145 - Deirdre McCloskey: What Is Classical Liberalism?
Deirdre McCloskey is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Economics and of History and Professor Emerita of English and of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is also Isaiah Berl...
24 Sep 20231h 56min
144 - Carl Wieman: Winning the Nobel Prize, Bose-Einstein Condensates, & Science Education
Carl Wieman is Cheriton Family Professor, Professor of Physics, and Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University and winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics for the production and observat...
22 Sep 20231h 58min
143 - Andrew Knoll: The Origins of Life on Earth
Andrew Knoll is the Fisher Professor of Natural History in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. Andy’s work straddles the line between the early evolution of life on E...
20 Sep 20231h 54min
142 - Tim Maudlin: Carnap, Kuhn, Bell’s Inequality, & The Philosophy of Science
Tim Maudlin is Professor of Philosophy at NYU and Founder and Director of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics. Tim is renowned as one of the leading philosophers of physics, and he ...
17 Sep 20232h 1min
141 - Norman Naimark: The History of Genocide
Norman Naimark is Robert & Florence McDonnell Professor of East European History at Stanford University. He is also Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution and the Institute of International Studies. ...
15 Sep 20232h 14min
140 - John Burgess: Realism in the Philosophy of Mathematics
John Burgess is John N. Woodhull Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, where he works in mathematical and philosophical logic and the philosophy of mathematics. In this episode, Robinson an...
13 Sep 20231h 34min
139 - Lawrence Summers: Economic Policy, Free Speech, and The Pursuit of Truth
Lawrence Summers is the President Emeritus and Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University. He also served as the 71st Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration, as Direc...
10 Sep 202358min
138 - Konstantin Batygin: Planet Nine, Oumuamua, and the Death of Pluto
Konstantin Batygin is Professor of Planetary Science in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at the California Institute of Technology, where he works on a wide variety of problems relate...
8 Sep 20232h
