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Podcast: The DemystifySci Podcast
Episode: Virtues & Vices of Misanthropy - Dr. Ian James Kidd
Description: Dr. Kidd is a philosopher at the University of Nottingham, concerned with epistemological vices: fractures in the way that humans come to understand their world. One intriguing philosophical problem that Dr. Kidd has considered recently is the idea of misanthropy: the suspicion that humans have, on balance, done a lot of bad during their tenure on Earth. But misanthropy is not the same as selective hatreds of racism, sexism, or other supremacist ideologies. To the extent that a misanthropist harbors hatred, it is directed at humans as a whole. However, hateful, enemy-of-humanity type misanthropists are actually by far in t...