RSam Podcast
Philosophy & Theory | AI & CogSci
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"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 entire academic project? And if so, how...
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 intersection of Lacanian...
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 Washington University, Marymount Unive...
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 information geometry to examine how collect...
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.com
Prof Jeffrey Yoshimi is Professo...
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 Cognition, Oxford Handbook of 4E-Cogn...
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 philosophy.
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 Philosophical Studies, and Continental Ph...
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: https://youtu.be/Wzu63JKoB3w?s...
Prof Tim Maudlin is a philosopher of physics and science who, in the last few decades, has pioneered forwarding the field' Foundations of Physics.' He's the founder of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics, domiciled in Split, Croatia. He taught for over two decades at Rutgers University before joining the Department of Philosophy at New York University. Prof Maudlin is the author of numerous books, inc...
Dr Paul Cockshott is a computer scientist and multidisciplinary economist working through Marxism and scientific socialism. Dr Cockshott earned a PhD in Computer Science from Edinburgh University. Named on fifty-two patents, his research covers political economy, robotics, computer parallelism, 3D TV, foundations of computability, and data compression. He is the author of numerous books, including How the World Works, Towards a New...
ActuallyAdu is a video essayist and political commentator. He has a background in economics and makes videos about Australian and global politics. In this episode, we discuss the housing crisis, how bad the Australian economy is compared to the rest of the world, neoliberalism and its discontents, decommodifying housing, energy policy, migration, identity, preferential voting and building alternate systems.
Mahault Albarracin is a PhD student at UQAM, Montréal, Québec, researching cognitive computing and social sciences. Mahault is Director of Research Strategy and Product Integration at VERSUS, a cognitive computing company. She is also an IEEE fellow, author, lecturer and has an MA in sexology. In this episode, we discuss the fundamental difference between LLMs and agents built on cognitive computing principles, AI agency, active in...
Dr Jack Black is an Associate Professor of Culture, Media, and Sport at Sheffield Hallam University (UK), where he's affiliated with the Centre for Culture, Media, and Society and is Research Lead for the Anti-Racism Research Group. He is an interdisciplinary researcher primarily focused on Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis, media, and cultural studies, authoring numerous books, including The Psychosis of Race, Racism and Politica...
Prof Richard Boothby is a professor of philosophy at Loyola University Maryland who works in psychoanalysis, philosophical psychology, phenomenology, existentialism, and contemporary continental philosophy. He is the author of Death and Desire, Freud as Philosopher, Blown Away and numerous other books. In this episode, we discuss his religious work (as a response to Christian Nationalism and identity politics) along with the book E...
Dr Tim Elmo Feiten is a philosopher of science with a focus on the sciences of life, mind, and artificial intelligence. His work brings the history and philosophy of science into dialogue with other fields, especially continental and Classical German philosophy. He has used the philosophy of embodied cognitive science to develop new readings of Jakob von Uexküll and Max Stirner and to ask questions about the relationships between a...
Andrew Flores is an autodidact in Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis, philosophy, theology, and Marxism. In this episode, we discuss Lacan's metapsychology and theory of the subject.
You can find more of Andrew's work at https://www.youtube.com/@thevanishingmediators and https://www.youtube.com/@The_Big_Sig
GOAT memes: https://www.instagram.com/the_big_sig/
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Prof Kenneth Reinhard is Research Professor of Comparative Literature and English at UCLA, where he directed the Center for Jewish Studies, and founded the graduate program in Experimental Critical Theory. He has written on psychoanalysis, philosophy, religion, and occasionally literature and opera. He is Co-Author of The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology with Slavoj Žižek and Eric Santner, and After Oedipus: Shakesp...
Dr Peter Rollins is a philosopher and radical theologian working through the tradition of apophatic theology, Freud, Lacan, Hegel and Žižek. He has a PhD dealing with post-structural theory from Queen's University, Belfast, and is the author of numerous books, including How (Not) to Speak of God and The Idolatry of God. Dr Rollins is the creator of Pyrotheology, which is a life technology that "involves a deep critique of ...
Abstraction, mimesis and the evolution of deep learning: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-023-01688-z
You can find more of Prof Hamelryck's work at https://thamelry.github.io/ and his Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YoTlzjkAAAAJ&hl=en
You can find more of Dr Eklöf's work at https://researchprofiles.ku.dk/en/persons/jon-ekl%C3%B6f and https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-ekl%C3%B6f/
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