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#1064 Costica Bradatan - In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility

Feb 27, 2025

Dr. Costica Bradatan is a Professor of Humanities in the Honors College at Texas Tech University, USA, and an Honorary Research Professor of Philosophy at University of Queensland, Australia. Dr. Bradatan is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, among which In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility (2023). He is currently at work on two new book projects: Against Conformity and The Prince and the Hermit. He is the Philosophy/Religion Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the founding editor of two book series: “Philosophical Filmmakers” (Bloomsbury) and “No Limits” (Columbia University Press). More»
#1063 Menelaos Apostolou: The Evolution of Singlehood

Feb 24, 2025

Dr. Menelaos Apostolou is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. He was born in Athens, Greece and he completed his post-graduate and graduate studies in the United Kingdom. He has published several peer-reviewed papers, books and chapters in books in the area of evolutionary psychology. More»
#1062 Nandita Bajaj: We Have an Overpopulation Problem

Feb 21, 2025

Nandita Bajaj is the Executive Director of Population Balance, a US nonprofit that works to inspire narrative, behavioral, and system change that shrinks our human impact and elevates the rights and wellbeing of people, animals, and the planet. She also co-hosts The Overpopulation Podcast, a popular series that delves into the nuances of the drivers and impacts of human expansionism with expert guests. (Note: The Overpopulation Podcast is now called OVERSHOOT) More»
#1061 Lauren Ross: Causation and Explanation in Science

Feb 20, 2025

Dr. Lauren N. Ross is an Associate Professor in the Logic and Philosophy of Science Department at the University of California, Irvine. Her research concerns explanation and causation in biology, neuroscience, and medicine. This work involves interrelated projects that address: the nature of explanation in these sciences, different causal structures and explanation types, and the rationale that guides particular forms of causal reasoning in these domains. More»
#1060 João Cancela: Atitudes Políticas, Confiança nas Instituições e Populismo em Portugal

Feb 17, 2025

THIS INTERVIEW IS IN PORTUGUESE. More»
#1059 Christopher Hoyt: Wittgenstein, Philosophy of Mind, and Religion

Feb 14, 2025

Dr. Christopher Hoyt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Western Carolina University. His research interests include Wittgenstein, and the philosophy of film. More»
#1058 Marc Steen: Ethics for People Who Work in Tech

Feb 13, 2025

Dr. Marc Steen works as a senior research scientist at TNO, a leading research and technology organization in The Netherlands. He worked at Philips and KPN before joining TNO. He is an expert in Human-Centred Design, Value-Sensitive Design, Responsible Innovation, and Applied Ethics of Technology and Innovation. His mission is to promote the design and application of technologies in ways that help to create a just society in which people can live well together. He is the author of Ethics for People Who Work in Tech. More»
#1057 Daniel Hoyer: Cliodynamics, Inequality, Elite Overproduction, and Revolution

Feb 10, 2025

Dr. Daniel Hoyer is Senior Research Associate & Managing Director for Seshat: Global History Databank, Research Scientist with the SocialAI Research Group, and Founder of SODY. He is the author of Figuring Out The Past: The 3,495 Vital Statistics that Explain World History. More»
#1056 Elena Ziliotti - Meritocratic Democracy: A Cross-Cultural Political Theory

Feb 7, 2025

Dr. Elena Ziliotti is an Assistant Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at the Delft University of Technology. She works on Comparative political theory, focusing on debates in contemporary Confucian and Western political theory. She is the author of Meritocratic Democracy: A Cross-Cultural Political Theory. More»
#1055 Michael Axelrod - Pseudoscience, Fringe Science, and Controversies in School Psychology

Feb 6, 2025

Dr. Michael Axelrod is Director of the Human Development Center and a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. He is a Nationally Certified School Psychologist and Licensed Psychologist. He is editor of Investigating School Psychology: Pseudoscience, Fringe Science, and Controversies. More»