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Robinson"s Podcast

Robinson Erhardt

Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations with philosophers, scientists, weightlifters, artists, and everyone in-between. https://linktr.ee/robinsonerhardt

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01:14:40

227 - David Eagleman: Synesthesia, Brain Plasticity,...

Robinson"s Podcast ·

2024/09/29

Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7Robinson’s Fashion Empire: http://bit.ly/3XBKqO2 David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford University who works on synesthesia, brain plasticity, and sensory substitution, among other topics. He is also a bestselling author, the host of the Inner Cosmos podcast, and writer and presenter of the international PBS series The Brain with David Eagleman. In this episode, Robinson and David discuss brain plasticity and its optimization, the neuroscience of

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01:10:01

226 - David Builes: The Metaphysics of Time and...

Robinson"s Podcast ·

2024/09/22

Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 David Builes is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, where he works in metaphysics and epistemology and has made serious contributions to the philosophies of mind, science, and mathematics. In this episode, Robinson and David discuss the metaphysics of time—including debates about the reality of the past, present, and future—the question of whether science can explain consciousness, and whether numbers exist as abstract objects. David’s

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02:05:08

225 - Alexander Nehamas: Nietzsche, Eternal...

Robinson"s Podcast ·

2024/09/14

Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7Alexander Nehamas is the Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities, both of philosophy and comparative literature, at Princeton University. He is best known for his work on ancient philosophy, literary theory, the philosophy of art, and his scholarship on Friedrich Nietzsche. In this episode, Robinson and Alexander primarily discuss the latter, though they also delve into some of his other work. More particularly, they discuss Nietzsche’s

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02:03:29

224 - Peter Woit: String Theory and the Crisis in...

Robinson"s Podcast ·

2024/09/08

Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Peter Woit is a senior lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at Columbia University, where he researches quantum field theory and quantum gravity. Peter is one of the most well-known critics of string theory, and in this episode he and Robinson discuss his work and research in the area, which is encapsulated in his book Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law (Basic Books, 2007), as well as his website by the same

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02:31:57

223 - Michael Graziano: Consciousness, Animal Minds,...

Robinson"s Podcast ·

2024/09/01

Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7Michael Graziano is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University, where he and his lab research the brain basis of consciousness. This is Michael’s second appearance on Robinson’s Podcast. In episode #169, they discussed Michael’s Attention Schema Theory of consciousness, in which consciousness is a way in which the brain models attention to better organize and monitor itself. In this conversation, Robinson and Michael reexamine the Attention

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03:03:44

222 - Richard Wolff: Israel, Ukraine, China, and the...

Robinson"s Podcast ·

2024/08/25

Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7Richard Wolff is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor at The New School, where he works on economics in the Marxist tradition. This is Richard’s fourth appearance on Robinson’s Podcast. In episode #127, he and Robinson discussed some of the most profound criticisms of capitalism; in #154, they focused on the myths surrounding Marxism and Marx himself; and in #190 they covered the Israel-Palestine conflict

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02:03:13

221 - David Albert: The Measurement Problem of...

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2024/08/18

Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 David Albert is the Frederick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, director of the Philosophical Foundations of Physics program at Columbia, and a faculty member of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics. This is David’s eighth appearance on Robinson’s Podcast. He last appeared on episode 210 with Tim Maudlin, which was a more advanced episode on Niels Bohr and the foundations of quantum mechanics. In this episode, David gives

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01:34:56

220 - Michael Hudson: Debt, Economic Collapse, and...

Robinson"s Podcast ·

2024/08/11

Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7Michael Hudson is Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and President of the Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends. He researches domestic and international finance, the history of economics, and the role of debt in shaping class stratification, among many other topics. This is Michael’s third appearance on the show. He was also a guest on episode 180, where he and Robinson discussed neoliberalism,

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01:30:03

Ask Me Anything | August 2024

Robinson"s Podcast ·

2024/08/08

Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7This is the August 2024 AMA for Robinson’s Podcast. It is supported by the members of the Patreon. In this installment, Robinson answers questions about metaethics, art history, discipline, fashion, fitness, fantasy world-building, consciousness, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics, and more. OUTLINE 00:00 Introduction 01:01 What to Do 07:43 Thoughts on Discipline 17:29 Art History 20:43 Philosophy for Daily Life 23:30 Planners and Pantsers 27:53 Favorite Interpretation

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02:15:52

219 - Joscha Bach: Consciousness, Artificial...

Robinson"s Podcast ·

2024/08/05

Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7Joscha Bach is a computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher currently working with Liquid AI. He has previously done research at Harvard, MIT, Intel, and the AI Foundation. In this episode, Joscha and Robinson discuss the nature of consciousness—both in humans and synthetic—various theories of consciousness like panpsychism, physicalism, dualism, and Roger Penrose’s, the distinction between intelligence and artificial intelligence, the next

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02:08:52

218 - Norman Finkelstein: Genocide in Israel and...

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2024/07/31

Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7Norman Finkelstein received his PhD from the Princeton University Politics Department, and is best known for his research on Israel and Palestine. In this episode of Robinson’s Podcast, Norman addresses some of the most common arguments made in defense of Israel, such as those purporting to show Israel is not committing genocide, that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism, that Israel is fighting in self-defense, that Egypt is responsible for the crisis, and more. Norman

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01:11:08

217 - Leonard Susskind: String Theory, Fine-Tuning,...

Robinson"s Podcast ·

2024/07/21

Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7Leonard Susskind is Felix Bloch Professor of Physics at Stanford University. Among other accomplishments, he is among the fathers of such revolutionary concepts in physics as string theory, black hole complementarity, the holographic principle, and the string-theoretic landscape. It is this last concept that Robinson and Leonard discuss in this episode. More particularly, they address the fine-tuning problem—that so many of the constants in physics, such as the

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01:45:30

216 - Raphael Bousso: The Black Hole Paradox, Quantum...

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2024/07/14

Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7Raphael Bousso is the Chancellor’s Chair in Physics at the Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, where he leads the Bousso Group in research on quantum gravity and quantum information. He is a renowned string theorist famous also for his development of the string theoretic landscape and the Bousso bound in holography. In this episode, Robinson and Raphael discuss the groundbreaking work of Jacob Bekenstein, Stephen Hawking, Leonard Susskind, Gerard ’t Hooft, and

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01:37:41

215 - Anna Lembke: On Philosophy and Psychiatry

Robinson"s Podcast ·

2024/07/07

Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7Dr. Anna Lembke received her undergraduate degree in Humanities from Yale University and her medical degree from Stanford University. She is currently Professor and Medical Director of Addiction Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She is also Program Director of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Fellowship, and Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. This is Anna’s second time on the show. On episode 117, she and Robinson

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01:29:36

Ask Me Anything | July 2024

Robinson"s Podcast ·

2024/07/03

Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7This is the inaugural AMA for Robinson’s Podcast. It is supported by the members of the podcast’s Patreon. In this installment, Robinson answers questions about the reality of mathematics, podcasting, moral facts, ice cream, the nature of time, literary books for neophytes, and more. Denying Infinity: https://doi.org/10.1080/01445340.2024.2344346 Abstract: Abraham Robinson is well-known as the inventor of nonstandard analysis, which uses nonstandard models to give

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01:00:59

214 - Joyce Carol Oates: On Philosophy and Literature

Robinson"s Podcast ·

2024/06/30

Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7Joyce Carol Oates is the Rogers S. Berlind ’52 Professor Emerita in the Humanities at Princeton University with the Program in Creative Writing. She is among the most widely-recognized and respected writers of our time, and has written in a wide variety of media and genres, from poetry and fiction in the former category to horror and Gothic in the latter. Her work has also been adapted into various other media, from plays to film. Joyce is the recipient of two O

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01:16:28

213 - Slavoj Žižek: God, Marxism, Philosophy, and...

Robinson"s Podcast ·

2024/06/23

Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Slavoj Žižek is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New York University, and a senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana’s Department of Philosophy. This is Slavoj’s fourth appearance on the show. On episode 109, he and Robinson discussed wokeness and psychoanalysis. On episode 118, he, Sean Carroll, and Robinson discussed quantum physics, the multiverse, and time travel. And on

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01:01:45

212 - Deborah Gordon: Ants, Myrmecology, and...

Robinson"s Podcast ·

2024/06/16

Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Deborah Gordon is Professor of Biology at Stanford University. She is a myrmecologist—an entomologist who studies ants—focusing on how complex behavior emerges from ant colonies, which have no central control. In this episode, Deborah and Robinson discuss some of the distinctive features of ants, how pheromones help to determine their behavior, examples of fascinating ant species, collective ant behavior, and the life cycle of an ant colony. For more of Deborah’s

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01:14:56

211 - Jay Chandrasekhar: Comedy, Creative Integrity,...

Robinson"s Podcast ·

2024/06/10

Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7Jay Chandrasekhar is a director, writer, stand-up comic, and actor. Some of his works include directing Super Troopers, Beerfest, and Dukes of Hazzard. He has also directed episodes of Arrested Development, Community, and New Girl. Jay also wrote Mustache Shenanigans (2017) and co-hosts the podcast Mustache Tales. In this episode, Robinson and Jay discuss his growth as a writer, the importance of purpose in comedy and film, creative integrity in Hollywood, working on

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02:03:39

210 - David Albert & Tim Maudlin: A Discussion of...

Robinson"s Podcast ·

2024/06/02

Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 David Albert is the Frederick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, director of the Philosophical Foundations of Physics program at Columbia, and a faculty member of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics. Tim Maudlin is Professor of Philosophy at NYU and Founder and Director of the JBI. This is David’s seventh appearance on Robinson’s Podcast. He last appeared on episode 189 with Barry Loewer to talk about the Mentaculus,

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