Eric Schwitzgebel

Eric Schwitzgebel

7 Interviews

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Sean Carroll & Eric Schwitzgebel 15 Jan 2024 • EN

Eric Schwitzgebel on the Weirdness of the World

Scientists and philosophers sometimes advocate pretty outrageous-sounding ideas about the fundamental nature of reality. (Arguably I have been guilty of this.) It shouldn't be surprising that reality, in regimes far away from our everyday experience, fails to conform to common sense. But it's also okay to maintain a bi

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Keith Frankish + Philip Goff & Eric Schwitzgebel 25 Jul 2023 • EN

Eric Schwitzgebel : Is the United States Conscious?

Eric Schwitzgebel is professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. His research interests include philosophy of psychology, philosophy of mind, moral psychology, classical Chinese philosophy, epistemology, metaphilosophy, and metaphysics. He has also written a number of pieces of philosophical sci

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Danny Whittaker & Eric Schwitzgebel 13 Jun 2020 • EN

#095 - Breaking the Overton Window (Eric Schwitzgebel)

Prof. Eric Schwitzgebel joins us to discuss the concept of the "Overton Window" and the potential consequences of engaging in unacceptable discourse. Buy Eric's Book, "A Theory of Jerks and Other Philosophical Misadventures": https://amzn.to/3d2LKjw Eric's Blog: http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/ Support us on Patre

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Philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel returns to the show to explore several related questions: His taxonomy of the three different styles of thinker -- "Truth," "Dare," and "Wonder" -- and whether one of them is better than the others. His case for why it's bad to interpret people "charitably." And his seemingly paradoxical c

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Some theories violate common sense so wildly that you want to just reject them out of hand. For example, "The United States is conscious," or "The most moral act would be to replace all living beings with an orgasmic blob." On the other hand, many theories in physics that sounded similarly crazy turned out to be very w

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