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- After Nihilism | Euwyn Goh
Euwyn Goh is a writer and technologist who has worked in FinTech and blockchain startups for almost a decade across Australia and Singapore. Euwyn is the co-founder of the PubTech startup Wordsmith and the author of ‘After Nihilism.’
You can find more of Euwyn's work at https://nothingness.me/
After Nihilism: https://nothingness.me/p/afternihilism
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com.au/After-Nihilism-Meaning-Still-Possible/dp/9819452384
Wordsmith: https://wordsmith.page/
Watch it on YouTube here.
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1 hr 53 min - Kantian Computationalism | Peter Wolfendale
Peter Wolfendale is a systematic philosopher. He is affiliated with the New Centre for Research & Practice and is a key figure in the Neorationalism movement. He is the author of The Revenge of Reason (2026) and Object-Oriented Philosophy (2014). Peter works through German Idealism and analytic philosophy and researches the philosophy of AI & mind, aiming to “understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term” in a true Sellarsian manner.
You can find more of Peter's work at https://deontologistics.co/about/
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781913029876/the-revenge-of-reason/
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RSam Podcast #95
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5 hr 23 min - British Idealism | Nathan Hawkins
Dr Nathan Hawkins is a philosopher who teaches at Cambridge University with a PhD thesis on Gottlob Frege's notion of truth. Dr Hawkins holds a BA with a double major in Philosophy and Mathematics, as well as an MA in Philosophy. He specialises in metaphysics, logic, the history of analytic philosophy and British Idealism.
You can find more of Dr Nathan Hawkins' work at https://www.youtube.com/@drnathanhawkins
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1 hr 35 min - The Marvels of Computationalism, Radical Embodiment and Holding Paradox (w/ Andrea Hiott)
Andrea Hiott is a philosopher, author & educator with degrees in philosophy & neuroscience (UGA, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, currently at Universität Heidelberg). She also has an M.A. in world heritage (department of urban planning & civil engineering), has worked in transportation and development, and has been a researcher with the Max Planck Institute (Leipzig) and Northoff Lab (Ottawa). She is the host of Love & Philosophy and a founder of Making Ways. Her upcoming book is Holding Paradox: How to Hold Paradox in a World That Demands Certainty.
You can find more of Andrea's work at https://www.andreahiott.com/ and https://www.youtube.com/@waymaking23.
Holding Paradox: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/iff-books/our-books/holding-paradox
Watch it on YouTube here.
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1 hr 38 min - Active Inference and Bayesian Mechanics
Dr Sanjeev Namjoshi is a machine learning engineer at Noumenal Labs and a prominent researcher in the free energy principle and active inference epistemic community. He has a PhD in neuroscience from The University of Texas at Austin and is the textbook author of ‘Fundamentals of Active Inference: Principles, Algorithms, and Applications of the Free Energy Principle for Engineers’ and is writing a second book on Bayesian mechanics.
You can find more of Dr Namjoshi's work at https://sanjeevnamjoshi.com/
Textbook: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262050951/fundamentals-of-active-inference/
Watch it on YouTube here.
RSam Podcast #94
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1 hr 39 min - Existentialism and Artificial Intelligence
Michael Wheeler is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Stirling, specializing in the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. He is the author of the influential book Reconstructing the Cognitive World (2005) and is known for his Heideggerian approach to cognitive science research, challenging traditional Cartesian assumptions that treat cognition as an abstract, rule-bound manipulation of internal representations.
https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/257374
Darius Parvizi-Wayne is a PhD student at Macquarie University working in Heideggerian approaches to predictive coding models, 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 Institute.
https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/darius-parvizi-wayne/
Watch it on YouTube here.
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2 hr 37 min - Why Do We Think of the Brain as a Computer? (w/ Danielle J. Williams)
Dr Danielle J. Williams is a philosopher of mind, cognitive science, neuroscience, and AI, as well as a historian of cognitive science and AI. She is an incoming Bersoff Faculty Fellow at NYU, affiliated with the Centre for Mind, Brain, & Consciousness, and will join the Philosophy Department at The Ohio State University as an Assistant Professor in Autumn 2027. As a philosopher of AI, Dr Williams writes about the black box problem and mechanistic interpretability, and, as a historian, she is currently working on her first book project, Constructing the Computational Brain.
You can find more of Dr Danielle's work at https://www.daniellejwilliams.com/
Watch it on YouTube here.
RSam Podcast #93
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1 hr 45 min - The Problem with “Spiritual but Not Religious” (w/ Tony of 1Dime)
Tony Chamas is a political theorist, commentator and author of the forthcoming book "Freedom to Change Nothing: The Spectrum of Managed Democracy and What Makes the US Different." Chamas is also a video essayist known for his YouTube channel, 1Dime and his podcast, 1Dime Radio. His notable videos include The Deficit Myth and China's Cultural Revolution: The Full Story (Documentary).
You can find more of Tony's work at https://www.youtube.com/@1DimeRadio and 1dimereview.substack.com
Watch it on YouTube here.
RSam Podcast #92
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2 hr 1 min - Where Did Analytic Philosophy Go Wrong? (w/ Alicia Juarrero)
Prof Alicia Juarrero is the founder and president of VectorAnalytica and Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Prince George’s Community College. Prof Juarrero has a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Miami, where she is also currently a visiting research scholar. She is the author of Dynamics in Action (2008), Context Changes Everything (2023), and Why Context Matters (2025). Her philosophy of science research primarily focuses on the causal power of context-sensitive complexity theory and dynamical systems theory.
You can find more of Prof Juarrero's work at https://www.linkedin.com/in/alicia-juarrero-93b3a25/ and https://aliciajuarrerodotcom1.wordpress.com/about/
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RSam Podcast #91
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1 hr 15 min - Graham Harman & Matthew David Segall: OOO vs. Process Philosophy
Prof Graham Harman is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. His upcoming book, to be released in Feb 2026, is Waves and Stones: On the Ultimate Nature of Reality.
You can find more of Prof Harman's work at https://www.sciarc.edu/people/faculty/graham-harman and https://pact.egs.edu/biography/graham-harman/
a/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 and the Director of the Process and Science Network at the Centre for Process Studies.
You can find more of a/Prof Segall's work at https://footnotes2plato.com/mds/
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RSam Podcast #90
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