- 111
- Episodes
- 4
- Transcribed
- 91
- Ratings
- 2021
- First episode
About Minds Almost Meeting
Imagine two smart curious friendly and basically truth-seeking people, but from very different intellectual traditions. Traditions with different tools, priorities, and ground rules. What would they discuss? Would they talk past each other? Make any progress? Would anyone want to hear them? Economist Robin Hanson and philosopher Agnes Callard decided to find out.
- Publisher
- Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson
- Category
- society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 9 Nov 2021
- Latest episode
- 12 Jul 2026
Latest episodes
4 of 111 episodes have a transcript.
12 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Durkheim, The Division of Labor in Society (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)
28 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
Simmel, Philosophy of Money, Ch. 1 (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)
14 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
Seeing Like A State (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)
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Durkheim, The Division of Labor in Society (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)
Published 12 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So their solidarity wasn't a loyalty that kept people together necessarily. But whereas with the division of labor, you really need everybody to have their separate parts. And if somebody were to leave and leave that spot open, you'd be more in trouble. And so now there's more of a reason to prevent people from leaving or to entice them to stay under this. less passionate form of solidarity. Right. So I thought that was significant because what it does is suggest a difference in kind in what it is for people to be glued together to one another. Like there's a way in which they were glued together with a stronger force in mechanical solidarity. […]
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