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Robinson Erhardt
213 - Slavoj Žižek: God, Marxism, Philosophy, and Quantum Mechanics
1 hour 16 minutes Posted Jun 23, 2024 at 4:00 pm.
Introduction
Why Is Philosophy More important Now Than Ever?
On Socrates and the Importance of Philosophy
On Excrement, God, and Atheism
A Communist Paradise
Ukraine and Marxism
Philosophy and Quantum Mechanics
Is Lying the Point of Language?
Cursing as a Test for Artificial Intelligence
On Philosophers and Physicists
On Superpositions and Quantum Mechanics
On Analytic and Continental Philosophy
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Slavoj Žižek is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New York University, and a senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana’s Department of Philosophy. This is Slavoj’s fourth appearance on the show. On episode 109, he and Robinson discussed wokeness and psychoanalysis. On episode 118, he, Sean Carroll, and Robinson discussed quantum physics, the multiverse, and time travel. And on episode 206 he, Lee Smolin, and Robinson discussed quantum physics. In this episode, Robinson and Slavoj talk about ancient philosophy, god, communism, quantum mechanics, and psychoanalysis.
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Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations with philosophers, scientists, and everyone in-between.