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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 …
6 months, 1 week 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 f…
6 months, 3 weeks 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…
7 months, 1 week 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, …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 115: Is Falsification Falsifiable?
Season 1 Episode 115
This week we consider: Is falsification falsifiable? Was Popper a “naive falsificationist”?
Why do so many people think he was? (Including at least o…
8 months, 1 week ago
Episode 114: Campbell's Evolutionary Epistemology
Season 1 Episode 114
Starting in the 1950s, Popperian Donald Campbell developed a theory of "evolutionary epistemology" (coining that term in the process) that expanded K…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 113: Evolution, Collective Minds, and Static Societies
Season 1 Episode 113
This week Bruce takes a deep dive into anthropologist Joseph Henrich’s book: The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domes…
9 months ago
Episode 112: Words vs Concepts: Does 'Randomness' Exist?
Season 1 Episode 112
Bruce first explains the difference between arguing over concepts vs arguing over words.
Then Bruce examines assertions about probability and randomn…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 111: Static vs Dynamic Societies
Season 1 Episode 111
What precisely is a static vs dynamic society? It is possible to take this down to the level of machine learning? Could this distinction turn into a …
10 months ago
Episode 110: Brave New World vs. 1984 (round table discussion)
Season 1 Episode 110
We once again get together some of the smartest people we know for a discussion that gets into foundational issues, this time in the form of the clas…
10 months, 2 weeks ago