Sean Carroll – Julia Galef

Sean Carroll is a physicist, a theoretical physicist, and an interview host. Julia Galef is an interview host, an author, and a philosopher. We found 5 podcast interviews connecting Sean Carroll and Julia Galef.

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Episodes with Sean Carroll & Julia Galef

Sean Carroll & Julia Galef 19 Apr 2021 • EN

Julia Galef on Openness, Bias, and Rationality

Mom, apple pie, and rationality — all things that are unquestionably good, right? But rationality, as much as we might value it, is easier to aspire to than to achieve. And there are more than a few hot takes on the market suggesting that we shouldn’t even want to be rational — that it’s inefficient or maladaptive. Jul

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Julia Galef & Sean Carroll 26 Jun 2016 • EN

Rationally Speaking #162 - Sean Carroll on "Poetic Naturalism"

Naturalism is the stance that everything that exists in the universe arises from "natural" causes, of the sort observable by science -- not supernatural ones. It's practically a foundational tenet of skepticism. But does it imply that there can be no meaning, or purpose, or morality in the universe? This episode featur

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In this episode of Rationally Speaking, Caltech physicist Sean Carroll describes an "embarrassing" state of affairs in modern physics: that we still don't know how to interpret quantum mechanics, almost a century after its discovery. Sean explains why he thinks the "Many Worlds Interpretation" (MWI) is the most plausib

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Massimo Pigliucci + Julia Galef & Sean Carroll 19 May 2013 • EN

Rationally Speaking #87 - Sean Carroll on Naturalism

Astrophysicist and author Sean Carroll joins this episode of Rationally Speaking, to talk about "naturalism" -- the philosophical viewpoint that there are no supernatural phenomena, and the universe runs on scientific laws. Sean, Julia, and Massimo discuss what distinguishes naturalism from similar philosophies like ph

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