The Two Cultures (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Minds Almost Meeting: Season 8, Episode 11.
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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.
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F. R. Leavis' famous critique of Snow is necessary reading in the history of responses to Snow (Leavis, 1962, Two Cultures? The Significance of C. P. Snow)