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Mel Andrews is a philosopher of science and technology investigating the human use and misuse of mathematical and computational tools in science and societal decision-making. Mel earned a doctorate in philosophy in 2025 from the University of Cincinnati with a thesis titled ‘The Math & the Territory: On the Scientific Uses & Abuses of Machine Learning & Other Mathematical Modelling Str...

Helen Rollins is a writer and filmmaker from Northern Ireland, currently based between Belfast and London. She studied modern languages and literature at Cambridge and the ENS de Lyon. She lectures in philosophy, film and psychoanalysis and is the author of the book Psychocinem a, which reexamines the connection between psychoanalysis and film. You can find more of Helen's work at https://hele...

Euwyn Goh is a writer and technologist who has worked in FinTech and blockchain startups for almost a decade across Australia and Singapore. Euwyn is the co-founder of the PubTech startup Wordsmith and the author of ‘After Nihilism.’ You can find more of Euwyn's work at https://nothingness.me/ After Nihilism: https://nothingness.me/p/afternihilism Amazon: https://www.amazon.com.au/After-Nihili...

Peter Wolfendale is a systematic philosopher. He is affiliated with the New Centre for Research & Practice and is a key figure in the Neorationalism movement. He is the author of The Revenge of Reason (2026) and Object-Oriented Philosophy (2014). Peter works through German Idealism and analytic philosophy and researches the philosophy of AI & mind, aiming to “understand how things in the b...

Dr Nathan Hawkins is a philosopher who teaches at Cambridge University with a PhD thesis on Gottlob Frege's notion of truth. Dr Hawkins holds a BA with a double major in Philosophy and Mathematics, as well as an MA in Philosophy. He specialises in metaphysics, logic, the history of analytic philosophy and British Idealism. You can find more of Dr Nathan Hawkins' work at https://www.youtube...

Andrea Hiott is a philosopher, author & educator with degrees in philosophy & neuroscience (UGA, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, currently at Universität Heidelberg). She also has an M.A. in world heritage (department of urban planning & civil engineering), has worked in transportation and development, and has been a researcher with the Max Planck Institute (Leipzig) and Northoff Lab...

Dr Sanjeev Namjoshi is a machine learning engineer at Noumenal Labs and a prominent researcher in the free energy principle and active inference epistemic community. He has a PhD in neuroscience from The University of Texas at Austin and is the textbook author of ‘Fundamentals of Active Inference: Principles, Algorithms, and Applications of the Free Energy Principle for Engineers’ and is writing a...

Michael Wheeler is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Stirling, specializing in the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. He is the author of the influential book Reconstructing the Cognitive World (2005) and is known for his Heideggerian approach to cognitive science research, challenging traditional Cartesian assumptions that treat cognition as an...

Dr Danielle J. Williams is a philosopher of mind, cognitive science, neuroscience, and AI, as well as a historian of cognitive science and AI. She is an incoming Bersoff Faculty Fellow at NYU, affiliated with the Centre for Mind, Brain, & Consciousness, and will join the Philosophy Department at The Ohio State University as an Assistant Professor in Autumn 2027. As a philosopher of AI, Dr Will...

Tony Chamas is a political theorist, commentator and author of the forthcoming book "Freedom to Change Nothing: The Spectrum of Managed Democracy and What Makes the US Different." Chamas is also a video essayist known for his YouTube channel, 1Dime and his podcast, 1Dime Radio. His notable videos include The Deficit Myth and China's Cultural Revolution: The Full Story (Documentary)....

Prof Alicia Juarrero is the founder and president of VectorAnalytica and Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Prince George’s Community College. Prof Juarrero has a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Miami, where she is also currently a visiting research scholar. She is the author of Dynamics in Action (2008), Context Changes Everything (2023), and Why Context Matters (2025). Her philoso...

Prof Graham Harman is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. His upcoming book, to be released in Feb 2026, is Waves and Stones: On the Ultimate Nature of Reality . You can find more of Prof Harman's work at https://www.sciarc.edu/people/faculty/graham-harman and https://pact.egs.edu/biography/graham-harman/ a/Prof Matthew Dav...

Graham Priest is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Centre, City University of New York, Boyce Gibson Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne, and International Research Fellow at the Ruhr University of Bochum. Prof Priest has published far and wide, spanning metaphysics, philosophical logic, the history of philosophy, and Asian philosophy, but is best known for his an...

Dr Matthieu Queloz is a Privatdozent at the University of Bern. He is the author of two books: The Practical Origins of Ideas and The Ethics of Conceptualization, both published open access with Oxford University Press. You can find more of Dr Queloz's work at https://www.matthieuqueloz.com/ Pierre Beckmann is an AI researcher working in Philosophy of AI and Philosophically-motivated AI. He is...

Dan Zahavi is a leading phenomenological philosopher known for his work in phenomenology, selfhood, and the philosophy of mind. Currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen and director of the Centre for Subjectivity Research, he has been central in renewing and expanding Husserlian phenomenology for a 21st-century audience. In this episode, we discuss subjectivity and intersu...

Jim Palmer is a philosopher, radical theologian, spiritual director and existential health counsellor. He is the Founder of Center for Non-Religious Spirituality , author of Deconstructionology and has written multiple books such as Inner Anarchy: Dethroning God and Jesus to Save Ourselves and the World and Divine Nobodies: Shedding Religion to Find God . In this episode, we discuss deconstructing...

"ChatGPT has unravelled the entire academic project", writes James Walsh, in a viral article on NY magazine titled 'Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College.' In this episode, social epistemologist of science and philosopher of education Dr Vlasta Sikimic, in her 4th appearance on the podcast, discusses whether AI and large language models have, in fact, unravelled the enti...

Prof Mark Solms is a neuropsychologist and psychoanalyst known for pioneering the field of neuropsychoanalysis. You can find more of Prof Solms' work at https://neuroscience.uct.ac.za/contacts/mark-solms The Hidden Spring: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53642061-the-hidden-spring John Dall'Aglio is a PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology at Duquesne University whose work focuses on the...

Dr Daniel Tutt is a psychoanalytic Marxist philosopher, writer, teacher, and host of the Emancipations podcast. He is the author of Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation and How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche , and is working on a book on György Lukács. In addition to his online lectures and talks, he has taught philosophy at George Wa...

Dr Nicolás Hinrichs is a researcher at the Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, interested in the behavioural and neurobiological correlates of mental health interventions via hyperscanning; drawing on active‑inference theory, process philosophy, and embodied cognition, he models interpersonal neural networks via informat...

Prof Robin Muller is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at California State University, Northridge. She works mainly in phenomenology and the history of philosophy, and is especially interested in the intersections of phenomenology with the human sciences, and has written extensively on Merleau-Ponty's thought. You can find more of Prof Muller's work at www.robinmullerphilosophy.c...

Prof Shaun Gallagher is a philosopher working on embodied cognition, enactivism, phenomenology, and philosophy of mind. He is the Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in Philosophy at the University of Memphis and holds a secondary research appointment at the University of Wollongong. Prof Gallagher is the author and editor of numerous books, including Embodied and Enactive Approaches to Co...

Dr Rafael Holmberg is a political writer, social theorist, and researcher on philosophy and psychoanalysis based at University College London. His work broadly draws on post-war Continental philosophy, German Idealism, Marxism, and psychoanalytic theory, drawing from psychology and neuroscience. In this episode, we discuss the relationship between neuroscience, psychoanalysis and German Idealist p...

Dr Joshua Wretzel is the Associate Teaching Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University, specialising in social and political philosophy, Kant and German Idealism, hermeneutics, phenomenology, and the philosophy of art and logic. Prof Wretzel's work on German philosophy is published in journals such as the European Journal of Philosophy, Hegel Bulletin, International Journal of Philos...

Andrew Flores is an autodidact in Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis, philosophy, theology, and Marxism. In this episode, we discuss Lacan's relationship to analytic philosophy and science. You can find more of Andrew's work at https://www.youtube.com/@The_Big_Sig and https://www.youtube.com/@thevanishingmediators GOAT memes: https://www.instagram.com/the_big_sig/ 1st podcast with Andrew: http...