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Thing in itself

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Jan 23, 2023 • 1h 28min

Anthony Chemero on 4E cognitive science, ecological psychology, dynamical systems theory

Anthony Chemero is professor of Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Cincinnati. His research interests include nonlinear dynamical modeling, ecological psychology, complex systems, phenomenology, and social cognition.
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Jan 21, 2023 • 1h 14min

Fred Cummins on joint speech, 4E cognitive science, ecological psychology

Fred Cummins is a cognitive scientist from UC Dublin who among other things works on joint speech."Joint Speech is speech produced when one or more people say the same thing at the same time. This kind of speaking is commonly found in practices of prayer, in protest, and on the terraces of football matches. It is found in classrooms and courtrooms. To those who take part, it is a very important kind of activity. Yet it has hardly been studied from a scientific or empirical point of view at all."
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Jan 9, 2023 • 52min

Robert Sternberg on the psychology of IQ, intelligence, wisdom, love

Robert Sternberg, psychologist at Cornell, has contributed several influential theories related to creativity, wisdom, thinking styles, love, hate, and leadership.
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Nov 19, 2022 • 1h 8min

David Christian on big history, future history, and global identity

David Christian is a scholar of Russian history and proponent of the big history discipline. Big history is a framework that borrows from fields across the sciences and humanities to build a consilient picture of history from the big bang to the present.
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Oct 31, 2022 • 1h 39min

Donald Hoffman on perception, consciousness, spacetime, spirituality

Donald Hoffman is a professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Some of his research interests include visual perception, evolutionary psychology, and the problem of consciousness.
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Oct 27, 2022 • 1h 38min

Karl Friston on the FEP, cognition, life, agency, enactivism

Karl Friston is a theoretical neuroscientist at University College London, authority on brain imaging, and proponent of the free energy principle.
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Oct 6, 2022 • 1h 32min

Michael Strevens on explanation and modern scientific knowledge

Michael Strevens is professor of philosophy at NYU working in the philosophy of science. His research interests include explanation, complex systems, probability, confirmation, and the social structure of science and its role in science’s success; the psychology of concepts; and the philosophical applications of cognitive science, including philosophical methodology.
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Oct 1, 2022 • 1h 10min

Michael Levin on the foundations of cognition

Michael Levin is a developmental and synthetic biologist at Tufts University, where he is the Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor of biology.
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Sep 19, 2022 • 1h 8min

Raymond Tallis on human experience, naturalism, philosophy & art

Professor Raymond Tallis is a philosopher, poet, novelist and cultural critic and was until recently a physician and clinical scientist. In the Economist's Intelligent Life Magazine (Autumn 2009) he was listed as one of the top living polymaths in the world. He has written extensively on the philosophy of mind, philosophical anthropology, literary theory, the nature of art and cultural criticism, fiction, and poetry.
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Sep 11, 2022 • 1h 49min

John Stewart and the evolutionary world view

John Stewart is an Australian evolutionary theorist and core member of the Evolution, Complexity, and Cognition research group at the Free University of Brussels.

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