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RSam Podcast
by Rahul Samaranayake
Philosophy & Theory | AI & CogSci
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Helen Rollins Death Drives Everything
Helen Rollins is a writer and filmmaker from Northern Ireland, currently based between Belfast and London. She studied modern languages and literature at Cambridge and the ENS de Lyon. She lectures in philosophy, film and psychoanalysis and is the author of the book Psychocinema, which reexamines...
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After Nihilism | Euwyn Goh
Euwyn Goh is a writer and technologist who has worked in FinTech and blockchain startups for almost a decade across Australia and Singapore. Euwyn is the co-founder of the PubTech startup Wordsmith and the author of ‘After Nihilism.’ You can find more of Euwyn's work at https://nothingness.me/...
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Kantian Computationalism | Peter Wolfendale
Peter Wolfendale is a systematic philosopher. He is affiliated with the New Centre for Research & Practice and is a key figure in the Neorationalism movement. He is the author of The Revenge of Reason (2026) and Object-Oriented Philosophy (2014). Peter works through German Idealism and analytic...
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British Idealism | Nathan Hawkins
Dr Nathan Hawkins is a philosopher who teaches at Cambridge University with a PhD thesis on Gottlob Frege's notion of truth. Dr Hawkins holds a BA with a double major in Philosophy and Mathematics, as well as an MA in Philosophy. He specialises in metaphysics, logic, the history of analytic...
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The Marvels of Computationalism, Radical Embodiment and Holding Paradox (w/ Andrea Hiott)
Andrea Hiott is a philosopher, author & educator with degrees in philosophy & neuroscience (UGA, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, currently at Universität Heidelberg). She also has an M.A. in world heritage (department of urban planning & civil engineering), has worked in transportation and...
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Active Inference and Bayesian Mechanics
Dr Sanjeev Namjoshi is a machine learning engineer at Noumenal Labs and a prominent researcher in the free energy principle and active inference epistemic community. He has a PhD in neuroscience from The University of Texas at Austin and is the textbook author of ‘Fundamentals of Active…
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Existentialism and Artificial Intelligence
Michael Wheeler is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Stirling, specializing in the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. He is the author of the influential book Reconstructing the Cognitive World (2005) and is known for his Heideggerian approach…
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Why Do We Think of the Brain as a Computer? (w/ Danielle J. Williams)
Dr Danielle J. Williams is a philosopher of mind, cognitive science, neuroscience, and AI, as well as a historian of cognitive science and AI. She is an incoming Bersoff Faculty Fellow at NYU, affiliated with the Centre for Mind, Brain, & Consciousness, and will join the Philosophy Department at...
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The Problem with “Spiritual but Not Religious” (w/ Tony of 1Dime)
Tony Chamas is a political theorist, commentator and author of the forthcoming book "Freedom to Change Nothing: The Spectrum of Managed Democracy and What Makes the US Different." Chamas is also a video essayist known for his YouTube channel, 1Dime and his podcast, 1Dime Radio. His notable videos...
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Where Did Analytic Philosophy Go Wrong? (w/ Alicia Juarrero)
Prof Alicia Juarrero is the founder and president of VectorAnalytica and Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Prince George’s Community College. Prof Juarrero has a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Miami, where she is also currently a visiting research scholar. She is the author of...
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Graham Harman & Matthew David Segall: OOO vs. Process Philosophy
Prof Graham Harman is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. His upcoming book, to be released in Feb 2026, is Waves and Stones: On the Ultimate Nature of Reality. You can find more of Prof Harman's work at...
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Graham Priest: Logic, Contradiction, Dialetheism and Hegel
Graham Priest is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Centre, City University of New York, Boyce Gibson Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne, and International Research Fellow at the Ruhr University of Bochum. Prof Priest has published far and wide, spanning...
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Mechanistic Interpretability and How LLMs Understand
Dr Matthieu Queloz is a Privatdozent at the University of Bern. He is the author of two books: The Practical Origins of Ideas and The Ethics of Conceptualization, both published open access with Oxford University Press. You can find more of Dr Queloz's work at https://www.matthieuqueloz.com/…
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Husserl's Phenomenology and Social Ontology (w/ Dan Zahavi)
Dan Zahavi is a leading phenomenological philosopher known for his work in phenomenology, selfhood, and the philosophy of mind. Currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen and director of the Centre for Subjectivity Research, he has been central in renewing and expanding...
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Saving Christianity From Itself (w/ Jim Palmer)
Jim Palmer is a philosopher, radical theologian, spiritual director and existential health counsellor. He is the Founder of Center for Non-Religious Spirituality, author of Deconstructionology and has written multiple books such as Inner Anarchy: Dethroning God and Jesus to Save Ourselves and the...
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Has AI Killed Education? (w/ Vlasta Sikimić)
"ChatGPT has unravelled the entire academic project", writes James Walsh, in a viral article on NY magazine titled 'Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College.' In this episode, social epistemologist of science and philosopher of education Dr Vlasta Sikimic, in her 4th appearance on the...
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Mark Solms & John Dall'Aglio: Prospects for a Lacanian Neuropsychoanalysis
Prof Mark Solms is a neuropsychologist and psychoanalyst known for pioneering the field of neuropsychoanalysis. You can find more of Prof Solms' work at https://neuroscience.uct.ac.za/contacts/mark-solms The Hidden Spring: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53642061-the-hidden-spring John...
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Daniel Tutt: Who Is A Comrade? Who Is A Friend?
Dr Daniel Tutt is a psychoanalytic Marxist philosopher, writer, teacher, and host of the Emancipations podcast. He is the author of Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation and How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche, and is working on a book...
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Geometric Hyperscanning, Interbrain Networks and Social Cognition (w/ Nicolás Hinrichs)
Dr Nicolás Hinrichs is a researcher at the Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, interested in the behavioural and neurobiological correlates of mental health interventions via hyperscanning; drawing on active‑inference...
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Merleau-Ponty & Cognitive Science (w/ Robin Muller & Jeffrey Yoshimi)
Prof Robin Muller is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at California State University, Northridge. She works mainly in phenomenology and the history of philosophy, and is especially interested in the intersections of phenomenology with the human sciences, and has written...
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A Masterclass on Enactivism and Cognition (w/ Shaun Gallagher)
Prof Shaun Gallagher is a philosopher working on embodied cognition, enactivism, phenomenology, and philosophy of mind. He is the Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in Philosophy at the University of Memphis and holds a secondary research appointment at the University of Wollongong. Prof...
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German Idealism and Neuroscience (w/ Rafael Holmberg)
Dr Rafael Holmberg is a political writer, social theorist, and researcher on philosophy and psychoanalysis based at University College London. His work broadly draws on post-war Continental philosophy, German Idealism, Marxism, and psychoanalytic theory, drawing from psychology and neuroscience.…
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Žižek vs. Pinkard and the Hegel of Analytic Philosophy (w/ Joshua Wretzel)
Dr Joshua Wretzel is the Associate Teaching Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University, specialising in social and political philosophy, Kant and German Idealism, hermeneutics, phenomenology, and the philosophy of art and logic. Prof Wretzel's work on German philosophy is published…
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Lacan for Analytic Philosophers (w/ Andrew Flores)
Andrew Flores is an autodidact in Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis, philosophy, theology, and Marxism. In this episode, we discuss Lacan's relationship to analytic philosophy and science. You can find more of Andrew's work at https://www.youtube.com/@The_Big_Sig and...
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Tim Maudlin: Physics and Epistemology
Prof Tim Maudlin is a philosopher of physics and science who, in the last few decades, has pioneered forwarding the field' Foundations of Physics.' He's the founder of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics, domiciled in Split, Croatia. He taught for over two decades at Rutgers...
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Paul Cockshott: Defending Materialism and Scientific Socialism
Dr Paul Cockshott is a computer scientist and multidisciplinary economist working through Marxism and scientific socialism. Dr Cockshott earned a PhD in Computer Science from Edinburgh University. Named on fifty-two patents, his research covers political economy, robotics, computer parallelism…
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Everything You Wanted to Know About Australian Politics (w/ ActuallyAdu)
ActuallyAdu is a video essayist and political commentator. He has a background in economics and makes videos about Australian and global politics. In this episode, we discuss the housing crisis, how bad the Australian economy is compared to the rest of the world, neoliberalism and its…
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Cognitive Computing vs. LLMs (w/ Mahault Albarracin)
Mahault Albarracin is a PhD student at UQAM, Montréal, Québec, researching cognitive computing and social sciences. Mahault is Director of Research Strategy and Product Integration at VERSUS, a cognitive computing company. She is also an IEEE fellow, author, lecturer and has an MA in sexology. In...
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Can AI Lie? Chatbots, Language & Psychoanalysis (w/ Jack Black)
Dr Jack Black is an Associate Professor of Culture, Media, and Sport at Sheffield Hallam University (UK), where he's affiliated with the Centre for Culture, Media, and Society and is Research Lead for the Anti-Racism Research Group. He is an interdisciplinary researcher primarily focused on...
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Christian Nationalism vs. the Void of Christianity (w/ Richard Boothby)
Prof Richard Boothby is a professor of philosophy at Loyola University Maryland who works in psychoanalysis, philosophical psychology, phenomenology, existentialism, and contemporary continental philosophy. He is the author of Death and Desire, Freud as Philosopher, Blown Away and numerous other...
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Dialectical Science and Why AI Research Needs Continental Philosophy (w/ Tim Elmo Feiten)
Dr Tim Elmo Feiten is a philosopher of science with a focus on the sciences of life, mind, and artificial intelligence. His work brings the history and philosophy of science into dialogue with other fields, especially continental and Classical German philosophy. He has used the philosophy of...
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Why Study Lacan (w/ Andrew Flores AKA The Big Signorelli)
Andrew Flores is an autodidact in Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis, philosophy, theology, and Marxism. In this episode, we discuss Lacan's metapsychology and theory of the subject. You can find more of Andrew's work at https://www.youtube.com/@thevanishingmediators and...
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The Life and Philosophy of Alain Badiou (w/ Kenneth Reinhard)
Prof Kenneth Reinhard is Research Professor of Comparative Literature and English at UCLA, where he directed the Center for Jewish Studies, and founded the graduate program in Experimental Critical Theory. He has written on psychoanalysis, philosophy, religion, and occasionally literature and...
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Peter Rollins and Matthew David Segall: Pyrotheology vs. Process Theology
Dr Peter Rollins is a philosopher and radical theologian working through the tradition of apophatic theology, Freud, Lacan, Hegel and Žižek. He has a PhD dealing with post-structural theory from Queen's University, Belfast, and is the author of numerous books, including How (Not) to Speak of God...
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Evolution of Deep Learning and the Abstraction Explosion
Abstraction, mimesis and the evolution of deep learning: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-023-01688-z You can find more of Prof Hamelryck's work at https://thamelry.github.io/ and his Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YoTlzjkAAAAJ&hl=en You can find more of...
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Henri Bergson’s Challenge to AI (w/ Stephen Robbins)
Dr Stephen E. Robbins researches AI, cognitive science, psychology and the philosophy of mind. He holds a PhD in cognitive psychology, minoring in computer science with a thesis on Bergson's model of mind vs. the computer model of mind. He's also a former university professor specialising in...
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Stijn Vanheule: Psychosis, Madness, Lacan and Jung
Prof Stijn Vanheule is a clinical psychologist, professor at Ghent University, Belgium, and psychoanalyst in private practice (New Lacanian School for Psychoanalysis and World Association of Psychoanalysis). He is the author of numerous books such as Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy, The Subject of...
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The Philosophy of Data (w/ Sabina Leonelli & Vlasta Sikimić)
Prof Sabina Leonelli is a philosopher of science and professor at the Technical University of Munich. She is well known for her work on scientific practices, data-centric science, and open science policies. She was awarded the 2018 Lakatos Award for her book 'Data-Centric Biology: A Philosophical...
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Helen Rollins: Cinema, Desire, Politics and Emancipation
Helen Rollins is a writer and filmmaker from Northern Ireland, currently based between Belfast and London. She studied modern languages and literature at Cambridge and the ENS de Lyon. She lectures in philosophy, film and psychoanalysis and is the author of the book Psychocinema, which reexamines...
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Phenomenology, Mathematics & Dreydegger (w/ Jeffrey Yoshimi & Darius Parvizi-Wayne)
Prof Jeffrey Yoshimi is a professor in the departments of Cognitive and Information Sciences and Philosophy at UC Merced. He studies the relationship between the dynamics of consciousness and the dynamics of neural activity in an embodied brain. As part of this, Prof Yoshimi models neural…
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Graham Harman: Objects Untimely, the Subject, Freedom, and Is Kant the Enemy of Metaphysics?
Prof Graham Harman is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. He was also a professor at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, and professor of philosophy at The European Graduate School. Prof Harman is one of a handful of...
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Francesca Bellazzia: The Gene, Self-Assembly, and the Philosophy of Biochemistry
Dr Francesca Bellazzi is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the ERC-funded project AssemblingLife at the University of Oslo, working on self-assembling processes in biochemistry. Her main research explores the philosophy of biochemistry and the interface between chemistry and biology. Her thesis was...
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Barry Taylor: Unknowing and Radical Theology
Dr Barry Taylor is the Chair of the Department of Theology at Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS) College Dublin. He is also the author of multiple books including, 'Entertainment Theology: Exploring Spirituality in a Digital Democracy' and 'Sex, God, and Rock 'n' Roll: Catastrophes,...
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Pietro Mazzaglia: Embodied AI and Alternatives to LLMs
Dr Pietro Mazzaglia is a Senior Machine Learning Researcher at Qualcomm Research Netherlands. He did his PhD at Ghent University, Belgium, with the dissertation title "Efficient Learning Strategies for Embodied Intelligence." Dr Mazzaglia's main research areas are embodied AI, robotics, world...
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Why German Idealism? (w/ Christopher Satoor)
Christopher Satoor is a doctoral candidate (ABD) in the Department of Humanities at York University. His research focuses on the Classical German philosophy of the 18th and 19th centuries and the German idealist philosophies of Kant and Fichte, with an extra special concentration on the work of...
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Michael Potter: The Rise of Analytic Philosophy
Prof Michael Potter is Professor of Logic at Cambridge and a Life Fellow of Fitzwilliam College. He was previously at Oxford, where he took a D.Phil. in pure mathematics and was a Fellow of Balliol College. Prof Potter has authored multiple books on Frege, Wittgenstein, set theory and analytic...
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Cadell Last: Systems, Subjects and a Hegelian Philosophy of Science
Dr Cadell Last is an anthropologist and Hegelian philosopher who is interested in biocultural evolution, mind-matter relations, and speculative futures. His PhD thesis, Global Brain Singularity, focuses on all three of these topics. He is the author of Systems and Subjects, Enter the Alien, and...
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Katherine Everitt: Quantum Mechanics, Psychoanalytic AI, and a Hegelian Ontology of Space
Katherine Everitt is a Hegelian scholar, philosopher, writer, poet and artist. Katherine is a Research Fellow at the Global Center for Advanced Studies in Dublin and a Secondary Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Her PhD, 'Hegel in Vertigo: An Ontology of Space,' was…
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Does Capitalism Lead to Scientific Innovation? (w/ Vlasta Sikimić)
Dr. Vlasta Sikimić is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Science and a member of the Philosophy and Ethics group at Eindhoven University of Technology. Her research focus is on the Social Epistemology of Science, Metascience, Philosophy of AI & ML in Science and Philosophy of AI in…
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Nikhil Venkatesh: Left-Utilitarianism and Socialism for Effective Altruists
Dr Nikhil Venkatesh is a fellow in the Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre for Politics, Philosophy and Law at King's College London. He specialises in moral, social, and political philosophy. His research focuses primarily on utilitarianism and socialism. His PhD thesis argues that recognising the social…
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