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Sean Carroll's Mindscape

Sean Carroll

Sean Carroll's interviews with experts on free will, morality, and the human condition, across physics, economics, and ethics.

Why we picked this

We picked Sean Carroll's Mindscape because it treats theoretical physics and analytic philosophy as contact sports. Carroll, a working physicist, presses his guests on the specifics—the Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem, the strong CP problem, the level-relative nature of determinism—rather than letting them stay at the level of analogy. The show trades breadth for rigor; a single conversation on the cosmological constant or compatibilism will spend twenty minutes on the underlying math and formal definitions. Subscribe for a feed that assumes you will follow the technical argument and rewards the effort.

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