212 - Deborah Gordon: Ants, Myrmecology, and Collective Behavior
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Deborah Gordon is Professor of Biology at Stanford University. She is a myrmecologist—an entomologist who studies ants—focusing on how complex behavior emerges from an...
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211 - Jay Chandrasekhar: Comedy, Creative Integrity, Super Troopers, & Jackass
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Jay Chandrasekhar is a director, writer, stand-up comic, and actor. Some of his works include directing Super Troopers, Beerfest, and Dukes of Hazzard. He has also dir...
10 Jun 20241h 14min
210 - David Albert & Tim Maudlin: A Discussion of Niels Bohr, Measurement, & Quantum Mechanics
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 David Albert is the Frederick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, director of the Philosophical Foundations of Physics program at Columbia, a...
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209 - Peter Singer: Controversial Ideas, Utilitarianism, and Animal Liberation
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor Emeritus of Bioethics in the Department of Philosophy at Princeton University. He is among the most influential living philosop...
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208 - Victor Davis Hanson: Annihilation, Genocide, and World War III
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Victor Davis Hanson is a renowned classicist, military historian, and political commentator. He is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics...
20 Mai 20241h 4min
207 - Sean Carroll: Quanta, Fields, and the Philosophy of Quantum Physics
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Sean Carroll is Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. He is also the host of Sean Carroll...
12 Mai 20241h 44min
206 - Slavoj Žižek & Lee Smolin: Marxism Meets Quantum Physics
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Slavoj Žižek is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London and a senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana’...
5 Mai 202459min
205 - Nick Bostrom: Superintelligence, Posthumanity, and AI Utopia
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Nick Bostrom is a Swedish philosopher who was most recently Professor at Oxford University, where he served as the founding Director of the Future of Humanity Institut...
28 Apr 20241h 6min
