Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations with philosophers, scientists, weightlifters, artists, and everyone in-between. https://linktr.ee/robinsonerhardt Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robinson-erhardt/support
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A father-son podcast that covers national football topics as well as the Nebraska Cornhuskers.
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CFT 172: Nebraska's New AD and Spring Practice Recap
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Alex and Pete sat down to discuss Trev Alberts leaving Nebraska as well as the latest news for the Husker basketball and volleyball teams. They also break down football spring practice and the upcoming spring game. 44:21 - Football talk begins
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CFT 171: Coaching Changes, New Rules, and Transfer Portal
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Alex and Pete return to their microphones to discuss national topics in college football from the past few months. They break down the end of the 2023 coaching carousel and discuss the new playing rules for 2024.
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204 - Philip Goff: Panpsychism and the Mystery of Consciousness
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Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Philip Goff is a professor of philosophy at Durham University in the United Kingdom, where he researches consciousness and the philosophy of mind. He is the best known proponent of a view about consciousness known as panpsychism, which takes mentality to be fundamental in the world rather than something that either e…
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203 - Vijay Prashad: Colonialism, Israel-Palestine, Marxism, and European Anti-Semitism
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Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Vijay Prashad is a historian and journalist. He obtained his PhD in history at the University of Chicago and was most recently the George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Vijay is a Marxist, and much of his work and writing has been devoted to critiques of c…
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202 - Jeffrey Sachs: JFK, Conspiracy Theories, Israel-Palestine, and Ending the War in Gaza
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Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Jeffrey Sachs is University Professor at Columbia University, where he serves as the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development. Before that, he taught at Harvard University for twenty years. Jeff is the author of numerous books, including three New York Times bestsellers. His latest is The Ages of Globalizat…
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201 - Benny Morris: Israel-Palestine, Genocide, Apartheid, Hamas, Muscular Judaism, and the Nakba
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Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Benny Morris is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Middle East Studies at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. He is among the most respected and influential historians on Israel and Palestine. Benny is perhaps best known for his work on the 1947-1948 civil war in Palestine and the 1948 Arab-Israeli…
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200 - Sean Carroll, Daniel Dennett, & Steven Pinker: AI, Parapsychology, Panpsychism, & Physics Violations
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Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Sean Carroll is Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. He is also host of Sean Carroll’s Mindscape, a terrific show (that influenced the birth of Robinson’s Podcast) about science, society, philosophy, culture, arts, and ideas. Daniel Dennet…
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199 - Lawrence Krauss: God, String Theory, and the State of Physics
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Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Lawrence Krauss is a theoretical physicist who has taught at Yale, Arizona State University, and Case Western, and is the founder of ASU’s Origins Project. He is a prominent public intellectual and best-selling author, and has written about the origins of the universe, atheism, and many other topics. He is also the h…
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198 - Michael Hudson: Marxism, Economic Parasites, and Debt Cancellation
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Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Michael Hudson is Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and President of the Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends. He researches domestic and international finance, the history of economics, and the role of debt in shaping class stratification, among …
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197 - Martha Nussbaum: Justice for Animals
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Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Martha Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, with appointments in the Department of Philosophy and the Law School. Martha is among the most recognized philosophers today. Over the course of her career, she has made numerous major contributions to …
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196 - Stephen Wolfram: The Fundamental Theory of the Universe
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195 - Brian Keating: Cosmological Inflation and the Universe’s First Light
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Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Brian Keating is the Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics at the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences at UC San Diego, host of the Into the Impossible Podcast, an expert on the cosmic microwave background, and the author of a number of books. Robinson and Brian discuss the expansion and inflation of th…
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194 - Daniel Dennett: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Evolution of Minds
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Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Daniel Dennett is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Tufts University, where he was co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy. He is one of the most recognized philosophers today, and has made major contributions to the philosophy of mind and biology, among ot…
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193 - Robert Sapolsky: Determinism, Free Will, & The End of Moral Responsibility
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Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Robert Sapolsky is John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor and Professor of Biology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery at Stanford University. He’s also a best-selling author and one of the leading voices in the current—and enduring—debate over free will. In this conversation, Robinson and Robert discuss his latest book, De…
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192 - Norman Finkelstein: Hamas, Hezbollah, and Justice in the Israel-Palestine Conflict
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Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Norman Finkelstein received his PhD from the Princeton University Politics Department, and is best known for his indefatigable research on Israel and Palestine, which is what he and Robinson discuss in this episode of the show, marking the culmination of a three-installment mini-series on Israel and Palestine. In par…
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191 - Victor Davis Hanson: An American’s Case For Israel
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Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Victor Davis Hanson is a renowned classicist, military historian, and political commentator. He is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Among numerous other awards, Victor was presented the National Humanities Medal i…
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190 - Richard Wolff: A Marxist’s Case For Palestine
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Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 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 Richard’s third appearance on Robinson’s Podcast. In episode #127, he and Robinson discussed some of the most profound c…
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CFT 170: National Championship and Saban Steps Down
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Alex and Pete finished off the football season discussing Michigan's win in the Championship. They also talk about Nick Saban leaving Alabama and the crazy coaching carousel this offseason. This episode was recorded on 1/11/24.
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189 - David Albert & Barry Loewer: The Mentaculus (Or, a Probability Map of the Universe)
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Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 David Albert is the Frederick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, director of the Philosophical Foundations of Physics program at Columbia, and a faculty member of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics, as is the second guest. Barry Loewer is Distinguished Professor of Philo…
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188 - Tim Maudlin & Sheldon Goldstein: The Copenhagen Interpretation and Bohmian Mechanics
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Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Tim Maudlin is Professor of Philosophy at NYU and Founder and Director of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics. Sheldon Goldstein is Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Rutgers University, where he researches mathematical physics, the foundations of quantum mechanics, and Bohmian Mechanics. He…
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187 - Michael Levin: The New Era of Cognitive Biorobotics
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Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Michael Levin is a Distinguished Professor in the Biology Department at Tufts University, where he holds the Vannevar Bush endowed Chair, and he is also associate faculty at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University. Michael and the Levin Lab work at the intersection of biology, artificial life, bioengineering, synthe…
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CFT 169: Bowl Game Results, Nebraska Updates, and Championship Prediction
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Alex and Pete sat down this week to go over the results of the major bowl games and the playoff semifinals. They also talk some Nebraska QB recruiting and volleyball before giving their predictions for the national championship. 10:46 - National discussion begins
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186 - Jenann Ismael: Determinism and Self-Reference in Classical and Quantum Physics
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Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Jenann Ismael is the William H. Miller III Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, where she researches the philosophy of physics, science, mind, and metaphysics. In this episode, Robinson and Jenann discuss the role of self-reference in physics, the arrows of time, interpretations of quantum mechanics, …
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185 - Jim Al-Khalili: The Fundamentals of Quantum Biology
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Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Jim Al-Khalili holds a University of Surrey Distinguished Chair in physics and a university chair in the Public Engagement in Science at the University of Surrey, where he is a theoretical physicist, author, and broadcaster. In this episode, Robinson and Jim talk about the fundamentals of quantum biology, including w…
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184 - Brian Leiter: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Critique of Morality
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183 - Neil Shubin: Fins, Limbs, and the Evolutionary Journey from Fish to Human
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Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Neil Shubin is Robert R. Bensley Distinguished Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago. In addition to actively leading research expeditions across the globe, Neil runs the Shubin Lab, where genetic, kinematic, and paleontologic work combine to investigate some of the major transition…
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182 - Larry Keith: Conserving Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance Masters’ Artwork
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Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Larry Keith is the Head of Conservation and Keeper of the National Gallery of London, where he preserves and maintains some of the world’s most precious works of art, including paintings by Leonardo, Caravaggio, and Rubens. In this episode, Robinson and Larry discuss what goes into a conservator’s appraisal of an art…
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181 - Jon Butterworth: The Higgs Boson and the Standard Model of Particle Physics
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Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/robinsonerhardt Jon Butterworth is Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at University College London, where he works on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland. In this episode, Robinson and Jon discuss his work on the standard model of particle physics, it…
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180 - Michael Hudson: Neoliberalism, Industrial Capitalism, and the Rise of Debt
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179 - Adam Gazzaley: Neuroscience, Therapeutic Video Games, and the Cognition Crisis
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Adam Gazzaley is David Dolby Distinguished Professor of Neurology, Physiology, and Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He obtained his M.D. and Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Adam works on developing new approaches to both assess and optimize human cognition, with partic…
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178 - Chike Jeffers & Lucius Outlaw: African & Africana Philosophy
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Chike Jeffers is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Dalhousie University, where he researches Africana philosophy, the philosophy of race, social and political philosophy, and ethics. Lucius Outlaw is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus and W. Alton Jones Chair Emeritus in the Philosophy Department at Vanderbilt University, where h…
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177 - Juan Maldacena: Quantum Gravity, String Theory, and the AdS/CFT Correspondence
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Juan Maldacena is Carl P. Feinberg Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, where his work focuses on quantum gravity, string theory, and quantum field theories. In this episode, Robinson and Juan discuss the relationship between string theory and black holes, the holographic principle, and Juan’s groundbreak…
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CFT 168: Nebraska Recruiting, Volleyball, and Bowl Game Predictions
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Alex and Pete sat down this week to go over the Nebraska QB search and the volleyball team's journey to the finals. They also discuss the Heisman and give their predictions for all the major bowl games.34:50 - National discussion begins
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176 - Brian Little: Personality Psychology and the Big Five Traits
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Brian Little is Research Professor in the Department of Psychology at Cambridge University, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at Carleton, and a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is well known for his work on personality psychology and his development of personal project analysis. In this episode, Bri…
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175 - Robert Plomin: Behavioral Genetics and the Blueprint of Human Behavior
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Robert Plomin is MRC Research Professor of Behavioral Genetics at King’s College London. He has published over 800 papers, is among the hundred most cited psychologists of the twentieth century, and was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his research, the best known of which is on twin studies and behavioral genetics. In thi…
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Following their previous podcast, Alex and Pete sat down for a breakdown of the Playoff Committee's betrayal of the sport.
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174 - Rebecca Goldstein: Spinoza, Atheism, and the Philosophy of Literature
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Rebecca Goldstein is a philosopher and novelist. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University and studied with Thomas Nagel. She is a MacArthur Follow and was awarded the National Humanities Medal by Barack Obama. Rebecca is also an expert on Spinoza and Gödel, and has a whole bevy of other wide-ranging interests. In this episode,…
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CFT 166: Conference Championships Recap and Nebraska Volleyball
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Alex and Pete sat down this week to go over the Power 5 Conference Championships as well their predictions from last week. They also discuss a bit of Nebraska news and the current standing of the Volleyball team in the NCAA Tournament. 23:25 - National discussion begins
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173 - Ken Olum: What Are Cosmic Strings?
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Ken Olum is Research Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Tufts University, where he works on exotic physics and topics in cosmology like cosmic strings, gravitational waves, anthropic reasoning, and inflation. In this episode, Robinson and Ken talk all about cosmic strings, which are spindly, hypothesized astronomical objects of…
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CFT 165: Nebraska vs Iowa Recap and Conference Championships Preview
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Alex and Pete sat down this week to go over Nebraska's final game of the season against Iowa. They also discuss Nebraska's season overall, cover the biggest games of rivalry week, and give predictions for the Power 5 conference championship games. 32:38 - National discussion begins
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172 - Joseph LeDoux: Neuroscience and The Four Realms of Human Existence
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Joseph LeDoux is Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science, University Professor, Professor of Neural Science, Professor of Psychiatry, and Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at New York University, where he works in neuroscience and related areas. Though his career is expansive, one major focus of his research has been emotions in humans…
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171 - Richard Haier: What Is Human Intelligence?
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Richard Haier is Professor Emeritus in the School of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine, where he uses brain imagining and the tools of neuroscience to study learning, memory, and intelligence, and how they relate to brain function and structure. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal Intelligence. In this episode, Robinson and Rich…
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170 - Sheldon Goldstein: Pilot Wave Theory and Bohmian Mechanics
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Sheldon Goldstein is Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Rutgers University, where he researches mathematical physics, the foundations of quantum mechanics, and Bohmian Mechanics. He is also Board Member of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics, founded by fellow Robinson’s Podcast multiverse denizen, Tim Maudlin. In this epi…
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CFT 164: Nebraska vs Wisconsin Recap and Week 13 Preview
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Alex and Pete sat down this week to go over Nebraska's overtime loss to Wisconsin and the final game against Iowa. They also discuss the volleyball's team's chances against Wisconsin, the biggest upsets of Week 12, and preview the final week of the football regular season. 52:00 - National discussion begins…
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169 - Michael Graziano: The Attention Schema Theory of Consciousness
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Michael Graziano is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University, where he and his lab research the brain basis of consciousness. Naturally, this is precisely what Michael and Robinson discuss in this episode. More particularly, they get into the philosophical question of what consciousness is, the roles of philosophy and scienc…
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CFT 163: Nebraska vs Maryland Recap, Couching Carousel, and Week 12 Preview
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Alex and Pete sat down this week to go over Nebraska's loss to Maryland and the QB situation. They also discuss the Big 10's Michigan penalty, the recent coach shakeups, and the biggest games from last week. 35:58 - National discussion begins
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168 - Una Stojnić: Slurs, Linguistic Conventions, and the Philosophy of Language
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Una Stojnić is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at Princeton University, where she works in the philosophy of language, formal semantics and pragmatics of natural language, and philosophical logic. In this episode, Robinson and Una discuss three of her projects. First, they talk about linguistic conventions, and how language c…
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167 - David Wallace: The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
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David Wallace is Mellon Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Before that, he obtained PhDs in both physics and philosophy at Oxford. David works mainly in the philosophy of physics, and is best known for his development and defense of the Everett—or Many-Worlds—interpretation of quantum m…
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166 - Robert Stickgold: Dreams and the Role of Sleep in Memory and Emotional Processing
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Robert Stickgold is Professor of Pyschiatry at Harvard Medical School, where he researches sleep and dreams from a cognitive neuroscience perspective. In this episode, Bob and Robinson discuss the role of sleep in memory processing and emotional regulation, how sleep deprivation affects performance, and the evolutionary purpose and function of drea…
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165 - Anubav Vasudevan: The Metaphysics of Charles Sanders Peirce
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Anubav Vasudevan is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago, where he works in formal epistemology and the history of logic, though he has published in a number of other areas. This is Anubav’s second appearance on the show. In episode #81, he and Robinson discussed mathematics, physics, and the history of l…
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