Condensed Matter

37: "Why Being Necessary Really Is Not the Same As Being Not Possibly Not", Dana Goswick

36: "The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis", David Chalmers

35: "There is no measurement problem for Humeans", Chris Dorst

34: "The Limits of Modality", Sam Cowling

33: "Biochemical Functions", Francesca Bellazzi (deep dive featuring the author!)

32: "Substance", Donnchadh O'Conaill (deep dive featuring the author!)

31: "Biological Individuality and the Foetus Problem", Will Morgan (deep dive featuring the author!)

30: “How Skeptical is Quine’s “Modal Skepticism”?”, John Divers

Ep. 29: "Modal Conventionalism", Ross Cameron

Ep. 28: "Panpsychism", Thomas Nagel (CM classic!)

Ep. 27: “Modal dispositionalism and necessary perfect masks”, Barbara Vetter and Ralf Busse

Ep. 26: "An Apology for Naturalized Metaphysics", James Ladyman (deep dive featuring the author!)

Ep. 25 "The Governing Conception of Laws", Nina Emery (deep dive featuring the author!)

Ep. 24: “Going Beyond the Fundamental: Feminism in Contemporary Metaphysics”, Elizabeth Barnes

Ep. 23: "Governing Without a Fundamental Direction of Time", Chen and Goldstein

Ep. 22: "Aristotelian Supervenience", John Heil

Episode 21: "Causal Content and Global Laws: Grounding Modality in Experimental Practice", Jenann Ismael

Episode 20: "Disagreement in Metaphysics", Timothy WIlliamson

Episode 19: "Realism Without Parochialism", Phillip Bricker

Episode 18: "Metaphysics After Carnap: the Ghost Who Walks?", Huw Price

Episode 17: "Social kinds are essentially mind-dependent", Rebecca Mason

Episode 16: "Calculus and counterpossibles in science", Brian McLoone

Episode 15: "The rationality of metaphysics", E.J. Lowe

Episode 14: "Where Do You Get Your Protein? Or: Biochemical Realization", Tuomas Tahko (deep dive featuring the author!)

Episode 13: "Norms and Modality", Amie Thomasson

Episode 12: "What Everyone Should Say about Symmetries (and How Humeans Get to Say It)", Michael Townsen Hicks (deep dive featuring the author!)

Episode 11: “Nomothetic Explanation and Humeanism about Laws of Nature”, Harjit Bhogal

Episode 10: "Realism and the Absence of Value", Shamik Dasgupta

Episode 9: "Megarian Variable Actualism", Toby Friend (deep dive featuring the author!)

Episode 8: "Sideways music", Ned Markosian

Episode 7: "The Ground Between the Gaps", Jonathan Schaffer

Episode 6: "Conceptualizing causal powers: activity, capacity, essence, necessitation", Ruth Groff

Episode 5: "There Are No Ahistorical Theories of Function", Justin Garson

Episode 4: "Troubles with Theoretical Virtues: Resisting Theoretical Utility Arguments in Metaphysics", Otávio Bueno and Scott Shalkowski

Episode 3: "Ramseyan Humility", David Lewis

Episode 2: "Fundamental Powers, Evolved Powers, and Mental Powers", Alexander Bird; "Evolved Powers, Artefact Powers, and Dispositional Explanations", Barbara Vetter

Episode 1: "How scientific models can explain", Alisa Bokulich

Episode 0: Introducing Condensed Matter