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Robinson's Podcast — 283 episodes
281 - Michael Hudson: How Debt Destroys Empires
280 - David Albert & Jacob Barandes: Debating the Foundation of Quantum Mechanics
279 - Paul Davies: The Second Quantum Mechanics Revolution
278 - Priyamvada Natarajan: The Mystery of Dark Matter
277 - Tim Maudlin: What Is Philosophy?
276 - Craig Callender: Lab-Grown Meat, De-Extinction, and the Tolman-Ehrenfest Effect
275 - Nate Soares: AI Will Kill Us All If We Don’t Change Course
274 - Norman Finkelstein: Trump, Netanyahu, Putin, and the War in Iran
273 - Richard Wolff: Iran, Israel, and the End of the American Empire
272 - Michael Hudson: Iran, Israel, and World War III
271 - Sara Imari Walker & Lee Cronin: Quantum Physics, Time, and the Origin of Life
270 - Tim Maudlin & Jacob Barandes: The Indivisible Approach to Quantum Theory
269 - Scott Aaronson: What Is Quantum Computing?
268 - Jeffrey Pfeffer: Power, Influence, and the Psychology of Institutions
267 - Lee Cronin: Aliens, Artificial Intelligence, and the Origin of Life
266 - Annaka Harris: The Fundamentality of Consciousness
265 - Jacob Barandes: A New Foundation for Quantum Mechanics
264 - Lee Cronin: The Chemistry of Life
263 - Sara Imari Walker: Astrobiology, Aliens, and the Origin of Life
262 - Slavoj Žižek: Marxism, Quantum Mechanics, and Artificial Intelligence
261 - Tyler Cowen: The Economics of Artificial Intelligence
260 - Reid Hoffman: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity
259 - Kenneth Roth: Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and How to Shame a Dictator
258 - Richard Wolff: Donald Trump’s Tariff War Dissected
257 - Carl Hart: The Neuroscience of Drugs and Their Role in the Good Life
256 - Tim Maudlin: A Masterclass on the Philosophy of Time
255 - Michael Hudson: Trump, China, AI, and the Untold History of Economics
254 - The Yale US-China Forum: Slavoj Žižek, Richard Wolff, Yannis Varoufakis, Robin Visser, Yascha Mounk, Pei Wang, Daniel Mattingly
253 - Peter Zeihan: China’s Fall, America’s Rise, and the End of the World Order
252 - David Kipping: Alien Civilizations, Megastructures, Spacecraft, and Artificial Intelligence
251 - Eliezer Yudkowsky: Artificial Intelligence and the End of Humanity
250 - Norman Finkelstein: Trump, Israel, Gaza, and the Criminalization of Dissent
249 - Chris Hedges: Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and the Rise of American Fascism
248 - Richard Wolff: Trump, Hitler, and the End of the American Empire
247 - Garry Nolan: Aliens | The Case They’re Already Here
246 - Tim Maudlin: A Masterclass on General Relativity
245 - Leonard Susskind: String Theory and the Black Hole War
244 - Norman Finkelstein: Donald J. Trump, Mossad Conspiracies in Israel, and the Dying Left
243 - Richard Wolff: Donald J. Trump and the Decline of the United States
242 - Victor Davis Hanson: President Donald J. Trump and the Fate of the United States
241 - Raphael Bousso: The Cold Truth About Quantum Mechanics
240 - Peter Godfrey-Smith: Cuttlefish, Octopuses, and the Consciousness of Mysterious Minds
239 - Ned Block: Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and the Philosophy of Mind
238 - Barry Loewer: What Is The Philosophy of Science?
237 - Tim Maudlin: A Masterclass on Special Relativity
236 - David Albert: A Masterclass on Time’s Arrow
235 - Janna Levin: How to Survive a Black Hole
234 - Richard Wolff & Michael Hudson: Karl Marx and the Fall of the West
233 - Judith Butler: Trump & Harris | Israel & Palestine | Sex & Gender
232 - Niall Ferguson: Trump v. Harris | Israel v. Hamas | Russia v. Ukraine
231 - Victor Davis Hanson: The Final Case for Donald J. Trump
230 - Richard Wolff: The Final Case Against Donald J. Trump
229 - Rashid Khalidi: October 7th Revisited | Israel, Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, & The Nakba
228 - Norman Finkelstein: October 7th Revisited | Israel, Palestine, Hezbollah, & The End of Gaza
227 - David Eagleman: Synesthesia, Brain Plasticity, AI, and Conspiracy Theories
226 - David Builes: The Metaphysics of Time and Consciousness
225 - Alexander Nehamas: Nietzsche, Eternal Recurrence, and the Will to Power
224 - Peter Woit: String Theory and the Crisis in Physics
223 - Michael Graziano: Consciousness, Animal Minds, and the Neuroscience of Suffering
222 - Richard Wolff: Israel, Ukraine, China, and the End of the American Empire
221 - David Albert: The Measurement Problem of Quantum Mechanics
220 - Michael Hudson: Debt, Economic Collapse, and the End of Civilization
Ask Me Anything | August 2024
219 - Joscha Bach: Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and the Threat of AI Apocalypse
218 - Norman Finkelstein: Genocide in Israel and Palestine
217 - Leonard Susskind: String Theory, Fine-Tuning, and the Physics of the Multiverse
216 - Raphael Bousso: The Black Hole Paradox, Quantum Gravity, and the Holographic Principle
215 - Anna Lembke: On Philosophy and Psychiatry
Ask Me Anything | July 2024
214 - Joyce Carol Oates: On Philosophy and Literature
213 - Slavoj Žižek: God, Marxism, Philosophy, and Quantum Mechanics
212 - Deborah Gordon: Ants, Myrmecology, and Collective Behavior
211 - Jay Chandrasekhar: Comedy, Creative Integrity, Super Troopers, & Jackass
210 - David Albert & Tim Maudlin: A Discussion of Niels Bohr, Measurement, & Quantum Mechanics
209 - Peter Singer: Controversial Ideas, Utilitarianism, and Animal Liberation
208 - Victor Davis Hanson: Annihilation, Genocide, and World War III
207 - Sean Carroll: Quanta, Fields, and the Philosophy of Quantum Physics
206 - Slavoj Žižek & Lee Smolin: Marxism Meets Quantum Physics
205 - Nick Bostrom: Superintelligence, Posthumanity, and AI Utopia
204 - Philip Goff: Panpsychism and the Mystery of Consciousness
203 - Vijay Prashad: Colonialism, Israel-Palestine, Marxism, and European Anti-Semitism
202 - Jeffrey Sachs: JFK, Conspiracy Theories, Israel-Palestine, and Ending the War in Gaza
201 - Benny Morris: Israel-Palestine, Genocide, Apartheid, Hamas, Muscular Judaism, and the Nakba
200 - Sean Carroll, Daniel Dennett, & Steven Pinker: AI, Parapsychology, Panpsychism, & Physics Violations
199 - Lawrence Krauss: God, String Theory, and the State of Physics
198 - Michael Hudson: Marxism, Economic Parasites, and Debt Cancellation
197 - Martha Nussbaum: Justice for Animals
196 - Stephen Wolfram: The Fundamental Theory of the Universe
195 - Brian Keating: Cosmological Inflation and the Universe’s First Light
194 - Daniel Dennett: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Evolution of Minds
193 - Robert Sapolsky: Determinism, Free Will, & The End of Moral Responsibility
192 - Norman Finkelstein: Hamas, Hezbollah, and Justice in the Israel-Palestine Conflict
191 - Victor Davis Hanson: An American’s Case For Israel
190 - Richard Wolff: A Marxist’s Case For Palestine
189 - David Albert & Barry Loewer: The Mentaculus (Or, a Probability Map of the Universe)
188 - Tim Maudlin & Sheldon Goldstein: The Copenhagen Interpretation and Bohmian Mechanics
187 - Michael Levin: The New Era of Cognitive Biorobotics
186 - Jenann Ismael: Determinism and Self-Reference in Classical and Quantum Physics
185 - Jim Al-Khalili: The Fundamentals of Quantum Biology
184 - Brian Leiter: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Critique of Morality
183 - Neil Shubin: Fins, Limbs, and the Evolutionary Journey from Fish to Human
182 - Larry Keith: Conserving Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance Masters’ Artwork
181 - Jon Butterworth: The Higgs Boson and the Standard Model of Particle Physics
180 - Michael Hudson: Neoliberalism, Industrial Capitalism, and the Rise of Debt
179 - Adam Gazzaley: Neuroscience, Therapeutic Video Games, and the Cognition Crisis
178 - Chike Jeffers & Lucius Outlaw: African & Africana Philosophy
177 - Juan Maldacena: Quantum Gravity, String Theory, and the AdS/CFT Correspondence
176 - Brian Little: Personality Psychology and the Big Five Traits
175 - Robert Plomin: Behavioral Genetics and the Blueprint of Human Behavior
174 - Rebecca Goldstein: Spinoza, Atheism, and the Philosophy of Literature
173 - Ken Olum: What Are Cosmic Strings?
172 - Joseph LeDoux: Neuroscience and The Four Realms of Human Existence
171 - Richard Haier: What Is Human Intelligence?
170 - Sheldon Goldstein: Pilot Wave Theory and Bohmian Mechanics
169 - Michael Graziano: The Attention Schema Theory of Consciousness
168 - Una Stojnić: Slurs, Linguistic Conventions, and the Philosophy of Language
167 - David Wallace: The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
166 - Robert Stickgold: Dreams and the Role of Sleep in Memory and Emotional Processing
165 - Anubav Vasudevan: The Metaphysics of Charles Sanders Peirce
164 - Geoffrey West: Complexity Theory and The Scaling Laws of Biology
163 - Daniel Levitin: Songwriting and the Neuroscience of Music
162 - Tim Palmer: Chaos Theory, Probabilistic Forecasting, and Climate Change
161 - James Owen Weatherall: Nothingness and the Physics of the Void
160 - David Friedman: What is Anarcho-Capitalism?
159 - Erik Verlinde: Entropic Gravity, Black Holes, and the Holographic Principle
158 - Sheldon Solomon: Terror Management Theory and the Denial of Death
157 - David Albert: The Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics
156 - Fay Dowker: Wormholes, Quantum Gravity, and Causal Set Theory
155 - Tony Padilla: Mathematical Platonism, Intergalactic Doppelgängers, and Gigantic Numbers
154 - Richard Wolff: Karl Marx and the Myths of Marxism
153 - Alan Stern: New Horizons and Mankind’s First Mission to Pluto
152 - Geraint F. Lewis: Is The Universe Fine-Tuned For Life?
151 - Michael Levin: Synthetic Life, Collective Intelligence, and Morphogenesis
150 - John Mather: The Big Bang and the Cosmic Microwave Background
149 - Jonathan Lear: Free Association and the Fundamental Rule of Psychoanalysis
148 - Lee Smolin: Presentism, Foundations of Mathematics, and Realism in Quantum Mechanics
147 - Yascha Mounk: Liberalism, Identity Politics, and the History of Equality
146 - Christopher E. Mason & Igor Tulchinsky: Smart Weapons, Genetics, and Predictive Algorithms
145 - Deirdre McCloskey: What Is Classical Liberalism?
144 - Carl Wieman: Winning the Nobel Prize, Bose-Einstein Condensates, & Science Education
143 - Andrew Knoll: The Origins of Life on Earth
142 - Tim Maudlin: Carnap, Kuhn, Bell’s Inequality, & The Philosophy of Science
141 - Norman Naimark: The History of Genocide
140 - John Burgess: Realism in the Philosophy of Mathematics
139 - Lawrence Summers: Economic Policy, Free Speech, and The Pursuit of Truth
138 - Konstantin Batygin: Planet Nine, Oumuamua, and the Death of Pluto
137 - Joyce Carol Oates: Craft in Fiction and Poetry
136 - Andrew Strominger: String Theory, Black Holes, and Extra Dimensions
135 - Thomas Hertog: Stephen Hawking, Cosmology, and the Origin of Time
134 - Christopher Capozzola: Uncle Sam, the Draft, and Vigilantes in World War I
133 - Ian Hutchinson: Plasma Physics & The Compatibility of Science and Religion
132 - Jonathan Shedler: Freud, Psychoanalysis, and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
131 - Tal Ben-Shahar: What Is Happiness?
130 - Donald Hoffman: The Illusion of Reality
129 - Jeremi Suri: The Impossibility of the American Presidency
128 - Clara Sousa-Silva: Exoplanets, Astrobiology, and the Search For Alien Life
127 - Richard Wolff: What’s Wrong with Capitalism?
126 - Michael Strevens: Scientific Explanation & Methodology and The Knowledge Machine
125 - Bas van Fraassen: Realism, Thomas Kuhn, and the Semantic Approach in Philosophy of Science
124 - Jay McClelland: Deep Learning, Neural Networks, and Artificial Intelligence
123 - Paul Boghossian: The Sokal Hoax, The A Priori, and Moral Facts
122 - David Pizarro: Moral Psychology, Praise & Blame, Disgust & Politics
121 - Julian Barbour: Thermodynamics, Boltzmann Brains, and a New Theory of Time
120 - Simon Blackburn: Vanity, Narcissism, Lust, and Pride
119 - Mark Solms: Neuropsychoanalysis and the Source of Consciousness
118 - Slavoj Žižek & Sean Carroll: Quantum Physics, the Multiverse, and Time Travel
117 - Anna Lembke: Dopamine, Drug Addiction, and Recovery
116 - Massimo Pigliucci: Pseudoscience, Conspiracy Theories, and the Public Intellectual
115 - Craig Callender & Tim Maudlin: Time Travel, Time’s Arrow, and The Block Universe
114 - Eric Helms: Nutrition, Bodybuilding, & Supplementation for Strength and Aesthetics
113 - David Spiegel: Hypnosis and Mental Illness
112 - Victor Davis Hanson: Revisionist History and the Dying Citizen
111 - Avi Loeb: Alien Life, Extraterrestrial Spacecraft, and Oumuamua
110 - Daniel Kahneman: Biases and Flaws in Human Judgment
109 - Slavoj Žižek: Wokeness, Psychoanalysis, and Quantum Mechanics
108 - Chiara Mingarelli: Supermassive Black Holes & the Gravitational Wave Background
107 - Kevin Dorst: Bayesian Reasoning, Irrationality, and Political Polarization
106 - David Albert & Sean Carroll: Quantum Theory, Boltzmann Brains, & The Fine-Tuned Universe
105 - Luciano Floridi: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
104 - Nicholas Christakis: Evolutionary Biology & Society’s Genetic Underpinning
103 - Brad Schoenfeld: Muscular Hypertrophy and Maximizing Muscle Growth
102 - Stephen Wolfram: Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, and Philosophy of Math
101 - Paul Bloom: Freud, Mental Illness, Psychoanalysis, and Cognitive Biases
100 - Steven Pinker: Rationality, Enlightenment, and Free Speech
99 - Nancy Sherman: Stoicism, Military Ethics, and War
98 - Dani S. Bassett & Perry Zurn: Curiosity, Philosophy, and Network Theory
97 - Brian Leiter: Karl Marx, Ideology, and Historical Materialism
96 - Jody Azzouni: Knowledge and Skepticism
95 - Achille Varzi: What Is Mereology?
94 - Alva Noë: Art, Philosophy, and The Entanglement
93 - Havi Carel: The Phenomenology of Illness
92 - Joan Bagaria: What Is Set Theory?
91 - John Perry: Procrastination, Personal Identity, and the Self
90 - David Papineau: The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience
89 - Graham Harman: Speculative Realism & Philosophy of Art and Architecture
88 - Graham Oppy: Ontological Arguments and the Existence of God
87 - Frank Jackson & Graham Priest: The Philosophy of David Lewis
86 - Frances Egan: Mental Representation and Psychological Explanation
85 - Ernest Lepore: Linguistic Conventions, Slurs, and Philosophy of Language
84 - Chris Potts: Semantics, Pragmatics, and ChatGPT
83 - Barry Loewer: Probability, Laws of Nature, and Statistical Mechanics
82 - Jonathan Wolff: Cities, States, and Political Philosophy
81 - Anubav Vasudevan: Mathematics, Physics, and History of Logic
80 - Pamela Hieronymi: Free Will and Moral Responsibility
79 - Rachel Barney: Ancient Philosophy and the Sophists
78 - Paul Horwich: Truth, Realism, and Moral Facts
77 - Stephen Yablo: Non-Existence Claims, Jokes, and Defining Philosophy
76 - Nora Boyd, Siska de Baerdemaeker, & Vera Matarese: The Philosophy of Astrophysics
75 - Jody Azzouni: Formal Languages, Proof, and the Foundations of Mathematics
74 - Stephen Darwall: Violence, Second-Personal Ethics, Philosophy of the Heart
73 - Craig Callender: Pseudoscience, Conspiracy Theories, and Philosophy
72 - Eric Trexler: Philosophy and Methodology in Sports Science
71 - Peter Adamson: Plotinus, Porphyry, and Neoplatonism
70 - Elisabeth Camp: Emily Dickinson, Figurative Language, and Representation
69 - Frank Jackson: Conceptual Analysis, Physicalism, and Mary’s Room
68 - Simon Blackburn: Moral Realism, Antirealism, and Quasirealism
67 - David Albert & Tim Maudlin: The Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Theory
66 - Noam Chomsky: History and Philosophy of Linguistics
65 - Tania Lombrozo: Explanation and Human Psychology
64 - Sarah Moss: Probabilistic Knowledge
63 - Thomas Ryckman & Mark Wilson: The State of Analytic Philosophy
62 - David Papineau: Realism, Antirealism, and The Philosophy of Science
61 - Keith Frankish: Illusionism and The Philosophy of Mind
60 - Joel David Hamkins & Graham Priest: The Liar Paradox & The Set-Theoretic Multiverse
59 - Tamar Schapiro: Inclination, Will, and The Animal Self
58 - Huw Price: Philosophy of Time, Boltzmann Brains, and Retrocausality
57 - Richard Kimberly Heck: Reference, Names, and the Philosophy of Language
56 - Kevin Heng: Exoplanetary Atmospheres and The Philosophy of Astrophysics
55 - Alison Fernandes: Time Travel and Causation
54 - Luvell Anderson: Slurs, Hate Speech, and The Philosophy of Humor
53 - Christina Van Dyke: Medieval Bestiaries & The Philosophy of Food and Eating
52 - Gabriel Greenberg: Semiotics, Representation, and Cognitive Science & Film
51 - Scott Shapiro: Hackers, Cybersecurity, and Legal Philosophy
50 - Jonathan Schaffer: Monism, Grounding, and The Fundamental Level of Reality
49 - Stephen Darwall: The History of Modern Ethics
48 - Patricia Churchland: Neurophilosophy, Free Will, & Consciousness
47: Achille Varzi: Metaphysics, Ontology, & Nominalism
46 - Tim Maudlin: Laws of Nature, Absolute Space, & Free Will
45 - Jody Azzouni: Nominalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics
44 - Sophie Grace Chappell: Epiphanies, Ethics, and the Philosophy of Literature
43 - Eric Schwitzgebel: The Philosophical Weirdness of the World
42 - Joel David Hamkins: Paradox, Infinity, & The Foundations of Mathematics
41 - Richard Kimberly Heck: Philosophy of Sex, Pornography, and Gender
40 - L.A. Paul: Cognitive Science, Metaphysics, & Transformative Experience
39 - Peter Adamson: Islamic Philosophy, Mysticism, Dead Languages, & Eternity
38 - Graham Priest: The Metaphysics of Nothingness
37 - Paul B Woodruff: Philosophy and War
36 - Justin Clarke-Doane: What is Mathematics?
35 - Barry Lam: Philosophical Zombies, Resurrecting Cannibals, & Dating Vampires
34 - C Thi Nguyen: Agency, Aesthetics, & The Philosophy of Games
33 - Quayshawn Spencer: The Biology of Race, Natural Kinds, & Craniometry
32 - Ray Briggs: Transfeminism, Philosophy of Sex, & Queer Science Fiction
31 - Haim Gaifman: Richard’s Paradox, Infinity, & Set Theory
30 - David Albert: Foundations of Physics, Time’s Arrow, & Moral Expressivism
29 - Christopher Bobonich: Etymology, Classics, & Ancient Ethics
28 - Nick C: Mystical Religious Experience & Moral Facts and Animal Suffering
27 - Ronnie (Robinson's Dad): The Elgin Marbles
26 - Ezekiel Quittner-Strom: Perfect MCAT Scores & a Trader Joe’s Frozen Feast
25 - Ethan Hoppe: Medieval Music, Devil’s Interval, & Memorizing Game of Thrones
24 - Caroline Hudson: Collagen Stimulation, Facial Plastic Surgery, Baked Goods
23 - David Albert & Justin Clarke-Doane: Absolute Space & Physicalism vs. Ethics
22 - Graham Winn-Lee: Post-Apocalyptic Fantasies, Zombies, & Dragons
21 - Haim Gaifman: What is Philosophy? What is Mathematics?
20 - Philip Guison: Ice Cream Novelties
19 - Nick Huggett: Paradoxes of Motion, Quantum Gravity, & String Theory
18 - Demitrios Haldes: Ice Cream
17 - Richard Kimberly Heck: Monstrous Female Sexuality, Porn Villains, Anal Sex, & the Ethics of Fantasies
16 - Ezekiel Quittner-Strom: Instant Noodles & Internal Medicine
15 - Caroline Hudson: Snack Cakes, Facelifts, Botox, & Wrinkle Prevention
14 - Michael Harris: Number Theory, Creativity in Mathematics, & Beauty
13 - Ethan Hoppe: Violin, Classical Music, & Stage Fright
12 - Philip Guison: Chicago Bakeries & Baked Goods
11 - Haim Gaifman: Alice in Wonderland & Paradoxes
10 - Demitrios Haldes: Cookies
9 - Patrick Davis: Steroids, PEDs, & Bodybuilding
8 - Ezekiel Quittner-Strom: Sushi
7 - Justin Clarke-Doane: Philosophy of Mathematics, Metaethics, & Ice Cream
6 - Uncle Perry: Ice Cream
5 - Richard Kimberly Heck: Philosophy of Pornography, Aesthetics, & Feminism
4 - Abigail Biddle: Bodybuilding, Boulder Shoulders, & Air Fryer Hacks
3 - Ronnie (Robinson's Dad): Collecting & Ketchup
2 - Ethan Hoppe: Air Force Boot Camp & the Violin
1 - Haim Gaifman: Vagueness & the Sorites Paradox