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This View of Life
This View of Life takes a deep dive with the best and brightest thinkers on anything and everything from an evolutionary perspective. TVOL is a product of the non-profit ProSocial World and hosted by co-founder and President David Sloan Wilson.
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Forever Green: Building a cooperative innovation platform for diversification in Midwest agriculture with Nick Jordan & Whitney Clark
David Sloan Wilson speaks with Professor Nick Jordan and Whitney Clark, Executive Director of Friends of the Mississippi River, about their work on th...
The Science of Imagined Worlds: Evolution and Ecology for World Builders - A conversation between Carlo Maley, Vaughn Aktipis-Maley & David Sloan Wilson
Join David Sloan Wilson in conversation with Carlo Maley and Vaughn Aktipis-Maley as they explore how evolutionary science can inspire deeper, more in...
Shaping AI for Good: Prosocial Hybrid Intelligence for a Thriving Future - A conversation between Cornelia Walther and David Sloan Wilson
AI is no longer a distant future - it’s shaping our lives right now. But what if we could design it not just to be smart, but to be good? In this powe...
Democracy’s Deep Roots: From Hunter-Gatherers to Modern Society -- A conversation between Vivek Venkataraman and David Sloan Wilson
What if the roots of democracy run far deeper than ancient Greece or Enlightenment Europe, but back to our evolutionary origins as humans?
In th...
Decolonizing Ecology: Rethinking Nature in a Broken World
A conversation between Madhusudan Katti and Amitangshu Acharya
Join us for a thought-provoking virtual dialogue exploring how colonial worldview...
Addressing the Wicked Problem of Housing Insecurity in Binghamton New York with Rebecca Rathmell
Originally published on September 9, 2024
Hunter-Gatherer Societies, Human Origins, and Modern Democracies with Vivek Venkataraman (Part 1)
Originally published on January 8, 2025.
Hunter-gatherer societies are fascinating in their own right and--with appropriate caution--a major sou...
Hunter-Gatherer Societies, Human Origins, and Modern Democracies with Vivek Venkataraman (Part 2)
Hunter-gatherer societies are fascinating in their own right and--with appropriate caution--a major source of insight about our ancestral past, stretc...
Barry-Wehmiller’s Bold Experiment in Prosocial Cultural Evolution
Who is Barry-Wehmiller (BW)? Not a person, but a manufacturing corporation and star attraction of the Conscious Capitalism movement. If you are famili...
Evolving Prosocial Cities, with Jonathan Rose
Few people know more about cities than Jonathan Rose, author of The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature T...
Assessing the Complexity/Evolution Paradigm for Economics with Eric Beinhocker
The first book-length articulation of an economic paradigm based on complex systems science and evolutionary science was Eric Beinhocker's The Origin...
Conscious Capitalism Viewed Through The Lens of a New Paradigm with Bob Chapman & Raj Sisodia
Conscious capitalism is well known as a business movement that goes against almost everything that is taught in business school. However, the same mov...
A Theory of Everyone as a New Paradigm with Michael Muthukrishna and David Sloan Wilson
Michael Muthukrishna's new book A Theory of Everyone is the latest in a lineage of authors that include Peter Richerson and Robert Boyd (Culture and t...
Updating Darwin and Tocqueville on Self Interest, Rightly Understood, with Robert Putnam
In 1831, two youths embarked upon voyages that would change the way that we view the world today. The first was Charles Darwin and the second was Alex...
Wicked Problems and How To Solve Them with Guru Madhavan
Guru Madhavan is Norman R. Augustine Senior Scholar, Senior Director of Programs, and Director of the Forum on Complex Unifiable Systems (FOCUS) at th...
Depolarizing Economic Theory and Practice with Paul Dragos Aligica
In my writing on generalized Darwinism as a new paradigm for economics and public policy, I stress that it doesn't fall into any current ideological c...
Announcing a New Paradigm for Economics and Beyond with Dennis Snower and David Sloan Wilson
Is it time to fundamentally rethink economics - its theoretical foundations, activities and processes; its purpose and goals? How should we reimagine...
Anti-Trust From a Multilevel Evolutionary Perspective with Denise Hearn
Increasingly, policymakers, investors, and advocates recognize that the neoliberal theory of economic organization – laissez faire – is a failed exper...
What Happened to Selfish Genes? with J. Arvid Agren
J. Arvid Agren's book The Gene's Eye View of Evolution (Oxford University Press, 2021), is a highly praised scholarly account of the concept of selfis...
No Best Way, with Stephen Colarelli and Max Beilby
Max Beilby and Steve Colarelli discuss the application of evolutionary psychology to Human Resource Management. They cover Steve’s academic career, an...
Human Nature at Work, with Andrew O'Keeffe
TVOL guest host Max Beilby talks with Andrew O'Keeffe about his work helping leaders make better sense of the human dimension of their role, so that t...
The Study of Nature in Early America: A Conversation with Lee Dugatkin
What was the study of nature like before Darwin? It was an integral part of the Enlightenment and was avidly pursued by early Americans such as Thomas...
Managing the Human Animal, with Nigel Nicholson and Max Beilby
Max Beilby and Nigel Nicholson discuss the application of evolutionary psychology to the world of business and management. They cover Nigel Nicholson’...
Cultural Evolution with Alex Mesoudi
In the last 30 years, evolutionary theory has undergone explosive growth in studying humans as a fundamentally cultural species.
David talks wit...
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[BONUS] Robert Kurzban On the Modular Mind
In this bonus archive episode, David talks with evolutionary psychologist Robert Kurzban about his book, "Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolutio...
Positive Deviance as the Third Way: A Conversation with David K. Hurst
During our discussion group exploring TVOL's Third Way Series, What is Positive Deviance? There's a small chance that you know all about it and a lar...
The Third Way of Entrepreneurship with Victor Hwang
Since the Third Way series is centered on entrepreneurship, even though it also applies to all forms of positive social change, it is only fitting for...
Peter J. Richerson: Morality from an Evolutionary Perspective
David discusses morality from an evolutionary perspective with analytic philosopher Peter J. Richerson.
Peter is best known for his seminal work...
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[BONUS EPISODE] Geoffrey Hodgson on Evolutionary Thinking and Its Policy Implications for Modern Capitalism
This interview was recorded almost 10 years ago at a workshop entitled, "Evolutionary Thinking and Its Policy Implications for Modern Capitalism". We...
Morality from an Evolutionary Perspective with Simon Blackburn
David discusses morality from an evolutionary perspective with analytic philosopher Simon Blackburn. Along the way they cover whether functionality di...
The Nordic Third Way
Again and again—including some of the previous episodes—the Nordic countries are identified as exemplars of good governance and the Third Way. In this...
Ecosystems are Probably Not What You Think: A Conversation with Tom Whitham
What are ecosystems? Do they achieve some kind of balance in their natural state? Do they evolve in a way that can't be explained by the evolution of...
Development and the Third Way with Scott Peters
As part of TVOL's "Third Way" series of conversations, I explore the concept of "Development" as a type of cultural change effort with Scott Peters, P...
The Third Way in the Internet Age with Tim O’Reilly
Modern life has been transformed by electronic communication, starting with the telegraph and now in full force with the Internet Age. There are many...
Smart Cities and the Third Way with Dan O'Brien
Urban planning represents one kind of positive change effort that has suffered from excessive reliance on laissez-faire in some instances and centrali...
Science as a Moral System with Robert T. Pennock
Science is often imagined as limited to the "facts" and deliberately set apart from "values". But the pursuit of objective reality requires its own se...