Perhaps the most pertinent question that precludes any other form of inquiry is why is there something rather than nothing? Or simply put, why does anything exist at all? This appears to preclude any additional questions we have about reality, knowledge and existence. But what is something and what is nothing? Can nothing ever truly exist? Is why does anything exist at all? a metaphysical or scientific question or a combination of the two? Is why does anything exist at all? even an answerable question? More importantly is it even a viable question in the first place?
Interview & discussion with Professor Carlo Rovelli
Carlo Rovelli is one of the world’s leading thinkers and the pioneer of loop quantum gravity theory. He is also currently a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute, and core member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy of Western University. In 2019, he was included by Foreign Policy magazine in a list of the 100 most influential global thinkers.
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Interview & discussion with Professor Joshua Norton
Joshua Norton is now Professor of Philosophy at Wheaton College, specialising in Philosophy of Science and Quantum Gravity.
https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-g6duf-6bfe2c
Interview & discussion with Professor Simon Saunders
Simon Saunders is Professor of Philosophy of Physics at the University of Oxford, specialising in philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mathematics and is one of the world’s leading Philosophers of Science.
https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-qm3pj-501aa6
Interview & discussion with Professor Richard Swinburne
Richard Swinburne is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, specialising in Philosophy of Religion and Philosophy of Science. Over the second half of the twentieth century he became one of the most influential Philosophers when it comes to arguing in favour of God’s existence.
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Interview & discussion with Professor Anthony Aguirre
Anthony Aguirre is Professor of Physics at the University of California – Santa Cruz. He is a major contributor to the field of Inflationary Cosmology and received his PhD in Physics from Harvard University.
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Interview & discussion with Professor Peter Forrest
Peter Forrest is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New England in Australia, specialising in epistemology and metaphysics. He is the of author of Quantum Metaphysics (1988) and God without the Supernatural (1996).
https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-ayvu5-4dcd9c
Interview & discussion with Professor John Leslie
John Leslie is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the Universe of Guelph in Canada. He is the author of The Mystery of Existence: Why is there Anything At All? (2013).
https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-5znbs-4d47d4
Interview & discussion with Professor Adolf Grünbaum
Adolf Grünbaum was a German-American Philosopher of Science and is one of the most influential Philosophers of Science of the second half of the twentieth century. His works include Philosophical Problems of Space and Time (1963), The Foundations of Psychoanalysis (1984), and Validation in the Clinical Theory of Psychoanalysis (1993).