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Eric Schwitzgebel: A Weird World? Universal Bizarreness Thesis & Perplexities of Consciousness
Episode 9
Eric Schwitzgebel is Professor of Philosophy at University of California at Riverside. He received his B.A. in Philosophy from Stanford and his PhD in Philosophy from U.C. Berkeley. He blogs at The S…
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago
Ralph Lewis: Can We Find Purpose Without God? Why We Care Even if the Universe Doesn't
Episode 8
Ralph Lewis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He is a clinical psychiatrist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Canada and a psycho-…
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
Menachem Fisch: Is Science Limited? Understanding Normativity & Moving Away from Scientism
Episode 7
Menachem Fisch is Joseph and Ceil Mazer Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy of Science, and Director of the Center for Religious and Interreligious Studies at Tel Aviv University, and Senior…
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
Risto Miikkulainen: What are "Other" Minds? Neuroevoloution of Past, Present & Future Minds
Episode 6
Risto Miikkulainen is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin and AVP of Evolutionary Intelligence at Cognizant AI Labs. He received an M.S. in Engineering from the Helsi…
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
Raymond Tallis: Are We Destined for Freedom? A Case for Compatibilism & Ontological Agnosticism
Episode 5
Raymond Tallis is Professor Emeritus of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Manchester. He is a philosopher, poet, novelist, cultural critic, and a retired physician and clinical neuroscientist. …
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
Nicholas Humphrey: Why did Consciousness Evolve? Evolution of Sentience & Phenomenal Surrealism
Episode 4
Nicholas Humphrey is Professor Emeritus of Psychology, London School of Economics, Visiting Professor of Philosophy, New College of the Humanities, & Senior Member, Darwin College, Cambridge. He has …
Published on 4 years ago
Keith Frankish: Is Consciousness an Illusion? Illusionism & its Ethical Implications
Episode 3
Keith Frankish is a Honorary Reader in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield, a Visiting Research Fellow at The Open University, & an Adjunct Professor with the Brain & Mind Programme in Neurosci…
Published on 4 years ago
Lisa Feldman Barrett: How Do Brains Work? How Emotions are Made & the Derivation of Meaning
Episode 2
Lisa Feldman Barrett is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University and is among the top one percent most cited scientists in the world for her revolutionary research in psycho…
Published on 4 years, 1 month ago
Michael Graziano: Rethinking Consciousness? Attention Schema Theory & the Science of Subjectivity
Episode 1
Michael Graziano is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University in 1989 in Psychology. He attended graduate sch…
Published on 4 years, 1 month ago