Increments

#62 (Bonus) - The Principle of Optimism (Vaden on the Theory of Anything Podcast)

January 31st, 2024  |  2 hrs 45 mins

constraints, epistemology, optimism, physics, progress

Listen to Vaden's dulcet tones on Bruce Nielson's Theory of Anything Podcast discussing the principle of optimism.

#54 - Ask Us Anything III: Emotional Epistemology

September 18th, 2023  |  1 hr 18 mins

ask-us-anything, emotions, epistemology, problem-solving, thinking, universality

The third of infinite installments in our ask us anything series. We touch on universality, emotions, epistemology, and whether all thinking is problem solving.

#51 - Truth, Moose, and Refrigerated Eggplant: Critiquing Chapman's Meta-Rationality

May 29th, 2023  |  1 hr 12 mins

chapman, epistemology, nebulosity, popper, rationality

We discuss David Chapman's work on nebulosity, the correspondence theory of truth, and how it relates to Karl Popper's epistemology.

#41 - Parenting, Epistemology, and EA (w/ Lulie Tanett)

June 20th, 2022  |  1 hr 18 mins

bayesianism, critical rationalism, effective altruism, epistemology, rationality

We're joined by the wonderful Lulie Tanett to talk about effective altruism, pulling spouses out of burning buildings, and why you should prefer critical rationalism to Bayesianism for your mom's sake.

#21 (C&R Series, Ch.1) - The Problem of Induction

March 23rd, 2021  |  53 mins 58 secs

epistemology, induction, natural law, philosophy of science, popper

#6 - Philosophy of Probability I: Introduction

July 1st, 2020  |  1 hr 17 mins

bayesianism, epistemology, frequency, induction, probability