
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

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

352 | Bing Brunton on Connecting the Connectome to the Body
Apr 27, 20261h 14m

351 | Peter Singer on Maximizing Good for All Sentient Creatures
Apr 20, 20261h 15m

350 | J. Eric Oliver on the Self and How to Know It
Apr 13, 20261h 21m

AMA | April 2026
Apr 5, 20263h 46m

349 | Daniel Harlow on What Quantum Gravity Teaches Us About Quantum Mechanics
Mar 30, 20261h 25m

348 | Jessica Riskin on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Life as Creative Agency
Mar 23, 20261h 15m
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