On Wisdom

Science Podcasts

On Wisdom features a social and cognitive scientist in Toronto and an educator in London discussing the latest empirical science regarding the nature of wisdom. Igor Grossmann runs the Wisdom & Culture Lab at the University of Waterloo in Canada....

Episodes

67: The Wisdom Turing Test - Part Two (with Steve Rathje)

66: The Wisdom Turing Test - Part One

65: Religion as Make-Believe (with Neil Van Leeuwen)

64: The Potency and Potential of Social Networks (with Nicholas Christakis)

63: The AI Mirror: Why Machines Reflect Us More Than They Think (with Shannon Vallor)

62: Experimental Philosophy: Testing the Limits of Wisdom and Knowledge (with Edouard Machery)

61: Beyond Bias: Group Identity, Wisdom, and the Climate Crisis (with Leaf Van Boven and David Sherman)

60: Wisdom, Love, and the Lexical Fallacy (with Alan Fiske)

59: Shaping Reality and Relationships: The Science of Connection and Expectation (with David Robson)

58: The Social Robots are Coming! (with Kerstin Dautenhahn)

57: The Epic Challenge of Knowing Thyself (with David Dunning)

56: Awe Reloaded (with Dacher Keltner)

55: Wise of the Machines (with Sina Fazelpour)

54: Emotions Are Not What You Think (with Lisa Feldman Barrett )

53: Moral Reframing and The Science of Political Persuasion (with Robb Willer)

52: World Wide Wisdom (with Deepak Ramola)

51: Tricky Colleagues and Contagious Emotions (with Tessa West)

50: Morality Meets World (with Joshua Greene)

49: Wise Goals (with Ayelet Fishbach)

48: A Joyous Journey from Black-and-White to Grey (with Tom Gilovich)