Mind Chat
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Andy Clark: The Experience Machine
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Andy Clark is a leading and incredibly influential philosopher and cognitive scientist. Among other things, Andy has done pioneering work on predictiv...
Philip Goff & Keith Frankish: Heretical Christianity
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Philip recently went public with his conversion to a heretical form of Christianity (see article and video below). In this episode Keith and Philip di...
Annaka Harris: Is Consciousness Everywhere?
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Annaka Harris is author of bestselling book "Conscious" and writer and producer of the forthcoming audio documentary series "Lights On." In this episo...
Sarah Lane-Ritchie & Aidan Lyon: What Can Psychedelics Tell Us About Mind & Reality?
28 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Can taking psychedelics teach us more about the mind than science and philosophy? Is it rational to trust what mystical experiences seem to be telling...
Kevin Mitchell: Do We Have Free Will?
28 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Mitchell is Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin. He is also the author of the wonderful recent book '...
Cat Gillen: Do Electrons Exist?
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Recently Philip and Sabine Hossenfelder had a discussion on Twitter about the relationship between science and the entities referred to in scientific...
Halloween Special! The Purpose of the Universe
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Keith and Philip will discuss Philip's new book 'Why? The Purpose of the Universe.' https://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Purpose-Universe-Philip-...
Donald Hoffman: What is Reality?
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Hoffman is a cognitive scientist at UC Irvine and author of 'The Case Against Reality.' He believes that the world we experience is an ...
Eric Schwitzgebel : Is the United States Conscious?
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Schwitzgebel is professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. His research interests include philosophy of psychology, phil...
Michelle Liu and Edouard Machery: Is the 'Hard Problem of Consciousness' Nonsense Invented by Philosophers?
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many philosophers worry about David Chalmers' 'hard problem' of how brains produce consciousness. But do ordinary people who haven't ...
Frank Jackson: The Greatest Argument Against Materialism
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Frank Jackson (Australian National University) came up with one of the most influential arguments against materialism about consciousness, a...
Francois Kammerer and Luke Roelofs: Illusionism or Panpsychism?
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mind Chat is back!! We've been a bit delayed due to illness in the family and Philip needing to finish a book. This is our delayed Christmas speci...
Noam Chomsky: Chomsky on Consciousness
25 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Noam Chomsky is an intellectual giant, who has made major contributions to linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science. In this episode Keith and P...
Angela Mendelovici: How Does Consciousness Connect us to Reality? Part II
24 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Angela Mendelovici (University of Western Ontorio) is a prominent proponent of the 'Phenomenal Intentionality Theory': the view that all mental repres...
Ann-Sophie Barwich: Smellosophy--The Philosophy & Neuroscience of Smell
23 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ann-Sophie Barwich is a cognitive scientist and empirical philosopher, and author of 'Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind' (Harvard University P...
Philip Goff: Is Physics Different in the Brain?
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a special follow-up episode, Philip shares some personal reflections on the recent discussion 'What Does Physics Tell Us About Consciousness?' with...
Sean Carroll and Barry Loewer: What Does Physics Tell Us About Consciousness?
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We previously had a long chat with Sean Carroll. A big bone of contention with Philip and Sean was the degree to which physics constrains our theory o...
Helen Steward: Do We Have Free Will?
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Helen Steward is a philosopher and author of Metaphysics for Freedom (Oxford University Press), which argues that agency itself—and not merely the s...
David Papineau: How Does Consciousness Connect Us To Reality?
19 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Keith and Philip interview David Papineau (Professor of Philosophy at King's College London) about his recent book 'The Metaphysics of Sensory Experie...
David Chalmers: Are We Living in a Simulation?
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
David Chalmers is one of the most important and influential philosophers of consciousness on the contemporary scene. He coined the phrase 'the hard pr...
Christmas Special: Panpsychism or Illusionism?
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the Mind Chat Christmas special, Keith and Philip take it in turns to interrogate each other about their favoured view of consciousness (illusionis...
Sean Carroll: Is Consciousness Emergent?
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll joins us to discuss whether it make sense to think of consciousness as an emergent phenomenon, and whether contempo...
Anil Seth: Is Consciousness a Controlled Hallucination?
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Anil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex. In this episode we discuss his new book 'Being You: Th...
Helen Yetter-Chappell: Is Reality Made up of Consciousness?
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Helen Yetter-Chappell is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University of Miami. Idealism is the view that the fundamental nature of reality is m...
Matthias Michel: Is a Science of Consciousness Possible?
15 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Matthias Michel is a philosopher whose work focuses on the science of consciousness. In a recent paper he outlines how scientists working on conscious...
Christof Koch: The Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Christof Koch is a neuroscientist and proponent of the integrated information theory of consciousness, or 'IIT". In this episode we explore with Chris...
Janet Levin: The Materialist Theory of Consciousness
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Janet Levin is a materialist about consciousness. She thinks our feelings and experiences are identical with physical processes in the brain...
Tim O'Connor: Interview with a Dualist
22 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tim O'Connor is a dualist: someone who thinks consciousness is not physical. People tend to think of dualists as believing in the soul, a supernatural...