Tag

philosophy

98 pages

Episodes (46)

Ada Palmer on Machiavelli, The Prince, and Renaissance Statecraft

Ada Palmer on Viking Metaphysics, Contingent Moments, and Censorship

Adam Elga on Rationality, Probability, and Reasoning in a Large Universe

Adam Neely on AI Music, Musical Deskilling, and the Ethics of AI Training Data

Agnes Callard on the Theory of Everything

Andrea Wulf on the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the Invention of the Self

Anil Seth on Consciousness, Machine Sentience, and Why Intelligence Isn't Awareness

Arnold Van Den Berg on Survival, the Subconscious Mind, and a Life Well Lived

Bill Miller on Amazon, Bitcoin, and Buying at a Discount to Future Value

Brad Stulberg on the Way of Excellence, Involved Engagement, and Compounding Consistency

Bryan Caplan on Learning Across Disciplines

Chase Koch on Principles, Music, and Overcoming Entropy

Chris Dixon on Blockchains, AI, and the Future of the Internet

David Brooks on Audacity, AI, and the American Psyche

David Brooks on Youth, Morality, and Loneliness

David Deutsch on Multiple Worlds and Our Place in Them

David Epstein on Constraints, Attention, and Narrative Values

Ed Boyden on Minding your Brain

Fareed Zakaria on the Age of Revolutions, the Power of Ideas, and the Rewards of Intellectual Curiosity

Galen Strawson on Panpsychism, Physicalism, and Why Consciousness Is Foundational

Graham Weaver on the Genie Framework, Getting Out of Autopilot, and the Internal Game

Harvey Mansfield on Machiavelli, Straussianism, and the Character of Liberal Democracy

Howard Marks on the Value-Growth Divide, Investing in Uncertainty, and Living Well

Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, and the History of Free-Market Ideas

Jill Lepore on Traveling through Time

John Gray on Pessimism, Liberalism, and Theism

John Lennox on Suffering, the Problem of Evil, and Why God Allows It

John Sellars on Aristotle, the Four Causes, and Nicomachean Ethics

Jonathan Haidt on Morality, Politics, Disgust, and Intellectual Diversity on Campus

Jonny Thomson on Epicurus, Hedonism, and the Good Life

Keith Frankish on Illusionism, Consciousness, and the Hard Problem

Kwame Anthony Appiah on Pictures of the World

M. Gessen on the Ins and Outs of Russia

Michael Nielsen on Collaboration, Quantum Computing, and Civilization's Fragility

Niall Ferguson on Why We Study History

Nima Shayegh on Roots and Branches, Lou Simpson, and Surrendering to Uncertainty

Paul Bloom on the Psychology of Children, and the Morality of Empathy and Disgust

Peter Singer on Sentience, Effective Altruism, and the Ethics of Doing Good

Peter Singer on Utilitarianism, Influence, and Controversial Ideas

Peter Thiel on Political Theology

Robert Hagstrom on Pragmatic Truth, Multi-Disciplinary Investing, and the Concentrated Portfolio

Robert Lawrence Kuhn on the Landscape of Consciousness, Materialism, and Idealism

Simon Critchley on Mysticism, Unification with the Divine, and the Limits of Language

Theodore Schwartz on Neurosurgery, Consciousness, and Brain-Computer Interfaces

William MacAskill on Effective Altruism, Moral Progress, and Cultural Innovation

Yuval Noah Harari on Shared Fictions, Intelligence, and Power

Notes (6)

Arnold Van Den Berg on Survival, the Subconscious Mind, and a Life Well Lived

Bill Miller on Amazon, Bitcoin, and Buying at a Discount to Future Value

Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, and the History of Free-Market Ideas

Nima Shayegh on Roots and Branches, Lou Simpson, and Surrendering to Uncertainty

Robert Hagstrom on Pragmatic Truth, Multi-Disciplinary Investing, and the Concentrated Portfolio

Yuval Noah Harari on Shared Fictions, Intelligence, and Power

Concepts (12)

Effective Altruism

Epicureanism

Involved Engagement

Knightian Uncertainty

Meaning and Purpose

Mysticism

Objectivism

Political Theology

Pragmatic Theory of Truth

Rationality

Shared Fictions

Subconscious Programming

Themes (1)

The Materialism Debate

Hosts (3)

Alex O'Connor

Jim Rutt

Tyler Cowen

People (4)

Aristotle

Ayn Rand

Niccolò Machiavelli

René Girard