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Why Did You Get Sucked Into Philosophy of Physics?
i noticed when a doing some preparatory research for this episode that it semed likeyou'd had a major shift in what you were focusing on in your research. You started out mostly in philosophy of physics, and now you're almost entirely doing kind of kind o moral philosophy. Yet, what caused you did to make that shift, and what were you looking at to begin with? Soe, i originally did an undergraduate degree in physics and philosophy, and that's how i got into philosophy. I felt it was time now to go back to what had originally been my impetus for carying about philosophy, and start thinking about things that were more related to principles of human action.
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