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#34 - Climate Change II: Growth, Degrowth, Reactions, Responses
In this episode Ben convinces Vaden to become a degrowther. We plan how to live out the rest of our lives on an organic tomato farm in Canada in Dece…
4 years, 7 months ago
#33 (C&R Series, Ch. 3) - Instrumentalism and Essentialism
Galileo vs the church - whose side are you on? Today we discuss Chapter 3 of Conjectures and Refutations, Three Views Concerning Human Knowledge. Thi…
4 years, 8 months ago
#32 - Climate Change I: Initial Thought-Crimes
After the immensely positive response to our previous episode on the Weinstein brothers - thanks @robertwiblin! - we thought we would keep giving th…
4 years, 8 months ago
#31 - The Fall of the Weinstein Republic
Today we take your twitter questions before doing a deep dive into the Weinstein fiasco (Bret and Eric, not Harvey.) If you haven't heard of the Wein…
4 years, 9 months ago
#30 - Let's all just have a good cry (w/ Christofer Lövgren)
Christofer Lövgren, host of the marvelous Do Explain podcast and world's most famous Swede (second perhaps only to that Alfred fellow with the peace …
4 years, 9 months ago
#29 - Some Scattered Thoughts on Superforecasting
We're back! Apologies for the delay, but Vaden got married and Ben was summoned to be an astronaut on the next billionaire's vacation to Venus. This …
4 years, 10 months ago
#28 (C&R Series, Ch. 9) - Why is Logic Applicable to Reality?
Why do logic and mathematics work so well in the world? Why do they seem to describe reality? Why do they they enable us to design circuit boards, bu…
4 years, 11 months ago
#27 - A Conversation with Marianne
There are many overused internet keywords that could be associated with this conversation, but none of them quite seem right. So here's a poem instea…
4 years, 11 months ago
#26 - Moral Philosophy Cage Match (with Dan Hageman)
In a rare turn of events, it just so happened that one or perhaps both of your charming co-hosts spewed a bit of nonsense about Derek Parfit in a pre…
5 years ago
#25 - Mathematical Explanation with Mark Colyvan
We often talk of explanation in the context of empirical sciences, but what about explanation in logic and mathematics? Is there such a thing? If so,…
5 years, 1 month ago