165 - Anubav Vasudevan: The Metaphysics of Charles Sanders Peirce
Anubav Vasudevan is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago, where he works in formal epistemology and the history of logic, though he has published in a numbe...
10 Nov 20231h 45min
164 - Geoffrey West: Complexity Theory and The Scaling Laws of Biology
Geoffrey West is Shannan Distinguished Professor and Past President at the Santa Fe Institute. He is a theoretical physicist who has worked broadly on topics related to elementary particles and their ...
8 Nov 20232h 8min
163 - Daniel Levitin: Songwriting and the Neuroscience of Music
Daniel Levitin is Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neuroscience at McGill University and Founding Dean of Arts & Humanities at Minerva University. He is also a record producer, musician, and write...
5 Nov 20231h 8min
162 - Tim Palmer: Chaos Theory, Probabilistic Forecasting, and Climate Change
Tim Palmer is Royal Society Research Professor in Climate Physics at the University of Oxford, where he is a Senior Fellow at the Oxford Martin Institute and a Professorial Fellow at Jesus College. Ti...
3 Nov 20231h 56min
161 - James Owen Weatherall: Nothingness and the Physics of the Void
James Owen Weatherall is Professor of Logic and the Philosophy of Science and Department Chair at the University of California, Irvine, where he is also a member of the Institute for Mathematical Beha...
1 Nov 20231h 27min
160 - David Friedman: What is Anarcho-Capitalism?
David Friedman is Professor Emeritus at the Santa Clara University School of Law. While he was trained as a physicist, David is best known for his work in economics, and particularly his defense of an...
29 Okt 20231h 59min
159 - Erik Verlinde: Entropic Gravity, Black Holes, and the Holographic Principle
Erik Verlinde is Professor of Physics in the Faculty of Science at the University of Amsterdam, where he specializes in quantum gravity and string theory, black holes, and cosmology. In this episode, ...
27 Okt 20231h 51min
158 - Sheldon Solomon: Terror Management Theory and the Denial of Death
Sheldon Solomon is Professor of Psychology at Skidmore College. He is best known for developing terror management theory with Tom Pyszczynski and Jeff Greenberg, which explores human psychology and mo...
25 Okt 20231h 22min
