SCI PHI Podcast

By Sci Phi

SCI PHI is a weekly philosophy of science podcast featuring interviews with prominent and up-and-coming philosophers of science who engage with scientists in interesting ways.... more

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The podcast currently has 101 episodes available.

SCI PHI Podcast episodes:

June 28, 2024 Episode 91: Holly Andersen
On Episode 91, Nick chats with Holly Andersen, Associate Professor at Simon
Frasier University, about her cutting edge work on causation: including her
research on causal explanations and causal modeling in the biomedical
sciences, pattern recognition, causal questions in sports analysis, and
problems related to mental causation and to the connections between action
and causation.
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Introduction - We’re back!
(2:36) - Holly Andersen and life in Vancouver
(5:05) - Reflections on the 2022 PSA Meeting and upcoming 2024 meeting
(9:06) - Holly’s background and upbringing in Montana
(15:14) - Holly’s academic journey pre-philosophy of science
(23:26) - Challenges in graduate school at Pitt
(27:47) - The big questions that Holly is attempting to
address/clarify/resolve
(33:16) - The work that Holly is proudest of
(39:04) - What is the future of causation in philosophy
(43:11) - Causation within Holly’s upcoming work
(48:45) - Link with causation and dynamical systems
(50:03) - Upcoming book on causation
(51:43) - Side interests (science fiction and history)
(57:25) - The greatest challenge that philosophy of science faces today
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1h 6min
January 03, 2023 Episode 90: Jonathan Fuller
On Episode 90, Nick chats with Jonathan Fuller, Assistant Professor in
History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, about
his experience as both a clinician and a philosopher in an MD/PhD training
program, philosophy in medicine, and his upcoming book The New Modern
Medicine that analyzes distinctive problems in scientific medicine around
the turn of the twenty-first century.
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1h 24min
December 14, 2022 Episode 89: Jamee Elder
On Episode 89, Nick chats with Jamee Elder, Postdoctoral Fellow at the
Black Hole Initiative (BHI) at Harvard University, about the methodology
and epistemology of large astrophysical experiments, especially
those—including LIGO-Virgo and the EHT—that involve "observing" black
holes.
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1h 1min
December 02, 2022 Episode 88: Eleanor Knox
On Episode 88, Nick chats with Eleanor Knox, Reader in Philosophy of
Physics at King's College London, about her view she calls Spacetime
Functionalism, which she thinks solves problems in classical theories as
well as dealing with the challenges to standard accounts raised by emergent
spacetime structure in theories of quantum gravity.
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1h 11min
November 23, 2022 Episode 87: Cameron Buckner
On Episode 87, Nick chats with Cameron Buckner, Associate Professor of
Philosophy at the University of Houston, about his work in the philosophy
of deep neural networks, a type of machine learning that is currently the
most widespread and successful technology in artificial intelligence.
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1h 39min
November 15, 2022 Episode 86: Sarah Robins
On Episode 86, Nick chats with Sarah Robins, Associate Professor of
Philosophy at the University of Kansas, about her work on the concept of
the memory trace, or engram, and the role it plays in both everyday and
scientific thinking about remembering.
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1h 5min
November 06, 2022 Episode 85: Manuela Fernández Pinto
On Episode 85, Nick chats with Manuela Fernández Pinto, Associate Professor
in the Department of Philosophy and the Center for Applied Ethics at
Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia), about her work in
agnotology—the study of ignorance—and the epistemic and social consequences
of commercially-driven scientific research.
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1h 27min
November 02, 2022 Episode 84: Adrian Currie
On Episode 84 Nick chats with Adrian Currie, Senior Lecturer in the
Department of Sociology, Philosophy, and Anthropology at Exeter, about his
research on the 'historical' sciences: paleontology, archaeology, geology
and so forth, and how both philosophers and methodologically reflective
scientists have underestimated the epistemic resources available for
uncovering the deep past.
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1h 11min
October 21, 2022 Episode 83: Sarah Arnaud
On Episode 83, Nick chats with Sarah Arnaud, Postdoctoral Associate at the
Rotman Institute of Philosophy at Western University, about how first
person perspectives can provide important and necessary knowledge in
psychiatry.
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1h 26min
October 14, 2022 Episode 82: Philip Kitcher
On Episode 82, Nick chats with Philip Kitcher, the John Dewey Professor
Emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University, about the the ways in which
science interfaces with the world, the new demarcation problem, and
scientific progress.
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44min

FAQs about SCI PHI Podcast:

How many episodes does SCI PHI Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 101 episodes available.