A Million Little Gods
Aaron Gowen
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Book 3: Introduction – Part Two
Cafe La Morenita. “The little dark-haired girl.” Ehn. Should’ve made Yerba Mate or something. All right, let’s get back to it.Once people around the world had finally caught on to the fact that…
Book 3: Introduction – Part One
Uki Goñi was born in the United States. Much to the chagrin of folks whose political fortunes—and embarrassment of power—have lately been restored, that would normally mean that Goñi was an American…
Book 3 Teaser
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Book 3: Foreword
Hello. Hi. My name is Aaron Gowen, and I’m here to tell you about this show that you’re listening to: A Million Little Gods. A Million Little Gods has been around for—I’m just gonna keep saying “A…
Special Episode: Thanksgiving 2023
It’s my favorite holiday again, and even though I’m hunkered down trying to produce the most complex, intricate, creative season of the podcast yet, there’s no way I’m going to skip a chance to…
Special Episode: Stephen Metcalf
Steve Metcalf seems to shed urbanity and passion like I shed dandruff. His off-the-cuff manner of speech is as trenchant as his writing, and he is able to say wise things about any subject.Here he…
Special Episode: Ayah Nuriddin and Nathaniel Comfort
In order to entice more people to become subscribers, here is our full interview (complimenting my three-part essay “The Razor Blade in the Apple,” which I released last month and you can read here)…
Book 2 Episode 11: "Don't Call It Race"
We've reached the heart of the part of our series "Race: Is That a Thing?" devoted to statistics and data. Having laid the groundwork for understanding Bayesian techniques and machine learning—as…
An AMLG Thanksgiving Message
Ben and Aaron, their families, and their colleagues and students at the University of Hamburg wish everyone in America a Happy Thanksgiving. Here's a little tone poem, so to speak, for the holiday.…
Special Episode - Polling: We're Determined (But Nothing Else Is)
Is the margin of error the same thing as the percentage of certainty you can have in that margin of error? Can a prediction ever happen in a vacuum without affecting the thing it's making a…
Book 2 - Episode 10: "Ballpark Figures Part II"
Continuing the theme from Episode 9, we closely examine: how machine learning works, how our subconsciouses—both individual and collective—learn from the past, making ad hoc categories based on…
Book 2 - Episode 9: "Ballpark Figures Part I"
We flip to the B-Side of Season 2, as we enter a section of the season devoted to statistics and mathematical modeling. In this episode we examine the life and career of baseball great Ted Williams…
Book 2 Episode 8: "The Holy Family in a Pane of Frosted Glass" (encore)
Today we begin part two—or, as we're calling it, the B Side—of season two, "Race: Is That a Thing?" To kick things off we're re-releasing the last episode of part one, Episode 8: "The Holy Family in…
Book 2 - Episode 8: "The Holy Family in a Pane of Frosted Glass"
To set the stage for part two of our series, “Race: Is That a Thing?", we take a deep look at a recurring metaphor that has permeated our entire series. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out…
Book 2 - Ep 7 Footcast Appendix
Once again, this is a set of material that we couldn’t fit into Episode Seven: “Categorical Declarative” proper. Consider the contents of the appendix the audio footnote podcasts—or “footcasts”—to…
Book 2, Chapter 7: "Categorical Declarative"
According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, he “is the central figure in modern philosophy. He synthesized early modern rationalism and empiricism, set the terms for much of nineteenth and…
Book 2 - Episode 6: "What the What?"
When people talk about things as social constructs, should we understand that as derision or dismissal? Do socially constructed human kinds, like races, get realer over time, the more those who…
Book 2 - Episode 5: "Deflation Part II"
Can there be a plurality of concepts of race floating in the social air? If so, are we okay with that? Are there pragmatic uses for one or more of those concepts in the areas of medicine or public…
Book 2- Episode 4: "Deflation Part I"
If race has no essence, then is it an irrational social contrivance? Or is it somewhere in-between? We speak with Michael Hardimon, Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego,…
Book 2 - Episode 3: "Kinds"
As our guest this episode, philosopher Stewart Umphrey, writes, “Our everyday understanding of natural things presupposes that their reality does not depend on how we regard them, and that the way we…
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