Craig Callender: A Graphic History of Time ​(#196)

Craig Callendar is a Professor of Philosophy, and Founding Faculty
of, and Co-Director of, the Institute for Practical Ethics at UC
San Diego in the Department of Philosophy. He is also on the
Freedom and Responsibility in Science Committee of the
International Science Council, Paris; and Founding Faculty at the
Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at UC San Diego; Faculty, The
John Bell Institute, Hvar, Croatia. From 1996-2000 I worked in the
Department of Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Method at the
London School of Economics. I obtained my Ph.D. from Rutgers
University in 1997. His main area of research and teaching is the
philosophy of science, with special emphasis on physics, time, and
the environment. His book What Makes Time Special? (Oxford
University Press, 2017) won the 2018 Lakatos Award. Here are some
book reviews: Philosophy of Science, Philosophical Review,
Metascience, BJPS, NDPR. He's also won two Chancellor's Associates
Excellence Awards, the 2018-19 Award in Research and the 2007-8
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to 500-500 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:32 What made you write a graphic
novel? 00:03:15 How do you explain the relative psychological flow
of time? 00:06:35 What is your "world-line"? Your background?
00:13:06 How did Carl Popper and his demarcation / falsifiability
criteria become so accepted? 00:18:50 How can we make philosophy
more important to science? 00:23:55 What is the role of ethics in
science? Why do you teach ethics at a "STEM" school? The genesis of
the Center of Practical Ethics at UC San Diego. 00:27:00 What is
the practical side of scientific ethics? 00:30:10 Kurt Gödel's
universe and space-time solutions 00:42:50 Why are we so concerned
with theories of everything and cosmogenesis? 00:47:15 Why are
singularities so important? 00:52:40 Is there a unifying theory of
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