21 - Haim Gaifman: What is Philosophy? What is Mathematics?
Haim Gaifman is a philosopher and mathematician. He teaches at Columbia University in New York City. In this episode Haim answers two questions of Robinson’s: What is philosophy? What is mathematics? ...
3 Okt 20221h 26min
20 - Philip Guison: Ice Cream Novelties
Philip studied neuroscience at the University of Michigan and is one of Robinson’s oldest friends. In this episode, Robinson forced Philip to eat ice cream novelties with him and talk about those nove...
29 Sep 20221h 35min
19 - Nick Huggett: Paradoxes of Motion, Quantum Gravity, & String Theory
Nick Huggett is a philosopher of physics and science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Before that, he studied physics and philosophy at Oxford and received his PhD at Rutgers. Despite not hav...
26 Sep 20221h 15min
18 - Demitrios Haldes: Ice Cream
Contrary to popular belief, Demitrios Haldes (@infinitemonkeybusiness) is neither the last scion of Herakles nor the superintendent of a crayon factory, but a comic illustrator and writer. He and Robi...
22 Sep 20221h 23min
17 - Richard Kimberly Heck: Monstrous Female Sexuality, Porn Villains, Anal Sex, & the Ethics of Fantasies
Richard Kimberly Heck has been a professor of philosophy at Brown University since 2005, at which time they left their post at Harvard, where they had taught for over a decade. On the way to receiving...
19 Sep 20221h 49min
16 - Ezekiel Quittner-Strom: Instant Noodles & Internal Medicine
Ezekiel Quittner-Strom is a physician doing his residency in internal medicine at the University of Iowa. In this episode Robinson and Ezekiel eat instant noodles and talk about them while they eat th...
15 Sep 20221h 10min
15 - Caroline Hudson: Snack Cakes, Facelifts, Botox, & Wrinkle Prevention
Caroline Hudson is a facial plastic surgeon completing her fellowship in Palo Alto, California. She and Robinson discuss *almost* all things facial, ranging from wrinkles and filler to sewing teeny ti...
12 Sep 20221h 12min
14 - Michael Harris: Number Theory, Creativity in Mathematics, & Beauty
Michael Harris is a mathematician at Columbia University, where he primarily works on number theory. He did his undergraduate studies at Princeton and received his PhD from Harvard. Professor Harris a...
8 Sep 20221h 14min
