
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 the listener as a peer rather than a student. The theoretical physicist hosts unhurried conversations that wander across cosmology, philosophy, and cognitive science without rushing to a neat conclusion. Instead of reducing complex ideas into soundbites, Carroll and his guests spend hours working through the actual mechanics of how we know what we know. The feed rewards anyone who prefers methodical inquiry over fast explanations and superficial summaries.
Recent episodes

367 | Jared Diamond on the Course of History and the Role of leaders
Sep 7, 20261h 17m

366 | Jim Al-Khalili on Time, Quantum, Biology, and Cosmology
Aug 31, 20261h 15m

365 | Vitor Cardoso on Why Black Holes Are Special
Aug 24, 20261h 5m

364 | Stuart Firestein on How Science Relies on Ignorance and Failure
Aug 17, 20261h 16m

363 | Chandra Sripada on How LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins
Aug 10, 20261h 51m

Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | August 2026
Aug 3, 20263h 57m

362 | Luis Bettencourt on the Universal Properties of Self-Organizing Cities
Jul 27, 20261h 20m

361 | Bonnie Bassler on How Bacteria Talk and Work Together
Jul 20, 20261h 15m

Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | July 2026
Jul 13, 20264h 3m

360 | Marc Berman on the Science of Touching Grass
Jul 6, 20261h 29m

359 | Solo: Theories of Dark Energy
Jun 29, 20261h 56m

358 | Solo: Vacuum Energy and the Cosmological Constant
Jun 22, 20261h 59m
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