

RSam Podcast
Rahul Samaranayake
Philosophy & Theory | AI & CogSci
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Feb 13, 2024 • 1h 26min
Julie Reshe on Death Drive, Depressive Realism and Philosophy for the Living Dead
Dr. 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.
You can find more of Dr Reshe's work at https://www.juliereshe.com/
Watch the video version here.
RSam Podcast #33
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{Reference Links}
https://www.juliereshe.com/book
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/33160088
https://everyday-analysis.sellfy.store/p/religion-psychoanalysis-marxism-digital-edition-only/
https://youtu.be/XPHZ83NDgWE?si=CGAVpadtjrQvR_1i
https://youtu.be/4lGvxyz37Xk?si=szgiRCaFl6-PXRxZ
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Jan 29, 2024 • 1h 36min
Matthew David Segall on the God and Nature of Schelling and Whitehead
Prof. 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 biology, Whitehead's philosophy of organisms, Schelling's Naturphilosophie, deep ecology, Transcendental Materialism and Slavoj Žižek.
You can find more of Prof. Segall's work at https://footnotes2plato.com/
Watch the video version at https://youtu.be/-mxVOtDR2V0
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{Reference Links}
https://youtu.be/YJ-sZHHx7O0?si=zcguz59KwohRfAYY
https://footnotes2plato.com/2022/11/03/carl-schmitts-political-theology-a-process-theological-intervention/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/851541.Process_and_Reality
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/253801.Science_and_the_Modern_World
https://www.britannica.com/topic/radical-empiricism
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2327781.The_Grounding_of_Positive_Philosophy
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21949427-facing-gaia
Thinkers Matthew mentioned:
Hans Jonas
John Rawls
Catherine Keller
David Sloan Wilson
Jane Bennett
Lynn Margulis
Bruno Latour
Michael Marder
Timothy Morton
Robert Rosen
Bruce Damer
Richard Lewontin
Susan Oyama
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Jan 12, 2024 • 1h 42min
Joel David Hamkins on Gödel's Incompleteness, Set-Theoretic Multiverse & Foundations of Mathematics
Prof. 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.infinitelymore.xyz
RSam Podcast #31
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/
{Reference Links}
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg5tKDNI_a86OO6J9HuIngyROBsUqcf_z&si=rtvtfdgo5PcGIxtz
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262542234/lectures-on-the-philosophy-of-mathematics
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/695429.G_del_s_Proof
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/24113
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Dec 23, 2023 • 2h 17min
Peter Rollins in Dialogue with Treydon Lunot: Radical Theology and Orthodox Christianity
Peter 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://peterrollins.com/atheism-for-lent-welcome-2023 and connect with Peter at https://peterrollins.com/
Connect with Trey at https://substack.com/@telosbound and https://www.youtube.com/@telosbound
RSam Podcast #30
Peter and Trey's individual podcasts:
https://youtu.be/ubyeJYhZsMI?si=3RgOI5Uxzid9Uy-u
https://youtu.be/_uSff-Mlhzc?si=ZyiPCXxKLJBm_qqN
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{Reference Links}
https://youtu.be/-RcvzPlCLag?si=x70lU04OBdysxHyT
@chadahaagphilosophychannel7329
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Dec 18, 2023 • 1h 13min
Leon Brenner on Lacan, Language and Autism in Psychoanalysis
Dr. 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 psychoanalysis and scientific epistemology vs Lacanianism.
You can find more of Dr Brenner's work at https://leonbrenner.com/
The Autistic Subject: https://leonbrenner.com/book/
Watch the video version here.
RSam Podcast #29
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https://twitter.com/trsam97
https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/
{Reference Links}
https://youtu.be/l-ACMcTjj6U?si=6Izo1tW3pGlWjO7j
https://youtu.be/vO4ztWebQEE?si=ossoPIgWM27LpJJ2
https://youtu.be/UKCmefQdplI?si=LD9FuYadLRVqpf3A
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Nov 8, 2023 • 1h 30min
Iris Berent on Innate Knowledge, Linguistics, and Theories of Cognition
Prof. 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/
The Blind Storyteller: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/48930049
The Phonological Mind: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/phonological-mind/DF2E8903E25D74900793011BF1B54566
RSam Podcast #28
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{Social Media}
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https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/
{Reference Links}
The "Hard Problem of Consciousness" Arises from Human Psychology: https://direct.mit.edu/opmi/article/doi/10.1162/opmi_a_00094/117074/The-Hard-Problem-of-Consciousness-Arises-from
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Oct 4, 2023 • 1h 27min
Michael Strevens on Kuhn, Popper and Science as a Knowledge Machine | RSam Pod #27
Michael 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 ontological status of the Subject, AI and Slavoj Žižek.
The Knowledge Machine: https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-knowledge-machine-9780141981260
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Sep 15, 2023 • 1h 24min
Peter Rollins on The Unknowing God & Church of Contradictions | RSam Pod #26
Peter 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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https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/
{Reference Links}
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/164317-how-not-to-speak-of-god-marks-of-the-emerging-church
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19405715-the-idolatry-of-god
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216522.The_End_of_Dissatisfaction_
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/42801015
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Aug 28, 2023 • 1h 8min
Julia Keller on Quitting and the Myth of Perseverance | RSam Pod #25
Julia 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.
Julia's book: Quitting: A Life Strategy: The Myth of Perseverance―and How the New Science of Giving Up Can Set You Free
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Website} https://rahulsam.me/
{Social Media}
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https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/
{Reference Links}
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25490360-the-burnout-society
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Aug 25, 2023 • 1h 58min
Treydon Lunot on Orthodox Christianity and Baptising Philosophy | RSam Pod #24
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 Theosis, baptising philosophy and what Slavoj Žižek gets wrong about Christianity.
Trey's book: Aphesis: The Impossibility of Subjectivity
Trey's link:
https://www.youtube.com/@telosbound
https://substack.com/@telosbound
https://www.instagram.com/telosbound/
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