Back to the Stone Age is the idea that to achieve a fulfilling life one shall strive to become the best version of oneself through daily discipline and commitment to personal development and goals. A focal point is the disconnection from distractions/addictions to focus on the interior of oneself, the unique location where the ultimate truth of everyone resides. By undertaking this introspective journey one is then able to f ...
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Scott Soames is a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California. His website: https://dornsife.usc.edu/scottsoames/ Find Back to the Stone Age on: YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZrhMJ5eusE_ACw6Ec3TqCbvDVZ6HP809&si=WhVnrLLAUuYW-Any Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pT8MUeR8bskcsuu8gmUGK Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/back-to-the-stone-age/id1741219288 Outline 00:34 - What Is Meaning? 05:10 - How Do Words Refer To Things? 10:37 - Language And Logic 19:06 - Relativity Of Truth 22:26 - Truth Without Humans 24:00 - Possible Worlds Semantics 36:14 - Kripke's Contribution To Philosophy Of Language 42:02 - Soames' Cognitive Content 48:40 - Consequences Of Soames' View: Propositions 54:18 - Living Philosophically 59:19 - What Are The Limits Of Language? 01:14:32 - Are You Scared Of Not Finding Answers? 01:15:50 - Mental Changes To Embrace New Views 01:19:35 - Lack Of Experimental Validation In Philosophy 01:21:22 - Technology And Philosophy 01:24:20 - Most Pressing Philosophical Issue 01:26:11 - Which Philosopher Best Understood The Human Condition? 01:32:36 - Does Pursuing Philosophy Make You A Better Person? 01:34:00 - Final Questions and Conclusion Enjoy Back to the Stone Age!
John is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. You can find his website here: https://publish.uwo.ca/~jbell/ Find Back to the Stone Age on: YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZrhMJ5eusE_ACw6Ec3TqCbvDVZ6HP809&si=WhVnrLLAUuYW-Any Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pT8MUeR8bskcsuu8gmUGK Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/back-to-the-stone-age/id1741219288 Outline 00:41 - John's introduction 08:35 - Is The Universe Mathematical in Nature? 25:50 - Limitations of Language in Philosophical Enquiries 31:20 - Mathematical Constructivism 41:07 - Implications of Constructivism and Intuitionist Logic 48:54 - Nature of Mathematical Truths 01:05:45 - The Axiom of Choice 01:37:20 - The Nature of The Continuum 01:50:43 - Relationship between Mathematics, Physics, Philosophy 02:03:14 - The Nature of Consciousness 02:23:03 - 1000-years After- Nap Question 02:29:00 - Conclusion Enjoy Back to the Stone Age!
Thomas is a professor of Physics at KU Leuven (https://shorturl.at/IVa8S). He's on Twitter: https://x.com/ThomasVanRiet2 Find Back to the Stone Age on: YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZrhMJ5eusE_ACw6Ec3TqCbvDVZ6HP809&si=WhVnrLLAUuYW-Any Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pT8MUeR8bskcsuu8gmUGK Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/back-to-the-stone-age/id1741219288 Outline 00:24 - General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics 11:50 - String Theory 21:41 - Singularities in String Theory 37:47 - Extra Dimensions in String Theory 48:30 - The Landscape and The Swampland 58:36 - Fine Tuning of the Universe 01:16:20 - The Most Beautiful Concept in Physics 01:20:00 - Final Thoughts and Conclusion Hope you enjoy it, this is Back to the Stone Age!
Andrea is a theoretical physicist and he works on Dark Matter and Particle Physics. He was awarded the ERC (European Research Council) Starting Grant. Andrea on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-caputo-ph-d-2475999b/?locale=en_US Seeing my interviews from one year ago is a bit cringe, but I'm working on it 😜 Hope you like it anyway! Find Back to the Stone Age on: YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZrhMJ5eusE_ACw6Ec3TqCbvDVZ6HP809&si=WhVnrLLAUuYW-Any Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pT8MUeR8bskcsuu8gmUGK Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/back-to-the-stone-age/id1741219288 Outline 01:10 - The Standard Model 03:09 - Gravity and the Standard Model 06:30 - String theory and accelerators 13:47 - The Hierarchy problem 22:54 - Supersymmetry 26:12 - ΛCDM model and the Standard Model 34:08 - Dark Matter candidates 41:20 - Inflation and the Standard Model 49:00 - Extra dimensions 52:07 - The Baryon Asymmetry problem 57:58 - Neutrinos' mass problem 01:06:13 - The CP problem 01:16:24 - The parameters of the Standard Model 01:20:33 - Is mathematics invented or discovered? 01:23:07 - Final thoughts and conclusion Enjoy Back to the Stone Age!
Do you like philosophising? Then this conversation is for YOU! 🫵🏻 Brad Wray (https://shorturl.at/gY9Oh) is Associate Professor at Aarhus University, and together we tackle deep philosophical questions. Find Back to the Stone Age on: YouTube: https://shorturl.at/c5a37 Spotify: https://shorturl.at/11x47 Apple Podcast: https://shorturl.at/pFRCC Outline 00:35 - Philosophy of Science 01:17 - Definition of knowledge 01:52 - How do scientific discoveries shape our understanding of reality? 02:26 - Metaphysics 09:56 - God in Philosophy 11:41 - Limitation of human knowledge 13:52 - Theory of everything 19:45 - How is knowledge acquired? 29:24 - Role of epistemic communities for knowledge acquisition 34:40 - Disruptive science and increase of scientific papers 46:03 - Academic vs technological development 51:38 - Artificial intelligence and technology 01:00:44 - Collaborating with other researchers 01:04:15 - Thomas Kuhn 01:06:02 - Paradigm in science 01:13:30 - Kuhn cycle 01:20:19 - Revolutionising paradigm shifts: Copernican revolution and Plate tectonics 01:32:15 - Incommensurability in scientific revolutions 01:40:18 - Planck's principle 01:45:55 - Role of theories in understanding reality 01:52:11 - Is scientific progress linear? 01:52:55 - Scientific realism 01:58:25 - Antirealist perspective 02:05:40 - Death 02:09:25 - Nuclear weapons 02:16:27 - Conclusion Enjoy Back to the Stone Age!