35 - Barry Lam: Philosophical Zombies, Resurrecting Cannibals, & Dating Vampires
Robinson's Podcast15 Joulu 2022

35 - Barry Lam: Philosophical Zombies, Resurrecting Cannibals, & Dating Vampires

Barry Lam is the host of Hi-Phi Nation, which is a much better podcast than this one, and which is devoted to exploring pressing philosophical questions through narrative. He did his graduate work at Princeton, then taught at Vassar, and will soon be picking up a new professorial post at UC Riverside. In this episode Robinson and Barry discuss the philosophical problems posed by certain monsters that were the subject of a three-part series in Hi-Phi Nation (namely zombies, cannibals, and vampires), along with David Lewis, the role of imagination in philosophy, and the risks of devoting time to public philosophy in an academic world that doesn’t prioritize it.

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156 - Fay Dowker: Wormholes, Quantum Gravity, and Causal Set Theory

156 - Fay Dowker: Wormholes, Quantum Gravity, and Causal Set Theory

Fay Dowker is Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London, where she works broadly on quantum gravity, and more particularly on an approach called causal set theory that takes the most...

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155 - Tony Padilla: Mathematical Platonism, Intergalactic Doppelgängers, and Gigantic Numbers

155 - Tony Padilla: Mathematical Platonism, Intergalactic Doppelgängers, and Gigantic Numbers

Tony Padilla is Professor of Physics in the School of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Nottingham, where he is the Associate Director of the new Nottingham Centre of Gravity. Tony works in cos...

18 Loka 20231h 12min

154 - Richard Wolff: Karl Marx and the Myths of Marxism

154 - Richard Wolff: Karl Marx and the Myths of Marxism

Richard Wolff is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor at The New School, where he works on economics in the Marxist tradition. This is Ri...

15 Loka 20231h 41min

153 - Alan Stern: New Horizons and Mankind’s First Mission to Pluto

153 - Alan Stern: New Horizons and Mankind’s First Mission to Pluto

Alan Stern is a planetary scientist, space program executive, aerospace consultant, and author. He leads NASA’s 880 million dollar New Horizons mission, which explored Pluto and its moons before headi...

13 Loka 20231h 1min

152 - Geraint F. Lewis: Is The Universe Fine-Tuned For Life?

152 - Geraint F. Lewis: Is The Universe Fine-Tuned For Life?

Geraint F. Lewis is Professor of Astrophysics at the Sydney Institute for Astronomy in the University of Sydney’s School of Physics. While the focus of his research is on dark matter and energy, Gerai...

11 Loka 20231h 52min

151 - Michael Levin: Synthetic Life, Collective Intelligence, and Morphogenesis

151 - Michael Levin: Synthetic Life, Collective Intelligence, and Morphogenesis

Michael Levin is a Distinguished Professor in the Biology Department at Tufts University, where he holds the Vannevar Bush endowed Chair, and he is also associate faculty at the Wyss Institute at Harv...

8 Loka 20231h 33min

150 - John Mather: The Big Bang and the Cosmic Microwave Background

150 - John Mather: The Big Bang and the Cosmic Microwave Background

John Mather is a Senior Astrophysicist in the Observational Cosmology Laboratory at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. He was the recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for his role as Principl...

6 Loka 20231h 47min

149 - Jonathan Lear: Free Association and the Fundamental Rule of Psychoanalysis

149 - Jonathan Lear: Free Association and the Fundamental Rule of Psychoanalysis

Jonathan Lear is the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Philosophy and at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is also a practicing psychoanal...

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