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01:34:02

Christian Nationalism vs. the Void of Christianity...

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2025/03/28

Prof Richard Boothby is a professor of philosophy at Loyola University Maryland who works in psychoanalysis, philosophical psychology, phenomenology, existentialism, and contemporary continental philosophy. He is the author of Death and Desire, Freud as Philosopher, Blown Away and numerous other books. In this episode, we discuss his religious work (as a response to Christian Nationalism and identity politics) along with the book Embracing the Void: Rethinking the Origin of the Sacred, which Todd

02:02:56

Dialectical Science and Why AI Research Needs...

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2025/03/23

Dr Tim Elmo Feiten is a philosopher of science with a focus on the sciences of life, mind, and artificial intelligence. His work brings the history and philosophy of science into dialogue with other fields, especially continental and Classical German philosophy. He has used the philosophy of embodied cognitive science to develop new readings of Jakob von Uexküll and Max Stirner and to ask questions about the relationships between art, science, technology, and society. Dr Feiten is currently an

02:37:07

Why Study Lacan (w/ Andrew Flores AKA The Big...

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2025/03/07

Andrew Flores is an autodidact in Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis, philosophy, theology, and Marxism. In this episode, we discuss Lacan's metapsychology and theory of the subject.You can find more of Andrew's work at https://www.youtube.com/@thevanishingmediators and https://www.youtube.com/@The_Big_SigGOAT memes: https://www.instagram.com/the_big_sig/Watch the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠video version here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.RSam Podcast #69--------------------------------------- Please consider financially supporting my work

01:40:43

The Life and Philosophy of Alain Badiou (w/ Kenneth...

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2025/02/18

Prof Kenneth Reinhard is Research Professor of Comparative Literature and English at UCLA, where he directed the Center for Jewish Studies, and founded the graduate program in Experimental Critical Theory. He has written on psychoanalysis, philosophy, religion, and occasionally literature and opera. He is Co-Author of The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology with Slavoj Žižek and Eric Santner, and After Oedipus: Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis with Julia Reinhard Lupton. He is the editor

01:52:41

Peter Rollins and Matthew David Segall: Pyrotheology...

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2025/02/10

Dr Peter Rollins is a philosopher and radical theologian working through the tradition of apophatic theology, Freud, Lacan, Hegel and Žižek. He has a PhD dealing with post-structural theory from Queen's University, Belfast, and is the author of numerous books, including How (Not) to Speak of God and The Idolatry of God. Dr Rollins is the creator of Pyrotheology, which is a life technology that "involves a deep critique of any religious/ideological system that promises an escape from doubt and

02:20:15

Evolution of Deep Learning and the Abstraction Explosion

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2025/02/02

Abstraction, mimesis and the evolution of deep learning: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-023-01688-zYou can find more of Prof Hamelryck's work at https://thamelry.github.io/ and his Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YoTlzjkAAAAJ&hl=en You can find more of Dr Eklöf's work at https://researchprofiles.ku.dk/en/persons/jon-ekl%C3%B6f and https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-ekl%C3%B6f/ You can find more of Dr Last's work at https://philosophyportal.online/

01:41:32

Henri Bergson’s Challenge to AI (w/ Stephen Robbins)

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2025/01/25

Dr Stephen E. Robbins researches AI, cognitive science, psychology and the philosophy of mind. He holds a PhD in cognitive psychology, minoring in computer science with a thesis on Bergson's model of mind vs. the computer model of mind. He's also a former university professor specialising in perception and cognition, a military veteran and spent many years in the tech industry as a software architect and project manager. Dr Robbins is the author of numerous books and papers, the latest being

01:42:44

Stijn Vanheule: Psychosis, Madness, Lacan and Jung

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2025/01/16

Prof Stijn Vanheule is a clinical psychologist, professor at Ghent University, Belgium, and psychoanalyst in private practice (New Lacanian School for Psychoanalysis and World Association of Psychoanalysis). He is the author of numerous books such as Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy, The Subject of Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective, and Psychiatric Diagnosis Revisited: From DSM to Clinical Case Formulation, as well as multiple papers on Lacanian and Freudian psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic research into

01:31:42

The Philosophy of Data (w/ Sabina Leonelli & Vlasta...

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2025/01/04

Prof Sabina Leonelli is a philosopher of science and professor at the Technical University of Munich. She is well known for her work on scientific practices, data-centric science, and open science policies. She was awarded the 2018 Lakatos Award for her book 'Data-Centric Biology: A Philosophical Study.' Prof Leonelli is a leading figure in the philosophy of data and technology and the philosophy of Open Science. Dr Vlasta Sikimić is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Science and a member of

01:51:38

Helen Rollins: Cinema, Desire, Politics and Emancipation

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2024/12/26

Helen Rollins is a writer and filmmaker from Northern Ireland, currently based between Belfast and London. She studied modern languages and literature at Cambridge and the ENS de Lyon. She lectures in philosophy, film and psychoanalysis and is the author of the book Psychocinema, which reexamines the connection between psychoanalysis and film. In this episode, we discuss the relationship between psychoanalysis and cinema, how capitalism exploits our desire, the politics of death drive, emancipation

02:04:20

Phenomenology, Mathematics & Dreydegger (w/ Jeffrey...

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2024/12/22

Prof Jeffrey Yoshimi is a professor in the departments of Cognitive and Information Sciences and Philosophy at UC Merced. He studies the relationship between the dynamics of consciousness and the dynamics of neural activity in an embodied brain. As part of this, Prof Yoshimi models neural networks, creates mathematical models of embodied agents and studies Husserl.Darius Parvizi-Wayne is a PhD student at Macquarie University, exploring the relationship between absorbed coping, being-in-the-world,

02:08:03

Graham Harman: Objects Untimely, the Subject,...

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2024/12/14

Prof Graham Harman is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. He was also a professor at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, and professor of philosophy at The European Graduate School. Prof Harman is one of a handful of contemporary philosophers who are constructing the position called speculative realism, and his specific position centres on Object-Oriented Ontology. Prof Harman has authored numerous books such as

01:29:10

Francesca Bellazzia: The Gene, Self-Assembly, and the...

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2024/12/10

Dr Francesca Bellazzi is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the ERC-funded project AssemblingLife at the University of Oslo, working on self-assembling processes in biochemistry. Her main research explores the philosophy of biochemistry and the interface between chemistry and biology. Her thesis was titled "Biochemical Kinds and the Unity of Science". She will be releasing her upcoming book 'Philosophy of Biochemistry: Biochemical Kinds and their Properties' with Cambridge University Press. In this

01:49:02

Barry Taylor: Unknowing and Radical Theology

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2024/11/24

Dr Barry Taylor is the Chair of the Department of Theology at Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS) College Dublin. He is also the author of multiple books including, 'Entertainment Theology: Exploring Spirituality in a Digital Democracy' and 'Sex, God, and Rock 'n' Roll: Catastrophes, Epiphanies, and Sacred Anarchies'. In this episode, we discuss living the death of God.You can find more of Dr Taylor's work at https://www.patreon.com/barrytaylor and

01:34:41

Pietro Mazzaglia: Embodied AI and Alternatives to LLMs

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2024/11/20

Dr Pietro Mazzaglia is a Senior Machine Learning Researcher at Qualcomm Research Netherlands. He did his PhD at Ghent University, Belgium, with the dissertation title "Efficient Learning Strategies for Embodied Intelligence." Dr Mazzaglia's main research areas are embodied AI, robotics, world models, and deep reinforcement learning. In this episode, we discuss embodied AI, the gap between neuroscience and AI research, multimodal foundation world models, computational phenomenology, the ARC-AGI,

01:48:21

Why German Idealism? (w/ Christopher Satoor)

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2024/11/16

Christopher Satoor is a doctoral candidate (ABD) in the Department of Humanities at York University. His research focuses on the Classical German philosophy of the 18th and 19th centuries and the German idealist philosophies of Kant and Fichte, with an extra special concentration on the work of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling. He is also the creator of the #TheYoungIdealist series on Classical German Philosophy on YouTube. In this episode, we discuss all things Kantian philosophy and German

01:41:05

Michael Potter: The Rise of Analytic Philosophy

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2024/11/10

Prof Michael Potter is Professor of Logic at Cambridge and a Life Fellow of Fitzwilliam College. He was previously at Oxford, where he took a D.Phil. in pure mathematics and was a Fellow of Balliol College. Prof Potter has authored multiple books on Frege, Wittgenstein, set theory and analytic philosophy, including 'Wittgenstein's Notes On Logic', 'Set Theory And Its Philosophy' and 'The Rise of Analytic Philosophy.' His primary research interests focus on Wittgenstein's Tractatus, the philosophy of

01:45:34

Cadell Last: Systems, Subjects and a Hegelian...

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2024/11/08

Dr Cadell Last is an anthropologist and Hegelian philosopher who is interested in biocultural evolution, mind-matter relations, and speculative futures. His PhD thesis, Global Brain Singularity, focuses on all three of these topics. He is the author of Systems and Subjects, Enter the Alien, and many other interdisciplinary books. Dr Last has taught multiple courses on Hegel's Science of Logic, Sigmund Freud's Unconscious, Alenka Zupančič's What IS Sex? and is also the founder of Philosophy Portal,

01:52:03

Katherine Everitt: Quantum Mechanics, Psychoanalytic...

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2024/11/03

Katherine Everitt is a Hegelian scholar, philosopher, writer, poet and artist. Katherine is a Research Fellow at the Global Center for Advanced Studies in Dublin and a Secondary Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Her PhD, 'Hegel in Vertigo: An Ontology of Space,' was supervised by Frank Ruda at the European Graduate School. Reading Hegel with Badiou and Zizek, she argues that space is the indifferent ground of logic, nature, and spirit in Hegel's Encyclopedia. In this episode, we

01:37:05

Does Capitalism Lead to Scientific Innovation? (w/...

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2024/10/31

Dr. Vlasta Sikimić is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Science and a member of the Philosophy and Ethics group at Eindhoven University of Technology. Her research focus is on the Social Epistemology of Science, Metascience, Philosophy of AI & ML in Science and Philosophy of AI in Education. In this episode, we discuss the relationship between science and capitalism. You can find more of Dr Sikimić's work at https://vlastasikimic.com/ and https://x.com/VlastaSikimic Watch the ⁠⁠⁠⁠video

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