47 episodes
RSam Podcast Rahul Samaranayake
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- Society & Culture
Asking the foundational questions.
Philosophy & Theory | AI & CogSci
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Why You Should Read Byung-Chul Han (w/ Davood Gozli)
Dr Davood Gozli is a cognitive psychologist and lay philosopher. In this episode, we discuss Byung-Chul Han's work and his contributions to the contemporary critical theory discourse.
You can find more of Dr Gozli's work at https://dgozli.com/ and https://www.youtube.com/c/DavoodGozli
Watch the video version here.
RSam Podcast #42
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{Podcast}
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RahulSam
Substack: https://rsampod.substack.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le
Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake
Website: https://rahulsam.me/
{Social Media}
https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/
https://twitter.com/trsam97
{Reference Links}
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byung-Chul_Han
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/970747.Byung_Chul_Han
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Graham Oppy on Analytic Idealism, Gödel's Proof for God, and Ontological Arguments
Prof Graham Oppy is the Professor of Philosophy at Monash University and, before that, did his graduate work at Princeton. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and the foundation editor of the Australasian Philosophical Review. He's also the author of several books, including Atheism: The Basics by Routledge, Arguing about Gods and Ontological Arguments and Belief in God—additionally, he's also published superlative papers on Gödel's ontological proof for the existence of God. Apart from being a renowned philosopher of religion, he has also published on the philosophy of math, language, aesthetics, and science. In this episode, we discuss new atheism, Bernardo Kastrup's analytical idealism, Gödel's proof for God, Anselm's and Hegelian ontological arguments, limits of formal axiomatisation, and its relationship to epistemology and Christian existentialism.
You can find more of Prof Oppy's work at https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/graham-oppy and https://x.com/OppyGraham
Watch the video version here.
RSam Podcast #41
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{Podcast}
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RahulSam
Substack: https://rsampod.substack.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le
Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake
Website: https://rahulsam.me/
{Social Media}
https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/
https://twitter.com/trsam97
{Reference Links}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WE1y00bwCU
https://www.amazon.com.au/Ontological-Arguments-Belief-Graham-Oppy/dp/0521481201
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sOlr9TeI2k
https://www.academia.edu/8233351/Godelian_ontological_arguments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WK-auo8Miw
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If the ideas I discuss in this podcast evoke your interest, consider visiting https://theunhappyman.substack.com/
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Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research.
Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statutes that might otherwise be infringing.
If you are or represent the copyright owner of materials used in this video and have a problem with the use of the related material, please email me at trahulsam@gmail.com, and we can sort it out. Thank you. -
Inês Hipólito on Computational Phenomenology, E-Cognition and the AI of Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Dr Inês Hipólito is an Assistant Professor at Macquarie University, specialising in cognitive science and philosophy of mind and AI. Prior to this role, she served as a lecturer at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain. She employs E-Cognitive Science, Complex Systems, and the Free Energy Principle to investigate the dynamic relationship between human cognition and artificial intelligence. Furthermore, Dr Hipólito is also the co-founder of the ‘International Society of the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind’ and serves as the AI ethics advisor/architect for VERSES, a cognitive computing company. In this episode, we discussed computational phenomenology, E-cognition, active inference, the free energy principle, the philosophy and ethics of AI, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Simone de Beauvoir.
You can find more of Dr Inês Hipólito's work at www.ineshipolito.com and https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/ines-hipolito
Watch the video version here.
RSam Podcast #40
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{Podcast}
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RahulSam
Substack: https://rsampod.substack.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le
Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake
Website: https://rahulsam.me/
{Social Media}
https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/
https://twitter.com/trsam97
{Reference Links}
https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/publications/an-alternative-to-cognitivism-computational-phenomenology-for-dee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Clark
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_Gallagher
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Thompson
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691180144/artificial-you
https://youtu.be/Wkyc2tay2dw?si=HWzZ-PQRWVLm1vGK
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/5/article/925194/summary
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If the ideas I discuss in this podcast evoke your interest, consider visiting https://theunhappyman.substack.com/
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Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research.
Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statutes that might otherwise be infringing.
If you are or represent the copyright owner of materials used in this video and have a problem with the use of the related material, please email me at trahulsam@gmail.com, and we can sort it out. Thank you. -
Simon Critchley on Heidegger, Hermeneutics and Why Philosophy Begins in Disappointment
Prof. Simon Critchley is a philosopher and the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. He's the author of numerous books, including Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance, On Heidegger's Being and Time, Memory Theatre, and Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us (to name a few). Since 2010, Prof. Critchley has moderated The New York Times philosophy series, The Stone, and in 2020, he released Apply-degger, a long-form podcast series on Martin Heidegger's Being and Time. In this episode, we discuss how to philosophise well while being a useless philosopher, phenomenological existentialism and all things Heidegger.
You can find more of Prof. Critchley's work at https://www.simoncritchley.org/ and https://www.newschool.edu/nssr/faculty/simon-critchley/
Watch the video version here.
RSam Podcast #39
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{Podcast}
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RahulSam
Substack: https://rsampod.substack.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le
Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake
Website: https://rahulsam.me/
{Social Media}
https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/
https://twitter.com/trsam97
{Reference Links}
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXaTWQcl9-DWk0N1yovQT6OJi2K89qj4J&si=HMJV2rlRZQAKKfqM
https://www.routledge.com/On-Heideggers-Being-and-Time/Levine-Critchley-Schurmann/p/book/9780415775960
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/743325.Infinitely_Demanding
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If the ideas I discuss in this podcast evoke your interest, consider visiting https://theunhappyman.substack.com/
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Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research.
Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statutes that might otherwise be infringing.
If you are or represent the copyright owner of materials used in this video and have a problem with the use of the related material, please email me at trahulsam@gmail.com, and we can sort it out. Thank you. -
Philosopher of Education Reacts to Sabine Hossenfelder's Academic Woes
Dr. Vlasta Sikimić is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Science and a member of the Philosophy and Ethics group at Eindhoven University of Technology. Her research focuses on the Social Epistemology of Science, Metascience, Philosophy of AI and ML in Science and Philosophy of AI in Education. In this episode, we react to Sabine Hossenfelder's recent video: https://youtu.be/LKiBlGDfRU8?si=k95jhrK-QRHlIJ_P
You can find more of Dr. Sikimić's work at https://vlastasikimic.com/ and https://twitter.com/VlastaSikimic
Our previous conversation: https://youtu.be/70g559tguHs
Watch the video version here.
RSam Podcast #38
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{Podcast}
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RahulSam
Substack: https://rsampod.substack.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le
Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake
Website: https://rahulsam.me/
{Social Media}
https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/
https://twitter.com/trsam97
{Reference Links}
Dr. Sikimić's work:
https://vlastasikimic.com/publications/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13164-020-00504-7
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13194-022-00478-6
https://vlastasikimic.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/sikimiceip18.pdf
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If the ideas I discuss in this podcast evoke your interest, consider visiting https://theunhappyman.substack.com/
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Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research.
Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statutes that might otherwise be infringing.
If you are or represent the copyright owner of materials used in this video and have a problem with the use of the related material, please email me at trahulsam@gmail.com, and we can sort it out. Thank you. -
Vlasta Sikimić on the Philosophy of AI in Science, Epistemic Tolerance and Linguistic Injustice
Dr. Vlasta Sikimić is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Science and a member of the Philosophy and Ethics group at Eindhoven University of Technology. Her research focuses on the Social Epistemology of Science, Metascience, Philosophy of AI and ML in Science and Philosophy of AI in Education. In this episode, we discuss epistemic equity and tolerance, linguistic injustice, the philosophy of AI, scientific funding, using ML for scientific grant reviews, the epistemology of science and Slavoj Žižek.
You can find more of Dr. Sikimić's work at https://vlastasikimic.com/ and https://twitter.com/VlastaSikimic
Watch the video version here.
RSam Podcast #37
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{Podcast}
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RahulSam
Substack: https://rsampod.substack.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le
Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake
Website: https://rahulsam.me/
{Social Media}
https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/
https://twitter.com/trsam97
{Reference Links}
Dr. Sikimić's work:
https://vlastasikimic.com/publications/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13164-020-00504-7
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13194-022-00478-6
https://vlastasikimic.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/sikimiceip18.pdf
On the discovery of the connection between HPV and cancer: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442215214/Catching-Cancer-The-Quest-for-Its-Viral-and-Bacterial-Causes
On diversity and inclusion: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02691728.2023.2258831
On the lab space gap: https://www.science.org/content/article/women-scientists-famed-oceanography-institute-have-half-lab-space-men
On the diversity of thoughts: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10670-009-9194-6
Sabina Leonelli's on data: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2053951714534395
Speciesist bias in AI: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43681-022-00199-9
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41104077-invisible-women
Slavoj Žižek's work:
https://philpapers.org/archive/SLAPSC.pdf
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1013322.Did_Somebody_Say_Totalitarianism_
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If the ideas I discuss in this podcast evoke your interest, consider visiting https://theunhappyman.substack.com/
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Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research.
Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statutes that might otherwise be infringing.
If you are or represent the copyright owner of materials used in this video and have a problem with the use of the related material, please email me at trahulsam@gmail.com, and we can sort it out. Thank you.