Ep: 88 Critically Creative (Critical and Creative Thinking 2.0).
There is an article associated with this podcast episode here: https://www.bretthall.org/critically-creative-1.html I mention this article from the University of Sydney, Australia: https://www.sydn...
11 Sep 20211h 25min
Ep 87: David Deutsch‘s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 3 “Problem Solving” Part 1
This is the first part of a discussion about chapter 3 of "The Fabric of Reality". It is about...problem solving with a significant focus on science and how scientific theories are generated. It conta...
7 Sep 20211h 14min
Ep 86: The Aim of Science
This is an "irregular" ToKCast which is all about a short essay by Popper titled "The Aim of Science". I read parts of the essay and comment on it and compare it to some more recent developments in th...
28 Aug 20211h 13min
Ep 85: ToKCast Do Explain Part 2
The original link for this (without the introduction I provide here) can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEcHS... “Do Explain” is a podcast interview series created by Christofer Lövgren ...
27 Aug 20211h 6min
Ep 84: David Deutsch answers a question about the nature of the laws of physics (a question for David: 7).
This is essentially a sequel to episode 1 of this series about the "reality of abstractions". This question considers the special case of the laws of physics. In what sense do the laws of physics exis...
27 Aug 202111min
Ep 83: "The Science of Information" (Chiara Marletto's "The Science of Can & Can't" (Pt 2: Readings & more)
In this episode I actually do some readings from the chapter (unlike in last episode). Here we really delve into the new science of the constructor theory of information. We learn about what the physi...
13 Aug 202141min
Ep 82: David Deutsch answers a question about Gödel and undecidability. (A question for David number 6).
This is me asking David about interesting and inherently uninteresting things. What effect might "undecidable" propositions have in the physical world? David gives an answer I have been looking for.
7 Aug 202112min
Ep 81: "The Science of Information" (Chiara Marletto's "The Science of Can & Can't" (A prelude to Ch 3)
In this the fourth episode about Chiara Marletto's excellent work "The Science of Can and Can't" I discuss the science of information. Chapter 3 of the book is called "Information" but in this episode...
6 Aug 202140min
