Podcast Episodes

Episode 125: Our Lovecraftian Universe?

Season 1 Episode 125

This week we welcome back Micah Redding of the Christian Transhumanist podcast. We had a joyful conversation touching on religion, science fiction, and teleology. We look at the ways science fiction …

Published on 3 hours ago

Episode 124: Popper's Evolutionary Theory of Knowledge

Season 1 Episode 124

aka "The Popper vs Campbell Beatdown!"

At long last! The showdown you've all been waiting for! These two giants of epistemology meet in the ring and fight it out for dominance!

Bruce continues his expl…

Published on 1 week ago

Episode 123: Campbell vs Deutsch: Incremental vs Cosmic Significance

Bruce compares Donald Campbell’s evolutionary epistemology and David Deutsch’s ideas on infinite knowledge growth. What is knowledge growth? Is it a rare thing limited to only biological evolution an…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Episode 122: The Case Against Logical Fallacies

Season 1 Episode 122

In this shorter episode Bruce takes a deep dive into logical fallacies. How useful are logical fallacies? Does pointing out a logical fallacy help correct errors? Does doing so make us more rational?…

Published on 3 weeks ago

Episode 121: Beliefs

Season 1 Episode 121

In our previous episode covering Strevens' critique of Popper, we briefly touched on why Bruce believes it it a mistake for CritRats to say they don't believe in beliefs.

This time Bruce takes a deep…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Episode 120: Popper on Trial

Season 1 Episode 120

This week Bruce puts Popper on trial. Specifically, through the lens of Michael Stevens’s book, The Knowledge Machine, which argues that science works because it follows the “iron law of explanation”…

Published on 1 month ago

Episode 119: New Right vs Libertarianism w/Logan Chipkin

Season 1 Episode 119

This week we interview Logan Chipkin. Logan is a writer and author of several books. Recently he co-authored and published The Sovereign Child about raising children without coercion, and The Lords o…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Episode 118: Christian Transhumanism (with Micah Redding)

Season 1 Episode 118

This week we talk to Micah Redding, the host of the Christian Transhumanist podcast. We discuss: What is the significance of a singularity? What is free will from a many worlds perspective? Does Omeg…

Published on 2 months ago

Episode 117: Jonathan Rauch

Season 1 Episode 117

This week we had the absolute honor of interviewing Jonathan Rauch. Rauch is an extremely influential public intellectual (journalist and author) who is also a Popperian. His 1993 book, Kindly Inquis…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Episode 116: The Knowledge Machine

Season 1 Episode 116

This week Bruce take a deep critical rationalist dive into Michael Strevens’s book, The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science, which is an attempt to describe how science is a s…

Published on 3 months ago