{"id":11893,"date":"2014-04-30T14:44:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T21:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=11893"},"modified":"2014-05-01T17:26:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T00:26:08","slug":"help-wanted-moving-naturalism-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/30\/help-wanted-moving-naturalism-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Wanted: Moving Naturalism Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Update:<\/strong> This request received an amazing response! I had to make a tough choice, but I&#8217;ve picked someone to do the paid work of making a careful outline and suggesting possible excerpts. Thanks for everyone who sent a query.<\/p>\n<p>Following ideas mentioned in the comments, however, there&#8217;s no reason why anyone cannot simply volunteer their own suggestions for parts of the videos that would make good excerpts. So, if anyone is so motivated, feel free to leave suggestions in the comments to this post. We might not be able to take all of them, but anything sensible will be considered. Thanks!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a year and a half since the <a href=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/naturalism2012\/\">Moving Naturalism Forward<\/a> workshop, which featured a great line-up of thinkers: Jerry Coyne, Richard Dawkins, Terry Deacon, Simon DeDeo, Dan Dennett, Owen Flanagan, Rebecca Goldstein, Janna Levin, Massimo Pigliucci, David Poeppel, Alex Rosenberg, Don Ross, and Steven Weinberg. Fortunately we got the whole thing on <a href=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/naturalism2012\/video.html\">video<\/a>, so the conversations are preserved for posterity. Unfortunately, that amounts to ten videos, each about an hour and a half long. Not a quick watch for someone who just wants the highlights!<\/p>\n<p>     <div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Moving Naturalism Forward: Day 1, Morning, 1st Session\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_Ju4C_ITlBsU\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/Ju4C_ITlBsU\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ju4C_ITlBsU\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT1H18M14S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2012-12-11T07:59:41Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_Ju4C_ITlBsU\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/Ju4C_ITlBsU\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Moving Naturalism Forward: Day 1, Morning, 1st Session<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Ju4C_ITlBsU\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/Ju4C_ITlBsU\/0.jpg\" alt=\"Moving Naturalism Forward: Day 1, Morning, 1st Session\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Discussion at the Moving Naturalism Forward workshop, October 2012. Participants include Sean Carroll, Jerry Coyne, Richard Dawkins, Terrence Deacon, Simon DeDeo, Daniel Dennett, Owen Flangan, Rebecca Goldstein, Janna Levin, David Poeppel, Massimo Pigliucci, Nicholas Pritzker, Alex Rosenberg, Don Ross, and Steven Weinberg. http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/naturalism2012\/ This is the 1st of 10 sessions, consisting of introductions for most of the participants. See the website for more information and links to the other videos.\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>So ever since the workshop, I&#8217;ve been wanting to go through the entire video record and make it more organized and digestible. That basically amounts to two things:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Create a semi-detailed listing of who says what, when. So someone who wanted to hear Dan Dennett&#8217;s defense of free will could just skip right to that part of the relevant video &#8212; and could also see who mounted a challenge to it.<\/li>\n<li>Edit the long videos into much shorter highlights. Some very short bits of rhetorical brilliance, and\/or some medium-length exchanges of separate interest.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to re-watch all the videos myself and do the above tasks, but it&#8217;s pretty clear that other obligations are in the way and it&#8217;s not going to happen. I have someone who will do the actual video editing, so really it&#8217;s about watching all the videos and making some intellectual\/artistic decisions about what snippets might be good on their own.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8212; anyone want to do it? This would be a paid gig, although it&#8217;s nothing you&#8217;d earn a living on, I promise you. I&#8217;m looking for a person with some kind of background both in science and philosophy, who can follow all the discussions and sensibly dissect them. Maybe about a week&#8217;s worth of work or a bit less, although it wouldn&#8217;t all have to be done within a week.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested, <strong>shoot me an email<\/strong> (not a comment here), explaining a bit about what your background is. It&#8217;s not an enormous rush, although I&#8217;d like to get it done sooner rather than later. Could be fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: This request received an amazing response! I had to make a tough choice, but I&#8217;ve picked someone to do the paid work of making a careful outline and suggesting possible excerpts. Thanks for everyone who sent a query. 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