200 | Solo: The Philosophy of the Multiverse
The 200th episode of Mindscape! Thanks to everyone for sticking around for this long. To celebrate, a solo episode discussing a set of issues naturally arising at the intersection of philosophy and ph...
6 Kesä 20222h 14min
199 | Elizabeth Cohen on Time and Other Political Values
Time is everywhere, pervading each aspect of intellectual inquiry — from physics to philosophy to biology to psychology, and all the way up to politics. Considerations of time help govern a nation's s...
30 Touko 20221h 12min
198 | Nick Lane on Powering Biology
The origin of life here on Earth was an important and fascinating event, but it was also a long time ago and hasn't left many pieces of direct evidence concerning what actually happened. One set of cl...
23 Touko 20221h 25min
197 | Catherine Brinkley on the Science of Cities
The concept of the city is a crucial one for human civilization: people living in proximity, bringing in resources from outside, separated from the labors of subsistence so they can engage in the trad...
16 Touko 20221h 8min
AMA | May 2022
Welcome to the May 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). I take the large number of questio...
12 Touko 20223h 36min
196 | Judea Pearl on Cause and Effect
To say that event A causes event B is to not only make a claim about our actual world, but about other possible worlds — in worlds where A didn't happen but everything else was the same, B would not h...
9 Touko 20221h 16min
195 | Richard Dawkins on Flight and Other Evolutionary Achievements
Evolution has equipped species with a variety of ways to travel through the air — flapping, gliding, floating, not to mention jumping really high. But it hasn't invented jet engines. What are the diff...
2 Touko 20221h 18min
194 | Frans de Waal on Culture and Gender in Primates
Humans are related to all other species here on Earth, but some are closer relatives than others. Primates, a group that includes apes, monkeys, lemurs, and others besides ourselves, are our closest r...
25 Huhti 20221h 8min
