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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 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.

PhilosophyScience12 episodes on Steadcast · Latest Oct 2026

Recent episodes

371 | Kyle Harper on How Humans Have Shaped Life on Earth

Oct 19, 20261h 25m

Ask Me Anything | October 2026

Oct 12, 20263h 31m

370 | Daniel Akerib on a Faint Hint of Dark Matter

Oct 3, 20261h 16m

369 | Gregg Caruso on Living Well Without Free Will

Sep 28, 20261h 23m

368 | Elizabeth Alexander on Why Democracy Needs Imagination

Sep 21, 20261h 8m

Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | September 2026

Sep 14, 20263h 52m

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

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