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276 - Craig Callender: Lab-Grown Meat, De-Extinction, and the Tolman-Ehrenfest Effect

276 - Craig Callender: Lab-Grown Meat, De-Extinction, and the Tolman-Ehrenfest Effect

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Craig Callender is Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the
Institute for Practical Ethics at UC San Diego, where he is a
leading philosopher of science and physics. Craig also appeared
on episode 73, in which he and Robinson discussed pseudoscience
and conspiracy theories, and epidote 114, where he, Robinson, and
Tim Maudlin discussed the philosophy of time, including the
reality of the past, present, and future, the direction of time,
its relationship to relativity and quantum mechanics, and time
travel. In this episode, Robinson and Craig turn to a different
assortment of topics. They talk about disinformation, lab-grown
meat, de-extinction, scientific communication, quantum mechanics,
and the Tolman-Ehrenfest Effect.

Craig’s Website: https://www.craigcallender.com

OUTLINE

00:00 Craig’s Interest in Lab-Grown Meat

04:25 Disinformation and the Philosophy of Science

18:18 The Root of the Error

23:43 The Importance of Science Communication

31:12 What Is De-Extinction?

47:28 What Is the Tolman-Ehrenfest Effect?

1:00:00 Tolman-Ehrenfest, Continued

01:15:07 A Philosopher’s Perspective

01:23:05 What Is The Problem with Quantum Mechanics?

01:24:56 What’s the Best Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics?

Robinson’s Website: http://robinsonerhardt.com

Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of
mathematics at Stanford University, where he is also a JD
candidate in the Law School.