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- Machine Learning (Still) Has a Pseudoscience Problem | Mel Andrews
Mel Andrews is a philosopher of science and technology investigating the human use and misuse of mathematical and computational tools in science and societal decision-making. Mel earned a doctorate in philosophy in 2025 from the University of Cincinnati with a thesis titled ‘The Math & the Territory: On the Scientific Uses & Abuses of Machine Learning & Other Mathematical Modelling Strategies.’ Currently, Mel is a postdoctoral research associate jointly affiliated with the Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) at Princeton University and the Natural and Artificial Minds Initiative (NAM) of the Princeton AI Lab. Mel’s also the principal investigator on a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Metascience and AI funding scheme assessing the epistemic credentials of AI in science evaluation.
You can find more of Mel’s work at https://mel-andrews.com/ and https://bsky.app/profile/bayesianboy.bsky.social
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1 hr 32 min - Helen Rollins Death Drives Everything
Helen Rollins is a writer and filmmaker from Northern Ireland, currently based between Belfast and London. She studied modern languages and literature at Cambridge and the ENS de Lyon. She lectures in philosophy, film and psychoanalysis and is the author of the book Psychocinema, which reexamines the connection between psychoanalysis and film.
You can find more of Helen's work at https://helenrollins.com/
Psychocinema: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=psychocinema--9781509561131
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2 hr 1 min - 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/
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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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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
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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).
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RSam Podcast #92
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