220 | Lara Buchak on Risk and Rationality
Life is rich with moments of uncertainty, where we’re not exactly sure what’s going to happen next. We often find […]
220 | Lara Buchak on Risk and Rationality Read More
Life is rich with moments of uncertainty, where we’re not exactly sure what’s going to happen next. We often find […]
220 | Lara Buchak on Risk and Rationality Read More
The founders of statistical mechanics in the 19th century faced an uphill battle to convince their fellow physicists that the
215 | Barry Loewer on Physics, Counterfactuals, and the Macroworld Read More
It’s always a little humbling to think about what affects your words and actions might have on other people, not
207 | William MacAskill on Maximizing Good in the Present and Future Read More
The 200th episode of Mindscape! Thanks to everyone for sticking around for this long. To celebrate, a solo episode discussing
200 | Solo: The Philosophy of the Multiverse Read More
To say that event A causes event B is to not only make a claim about our actual world, but
196 | Judea Pearl on Cause and Effect Read More
Reality is just out there — but how we perceive reality and talk about it depends on choices we human
182 | Sally Haslanger on Social Construction and Critical Theory Read More
Are numbers real? What does that even mean? You can’t kick a number. But you can talk about numbers in
178 | Jody Azzouni on What Is and Isn’t Real Read More
As each December comes to a close, we wrap up another year of podcasts with the Mindscape Holiday Message. Nothing
Holiday Message 2021 | On Disciplines & Cocktails Read More
We all know you can’t derive “ought” from “is.” But it’s equally clear that “is” — how the world actual
176 | Joshua Greene on Morality, Psychology, and Trolley Problems Read More
Games are everywhere, but why exactly do we play them? It seems counterintuitive, to artificially invent goals and obstacles just
169 | C. Thi Nguyen on Games, Art, Values, and Agency Read More