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.
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176 - Brian Little: Personality Psychology and the Big Five Traits
108 hours 12 mins; December 13, 2023
175 - Robert Plomin: Behavioral Genetics and the Blueprint of Human Behavior
123 hours 44 mins; December 11, 2023
174 - Rebecca Goldstein: Spinoza, Atheism, and the Philosophy of Literature
84 hours 41 mins; December 06, 2023
173 - Ken Olum: What Are Cosmic Strings?
64 hours 16 mins; December 02, 2023
172 - Joseph LeDoux: Neuroscience and The Four Realms of Human Existence
91 hours 37 mins; November 29, 2023
171 - Richard Haier: What Is Human Intelligence?
112 hours 4 mins; November 26, 2023
170 - Sheldon Goldstein: Pilot Wave Theory and Bohmian Mechanics
91 hours 10 mins; November 24, 2023
169 - Michael Graziano: The Attention Schema Theory of Consciousness
116 hours 28 mins; November 19, 2023
168 - Una Stojnić: Slurs, Linguistic Conventions, and the Philosophy of Language
73 hours 7 mins; November 17, 2023
167 - David Wallace: The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
111 hours 31 mins; November 15, 2023
166 - Robert Stickgold: Dreams and the Role of Sleep in Memory and Emotional Processing
144 hours 57 mins; November 12, 2023
165 - Anubav Vasudevan: The Metaphysics of Charles Sanders Peirce
105 hours 4 mins; November 10, 2023
164 - Geoffrey West: Complexity Theory and The Scaling Laws of Biology
128 hours 49 mins; November 08, 2023
163 - Daniel Levitin: Songwriting and the Neuroscience of Music
68 hours 43 mins; November 05, 2023
162 - Tim Palmer: Chaos Theory, Probabilistic Forecasting, and Climate Change
116 hours 46 mins; November 03, 2023
161 - James Owen Weatherall: Nothingness and the Physics of the Void
87 hours 46 mins; November 01, 2023
160 - David Friedman: What is Anarcho-Capitalism?
119 hours 29 mins; October 29, 2023
159 - Erik Verlinde: Entropic Gravity, Black Holes, and the Holographic Principle
111 hours 54 mins; October 27, 2023
158 - Sheldon Solomon: Terror Management Theory and the Denial of Death
82 hours 58 mins; October 25, 2023
157 - David Albert: The Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics
114 hours 49 mins; October 22, 2023
156 - Fay Dowker: Wormholes, Quantum Gravity, and Causal Set Theory
100 hours 14 mins; October 20, 2023
155 - Tony Padilla: Mathematical Platonism, Intergalactic Doppelgängers, and Gigantic Numbers
72 hours 37 mins; October 18, 2023
154 - Richard Wolff: Karl Marx and the Myths of Marxism
101 hours 32 mins; October 15, 2023
153 - Alan Stern: New Horizons and Mankind’s First Mission to Pluto
61 hours 39 mins; October 13, 2023
152 - Geraint F. Lewis: Is The Universe Fine-Tuned For Life?
112 hours 59 mins; October 11, 2023
151 - Michael Levin: Synthetic Life, Collective Intelligence, and Morphogenesis
93 hours 9 mins; October 08, 2023
150 - John Mather: The Big Bang and the Cosmic Microwave Background
107 hours 26 mins; October 06, 2023
149 - Jonathan Lear: Free Association and the Fundamental Rule of Psychoanalysis
121 hours 44 mins; October 04, 2023
148 - Lee Smolin: Presentism, Foundations of Mathematics, and Realism in Quantum Mechanics
76 hours 12 mins; October 01, 2023
147 - Yascha Mounk: Liberalism, Identity Politics, and the History of Equality
78 hours 37 mins; September 29, 2023
146 - Christopher E. Mason & Igor Tulchinsky: Smart Weapons, Genetics, and Predictive Algorithms
56 mins; September 27, 2023
145 - Deirdre McCloskey: What Is Classical Liberalism?
116 hours 33 mins; September 24, 2023
144 - Carl Wieman: Winning the Nobel Prize, Bose-Einstein Condensates, & Science Education
118 hours 41 mins; September 22, 2023
143 - Andrew Knoll: The Origins of Life on Earth
114 hours 14 mins; September 20, 2023
142 - Tim Maudlin: Carnap, Kuhn, Bell’s Inequality, & The Philosophy of Science
121 hours 3 mins; September 17, 2023
141 - Norman Naimark: The History of Genocide
134 hours 11 mins; September 15, 2023
140 - John Burgess: Realism in the Philosophy of Mathematics
94 hours 20 mins; September 13, 2023
139 - Lawrence Summers: Economic Policy, Free Speech, and The Pursuit of Truth
58 mins; September 10, 2023
138 - Konstantin Batygin: Planet Nine, Oumuamua, and the Death of Pluto
120 hours 16 mins; September 08, 2023
137 - Joyce Carol Oates: Craft in Fiction and Poetry
93 hours 23 mins; September 06, 2023
136 - Andrew Strominger: String Theory, Black Holes, and Extra Dimensions
136 hours 59 mins; September 03, 2023
135 - Thomas Hertog: Stephen Hawking, Cosmology, and the Origin of Time
84 hours 27 mins; September 01, 2023
134 - Christopher Capozzola: Uncle Sam, the Draft, and Vigilantes in World War I
89 hours 0 mins; August 30, 2023
133 - Ian Hutchinson: Plasma Physics & The Compatibility of Science and Religion
132 hours 31 mins; August 27, 2023
132 - Jonathan Shedler: Freud, Psychoanalysis, and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
85 hours 29 mins; August 25, 2023
131 - Tal Ben-Shahar: What Is Happiness?
66 hours 14 mins; August 23, 2023
130 - Donald Hoffman: The Illusion of Reality
117 hours 53 mins; August 20, 2023
129 - Jeremi Suri: The Impossibility of the American Presidency
118 hours 17 mins; August 18, 2023
128 - Clara Sousa-Silva: Exoplanets, Astrobiology, and the Search For Alien Life
86 hours 53 mins; August 16, 2023
127 - Richard Wolff: What’s Wrong with Capitalism?
92 hours 19 mins; August 13, 2023
126 - Michael Strevens: Scientific Explanation & Methodology and The Knowledge Machine
81 hours 3 mins; August 11, 2023
125 - Bas van Fraassen: Realism, Thomas Kuhn, and the Semantic Approach in Philosophy of Science
86 hours 10 mins; August 09, 2023
124 - Jay McClelland: Deep Learning, Neural Networks, and Artificial Intelligence
107 hours 44 mins; August 06, 2023
123 - Paul Boghossian: The Sokal Hoax, The A Priori, and Moral Facts
79 hours 0 mins; August 04, 2023
122 - David Pizarro: Moral Psychology, Praise & Blame, Disgust & Politics
109 hours 17 mins; August 02, 2023
121 - Julian Barbour: Thermodynamics, Boltzmann Brains, and a New Theory of Time
117 hours 1 min; July 30, 2023
120 - Simon Blackburn: Vanity, Narcissism, Lust, and Pride
63 hours 5 mins; July 28, 2023
119 - Mark Solms: Neuropsychoanalysis and the Source of Consciousness
92 hours 13 mins; July 26, 2023
118 - Slavoj Žižek & Sean Carroll: Quantum Physics, the Multiverse, and Time Travel
108 hours 38 mins; July 23, 2023
117 - Anna Lembke: Dopamine, Drug Addiction, and Recovery
88 hours 1 min; July 21, 2023
116 - Massimo Pigliucci: Pseudoscience, Conspiracy Theories, and the Public Intellectual
66 hours 34 mins; July 19, 2023
115 - Craig Callender & Tim Maudlin: Time Travel, Time’s Arrow, and The Block Universe
125 hours 24 mins; July 16, 2023
114 - Eric Helms: Nutrition, Bodybuilding, & Supplementation for Strength and Aesthetics
118 hours 9 mins; July 14, 2023
113 - David Spiegel: Hypnosis and Mental Illness
92 hours 57 mins; July 11, 2023
112 - Victor Davis Hanson: Revisionist History and the Dying Citizen
61 hours 15 mins; July 09, 2023
111 - Avi Loeb: Alien Life, Extraterrestrial Spacecraft, and Oumuamua
110 hours 24 mins; July 07, 2023
110 - Daniel Kahneman: Biases and Flaws in Human Judgment
66 hours 32 mins; July 04, 2023
109 - Slavoj Žižek: Wokeness, Psychoanalysis, and Quantum Mechanics
96 hours 25 mins; July 02, 2023
108 - Chiara Mingarelli: Supermassive Black Holes & the Gravitational Wave Background
91 hours 57 mins; June 28, 2023
107 - Kevin Dorst: Bayesian Reasoning, Irrationality, and Political Polarization
105 hours 58 mins; June 27, 2023
106 - David Albert & Sean Carroll: Quantum Theory, Boltzmann Brains, & The Fine-Tuned Universe
130 hours 20 mins; June 25, 2023
105 - Luciano Floridi: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
61 hours 25 mins; June 23, 2023
104 - Nicholas Christakis: Evolutionary Biology & Society’s Genetic Underpinning
84 hours 30 mins; June 21, 2023
103 - Brad Schoenfeld: Muscular Hypertrophy and Maximizing Muscle Growth
65 hours 30 mins; June 18, 2023
102 - Stephen Wolfram: Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, and Philosophy of Math
117 hours 57 mins; June 16, 2023
101 - Paul Bloom: Freud, Mental Illness, Psychoanalysis, and Cognitive Biases
117 hours 0 mins; June 13, 2023
100 - Steven Pinker: Rationality, Enlightenment, and Free Speech
67 hours 47 mins; June 11, 2023
99 - Nancy Sherman: Stoicism, Military Ethics, and War
72 hours 48 mins; June 09, 2023
98 - Dani S. Bassett & Perry Zurn: Curiosity, Philosophy, and Network Theory
64 hours 57 mins; June 07, 2023
97 - Brian Leiter: Karl Marx, Ideology, and Historical Materialism
77 hours 34 mins; June 04, 2023
96 - Jody Azzouni: Knowledge and Skepticism
94 hours 24 mins; May 31, 2023
95 - Achille Varzi: What Is Mereology?
225 hours 16 mins; May 28, 2023
94 - Alva Noë: Art, Philosophy, and The Entanglement
93 hours 24 mins; May 26, 2023
93 - Havi Carel: The Phenomenology of Illness
71 hours 28 mins; May 23, 2023
92 - Joan Bagaria: What Is Set Theory?
125 hours 53 mins; May 21, 2023
91 - John Perry: Procrastination, Personal Identity, and the Self
120 hours 56 mins; May 19, 2023
90 - David Papineau: The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience
91 hours 43 mins; May 16, 2023
89 - Graham Harman: Speculative Realism & Philosophy of Art and Architecture
125 hours 11 mins; May 14, 2023
88 - Graham Oppy: Ontological Arguments and the Existence of God
97 hours 2 mins; May 12, 2023
87 - Frank Jackson & Graham Priest: The Philosophy of David Lewis
119 hours 10 mins; May 09, 2023
86 - Frances Egan: Mental Representation and Psychological Explanation
95 hours 29 mins; May 07, 2023
85 - Ernest Lepore: Linguistic Conventions, Slurs, and Philosophy of Language
106 hours 6 mins; May 04, 2023
84 - Chris Potts: Semantics, Pragmatics, and ChatGPT
80 hours 49 mins; May 02, 2023
83 - Barry Loewer: Probability, Laws of Nature, and Statistical Mechanics
87 hours 58 mins; April 30, 2023
82 - Jonathan Wolff: Cities, States, and Political Philosophy
113 hours 58 mins; April 27, 2023
81 - Anubav Vasudevan: Mathematics, Physics, and History of Logic
117 hours 27 mins; April 25, 2023
80 - Pamela Hieronymi: Free Will and Moral Responsibility
76 hours 45 mins; April 23, 2023
79 - Rachel Barney: Ancient Philosophy and the Sophists
93 hours 33 mins; April 22, 2023
78 - Paul Horwich: Truth, Realism, and Moral Facts
76 hours 54 mins; April 20, 2023
77 - Stephen Yablo: Non-Existence Claims, Jokes, and Defining Philosophy
