Robinson's Podcast

By Robinson Erhardt

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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.

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Robinson's Podcast episodes:

05.26.2024
209 - Peter Singer: Controversial Ideas, Utilitarianism, and Animal Liberation
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor Emeritus of Bioethics in the Department of Philosophy at Princeton University. He is among the most influential living philosophers, and among the most influential moral philosophers of the last century. Peter is...
05.20.2024
208 - Victor Davis Hanson: Annihilation, Genocide, and World War III
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Victor Davis Hanson is a renowned classicist, military historian, and political commentator. He is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Among numerous other awards, Victor...
05.12.2024
207 - Sean Carroll: Quanta, Fields, and the Philosophy of Quantum Physics
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Sean Carroll is Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. He is also the host of Sean Carroll’s Mindscape, a podcast about science, society, philosophy, culture, arts, and ideas....
05.05.2024
206 - Slavoj Žižek & Lee Smolin: Marxism Meets Quantum Physics
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Slavoj Žižek is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London and a senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana’s Department of Philosophy. He was also the guest for episodes 109—on psychoanalysis, wokeness,...
04.28.2024
205 - Nick Bostrom: Superintelligence, Posthumanity, and AI Utopia
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Nick Bostrom is a Swedish philosopher who was most recently Professor at Oxford University, where he served as the founding Director of the Future of Humanity Institute. He is best known for his book Superintelligence (Oxford, 2014), which covers...
04.21.2024
204 - Philip Goff: Panpsychism and the Mystery of Consciousness
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Philip Goff is a professor of philosophy at Durham University in the United Kingdom, where he researches consciousness and the philosophy of mind. He is the best known proponent of a view about consciousness known as panpsychism, which takes...
04.15.2024
203 - Vijay Prashad: Colonialism, Israel-Palestine, Marxism, and European Anti-Semitism
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Vijay Prashad is a historian and journalist. He obtained his PhD in history at the University of Chicago and was most recently the George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Vijay...
04.07.2024
202 - Jeffrey Sachs: JFK, Conspiracy Theories, Israel-Palestine, and Ending the War in Gaza
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Jeffrey Sachs is University Professor at Columbia University, where he serves as the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development. Before that, he taught at Harvard University for twenty years. Jeff is the author of numerous books, including three...
03.31.2024
201 - Benny Morris: Israel-Palestine, Genocide, Apartheid, Hamas, Muscular Judaism, and the Nakba
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Benny Morris is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Middle East Studies at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. He is among the most respected and influential historians on Israel and Palestine. Benny is perhaps best known...
03.24.2024
200 - Sean Carroll, Daniel Dennett, & Steven Pinker: AI, Parapsychology, Panpsychism, & Physics Violations
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Sean Carroll is Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. He is also host of Sean Carroll’s Mindscape, a terrific show (that influenced the birth of Robinson’s Podcast) about...
03.17.2024
199 - Lawrence Krauss: God, String Theory, and the State of Physics
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Lawrence Krauss is a theoretical physicist who has taught at Yale, Arizona State University, and Case Western, and is the founder of ASU’s Origins Project. He is a prominent public intellectual and best-selling author, and has written about the...
03.10.2024
198 - Michael Hudson: Marxism, Economic Parasites, and Debt Cancellation
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Michael 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...
03.03.2024
197 - Martha Nussbaum: Justice for Animals
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Martha Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, with appointments in the Department of Philosophy and the Law School. Martha is among the most recognized philosophers today. Over the...
02.26.2024
196 - Stephen Wolfram: The Fundamental Theory of the Universe
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Stephen Wolfram is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, and the creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha, and the Wolfram Language. He received his PhD in theoretical physics from Caltech when he was twenty years old. In addition to his...
02.19.2024
195 - Brian Keating: Cosmological Inflation and the Universe’s First Light
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Brian Keating is the Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics at the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences at UC San Diego, host of the Into the Impossible Podcast, an expert on the cosmic microwave background, and the author of...
02.12.2024
194 - Daniel Dennett: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Evolution of Minds
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Daniel Dennett is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Tufts University, where he was co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy. He is one of the most recognized philosophers today, and has...
02.07.2024
193 - Robert Sapolsky: Determinism, Free Will, & The End of Moral Responsibility
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Robert Sapolsky is John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor and Professor of Biology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery at Stanford University. He’s also a best-selling author and one of the leading voices in the current—and enduring—debate over free will. In...
01.28.2024
192 - Norman Finkelstein: Hamas, Hezbollah, and Justice in the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Norman Finkelstein received his PhD from the Princeton University Politics Department, and is best known for his indefatigable research on Israel and Palestine, which is what he and Robinson discuss in this episode of the show, marking the culmination...
01.21.2024
191 - Victor Davis Hanson: An American’s Case For Israel
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Victor Davis Hanson is a renowned classicist, military historian, and political commentator. He is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Among numerous other awards, Victor...
01.17.2024
190 - Richard Wolff: A Marxist’s Case For Palestine
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Richard 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 third appearance on Robinson’s Podcast. In...
01.12.2024
189 - David Albert & Barry Loewer: The Mentaculus (Or, a Probability Map of the Universe)
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, as is...
01.10.2024
188 - Tim Maudlin & Sheldon Goldstein: The Copenhagen Interpretation and Bohmian Mechanics
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Tim Maudlin is Professor of Philosophy at NYU and Founder and Director of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics. Sheldon Goldstein is Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Rutgers University, where he researches mathematical physics, the foundations...
01.08.2024
187 - Michael Levin: The New Era of Cognitive Biorobotics
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Michael Levin is a Distinguished Professor in the Biology Department at Tufts University, where he holds the Vannevar Bush endowed Chair, and he is also associate faculty at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University. Michael and the Levin Lab...
01.06.2024
186 - Jenann Ismael: Determinism and Self-Reference in Classical and Quantum Physics
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Jenann Ismael is the William H. Miller III Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, where she researches the philosophy of physics, science, mind, and metaphysics. In this episode, Robinson and Jenann discuss the role of self-reference in physics,...
01.04.2024
185 - Jim Al-Khalili: The Fundamentals of Quantum Biology
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Jim Al-Khalili holds a University of Surrey Distinguished Chair in physics and a university chair in the Public Engagement in Science at the University of Surrey, where he is a theoretical physicist, author, and broadcaster. In this episode, Robinson...
01.02.2024
184 - Brian Leiter: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Critique of Morality
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Brian Leiter is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School, founder and Director of Chicago’s Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values, and is best known in the philosophical world for his work...
12.31.2023
183 - Neil Shubin: Fins, Limbs, and the Evolutionary Journey from Fish to Human
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Neil Shubin is Robert R. Bensley Distinguished Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago. In addition to actively leading research expeditions across the globe, Neil runs the Shubin Lab, where genetic, kinematic, and paleontologic work...
12.29.2023
182 - Larry Keith: Conserving Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance Masters’ Artwork
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Larry Keith is the Head of Conservation and Keeper of the National Gallery of London, where he preserves and maintains some of the world’s most precious works of art, including paintings by Leonardo, Caravaggio, and Rubens. In this episode,...
12.27.2023
181 - Jon Butterworth: The Higgs Boson and the Standard Model of Particle Physics
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/robinsonerhardt Jon Butterworth is Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at University College London, where he works on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland. In this episode, Robinson and Jon discuss...
12.24.2023
180 - Michael Hudson: Neoliberalism, Industrial Capitalism, and the Rise of Debt
Patreon: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/robinsonerhardt⁠ Michael 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...
12.22.2023
179 - Adam Gazzaley: Neuroscience, Therapeutic Video Games, and the Cognition Crisis
Adam Gazzaley is David Dolby Distinguished Professor of Neurology, Physiology, and Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He obtained his M.D. and Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Adam...
12.20.2023
178 - Chike Jeffers & Lucius Outlaw: African & Africana Philosophy
Chike Jeffers is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Dalhousie University, where he researches Africana philosophy, the philosophy of race, social and political philosophy, and ethics. Lucius Outlaw is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus and W. Alton Jones Chair...
12.17.2023
177 - Juan Maldacena: Quantum Gravity, String Theory, and the AdS/CFT Correspondence
Juan Maldacena is Carl P. Feinberg Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, where his work focuses on quantum gravity, string theory, and quantum field theories. In this episode, Robinson and Juan discuss the...
12.13.2023
176 - Brian Little: Personality Psychology and the Big Five Traits
Brian Little is Research Professor in the Department of Psychology at Cambridge University, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at Carleton, and a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is well known for his work on...
12.12.2023
175 - Robert Plomin: Behavioral Genetics and the Blueprint of Human Behavior
Robert Plomin is MRC Research Professor of Behavioral Genetics at King’s College London. He has published over 800 papers, is among the hundred most cited psychologists of the twentieth century, and was appointed Commander of the Order of the British...
12.06.2023
174 - Rebecca Goldstein: Spinoza, Atheism, and the Philosophy of Literature
Rebecca Goldstein is a philosopher and novelist. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University and studied with Thomas Nagel. She is a MacArthur Follow and was awarded the National Humanities Medal by Barack Obama. Rebecca is also an...
12.02.2023
173 - Ken Olum: What Are Cosmic Strings?
Ken Olum is Research Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Tufts University, where he works on exotic physics and topics in cosmology like cosmic strings, gravitational waves, anthropic reasoning, and inflation. In this episode, Robinson and Ken...
11.29.2023
172 - Joseph LeDoux: Neuroscience and The Four Realms of Human Existence
Joseph LeDoux is Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science, University Professor, Professor of Neural Science, Professor of Psychiatry, and Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at New York University, where he works in neuroscience and related areas. Though his...
11.26.2023
171 - Richard Haier: What Is Human Intelligence?
Richard Haier is Professor Emeritus in the School of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine, where he uses brain imagining and the tools of neuroscience to study learning, memory, and intelligence, and how they relate to brain function and...
11.24.2023
170 - Sheldon Goldstein: Pilot Wave Theory and Bohmian Mechanics
Sheldon Goldstein is Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Rutgers University, where he researches mathematical physics, the foundations of quantum mechanics, and Bohmian Mechanics. He is also Board Member of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics, founded by...
11.19.2023
169 - Michael Graziano: The Attention Schema Theory of Consciousness
Michael Graziano is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University, where he and his lab research the brain basis of consciousness. Naturally, this is precisely what Michael and Robinson discuss in this episode. More particularly, they get into the...
11.17.2023
168 - Una Stojnić: Slurs, Linguistic Conventions, and the Philosophy of Language
Una Stojnić is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at Princeton University, where she works in the philosophy of language, formal semantics and pragmatics of natural language, and philosophical logic. In this episode, Robinson and Una discuss three...
11.15.2023
167 - David Wallace: The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
David Wallace is Mellon Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Before that, he obtained PhDs in both physics and philosophy at Oxford. David works mainly in the philosophy of physics, and...
11.12.2023
166 - Robert Stickgold: Dreams and the Role of Sleep in Memory and Emotional Processing
Robert Stickgold is Professor of Pyschiatry at Harvard Medical School, where he researches sleep and dreams from a cognitive neuroscience perspective. In this episode, Bob and Robinson discuss the role of sleep in memory processing and emotional regulation, how sleep...
11.10.2023
165 - Anubav Vasudevan: The Metaphysics of Charles Sanders Peirce
Anubav Vasudevan is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago, where he works in formal epistemology and the history of logic, though he has published in a number of other areas. This is Anubav’s second...
11.08.2023
164 - Geoffrey West: Complexity Theory and The Scaling Laws of Biology
Geoffrey West is Shannan Distinguished Professor and Past President at the Santa Fe Institute. He is a theoretical physicist who has worked broadly on topics related to elementary particles and their cosmological implications. Among other topics, he has also worked...
11.05.2023
163 - Daniel Levitin: Songwriting and the Neuroscience of Music
Daniel Levitin is Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neuroscience at McGill University and Founding Dean of Arts & Humanities at Minerva University. He is also a record producer, musician, and writer. In this episode, Robinson and Daniel discuss one of...
11.03.2023
162 - Tim Palmer: Chaos Theory, Probabilistic Forecasting, and Climate Change
Tim Palmer is Royal Society Research Professor in Climate Physics at the University of Oxford, where he is a Senior Fellow at the Oxford Martin Institute and a Professorial Fellow at Jesus College. Tim works on the predictability and dynamics...
11.01.2023
161 - James Owen Weatherall: Nothingness and the Physics of the Void
James Owen Weatherall is Professor of Logic and the Philosophy of Science and Department Chair at the University of California, Irvine, where he is also a member of the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Science, the Center for Cosmology, and the...
10.29.2023
160 - David Friedman: What is Anarcho-Capitalism?
David Friedman is Professor Emeritus at the Santa Clara University School of Law. While he was trained as a physicist, David is best known for his work in economics, and particularly his defense of anarcho-capitalism, a political philosophy that advocates...

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Robinson's Podcast episodes:

209 - Peter Singer: Controversial Ideas, Utilitarianism, and Animal Liberation

208 - Victor Davis Hanson: Annihilation, Genocide, and World War III

207 - Sean Carroll: Quanta, Fields, and the Philosophy of Quantum Physics

206 - Slavoj Žižek & Lee Smolin: Marxism Meets Quantum Physics

205 - Nick Bostrom: Superintelligence, Posthumanity, and AI Utopia

204 - Philip Goff: Panpsychism and the Mystery of Consciousness

203 - Vijay Prashad: Colonialism, Israel-Palestine, Marxism, and European Anti-Semitism

202 - Jeffrey Sachs: JFK, Conspiracy Theories, Israel-Palestine, and Ending the War in Gaza

201 - Benny Morris: Israel-Palestine, Genocide, Apartheid, Hamas, Muscular Judaism, and the Nakba

200 - Sean Carroll, Daniel Dennett, & Steven Pinker: AI, Parapsychology, Panpsychism, & Physics Violations

199 - Lawrence Krauss: God, String Theory, and the State of Physics

198 - Michael Hudson: Marxism, Economic Parasites, and Debt Cancellation

197 - Martha Nussbaum: Justice for Animals

196 - Stephen Wolfram: The Fundamental Theory of the Universe

195 - Brian Keating: Cosmological Inflation and the Universe’s First Light

194 - Daniel Dennett: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Evolution of Minds

193 - Robert Sapolsky: Determinism, Free Will, & The End of Moral Responsibility

192 - Norman Finkelstein: Hamas, Hezbollah, and Justice in the Israel-Palestine Conflict

191 - Victor Davis Hanson: An American’s Case For Israel

190 - Richard Wolff: A Marxist’s Case For Palestine

189 - David Albert & Barry Loewer: The Mentaculus (Or, a Probability Map of the Universe)

188 - Tim Maudlin & Sheldon Goldstein: The Copenhagen Interpretation and Bohmian Mechanics

187 - Michael Levin: The New Era of Cognitive Biorobotics

186 - Jenann Ismael: Determinism and Self-Reference in Classical and Quantum Physics

185 - Jim Al-Khalili: The Fundamentals of Quantum Biology

184 - Brian Leiter: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Critique of Morality

183 - Neil Shubin: Fins, Limbs, and the Evolutionary Journey from Fish to Human

182 - Larry Keith: Conserving Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance Masters’ Artwork

181 - Jon Butterworth: The Higgs Boson and the Standard Model of Particle Physics

180 - Michael Hudson: Neoliberalism, Industrial Capitalism, and the Rise of Debt

179 - Adam Gazzaley: Neuroscience, Therapeutic Video Games, and the Cognition Crisis

178 - Chike Jeffers & Lucius Outlaw: African & Africana Philosophy

177 - Juan Maldacena: Quantum Gravity, String Theory, and the AdS/CFT Correspondence

176 - Brian Little: Personality Psychology and the Big Five Traits

175 - Robert Plomin: Behavioral Genetics and the Blueprint of Human Behavior

174 - Rebecca Goldstein: Spinoza, Atheism, and the Philosophy of Literature

173 - Ken Olum: What Are Cosmic Strings?

172 - Joseph LeDoux: Neuroscience and The Four Realms of Human Existence

171 - Richard Haier: What Is Human Intelligence?

170 - Sheldon Goldstein: Pilot Wave Theory and Bohmian Mechanics

169 - Michael Graziano: The Attention Schema Theory of Consciousness

168 - Una Stojnić: Slurs, Linguistic Conventions, and the Philosophy of Language

167 - David Wallace: The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

166 - Robert Stickgold: Dreams and the Role of Sleep in Memory and Emotional Processing

165 - Anubav Vasudevan: The Metaphysics of Charles Sanders Peirce

164 - Geoffrey West: Complexity Theory and The Scaling Laws of Biology

163 - Daniel Levitin: Songwriting and the Neuroscience of Music

162 - Tim Palmer: Chaos Theory, Probabilistic Forecasting, and Climate Change

161 - James Owen Weatherall: Nothingness and the Physics of the Void

160 - David Friedman: What is Anarcho-Capitalism?

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