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#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science

#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science

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Jed Buchwald is a historian and philosopher of science at Caltech. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - GiveWell: https://www.givewell.org/ and use code LEX to get donation matched up to $1k - Theragun: https://therabody.

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Jed Buchwald is a historian and philosopher of science at
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(00:00) – Introduction

(06:34) – How does science progress?

(22:48) – Theory of Everything

(34:40) – Consciousness

(38:15) – Most Beautiful Moments in Science

(46:00) – Isaac Newton

(1:12:13) – Competition in Science

(1:22:47) – Newton’s Career

(1:35:58) – Importance of Data

(1:42:17) – Alchemy

(1:46:31) – Newton and Religion

(1:49:44) – Showing Newton the future

(1:54:28) – Newton and Einstein