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Patterson in Pursuit — 205 episodes
Ep. 115 - Simon Dixon on Bitcoin, Epstein, and Whether BTC was Hijacked
Pure Reason and the Divinity of Love
Theoretical Pluralism and Chess [Narration]
Things I Like about Christianity [Narration]
Understanding Marxism through Metaphysics [Narration]
Markets Fail to Solve the Complexity Problem [Narration]
Is AI an Empirical Breakthrough in Philosophy? [Narration]
Ep. 114: Research and Experience with Sleep Apnea | Patri Friedman
Why Language Machines do not have Souls [Narration]
Ep. 113 - Eric Brakey Detained at the Border
"But What's the Mechanism?"
Three Confirmed Paradoxes in Mathematics [Narration]
Ep. 112 - The Historical Novelty of the Trinity | Dr. Jared Ortiz
Intelligence and Pattern Recognition [Narration]
Everything in Discrete Space [Narration]
Ep. 111 - Is Civilization Older Than We Thought? | Michael Button
Geometry as Logic [Narration]
Mechanics before Ethics [Narration]
How to Deal with Spiritual Hierarchy [Narration]
Ep. 110 - Fixing Calculus with Computers | Ryan X. Charles
Information and Spirit [Narration]
Is Everything Quantifiable? [Narration]
Ep. 109 - Order After Atheism | Aaron Day
Complexity and Natural Systems [Narration]
Ep. 108 - I'm Trying to Understand the Trinity | TK Coleman
Ep. 107 - Coming Around to Catholicism | TK Coleman
The Problem of Physical Interaction [Narration]
4 Steps to the Immaterial [Narration]
Why We Need to Replace Mathematics [Narration]
The Objectivity of Structure Outside our Concepts [Narration]
Ep. 106 - Living with the Robots | Dr. RollerGator
Ep. 105 - The Philosophy of AI (pt 1) | Alexandros Marinos
Ep. 104 - "No Longer a Christian" | Isaac Deitz
Our Present Dark Age
Ep. 103 - "Mad at Mathematicians" | Isaac Morehouse
Ep. 102 - Scientific Progress and Intellectual Schelling Points | Dr. Geoff Anders
Critical Thinking | Zooming In and Zooming Out
Ep. 101- Is a Ruling Class Inevitable? | Samo Burja
Coming Around to Platonism
Ep. 100 - Trying to Solve Philosophy | Patterson in Pursuit
Ep. 99 - Non-Rationality and Psychedelics | Dr. Bernardo Kastrup
Ep. 98 - "A Consciousness-Only Ontology" | Dr. Bernardo Kastrup
Understanding God as Nature or the Universe
Solving the Interaction Problem
There Are No Objective Definitions
Ep. 97 - Math Heresy: Ultrafinitism | Dr. Doron Zeilberger
Ep. 96 - Truth and Postmodernism | Breakdown of Thaddeus Russell Interview
Ep. 95 - The Highest IQ in America | Christopher Langan
Ep. 94 - A Satoshi Nakamoto Story | Phil "Scronty" Wilson
Ep. 93 - Abortion, Natural Rights, and Evictionism | Dr. Walter Block
Ep. 92 - 6 Years of Mystery Illness: When Western Medicine Fails
Ep. 91 - Tom Woods on Catholicism, Papal Authority, and Intellectual Entrepreneurship | Dr. Thomas Woods
The Abuse of Apriorism in Economics
Ep. 90 - The Overwhelming Beauty of Free Markets | Jeffrey Tucker
Does Free Will Even Make Sense?
The Crucifixion: A Unification of Love and Hate
How the Rubik's Cube Solves Any Paradox
Ep. 89 - Is the Whole Greater than the Sum of Its Parts? | Dr. Andrew Brenner
Defending Zeno's Paradox
Ep. 88 - Watch Out for Bitcoin Cash | Ryan X. Charles
How Progressives Can Fix the Economy
Ep. 87 - Race and Colorblindness: Part II | T.K. Coleman
Gay Marriage and the Absurdity of Courts
Ep. 86 - Race and Colorblindness: Part I | TK Coleman
The Profundity of Poker
Ep. 85 - College Isn't for Education | Dr. Bryan Caplan
Ep. 84 - When Logic Met Math | Dr. Graham Priest
Ep. 83 - Logic, Contradictions, and the Liar Paradox | Dr. Graham Priest
Ep. 82 - Do Entities Exist? | Breakdown of Chalmers Interview
Ep. 81 - The Ethics of Eating Meat | Dr. Mike Huemer
Ep. 80 - A Debate about Truth and Postmodernism | Thaddeus Russell
Ep. 79 - Postmodernism, Marxism, Love, and Religion | Thaddeus Russell
Ep. 78 - The Case for Idealism | Dr. Bernardo Kastrup
Time for Writing and Health
The Puzzle of Awareness
Ep. 77 - Why I Support Catalonia's Secession
Don't Fight for Objective Definitions
Ep. 76 - Metaphysical Questions, Objectivist Answers | Dr. David Kelley
The Fashionable Thinkers
Ep. 75 - Do We Perceive Reality? | Dr. Donald Hoffman
How to Deal with Alien Abductions and Bigfoot Sightings
Ep. 74 - Race and American Politics | T.K. Coleman
Unifying the Plural into the Simple
Ep. 73 - Race, Culture, and Judgments | T.K. Coleman
Ep. 72 - The Real Story Behind Bitcoin Cash | Ryan X. Charles
Ep. 71 - Meditation and the Absence of Self | Oren J. Sofer
Ep. 70 - Should Feminism and Philosophy Mix? | Interview Breakdown
Ep. 69 - Hegel and Paradox | Dr. Donald Verene
Ep. 68 - Corruption in the Silk Road Case | Lyn Ulbricht
Ep. 67 - Catholicism, the Church, and Faith | Fr. Oscar Martin
Ep. 66 - Ethics, Capitalism, the Meaning of Life, and Social Justice | Dr. Patrick Byrne
Ep. 65 - "Ultra Spiritual" or "Actually Spiritual"? | JP Sears
Ep. 64 - Science, Peer Review, and Academic B******t | Brian Earp
Can Drugs Lead to Truth?
Ep. 63 - The Limits of the Non-Aggression Principle | Interview Breakdown
Language is Inherently Ambiguous
Ep. 62 - Bitcoin, OpenBazaar, and Political Power | Sam Patterson
Is Space Mental?
Ep. 61 - Ayn Rand's Objectivism | Dr. David Kelley
You Live in Your Mind
Ep. 60 - Dialogue with a Buddhist Monk | Phra Maha Chanomkorn Prakai
Ep. 59 - Can You Approach Infinity? | Dr. Michael Huemer
Is the World Blurry? | The Modernist Fallacy
Ep. 58 - The Psychology of Postmodernism | Dr. Stephen Hicks
Tai Chi Meets Reality
Ep. 57 - Are Some Objects Mind-Dependent? | Interview Breakdown
Puerto Rico Has Gone Bankrupt
Ep. 56 - Zen Buddhism | Keiho Nishigaki
Ep. 55 - Are Science and Religion Incompatible? | Dr. Peter Harrison
Data versus Anecdotes: From Ghosts to Levaquin
Ep. 54 - Psychedelic Experience: Ayahuasca | The World Wanderers
The Social Hierarchy
Ep. 53 - One Year, 10 Countries | What I've Learned
People Love Hierarchy
Ep. 52 - Are Some Infinities Bigger Than Others? | Dr. Toby Meadows
Ep. 51 - Feminist Philosophy | Dr. Michelle Boulous-Walker
The Metaphysics of Fiction
Ep. 50 - Argumentation Ethics | Stephan Kinsella
Experts and Incompetence
Ep. 49 - Is Consciousness "Emergent"? | Dr. David Braddon-Mitchell
My Experience with Christian Evangelicalism
Ep. 48 - Skepticism of Infinity in Mathematics | Dr. Norman Wildberger
Infinite Things Do Not Exist
Ep. 47 - Problems with Paraconsistent Logic | Interview Breakdown
3 Steps for Changing a Paradigm
Ep. 46 - Buddhism and Boundaries | Interview Breakdown
A Requirement for True Love
Ep. 45 - Infinite Sets: Understanding the Basics | Dr. Gareth
Charlie Hebdo as an Excuse to Take Selfies
Ep. 44 - SJWs, the Left, and Academia | Dr. Jamie Whyte
Ep. 43 - Indigenous Beliefs of New Zealand | Dr. Hirini Kaa
Ep. 42 - Truth and Paraconsistent Logic
Ep. 41 - Race Relations, Part II | T.K. Coleman
Ep. 40 - Race Relations | T.K. Coleman
Why I Am Not a Physicalist
Ep. 39 - Theism without the OmniGod | Dr. John Bishop
Ep. 38 - The Post-Truth Era | Dr. Robert Nola
Ep. 37 - Free Will, Causality, and Pluralism | Dr. Mario De Caro
The Bittersweet Paradox
Ep. 36 - Christmas Breakdown | Scrooge Edition
Ep. 35 - Legalizing All Drugs | Dr. Jeffrey Miron
Ep. 34 - The Foundations of Knowledge
Is It Honorable To Be In The Military?
Ep. 33 - Do Mathematical Objects Exist? | Dr. Jody Azzouni
Ep. 32 - Minds, Machines, and Souls | Interview Breakdown
Ep. 31 - Religious Experience | Isaac Morehouse
The Case for Cultural Appropriation
Thank Goodness for Price Gougers
Ep. 30 - Buddhism, the Self, and Boundaries | Dr. Janet Gyatso
Gender, Sex, and Language
Ep. 29 - Trump and Conservatism | Dr. Harvey Mansfield
Ep. 28 - Questions for a Christian Theologian | Dr. Ian McFarland
All is One: The Logical Case for Mysticism
Ep. 27 - Intellectual Optimism | T.K. Coleman
Reparations for Slavery
Ep. 26 - Why I'm Not in Academia
Steak and Certainty
Ep. 25 - Artificial Intelligence and Minds | Dr. Bram van Heuveln
Karma or Coincidence?
Ep. 24 - John Searle and Dualism | Interview Breakdown
What is Religiosity?
Ep. 23 - Postmodernism | Dr. Stephen Hicks
Economic Reality Comes Before Social Justice
Ep. 22 - Understanding Infinity | Dr. Daniel Isaacson
An Objective Standard for Sanity
Ep. 21 - Biological Naturalism | Dr. John Searle
The Continuum Problem
Ep. 20 - Democracy to Anarchism | Interview Breakdown
Logic is Not a Convention
Ep. 19 - Three Basic Concepts in Economics | Dr. Donald Boudreaux
Hiding Behind Abstractions
Ep. 18 - Democracy, More or Less | Dr. Bruce Cain
Faith and Reason
Physicalism and Spirituality
Ep. 17 - Oxford Analysis | Interview Breakdown
Tautologies Must Not Be Dismissed
Ep. 16 - What is Logic? | Dr. Timothy Williamson
The Paradox of Buridan's Ass
Ep. 15 - Anarchist Intuition | Libertarian Political Philosophy
Resolving the Liar's Paradox
Ep. 14 - Understanding Quantum Physics | Dr. Simon Saunders
Everything is Grounded in Logic
Ep. 13 - Austrian Economics: Deduction, Logic, and Theory | Dr. Peter Boettke
Can You Judge Intelligence by Beliefs?
Ep. 12 - Brexit!
From Conservative to Anarchist
Ep. 11 - Contradictions at Columbia | Interview Breakdown
The Logic of Nothing
Ep. 10 - Christian Beliefs, Experiences | Dr. Bob Murphy
Assume Everybody is Wrong
Ep. 9 - Logic, Contradictions, and Dialetheism | Dr. Justin Clarke-Doane
Does the Mind Have Access to Objective Truth?
Ep. 8 - Completed Infinities: Possible or Not? | Dr. Gary McGuire
Against "Doing the Right Thing"
Ep. 7 - Egoism, Religion, Ayn Rand | Michael Malice
Chairs Do Not Exist
Ep. 6 - Interview Breakdown: Pragmatism, Objective Truth, and Anarchism
Democracy Fail: Trump versus Sanders
Ep. 5 - American Pragmatism | Dr. John Stuhr
The Sliding Scale of Certainty
Ep. 4 - Irrational Voters, Law without Government, and the Case Against Education | Dr. Bryan Caplan
The Death of Skepticism
Ep. 3 - Consciousness and Subjectivity | Dr. Emrys Westacott
Ep. 2 - Is There Objective Truth? | Dr. Emrys Westacott
Ep. 1 - Introduction