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Apr 10
Kathryn Nave, "A Drive to Survive: The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life" (MIT Press, 2025)
The cybernetic tradition in cognitive science analyzes the purposive behavior of many complex systems – from sensory-guided missiles to sensory-guided animals -- in terms of feedback control that maintains stability in the face of external perturbation. A more recent extension an ... Show More
55m 36s
Apr 5
Andrew Lister, "Justice and Reciprocity" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Andrew Lister's Justice and Reciprocity (Oxford University Press, 2024) examines the place of reciprocity in egalitarianism, focusing on John Rawls's conception of "justice as fairness." Reciprocity was a central to justice as fairness, but Rawls wasn't explicit about the differe ... Show More
1h 11m
Mar 3
Catherine Elgin, "Epistemic Ecology" (MIT Press, 2025)
Humans are highly inquisitive, yet fallible and cognitively limited. How can we improve our epistemic lot despite our limitations? In Epistemic Ecology (MIT Press, 2025), Catherine Elgin develops a model in which individuals learn to rely on communal epistemic resources, such as ... Show More
1 h
Mar 2023
Breaking through the consciousness stalemate | Philip Goff
26m 7s
May 2023
The key to consciousness | Donald Hoffman, Hannah Critchlow, Sam Coleman
42m 18s
Jul 2024
#374 — Consciousness and the Physical World
<p>Sam Harris speaks with Christof Koch about the nature of consciousness. They discuss Christof's development as a neuroscientist, his collaboration with Francis Crick, change blindness and binocular rivalry, sleep and anesthesia, the limits of physicalism, non-locality, brains ... Show More
42m 7s
Apr 2018
Episode 36, The Daniel Dennett Interview (Part II - Philosophy of Mind)
<p>Our Patreon page: www.patreon.com/panpsycast.</p> <p>Everything you could need, including links to all of Daniel C. Dennett's work, can be found at www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast.</p> <p>In the words of A. C. Grayling, Pro ... Show More
45m 41s
Sep 2023
How I changed my mind about truth | Simon Blackburn
<p>Can we have objective morality without metaphysics?</p><p>Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimes</p><p>Join Simon Blackburn, renowned philosopher at Cambridge University, as he discusses navigating heated moral discussions, the play ... Show More
28m 9s
Jun 2024
135 - Jake Quilty-Dunn: The Language of Thought Hypothesis in Cognitive Science
<p>Joseph chats with Prof. Jake Quilty-Dunn, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and the Center for Cognitive Science Rutgers University. Prof. Quilty-Dunn works primarily in philosophy of mind and cognitive science. Much of his research concerns dis ... Show More
47m 45s
Jun 2019
The Prejudice of Philosophy | Chakravarthi Ram Prasad, Nivi Manchanda, Timothy Williamson
39m 57s
Oct 2024
Michael J. Thompson, "Descent of the Dialectic: Phronetic Criticism in an Age of Nihilism" (Routledge, 2024)
In Descent of the Dialectic: Phronetic Criticism in an Age of Nihilism (Routledge, 2024), Michael J. Thompson reconstructs the concept and practice of dialectics as a means of grounding a critical theory of society. At the center of this project is the thesis of phronetic critici ... Show More
58m 50s
May 2025
#417 — Philosophy for Life
<p dir="ltr">Sam Harris speaks with Donald Robertson about Stoicism and the good life. They discuss the relationship between wisdom and virtue, ancient versions of psychotherapy, parallels between Stoicism and Buddhism, practical vs. analytical styles of philosophy, CBT's origins ... Show More
22m 30s
Nov 2024
Ep. 354: Guest Tim Williamson on Philosophic Method (Part One)
<p>Oxford philosophy professor Timothy Williamson talks to us about his new book, <em>Overfitting and Heuristics in Philosophy</em>.</p> <p>How can we best apply the insights of philosophy of science to philosophy itself? Maybe some alleged philosophical counter-examples are just ... Show More
42m 33s
What happens if we turn to James Baldwin, not just for the amazing quotations and excellent photos, but as a critical theorist? What if we read his nonfiction philosophically? What can Baldwin help us understand and do now? In So Unimaginable a Price: Baldwin and the Black Atlantic (Northwestern UP, 2025), John Drabinski takes up this project to give a susta ... Show More
<p>Can we free ourselves from stale ideas about consciousness?</p><p>Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: <a href="https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimes</a></p><p>Some argue that the ... Show More
<p>Is materialism a fundamental mistake?</p><p>Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: <a href="https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimes</a></p><p>The relationship between the individual hu ... Show More
<p>Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: <a href="https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimes</a></p><p>Many see the search for universal truths about the world as the noble aim of philosoph ... Show More
