178 | Jody Azzouni on What Is and Isn’t Real
Are numbers real? What does that even mean? You can’t kick a number. But you can talk about numbers in […]
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Philosophy
Holiday Message 2021 | On Disciplines & Cocktails
As each December comes to a close, we wrap up another year of podcasts with the Mindscape Holiday Message. Nothing
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176 | Joshua Greene on Morality, Psychology, and Trolley Problems
We all know you can’t derive “ought” from “is.” But it’s equally clear that “is” — how the world actual
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169 | C. Thi Nguyen on Games, Art, Values, and Agency
Games are everywhere, but why exactly do we play them? It seems counterintuitive, to artificially invent goals and obstacles just
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168 | Anil Seth on Emergence, Information, and Consciousness
Those of us who think that that the laws of physics underlying everyday life are completely known tend to also
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160 | Edward Slingerland on Confucianism, Daoism, and Wu Wei
Plato and Aristotle founded much of what we think of as Western philosophy during the fourth and fifth centuries BCE.
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158 | David Wallace on The Arrow of Time
The arrow of time — all the ways in which the past differs from the future — is a fascinating
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150 | Simon DeDeo on How Explanations Work and Why They Sometimes Fail
You observe a phenomenon, and come up with an explanation for it. That’s true for scientists, but also for literally
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149 | Lee Smolin on Time, Philosophy, and the Nature of Reality
The challenge to a theoretical physicist pushing beyond our best current theories is that there are too many ways to
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139 | Elizabeth Anderson on Equality, Work, and Ideology
Imagine two people with exactly the same innate abilities, but one is born into a wealthy family and the other
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