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 Nov 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 Nov 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 Nov 20232h 24min
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
