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Kantian Computationalism | Peter Wolfendale

Peter Wolfendale is a systematic philosopher. He is affiliated with the New Centre for Research & Practice and is a key figure in the Neorationalism movement. He is the a

British Idealism | Nathan Hawkins

Dr Nathan Hawkins is a philosopher who teaches at Cambridge University with a PhD thesis on Gottlob Frege's notion of truth. Dr Hawkins holds a BA with a double major in

The Marvels of Computationalism, Radical Embodiment and Holding Paradox (w/ Andrea Hiott)

Andrea Hiott is a philosopher, author & educator with degrees in philosophy & neuroscience (UGA, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, currently at Universität Heidelberg). Sh

Active Inference and Bayesian Mechanics

Dr Sanjeev Namjoshi is a machine learning engineer at Noumenal Labs and a prominent researcher in the free energy principle and active inference epistemic community. He h

Existentialism and Artificial Intelligence

Michael Wheeler is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Stirling, specializing in the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence.

Why Do We Think of the Brain as a Computer? (w/ Danielle J. Williams)

Dr Danielle J. Williams is a philosopher of mind, cognitive science, neuroscience, and AI, as well as a historian of cognitive science and AI. She is an incoming Bersoff

The Problem with “Spiritual but Not Religious” (w/ Tony of 1Dime)

Tony Chamas is a political theorist, commentator and author of the forthcoming book "Freedom to Change Nothing: The Spectrum of Managed Democracy and What Makes the US Di

Where Did Analytic Philosophy Go Wrong? (w/ Alicia Juarrero)

Prof Alicia Juarrero is the founder and president of VectorAnalytica and Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Prince George’s Community College. Prof Juarrero has a doctora

Graham Harman & Matthew David Segall: OOO vs. Process Philosophy

Prof Graham Harman is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. His upcoming book, to be released in Feb

Graham Priest: Logic, Contradiction, Dialetheism and Hegel

Graham Priest is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Centre, City University of New York, Boyce Gibson Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne

Mechanistic Interpretability and How LLMs Understand

Dr Matthieu Queloz is a Privatdozent at the University of Bern. He is the author of two books: The Practical Origins of Ideas and The Ethics of Conceptualization, both pu

Husserl's Phenomenology and Social Ontology (w/ Dan Zahavi)

Dan Zahavi is a leading phenomenological philosopher known for his work in phenomenology, selfhood, and the philosophy of mind. Currently Professor of Philosophy at the U

Saving Christianity From Itself (w/ Jim Palmer)

Jim Palmer is a philosopher, radical theologian, spiritual director and existential health counsellor. He is the Founder of Center for Non-Religious Spirituality, author

Has AI Killed Education? (w/ Vlasta Sikimić)

"ChatGPT has unravelled the entire academic project", writes James Walsh, in a viral article on NY magazine titled 'Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College.' In th

Mark Solms & John Dall'Aglio: Prospects for a Lacanian Neuropsychoanalysis

Prof Mark Solms is a neuropsychologist and psychoanalyst known for pioneering the field of neuropsychoanalysis. You can find more of Prof Solms' work at https://neurosci

Daniel Tutt: Who Is A Comrade? Who Is A Friend?

Dr Daniel Tutt is a psychoanalytic Marxist philosopher, writer, teacher, and host of the Emancipations podcast. He is the author of Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the

Geometric Hyperscanning, Interbrain Networks and Social Cognition (w/ Nicolás Hinrichs)

Dr Nicolás Hinrichs is a researcher at the Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, interested in

Merleau-Ponty & Cognitive Science (w/ Robin Muller & Jeffrey Yoshimi)

Prof Robin Muller is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at California State University, Northridge. She works mainly in phenomenology and the history of

A Masterclass on Enactivism and Cognition (w/ Shaun Gallagher)

Prof Shaun Gallagher is a philosopher working on embodied cognition, enactivism, phenomenology, and philosophy of mind. He is the Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excelle

German Idealism and Neuroscience (w/ Rafael Holmberg)

Dr Rafael Holmberg is a political writer, social theorist, and researcher on philosophy and psychoanalysis based at University College London. His work broadly draws on p