Humans as Animals (w/ Crispin Sartwell and Dan Kaufman)

Daniel Kaufman and Crispin Sartwell talk about Crispin’s article for the New York Times, “Humans are Animals: Let’s Get Over It” (2/23/2021). (https://www-nytimes-com.newsproxy.inf...​) Topics include: Humanism and its roots; Racism; Hume’s Naturalism; and Normativity. 

:00 Crispin and Dan catch up after a hiatus
7:50 Crispin gives some background on his latest NYT article, “Humans are Animals: Let’s Get Over It”
11:15 The main thesis of “Humans are Animals”: Philosophy’s excessive investment in the humans/animals distinction since Antiquity.
20:20 Dan raises the question of Hume’s naturalism and its impact on Crispin’s thesis.
30:30 The Question of Humanism / Is a Materialist Humanism Possible?
36:40 Humanism and Racism
41:45 Etiology of the Human/Animal Distinction
1:00:25 The Human and the Normative