276 - Craig Callender: Lab-Grown Meat, De-Extinction, and the Tolman-Ehrenfest Effect

About this episode

Robinson and Craig discuss lab-grown meat, de-extinction, disinformation, and various aspects of quantum mechanics.

Craig Callender is Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Institute for Practical Ethics at UC San Diego, where he is a leading philosopher of science and physics. Craig also appeared on episode 73, in which he and Robinson discussed pseudoscience and conspiracy theories, and epidote 114, where he, Robinson, and Tim Maudlin discussed the philosophy of time, including the reality of the past, present, and future, the direction of time, its relationship to relativity and quantum mechanics, and time travel. In this episode, Robinson and Craig turn to a different assortment of topics. They talk about disinformation, lab-grown meat, de-extinction, scientific communication, quantum mechanics, and the Tolman-Ehrenfest Effect. Craig’s Website: https://www.craigcallender.com OUTLINE 00:00 Craig’s Interest in Lab-Grown Meat 04:25 Disinformation and the Philosophy of Science 18:18 The Root of the Error 23:43 The Importance of Science Communication 31:12 What Is De-Extinction? 47:28 What Is the Tolman-Ehrenfest Effect? 1:00:00 Tolman-Ehrenfest, Continued 01:15:07 A Philosopher’s Perspective 01:23:05 What Is The Problem with Quantum Mechanics? 01:24:56 What’s the Best Interpretation…

People in this episode

Host: Robinson Erhardt

Guest: Craig Callender

Topics covered

• lab-grown meat
• de-extinction
• disinformation
• scientific communication
• quantum mechanics
• Tolman-Ehrenfest Effect

Keywords

• lab-grown meat
• de-extinction
• disinformation
• quantum mechanics
• Tolman-Ehrenfest Effect
• philosophy of science
• science communication

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: UC San Diego, Institute for Practical Ethics, Stanford University

Books & works: episode 73, epidote 114

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