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This episode is a recording of the lecture delivered on February 20th by Dr. R.J. Snell at the University Catholic Center of UT Austin. While the term acedia may be unfamiliar, the vice, usually translated as sloth, is all too common. Sloth is not mere laziness, however, but a disgust with reality, a loathing of our call to be friends with God, and a spiteful, bored hatred of place and life itself. As described by Josef Pieper, the slothful person does not “want to be as God wants him to be, and that ultimately means he does not wish to be what he really, fundamentally is.” Sloth is a hellish despair. Our own culture is deeply infected, choosing a destructive freedom rather than the good work for which God created us. But we can resist despair and can reconfigure our imaginations and practices in deep love of the life and work given by God. By feasting, keeping sabbath, and working well, we learn to see the world as enchanting, beautiful, and good—just as God sees it. R.J. Snell is Director of Academic Programs. Prior to his appointment at the Witherspoon Institute, he was for many years Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy Program at Eastern University and the Templeton Honors College, where he founded and directed the Agora Institute for Civic Virtue and the Common Good.

This talk was given on December 4, 2022, at the Dominican House of Studies as part of "Avoiding Acedia: An Intellectual Retreat." For more information, please visit thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: R.J. Snell is Editor-in-Chief of Public Discourse and Director of Academic Programs at the Witherspoon Institute. Previously, he was for many years Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy Program at Eastern University and the Templeton Honors College, where he founded and directed the Agora Institute for Civic Virtue and the Common Good. He earned his M.A. in philosophy at Boston College, and his Ph.D. in philosophy at Marquette University. His research interests include the liberal arts, ethics, natural law theory, Thomas Aquinas, the Catholic intellectual tradition, and the work of Bernard Lonergan, SJ. Snell is the author of Through a Glass Darkly: Bernard Lonergan and Richard Rorty on Knowing without a God's-eye View (Marquette, 2006), Authentic Cosmopolitanism (with Steve Cone, Pickwick, 2013), The Perspective of Love: Natural Law in a New Mode (Pickwick, 2014), Acedia and Its Discontents (Angelico, 2015), and co-editor of Subjectivity: Ancient and Modern (Lexington, 2016) and Nature: Ancient and Modern (Lexington), as well as articles, chapters, and essays in a variety of scholarly and popular venues. He and his family reside in the Princeton area.

This talk was given on December 2, 2022, at the Dominican House of Studies as part of "Avoiding Acedia: An Intellectual Retreat." For more information, please visit thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: R.J. Snell is Editor-in-Chief of Public Discourse and Director of Academic Programs at the Witherspoon Institute. Previously, he was for many years Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy Program at Eastern University and the Templeton Honors College, where he founded and directed the Agora Institute for Civic Virtue and the Common Good. He earned his M.A. in philosophy at Boston College, and his Ph.D. in philosophy at Marquette University. His research interests include the liberal arts, ethics, natural law theory, Thomas Aquinas, the Catholic intellectual tradition, and the work of Bernard Lonergan, SJ. Snell is the author of Through a Glass Darkly: Bernard Lonergan and Richard Rorty on Knowing without a God's-eye View (Marquette, 2006), Authentic Cosmopolitanism (with Steve Cone, Pickwick, 2013), The Perspective of Love: Natural Law in a New Mode (Pickwick, 2014), Acedia and Its Discontents (Angelico, 2015), and co-editor of Subjectivity: Ancient and Modern (Lexington, 2016) and Nature: Ancient and Modern (Lexington), as well as articles, chapters, and essays in a variety of scholarly and popular venues. He and his family reside in the Princeton area.

This lecture was given at New York University on September 21, 2022. For more information on upcoming events, visit thomisticinstitute.org About the speaker: R. J. Snell is Director of Academic Programs at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, NJ. Prior to his appointment at the Witherspoon Institute, he was Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy Program at Eastern University and the Templeton Honors College, where he founded and directed the Agora Institute for Civic Virtue and the Common Good. He has been visiting instructor at Princeton University, where he is also executive director of the Aquinas Institute for Catholic Life. He's written books and articles on natural law, education, Bernard Lonergan, boredom, subjectivity, and sexual ethics for a variety of publications.

Have you ever experienced a genuine miracle ? How would you know if you did ? We are delighted to have Dr. JP Moreland, Ph.D. as our special guest today to help us work through these issues and more. JP Moreland is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Biola University's graduate MA program. He has written delivered countless talks and written numerous books and articles related to all the ways that Biblical Christianity relates to high-level academic, rigorous Philosophy and contemporary culture. Dr. Moreland earned a Ph.D. at the University of Spoiled Childr -- I mean Southern California (USC) -- in Philosophy under the guidance and dissertation mentoring of the late, great Dr. Dallas Willard, one of the greatest Christian philosophers in American history and one of the pioneers in the contemporary Spiritual Formation movement. So Dallas Willard is our intellectual and philosophical grandfather, as it were, through JP (and others). More personally, JP was our/my (Dr. Mather's) professor for three key courses of mine in that MA program in Philosophy: Metaphysics I, Philosophy of Mind, and Metaphysics II: The Nature and Origin of Consciousness, and that program was what brought those involved in this project together. We all took key courses from Moreland (Kurtis took upper level Apologetics from him as an undergrad Philosophy major at Biola before his graduate work, for example). We've been friends ever since. What is unique about JP is that he brought a sophisticated sense of humor to his own project of melding together Common Sense and rigorous, logical thought grounded in the ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary analytic academic discipline of Philosophy. If something he says sounds Common Sense, that's on purpose--it is ! But just as often, JP will elevate your discourse, your thought life, and will stretch you just beyond what you're able to handle in order to grow you. This is an odd mixture of feelings for the student: laughing, making connections and growing confidence, and getting smarter and smarter and sharper and sharper at making distinctions and learning about Reality. It was a wonderful education. Here JP discusses his most recent book, "A Simple Guide to Experience Miracles: Instruction and Inspiration for Living Supernaturally in Christ" available here on Amazon : https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Guide-E... In this simple but careful, rigorous book, JP continues on that tradition of modeling Common Sense with logical thought. He suggests principles for determining whether you've experienced a genuine miracle or not. These are criteria you can apply confidently--because they are at once careful, rigorous, and common sense all at the same time--to test the testimony of others as well. The result is: it is possible to know (yes, KNOW) that you've experience a miracle. That word "Know" has the same meaning, the very same definition that it has in Law and Science. It does not change meaning. Philosophers are very careful with the meaning of words, and it means the same exact thing here as it does in those other disciplines. He also includes a list of suggested criteria (about a dozen or so) to apply when God does not answer prayers to help you know or understand why the Lord didn't intervene in that situation. This material seems to be worth the price of the book by itself, as far as we are concerned. This conversation was a joy. Join our conversation here with JP on the metaphysics and epistemology of #Miracles Welcome, JP Moreland ! The Republican Professor Podcast team

This walk was given on September 21, 2021 at Yale University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: R. J. Snell is Director of Academic Programs at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, NJ. Prior to his appointment at the Witherspoon Institute, he was Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy Program at Eastern University and the Templeton Honors College, where he founded and directed the Agora Institute for Civic Virtue and the Common Good. He has been visiting instructor at Princeton University, where he is also executive director of the Aquinas Institute for Catholic Life. He's written books and articles on natural law, education, Bernard Lonergan, boredom, subjectivity, and sexual ethics for a variety of publications.

Super heroes and super twisted plots... is Sophocles a better psychological playwright than Euripides? How can we understand ancient art? And would Plato have liked cubism? This Classical Wisdom Speaks Episode is with Nickolas Pappas, Professor of Philosophy and Executive Officer of the Philosophy Program, at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is an expert in Plato and author of several books, including "Plato's Exceptional City, Love, and Philosopher, Politics” and “Philosophy in Plato's Menexenus” as well as “The Routledge Guidebook to Plato's Republic.”We discuss how we can understand ancient art and theater and the role psychology plays in its understanding...You can purchase Nicklas' book,  "Plato's Exceptional City, Love, and Philosopher, Politics”, here: https://www.routledge.com/Platos-Exceptional-City-Love-and-Philosopher/Pappas/p/book/9780367424473 For more information about Classical Wisdom's Podcast Classical Wisdom Speaks, please check out our website at: http://classicalwisdom.comSign up to get Classical Wisdom's Free newsletter as well as a FREE E-book on the "Two Sides of Jesus", Here: https://classicalwisdom.com/free-e-book-two-sides-of-jesus/ 

This lecture was given to the DC Young Professionals at St. Charles Catholic Church on March 15, 2021. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org About the Speaker: R. J. Snell is Director of Academic Programs at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, NJ. Prior to his appointment at the Witherspoon Institute, he was Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy Program at Eastern University and the Templeton Honors College, where he founded and directed the Agora Institute for Civic Virtue and the Common Good. He has been visiting instructor at Princeton University, where he is also executive director of the Aquinas Institute for Catholic Life. He's written books and articles on natural law, education, Bernard Lonergan, boredom, subjectivity, and sexual ethics for a variety of publications.

In this inaugural episode of season two, Dr. Hettie V. Williams is in conversation with Dr. Manuel Chavez, Lecturer in the Department of World Languages and Culture at Monmouth University, about his course Love, Life and Liberty and the philosophical contributions of Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. Chavez is also the Director of the Philosophy Program at Monmouth. He uses King's important essay "Love Your Enemies" in his course, at Monmouth, discussed in this episode along with a broader discussion of King's ideas about the logic of love and the relationship between love, power and justice.

Is “social justice” the same as “biblical justice,” or do these concepts sometimes diverge? On the one hand, social justice seems deeply indebted to Christian thought and practice. On the other hand, some of its most active proponents today are secularists, sometimes even Marxist atheists. In light of such complications, how ought Christians interact with the “social justice movement” in the United States today?Recommended reading:Social Justice Rites: Sacrificial Politics and Sacred Victims by Molly Brigid McGrathJustice in the Bible by Timothy KellerBible Project Justice VideoJustin Giboney is an attorney and political strategist in Atlanta, GA. He is also the Co-Founder and President of the AND Campaign, which is a coalition of urban Christians who are determined to address the sociopolitical arena with the compassion and conviction of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Mr. Giboney has managed successful campaigns for elected officials in the state and referendums relating to the city’s transportation and water infrastructure. In 2012 and 2016, Georgia’s 5th congressional district elected him as a delegate for the Democratic National Convention and he served as the co-chair of Obama for America’s Gen44-Atlanta initiative. A former Vanderbilt University football player and law student, Justin served on the Urban League of Greater Atlanta Board of Directors. He’s written op-eds for publications such as Christianity Today and The Hill.R. J. Snell is the Director of Academic Programs at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, NJ, and is senior fellow at the Agora Institute for Civic Virtue and the Common Good. Prior to those appointments he was Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy Program at Eastern University and the Templeton Honors College. He earned his MA in philosophy at Boston College, and his PhD in philosophy at Marquette University. Research interests include the liberal arts, ethics, natural law theory, Thomas Aquinas, the Catholic intellectual tradition, and the work of Bernard Lonergan, SJ. He is the author of Through a Glass Darkly: Bernard Lonergan and Richard Rorty on Knowing without a God’s-eye View(Marquette, 2006), Authentic Cosmopolitanism (with Steve Cone, Pickwick, 2013), The Perspective of Love: Natural Law in a New Mode (Pickwick, 2014), Acedia and Its Discontents (Angelico, 2015), and co-editor of Subjectivity: Ancient and Modern and Nature: Ancient and Modern, as well as articles, chapters, and essays in a variety of scholarly and popular venues. He and his family reside in the Princeton area.David Corey is a professor of Political Science focusing on political philosophy in the Honors Program at Baylor University. He is also an affiliated member of the departments of Philosophy and Political Science. He was an undergraduate at Oberlin, where he earned a BA in Classics from the College and a BMus in music from the Conservatory. He studied law and jurisprudence at Old College, Edinburgh before taking up graduate work in political philosophy at Louisiana State University. He is the author of two books, The Just War Tradition (with J. Daryl Charles) (2012) and The Sophists in Plato’s Dialogues (2015). He has written more than two dozen articles and book chapters in such venues as the Review of PoliticsSupport the show (http://www.faithandlaw.org/donate)

Professor Ian Behring teve como convidados o seu avô o Grande mestre Flavio Behring e os professores, Patrick Chaput, Alex Thomann, Nico Penzer e Pierre Henrry e fizeram um excelente programa falando sobre justiça e honra em ingles e frances. Aproveitem! Professor Ian Behring invited his grandfather the Grandmaster Flavio Behring and the teachers, Patrick Chaput, Alex Thomann, Nico Penzer and Pierre Henrry and made an excellent program talking about justice and honor in English and French. Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/behringjiujitsu/message

Ji Hyang Padma has combined an academic career with her vocation as a spiritual teacher. Ji Hyang currently serves as the Director of the Comparative Religion and Philosophy Program at California Institute for Human Science. For over a decade she served as Director of Spirituality & Education as well as Buddhist chaplain at Wellesley College. She has served Omega Institute for sixteen years as the meditation teacher in residence. Additionally, she has served as a meditation teacher at Harvard University, Boston University, Babson College, and Esalen Institute. Ji Hyang Padma has done intensive Zen training and teaching in Asia and North America for 20 years. She has completed several 90-day intensive retreats in Korea and North America. Ji Hyang has also served as Director and Abbot of Cambridge Zen Center, one of the largest Zen Centers in the country. She co-leads the North County Zen Circle. Ji Hyang is also a shamanic practitioner: she is a mesa carrier in the Andean lineage, and performs ceremonies and facilitates group healing work while at Omega. She has walked this path for ten years. Ji Hyang Padma studied issues of intercultural education, diversity and inclusion through Lesley University’s Counseling & Psychology program. At Wellesley College, she served as a chaplain within the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life and Intercultural Education, and taught programs on conflict resolution and intercultural education-- including the launch of its Campus-Wide Diversity Initiative—which helped to create a more resilient culture within its diverse campus. Ji Hyang holds a doctorate in psychology from Sofia University. Her dissertation research focused on consciousness & healing. Ji Hyang’s recent writing has been published in Our Neighbor's Faith: Stories of Interfaith Encounters and Arts of Contemplative Care: Pioneering Voices in Buddhist Chaplaincy and Pastoral Work. Her first book, Zen Practices for Transformative Times, was released by Quest Books in 2013. Ji Hyang also is a professional astrologer: her intuitive astrology illuminates the journey of the soul so that we can live our life to its fullest potential. More information about her work can be found here: http://www.natural-wisdom.org/ or here: http://www.mountainpath.org/.

Professor Richard Brown is a philosopher at the City University of New York. In particular he is a Professor in the Philosophy Program and an Adjunct Professor in the Psychology Program at LaGuardia Community College. His work is focused on the philosophy of mind, consciousness studies, and the foundations of cognitive science but he also has interests and projects in the philosophy of language, meta-ethics, philosophy of physics, logic and the philosophy of logic, as well as the history of philosophy. Today we talk with Prof Brown about his work on the consciousness of emotions and "representations of representations"! For more details go to our landing page HERE. Please leave a review! (Reviews are fabulously important to us! On your podcast player you should find an option to review at the bottom of the main page for the podcast - after the list of available episodes) - Here's a link for iTunes.   Thanks for listening! Support this show by subscribing to The Science of Psychotherapy (You can support us by subscribing to our magazine for less than a $1/week) Please leave an honest review on iTunes and please subscribe to our show.  You can also find our podcast at: The Science of Psychotherapy Podcast Homepage If you want more great science of Psychotherapy please visit our website thescienceofpsychotherapy.com

This lecture was given at a conference on "Love, Friendship, and Happiness," co-sponsored with the Scala Foundation and the Aquinas Institute at Princeton Theological Seminary on February 15, 2020. This conference featured Prof. Erika Kidd (University of St. Thomas), Prof. Craig Titus (Divine Mercy University), Prof. Anna Moreland (Villanova University), and Dr. RJ Snell (The Witherspoon Institute). R. J. Snell is Director of the Center on the University and Intellectual Life. Prior to his appointment at the Witherspoon Institute, he was for many years Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy Program at Eastern University and the Templeton Honors College, where he founded and directed the Agora Institute for Civic Virtue and the Common Good. He earned his M.A. in philosophy at Boston College, and his Ph.D. in philosophy at Marquette University. Research interests include the liberal arts, ethics, natural law theory, Thomas Aquinas, the Catholic intellectual tradition, and the work of Bernard Lonergan, SJ. He is the author of Through a Glass Darkly: Bernard Lonergan and Richard Rorty on Knowing without a God’s-eye View (Marquette, 2006), Authentic Cosmopolitanism (with Steve Cone, Pickwick, 2013), The Perspective of Love: Natural Law in a New Mode (Pickwick, 2014), Acedia and Its Discontents (Angelico, 2015), and co-editor of Subjectivity: Ancient and Modern (Lexington, 2016) and Nature: Ancient and Modern (Lexington), as well as articles, chapters, and essays in a variety of scholarly and popular venues. He and his family reside in the Princeton area. For more information on this and other events go to thomisticinstitute.org/events-1

In this episode, Doug explains why he doesn't think the idea of allowing a Coronavirus redshirt for seniors is realistic. His guest is Wyoming Head Coach Jeff Linder who discusses playing against Chauncey Billups while growing up in Colorado, finding Damian Lillard as an assistant at Weber State, building a winning Northern Colorado program, and his plans to turnaround Wyoming. Make sure you download, rate and subscribe here to get the latest All Ball Podcasts! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

In this episode, Doug explains why he doesn't think the idea of allowing a Coronavirus redshirt for seniors is realistic. His guest is Wyoming Head Coach Jeff Linder who discusses playing against Chauncey Billups while growing up in Colorado, finding Damian Lillard as an assistant at Weber State, building a winning Northern Colorado program, and his plans to turnaround Wyoming. Make sure you download, rate and subscribe here to get the latest All Ball Podcasts! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

In this episode, Doug explains why he doesn't think the idea of allowing a Coronavirus redshirt for seniors is realistic. His guest is Wyoming Head Coach Jeff Linder who discusses playing against Chauncey Billups while growing up in Colorado, finding Damian Lillard as an assistant at Weber State, building a winning Northern Colorado program, and his plans to turnaround Wyoming. Make sure you download, rate and subscribe here to get the latest All Ball Podcasts! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

This lecture was offered at UVA on March 21st, 2019. For more info on upcoming TI events, visit: https://thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 Speaker Bio: R. J. Snell is Director of the Center on the University and Intellectual Life. Prior to his appointment at the Witherspoon Institute, he was for many years Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy Program at Eastern University and the Templeton Honors College, where he founded and directed the Agora Institute for Civic Virtue and the Common Good. He earned his M.A. in philosophy at Boston College, and his Ph.D. in philosophy at Marquette University. Research interests include the liberal arts, ethics, natural law theory, Thomas Aquinas, the Catholic intellectual tradition, and the work of Bernard Lonergan, SJ. He is the author of Through a Glass Darkly: Bernard Lonergan and Richard Rorty on Knowing without a God’s-eye View (Marquette, 2006), Authentic Cosmopolitanism (with Steve Cone, Pickwick, 2013), The Perspective of Love: Natural Law in a New Mode (Pickwick, 2014), Acedia and Its Discontents (Angelico, 2015), and co-editor of Subjectivity: Ancient and Modern (Lexington, 2016) and Nature: Ancient and Modern (Lexington), as well as articles, chapters, and essays in a variety of scholarly and popular venues. He and his family reside in the Princeton area.

In this episode Huang Yuan and I interview Justin Sytsma, Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy Program at Victoria University, on experimental philosophy.

Synesthesia And The MindThe world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.~ W. B. YeatsDr. Berit Oskar Brogaard - is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark (Danish) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States (American) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher (philosopher) specializing in the areas of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_neuroscience (cognitive neuroscience), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mind (philosophy of mind), and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_language (philosophy of language). Her recent work concerns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia (synesthesia), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savant_syndrome (savant syndrome), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight (blindsight) and perceptual reports. She is Professor of Philosophy and runs a perception lab at the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Miami (University of Miami) in Coral Gables, Florida.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berit_Brogaard#cite_note-cv-1 ([1])https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berit_Brogaard#cite_note-2 ([2]) After co-authoring http://geni.us/brogaard (The Superhuman Mind,) which is about how ordinary individuals can change their minds and brains, she continued looking at how we can bring about positive changes not just in the area of extraordinary abilities but also to mood, personality and the meaning of life. Brit has a different take on improved connections with the concept of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia (synesthesia) to improve mindset from direct experience with challenging life travels. Ed Note: Synesthesia is a favorite concept I've referenced over the years and Brit takes it's application to a much deeper level. Brief IntroductionThe limits of my language means the limits of my world.~ Ludwig WittgenstienBrogaard was born and raised in Copenhagen. From an early age, she excelled at physics, mathematics, and biology, eventually completing her undergraduate education at the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen) with a bachelor's degree in linguistics and philosophy.  Upon completion of her degrees in Copenhagen she studied linguistics and philosophy at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_at_Buffalo,_The_State_University_of_New_York (the University at Buffalo), where she obtained her https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophy (Ph.D.) with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Smith_(academic) (Barry Smith) as her supervisor. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Consciousness and the Philosophy Program directed by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chalmers (David Chalmers) at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_National_University (Australian National University) from 2007 to 2009,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berit_Brogaard#cite_note-4 ([4]) and her first tenure-track position was at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Illinois_University_Edwardsville (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville), from 2001 to 2005.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berit_Brogaard#cite_note-5 ([5]) She was subsequently appointed Associate Professor of Philosophy (2008–2012) and Professor of Philosophy (2012–2014) at University of Missouri, St. Louis. She has taught at the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Miami (University of Miami) since 2014.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berit_Brogaard#cite_note-cv-1 ([1]) Significant ContributionsBrit served as President of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology and was the first female President of the Central States Philosophical Association.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berit_Brogaard#cite_note-6 ([6])https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berit_Brogaard#cite_note-7 ([7]) Brogaard is also a Danish-language poethttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berit_Brogaard#cite_note-8 ([8]) and the author of three books, http://geni.us/brogaard2 (Transient Truths), http://geni.us/brogaard1 (On Romantic Love) and http://geni.us/brogaard...

Host: Chris Mooney Our guest this week is a return guest of the show, Massimo Pigliucci. We last heard about his book Nonsense on Stilts, which was about how to distinguish between science and pseudoscience. But his newest effort is in some ways even more ambitious. It's called Answers for Aristotle: How Science and Philosophy Can Lead Us to a More Meaningful Life. And in it, Pigliucci lays out an approach that he calls "sci-phi." It involves assessing the science of an issue—like, say, the biology of romance—and then also weighing an array of philosophical considerations, before figuring out how to negotiate this life domain. It's quite the heady undertaking—but, well, that never stopped us here before.... Massimo Pigliucci is a professor in the Philosophy Program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and was formerly a biology professor at Stony Brook University. He is the author or editor of eight previous books, most recently Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk. He lives in New York City.