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1 Stunde 18 Minuten
Kevin Heng is Chair Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics of Extrasolar Planets at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. Before that, he was the director of the Center for Space and Habitability at the University of Bern in Switzerland. Robinson and Kevin discuss the search for planets outside our solar system and the importance of—as well as some problems surrounding—our investigations into their atmospheres, all before turning to his recent philosophical work. Kevin, along with three philosophers of science—Vera Matarese, Siska de Baerdemaeker, and Nora Boyd—are the editors of an upcoming anthology on the philosophy of astrophysics, for which Kevin composed an essay on the role of models in astrophysics. Kevin is also the author of Exoplanetary Atmospheres: Theoretical Concepts and Foundations, which is part of the Princeton Series in Atmospheres.
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OUTLINE
00:00 In This Episode…
00:29 Introduction
3:37 Kevin’s Background in Astrophysics
6:53 How Do Astrophysicists Work?
12:34 An Astrophysicist’s Tools in the Search for Exoplanets
22:06 False Color Images in Astrophysics
27:12 More Methods of Atmospheric Analysis
30:42 Kevin’s Research
43:13 The Philosophy of Astrophysics Anthology
47:03 Philosophy and Scientific Models
1:04:19 An Unsolved Problem Concerning Turbulence
1:08:01 Kevin’s Time in Culinary School
1:11:57 Fashion and Bottega Veneta
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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OUTLINE
00:00 In This Episode…
00:29 Introduction
3:37 Kevin’s Background in Astrophysics
6:53 How Do Astrophysicists Work?
12:34 An Astrophysicist’s Tools in the Search for Exoplanets
22:06 False Color Images in Astrophysics
27:12 More Methods of Atmospheric Analysis
30:42 Kevin’s Research
43:13 The Philosophy of Astrophysics Anthology
47:03 Philosophy and Scientific Models
1:04:19 An Unsolved Problem Concerning Turbulence
1:08:01 Kevin’s Time in Culinary School
1:11:57 Fashion and Bottega Veneta
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.
1 Stunde
Alison Fernandes is a professor of philosophy at Trinity College Dublin. Prior to that, she did her graduate work at Columbia University, where she studied with two other denizens of the Robinson’s Podcast universe, David Albert and Achille Varzi. Alison is the author of the upcoming book with Cambridge University Press, The Temporal Asymmetry of Causation, some of the contents of which are the subject of this episode. After rehashing the dominant theories of causation, Alison and Robinson discussion backward causation and time travel, the temporal asymmetry of causation, and Alison’s agency theory of causation. You can keep up with her at alisonfernandes.net.
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OUTLINE
00:00 In This Episode
00:46 Introduction
4:05 Alison’s Interest in Causation
5:36 Hume’s Theory of Causation
8:11 Dominant Accounts of Causation
14:33 Backward Causation and Time Travel
28:42 Causal and Temporal Asymmetry
42:22 Alison’s Account of Causation
53:24 A Return to Time Travel
56:55 Achille Varzi on Time Travel
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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OUTLINE
00:00 In This Episode
00:46 Introduction
4:05 Alison’s Interest in Causation
5:36 Hume’s Theory of Causation
8:11 Dominant Accounts of Causation
14:33 Backward Causation and Time Travel
28:42 Causal and Temporal Asymmetry
42:22 Alison’s Account of Causation
53:24 A Return to Time Travel
56:55 Achille Varzi on Time Travel
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.
1 Stunde 30 Minuten
Luvell Anderson is a professor of philosophy at Syracuse University, where he’s also an affiliate faculty member of Women’s and Gender Studies and African American Studies. He is the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race and the soon-to-be-released Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language. He is also currently working on a book about the philosophy of humor—The Ethics of Racial Humor—which is the topic of this episode. After beginning with a discussion of just what humor is, Luvell and Robinson move on to the distinction between racial and racist humor, Dave Chappelle, the ethics of roasting, what makes comedy human, and more. You can keep up with Luvell at andersonluvell.weebly.com and through his Twitter account, @luvell_anderson.
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OUTLINE
00:00 In This Episode
00:28 Introduction
3:05 Luvell’s Interest in Comedy
5:32 What is Humor?
12:22 Slurs and Hate Speech
17:45 Is Humor Uniquely Human?
23:32 Racial Humor and Racist Humor
32:48 Sexist Humor
38:51 Dave Chappelle
44:05 Roasting Ethics
53:05 A Genetic Approach to Comedy
59:12 Horror and Humor
1:05:15 Comedy, Connection, and Progressive Change
1:09:40 What Makes Comedy Human
1:14:03 Audience Sensitivity
1:17:56 Humor and Media Psychology
1:21:54 Laughing With and Laughing At
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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OUTLINE
00:00 In This Episode
00:28 Introduction
3:05 Luvell’s Interest in Comedy
5:32 What is Humor?
12:22 Slurs and Hate Speech
17:45 Is Humor Uniquely Human?
23:32 Racial Humor and Racist Humor
32:48 Sexist Humor
38:51 Dave Chappelle
44:05 Roasting Ethics
53:05 A Genetic Approach to Comedy
59:12 Horror and Humor
1:05:15 Comedy, Connection, and Progressive Change
1:09:40 What Makes Comedy Human
1:14:03 Audience Sensitivity
1:17:56 Humor and Media Psychology
1:21:54 Laughing With and Laughing At
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.
1 Stunde 18 Minuten
Christina Van Dyke is an emerita professor of philosophy at Calvin College and a visiting professor of philosophy at Barnard College, where she specializes in the medieval period. She is the author of A Hidden Wisdom: Medieval Contemplatives on Self-Knowledge, Reason, Love, Persons, and Immortality. Christina and Robinson discuss the philosophy of food and eating—its gendered aspects, its religious history, some ethical concerns, and eating disorders—before turning to animals in medieval philosophy, where they touch on Hildegard von Bingen, medieval bestiaries, and the secret society known as the Brethren of Purity. You can keep up with Christina at cvdphilosopher.net.
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OUTLINE
00:00 In This Episode
00:30 Introduction
3:05 Christina and Medieval Philosophy
5:41 Christina’s Interest in The Philosophy of Eating
6:59 Are Food and Eating Gendered?
23:39 Food, Gender, and Religion
32:40 How Philosophy Might Help Us Eat Better
36:27 Animals and the Brethren of Purity
45:11 Hildegard von Bingen and Medieval Animals
58:05 Hydras, Bestiaries, and Arthurian Lore
1:03:35 Animals, and What Humans Are
1:07:45 Animals, Angels, and Humans
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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OUTLINE
00:00 In This Episode
00:30 Introduction
3:05 Christina and Medieval Philosophy
5:41 Christina’s Interest in The Philosophy of Eating
6:59 Are Food and Eating Gendered?
23:39 Food, Gender, and Religion
32:40 How Philosophy Might Help Us Eat Better
36:27 Animals and the Brethren of Purity
45:11 Hildegard von Bingen and Medieval Animals
58:05 Hydras, Bestiaries, and Arthurian Lore
1:03:35 Animals, and What Humans Are
1:07:45 Animals, Angels, and Humans
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.
1 Stunde 58 Minuten
Gabriel Greenberg is a professor of philosophy at the University of California Los Angeles, and currently a visiting professor at Stanford University. He works widely across the philosophy of mind, but in particular studies iconic representation, modality, and computation. Gabe and Robinson talk about the rough divide between representation and consciousness studies in the philosophy of mind before going into the distinction between signs and symbols, and how the brain interprets them. They finish with a departure into the world of philosophy, film, and cognitive science, discussing how our minds stitch together the scenes of a movie and integrate them into a whole.
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Outline:
00:00 In This Episode
00:39 Introduction
5:17 Gabe’s Taste in Comics
9:53 Gabe’s Interest in Philosophy of Mind
18:14 What is a Representation?
26:02 Gabe’s Dialogue with Linguistics
27:51 Aboutness in the Philosophy of Mind
34:21 The Iconic-Symbolic Spectrum
59:48 A Semantics for Signs and Icons
1:09:33 A Course on Visual Narrative
1:11:20 Film and The Norms of Spatial Coherence
1:15:43 Film Spaces as Abstract Spatial Graphs
1:46:20 Film, Semantics, and Pragmatics
1:51:38 On Scott McCloud
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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Outline:
00:00 In This Episode
00:39 Introduction
5:17 Gabe’s Taste in Comics
9:53 Gabe’s Interest in Philosophy of Mind
18:14 What is a Representation?
26:02 Gabe’s Dialogue with Linguistics
27:51 Aboutness in the Philosophy of Mind
34:21 The Iconic-Symbolic Spectrum
59:48 A Semantics for Signs and Icons
1:09:33 A Course on Visual Narrative
1:11:20 Film and The Norms of Spatial Coherence
1:15:43 Film Spaces as Abstract Spatial Graphs
1:46:20 Film, Semantics, and Pragmatics
1:51:38 On Scott McCloud
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.
1 Stunde 12 Minuten
Scott Shapiro is the Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at Yale Law School, where he is also the founding director of the Yale CyberSecurity Lab. Robinson and Scott talk about studying at Columbia University under the auspices of the legendary Isaac Levi, Sidney Morgenbesser, and Haim Gaifman before discussing the philosophy of law, one of Scott’s areas of expertise. Among the topics they touch on are the distinction between analytic and normative jurisprudence, the problem of the chicken and the egg, and progress in legal thought from Austin to Hart and beyond. Then they turn to Scott’s upcoming book, Fancy Bear goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks, where Scott explores the intersection of cybersecurity, hacking, and legal philosophy. Scott is also the author of Legality and the host of the Jurisprudence Course podcast, the latter of which will soon have a second season. You can keep up with Scott on Twitter at @scottjshapiro, and preorder Fancy Bear Goes Phishing on Amazon.
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: https://a.co/d/aPv2zpY
Legality: https://a.co/d/1qYg0OY
Jurisprudence Course: https://open.spotify.com/show/6yOIMnVASRLN2nPLlBL0Dn?si=0de8b550346942d6
Twitter: https://twitter.com/scottjshapiro
Outline:
00:00 In This Episode
00:20 Introduction
3:35 Scott the Jurisprude
7:49 War Stories From Columbia
18:36 Analytic Versus Normative Jurisprudence
22:23 The Chicken And The Egg Problem For Jurisprudence
28:03 Austin, Hart, and Progress in Legal Philosophy
44:43 Fancy Bear Goes Phishing
43:23: Cybersecurity and Legal Philosophy
59:02:40 Hacking Paris Hilton’s Cell Phone
1:05:07 The Psychology of Hackers
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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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: https://a.co/d/aPv2zpY
Legality: https://a.co/d/1qYg0OY
Jurisprudence Course: https://open.spotify.com/show/6yOIMnVASRLN2nPLlBL0Dn?si=0de8b550346942d6
Twitter: https://twitter.com/scottjshapiro
Outline:
00:00 In This Episode
00:20 Introduction
3:35 Scott the Jurisprude
7:49 War Stories From Columbia
18:36 Analytic Versus Normative Jurisprudence
22:23 The Chicken And The Egg Problem For Jurisprudence
28:03 Austin, Hart, and Progress in Legal Philosophy
44:43 Fancy Bear Goes Phishing
43:23: Cybersecurity and Legal Philosophy
59:02:40 Hacking Paris Hilton’s Cell Phone
1:05:07 The Psychology of Hackers
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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1 Stunde 58 Minuten
Jonathan Schaffer is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He is an acclaimed metaphysician with a unique mind and approach to philosophy (and who has exquisite taste in epigraphs). Jonathan is best known for his work on monism, in which he contends that the cosmos is the lone fundamental object in reality, and on the grounding relation. He and Robinson begin by exploring monism, including its relationship to contemporary developments in physics, and then move on to the grounding relation, explicating just what this is and how it marks a departure from the dominant Quinean view of metaphysics.
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Outline:
00:00 In This Episode
1:07 Introduction
4:54 Jonathan’s Epigraphs
10:02 What Is a Monist?
14:11 How Jonathan Became a Monist
17:06 Breeds of Monism
24:09 Mereological Nihilism
39:14 Have Jonathan’s Views Shifted Over The Years?
41:25 The Ontological Priority of the Whole
48:16 Monism and Quantum Entanglement
54:42 Occam’s Laser
59:40 Modal Considerations for Monism
1:03:17 Jonathan’s Interest in Grounding
1:06:33 Quinean Metaphysics and Grounding
1:15:22 The Aristotelian View of Metaphysics
1:18:21 Carnap and Grounding
1:21:33 What Grounds What?
1:26:32 Debunking Metaphysical Intuitions With Cognitive Science
1:39:38 Ground Functionalism
1:48:58 Grounding in Feminist Metaphysics
1:55:30 Jonathan’s Philosophical Program
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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Outline:
00:00 In This Episode
1:07 Introduction
4:54 Jonathan’s Epigraphs
10:02 What Is a Monist?
14:11 How Jonathan Became a Monist
17:06 Breeds of Monism
24:09 Mereological Nihilism
39:14 Have Jonathan’s Views Shifted Over The Years?
41:25 The Ontological Priority of the Whole
48:16 Monism and Quantum Entanglement
54:42 Occam’s Laser
59:40 Modal Considerations for Monism
1:03:17 Jonathan’s Interest in Grounding
1:06:33 Quinean Metaphysics and Grounding
1:15:22 The Aristotelian View of Metaphysics
1:18:21 Carnap and Grounding
1:21:33 What Grounds What?
1:26:32 Debunking Metaphysical Intuitions With Cognitive Science
1:39:38 Ground Functionalism
1:48:58 Grounding in Feminist Metaphysics
1:55:30 Jonathan’s Philosophical Program
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.
1 Stunde 39 Minuten
Stephen Darwall is Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy at Yale University and John Dewey Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan. He is a world-renowned moral philosopher who has worked broadly across the ethical landscape, making important contributions to Kant scholarship, legal philosophy, deontology, and countless other areas. Steve and Robinson discuss the history of modern ethics, beginning with Hugo Grotius and traveling up through Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Bentham, and Smith before ending with Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche’s attack on morality.
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Outline:
00:00 In This Episode
00:22 Introduction
4:04 Steve’s Time at Yale
12:39 Ethics and Normativity
19:56 Hugo Grotius and the Birth of Modern Ethics
30:18 Hobbes on Morality
39:33 Hume on Morality
45:56 Kant on Morality
54:59 Jeremy Bentham on Morality
58:31 Adam Smith on Morality
1:10:51 A Brief Diatribe on Google
1:16:28 The Continental/Analytic Divide
1:23:17 Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche’s Attack on Morality
1:35:21 Are Moral Philosophers Moral?
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Outline:
00:00 In This Episode
00:22 Introduction
4:04 Steve’s Time at Yale
12:39 Ethics and Normativity
19:56 Hugo Grotius and the Birth of Modern Ethics
30:18 Hobbes on Morality
39:33 Hume on Morality
45:56 Kant on Morality
54:59 Jeremy Bentham on Morality
58:31 Adam Smith on Morality
1:10:51 A Brief Diatribe on Google
1:16:28 The Continental/Analytic Divide
1:23:17 Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche’s Attack on Morality
1:35:21 Are Moral Philosophers Moral?
1 Stunde 24 Minuten
Patricia Churchland is UC President’s Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of California, San Diego. She is among the most well-known and impactful figures working in the philosophy of mind, and a prominent early neurophilosopher who advocated the importance of neuroscience in the philosophy of mind. Pat and Robinson discuss three broad topics: neurophilosophy and ethics—particularly with reference to two of her recent books, Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality and Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition—what neuroscience has to say about the problem of free will, and the neurophilosophical approach to consciousness. You can keep up with Pat’s work at patriciachurchland.com, as well as on Twitter, @patchurchland.
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Outline:
00:00 In This Episode
00:36 Introduction
3:07 A Family of Neuroscientists
12:27 What Is Neurophilosophy?
15:44 Neuroscience and Morality
22:13 Evolution and Morality
33:00 Mirror Neurons and Imitation
38:56 Neuroscience and Metaethics
47:58 Neurophilosophy, Free Will, & The Self
1:05:24 Neuroscience & David Chalmers’ Hard Problem of Consciousness
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Outline:
00:00 In This Episode
00:36 Introduction
3:07 A Family of Neuroscientists
12:27 What Is Neurophilosophy?
15:44 Neuroscience and Morality
22:13 Evolution and Morality
33:00 Mirror Neurons and Imitation
38:56 Neuroscience and Metaethics
47:58 Neurophilosophy, Free Will, & The Self
1:05:24 Neuroscience & David Chalmers’ Hard Problem of Consciousness
1 Stunde 43 Minuten
Achille Varzi is the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and Bruno Kessler Honorary Professor at the University of Trento. He is a world-renowned metaphysicist and logician, and widely regarded as the greatest living mereologist. Yet despite all this Robinson asks Achille about his sleep habits, though afterward they discuss some more important philosophical questions: What is ontology? What is metaphysics, and how is it different from physics? After some tangents on nominalism and truthmakers, the conversation ends with a reflection on some of the late Saul Kripke’s contributions to philosophy.
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Outline:
00:00 How Kangaroos Got Their Name
00:52 Introduction
4:54 Achille’s Start in Philosophy
11:24 Some Thoughts on Wittgenstein
16:57 Writing Philosophy in a Second Language
23:01 Achille’s Absurd Sleeping Habits
30:41 What is Metaphysics?
43:01 Distinguishing Physics From Metaphysics
50:48 Ontology, Metaphysics, and Truthmakers
01:23:37 Saul Kripke's Contributions to Philosophy
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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Outline:
00:00 How Kangaroos Got Their Name
00:52 Introduction
4:54 Achille’s Start in Philosophy
11:24 Some Thoughts on Wittgenstein
16:57 Writing Philosophy in a Second Language
23:01 Achille’s Absurd Sleeping Habits
30:41 What is Metaphysics?
43:01 Distinguishing Physics From Metaphysics
50:48 Ontology, Metaphysics, and Truthmakers
01:23:37 Saul Kripke's Contributions to Philosophy
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.
1 Stunde 59 Minuten
Tim Maudlin is Professor of Philosophy at NYU. Before that, he did his undergraduate work in philosophy and physics at Yale and received his PHD from Pittsburgh in the History and Philosophy of Science. Tim is renowned as one of the leading philosophers of physics, and he also works in the philosophy of science and metaphysics. Among other things, Robinson and Tim talk about whether metaphysics should come prior to or after physics, the debates over absolute time and space, free will, the nature of physical laws, and David Lewis’s views on the Humean supermosaic. You can find out more about Tim and his work on his website, www.tim-maudlin.site.
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Outline:
00:00 Introduction
2:35 Studying Physics and Philosophy
8:38 Theoretical Physics, Foundations, and Metaphysics
15:54 Physics and Free Will
26:17 The Mathematical Structure of the Universe
37:49 Hume, Lewis, and the Supermosaic
49:16 Laws of Nature
1:04:02 Moral facts
1:18:03 Absolute and Relative Space
1:34:27 Space and the Ether
1:39:31 The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence
1:46:08 Absolute Space, Time, and Relativity
1:53:07 The Infinity of Time and Space
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Outline:
00:00 Introduction
2:35 Studying Physics and Philosophy
8:38 Theoretical Physics, Foundations, and Metaphysics
15:54 Physics and Free Will
26:17 The Mathematical Structure of the Universe
37:49 Hume, Lewis, and the Supermosaic
49:16 Laws of Nature
1:04:02 Moral facts
1:18:03 Absolute and Relative Space
1:34:27 Space and the Ether
1:39:31 The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence
1:46:08 Absolute Space, Time, and Relativity
1:53:07 The Infinity of Time and Space
1 Stunde 47 Minuten
Jody Azzouni is a professor of philosophy at Tufts University. While Jody is best known for his nominalist stance in the philosophy of mathematics, he is also an author of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. He and Robinson talk about his love of writing and how his interest in mathematics bloomed during in his time spent at NYU and CUNY. They then move on to the debate between nominalists and platonists in the philosophy of mathematics, Jody’s own deflationary stance, and some adjacent concerns about ontological commitment in both formal and informal languages.
Outline:
00:00 Introduction
3:16 Jody’s Writing Background
9:05 Jody’s Poetry
21:20 The Relationship Between Jody’s Philosophy and Everything Else
32:33 Jody’s Interest in the Philosophy of Mathematics
40:02 The Platonist/Nominalist Opposition in the Philosophy of Mathematics
49:29 The Platonist Conception of Mathematical Objects
52:50 A Nominalist Argument Against Mathematical Realism
1:09:41 Varieties of Mathematical Nominalism
1:18:55 Nominalism in Mathematics and Metaphysics
1:24:39 Ontological Commitment in the Vernacular
1:35:30 A Poetry Reading
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Outline:
00:00 Introduction
3:16 Jody’s Writing Background
9:05 Jody’s Poetry
21:20 The Relationship Between Jody’s Philosophy and Everything Else
32:33 Jody’s Interest in the Philosophy of Mathematics
40:02 The Platonist/Nominalist Opposition in the Philosophy of Mathematics
49:29 The Platonist Conception of Mathematical Objects
52:50 A Nominalist Argument Against Mathematical Realism
1:09:41 Varieties of Mathematical Nominalism
1:18:55 Nominalism in Mathematics and Metaphysics
1:24:39 Ontological Commitment in the Vernacular
1:35:30 A Poetry Reading
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1 Stunde 35 Minuten
Sophie Grace Chappell is Professor of Philosophy at the Open University in the UK. Before that she taught at the University of Dundee and Oxford. Sophie has a wide variety of interests, including ancient philosophy, ethics, and the philosophy of literature. She and Robinson speak about her latest book, Epiphanies: An Ethics of Experience. More particularly, their discussion centers around philosophy and literature—including a wonderful reading of Gerard Manley Hopkins—the relationship between ethics and aesthetics, and some potential pitfalls of taking a theory-building approach to moral philosophy.
Outline:
00:00 Introduction
2:27 Literae Humaniores
14:42 The Etymology of "Outrage"
19:19 Literature and the Phenomenology of Being Human
36:51 Ethics and Aesthetics
49:13 Poetry and Philosophy
53:40 What Are Epiphanies?
58:56 Gerard Manley Hopkins and His Terrible Sonnets
1:10:20 James Joyce and Epiphanies
1:14:35 Theory-Building Approaches to Ethics
1:24:41 Sophie's Approach to Ethics
1:29:49 Testing Ethical Theories
1:32:12 Sophie the Mountaineer
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Outline:
00:00 Introduction
2:27 Literae Humaniores
14:42 The Etymology of "Outrage"
19:19 Literature and the Phenomenology of Being Human
36:51 Ethics and Aesthetics
49:13 Poetry and Philosophy
53:40 What Are Epiphanies?
58:56 Gerard Manley Hopkins and His Terrible Sonnets
1:10:20 James Joyce and Epiphanies
1:14:35 Theory-Building Approaches to Ethics
1:24:41 Sophie's Approach to Ethics
1:29:49 Testing Ethical Theories
1:32:12 Sophie the Mountaineer
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1 Stunde 30 Minuten
Eric Schwitzgebel is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of California Riverside. Before that, he did his undergraduate work at Stanford, and then received his doctorate from the University of California Berkeley. Eric has worked on an extremely wide array of topics, ranging from Chinese philosophy to philosophy of mind, metaphilosophy, and metaphysics. In this conversation, however, Robinson and Eric talk about his upcoming book on philosophy and weirdness. In particular, they discuss why the United States might be conscious, what Kant and cyberpunk have in common, the moral value of alien microbes, and a lot more about garden snails than you thought you could ever find interesting. Keep up with Eric through his blog, the Splintered Mind, or on Twitter @eschwitz.
Outline:
00:00 Introduction
3:07 A Man of Many Interests
4:21 The Weirdness of the World
12:32 Why the United States May Be Conscious
25:50 Kant and Cyberpunk
35:22 Experimental Evidence for an External World
46:54 Are Ethicists More Ethical Than the Rest of Us?
1:04:47 What It's Like to Be a Garden Snail
1:23:07 The Moral Value of Alien Microbes
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Outline:
00:00 Introduction
3:07 A Man of Many Interests
4:21 The Weirdness of the World
12:32 Why the United States May Be Conscious
25:50 Kant and Cyberpunk
35:22 Experimental Evidence for an External World
46:54 Are Ethicists More Ethical Than the Rest of Us?
1:04:47 What It's Like to Be a Garden Snail
1:23:07 The Moral Value of Alien Microbes
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/robinsonerhardt
Twitter: https://twitter.com/robinsonerhardt
YouTube (Robinson's Podcast): youtube.com/@robinsonspodcast
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robinsonerhardt/
Twitch (Robinson Eats): https://www.twitch.tv/robinsonerhardt
YouTube (Robinson Eats): youtube.com/@robinsoneats
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@robinsonerhardt
3 Stunden 11 Minuten
Joel David Hamkins is the O’Hara Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at the University of Notre Dame, where he recently moved from the University of Oxford. Joel is one of the leading set theorists and philosophers of mathematics in the world, and he and Robinson discuss a lot—Hilbert’s Hotel, the continuum hypothesis, the set-theoretic multiverse, and even Joel’s dapper hat collection—but the main subject is his upcoming book, The Book of the Infinite, which is an accessible text on paradoxes and infinity. Joel has made the novel move of serializing it on Substack, so you can participate in its creation by checking out the link below, and otherwise see what he’s thinking about and working on through Twitter, MathOverflow, and his blog. The conversation grows technical from 1:10:26-2:00:25, but for those to whom that doesn’t appeal there are timestamps to navigate around this portion of the show.
Substack: https://joeldavidhamkins.substack.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JDHamkins
MathOverflow: https://mathoverflow.net/users/1946/joel-david-hamkins
Joel’s Blog: http://jdh.hamkins.org
OUTLINE:
00:00 Introduction
2:52 Is Joel a Mathematician or a Philosopher?
6:13 The Philosophical Influence of Hugh Woodin
10:29 The Intersection of Set Theory and Philosophy of Math
16:29 Serializing the Book of the Infinite
20:05 Zeno of Elea, Continuity, and Geometric Series
39:39 Infinite Games and the Chocolatier
53:35 Hilbert's Hotel
1:10:26 Cantor's Theorem
1:31:37 The Continuum Hypothesis
1:43:02 The Set-Theoretic Multiverse
2:00:25 Berry's Paradox and Large Numbers
2:16:15 Skolem's Paradox and Indescribable Numbers
2:28:41 Pascal's Wager and Reasoning Around Remote Events
2:49:35 MathOverflow
3:04:40 Joel's Impeccable Fashion Sense
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/robinsonerhardt
Twitter: https://twitter.com/robinsonerhardt
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YouTube (Robinson Eats): youtube.com/@robinsoneats
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@robinsonerhardt
Substack: https://joeldavidhamkins.substack.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JDHamkins
MathOverflow: https://mathoverflow.net/users/1946/joel-david-hamkins
Joel’s Blog: http://jdh.hamkins.org
OUTLINE:
00:00 Introduction
2:52 Is Joel a Mathematician or a Philosopher?
6:13 The Philosophical Influence of Hugh Woodin
10:29 The Intersection of Set Theory and Philosophy of Math
16:29 Serializing the Book of the Infinite
20:05 Zeno of Elea, Continuity, and Geometric Series
39:39 Infinite Games and the Chocolatier
53:35 Hilbert's Hotel
1:10:26 Cantor's Theorem
1:31:37 The Continuum Hypothesis
1:43:02 The Set-Theoretic Multiverse
2:00:25 Berry's Paradox and Large Numbers
2:16:15 Skolem's Paradox and Indescribable Numbers
2:28:41 Pascal's Wager and Reasoning Around Remote Events
2:49:35 MathOverflow
3:04:40 Joel's Impeccable Fashion Sense
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/robinsonerhardt
Twitter: https://twitter.com/robinsonerhardt
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robinsonerhardt/
Twitch (Robinson Eats): https://www.twitch.tv/robinsonerhardt
YouTube (Robinson Eats): youtube.com/@robinsoneats
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@robinsonerhardt
