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RSam PodcastGraham Priest: Logic, Contradiction, Dialetheism and HegelGraham Priest is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Centre, City University of New York, Boyce Gibson Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne, and International Research Fellow at the Ruhr University of Bochum. Prof Priest has published far and wide, spanning metaphysics, philosophical logic, the history of philosophy, and Asian philosophy, but is best known for his analysis of logical paradoxes, development of dialetheism, paraconsistent logic and defence of there being true contradictions. His scholarship includes over 300 journal articles and numerous books, such as In Contradiction (2006), Non-Classical Logic (2008) and perhaps his most popular book outside of academia...
2026-01-241h 39
RSam PodcastMechanistic Interpretability and How LLMs UnderstandDr Matthieu Queloz is a Privatdozent at the University of Bern. He is the author of two books: The Practical Origins of Ideas and The Ethics of Conceptualization, both published open access with Oxford University Press. You can find more of Dr Queloz's work at https://www.matthieuqueloz.com/Pierre Beckmann is an AI researcher working in Philosophy of AI and Philosophically-motivated AI. He is currently a PhD student in the Neuro-Symbolic AI group of Idiap and EPFL. You can find more of Pierre's wor...
2026-01-101h 57
RSam PodcastHusserl's Phenomenology and Social Ontology (w/ Dan Zahavi)Dan Zahavi is a leading phenomenological philosopher known for his work in phenomenology, selfhood, and the philosophy of mind. Currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen and director of the Centre for Subjectivity Research, he has been central in renewing and expanding Husserlian phenomenology for a 21st-century audience. In this episode, we discuss subjectivity and intersubjectivity, Husserl's Phenomenology and phenomenological contributions to social ontology.You can find more of Prof Zahavi's work at https://researchprofiles.ku.dk/en/persons/dan-zahavi/Watch it on YouTube here.RSam Podcast #87...
2025-12-111h 36
RSam PodcastSaving Christianity From Itself (w/ Jim Palmer)Jim Palmer is a philosopher, radical theologian, spiritual director and existential health counsellor. He is the Founder of Center for Non-Religious Spirituality, author of Deconstructionology and has written multiple books such as Inner Anarchy: Dethroning God and Jesus to Save Ourselves and the World and Divine Nobodies: Shedding Religion to Find God. In this episode, we discuss deconstructing and reconstructing Christianity.You can find more of Jim's work at https://substack.com/@jimpalmerauthorThe Center for Non-Religious SpiritualityWatch it on YouTube here.RSam Podcast...
2025-12-012h 13
RSam PodcastHas AI Killed Education? (w/ Vlasta Sikimić)"ChatGPT has unravelled the entire academic project", writes James Walsh, in a viral article on NY magazine titled 'Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College.' In this episode, social epistemologist of science and philosopher of education Dr Vlasta Sikimic, in her 4th appearance on the podcast, discusses whether AI and large language models have, in fact, unravelled the entire academic project? And if so, how should we reconceive education? And what remains for the university? You can find more of Dr Sikimić's work at https://vlastasikimic.com/Watch it...
2025-11-161h 58
RSam PodcastMark Solms & John Dall'Aglio: Prospects for a Lacanian NeuropsychoanalysisProf Mark Solms is a neuropsychologist and psychoanalyst known for pioneering the field of neuropsychoanalysis.You can find more of Prof Solms' work at https://neuroscience.uct.ac.za/contacts/mark-solms The Hidden Spring: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53642061-the-hidden-springJohn Dall'Aglio is a PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology at Duquesne University whose work focuses on the intersection of Lacanian psychoanalysis and neuroscience (i.e. Lacanian neuropsychoanalysis). You can find more of John's work at https://www.linkedin...
2025-11-011h 39
RSam PodcastDaniel Tutt: Who Is A Comrade? Who Is A Friend?Dr Daniel Tutt is a psychoanalytic Marxist philosopher, writer, teacher, and host of the Emancipations podcast. He is the author of Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation and How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche, and is working on a book on György Lukács. In addition to his online lectures and talks, he has taught philosophy at George Washington University, Marymount University, and the DC jail. In this episode, we discuss comradeship and the politics of friendship.You can find more of...
2025-10-171h 54
RSam PodcastGeometric Hyperscanning, Interbrain Networks and Social Cognition (w/ Nicolás Hinrichs)Dr Nicolás Hinrichs is a researcher at the Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, interested in the behavioural and neurobiological correlates of mental health interventions via hyperscanning; drawing on active‑inference theory, process philosophy, and embodied cognition, he models interpersonal neural networks via information geometry to examine how collective priors and affect drive shared intelligence in agential systems. In this episode, we discuss second-person neuroscience, geometric hyperscanning, interbrain networks, social cognition and neomaterialism.You can find more of Dr Hinrichs' work at https...
2025-09-201h 37
RSam PodcastMerleau-Ponty & Cognitive Science (w/ Robin Muller & Jeffrey Yoshimi)Prof Robin Muller is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at California State University, Northridge. She works mainly in phenomenology and the history of philosophy, and is especially interested in the intersections of phenomenology with the human sciences, and has written extensively on Merleau-Ponty's thought. You can find more of Prof Muller's work at www.robinmullerphilosophy.com Prof Jeffrey Yoshimi is Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at UC Merced. He studies the relationship between the dynamics of consciousness and the dynamics of neural activity in an embodied...
2025-08-311h 40
RSam PodcastA Masterclass on Enactivism and Cognition (w/ Shaun Gallagher)Prof Shaun Gallagher is a philosopher working on embodied cognition, enactivism, phenomenology, and philosophy of mind. He is the Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in Philosophy at the University of Memphis and holds a secondary research appointment at the University of Wollongong. Prof Gallagher is the author and editor of numerous books, including Embodied and Enactive Approaches to Cognition, Oxford Handbook of 4E-Cognition, The Phenomenological Mind, and Enactivist Interventions. In this episode, we discuss the enactivist approach to cognitive science and philosophy of nature.You can find more of Prof Gallagher's work...
2025-08-211h 51
RSam PodcastGerman Idealism and Neuroscience (w/ Rafael Holmberg)Dr Rafael Holmberg is a political writer, social theorist, and researcher on philosophy and psychoanalysis based at University College London. His work broadly draws on post-war Continental philosophy, German Idealism, Marxism, and psychoanalytic theory, drawing from psychology and neuroscience. In this episode, we discuss the relationship between neuroscience, psychoanalysis and German Idealist philosophy.You can find more of Dr Holmberg's work at https://substack.com/@rafaelholmbergWatch it on YouTube here.RSam Podcast #79--------------------------------------- Please consider financially supp...
2025-08-011h 59
RSam PodcastŽižek vs. Pinkard and the Hegel of Analytic Philosophy (w/ Joshua Wretzel)Dr Joshua Wretzel is the Associate Teaching Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University, specialising in social and political philosophy, Kant and German Idealism, hermeneutics, phenomenology, and the philosophy of art and logic. Prof Wretzel's work on German philosophy is published in journals such as the European Journal of Philosophy, Hegel Bulletin, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, and Continental Philosophy Review. He's also co-editor of Cambridge's Hegel's Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences: A Critical Guide, Routledge's Hegel's Encyclopedic System and is currently co-editor of the Cambridge Elements series on the philosophy of G. W. F. Hegel. In this episode...
2025-07-171h 40
RSam PodcastLacan for Analytic Philosophers (w/ Andrew Flores)Andrew Flores is an autodidact in Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis, philosophy, theology, and Marxism. In this episode, we discuss Lacan's relationship to analytic philosophy and science.You can find more of Andrew's work at https://www.youtube.com/@The_Big_Sig and https://www.youtube.com/@thevanishingmediatorsGOAT memes: https://www.instagram.com/the_big_sig/1st podcast with Andrew: https://youtu.be/Wzu63JKoB3w?si=-mCpXQDvot5tD2C8Watch the video version here.RSam Podcast #77...
2025-06-272h 09
RSam PodcastTim Maudlin: Physics and EpistemologyProf Tim Maudlin is a philosopher of physics and science who, in the last few decades, has pioneered forwarding the field' Foundations of Physics.' He's the founder of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics, domiciled in Split, Croatia. He taught for over two decades at Rutgers University before joining the Department of Philosophy at New York University. Prof Maudlin is the author of numerous books, including New Foundations for Physical Geometry, Philosophy of Physics with Princeton University Press and Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity. In this episode, we discussed Lee Smolin and Carlo Rovelli's radical ontology...
2025-05-231h 46
RSam PodcastPaul Cockshott: Defending Materialism and Scientific SocialismDr Paul Cockshott is a computer scientist and multidisciplinary economist working through Marxism and scientific socialism. Dr Cockshott earned a PhD in Computer Science from Edinburgh University. Named on fifty-two patents, his research covers political economy, robotics, computer parallelism, 3D TV, foundations of computability, and data compression. He is the author of numerous books, including How the World Works, Towards a New Socialism and Defending Materialism. In this episode, we discuss the history of materialism, whether dialectical or mechanical materialism is correct, what type of materialist Marx was, scientific socialism, centralised planning, computational economics and whether markets without capitalism...
2025-05-0848 min
RSam PodcastEverything You Wanted to Know About Australian Politics (w/ ActuallyAdu)ActuallyAdu is a video essayist and political commentator. He has a background in economics and makes videos about Australian and global politics. In this episode, we discuss the housing crisis, how bad the Australian economy is compared to the rest of the world, neoliberalism and its discontents, decommodifying housing, energy policy, migration, identity, preferential voting and building alternate systems.You can find more of Adu's work at https://www.youtube.com/@adu__ and https://www.instagram.com/actuallyadu/Watch the video version here.RSam Podcast #74...
2025-04-241h 55
RSam PodcastCognitive Computing vs. LLMs (w/ Mahault Albarracin)Mahault Albarracin is a PhD student at UQAM, Montréal, Québec, researching cognitive computing and social sciences. Mahault is Director of Research Strategy and Product Integration at VERSUS, a cognitive computing company. She is also an IEEE fellow, author, lecturer and has an MA in sexology. In this episode, we discuss the fundamental difference between LLMs and agents built on cognitive computing principles, AI agency, active inference AI, free energy principle, computational phenomenology and neo-materialism.You can find more of Mahault's work at https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=KAxZtUIAAAAJ&hl=en and ht...
2025-04-181h 21
RSam PodcastCan AI Lie? Chatbots, Language & Psychoanalysis (w/ Jack Black)Dr Jack Black is an Associate Professor of Culture, Media, and Sport at Sheffield Hallam University (UK), where he's affiliated with the Centre for Culture, Media, and Society and is Research Lead for the Anti-Racism Research Group. He is an interdisciplinary researcher primarily focused on Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis, media, and cultural studies, authoring numerous books, including The Psychosis of Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy (published with Routledge) and co-authored the edited collections of Sport and Psychoanalysis. Dr Black has also written about the relationship between AI and humans, which was the central subject of this discussion. In this...
2025-04-131h 43
RSam PodcastChristian Nationalism vs. the Void of Christianity (w/ Richard Boothby)Prof Richard Boothby is a professor of philosophy at Loyola University Maryland who works in psychoanalysis, philosophical psychology, phenomenology, existentialism, and contemporary continental philosophy. He is the author of Death and Desire, Freud as Philosopher, Blown Away and numerous other books. In this episode, we discuss his religious work (as a response to Christian Nationalism and identity politics) along with the book Embracing the Void: Rethinking the Origin of the Sacred, which Todd McGowan has said is the best psychoanalytic take on religion.You can find more of Prof Boothby's work at https://www...
2025-03-281h 34
RSam PodcastDialectical Science and Why AI Research Needs Continental Philosophy (w/ Tim Elmo Feiten)Dr Tim Elmo Feiten is a philosopher of science with a focus on the sciences of life, mind, and artificial intelligence. His work brings the history and philosophy of science into dialogue with other fields, especially continental and Classical German philosophy. He has used the philosophy of embodied cognitive science to develop new readings of Jakob von Uexküll and Max Stirner and to ask questions about the relationships between art, science, technology, and society. Dr Feiten is currently an Assistant Teaching Professor at Penn State University and did his PhD at the University of Cincinnati. In this episode, w...
2025-03-232h 02
RSam PodcastWhy Study Lacan (w/ Andrew Flores AKA The Big Signorelli)Andrew Flores is an autodidact in Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis, philosophy, theology, and Marxism. In this episode, we discuss Lacan's metapsychology and theory of the subject.You can find more of Andrew's work at https://www.youtube.com/@thevanishingmediators and https://www.youtube.com/@The_Big_SigGOAT memes: https://www.instagram.com/the_big_sig/Watch the video version here.RSam Podcast #69--------------------------------------- Please consider financially supporting my work (ONLY if you have the means).
2025-03-072h 37
RSam PodcastThe Life and Philosophy of Alain Badiou (w/ Kenneth Reinhard)Prof Kenneth Reinhard is Research Professor of Comparative Literature and English at UCLA, where he directed the Center for Jewish Studies, and founded the graduate program in Experimental Critical Theory. He has written on psychoanalysis, philosophy, religion, and occasionally literature and opera. He is Co-Author of The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology with Slavoj Žižek and Eric Santner, and After Oedipus: Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis with Julia Reinhard Lupton. He is the editor and co-translator of Columbia University Press series of the complete seminars of Alain Badiou, and he has translated several of Badiou's books, including the culmination of his B...
2025-02-181h 40
RSam PodcastPeter Rollins and Matthew David Segall: Pyrotheology vs. Process TheologyDr Peter Rollins is a philosopher and radical theologian working through the tradition of apophatic theology, Freud, Lacan, Hegel and Žižek. He has a PhD dealing with post-structural theory from Queen's University, Belfast, and is the author of numerous books, including How (Not) to Speak of God and The Idolatry of God. Dr Rollins is the creator of Pyrotheology, which is a life technology that "involves a deep critique of any religious/ideological system that promises an escape from doubt and anxiety."Wake 2025 https://peterrollins.com/wake-2025You ca...
2025-02-101h 52
RSam PodcastEvolution of Deep Learning and the Abstraction ExplosionAbstraction, mimesis and the evolution of deep learning: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-023-01688-z
You can find more of Prof Hamelryck's work at https://thamelry.github.io/ and his Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YoTlzjkAAAAJ&hl=en
You can find more of Dr Eklöf's work at https://researchprofiles.ku.dk/en/persons/jon-ekl%C3%B6f and https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-ekl%C3%B6f/
You can find more of Dr Last's work at https://philosophyportal.o...
2025-02-022h 20
RSam PodcastHenri Bergson’s Challenge to AI (w/ Stephen Robbins)Dr Stephen E. Robbins researches AI, cognitive science, psychology and the philosophy of mind. He holds a PhD in cognitive psychology, minoring in computer science with a thesis on Bergson's model of mind vs. the computer model of mind. He's also a former university professor specialising in perception and cognition, a military veteran and spent many years in the tech industry as a software architect and project manager. Dr Robbins is the author of numerous books and papers, the latest being 'The Challenge to AI: Consciousness and Ecological General Intelligence'. In this episode, we discuss metaphysical challenges to AI...
2025-01-251h 41
RSam PodcastStijn Vanheule: Psychosis, Madness, Lacan and JungProf Stijn Vanheule is a clinical psychologist, professor at Ghent University, Belgium, and psychoanalyst in private practice (New Lacanian School for Psychoanalysis and World Association of Psychoanalysis). He is the author of numerous books such as Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy, The Subject of Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective, and Psychiatric Diagnosis Revisited: From DSM to Clinical Case Formulation, as well as multiple papers on Lacanian and Freudian psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic research into psychopathology, and clinical diagnosis. In this episode, we discuss Carl Jung, Jordan Peterson, James Joyce, and Jacques Lacan, the subject of psychosis and how psychoanalysis views so-called "...
2025-01-161h 42
RSam PodcastThe Philosophy of Data (w/ Sabina Leonelli & Vlasta Sikimić)Prof Sabina Leonelli is a philosopher of science and professor at the Technical University of Munich. She is well known for her work on scientific practices, data-centric science, and open science policies. She was awarded the 2018 Lakatos Award for her book 'Data-Centric Biology: A Philosophical Study.' Prof Leonelli is a leading figure in the philosophy of data and technology and the philosophy of Open Science.
Dr Vlasta Sikimić is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Science and a member of the Philosophy and Ethics group at Eindhoven University of Technology. Her research focus is...
2025-01-041h 31
RSam PodcastHelen Rollins: Cinema, Desire, Politics and EmancipationHelen Rollins is a writer and filmmaker from Northern Ireland, currently based between Belfast and London. She studied modern languages and literature at Cambridge and the ENS de Lyon. She lectures in philosophy, film and psychoanalysis and is the author of the book Psychocinema, which reexamines the connection between psychoanalysis and film. In this episode, we discuss the relationship between psychoanalysis and cinema, how capitalism exploits our desire, the politics of death drive, emancipation and the Luigi Mangione.
You can find more of Helen's work at https://helenrollins.com/
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2024-12-261h 51
RSam PodcastPhenomenology, Mathematics & Dreydegger (w/ Jeffrey Yoshimi & Darius Parvizi-Wayne)Prof Jeffrey Yoshimi is a professor in the departments of Cognitive and Information Sciences and Philosophy at UC Merced. He studies the relationship between the dynamics of consciousness and the dynamics of neural activity in an embodied brain. As part of this, Prof Yoshimi models neural networks, creates mathematical models of embodied agents and studies Husserl.
Darius Parvizi-Wayne is a PhD student at Macquarie University, exploring the relationship between absorbed coping, being-in-the-world, subjectivity and active inference. He was also the host of the Active Inference Insights podcast, which is affiliated with the Active Inference...
2024-12-222h 04
RSam PodcastGraham Harman: Objects Untimely, the Subject, Freedom, and Is Kant the Enemy of Metaphysics?Prof Graham Harman is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. He was also a professor at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, and professor of philosophy at The European Graduate School. Prof Harman is one of a handful of contemporary philosophers who are constructing the position called speculative realism, and his specific position centres on Object-Oriented Ontology. Prof Harman has authored numerous books such as 'Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything', 'Objects Untimely: Object-Oriented Philosophy and Archaeology' and 'Architecture and Objects'. In this episode, we discuss the relationship between objects...
2024-12-142h 08
RSam PodcastFrancesca Bellazzia: The Gene, Self-Assembly, and the Philosophy of BiochemistryDr Francesca Bellazzi is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the ERC-funded project AssemblingLife at the University of Oslo, working on self-assembling processes in biochemistry. Her main research explores the philosophy of biochemistry and the interface between chemistry and biology. Her thesis was titled "Biochemical Kinds and the Unity of Science". She will be releasing her upcoming book 'Philosophy of Biochemistry: Biochemical Kinds and their Properties' with Cambridge University Press. In this episode, we discuss biochemical functions, the gene as a natural kind, self-assembling processes, process philosophy and the philosophy of biochemistry.
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2024-12-101h 29
RSam PodcastBarry Taylor: Unknowing and Radical TheologyDr Barry Taylor is the Chair of the Department of Theology at Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS) College Dublin. He is also the author of multiple books including, 'Entertainment Theology: Exploring Spirituality in a Digital Democracy' and 'Sex, God, and Rock 'n' Roll: Catastrophes, Epiphanies, and Sacred Anarchies'. In this episode, we discuss living the death of God.
You can find more of Dr Taylor's work at https://www.patreon.com/barrytaylor and https://gcas.ie/about/faculty/barry-taylor
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RSam PodcastPietro Mazzaglia: Embodied AI and Alternatives to LLMsDr Pietro Mazzaglia is a Senior Machine Learning Researcher at Qualcomm Research Netherlands. He did his PhD at Ghent University, Belgium, with the dissertation title "Efficient Learning Strategies for Embodied Intelligence." Dr Mazzaglia's main research areas are embodied AI, robotics, world models, and deep reinforcement learning. In this episode, we discuss embodied AI, the gap between neuroscience and AI research, multimodal foundation world models, computational phenomenology, the ARC-AGI, drawbacks of LLMs, and general artificial intelligence.
You can find more of Dr Mazzaglia's work at https://mazpie.github.io/
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2024-11-201h 34
RSam PodcastWhy German Idealism? (w/ Christopher Satoor)Christopher Satoor is a doctoral candidate (ABD) in the Department of Humanities at York University. His research focuses on the Classical German philosophy of the 18th and 19th centuries and the German idealist philosophies of Kant and Fichte, with an extra special concentration on the work of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling. He is also the creator of the #TheYoungIdealist series on Classical German Philosophy on YouTube. In this episode, we discuss all things Kantian philosophy and German Idealism.
You can find more of Christopher's work at https://yorku.academia.edu/ChristopherSatoor and https://x...
2024-11-161h 48
RSam PodcastMichael Potter: The Rise of Analytic PhilosophyProf Michael Potter is Professor of Logic at Cambridge and a Life Fellow of Fitzwilliam College. He was previously at Oxford, where he took a D.Phil. in pure mathematics and was a Fellow of Balliol College. Prof Potter has authored multiple books on Frege, Wittgenstein, set theory and analytic philosophy, including 'Wittgenstein's Notes On Logic', 'Set Theory And Its Philosophy' and 'The Rise of Analytic Philosophy.' His primary research interests focus on Wittgenstein's Tractatus, the philosophy of set theory, neo-Fregean logicism and philosophy of language. In this episode, we discuss Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Frank...
2024-11-101h 41
RSam PodcastCadell Last: Systems, Subjects and a Hegelian Philosophy of ScienceDr Cadell Last is an anthropologist and Hegelian philosopher who is interested in biocultural evolution, mind-matter relations, and speculative futures. His PhD thesis, Global Brain Singularity, focuses on all three of these topics. He is the author of Systems and Subjects, Enter the Alien, and many other interdisciplinary books. Dr Last has taught multiple courses on Hegel's Science of Logic, Sigmund Freud's Unconscious, Alenka Zupančič's What IS Sex? and is also the founder of Philosophy Portal, an education platform focused on teaching the foundational philosophical discourses of the modern world. In this episode, we discuss systems theory, fo...
2024-11-081h 45
RSam PodcastKatherine Everitt: Quantum Mechanics, Psychoanalytic AI, and a Hegelian Ontology of SpaceKatherine Everitt is a Hegelian scholar, philosopher, writer, poet and artist. Katherine is a Research Fellow at the Global Center for Advanced Studies in Dublin and a Secondary Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Her PhD, 'Hegel in Vertigo: An Ontology of Space,' was supervised by Frank Ruda at the European Graduate School. Reading Hegel with Badiou and Zizek, she argues that space is the indifferent ground of logic, nature, and spirit in Hegel's Encyclopedia. In this episode, we discuss the philosophy of quantum mechanics, space and the void, subjectivity and the gap, psychoanalysis and AI...
2024-11-031h 52
RSam PodcastDoes Capitalism Lead to Scientific Innovation? (w/ Vlasta Sikimić)Dr. Vlasta Sikimić is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Science and a member of the Philosophy and Ethics group at Eindhoven University of Technology. Her research focus is on the Social Epistemology of Science, Metascience, Philosophy of AI & ML in Science and Philosophy of AI in Education. In this episode, we discuss the relationship between science and capitalism.
You can find more of Dr Sikimić's work at https://vlastasikimic.com/ and https://x.com/VlastaSikimic
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RSam PodcastNikhil Venkatesh: Left-Utilitarianism and Socialism for Effective AltruistsDr Nikhil Venkatesh is a fellow in the Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre for Politics, Philosophy and Law at King's College London. He specialises in moral, social, and political philosophy. His research focuses primarily on utilitarianism and socialism. His PhD thesis argues that recognising the social nature of persons makes utilitarianism more defensible. In this episode, we discuss the social nature of a person contra human nature, collective vs. individual actions, Marxism, socialism, utilitarianism, Effective Altruism, and Longtermism.
You can find more of Dr Venkatesh's work at https://nikhilvenkateshphilosophy.com/ and https://x.com/nikvenkatesh/.
2024-09-252h 03
RSam PodcastDaniel Lakens: Metascience, Open Science and a Philosophy of StatisticsProf Daniel Lakens is an Associate Professor in the Human-Technology interaction group at Eindhoven University of Technology. His areas of expertise include meta-science, research methods and applied statistics. Prof Lakens' main lines of empirical research focus on conceptual thought, similarity, and meaning. He also focuses on how to design and interpret studies, applied (meta)-statistics, and reward structures in science. Outside academia, Prof Lakens has a podcast on science called Nullius in Verba with his cohost, Smriti Mehta, from UC Berkeley. In this episode, we discuss metascience, the openness initiative in science, incentive structures, scientific realism vs anti-realism, and...
2024-09-131h 38
RSam PodcastEmily Qureshi Hurst: The Theology of Spacetime and Quantum MechanicsDr Emily Qureshi-Hurst is a Junior Research Fellow at Pembroke College and a College Lecturer in Philosophy at Oriel College in Oxford. Dr Qureshi-Hurst completed a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Oxford in Science and Religion (2021). Her thesis examined the theoretical support for a B-theory of time provided by special and general relativity, and re-interpreted Paul Tillich's doctrine of salvation in light of this metaphysical temporal model. In 2022, Cambridge University Press published her first book exploring these themes: 'God, Salvation, and the Problem of Spacetime'. Her second book on this topic, 'Salvation in the Block Universe: Time...
2024-09-061h 25
RSam PodcastEliot Rosenstock: Žižek in the Clinic, Dialectical Egoism and Self-InterestEliot Rosenstock is a psychotherapist. He is the senior editor of The Young Freudians magazine, an experimental philosophy and psychology journal that provides ideas on everything from new ideas in psychodynamic therapy to eco-theory. He is the author of Žižek in the Clinic and The Ego And Its Hyperstate. In this episode, we do a Žižekian ideology critique of mental health while discussing Freud through Hegel, hyperpsychology and where psychology went awry.
You can find more of Eliot's work at https://x.com/CtrlRetrnRpresd and https://21stcenturysynthesis.substack.com/
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2024-09-011h 45
RSam PodcastTodd McGowan: Hegel, Contradiction and Embracing AlienationProf. Todd McGowan is a professor of English at the University of Vermont and Professor and Director of Film and Television Studies. He’s authored numerous books on Hegelian philosophy, Lacanian psychoanalysis, existentialism and film studies, including Emancipation After Hegel, Capitalism and Desire, Enjoyment Right & Left and Embracing Alienation. He also hosts the superlative Why Theory podcast and co-organises the Lack conference. Prof. McGowan is in continuous dialogue with his fellow travellers Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupančič, Adrian Johnston and others in contemporary Hegelian-Lacanian theory. In this episode, we discuss the Hegel renaissance, Hegelian contradiction, Dialetheism and Paraconsistent logic...
2024-08-091h 36
RSam PodcastAdrian Johnston: Žižek's Ontology and Transcendental MaterialismProf. Adrian Johnston is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque and a faculty member at the Emory Psychoanalytic Institute in Atlanta. He is the author of numerous books, including Zizek's Ontology, A New German Idealism, the Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism trilogy and Infinite Greed. Prof. Johnston is in continuous dialogue with his fellow travellers Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupančič, Catherine Malabou, Todd McGowan and others in contemporary Hegelian-Lacanian theory while also bringing into the discourse the developments within analytic philosophy and the natural sciences. In this episode, we disc...
2024-07-171h 48
RSam PodcastHelen Rollins: Cinema and PsychoanalysisHelen Rollins is a writer and filmmaker from Northern Ireland, currently based between Belfast and London. She studied modern languages and literature at Cambridge and the ENS de Lyon. She lectures in philosophy, film and psychoanalysis and is the author of the forthcoming book Psychocinema. In this episode, we discuss film theory, lack, obect a, Lacan's gaze, the divided self, Hegelian contradiction, ideology, capitalism and its discontents.
You can find more of Helen's work at https://helenrollins.com/ and https://helenrollins.substack.com/
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2024-07-131h 55
RSam PodcastAnna Riedl: The Historical Development of Cognitive ScienceAnna Riedl is a cognitive scientist who researches rationality under radical uncertainty. She completed her undergraduate degree in psychology at the University of Vienna and did the Middle European interdisciplinary master's programme in Cognitive Science. Anna was a researcher at the Viennese Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support and a member of the Global Shapers Community organised by the World Economic Forum, serving as curator for the Vienna Hub.
You can find more of Riedl's work at https://www.riedlanna.com/ and https://x.com/AnnaLeptikon.
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2024-07-091h 51
RSam PodcastMel Andrews: Ontology of the Free Energy Principle and the Philosophy of Machine LearningMel Andrews is a philosopher of science who primarily focuses on machine learning and the role of mathematical and computational methods in scientific modelling. Mel is currently a predoctoral research associate at the Department of Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University and doing a PhD in philosophy of science at the University of Cincinnati. They are also a visiting scholar at the Australian National University and the University of Pittsburgh. In this episode, we discuss the philosophy of artificial intelligence and machine learning, AI ethics and safety, scientific and mathematical realism, the ontology of the free energy principle and...
2024-07-051h 32
RSam PodcastWhy You Should Read Byung-Chul Han (w/ Davood Gozli)Dr Davood Gozli is a cognitive psychologist and lay philosopher. In this episode, we discuss Byung-Chul Han's work and his contributions to the contemporary critical theory discourse.
You can find more of Dr Gozli's work at https://dgozli.com/ and https://www.youtube.com/c/DavoodGozli
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2024-05-251h 26
RSam PodcastGraham Oppy on Analytic Idealism, Gödel's Proof for God, and Ontological ArgumentsProf Graham Oppy is the Professor of Philosophy at Monash University and, before that, did his graduate work at Princeton. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and the foundation editor of the Australasian Philosophical Review. He's also the author of several books, including Atheism: The Basics by Routledge, Arguing about Gods and Ontological Arguments and Belief in God—additionally, he's also published superlative papers on Gödel's ontological proof for the existence of God. Apart from being a renowned philosopher of religion, he has also published on the philosophy of math, language, aesthetics, and science. In this epis...
2024-05-161h 30
RSam PodcastInês Hipólito on Computational Phenomenology, E-Cognition and the AI of Maurice Merleau-PontyDr Inês Hipólito is an Assistant Professor at Macquarie University, specialising in cognitive science and philosophy of mind and AI. Prior to this role, she served as a lecturer at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain. She employs E-Cognitive Science, Complex Systems, and the Free Energy Principle to investigate the dynamic relationship between human cognition and artificial intelligence. Furthermore, Dr Hipólito is also the co-founder of the ‘International Society of the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind’ and serves as the AI ethics advisor/architect for VERSES, a cognitive computing company. In this episode, we discussed...
2024-05-131h 47
RSam PodcastSimon Critchley on Heidegger, Hermeneutics and Why Philosophy Begins in DisappointmentProf. Simon Critchley is a philosopher and the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. He's the author of numerous books, including Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance, On Heidegger's Being and Time, Memory Theatre, and Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us (to name a few). Since 2010, Prof. Critchley has moderated The New York Times philosophy series, The Stone, and in 2020, he released Apply-degger, a long-form podcast series on Martin Heidegger's Being and Time. In this episode, we discuss how to philosophise well while being a useless philosopher, phenomenological existentialism and al...
2024-04-261h 11
RSam PodcastPhilosopher of Education Reacts to Sabine Hossenfelder's Academic WoesDr. Vlasta Sikimić is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Science and a member of the Philosophy and Ethics group at Eindhoven University of Technology. Her research focuses on the Social Epistemology of Science, Metascience, Philosophy of AI and ML in Science and Philosophy of AI in Education. In this episode, we react to Sabine Hossenfelder's recent video: https://youtu.be/LKiBlGDfRU8?si=k95jhrK-QRHlIJ_P
You can find more of Dr. Sikimić's work at https://vlastasikimic.com/ and https://twitter.com/VlastaSikimic
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2024-04-231h 42
RSam PodcastVlasta Sikimić on the Philosophy of AI in Science, Epistemic Tolerance and Linguistic InjusticeDr. Vlasta Sikimić is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Science and a member of the Philosophy and Ethics group at Eindhoven University of Technology. Her research focuses on the Social Epistemology of Science, Metascience, Philosophy of AI and ML in Science and Philosophy of AI in Education. In this episode, we discuss epistemic equity and tolerance, linguistic injustice, the philosophy of AI, scientific funding, using ML for scientific grant reviews, the epistemology of science and Slavoj Žižek.
You can find more of Dr. Sikimić's work at https://vlastasikimic.com/ and https://twitt...
2024-03-311h 45
RSam PodcastHunter Coates on Christian Socialism and Universal SalvationHunter Coates is an Orthodox Christian theologian, undergraduate student and aspiring academic. He's currently pursuing a double B.A. in philosophy and history at Georgia College and State University. After graduation, he plans to work towards a PhD in philosophy. In February 2023, Hunter published his first full-length text titled 'Conspiracy and the Subject: A Lacanian Enterprise.' And he will be publishing 'Grace Abounds: A Holistic Case for Universalism' by the end of 2024. In this episode, we discuss Žižek, Lacan, Hegel, theosis, Orthodox Christianity, Christian socialism and universal salvation.
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2024-03-121h 31
RSam PodcastPaul Thagard on AI, Free Energy Principle, and the Cognitive Science of MisinformationProf. Paul Thagard is a philosopher and cognitive scientist. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Cognitive Science Society, and the Association for Psychological Science. He's authored myriad interdisciplinary books, including a treatise on Mind and Society, and recently published his new book, Falsehoods Fly: Why Misinformation Spreads and How to Stop It. In this episode, we discuss AI, neural networks, ChatGPT and LLMs, Karl Friston's free energy principle, explanatory coherence, philosophy of science and mitigating misinformation.
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2024-03-041h 35
RSam PodcastLeon Brenner on Drive, Desire, Foreclosure, Love and Language's Relationship to the BodyDr. Leon S. Brenner is a psychoanalyst & psychoanalytical theorist. His work focuses on the integration of philosophical and linguistic frameworks in the psychoanalytic theory of subjectivity and the understanding of the relationship between culture and psychopathology. He is the co-founder of Unconscious Berlin, and his latest book on the psychoanalysis of autism is called 'The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language,' where he presents a novel account of autistic subjectivity from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective. In this episode, we discuss Žižek, Badiou, clinical and subjective structures, drive vs desire, autistic vs psychotic foreclosure, language's relationship to th...
2024-02-151h 25
RSam PodcastJulie Reshe on Death Drive, Depressive Realism and Philosophy for the Living DeadDr. Julie Reshe is a philosopher, a practising negative psychoanalyst, and a public intellectual. She is currently a visiting professor at University College Cork and University College Dublin. She earned her PhD studying psychoanalysis at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts under the supervision of Alenka Zupančič. She's also the author of Negative Psychoanalysis for the Living Dead: Philosophical Pessimism and the Death Drive. In this episode, we discuss politics, emancipation, therapy, loss, salvation, and love through her negative philosophy.
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2024-02-131h 26
RSam PodcastMatthew David Segall on the God and Nature of Schelling and WhiteheadProf. Matthew David Segall is a transdisciplinary researcher, writer, and philosopher applying process-relational thought across the natural and social sciences, as well as in the study of consciousness. He is the Associate Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Program at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, CA and the Chair of the Science Advisory Committee for the Cobb Institute. Prof. Segall has authored many books, including 'Crossing the Threshold: Etheric Imagination in the Post-Kantian Process Philosophy of Schelling and Whitehead' and is the creator of Footnotes2Plato. In this episode, we discuss the paradigm shift in b...
2024-01-291h 36
RSam PodcastJoel David Hamkins on Gödel's Incompleteness, Set-Theoretic Multiverse & Foundations of MathematicsProf. Joel David Hamkins is a mathematician and philosopher who is the O'Hara Professor of Logic at the University of Notre Dame. He was also a Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford and Sir Peter Strawson Fellow in Philosophy. Prof. Hamkins authored several books, including Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics, Proof and the Art of Mathematics and The Book of Infinity. In this episode, we discuss Gödel, Tarski, set theory and the philosophy of mathematics.
You can find more of Prof. Hamkins's work at https://jdh.hamkins.org and https://www...
2024-01-121h 42
RSam PodcastPeter Rollins in Dialogue with Treydon Lunot: Radical Theology and Orthodox ChristianityPeter Rollins is a philosopher and radical theologian within the tradition of apophatic theology. He is the author of numerous books, including 'How (Not) to Speak of God' and 'The Idolatry of God,' and he is the creator of Pyrotheology. Treydon Lunot is an Orthodox Christian, theologian, philosopher, creator of Telosbound and the author of 'Aphesis: The Impossibility of Subjectivity.' In this episode, we discuss communion (or communal ontology), negativity, Slavoj Žižek's philosophical insights on subjectivity and self-relation and the death of God.
Find more about 'Atheism for Lent' at https://pe...
2023-12-232h 17
RSam PodcastLeon Brenner on Lacan, Language and Autism in PsychoanalysisDr. Leon S. Brenner is a psychoanalyst & psychoanalytical theorist. His work focuses on the integration of philosophical and linguistic frameworks in the psychoanalytic theory of subjectivity and the understanding of the relationship between culture and psychopathology. He is the co-founder of Unconscious Berlin, and his latest book on the psychoanalysis of autism is called ‘The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language,’ where he presents a novel account of autistic subjectivity from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective. In this episode, we discuss Lacan and language, ego psychology-inspired forms of therapy (e.g. CBT, relational psychotherapy, etc.) in contrast to Lacanian psyc...
2023-12-191h 12
RSam PodcastIris Berent on Innate Knowledge, Linguistics, and Theories of CognitionProf. Iris Berent is a cognitive psychologist at Northeastern University. She's the author of 'The Phonological Mind' and 'The Blind Storyteller'. Her current research seeks to unveil human nature and our intuitive understanding of it. To shed light on human nature, she explores the human capacity for language using phonology as a case study. In this episode, we discuss theories of cognition, the debate in linguistics between Chomsky and Skinner, innate knowledge, essentialism and dualism.
Find more on Prof. Berent at https://cos.northeastern.edu/people/iris-berent/
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2023-11-081h 29
RSam PodcastMichael Strevens on Kuhn, Popper and Science as a Knowledge Machine | RSam Pod #27Michael Strevens is a philosopher of science at New York University, primarily working on complex systems, scientific explanation, the social structure of science and philosophical applications of cognitive science. Outside of academia, he is best known for his book 'The Knowledge Machine' in which he explains why science is so successful at creating knowledge and why it took so long for humans to figure out how to do it right. In this episode, we discuss the 'great method debate', which started with Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn and is ongoing today, the iron rule of explanation in science, the...
2023-10-041h 26
RSam PodcastPeter Rollins on The Unknowing God & Church of Contradictions | RSam Pod #26Peter Rollins is a philosopher and radical theologian within the tradition of apophatic theology. He is the author of numerous books, including How (Not) to Speak of God, The Idolatry of God and creator of Pyrotheology. In this episode, we discuss Kierkegaard, the Jungian vs. Lacanian unconscious and the ethics of a community of lack.
You can find more of Peter's work here: https://peterrollins.com/
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2023-09-161h 23
RSam PodcastJulia Keller on Quitting and the Myth of Perseverance | RSam Pod #25Julia Keller is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, novelist, playwright, and teacher. She earned a Ph.D. at Ohio State University. She has taught at Princeton University, The University of Chicago, and the University of Notre Dame and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. She's the author of 'Quitting: A Life Strategy: The Myth of Perseverance―and How the New Science of Giving Up Can Set You Free.' In this episode, we discuss burnout and the sociology of quitting in a Neoliberal society.
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2023-08-281h 08
RSam PodcastTreydon Lunot on Orthodox Christianity and Baptising Philosophy | RSam Pod #24Treydon Lunot is an Orthodox Christian, theologian, philosopher, creator of Telosbound and the author of 'Aphesis: The Impossibility of Subjectivity.' In this episode, we discuss Theosis, baptising philosophy and what Slavoj Žižek gets wrong about Christianity.
Trey's book: Aphesis: The Impossibility of Subjectivity
Trey's link:
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https://substack.com/@telosbound
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2023-08-251h 58
RSam PodcastJessica Taylor on AI Alignment and the Philosophy of Cognitive Science | RSam Pod #23Jessica Taylor is an AI & Cognitive science-influenced philosopher working on a range of areas like social epistemology, decision theory, and philosophy of mind, to name a few. She is currently a researcher at the Median Group on technology forecasting along with the prior mentioned fields. In this episode, we discuss AI alignment, the foundations of cognitive science, linguistics, desire formation, psychoanalysis and Kantian philosophy.
Jessica's links:
https://unstableontology.com/
https://twitter.com/jessi_cata
https://www.lesswrong.com/users/jessica-liu-taylor
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2023-08-251h 23
RSam PodcastHunter Coates on Conspiracy Theories and Lacanian Psychoanalysis | RSam Pod #22Amidst the UFO Congressional hearing in the United States, the topic of conspiracy theories has recently gained unprecedented public attention. In this episode, I discuss conspiracies from a Lacanian perspective with Hunter Coates, a philosophy and history undergrad at Georgia College & State University interested in German Idealism, Lacanian Psychoanalysis, and Eastern Orthodox Christian theology.
In February 2023, Hunter published his first full-length text titled 'Conspiracy and the Subject: A Lacanian Enterprise,' which we discuss in detail: https://www.amazon.com.au/Conspiracy-Subject-Enterprise-Hunter-Coates/dp/B0BW267JC5
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2023-07-281h 32
RSam PodcastBros Discuss... Techno-Optimism (w/ Euwyn Goh)Euwyn and I critique tech bros and techo-optimism. We also discuss 'The Question Concerning Technology' by Martin Heidegger.
Connect with Euwyn at:
https://twitter.com/euwyngoh
https://memoirworthwriting.substack.com
https://www.instagram.com/euwyngoh
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2023-07-071h 08
RSam PodcastDr Grace Tarpey on Lacan's Psychoanalytic Way of Love | RSam Pod #21Dr Grace Tarpey is a Psychoanalyst and Philosophy Academic with significant years of experience in Psychoanalytic clinical private practice, Psychotherapy and Counselling. Her PhD thesis is on the topic of 'self-Other relations for an ethics-of-love' in the context of contemporary postmodern culture. She's also currently writing a book on 'The Ethics of Love.' In this episode, we discuss Jacques Lacan, Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Marion.
Lacan's Psychoanalytic Way of Love: https://lacancircle.com.au/psychoanalysislacan-journal/psychoanalysislacan-volume-1/lacans-psychoanalytic-way-of-love/
Find Dr Grace at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grace-tarpey-95067a65/
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2023-06-3046 min
RSam PodcastBros Discuss... Why Get Married? (w/ Euwyn Goh)Euwyn and I discuss marriage, love and modernity.
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https://memoirworthwriting.substack.com
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2023-05-041h 36
RSam PodcastHunter Coates On Kant, Hegel & Lacan | RSam Pod #20Hunter Coates is an undergraduate student and aspiring academic. Currently, he is pursuing a philosophy and history double B.A. at Georgia College and State University. After graduation, he plans to work towards a PhD in philosophy.
In February 2023, Hunter published his first full-length text titled “Conspiracy and the Subject: A Lacanian Enterprise.”: https://www.amazon.com.au/Conspiracy-Subject-Enterprise-Hunter-Coates/dp/B0BW267JC5
Hunter's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dissatisfiedphilosophy9723
In this episode, we discuss Kant, Hegel, Lacan, Žižek and Christian Atheism.
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2023-04-072h 05
RSam PodcastMettalia Tanjaya on Why Theology Matters | RSam Pod #19Mettalia Tanjaya is an artist and philosopher. She studied for a Bachelor of Animation and Interactive Media in the past year, followed by a Diploma in Theological Studies for a year. She is now doing her Master of Teaching (Early Childhood and Primary). The working title for her dissertation is “Why Theology Matters”, where she will discuss the components of Theological studies and analyse how it is relevant to modern philosophy and science. I discuss Christianity, morality and Kant with her.
Mettalia's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@misguided_pilgrim
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2023-03-121h 07
RSam PodcastWho is Christ to you? (Twitter Space with Euwyn Goh)Euwyn and I discuss Christ, faith, existentialism and Christian phenomenology. Please consider checking out his Substack: https://memoirworthwriting.substack.com/
Euwyn's Twitter: https://twitter.com/euwyngoh
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2023-03-051h 26
RSam PodcastIs Jordan Peterson a Fascist? (Vaush and PF Jung's Debate Follow-Up) | RSam Pod #18My conversation with Paul (PF Jung) on his follow-up thoughts after his Vaush debate. And we discuss if Jordan Peterson is a fascist―viewing Peterson through Umberto Eco's and Hannah Arendt's social theories.
Paul's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PFJung
Paul's debate with Vaush: https://youtu.be/hHn9WMSQyyk
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2023-02-212h 02
RSam PodcastMasculinity and NothingnessRecently the topic of masculinity has been discussed contentiously in our culture with the rise of controversial figures like Andrew Tate.
Original piece: https://theunhappyman.substack.com/p/masculinity-and-nothingness
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2023-02-1920 min
RSam PodcastSlavoj Žižek - Only a Suffering God Can Save UsMy reading of both sections 1: Hegel and 2: Kierkegaard of Slavoj Žižek's Only a Suffering God Can Save Us: https://www.lacan.com/zizshadowplay.html
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2023-02-191h 26
RSam PodcastJacob Bell on Heidegger, Phenomenology and Structures of Meaning | IR #17Jacob Bell is a philosopher and writer. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from American Public University and is doing his Master of Research in Philosophy at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.
The working title for his dissertation is “A Phenomenological Analysis of the Structures of Meaningfulness.” Jacob’s primary academic interests include phenomenology & existentialism, which we discuss in this episode.
Connect with Jacob at https://twitter.com/jacoba_bell or https://www.jacobabell.com/
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2022-12-292h 09
RSam PodcastCreate Through Love (Guiding Axiom 7/7) | IR #16“I was always disgusted with this notion of “I love the world” universal love. I don’t like the world. I don’t know how… Basically, I’m somewhere in between “I hate the world” or “I’m indifferent towards it.” But the whole of reality, it’s just it. It’s stupid. It is out there. I don’t care about it. Love, for me, is an extremely violent act. Love is not “I love you all.” Love means I pick out something, and it’s, again, this structure of imbalance. Even if this something is just a small detail… a fragile individual p...
2022-12-1213 min
RSam PodcastEmbody Humility Without Vanity (Guiding Axiom 6/7) | IR #15“Our honesty, we free spirits—let us be careful lest it become our vanity, our ornament and ostentation, our limitation, our stupidity! Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; ‘stupid to the point of sanctity,’ they say in Russia,—let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!” ― Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil, A. 227)
Original piece: https://theunhappyman.substack.com/p/embody-humility-without-vanity
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2022-11-1913 min
RSam PodcastNever Fall In Love With Suffering (Guiding Axiom 5/7) | IR #14“My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.” ― Søren Kierkegaard
Orginal piece: https://theunhappyman.substack.com/p/never-fall-in-love-with-suffering
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2022-11-0518 min
RSam PodcastOn Writing Without Lies, Machinations And Bullshit (Guiding Axiom 4/7) | IR #13“Christianity protests against every form of objectivity; it desires that the subject should be infinitely concerned about himself. It is with subjectivity that Christianity is concerned, and it is only in subjectivity that its truth exists, if it exists at all. Objectively, Christianity has absolutely no existence. If the truth happens to be only in a single subject it exists in him alone; and there is greater Christian joy in heaven over this one individual than over universal history or the system.” ― Søren Kierkegaard
Orginal piece: https://theunhappyman.substack.com/p/on-writing-without-lies-machinations
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2022-11-0526 min
RSam PodcastNever Mistake Cynicism For Wisdom (Guiding Axiom 3/7) | IR #12“But the new rebel is a Sceptic, and will not entirely trust anything. He has no loyalty; therefore he can never be really a revolutionist. And the fact that he doubts everything really gets in his way when he wants to denounce anything. For all denunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind; and the modern revolutionist doubts not only the institution he denounces, but the doctrine by which he denounces it. [...] By rebelling against everything he has lost his right to rebel against anything.” ― G. K. Chesterton
Orginal piece: https://theunhappyman.substack.com/p/never-mistake-cynicism-for-wisdom
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2022-11-0512 min
RSam PodcastOnly God Can Patronise (Guiding Axiom 2/7) | IR #11“The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
Original piece: https://theunhappyman.substack.com/p/only-god-can-patronise
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2022-09-2110 min
RSam PodcastOn Ideology & Unhappiness (Guiding Axiom 1/7) | IR #10“Like love, ideology is blind, even if people caught up in it are not.” ― Slavoj Žižek
Original piece: https://theunhappyman.substack.com/p/the-unhappy-man?r=id6n6&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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2022-07-0720 min
RSam PodcastPF Jung On Symbols, Pragmatism & What If “Truth” Is Detrimental To Being Human | IR #9Paul (PF Jung: https://www.youtube.com/c/PFJung) is a YouTuber that discusses the ideas of Jordan Peterson & Carl Jung. I found him to be an individual who’s genuinely oriented towards the good, true and beautiful, whatever that means or entails. In this episode, we delve into many topics we’ve both been trying to comprehend intellectually and, perhaps more importantly, existentially.
Paul’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/pf_jung
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2022-06-201h 46
RSam PodcastThe Best Criticism Of Jordan Peterson I've Read | IR #8“If all enigmas are resolved, the stars go out. If everything secret is returned to the visible […], if all illusion is returned to transparence then heaven become indifferent to the earth.” — Jean Baudrillard
“What is the purpose, and, worse still, what is the origin of all science? What? Is scientific method perhaps no more than fear of and flight from pessimism? A subtle defence against - truth? Or, to put it in moral terms, is it something like cowardice and insincerity? To put it immorally, is it a form of cunning? O, Socrates, Socrates, was that perhaps your secre...
2022-06-141h 25
RSam PodcastPaul Tillich’s The Courage to Be | IR #7"The courage to take the anxiety of meaninglessness upon oneself is the boundary line up to which the courage to be can go. Beyond it is mere non-being. Within it all forms of courage are re-established in the power of the God above the God of theism. The courage to be is rooted in the God' who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt." — Paul Tillich
My disquisition on the foremost Existentialist Theologians of the 20th Century, Paul Tillich's The Courage to Be.
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2022-05-271h 06
RSam PodcastDostoevsky's Crime And Punishment, And Breaking Bad's Unmasking Of Utilitarianism | IR #6What can Breaking Bad and Crime and Punishment tell us about utilitarianism?
“I for instance consider that a single misdeed is permissible if the principal aim is right, a solitary wrongdoing and hundreds of good deeds!”
“The more cunning a man is, the less he suspects he will be caught in a simple thing.” — Raskolnikov
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2022-05-0458 min
RSam PodcastThe Problem With MGTOW, Manosphere, NoFap & Red Pill Bros | Inner REALM #5A critical yet sincere take on some influential subcultures using Rollo Tomassi & Elliott Hulse as examples.
“Like love, ideology is blind, even if people caught up in it are not.”
― Slavoj Žižek
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When No-Fap Goes Wrong: https://youtu.be/L2HYHZ7UrZY
Slavoj Žižek explains ideology: https://youtu.be/Pk8ibrfXvpQ
Olivia’s video: https://youtu.be/jcbEiZQ9B7o
Slavoj Zizek on Marriage: https://youtu.be/kzQexgB6O58
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2022-04-041h 06
RSam PodcastKyle J. Maxwell On Being Black In America, Ideological Possession & The Golden Shadow | Inner REALM #4“Ideology makes the complex self-evident.” — Kyle J. Maxwell
Kyle is a serial entrepreneur, aspiring philosopher, author & commentator on culture and politics. He is currently the CEO of VivoMedia Group & Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Brake.
You can find him on: https://twitter.com/khendriix_
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2022-03-261h 45
RSam PodcastThe Necessity of Forgiveness (Essay With Commentary) | Inner REALM #3“What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
Original essay: https://www.realmprojectau.com/blog/the-necessity-of-forgiveness
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2022-03-1039 min
RSam PodcastHow Life Replaced Theory In Dostoevsky's Crime And Punishment | Inner REALM #2In this episode, I discuss one of the most astute points conveyed through the great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.
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2022-02-2342 min
RSam PodcastAn Atheist's Prayer | Inner REALM #1In this pilot episode, I discuss religious belief, Christian Atheism, what it entails and why it matters using the ideas of Slavoj Žižek and Jonathan Pageau.
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2022-02-1655 min