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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 Sep 2026

Recent episodes

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365 | Vitor Cardoso on Why Black Holes Are Special

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364 | Stuart Firestein on How Science Relies on Ignorance and Failure

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363 | Chandra Sripada on How LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins

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Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | August 2026

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362 | Luis Bettencourt on the Universal Properties of Self-Organizing Cities

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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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