133 - Ian Hutchinson: Plasma Physics & The Compatibility of Science and Religion
Ian Hutchinson is Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering in he Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT. He works in both plasma physics and ...
27 Aug 20232h 12min
132 - Jonathan Shedler: Freud, Psychoanalysis, and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Jonathan Shedler is Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco and a faculty member at the San Francisco Center for Psych...
25 Aug 20231h 25min
131 - Tal Ben-Shahar: What Is Happiness?
Tal Ben-Shahar did his undergraduate and graduate work at Harvard, where he later lectured on positive psychology and taught the most popular course in the university’s history. He is now a speaker an...
23 Aug 20231h 6min
130 - Donald Hoffman: The Illusion of Reality
Donald Hoffman is Professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, where he also has joint appointments in the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Log...
20 Aug 20231h 57min
129 - Jeremi Suri: The Impossibility of the American Presidency
Jeremi Suri holds the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is Professor of History in the Department of History and the LBJ Sc...
18 Aug 20231h 58min
128 - Clara Sousa-Silva: Exoplanets, Astrobiology, and the Search For Alien Life
Clara Sousa-Silva is a professor of physics at Bard College, where she is a quantum astrochemist and molecular astrophysicist. The focus of Clara’s work is on investigating the interaction of particul...
16 Aug 20231h 26min
127 - Richard Wolff: What’s Wrong with Capitalism?
Richard Wolff is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor at The New School, where he works on economics in the Marxist tradition. In this ep...
13 Aug 20231h 32min
126 - Michael Strevens: Scientific Explanation & Methodology and The Knowledge Machine
Michael Strevens is Professor of Philosophy at New York University, where he works across the philosophy of science and the philosophical applications of cognitive science. In this episode, Robinson a...
11 Aug 20231h 21min
