173 - Ken Olum: What Are Cosmic Strings?
Ken Olum is Research Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Tufts University, where he works on exotic physics and topics in cosmology like cosmic strings, gravitational waves, anthro...
2 Joulu 20231h 4min
172 - Joseph LeDoux: Neuroscience and The Four Realms of Human Existence
Joseph LeDoux is Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science, University Professor, Professor of Neural Science, Professor of Psychiatry, and Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at New York Uni...
29 Marras 20231h 31min
171 - Richard Haier: What Is Human Intelligence?
Richard Haier is Professor Emeritus in the School of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine, where he uses brain imagining and the tools of neuroscience to study learning, memory, and intell...
26 Marras 20231h 52min
170 - Sheldon Goldstein: Pilot Wave Theory and Bohmian Mechanics
Sheldon Goldstein is Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Rutgers University, where he researches mathematical physics, the foundations of quantum mechanics, and Bohmian Mechanics. He is also Boa...
24 Marras 20231h 31min
169 - Michael Graziano: The Attention Schema Theory of Consciousness
Michael Graziano is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University, where he and his lab research the brain basis of consciousness. Naturally, this is precisely what Michael and Robi...
19 Marras 20231h 56min
168 - Una Stojnić: Slurs, Linguistic Conventions, and the Philosophy of Language
Una Stojnić is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at Princeton University, where she works in the philosophy of language, formal semantics and pragmatics of natural language, and p...
17 Marras 20231h 13min
167 - David Wallace: The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
David Wallace is Mellon Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Before that, he obtained PhDs in both physics and philosophy at Oxford. David ...
15 Marras 20231h 51min
166 - Robert Stickgold: Dreams and the Role of Sleep in Memory and Emotional Processing
Robert Stickgold is Professor of Pyschiatry at Harvard Medical School, where he researches sleep and dreams from a cognitive neuroscience perspective. In this episode, Bob and Robinson discuss the rol...
12 Marras 20232h 24min
