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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222 - Richard Wolff: Israel, Ukraine, China, and the End of the American Empire
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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 fourth appearance on Robinson’s Podcast. In episode #127, he and Robinson discussed some of the most profound …
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221 - David Albert: The Measurement Problem of Quantum Mechanics
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220 - Michael Hudson: Debt, Economic Collapse, and the End of Civilization
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Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 This is the August 2024 AMA for Robinson’s Podcast. It is supported by the members of the Patreon. In this installment, Robinson answers questions about metaethics, art history, discipline, fashion, fitness, fantasy world-building, consciousness, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics, and more. OUTLINE 00:00 Introduction 01…
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219 - Joscha Bach: Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and the Threat of AI Apocalypse
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218 - Norman Finkelstein: Genocide in Israel and Palestine
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217 - Leonard Susskind: String Theory, Fine-Tuning, and the Physics of the Multiverse
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216 - Raphael Bousso: The Black Hole Paradox, Quantum Gravity, and the Holographic Principle
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215 - Anna Lembke: On Philosophy and Psychiatry
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Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 This is the inaugural AMA for Robinson’s Podcast. It is supported by the members of the podcast’s Patreon. In this installment, Robinson answers questions about the reality of mathematics, podcasting, moral facts, ice cream, the nature of time, literary books for neophytes, and more. Denying Infinity: https://doi.org…
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214 - Joyce Carol Oates: On Philosophy and Literature
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213 - Slavoj Žižek: God, Marxism, Philosophy, and Quantum Mechanics
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212 - Deborah Gordon: Ants, Myrmecology, and Collective Behavior
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211 - Jay Chandrasekhar: Comedy, Creative Integrity, Super Troopers, & Jackass
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210 - David Albert & Tim Maudlin: A Discussion of Niels Bohr, Measurement, & Quantum Mechanics
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209 - Peter Singer: Controversial Ideas, Utilitarianism, and Animal Liberation
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208 - Victor Davis Hanson: Annihilation, Genocide, and World War III
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207 - Sean Carroll: Quanta, Fields, and the Philosophy of Quantum Physics
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206 - Slavoj Žižek & Lee Smolin: Marxism Meets Quantum Physics
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205 - Nick Bostrom: Superintelligence, Posthumanity, and AI Utopia
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204 - Philip Goff: Panpsychism and the Mystery of Consciousness
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203 - Vijay Prashad: Colonialism, Israel-Palestine, Marxism, and European Anti-Semitism
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202 - Jeffrey Sachs: JFK, Conspiracy Theories, Israel-Palestine, and Ending the War in Gaza
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201 - Benny Morris: Israel-Palestine, Genocide, Apartheid, Hamas, Muscular Judaism, and the Nakba
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200 - Sean Carroll, Daniel Dennett, & Steven Pinker: AI, Parapsychology, Panpsychism, & Physics Violations
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199 - Lawrence Krauss: God, String Theory, and the State of Physics
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198 - Michael Hudson: Marxism, Economic Parasites, and Debt Cancellation
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197 - Martha Nussbaum: Justice for Animals
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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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194 - Daniel Dennett: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Evolution of Minds
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193 - Robert Sapolsky: Determinism, Free Will, & The End of Moral Responsibility
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192 - Norman Finkelstein: Hamas, Hezbollah, and Justice in the Israel-Palestine Conflict
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191 - Victor Davis Hanson: An American’s Case For Israel
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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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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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186 - Jenann Ismael: Determinism and Self-Reference in Classical and Quantum Physics
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185 - Jim Al-Khalili: The Fundamentals of Quantum Biology
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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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182 - Larry Keith: Conserving Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance Masters’ Artwork
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181 - Jon Butterworth: The Higgs Boson and the Standard Model of Particle Physics
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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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178 - Chike Jeffers & Lucius Outlaw: African & Africana Philosophy
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177 - Juan Maldacena: Quantum Gravity, String Theory, and the AdS/CFT Correspondence
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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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