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01:55:08

Helen Rollins: Cinema and Psychoanalysis

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2024/07/13

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 forthcoming book Psychocinema. In this episode, we discuss film theory, lack, obect a, Lacan's gaze, the divided self, Hegelian contradiction, ideology, capitalism and its discontents.You can find more of Helen's work at

01:51:11

Anna Riedl: The Historical Development of Cognitive...

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2024/07/09

Anna Riedl is a cognitive scientist who researches rationality under radical uncertainty. She completed her undergraduate degree in psychology at the University of Vienna and did the Middle European interdisciplinary master's programme in Cognitive Science. Anna was a researcher at the Viennese Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support and a member of the Global Shapers Community organised by the World Economic Forum, serving as curator for the Vienna Hub.You can find more of

01:32:10

Mel Andrews: Ontology of the Free Energy Principle...

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2024/07/05

Mel Andrews is a philosopher of science who primarily focuses on machine learning and the role of mathematical and computational methods in scientific modelling. Mel is currently a predoctoral research associate at the Department of Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University and doing a PhD in philosophy of science at the University of Cincinnati. They are also a visiting scholar at the Australian National University and the University of Pittsburgh. In this episode, we discuss the philosophy of

01:26:31

Why You Should Read Byung-Chul Han (w/ Davood Gozli)

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2024/05/25

Dr Davood Gozli is a cognitive psychologist and lay philosopher. In this episode, we discuss Byung-Chul Han's work and his contributions to the contemporary critical theory discourse.You can find more of Dr Gozli's work at https://dgozli.com/ and https://www.youtube.com/c/DavoodGozli⁠ Watch the video version ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. RSam Podcast

01:30:59

Graham Oppy on Analytic Idealism, Gödel's Proof for...

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2024/05/16

Prof Graham Oppy is the Professor of Philosophy at Monash University and, before that, did his graduate work at Princeton. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and the foundation editor of the Australasian Philosophical Review. He's also the author of several books, including Atheism: The Basics by Routledge, Arguing about Gods and Ontological Arguments and Belief in God—additionally, he's also published superlative papers on Gödel's ontological proof for the existence

01:47:58

Inês Hipólito on Computational Phenomenology,...

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2024/05/13

Dr Inês Hipólito is an Assistant Professor at Macquarie University, specialising in cognitive science and philosophy of mind and AI. Prior to this role, she served as a lecturer at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain. She employs E-Cognitive Science, Complex Systems, and the Free Energy Principle to investigate the dynamic relationship between human cognition and artificial intelligence. Furthermore, Dr Hipólito is also the co-founder of the ‘International Society of the Philosophy of the Sciences

01:11:35

Simon Critchley on Heidegger, Hermeneutics and Why...

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2024/04/26

Prof. Simon Critchley is a philosopher and the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. He's the author of numerous books, including Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance, On Heidegger's Being and Time, Memory Theatre, and Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us (to name a few). Since 2010, Prof. Critchley has moderated The New York Times philosophy series, The Stone, and in 2020, he released Apply-degger, a long-form podcast

01:42:40

Philosopher of Education Reacts to Sabine...

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2024/04/23

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 focuses on the Social Epistemology of Science, Metascience, Philosophy of AI and ML in Science and Philosophy of AI in Education. In this episode, we react to Sabine Hossenfelder's recent video: https://youtu.be/LKiBlGDfRU8?si=k95jhrK-QRHlIJ_P You can find more of Dr. Sikimić's work at ⁠https://vlastasikimic.com/⁠ and

01:45:26

Vlasta Sikimić on the Philosophy of AI in Science,...

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2024/03/31

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 focuses on the Social Epistemology of Science, Metascience, Philosophy of AI and ML in Science and Philosophy of AI in Education. In this episode, we discuss epistemic equity and tolerance, linguistic injustice, the philosophy of AI, scientific funding, using ML for scientific grant reviews, the epistemology of science and Slavoj

01:31:15

Hunter Coates on Christian Socialism and Universal...

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2024/03/12

Hunter Coates is an Orthodox Christian theologian, undergraduate student and aspiring academic. He's currently pursuing a double B.A. in philosophy and history at Georgia College and State University. After graduation, he plans to work towards a PhD in philosophy. In February 2023, Hunter published his first full-length text titled 'Conspiracy and the Subject: A Lacanian Enterprise.' And he will be publishing 'Grace Abounds: A Holistic Case for Universalism' by the end of 2024

01:35:04

Paul Thagard on AI, Free Energy Principle, and the...

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2024/03/04

Prof. Paul Thagard is a philosopher and cognitive scientist. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Cognitive Science Society, and the Association for Psychological Science. He's authored myriad interdisciplinary books, including a treatise on Mind and Society, and recently published his new book, Falsehoods Fly: Why Misinformation Spreads and How to Stop It. In this episode, we discuss AI, neural

01:25:50

Leon Brenner on Drive, Desire, Foreclosure, Love and...

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2024/02/15

Dr. Leon S. Brenner is a psychoanalyst & psychoanalytical theorist. His work focuses on the integration of philosophical and linguistic frameworks in the psychoanalytic theory of subjectivity and the understanding of the relationship between culture and psychopathology. He is the co-founder of Unconscious Berlin, and his latest book on the psychoanalysis of autism is called 'The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language,' where he presents a novel account of autistic subjectivity

01:26:24

Julie Reshe on Death Drive, Depressive Realism and...

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2024/02/13

Dr. Julie Reshe is a philosopher, a practising negative psychoanalyst, and a public intellectual. She is currently a visiting professor at University College Cork and University College Dublin. She earned her PhD studying psychoanalysis at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts under the supervision of Alenka Zupančič. She's also the author of Negative Psychoanalysis for the Living Dead: Philosophical Pessimism and the Death Drive. In this episode, we discuss politics,

01:36:15

Matthew David Segall on the God and Nature of...

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2024/01/29

Prof. Matthew David Segall is a transdisciplinary researcher, writer, and philosopher applying process-relational thought across the natural and social sciences, as well as in the study of consciousness. He is the Associate Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Program at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, CA and the Chair of the Science Advisory Committee for the Cobb Institute. Prof. Segall has authored many books, including 'Crossing the Threshold:

01:42:20

Joel David Hamkins on Gödel's Incompleteness,...

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2024/01/12

Prof. Joel David Hamkins is a mathematician and philosopher who is the O'Hara Professor of Logic at the University of Notre Dame. He was also a Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford and Sir Peter Strawson Fellow in Philosophy. Prof. Hamkins authored several books, including Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics, Proof and the Art of Mathematics and The Book of Infinity. In this episode, we discuss Gödel, Tarski, set theory and the philosophy of mathematics.You can find more of

02:17:07

Peter Rollins in Dialogue with Treydon Lunot: Radical...

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2023/12/23

Peter Rollins is a philosopher and radical theologian within the tradition of apophatic theology. He is the author of numerous books, including 'How (Not) to Speak of God' and 'The Idolatry of God,' and he is the creator of Pyrotheology. Treydon Lunot is an Orthodox Christian, theologian, philosopher, creator of Telosbound and the author of 'Aphesis: The Impossibility of Subjectivity.' In this episode, we discuss communion (or communal ontology), negativity, Slavoj

01:12:57

Leon Brenner on Lacan, Language and Autism in...

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2023/12/18

Dr. Leon S. Brenner is a psychoanalyst & psychoanalytical theorist. His work focuses on the integration of philosophical and linguistic frameworks in the psychoanalytic theory of subjectivity and the understanding of the relationship between culture and psychopathology. He is the co-founder of Unconscious Berlin, and his latest book on the psychoanalysis of autism is called ‘The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language,’ where he presents a novel account of autistic subjectivity from a

01:29:54

Iris Berent on Innate Knowledge, Linguistics, and...

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2023/11/08

Prof. Iris Berent is a cognitive psychologist at Northeastern University. She's the author of 'The Phonological Mind' and 'The Blind Storyteller'. Her current research seeks to unveil human nature and our intuitive understanding of it. To shed light on human nature, she explores the human capacity for language using phonology as a case study. In this episode, we discuss theories of cognition, the debate in linguistics between Chomsky and Skinner, innate knowledge, essentialism

01:26:58

Michael Strevens on Kuhn, Popper and Science as a...

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2023/10/04

Michael Strevens is a philosopher of science at New York University, primarily working on complex systems, scientific explanation, the social structure of science and philosophical applications of cognitive science. Outside of academia, he is best known for his book 'The Knowledge Machine' in which he explains why science is so successful at creating knowledge and why it took so long for humans to figure out how to do it right. In this episode, we discuss the 'great method debate',

01:23:40

Peter Rollins on The Unknowing God & Church of...

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2023/09/15

Peter Rollins is a philosopher and radical theologian within the tradition of apophatic theology. He is the author of numerous books, including How (Not) to Speak of God, The Idolatry of God and creator of Pyrotheology. In this episode, we discuss Kierkegaard, the Jungian vs. Lacanian unconscious and the ethics of a community of lack. You can find more of Peter's work here:

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