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Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Craig Callender: A Graphic History of Time ​(#196)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Craig Callendar is a Professor of Philosophy, and Founding Faculty of, and Co-Director of, the Institute for Practical Ethics at UC San Diego in the Department of Philosophy. He is also on the Freedom and Responsibility in Science Committee of the International Science Council, Paris; and Founding Faculty at the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at UC San Diego; Faculty, The John Bell Institute, Hvar, Croatia. From 1996-2000 I worked in the Department of Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Method at the London School of Economics. I obtained my Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1997. His main area of research and teaching is the philosophy of science, with special emphasis on physics, time, and the environment. His book What Makes Time Special? (Oxford University Press, 2017) won the 2018 Lakatos Award. Here are some book reviews: Philosophy of Science, Philosophical Review, Metascience, BJPS, NDPR. He's also won two Chancellor's Associates Excellence Awards, the 2018-19 Award in Research and the 2007-8 Award in Graduate Teaching. Audible is hands-down my favorite platform for consuming podcasts, fiction and nonfiction books! With an Audible membership, you can download titles and listen offline, anytime, anywhere. The Audible app is free and can be installed on all smartphones and tablets. You can listen across devices without losing your spot. Audible members don’t have to worry about using their credits right away. You can keep your credits for up to a year—and use them to binge on a whole series if you’d like! And if you’re not loving your selection, you can simply swap it for another. Start your free 30-day trial today: Audible.com/impossible or text “impossible” to 500-500 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:32 What made you write a graphic novel? 00:03:15 How do you explain the relative psychological flow of time? 00:06:35 What is your "world-line"? Your background? 00:13:06 How did Carl Popper and his demarcation / falsifiability criteria become so accepted? 00:18:50 How can we make philosophy more important to science? 00:23:55 What is the role of ethics in science? Why do you teach ethics at a "STEM" school? The genesis of the Center of Practical Ethics at UC San Diego. 00:27:00 What is the practical side of scientific ethics? 00:30:10 Kurt Gödel's universe and space-time solutions 00:42:50 Why are we so concerned with theories of everything and cosmogenesis? 00:47:15 Why are singularities so important? 00:52:40 Is there a unifying theory of time? 01:02:50 What is a "block" universe? 📺 Watch my most popular videos:📺 A New Contender is Here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6A6myur--c Frank Wilczek https://youtu.be/3z8RqKMQHe0?sub_confirmation=1 Weinstein and Wolfram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI0AZ4Y4Ip4?sub_confirmation=1 Sheldon Glashow: https://youtu.be/a0_iaWgxQtA?sub_confirmation=1 Michael Saylor The Physics of Bitcoin https://youtu.be/CaN_CDKqXOg?sub_confirmation=1 Sir Roger Penrose, Nobel Prize winner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMuqyAvX7Wo?sub_confirmation=1 Be my friend: 🏄‍♂️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 ✍️Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 🎙️Listen on audio-only platforms: https://briankeating.com/podcast.php A production of http://imagination.ucsd.edu/ Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating Please contact [email protected] to learn more about sponsoring Into the Impossible. Credits: Edited by Catherine Alderette Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to all you fellow travelers in the multiverse of Minds and I'm connecting together

0:07.7

on the Into the Impossible Podcast.

0:09.3

It's a treat to be with you and this is an awesome time to be a cosmologist.

0:14.1

There's so much cool stuff coming.

0:16.1

And sometimes we forget to really pay homage or homage.

0:21.2

No, I think it's homage, to the field that underlies all of science and natural laws and that is philosophy.

0:30.0

And so today it's a great thrill to have not only a philosopher, but one of my colleagues at

0:35.1

UC San Diego, a friend Craig Callender, who's a professor of philosophy and does a great deal to inspire the very, very currency of the imagination economy and that's curiosity.

0:50.0

So today's episode is going to focus on his thoughts based on his book a graphic guide

0:56.6

which is not graphic in the in the risque sense but it's a graphic guide

1:01.3

about time and it's really delightful kind of a graphic novel comic book

1:05.8

but real serious topics about all the fun and interesting themes we explore on

1:10.6

the Into the Impossible Podcast.

1:12.6

And this was a particular treat because we did it in person

1:15.0

right here in UC San Diego in my office.

1:17.8

That was really fun.

1:18.6

And life is getting back to normal nature is healing.

1:23.2

And so you're going to learn a lot about his approach to thinking about time, some very interesting

1:28.3

models of the universe in which time may not behave the way it does in our universe.

1:34.3

And interestingly enough, some of those are held by some of the greatest minds in human history

1:39.4

and philosophy, people like Kurt Gerdle, who we speak about quite often and many other people as well that you'll learn about in today's episode.

1:49.0

So there's some really fun tidbits that you'll take away in this show and it's just a delight to have a real

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