Condensing recent work in metaphysics and the philosophy of science down to what matters. Hosted by Dr Sam Kimpton-Nye, research associate on the MetaScience project (ERC, Horizon 2020, grant agreement No 771509; www.metascience.xyz) at the Unversity of Bristol. Music: NaturesEye from Pixabay. Art: Francesca Smith
Latest episodes of the podcast Condensed Matter
- 36: "The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis", David Chalmers
- 35: "There is no measurement problem for Humeans", Chris Dorst
- 34: "The Limits of Modality", Sam Cowling
- 33: "Biochemical Functions", Francesca Bellazzi (deep dive featuring the author!)
- 32: "Substance", Donnchadh O'Conaill (deep dive featuring the author!)
- 31: "Biological Individuality and the Foetus Problem", Will Morgan (deep dive featuring the author!)
- 30: “How Skeptical is Quine’s “Modal Skepticism”?”, John Divers
- Ep. 29: "Modal Conventionalism", Ross Cameron
- Ep. 28: "Panpsychism", Thomas Nagel (CM classic!)
- Ep. 27: “Modal dispositionalism and necessary perfect masks”, Barbara Vetter and Ralf Busse
- Ep. 26: "An Apology for Naturalized Metaphysics", James Ladyman (deep dive featuring the author!)
- Ep. 25 "The Governing Conception of Laws", Nina Emery (deep dive featuring the author!)
- Ep. 24: “Going Beyond the Fundamental: Feminism in Contemporary Metaphysics”, Elizabeth Barnes
- Ep. 23: "Governing Without a Fundamental Direction of Time", Chen and Goldstein
- Ep. 22: "Aristotelian Supervenience", John Heil
- Episode 21: "Causal Content and Global Laws: Grounding Modality in Experimental Practice", Jenann Ismael
- Episode 20: "Disagreement in Metaphysics", Timothy WIlliamson
- Episode 19: "Realism Without Parochialism", Phillip Bricker
- Episode 18: "Metaphysics After Carnap: the Ghost Who Walks?", Huw Price
- Episode 17: "Social kinds are essentially mind-dependent", Rebecca Mason
- Episode 16: "Calculus and counterpossibles in science", Brian McLoone
- Episode 15: "The rationality of metaphysics", E.J. Lowe
- Episode 14: "Where Do You Get Your Protein? Or: Biochemical Realization", Tuomas Tahko (deep dive featuring the author!)
- Episode 13: "Norms and Modality", Amie Thomasson
- Episode 12: "What Everyone Should Say about Symmetries (and How Humeans Get to Say It)", Michael Townsen Hicks (deep dive featuring the author!)
- Episode 11: “Nomothetic Explanation and Humeanism about Laws of Nature”, Harjit Bhogal
- Episode 10: "Realism and the Absence of Value", Shamik Dasgupta
- Episode 9: "Megarian Variable Actualism", Toby Friend (deep dive featuring the author!)
- Episode 8: "Sideways music", Ned Markosian
- Episode 7: "The Ground Between the Gaps", Jonathan Schaffer
- Episode 6: "Conceptualizing causal powers: activity, capacity, essence, necessitation", Ruth Groff
- Episode 5: "There Are No Ahistorical Theories of Function", Justin Garson
- Episode 4: "Troubles with Theoretical Virtues: Resisting Theoretical Utility Arguments in Metaphysics", Otávio Bueno and Scott Shalkowski
- Episode 3: "Ramseyan Humility", David Lewis
- Episode 2: "Fundamental Powers, Evolved Powers, and Mental Powers", Alexander Bird; "Evolved Powers, Artefact Powers, and Dispositional Explanations", Barbara Vetter
- Episode 1: "How scientific models can explain", Alisa Bokulich
- Episode 0: Introducing Condensed Matter