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149. Mark Balaguer | How to Be a Presentist
What if only the present moment exists, and everything you call the past or the future is, strictly speaking, nothing at all?My links: https://linktr.ee/frictionphilosophy.1. GuestMark Balaguer is…
148. Matt Duncan | Acquaintance
What if simply having something consciously present to mind already counts as a form of knowledge, and helps explain not just perception, but beauty, emotion, and moral life?My links:…
147. Rivka Weinberg | The Meaning of it All
If life as a whole has no ultimate point, what kind of meaning can still make it worth living?My links: https://linktr.ee/frictionphilosophy.1. GuestRivka Weinberg is Professor of Philosophy and Mary…
146. Jay Garfield | Norms and Nature
Where do norms come from: from transcendent reason, or from the customs, practices, and forms of life through which human beings become normative creatures?My links:…
145. Marc Moffett | The Indispensability of Intuitions
What are intuitions, and are they indispensable to our knowledge?My links: https://linktr.ee/frictionphilosophy.1. GuestMarc Moffett is associate professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, and…
144. Michael Hymers | Private Language
If Wittgenstein is right, the mystery of “private experience” doesn’t point to hidden inner objects or an incommunicable language of sensation, but to a philosophical picture that makes our ordinary…
143. Kevin Richardson | The End of Binaries
Are gender and sexuality really two neat boxes, or are they better understood as positions in a multidimensional space where people can differ by degree rather than kind?My links:…
142. Dan Nicholson | What is Life?
1. GuestDaniel Nicholson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at George Mason University, and his work has focused on the philosophy of science, and in particular biology and life sciences.Check out…
141. Douglas Allchin | Scientific Error
What is error, and what is scientific error? Douglas Allchin explores the various types of scientific errors, how to identify them, and how to do science in light of them.My links:…
140. Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen | Wrongful Discrimination
What is discrimination, and what makes it wrongful?My links: https://linktr.ee/frictionphilosophy.1. AuthorKasper Lippert-Rasmussen is professor in political theory at University of Aarhus, Denmark.…
139. Joseph Mendola | The Neural Structure of Consciousness
What is the mind, and how do we address the hard problem?My links: https://linktr.ee/frictionphilosophy.1. GuestJoseph Mendola is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. His…
138. Vladimir Krstić | Deception
What is deception, and can it occur without an intention to mislead, especially when the person being deceived is oneself?My links: https://linktr.ee/frictionphilosophy1. GuestVladimir Krstić is…
137. Emily Adlam | The Measurement Problem
If quantum mechanics forces us to rethink what a “measurement outcome” even is, can experiments still count as genuine evidence for any scientific theory?My links:…
136. Trenton Merricks | Self and Identity
What if the deepest question about “you” isn’t whether you’re the same person over time, but which future life it’s actually rational for you to anticipate and care about as your survival?My links:…
135. Paul Thagard | How Brains Build Consciousness
Can brains build consciousness? In this interview, Paul Thagard argues that they can, and explains his approach.My links: https://linktr.ee/frictionphilosophy.1. GuestPaul Thagard is Distinguished…
134. Daniel Whiteson | Do Aliens Speak Physics?
If we ever make first contact, the hard part might not be sending a message across space, but working out whether aliens do science in anything like our sense, share concepts like number and…
133. Graham Oppy | Fine-Tuning and Grim Reapers
Can a Bayesian look at fine-tuning make “design” less compelling, and do Grim Reaper-style infinity puzzles really show that an infinite past is impossible?My links:…
132. Karen Stohr | A Kantian Guide to Life
What if Kant is right that real freedom is not doing whatever you feel like, but choosing principles you can rationally endorse and then living by them?My links:…
131. Dan Linford | The Causal Principle
If causation is not fundamental, what keeps reality from turning into chaos with things randomly popping into existence, and does the kalām’s claim that whatever begins to exist has a cause really…
130. Phil Halper and Niayesh Afshordi | Battle of the Big Bang
What, if anything, happened before the Big Bang, which origin story is right, and what future observations could finally decide between them?My links: https://linktr.ee/frictionphilosophy.1.…
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