161 - James Owen Weatherall: Nothingness and the Physics of the Void
James Owen Weatherall is Professor of Logic and the Philosophy of Science and Department Chair at the University of California, Irvine, where he is also a member of the Institute for Mathematical Beha...
1 Nov 20231h 27min
160 - David Friedman: What is Anarcho-Capitalism?
David Friedman is Professor Emeritus at the Santa Clara University School of Law. While he was trained as a physicist, David is best known for his work in economics, and particularly his defense of an...
29 Okt 20231h 59min
159 - Erik Verlinde: Entropic Gravity, Black Holes, and the Holographic Principle
Erik Verlinde is Professor of Physics in the Faculty of Science at the University of Amsterdam, where he specializes in quantum gravity and string theory, black holes, and cosmology. In this episode, ...
27 Okt 20231h 51min
158 - Sheldon Solomon: Terror Management Theory and the Denial of Death
Sheldon Solomon is Professor of Psychology at Skidmore College. He is best known for developing terror management theory with Tom Pyszczynski and Jeff Greenberg, which explores human psychology and mo...
25 Okt 20231h 22min
157 - David Albert: The Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics
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...
22 Okt 20231h 54min
156 - Fay Dowker: Wormholes, Quantum Gravity, and Causal Set Theory
Fay Dowker is Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London, where she works broadly on quantum gravity, and more particularly on an approach called causal set theory that takes the most...
20 Okt 20231h 40min
155 - Tony Padilla: Mathematical Platonism, Intergalactic Doppelgängers, and Gigantic Numbers
Tony Padilla is Professor of Physics in the School of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Nottingham, where he is the Associate Director of the new Nottingham Centre of Gravity. Tony works in cos...
18 Okt 20231h 12min
154 - Richard Wolff: Karl Marx and the Myths of Marxism
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. This is Ri...
15 Okt 20231h 41min
