All episodes
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