Reason Tagged Episodes

March 17, 2024

VR transports users into all kinds of different realities, some modeled on the real world,…

February 18, 2024

Machines might surpass humans in terms of computational intelligence, but when it comes to social…

June 5, 2022

Computers have already surpassed us in their ability to perform certain cognitive tasks. Perhaps it…

June 13, 2021

To an optimist, things are constantly getting better: disease and extreme poverty are down; life…

April 18, 2021

Recent years have seen the rise of machine learning algorithms surrounding us in our homes…

December 20, 2020

Some would argue that faith requires that one blindly—rather than rationally— believe. Faith in one…

December 15, 2019

Aristotle thought that rationality was the faculty that distinguished humans from other animals. However, psychological…

December 25, 2016

There is an element of risk – either to ourselves or to others – in…

September 6, 2015

Modern science has made astounding progress in our understanding of ourselves and the universe. Physics,…

January 18, 2015

Morality tells us how we ought to behave, if we want to do the right…

December 14, 2014

We may think of ourselves as rational decision-makers, but we often base even high-stakes decisions…

November 11, 2012

Sometimes people who seem to be your epistemic peers – that is, people as experienced,…

August 21, 2011

To be human, philosophers have often said, is to be rational. But many people, for…

July 25, 2010

When we make decisions we think we’re in control, making rational choices. But are we?…

January 17, 2010

A paradox is a persuasive argument that something, which we judge must be false, is…

July 19, 2009

For Plato, love and philosophy were closely related. Love of beauty causes one to contemplate…