60 - Liam Kofi Bright - The Search for Truth Two for Tea Podcast

You can find out more about Liam’s academic credentials here: https://www.liamkofibright.com/

Liam’s talk on “Why Scientists Lie” can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNs1sumAT68

Remco Heesen and Liam on “Is Peer Review a Good Thing”?:
https://philpapers.org/rec/HEEIPR

Listen to Liam’s interview with Sean Carroll on the nature of truth here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNs1sumAT68

Listen to Liam’s interviews with Andrew Lynn Lewis here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koDd4kMDo6Q

And here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a491GwvnEOI

Liam’s Letter exchange with Andrea on Critical Race Theory can be found here:
https://letter.wiki/conversation/322

Liam’s Letter with me on hating oneself can be found here:
https://letter.wiki/conversation/544

Follow Liam’s blog here: http://sootyempiric.blogspot.com/

Write to Liam at Letter:
https://letter.wiki/LiamKofiBright/conversations

Follow Liam on Twitter: @lastpositivist

Liam on the positivists (interview with former guest of this podcast, Aaron Rabinowitz, see episode 46 “Is Civility Overrated”):
https://voidpod.com/podcasts/2019/9/19/ev-108-logical-positivism-with-liam-bright

Further References

Some more sources on Rudolf Carnap: http://www.carnap.org/

Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (1968); the 1982 film version was directed by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin jr.

David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40)

Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape (2010)

My article on Bruce, “Thoughts on a Friend’s Suicide”:
https://areomagazine.com/2017/09/10/thoughts-on-a-friends-suicide/

Timestamps

2:06 The positivists
9:32 Moral philosophy and the is–ought gap.
16:24 Why scientists lie: bad incentives in science
24:16 The value of diversity of intellectual enquiry
37:33 The problem with peer review
44:05 The Star Trek post-scarcity future and the Bladerunner future
52:55 The nature of truth
1:22:35 Self-hatred
1:56:25 Twitter and parasocial relationships