ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Elucidations is an unexpected philosophy podcast produced in association with Emergent Ventures. Every episode, Matt Teichman temporarily transforms himself back into a student and tries to learn the basics of some topic from a person of philosophical interest.
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Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 99 days
Average audio length:
38 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
158 episodes
since July 6, 2009
episodic
explicit content
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗
In this episode, Matt sits down with Marshall Abrams, Professor of Phhilosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, to talk evolutionary theory.
One phrase sometimes associated with the theory of evolution is “the survival of the fittest.” Organisms evolve traits through random mutation, an…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
In this episode, Matt and Joseph sit down with Robin Hanson, Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University, to discuss prediction markets.
A prediction market is a kind of betting market, wherein people place bets on whether or not some future event is going to happen by investing in…
For this episode, Matt Teichman and Joseph Diller sit down with Oliver Traldi (University of Toledo, Mercatus Center) to talk about political expertise.
What does it mean to be an expert in something? Our guest opens by noting that we use the term expert in two different ways: in the normal sense, …
Last episode, we talked about free speech, and this time, we sit down with Rebecca Lowe (Mercatus Center) to discuss the related but slightly different topic of speaking freely.
Speaking freely: the thing you feel entitled to do when a superior says to you: “you may speak freely.” But although sp…
In the latest episode of Elucidations, Greg Salmieri (University of Texas) joins us once again, this time to discuss freedom of speech.
Free speech talk has been in the air, on the internet, for the past decade. But what exactly is going on with freedom of speech? Do I have the right to c…
In the latest episode of Elucidations, Sam Enright (Progress Ireland, The Fitzwilliam) instructs us in the delicate art of learning forever.
If you’re one of those people who responds well to formal education, chances are you’ve spent 10-20 years of your life as a student. When…
This time around, Matt talks to Luca Gattoni-Celli about why it’s so expensive to buy a house.
In the 80s, people from all sorts of socioeconomic backgrounds were able to afford apartments and houses in places like New York City, San Francisco, or London. Now, on the other hand, even many…
Note: this episode was recorded in August of 2022.
In the latest Elucidation, Matt talks to Witold Więcek about the difficulties that come up for researchers who would like to draw upon statistics.
Lots of academic fields need to draw heavily on statistics, whether it’s economics, p…
In this episode, Matt sits down with Shruti Rajagopalan (Mercatus Center) to talk about what the future holds for India.
We often have a tendency to think of the current economic and geopolitical situation as simply the way things are. Especially for people who grew up in the United State…
In this episode, we are joined by Lainie Ross (University of Rochester Medical Center) and (once again!) Christos Lazaridis (UChicago Medicine), this time to talk about the different ways of defining death.
In our previous episode with Christos, we talked about death a…
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