125 - Bas van Fraassen: Realism, Thomas Kuhn, and the Semantic Approach in Philosophy of Science
Bas van Fraassen is the McCosh Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Princeton University and a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. In addition to being one of the m...
9 Aug 20231h 26min
124 - Jay McClelland: Deep Learning, Neural Networks, and Artificial Intelligence
Jay McClelland is Lucie Stern Professor in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University, where he is also Director of the Center for Mind, Brain, Computation and Technology. Along with other to...
6 Aug 20231h 47min
123 - Paul Boghossian: The Sokal Hoax, The A Priori, and Moral Facts
Paul Boghossian is Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University, where he is also Chair of the Philosophy Department. Paul has worked in a wide variety of areas within philosophy, including e...
4 Aug 20231h 19min
122 - David Pizarro: Moral Psychology, Praise & Blame, Disgust & Politics
David Pizarro is Professor of Psychology at Cornell University. While he teaches and publicly discusses a wide variety of material in the discipline, his primary research interest is in moral judgment...
2 Aug 20231h 49min
121 - Julian Barbour: Thermodynamics, Boltzmann Brains, and a New Theory of Time
Julian Barbour is a physicist working in the foundations of physics and quantum gravity, with a special interest in time and the history of science. In this episode, Julian and Robinson discuss thermo...
30 Juli 20231h 57min
120 - Simon Blackburn: Vanity, Narcissism, Lust, and Pride
Simon Blackburn was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. This is Simon’s sec...
28 Juli 20231h 3min
119 - Mark Solms: Neuropsychoanalysis and the Source of Consciousness
Mark Solms is professor of Neuropsychology at the Neuroscience Institute at the University of Cape Town. He is also a psychoanalyst, and while Mark’s early research focused on the brain mechanisms of ...
26 Juli 20231h 32min
118 - Slavoj Žižek & Sean Carroll: Quantum Physics, the Multiverse, and Time Travel
Slavoj Žižek is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New York University, and a senior researcher at the University of...
23 Juli 20231h 48min
