Episode 53: Solo — On Morality and Rationality
What does it mean to be a good person? To act ethically and morally in the world? In the old […]
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Philosophy
Episode 50: Patricia Churchland on Conscience, Morality, and the Brain
It’s fun to spend time thinking about how other people should behave, but fortunately we also have an inner voice
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Episode 36: David Albert on Quantum Measurement and the Problems with Many-Worlds
Quantum mechanics is our best theory of how reality works at a fundamental level, yet physicists still can’t agree on
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Episode 33: James Ladyman on Reality, Metaphysics, and Complexity
Reality is a tricky thing. Is love real? What about the number 5? This is clearly a job for a
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Episode 30: Derek Leben on Ethics for Robots and Artificial Intelligences
It’s hardly news that computers are exerting ever more influence over our lives. And we’re beginning to see the first
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Episode 25: David Chalmers on Consciousness, the Hard Problem, and Living in a Simulation
The “Easy Problems” of consciousness have to do with how the brain takes in information, thinks about it, and turns
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Episode 21: Alex Rosenberg on Naturalism, History, and Theory of Mind
We humans love to tell ourselves stories about why things happened the way they did; if the stories are sufficiently
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Episode 19: Tyler Cowen on Maximizing Growth and Thinking for the Future
Economics, like other sciences (social and otherwise), is about what the world does; but it’s natural for economists to occasionally
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Episode 14: Alta Charo on Bioethics and the Law
To paraphrase Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park, scientists tend to focus on whether they can do something, not whether they
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Episode 9: Solo — Why Is There Something Rather than Nothing?
It’s fun to be in the exciting, chaotic, youthful days of the podcast, when anything goes and experimentation is the
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