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Episode 139: The Rational Doomers
Season 1 Episode 139
This week we talk about doomers, specifically AI doomers. Why has it become such a popular notion, especially amongst those who consider themselves t…
15 hours ago
Episode 138: "Popperian" vs "Deutschian" Epistemology
Season 1 Episode 138
Bruce has made a controversial claim on this show: today's "CritRats" (Critical Rationalists on X) have drifted from what Popper intended. And surpri…
1 week, 3 days ago
Episode 137: Ray Scott Percival on Incurable Mind Viruses
Season 1 Episode 141
This week we were honored to interview Ray Scott Percival, a significant but also woefully under-appreciated figure in critical rationalism. Percival…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Episode 136: Michael Golding on Mental Illness and Universal Explainers
Season 1 Episode 136
This week we had the pleasure of interviewing Michael Golding, M.D, who is a psychiatric physician. He is also heavily influenced by the philosophica…
1 month, 1 week ago
Episode 135: Coercion and Critical Rationalism
Season 1 Episode 135
Bruce examines how effectively critical rationalism can ground the non-aggression principle (NAP)—the libertarian idea that, in some formulation, it …
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Episode 134: The Deutsch Slot Machine
Season 1 Episode 134
In this video podcast, Bruce makes his boldest statement yet about probability. He dives into David Deutsch’s lecture “Physics Without Probability”—a…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 133: The Constitution of Knowledge
Season 1 Episode 133
This week Bruce takes a deep dive into the epistemological ideas in Jonathan Rauch’s book The Constitution of Knowledge. Rauch is a fan of Karl Poppe…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Episode 132: Roughly Testable Theories (and Ancaps)
Season 1 Episode 132
This week, Bruce looks at how much critical rationalists do—and do not—subject their proposed best theories to critical testing. Bruce wrestles with …
3 months ago
Episode 131: Knowledge as a Concept
Season 1 Episode 131
In our shortest episode ever, Bruce continues his exploration of the concept of concepts by looking at "knowledge" as a concept rather than a theory.…
3 months, 1 week ago
Episode 130: The "Pseudo Deutsch Theory of Knowledge"
Season 1 Episode 130
Bruce looks at what makes sense—and doesn’t—about popular theories on knowledge promoted by CritRats (critical rationalists on X). He looks at how mu…
3 months, 2 weeks ago