Tim Maudlin is an American philosopher of science who has done influential work on the metaphysical foundations of physics and logic. He studied physics and philosophy at Yale University, and history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh, where he received his PhD. He taught for more than two decades at Rutgers University before joining the Department of Philosophy at New York University in 2010. Maudlin has also been a visiting professor at Harvard University and Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the "Foundational Questions Institute" of the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2015 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He is the founder of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics in Sveta Nedilja, Hvar, Croatia. Maudlin is also Visiting Professor at the University of Italian Switzerland.

EPISODE LINKS:
- Tim's Website: http://www.tim-maudlin.site/
- Tim's Publications: https://tinyurl.com/4cz9k2ny
- Tim's Books: https://tinyurl.com/3skjezhn
- John Bell Institute: https://www.johnbellinstitute.org/
- JBI "GoFundMe": https://tinyurl.com/26ks2ecf

TIMESTAMPS:
(0:00) - Introduction
(0:27) - Does Science need Philosophy?
(6:00) - "Shut up and calculate"
(7:59) - Physics & Fundamentality
(11:19) - What is Matter?
(20:53) - Limits of perception & unknown unknowns
(25:25) - Consciousness renders the mind-body problem intractable
(29:40) - The observer-effect
(43:35) - Quantum consciousness & computation
(51:28) - Conscious AI
(56:43) - Unifying quantum theory with general relativity (theory of everything)
(1:02:15) - Bell's Theorem & Non-locality
(1:11:57) - Tension between special relativity & Bell's theorem
(1:24:29) - Oppenheimer, Interstellar, The Prestige - logical coherence in film
(1:34:54) - Time Travel & Many-worlds hypothesis
(1:36:19) - Free Will Compatibilism & moral responsibility
(1:47:27) - Moral absolutism
(1:51:35) - The John Bell Institute (GoFundMe)
(1:52:41) - Conclusion

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