36 - Justin Clarke-Doane: What is Mathematics?
Justin Clarke-Doane is a professor of philosophy at Columbia University, where he works on the philosophy of mathematics, physics, and metaethics. After a long-anticipated catch-up on recent ice cream...
19 Dec 20222h 10min
35 - Barry Lam: Philosophical Zombies, Resurrecting Cannibals, & Dating Vampires
Barry Lam is the host of Hi-Phi Nation, which is a much better podcast than this one, and which is devoted to exploring pressing philosophical questions through narrative. He did his graduate work at ...
15 Dec 20221h 11min
34 - C Thi Nguyen: Agency, Aesthetics, & The Philosophy of Games
C Thi Nguyen is a professor in the philosophy department at the University of Utah. Before that, he did his graduate work at UCLA, where he was also a food writer with the LA Times. Robinson and Thi t...
12 Dec 20221h 14min
33 - Quayshawn Spencer: The Biology of Race, Natural Kinds, & Craniometry
Quayshawn Spencer is the Robert S. Blank Presidential Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. Before taking up his post in Philadelphia, he studied chemistry and philosoph...
8 Dec 20221h 20min
32 - Ray Briggs: Transfeminism, Philosophy of Sex, & Queer Science Fiction
Ray Briggs is a professor in the philosophy department at Stanford University. They did their doctoral work at MIT, and have since been working primarily in decision theory, epistemology, and metaphys...
5 Dec 20221h 4min
31 - Haim Gaifman: Richard’s Paradox, Infinity, & Set Theory
Haim Gaifman is a professor of philosophy at Columbia university in New York City. He is also a mathematician and probability theorist. In this episode (Haim’s fourth appearance), Robinson and Haim di...
28 Nov 20221h 9min
30 - David Albert: Foundations of Physics, Time’s Arrow, & Moral Expressivism
David Albert is the Frederick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and one of the world’s most respected philosophers of physics. He is also the director of the Philosophical F...
21 Nov 20221h 52min
29 - Christopher Bobonich: Etymology, Classics, & Ancient Ethics
Christopher Bobonich is the Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. After studying government at Harvard, he went on to do his graduate work at Cambridge and Berkeley. He...
14 Nov 20221h 3min
