
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.
Recent episodes

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

357 | Jeff Coller on mRNA, Vaccines, and Bespoke Therapeutics
Jun 15, 20261h 19m

356 | Andrea Wulf on Enlightenment, Nature, Romanticism, and Modernity
Jun 8, 20261h 17m

AMA | June 2026
Jun 1, 20263h 57m

355 | Solo: Looking Quantum Mechanics in the Eyeball
May 24, 20261h 44m

354 | Christian List on Free Will and Levels of Reality
May 18, 20261h 26m

353 | Alvin Roth on the Economics of Morally Contested Markets
May 11, 20261h 11m

AMA | May 2026
May 4, 20264h 6m
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