Thing in itself

Jean Bricmont is a Belgian theoretical physicist and professor at UCLouvain. He has worked extensively on the De Broglie–Bohm theory. Here, we talk about Bohmian mechanics, philosophy, and his work in the classic 1997 book Fashionable Nonsense.

Craig Callender is professor of philosophy at UC San Diego and co-director of the Institute for Practical Ethics. His work focuses on the philosophy of science, with special emphasis on physics, time, and the environment.

Gregg Henriques is a professor of psychology at James Madison University and the creator of the unified theory of knowledge (UTOK) system. UTOK is a system of eight key ideas that interconnect to solve "the problem of psychology" and offer a new theory of reality, the human condition, and our scientific knowledge of both.

Iris Berent is professor of cognitive psychology at Northeastern University and the director of the Language and Mind Lab. Her work explores generative linguistics, phonology, and the psychology of human nature.

Gualtiero Piccinini is professor of philosophy at the Center for Neurodynamics at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. His work focuses on computation, cognitive science, and the study of the mind. He is widely known for his work on a mechanistic account of physical computation.

Paul Thagard is a philosopher specializing in cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of science and medicine. He is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Waterloo. He has made important contributions in understanding cognition, coherence, creativity, and the role of emotions in cognition.

Herbert Gintis is an economist and behavioural scientist who has made important contributions to socio-biology, economics, and more. He has strongly stressed the importance of integration between the behavioural sciences (economics, psychology, sociology, political science, and anthropology). We talk about topics across those disciplines in this conversation.

Tim Maudlin is professor of philosophy at NYU and founder of the John Bell Institute for Foundations of Physics. We talk about time, quantum mechanics, metaphysics, non-locality, and a range of problems in physics and philosophy.

James Robert Brown is professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, focusing on mathematics and philosophy of science. We talk about mathematics, platonism, thought experiments, the experience of doing science, social problems in the development of science, and more.