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Rahul Samaranayake

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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:

01:08:21

Julia Keller on Quitting and the Myth of Perseverance...

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2023/08/28

Julia Keller is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, novelist, playwright, and teacher. She earned a Ph.D. at Ohio State University. She has taught at Princeton University, The University of Chicago, and the University of Notre Dame and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. She's the author of 'Quitting: A Life Strategy: The Myth of Perseverance―and How the New Science of Giving Up Can Set You Free.' In this episode, we discuss burnout and the sociology of quitting in a Neoliberal

01:58:11

Treydon Lunot on Orthodox Christianity and Baptising...

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2023/08/25

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 Theosis, baptising philosophy and what Slavoj Žižek gets wrong about Christianity. Trey's book: Aphesis: The Impossibility of Subjectivity Trey's

01:23:36

Jessica Taylor on AI Alignment and the Philosophy of...

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2023/08/24

Jessica Taylor is an AI & Cognitive science-influenced philosopher working on a range of areas like social epistemology, decision theory, and philosophy of mind, to name a few. She is currently a researcher at the Median Group on technology forecasting along with the prior mentioned fields. In this episode, we discuss AI alignment, the foundations of cognitive science, linguistics, desire formation, psychoanalysis and Kantian philosophy. Jessica's

01:32:46

Hunter Coates on Conspiracy Theories and Lacanian...

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2023/07/28

Amidst the UFO Congressional hearing in the United States, the topic of conspiracy theories has recently gained unprecedented public attention. In this episode, I discuss conspiracies from a Lacanian perspective with Hunter Coates, a philosophy and history undergrad at Georgia College & State University interested in German Idealism, Lacanian Psychoanalysis, and Eastern Orthodox Christian theology. In February 2023, Hunter published his first full-length text titled 'Conspiracy and the

01:08:00

Bros Discuss... Techno-Optimism (w/ Euwyn Goh)

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2023/07/06

Euwyn and I critique tech bros and techo-optimism. We also discuss 'The Question Concerning Technology' by Martin Heidegger. Connect with Euwyn at:

00:46:42

Dr Grace Tarpey on Lacan's Psychoanalytic Way of Love...

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2023/06/29

Dr Grace Tarpey is a Psychoanalyst and Philosophy Academic with significant years of experience in Psychoanalytic clinical private practice, Psychotherapy and Counselling. Her PhD thesis is on the topic of 'self-Other relations for an ethics-of-love' in the context of contemporary postmodern culture. She's also currently writing a book on 'The Ethics of Love.' In this episode, we discuss Jacques Lacan, Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Marion. Lacan's Psychoanalytic Way of

01:36:27

Bros Discuss... Why Get Married? (w/ Euwyn Goh)

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2023/05/04

Euwyn and I discuss marriage, love and modernity. Connect with Euwyn at: https://twitter.com/euwyngoh https://memoirworthwriting.substack.com https://www.instagram.com/euwyngoh --------------------------------------- {Podcast} Spotify: ⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le⁠⁠ Anchor: ⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake⁠⁠ YouTube: ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/RahulSam⁠⁠ Substack: https://rsampod.substack.com/ Website} https://rahulsam.me/ {Social

02:05:17

Hunter Coates On Kant, Hegel & Lacan | RSam Pod #20

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2023/04/07

Hunter Coates is an undergraduate student and aspiring academic. Currently, he is pursuing a philosophy and history double B.A. 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.”: https://www.amazon.com.au/Conspiracy-Subject-Enterprise-Hunter-Coates/dp/B0BW267JC5 Hunter's YouTube channel:

01:07:14

Mettalia Tanjaya on Why Theology Matters | RSam Pod #19

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2023/03/12

Mettalia Tanjaya is an artist and philosopher. She studied for a Bachelor of Animation and Interactive Media in the past year, followed by a Diploma in Theological Studies for a year. She is now doing her Master of Teaching (Early Childhood and Primary). The working title for her dissertation is “Why Theology Matters”, where she will discuss the components of Theological studies and analyse how it is relevant to modern philosophy and science. I discuss Christianity, morality and Kant with

01:26:03

Who is Christ to you? (Twitter Space with Euwyn Goh)

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2023/03/05

Euwyn and I discuss Christ, faith, existentialism and Christian phenomenology. Please consider checking out his Substack: https://memoirworthwriting.substack.com/ Euwyn's Twitter: https://twitter.com/euwyngoh --------------------------------------- {Podcast} Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RahulSam {Social

02:02:20

Is Jordan Peterson a Fascist? (Vaush and PF Jung's...

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2023/02/20

My conversation with Paul (PF Jung) on his follow-up thoughts after his Vaush debate. And we discuss if Jordan Peterson is a fascist―viewing Peterson through Umberto Eco's and Hannah Arendt's social theories. Paul's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PFJung Paul's debate with Vaush: https://youtu.be/hHn9WMSQyyk --------------------------------------- {Podcast} Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake YouTube:

00:20:32

Masculinity and Nothingness

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2023/02/19

Recently the topic of masculinity has been discussed contentiously in our culture with the rise of controversial figures like Andrew Tate. Original piece: https://theunhappyman.substack.com/p/masculinity-and-nothingness --------------------------------------- {Podcast} Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RahulSam {Social

01:26:21

Slavoj Žižek - Only a Suffering God Can Save Us

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2023/02/19

My reading of both sections 1: Hegel and 2: Kierkegaard of Slavoj Žižek's Only a Suffering God Can Save Us: https://www.lacan.com/zizshadowplay.html --------------------------------------- {Podcast} Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RahulSam {Social

02:09:16

Jacob Bell on Heidegger, Phenomenology and Structures...

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2022/12/29

Jacob Bell is a philosopher and writer. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from American Public University and is doing his Master of Research in Philosophy at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. The working title for his dissertation is “A Phenomenological Analysis of the Structures of Meaningfulness.” Jacob’s primary academic interests include phenomenology & existentialism, which we discuss in this episode. Connect with Jacob at https://twitter.com/jacoba_bell or

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