Walter Veit Podcast

If you want to show your support for my newsletter/podcast, consider becoming a paid subscriber. The proceeds will be donated to animal welfare charities. Thanks for all the support! Without further delay, here is part 2 of my discussion with Ethan. Two eliminativists have surprisingly much to say to each other. For part 1 click here: Transcript [00:02] Walter Veit: All right. Zoom broke up this p...

Given our recent reading group and moral nihilism and several posts on the topic, I figured it would be a great idea to invite Ethan Moore. Ethan Moore is a fourth-year PhD researcher in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh in the final stages of finishing his PhD thesis on the abolition of morality. To my knowledge, that is the first PhD thesis on this topic! It was a pleasure to talk to him...

Since I’ll soon be a guest on Joseph Folley ’s Unsolicited Advice podcast and he is organizing a reading group on Albert Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus this month, I figured it would be a great idea to revisit one of my earliest philosophy articles that I published in the Journal of Camus Studies. Veit, W. (2018). Existential Nihilism: The Only Really Serious Philosophic… Get full access to Walter Ve...

Click on the video above if you want to listen to this essay in my German accent or simply scroll below to read it. A few weeks ago, I published an essay on Substack titled The End of Analytic Philosophy . In it, I agreed with Liam Kofi Bright that analytic philosophy has perhaps come close to becoming a degenerating research programme, leaving even many of its practitioners with a pessimistic out...

This is a recording of my essay (of the same name) for my podcast/youtube channel. If you prefer to read it, please visit the original essay here: Get full access to Walter Veit at walterveit.substack.com/subscribe

This recording is based on an article Heather and I published in The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. I’ve copied the text here for convenience: Many of us as children may have wondered what’s going on inside the mind of an animal – what are they thinking and feeling? Most animal researchers study science because of their fascination with animals, but...

In a recent post, I criticized panpsychism for following the same mantra as creationists. Just as creationists could not believe in Darwinian evolution because it challenged their cherished beliefs in the divine and in our uniqueness within creation, panpsychists are hesitant to explain consciousness in terms of physical processes out of a fear that this would rob consciousness of its magical prop...

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This is the podcast version of my essay: https://walterveit.substack.com/p/why-consciousness-science-needs-darwin Get full access to Walter Veit at walterveit.substack.com/subscribe

This episode is on the following article, which you can access below: Veit, W. (2021). Scaffolding Natural Selection . Biological Theory . https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-021-00387-6 [ Download ] Share PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://walterveit.com/podcast/ Spotify: Apple Podcasts: RSS: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/4364098/s/226484.rss YouTube Full Episodes: https://youtube.com/play...

This episode is on the following article, which you can access below: Veit, W. (2021). Scaffolding Natural Selection . Biological Theory . https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-021-00387-6 [ Download ] PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://walterveit.com/podcast/ Spotify: Apple Podcasts: RSS: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/4364098/s/226484.rss YouTube Full Episodes: https://youtube.com/playlist?l...

This episode is on the following article, which you can access below: Veit, W. and Browning, H. (2024). Feminism and Enhancement . Routledge Handbook of Feminism and Technology . London: Routledge, pp. 37-55. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003275992-4 [ Download ] PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://walterveit.com/podcast/ Spotify: Apple Podcasts: RSS: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/4364098...

I’ve moved the hosting platform from spotify to substack. Veit, W., Earp, B.D., Faber, N., Bostrom, N., Caouette, J., Mannino, A., Caviola, L., Sandberg, A. & Savulescu, J. (2020). Recognizing the Diversity of Cognitive Enhancements. AJOB Neuroscience, 11(4), 250-253. PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://walterveit.com/podcast/ Spotify: Apple Podcasts: RSS: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/...

Here a talk I gave in 2019 at the European Society for Evolutionary Biology on the evolution of multicellularity. PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://walterveit.com/podcast/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/24OwJWeaWyJqqdfxirnlUU Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/walter-veit-podcast/id1716794567 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/ed331d30/podcast/rss YouTube Full Episodes: https...

Today's episode gave me a chance to talk to Eric Schliesser on his work and especially his article on what he described as synthetic philosophy. His website can be found here: https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/s/c/e.s.schliesser/e.s.schliesser.html PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://walterveit.com/podcast/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/24OwJWeaWyJqqdfxirnlUU Apple Podcasts: https://podcas...

Today I'm talking to Cory Clark - a behavioral scientist interested in how social motivations influence human judgment and empirical beliefs. Check her website and research out here: https://www.coryjclark.com/ PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://walterveit.com/podcast/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/24OwJWeaWyJqqdfxirnlUU Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/walter-vei...

Today's episode features a talk I gave in Sydney in 2023. PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://walterveit.com/podcast/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/24OwJWeaWyJqqdfxirnlUU Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/walter-veit-podcast/id1716794567 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/ed331d30/podcast/rss YouTube Full Episodes: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV0j8uiNxfku6--y2dho5VPUX3...

In today's episode I talk to Liz Paul, who is a leading researcher in animal emotions and welfare. https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Liz-Paul-a2f9a5b6-a5bf-4ea3-a8a2-9ff2ea09bf19/ PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://walterveit.com/podcast/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/24OwJWeaWyJqqdfxirnlUU Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/walter-veit-podcast/id1716794567 RS...

Today, I talk to Dr. Carolyn A. Ristau is a Cognitive Ethologist who had the privilege of working in Donald R. Griffin’s Rockefeller University lab. Those were the times when he was ardently working to develop the new field of Cognitive Ethology he had just created, while also enthusiastically continuing his studies of avian migration and bat echolocation. Carolyn Ristau was impressed by his ideas...

Today's episode features a talk I gave in 2012 at the Joint Brazilian Annual Ethological/Latin American Ethological Conference. PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://walterveit.com/podcast/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/24OwJWeaWyJqqdfxirnlUU Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/walter-veit-podcast/id1716794567 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/ed331d30/podcast/rss YouTube Full E...

This podcast episode originally aired on the Sentientism Podcast on 16 Jun 2023. Link to original video: https://youtu.be/aEDtTl8sPPQ?si=lQfGN5biB2lgtz6A Republished with permission. PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://walterveit.com/podcast/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/24OwJWeaWyJqqdfxirnlUU Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/walter-veit-podcast/id1716794567 RSS:...

This podcast episode originally aired on The NonSequitur Show on June 22, 2018. Link to original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wgcwBGbEDQ&list=PLV0j8uiNxfktd9d66oXHeaUg5bWs18v8J&ab_channel=TheNonSequiturShow Republished with permission. PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://walterveit.com/podcast/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/24OwJWeaWyJqqdfxirnlUU Apple Podcasts: http...

This podcast episode originally aired on the Sentientism Podcast on 20 Apr 2021. Link to original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxSGItuaSn4&list=PLV0j8uiNxfktd9d66oXHeaUg5bWs18v8J&index=3&ab_channel=Sentientism Republished with permission. PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://walterveit.com/podcast/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/24OwJWeaWyJqqdfxirnlUU Apple Podcasts...

Testing out new AI features to create a fake conversation using my book: Veit, W. (2023).  A Philosophy for the Science of Animal Consciousness .  New York: Routledge .  https://www.routledge.com/A-Philosophy-for-the-Science-of-Animal-Consciousness/Veit/p/book/9781032343617 PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://walterveit.com/podcast/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/24OwJWeaWyJqqdfxirnlUU...