Podcast appearances and mentions of Brian D Earp

In this podcast, we cover - 1. Nuances of biochemical interventions into love and relationships  2. Ethics of deciding which medications should be a part of our society 3. The art of calibration within yourself to negotiate with your ideals of self worth Brian is a Senior Research Fellow in the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy at Yale University and The Hastings Center, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics. Brian's work is cross-disciplinary, following training in philosophy, cognitive science, psychology, history and sociology of science and medicine, and ethics. A co-recipient of the 2018 Daniel M. Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Brian was also one of four named finalists for the 2020 John Maddox Prize for “standing up for science” (awarded by Sense about Science and Nature). Brian is also recipient of both the Robert G. Crowder Prize in Psychology and the Ledyard Cogswell Award for Citizenship from Yale University, where, as an undergraduate, Brian was elected President of the Yale Philosophy Society and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Philosophy Review. Brian then conducted graduate research in psychological methods as a Henry Fellow of New College at the University of Oxford, followed by a degree in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science, technology, and medicine as a Cambridge Trust Scholar and Rausing Award recipient at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. After spending a year in residence as the inaugural Presidential Scholar in Bioethics at The Hastings Center in Garrison, New York, Brian was appointed Benjamin Franklin Resident Graduate Fellow while completing a dual Ph.D. in philosophy and psychology at Yale University. Brian's essays have been translated into Polish, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese, and Hebrew.

The discussion of this episode is inspired by the book Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships by Brian D Earp and Julian Savulescu (January 2020), Stanford University Press.As a guest for this episode, we talk to Postgraduate Researcher Sophie Goddard. Her research is focused on the philosophy of love, particularly on the sacrifices we make in loving relationships.Sophie argues against the development of "anti-attachment drugs", a particular type of "break-up drug" based on the idea that vulnerability is a key element to our development as humans and, more specifically, as loving humans. Vulnerability gives rise to care, trust, and intimacy, core elements to establish a romantic relationship. Getting rid of it, or suppressing it by switching off our attachment capacity, might take away from us an essential part of our human nature.Released 2 June 2020. Presented by Gabriela Arriagada Bruneau.Ethics Untangled is produced by the IDEA Ethics Centre at the University of Leeds.Twitter: @EthicsUntangledFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ideacetlLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/idea-ethics-centre/

General Buy Matt and Alina Chan's book ‘Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19': https://www.amazon.com/Viral-Search-COVID-19-Matt-Ridley/dp/006313912X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1GSU5N0P40R26&keywords=matt+ridley&qid=1648046232&sprefix=matt+ridley%2Caps%2C253&sr=8-1 Matt's website, where you can find out more about him and his other books and work: https://www.mattridley.co.uk/ Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattwridley References Some of Michael Worobey's work on the origins of Covid-19: https://twitter.com/MichaelWorobey/status/1497607313397481472?s=20&t=_ov6duwWi7DQZDRa5t9q4A Two for Tea episode with Azra Raza on fighting cancer: https://soundcloud.com/twoforteapodcast/64-azra-raza-a-better-way-to-fight-cancer Two for Tea episode with Brian D. Earp on circumcision: https://soundcloud.com/twoforteapodcast/13-brian-earp Iona's Areo article on circumcision: https://areomagazine.com/2019/09/24/a-wrong-against-boys-an-impossible-conversation-about-circumcision/ Timestamps 00.00 Opening and introduction: the debate over the origins of Covid-19, the reception of and controversy over ‘Viral', and why the origins debate matters for everyone. 8:40 Will the origins debate ever be settled? 18:58 What we know for certain plus some possible scenarios of how Covid-19 spread. Matt explains why the ‘lab-leak' hypothesis is plausible. 25:28 Objections to the lab-leak hypothesis and Matt's responses. 42:30 Here be technical scientific stuff: the cutting edge of knowledge in molecular biology—how furin cleavage sites work. Plus: the duties of writing about science. 49:25 More objections to the lab-leak hypothesis and Matt's responses. 1:11:50 The benefits and risks of gain-of-function research. Plus: circumcision and the problems with the World Health Organization. 1:21:32 Does ‘Viral' underestimate the dangers of zoonotic transmission of diseases? Plus: the deforestation/ecological argument about Covid's origins. 1:24:31 Developments since the publication of ‘Viral' and the plans for the paperback. 1:27:50 Last words and outro.

What if Love Potion No. 9 already exists and can be prescribed by your doctor? Brian D. Earp is associate director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy and a research fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford. He joins host Krys Boyd to argue that drugs that can help strengthen – and sever – relationships are out there now, and it’s time to understand the ethics and morals behind their use. His book, co-authored with Julian Savulescu, is “Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships.”

Brian D. Earp is a Research Fellow at Oxford, philosopher and writer. Love is a feeling many of us yearn to feel, but the medical developments of the 21st century is moving love out of the personal and into the medical realm. Expect to learn if we can make ourselves fall in or out of love with drugs, whether we can turn a straight person gay, how anti-love drugs can help reduce domestic violence, the ethics of changing your attractiveness with drugs and much more... Sponsors: Get 83% discount & 3 months free from Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/MODERNWISDOM (use code MODERNWISDOM) Extra Stuff: Follow Brian on Twitter - https://twitter.com/briandavidearp  Buy Love Is The Drug - https://amzn.to/3bf6uas  Get my free Ultimate Life Hacks List to 10x your daily productivity → https://chriswillx.com/lifehacks/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast Email: modernwisdompodcast@gmail.com

Brian’s book, jointly written with Julian Savulescu, can be found here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Drugs-Chemical-Future-Relationships/dp/0804798192 and here: https://www.amazon.com/Love-Drugs-Chemical-Future-Relationships/dp/0804798192. You can review Brian’s academic work here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brian_Earp Follow Brian YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/earptube Follow Brian on Twitter: @briandavidearp Brian’s previous appearance on this podcast can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/user-761174326/13-brian-earp Additional References Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969). I discuss the book briefly here: https://uncommongroundmedia.com/ursula-le-guin-left-hand-darkness/ Harry Frankfurt’s “Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person” (1971) is paywalled, but you can find a summary here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/desire/ Rhys Southan, “Re-Orientation”: https://medium.com/@rhys/re-orientation-fb131ba7bd9b Timestamps 4:51 The therapeutic possibilities of pro-love drugs 5:37 Biological theories of love: modulating brain chemicals 14:42 The Left Hand of Darkness 17:05 Using MDMA 17:58 Questions of authenticity, first-order & second-order desires 21:05 Changing your sexuality 23:09 Online dating 29:31 The real thing and its imitations: Argentine tango & theatre 38:46 When should we use pro-love drugs, should they be medically prescribed? 45:48 Anti-love drugs. Dampening the libido with antidepressants. 49:10 High-tech conversion therapies 1:03:24 The medicalization of love 1:06:49 Leaving dysfunctional relationships 1:15:19 The future of love and anti-love drugs

In the first part of a special mini season, Rosie is joined by Brian D. Earp, author of Love is the Drug, to discuss the ways in which drugs we currently take (such as SSRI antidepressants, contraceptive pills and recreational drugs like alcohol) are influencing our romantic choices. How could SSRIs and MDMA be used either to help us stay in a long-term relationship or to reduce the traumatic effects of leaving one? How should these biochemical interventions work alongside actions like starting couples counselling or deleting your ex from Facebook? When will they be appropriate? What are the authentic emotions we should listen to? Could something like the memory erasure machine in the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ever be a reality? Could we redirect our attraction from an unsuitable, unavailable person to someone else? Could a love potion, as depicted by Shakespeare, ever exist? Could this biotechnology be used to redirect a person's sexual orientation? This podcast includes content funded by the British Podcast Awards and the Wellcome Trust. Keep an eye on this link regarding the status of our London events. You can subscribe to The Breakup Monologues wherever you get your podcasts including in these places: Apple Podcasts Spotify Libsyn RSS Feed You can now follow The Breakup Monologues on Instagram @breakupmonologues

Our guest on the podcast today, Brian D. Earp. He’s the Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics & Health Policy at Yale University and The Hastings Center, and a Research Fellow in the Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford. He’s the co-author of Love Drugs along with Julian Savulescu. We talk about ‘love drugs’: Could psychedelics serve as a catalyst for falling in and out of love? Sounds like a futuristic invention or a movie premise, but it’s the topic of Brian D. Earp’s new book: Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships. Brian talks science, no science fiction. So what about an ‘anti-love drug’? Maybe to help us get over an ex-partner? As much as some psychedelic-assisted experiences may help couples strengthen their emotional ties, others might help individuals let go of their emotional connections during a difficult break-up. These substances, like MDMA (the active ingredient in ecstasy), already exist, and they can have profoundly transformative effects on our feelings of love. Enjoy!

Brian D. Earp is a cross-disciplinary academic whose work draws on philosophy, cognitive science, psychology, history of science and medicine, and ethics. He is the Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy at Yale University and Research Fellow in the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford. His new book, "Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships", builds a case for conducting research into drugs that affect the emotion we call love and explores the ethical implications for individuals and society. Receive 25% off any web hosting plan using the promo code "science": http://hostgator.com **DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE** Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships https://www.amazon.com/Love-Drugs-Chemical-Future-Relationships/dp/0804798192 An un-consenting child, an unnecessary, invasive surgery: is there any moral difference between male and female circumcision? https://aeon.co/essays/are-male-and-female-circumcision-morally-equivalent A quick intro to the Integral Theory of philosopher Ken Wilber https://www.dailyevolver.com/theory/ Aldous Huxley's "A Brave New World" (video summary): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raqVySPrDUE Parental Investment Theory and Sexual Selection (Trivers, 1972) http://www.roberttrivers.com/Robert_Trivers/Publications_files/Trivers%201972.pdf **TELL US WHAT YOU THINK** Email: feedback@sciencentric.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/sciencentric Facebook: http://facebook.com/sciencentric Twitter: http://twitter.com/sciencentric

01:52 The history of secular circumcision, beginning in the Victorian era with the anti-masturbation campaign 6:20 Extract from a medical case study on a masturbator. 9:10 Shift from concerns about masturbation to concerns about STDs in the 1960s. 12:13 Why Brian dislikes the term genital mutilation. 19:02 Sensitivity 26:00 The Hippocratic oath 30:23 African men & the HIV study 33:37 The hygiene argument 36:42 The World Health Organisation 39:49 Ali Rizvi on why prophylaxis is not a good argument 49:37 FGM and the Dawoodi Bohra 53:51 The infant experience 54:35 African circumcision of teens 57:13 Why there has never been a class action lawsuit? 1:00:11 Male vulnerability 1:05:16 Resource allocation: are anti-FGM and anti-circumcision activists in competition with each other? 1:07:49 Jews and circumcision 1:20:15 Women’s experiences of sex with circumcised men 1:41:05 How Brian became the go-to guy for this topic 1:44:19 Future dangers You can read more of Brian David Earp's work at: http://oxford.academia.edu/BrianDEarp and follow him on Twitter at @briandavidearp. Further resources: https://15square.org.uk/ http://arclaw.org/ https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/ http://www.beyondthebris.com/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Education/Jews-Against-Circumcision-165424110207450/ Robert Darby, A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain (2005) American Circumcision: The Movie (2019): https://circumcisionmovie.com/ Marie Fox and Michael Thomson, “Foreskin is a Feminist Issue” (2009): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08164640902852415?journalCode=cafs20 Shaye J. D. Cohen, Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised? Gender and Covenant in Judaism (2005): https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520212503/why-arent-jewish-women-circumcised

The replication crisis has rocked the world of academic physiology but how far do its implications go?  In this episode, I cover the incentive structures, institutional patterns, and faulty ways of thinking about statistics and evidence that lead to this with Brian Earp.

Ethicist Brian D. Earp joins us to talk about the medicalization of love - love drugs, as well as anti-love drugs. Is it possible? If so, should we?For more information about the topic and guest, please visit http://www.stereo-typed.com/episode19/