Everytime Paul Bloom was mentioned in Making Sense with Sam Harris
Everytime Paul Bloom was mentioned in Making Sense with Sam Harris
#14 — The Virtues of Cold Blood
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with psychologist Paul Bloom about the limitations of empathy as a guide to moral reasoning. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access
Jul 29, 2015·0h 42m·0(-)
Making Sense of Foundations of Morality | Episode 3 of The Essential Sam Harris
Making Sense with Sam HarrisIn this episode, we try to trace morality to its elusive foundations. Throughout the compilation we take a look at Sam’s “Moral Landscape” and his effort to defend an objective path towards moral
Jan 5, 2023·0h 44m·0(-)
#211 — The Nature of Human Nature
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Robert Plomin about the role that DNA plays in determining who we are. They discuss the birth of behavioral genetics, the taboo around studying the influence of genes on human ps
Jul 17, 2020·1h 12m·0(-)#327 — Transformative Experiences
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with L.A. Paul about the nature of transformative experiences. They discuss how certain experiences change the self, the nature of regret, changing belief systems, conspiracy thinking
Jul 21, 2023·0h 49m·0(-)
#28 — Meat Without Misery
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris offers a few more thoughts on Clinton vs Sanders, as well as on the ethics of strong encryption. He then speaks with Uma Valeti, cardiologist and CEO of Memphis Meats, about the future of fo
Feb 20, 2016·0h 20m·0(-)#24 — Ask Me Anything 2
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris answers questions from listeners about Islamism, free will, honesty, vegetarianism, why he doesn’t publish more in academic journals, and other topics. If the Making Sense podcast logo in
Jan 4, 2016·0h 45m·0(-)#185 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris and Paul Bloom speak about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," inequality, the relationship between wealth and happiness, the downside of fame, psychological impediments to noticing progress, and
Feb 7, 2020·0h 30m·0(-)
#16 — The Dark Side
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris and Paul Bloom talk about Donald Trump, torture, trophy hunting, and other terrors. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-len
Aug 26, 2015·0h 41m·0(-)#317 — What Do We Know About Our Minds?
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Paul Bloom about the state of psychological science. They discuss fiction as a window onto the mind, recent developments in AI, the tension between misinformation and free speech
Apr 20, 2023·1h 7m·0(-)
#56 — Abusing Dolores
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Paul Bloom about empathy, meditation studies, morality, AI, Westworld, Donald Trump, free will, rationality, conspiracy thinking, and other topics. If the Making Sense podcast lo
Dec 12, 2016·1h 9m·0(-)#183 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris and Paul Bloom discuss topics in the news including the tragic death of Kobe Bryant. They also explore the paradoxes of moral responsibility. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player
Jan 28, 2020·0h 27m·0(-)#266 — The Limits of Pleasure
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Paul Bloom about the role that pain and suffering play in living a good life. They discuss the limitations of hedonism, the connection between chosen suffering and meaning, the r
Nov 2, 2021·0h 47m·0(-)#192 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris and Paul Bloom speak about the psychology of adapting to the coronavirus pandemic, the disastrous analogy between coronavirus and flu, the political siloing of information, true and false co
Mar 17, 2020·0h 37m·0(-)#188 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris and Paul Bloom speak about the virtues of President Trump, the campaign prospects of Bloomberg and Sanders, the asymmetrical norms of the Democratic and Republican parties, the marginal role
Feb 28, 2020·0h 32m·0(-)#187 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris and Paul Bloom speak about the epidemic of child sexual abuse, the ethics of loyalty, eugenics, existential risk, the Bloomberg and Sanders campaigns, and other topics. If the Making Sense p
Feb 21, 2020·0h 27m·0(-)#294 — Status Games
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Will Storr about the role that status plays in human life and culture. They talk about the taboo around caring about status, egalitarianism, the perpetual insecurity of status, h
Aug 31, 2022·0h 40m·0(-)#158 — Understanding Humans in the Wild
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Adam Grant about the social science of the workplace. They discuss how teams work effectively, the nature of power, personality types and fundamental styles of interaction, the c
May 30, 2019·0h 58m·0(-)#292 — How Much Does the Future Matter?
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with William MacAskill about his new book, What We Owe the Future. They discuss the philosophy of effective altruism (EA), longtermism, existential risk, criticism of EA, problems wit
Aug 14, 2022·2h 0m·0(-)#208 — Existential Risk
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Toby Ord about preserving the long term future of humanity. They discuss moral biases with respect to distance in space and time, the psychology of effective altruism, feeling go
Jun 23, 2020·1h 4m·0(-)#295 — Philosophy and the Good Life
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks to Kieran Setiya about the relevance of philosophy to living a good life. They discuss the existence of objective moral truths, being happy vs living well, our response to grief, the
Sep 9, 2022·0h 44m·0(-)#147 — Stephen Fry
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Stephen Fry about comedy, atheism, political correctness, meditation, ambition, empathy, psychedelics, Christopher Hitchens, Stephen's experience of manic depression, and much el
Jan 28, 2019·0h 45m·0(-)#270 — What Have We Learned from the Pandemic?
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Nicholas Christakis about the lessons of the COVID pandemic. They discuss our failures to coordinate an effective response, the politics surrounding vaccination, vaccine efficacy
Dec 14, 2021·2h 51m·0(-)#219 — The Power of Compassion
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with James R. Doty about his memoir “Into the Magic Shop.” They discuss the significance of childhood stress, the possibility of changing one’s core beliefs about oneself, the r
Oct 8, 2020·0h 48m·0(-)#349 — Generosity, Cynicism, and the Future of Doing Good
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Chris Anderson about generosity in the age of the Internet. They talk about the new spirit of cynicism in tech and finance, the problems with DEI, the Coleman Hughes controversy
Jan 16, 2024·1h 3m·0(-)#198 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris and Paul Bloom discuss the false tradeoff between the economy and public health, putting a price on human life, framing effects for moral questions, how Covid-19 may change human behavior, "
Apr 16, 2020·0h 58m·0(-)
#98 — Into the Dark Land
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Siddhartha Mukherjee about his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer . If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can
Sep 21, 2017·0h 30m·0(-)