00:25 The Human and the Normative
Moti Gorin (Colorado State) talks with Holly Lawford-Smith (University of Melbourne) about her new book, "Gender Critical Feminism" (Oxford University Press).
Dan Kaufman and Kathleen Stock (Sussex) discuss Kathleen's new book, "Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism." Among other things, we talk the implications...
What are “natural kinds”? ... What the former planet Pluto can teach us about natural kinds ... Massimo’s changing views on theoretical entities ......