The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Society & Culture:Philosophy
There are many ways people are trying to know themselves these days – from taking the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test to analyzing their astrological birth charts to identifying their attachment styles. But are any of these methods helpful? Allie Volpe, a senior reporter at Vox, discusses this with Mitch Green, a philosophy professor at the University of Connecticut and author of the book Know Thyself: The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge. Together they explore why there’s an increased interest in self-knowledge, the merits of self-discovery, and the best way to truly know ourselves.
Host: Allie Volpe (@allieevolpe), Senior Reporter, Vox
Guest: Mitch Green, Philosophy professor at the University of Connecticut
References:
Enjoyed this episode? Rate The Gray Area ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ and leave a review on Apple Podcasts.
Subscribe for free. Be the first to hear the next episode of The Gray Area. Subscribe in your favorite podcast app.
Support The Gray Area by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts
This episode was made by:
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What a slow civil war looks like
How to listen
Why we can't give up on persuasion
Rep. Katie Porter's working-class politics
The climate apocalypse will be televised
A philosopher takes on religious life
Your brain isn't so private anymore
Brian Stelter thinks the news has a reliability problem
How corporations got all your data
The case for failure
Poetry as religion
Revisiting the American Dream
The cost of saving pandas
Breaking our family patterns
For Black horror fans, fact is scarier than fiction
Taking Nietzsche seriously
The dark history of Silicon Valley
The value of being a "hater"
Behind the blue wall
Best of: Imagine a future with no police
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
The Modern West
Today, Explained
Re/Code Decode
The Vergecast
Shutdown Fullcast
The Impact