Rationally Speaking Podcast

Rationally Speaking is the bi-weekly podcast of New York City Skeptics. Join host Julia Galef and guests as they explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense, likely from unlikely, and science from pseudoscience. Any topic is fair game as long as we can bring reason to bear upon it, with both a skeptical eye and a good dose of humor! We agree with the Marquis de Condorcet, who said that in an open society we ought to devote ourselves to "the tracking down of prejudices in the hiding places where priests, the schools, the government, and all long-established institutions had gathered and protected them."Rationally Speaking was co-created with Massimo Pigliucci, is produced by Benny Pollak, and is recorded in the heart of New York City's Greenwich Village.

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Every guest on Rationally Speaking Podcast

168 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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James Ladyman
Rationally Speaking #69 - James Ladyman on Metaphysics · Sep 2012

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Patricia Churchland
Rationally Speaking #62 - Patricia Churchland on What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality · Jun 2012

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Tim Lee
Rationally Speaking #200 - Timothy Lee on "How much should tech companies moderate speech?" · Jan 2018

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Tom Griffiths
Rationally Speaking #161 - Tom Griffiths and Brian Christian on "Algorithms to Live By" · 2 episodes

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Will Wilkinson
Rationally Speaking #170 - Will Wilkinson on "Social justice and political philosophy" · Oct 2016

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Neil Degrasse Tyson
Rationally Speaking #103 - Neil deGrasse Tyson on Why He Doesn't Call Himself an Atheist · 2 episodes

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Jennifer Michael Hecht
Rationally Speaking #14 - Jennifer Michael Hecht on Science, Religion, Happiness, and Other Myths · Aug 2010

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Elise Crull
Rationally Speaking #127 - Elise Crull on Philosophy of Physics · Feb 2015

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Dean Simonton
Rationally Speaking #213 - Dean Simonton on "The causes of scientific and artistic genius" · Jul 2018

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Ian Morris
Rationally Speaking #138 - Ian Morris on, "Why the West rules -- for now" · Jul 2015

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Stephanie Lepp
Rationally Speaking #244 - Stephanie Lepp and Buster Benson on "Seeing other perspectives, with compassion" · Nov 2019

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Steven Novella
Rationally Speaking #118 - Live From Baruch College With Dr. Steven Novella · 2 episodes

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William Baude
Unfair laws / Why judges should be originalists (William Baude) · Mar 2021

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Ben Goldacre
Rationally Speaking #81 - Live! Ben Goldacre on Bad Pharma · Feb 2013

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Dan Sperber
Rationally Speaking #141 - Dan Sperber on "The Argumentative Theory of reason" · Aug 2015

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Graham Priest
Rationally Speaking #72 - Graham Priest on Paradoxes and Paraconsistent Logic · 2 episodes

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Gregg Caruso
Rationally Speaking #163 - Gregg Caruso on "Free Will and Moral Responsibility" · Jul 2016

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Jesse Prinz
Rationally Speaking #64 - Jesse Prinz on Looking Beyond Human Nature · Jul 2012

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Joshua Knobe
Rationally Speaking #21 - Joshua Knobe on Experimental Philosophy · Nov 2010

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Keith Frankish
Rationally Speaking #242 - Keith Frankish on "Why consciousness is an illusion" · Oct 2019

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Maarten Boudry
Rationally Speaking #115 - Maarten Boudry and Massimo On the Difference Between Science and Pseudoscience · 2 episodes

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Christopher Chabris
Rationally Speaking #209 - Christopher Chabris on "Collective intelligence & the ethics of A/B tests" · May 2018

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Kevin Esvelt
Dangerous biological research - is it worth it? (Kevin Esvelt) · Nov 2021

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Jim Holt
Rationally Speaking #86 - Live From NECSS With Jim Holt On Why Does the World Exist? · May 2013

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Jason Brennan
Rationally Speaking #176 - Jason Brennan on "Against democracy" · Jan 2017

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Anders Sandberg
Rationally Speaking #215 - Anders Sandberg on "Thinking about the long-term future of humanity" · Aug 2018

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Daniel Lakens
Rationally Speaking #123 - Daniel Lakens on P-Hacking and Other Problems in Psychology Research · Dec 2014

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Doug Hubbard
Rationally Speaking #197 - Doug Hubbard on "Why people think some things can't be quantified (and why they're wrong)" · Nov 2017

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Dylan Matthews
Rationally Speaking #234 - Dylan Matthews on "Global poverty has fallen, but what should we conclude from that?" · 2 episodes

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Jacob Appel
Rationally Speaking #160 - Live at NECSS -- Jacob Appel on "Tackling bioethical dilemmas" · May 2016

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Jesse Richardson
Rationally Speaking #146 - Jesse Richardson on "The pros and cons of making fallacies famous" · Nov 2015

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Aaron James
Rationally Speaking #119 - Aaron James on Assholes (and Bitches) · Oct 2014

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Alex Holcombe

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Amanda Askell
Rationally Speaking #190 - Amanda Askell on "Pascal's Wager and other low risks with high stakes" · Aug 2017

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Aviv Ovadya
Rationally Speaking #217 - Aviv Ovadya on "The problem of false, biased, and artificial news" · Sep 2018

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Ben Buchanan
Rationally Speaking #201 - Ben Buchanan on "The Cybersecurity Dilemma" · Feb 2018

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Chris Auld
Rationally Speaking #218 - Chris Auld on "Good and bad critiques of economics" · Oct 2018

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Chris Fraser
Rationally Speaking #223 - Chris Fraser on "The Mohists, ancient China's philosopher warriors" · Dec 2018

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Chris Mooney
Rationally Speaking #79 - Chris Mooney on The Republican War on Science · Jan 2013

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Clive Thompson
Rationally Speaking #233 - Clive Thompson on "The culture of coding, and how it's changing the world" · May 2019

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Recent episodes

263 episodes from the feed, newest first.

Is cash the best way to help the poor? (Michael Faye)
with Michael Faye

Dec 2021
Humanity on the precipice (Toby Ord)
with Toby Ord

Dec 2021
Dangerous biological research - is it worth it? (Kevin Esvelt)
with Kevin Esvelt

Nov 2021
Why we're polarized (Ezra Klein)
with Ezra Klein

Nov 2021
The genetic lottery (Kathryn Paige Harden)
with Kathryn Paige Harden

Oct 2021
How to reason about COVID, and other hard things (Kelsey Piper)
with Kelsey Piper

Sep 2021
"Price gouging" in emergencies
Aug 2021
How to be a data detective (Tim Harford)
with Tim Harford

Jun 2021
Are Uber and Lyft drivers being exploited?
Apr 2021
Unfair laws / Why judges should be originalists (William Baude)
with William Baude

Mar 2021
Intellectual honesty, cryptocurrency, & more (Vitalik Buterin)
with Vitalik Buterin

Mar 2021
Understanding moral disagreements (Jonathan Haidt)
with Jonathan Haidt

Feb 2021
The case for one billion Americans, & more (Matt Yglesias)
with Matthew Yglesias

Feb 2021
What's wrong with tech companies banning people? (Julian Sanchez)
with Julian Sanchez

Jan 2021
The case for racial colorblindness (Coleman Hughes)
with Coleman Hughes

Jan 2021
Are Democrats being irrational? (David Shor)
with David Shor

Dec 2020
The moral limits of markets / The problem with meritocracy (Michael Sandel)
with Michael Sandel

Dec 2020
Deaths of despair / Effective altruism (Angus Deaton)
with Angus Deaton

Nov 2020
Are Boomers to blame for Millennials' struggles?
Nov 2020
Rationally Speaking #244 - Stephanie Lepp and Buster Benson on "Seeing other perspectives, with compassion"
with Stephanie Lepp

Nov 2019
Rationally Speaking #243 - Bryan Caplan on "The Case for Open Borders"
with Bryan Caplan

Nov 2019
Rationally Speaking #242 - Keith Frankish on "Why consciousness is an illusion"
with Keith Frankish

Oct 2019
Rationally Speaking #241 - Thibault Le Texier on "Debunking the Stanford Prison Experiment"
with Thibault Le Texier

Oct 2019
Rationally Speaking #240 - David Manheim on "Goodhart's Law and why metrics fail"
with David Manheim

Sep 2019
Rationally Speaking #239 - Saloni Dattani on "The debate over whether male and female brains are different"
with Saloni Dattani

Sep 2019