Patterson in Pursuit
Steve PattersonPhilosophy in the real world. Interviewing intellectuals across the globe. Grappling with the biggest ideas. stevepatterson.substack.com
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Information and Spirit [Narration]
Jul 13 • 4m
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Is Everything Quantifiable? [Narration]
Jul 6 • 4m
Ep. 109 - Order After Atheism | Aaron Day
Jun 28 • 1h 34m
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Complexity and Natural Systems [Narration]
Jun 19 • 4m
Ep. 108 - I'm Trying to Understand the Trinity | TK Coleman
Jun 17 • 2h 28m
Ep. 107 - Coming Around to Catholicism | TK Coleman
Jun 11 • 2h 42m
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4 Steps to the Immaterial [Narration]
Sep 29, 2024 • 4m
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Why We Need to Replace Mathematics [Narration]
Sep 22, 2024 • 5m
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The Objectivity of Structure Outside our Concepts [Narration]
May 6, 2023 • 6m
Ep. 106 - Living with the Robots | Dr. RollerGator
Apr 2, 2023 • 1h 43m
Ep. 105 - The Philosophy of AI (pt 1) | Alexandros Marinos
Mar 24, 2023 • 2h 15m
Ep. 104 - "No Longer a Christian" | Isaac Deitz
Nov 26, 2021 • 1h 51m
Our Present Dark Age
Jul 6, 2021 • 20m
Ep. 103 - "Mad at Mathematicians" | Isaac Morehouse
Jan 21, 2021 • 48m
Ep. 102 - Scientific Progress and Intellectual Schelling Points | Dr. Geoff Anders
Apr 19, 2020 • 1h 50m
Critical Thinking | Zooming In and Zooming Out
Mar 31, 2020 • 8m
Ep. 101- Is a Ruling Class Inevitable? | Samo Burja
Mar 8, 2020 • 1h 19m
Coming Around to Platonism
Jan 10, 2020 • 26m
Ep. 100 - Trying to Solve Philosophy | Patterson in Pursuit
Nov 19, 2019 • 45m
Ep. 99 - Non-Rationality and Psychedelics | Dr. Bernardo Kastrup
Sep 8, 2019 • 1h 2m
Ep. 98 - "A Consciousness-Only Ontology" | Dr. Bernardo Kastrup
Sep 1, 2019 • 1h 39m
Understanding God as Nature or the Universe
Aug 22, 2019 • 26m
Solving the Interaction Problem
Aug 2, 2019 • 25m
There Are No Objective Definitions
May 19, 2019 • 15m
Ep. 97 - Math Heresy: Ultrafinitism | Dr. Doron Zeilberger
Apr 21, 2019 • 57m
Ep. 96 - Truth and Postmodernism | Breakdown of Thaddeus Russell Interview
Apr 7, 2019 • 1h 45m
Ep. 95 - The Highest IQ in America | Christopher Langan
Mar 24, 2019 • 1h 11m
Ep. 94 - A Satoshi Nakamoto Story | Phil "Scronty" Wilson
Sep 2, 2018 • 7h 14m
Ep. 93 - Abortion, Natural Rights, and Evictionism | Dr. Walter Block
Jun 28, 2018 • 58m
Ep. 92 - 6 Years of Mystery Illness: When Western Medicine Fails
Jun 17, 2018 • 1h 57m
The Abuse of Apriorism in Economics
May 31, 2018 • 21m
Ep. 90 - The Overwhelming Beauty of Free Markets | Jeffrey Tucker
May 27, 2018 • 52m
Does Free Will Even Make Sense?
May 24, 2018 • 18m
The Crucifixion: A Unification of Love and Hate
May 17, 2018 • 7m
How the Rubik's Cube Solves Any Paradox
May 13, 2018 • 13m
Defending Zeno's Paradox
May 3, 2018 • 14m
Ep. 88 - Watch Out for Bitcoin Cash | Ryan X. Charles
Apr 29, 2018 • 1h 31m
How Progressives Can Fix the Economy
Apr 26, 2018 • 6m
Ep. 87 - Race and Colorblindness: Part II | T.K. Coleman
Apr 22, 2018 • 2h 1m
Gay Marriage and the Absurdity of Courts
Apr 19, 2018 • 13m
Ep. 86 - Race and Colorblindness: Part I | TK Coleman
Apr 16, 2018 • 1h 45m
The Profundity of Poker
Apr 8, 2018 • 13m
Ep. 85 - College Isn't for Education | Dr. Bryan Caplan
Apr 2, 2018 • 58m
Ep. 84 - When Logic Met Math | Dr. Graham Priest
Mar 25, 2018 • 28m
Ep. 83 - Logic, Contradictions, and the Liar Paradox | Dr. Graham Priest
Mar 18, 2018 • 1h 22m
Ep. 82 - Do Entities Exist? | Breakdown of Chalmers Interview
Mar 11, 2018 • 30m
Ep. 81 - The Ethics of Eating Meat | Dr. Mike Huemer
Mar 4, 2018 • 1h 7m
Ep. 80 - A Debate about Truth and Postmodernism | Thaddeus Russell
Feb 25, 2018 • 1h 10m
Ep. 79 - Postmodernism, Marxism, Love, and Religion | Thaddeus Russell
Feb 18, 2018 • 1h 3m
Ep. 78 - The Case for Idealism | Dr. Bernardo Kastrup
Feb 11, 2018 • 59m
Time for Writing and Health
Oct 8, 2017 • 4m
The Puzzle of Awareness
Oct 5, 2017 • 5m
Ep. 77 - Why I Support Catalonia's Secession
Oct 1, 2017 • 24m
Don't Fight for Objective Definitions
Sep 28, 2017 • 8m
Ep. 76 - Metaphysical Questions, Objectivist Answers | Dr. David Kelley
Sep 24, 2017 • 57m
The Fashionable Thinkers
Sep 21, 2017 • 14m
Ep. 75 - Do We Perceive Reality? | Dr. Donald Hoffman
Sep 17, 2017 • 1h 6m
How to Deal with Alien Abductions and Bigfoot Sightings
Sep 14, 2017 • 9m
Ep. 74 - Race and American Politics | T.K. Coleman
Sep 10, 2017 • 1h 19m
Unifying the Plural into the Simple
Sep 7, 2017 • 6m
Ep. 73 - Race, Culture, and Judgments | T.K. Coleman
Sep 3, 2017 • 1h 30m
Ep. 72 - The Real Story Behind Bitcoin Cash | Ryan X. Charles
Aug 27, 2017 • 1h 0m
Ep. 71 - Meditation and the Absence of Self | Oren J. Sofer
Aug 20, 2017 • 1h 3m
Ep. 70 - Should Feminism and Philosophy Mix? | Interview Breakdown
Aug 14, 2017 • 1h 26m
Ep. 69 - Hegel and Paradox | Dr. Donald Verene
Aug 6, 2017 • 58m
Ep. 68 - Corruption in the Silk Road Case | Lyn Ulbricht
Jul 30, 2017 • 50m
Ep. 67 - Catholicism, the Church, and Faith | Fr. Oscar Martin
Jul 23, 2017 • 1h 1m
Ep. 65 - "Ultra Spiritual" or "Actually Spiritual"? | JP Sears
Jul 10, 2017 • 56m
Ep. 64 - Science, Peer Review, and Academic B******t | Brian Earp
Jul 2, 2017 • 1h 10m
Can Drugs Lead to Truth?
Jun 29, 2017 • 13m
Language is Inherently Ambiguous
Jun 22, 2017 • 7m
Ep. 62 - Bitcoin, OpenBazaar, and Political Power | Sam Patterson
Jun 17, 2017 • 53m
Is Space Mental?
Jun 15, 2017 • 8m
Ep. 61 - Ayn Rand's Objectivism | Dr. David Kelley
Jun 11, 2017 • 1h 4m
You Live in Your Mind
Jun 8, 2017 • 6m
Ep. 60 - Dialogue with a Buddhist Monk | Phra Maha Chanomkorn Prakai
Jun 4, 2017 • 58m
Ep. 59 - Can You Approach Infinity? | Dr. Michael Huemer
May 28, 2017 • 1h 20m
Is the World Blurry? | The Modernist Fallacy
May 26, 2017 • 6m
Ep. 58 - The Psychology of Postmodernism | Dr. Stephen Hicks
May 20, 2017 • 58m
Tai Chi Meets Reality
May 18, 2017 • 8m
Ep. 57 - Are Some Objects Mind-Dependent? | Interview Breakdown
May 15, 2017 • 52m
Puerto Rico Has Gone Bankrupt
May 12, 2017 • 7m
Ep. 56 - Zen Buddhism | Keiho Nishigaki
May 9, 2017 • 33m
Ep. 55 - Are Science and Religion Incompatible? | Dr. Peter Harrison
Apr 30, 2017 • 55m
Data versus Anecdotes: From Ghosts to Levaquin
Apr 28, 2017 • 19m
Ep. 54 - Psychedelic Experience: Ayahuasca | The World Wanderers
Apr 23, 2017 • 1h 53m
The Social Hierarchy
Apr 20, 2017 • 10m
Ep. 53 - One Year, 10 Countries | What I've Learned
Apr 15, 2017 • 42m
People Love Hierarchy
Apr 13, 2017 • 8m
Ep. 52 - Are Some Infinities Bigger Than Others? | Dr. Toby Meadows
Apr 9, 2017 • 1h 5m
Ep. 51 - Feminist Philosophy | Dr. Michelle Boulous-Walker
Apr 2, 2017 • 1h 6m
The Metaphysics of Fiction
Mar 31, 2017 • 7m
Ep. 50 - Argumentation Ethics | Stephan Kinsella
Mar 26, 2017 • 1h 27m
Experts and Incompetence
Mar 24, 2017 • 23m
Ep. 49 - Is Consciousness "Emergent"? | Dr. David Braddon-Mitchell
Mar 18, 2017 • 53m
My Experience with Christian Evangelicalism
Mar 16, 2017 • 24m
Ep. 48 - Skepticism of Infinity in Mathematics | Dr. Norman Wildberger
Mar 12, 2017 • 51m
Infinite Things Do Not Exist
Mar 9, 2017 • 14m
Ep. 47 - Problems with Paraconsistent Logic | Interview Breakdown
Mar 5, 2017 • 58m
3 Steps for Changing a Paradigm
Mar 3, 2017 • 5m
Ep. 46 - Buddhism and Boundaries | Interview Breakdown
Feb 26, 2017 • 36m
A Requirement for True Love
Feb 24, 2017 • 14m
Ep. 45 - Infinite Sets: Understanding the Basics | Dr. Gareth
Feb 19, 2017 • 54m
Charlie Hebdo as an Excuse to Take Selfies
Feb 16, 2017 • 6m
Ep. 44 - SJWs, the Left, and Academia | Dr. Jamie Whyte
Feb 12, 2017 • 48m
Ep. 43 - Indigenous Beliefs of New Zealand | Dr. Hirini Kaa
Feb 5, 2017 • 1h 7m
Ep. 42 - Truth and Paraconsistent Logic
Jan 29, 2017 • 1h 9m
Ep. 41 - Race Relations, Part II | T.K. Coleman
Jan 26, 2017 • 1h 34m
Ep. 40 - Race Relations | T.K. Coleman
Jan 22, 2017 • 1s
Why I Am Not a Physicalist
Jan 19, 2017 • 22m
Ep. 39 - Theism without the OmniGod | Dr. John Bishop
Jan 15, 2017 • 1h 14m
Ep. 38 - The Post-Truth Era | Dr. Robert Nola
Jan 8, 2017 • 52m
Ep. 37 - Free Will, Causality, and Pluralism | Dr. Mario De Caro
Jan 1, 2017 • 48m
The Bittersweet Paradox
Dec 29, 2016 • 11m
Ep. 36 - Christmas Breakdown | Scrooge Edition
Dec 26, 2016 • 58m
Ep. 35 - Legalizing All Drugs | Dr. Jeffrey Miron
Dec 18, 2016 • 38m
Ep. 34 - The Foundations of Knowledge
Dec 11, 2016 • 22m
Is It Honorable To Be In The Military?
Dec 8, 2016 • 19m
Ep. 33 - Do Mathematical Objects Exist? | Dr. Jody Azzouni
Dec 4, 2016 • 58m
Ep. 32 - Minds, Machines, and Souls | Interview Breakdown
Nov 28, 2016 • 42m
Ep. 31 - Religious Experience | Isaac Morehouse
Nov 20, 2016 • 52m
The Case for Cultural Appropriation
Nov 17, 2016 • 13m
Thank Goodness for Price Gougers
Nov 10, 2016 • 7m
Ep. 30 - Buddhism, the Self, and Boundaries | Dr. Janet Gyatso
Nov 6, 2016 • 33m
Gender, Sex, and Language
Nov 3, 2016 • 15m
Ep. 29 - Trump and Conservatism | Dr. Harvey Mansfield
Oct 30, 2016 • 51m
Ep. 28 - Questions for a Christian Theologian | Dr. Ian McFarland
Oct 23, 2016 • 55m
All is One: The Logical Case for Mysticism
Oct 20, 2016 • 9m
Ep. 27 - Intellectual Optimism | T.K. Coleman
Oct 16, 2016 • 1h 2m
Reparations for Slavery
Oct 13, 2016 • 12m
Ep. 26 - Why I'm Not in Academia
Oct 9, 2016 • 36m
Steak and Certainty
Oct 6, 2016 • 4m
Ep. 25 - Artificial Intelligence and Minds | Dr. Bram van Heuveln
Oct 2, 2016 • 47m
Karma or Coincidence?
Sep 29, 2016 • 9m
Ep. 24 - John Searle and Dualism | Interview Breakdown
Sep 25, 2016 • 34m
What is Religiosity?
Sep 22, 2016 • 11m
Ep. 23 - Postmodernism | Dr. Stephen Hicks
Sep 18, 2016 • 52m
Economic Reality Comes Before Social Justice
Sep 14, 2016 • 8m
Ep. 22 - Understanding Infinity | Dr. Daniel Isaacson
Sep 11, 2016 • 46m
An Objective Standard for Sanity
Sep 8, 2016 • 8m
Ep. 21 - Biological Naturalism | Dr. John Searle
Sep 4, 2016 • 30m
The Continuum Problem
Sep 1, 2016 • 9m
Ep. 20 - Democracy to Anarchism | Interview Breakdown
Aug 28, 2016 • 49m
Logic is Not a Convention
Aug 24, 2016 • 8m
Ep. 19 - Three Basic Concepts in Economics | Dr. Donald Boudreaux
Aug 22, 2016 • 54m
Hiding Behind Abstractions
Aug 22, 2016 • 9m
Ep. 18 - Democracy, More or Less | Dr. Bruce Cain
Aug 14, 2016 • 1h 5m
Faith and Reason
Aug 10, 2016 • 12m
Physicalism and Spirituality
Aug 3, 2016 • 8m
Ep. 17 - Oxford Analysis | Interview Breakdown
Jul 31, 2016 • 37m
Tautologies Must Not Be Dismissed
Jul 28, 2016 • 10m
Ep. 16 - What is Logic? | Dr. Timothy Williamson
Jul 24, 2016 • 1h 6m
The Paradox of Buridan's Ass
Jul 19, 2016 • 6m
Ep. 15 - Anarchist Intuition | Libertarian Political Philosophy
Jul 17, 2016 • 28m
Resolving the Liar's Paradox
Jul 14, 2016 • 6m
Ep. 14 - Understanding Quantum Physics | Dr. Simon Saunders
Jul 11, 2016 • 1h 11m
Everything is Grounded in Logic
Jul 6, 2016 • 7m
Can You Judge Intelligence by Beliefs?
Jun 29, 2016 • 8m
Ep. 12 - Brexit!
Jun 26, 2016 • 26m
From Conservative to Anarchist
Jun 22, 2016 • 14m
Ep. 11 - Contradictions at Columbia | Interview Breakdown
Jun 19, 2016 • 44m
The Logic of Nothing
Jun 15, 2016 • 8m
Ep. 10 - Christian Beliefs, Experiences | Dr. Bob Murphy
Jun 12, 2016 • 51m
Assume Everybody is Wrong
Jun 8, 2016 • 7m
Ep. 9 - Logic, Contradictions, and Dialetheism | Dr. Justin Clarke-Doane
Jun 5, 2016 • 1h 27m
Does the Mind Have Access to Objective Truth?
Jun 1, 2016 • 8m
Ep. 8 - Completed Infinities: Possible or Not? | Dr. Gary McGuire
May 29, 2016 • 44m
Against "Doing the Right Thing"
May 25, 2016 • 7m
Ep. 7 - Egoism, Religion, Ayn Rand | Michael Malice
May 22, 2016 • 56m
Chairs Do Not Exist
May 18, 2016 • 17m
Ep. 6 - Interview Breakdown: Pragmatism, Objective Truth, and Anarchism
May 15, 2016 • 36m
Democracy Fail: Trump versus Sanders
May 11, 2016 • 7m
Ep. 5 - American Pragmatism | Dr. John Stuhr
May 8, 2016 • 1h 14m
The Sliding Scale of Certainty
May 4, 2016 • 5m
The Death of Skepticism
Apr 26, 2016 • 7m
Ep. 3 - Consciousness and Subjectivity | Dr. Emrys Westacott
Apr 21, 2016 • 36m
Ep. 2 - Is There Objective Truth? | Dr. Emrys Westacott
Apr 21, 2016 • 33m
Ep. 1 - Introduction
Apr 20, 2016 • 4m
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