Podcast Episodes

245 - Leonard Susskind: String Theory and the Black Hole War

Episode 245

Leonard Susskind is Felix Block Professor of Physics at Stanford University. Along with other accomplishments, he is among the fathers of such revolutionary concepts in physics as string theory, blac…

Published on 9 months ago

244 - Norman Finkelstein: Donald J. Trump, Mossad Conspiracies in Israel, and the Dying Left

Episode 244

Norman Finkelstein received his PhD from the Princeton University Politics Department, and is best known for his research on Israel and Palestine. In this episode, Norman and Robinson sit down for a …

Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago

243 - Richard Wolff: Donald J. Trump and the Decline of the United States

Episode 243

Richard Wolff is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor at The New School, where he works on economics in the Marxist tradition. This is R…

Published on 10 months ago

242 - Victor Davis Hanson: President Donald J. Trump and the Fate of the United States

Episode 242

Victor Davis Hanson is a renowned classicist, military historian, and political commentator. He is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoo…

Published on 10 months, 1 week ago

241 - Raphael Bousso: The Cold Truth About Quantum Mechanics

Episode 241

Raphael Bousso is the Chancellor’s Chair in Physics at the Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, where he leads the Bousso Group in research on quantum gravity and quantum information. He is a ren…

Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago

240 - Peter Godfrey-Smith: Cuttlefish, Octopuses, and the Consciousness of Mysterious Minds

Episode 240

Robinson’s Podcast #240 - Peter Godfrey-Smith: Cuttlefish, Octopuses, and the Consciousness of Mysterious Minds

Peter Godfrey-Smith is a professor in the School of History and Philosophy of Science …

Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago

239 - Ned Block: Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and the Philosophy of Mind

Episode 239

Ned Block is Silver Professor at New York University in the Departments of Philosophy and Psychology, where he works on the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of neuroscience, and cognitive science. …

Published on 11 months, 1 week ago

238 - Barry Loewer: What Is The Philosophy of Science?

Episode 238

Barry Loewer is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers. Before that he did his PhD in philosophy at Stanford. Barry works largely in the philosophy of physics, the philosophy of science, an…

Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago

237 - Tim Maudlin: A Masterclass on Special Relativity

Episode 237

Tim Maudlin is Professor of Philosophy at NYU and Founder and Director of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics. This is Tim’s seventh appearance on the show. He last appeared on epi…

Published on 1 year ago

236 - David Albert: A Masterclass on Time’s Arrow

Episode 236

David Albert is the Frederick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, director of the Philosophical Foundations of Physics program at Columbia, and a faculty member of the John …

Published on 1 year ago