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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

414 episodes

344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:21:05Feb 16, 2026

343 | Tom Griffiths on The Laws of Thought

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:19:14Feb 9, 2026

AMA | Feb 2026

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

3:10:20Feb 2, 2026

342 | Rachell Powell on Evolutionary Convergence, Morality, and Mind

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:37:15Jan 26, 2026

341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:12:41Jan 19, 2026

340 | Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on What Matters and Why It Matters

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:18:17Jan 12, 2026

339 | Ned Block on Whether Consciousness Requires Biology

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:11:02Jan 5, 2026

Holiday Message 2025 | The Romance of the University

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

42:51Dec 22, 2025

AMA | December 2025

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

3:36:44Dec 15, 2025

338 | Ryan Patterson on the Physics of Neutrinos

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:26:22Dec 8, 2025

337 | Kevin Zollman on Game Theory, Signals, and Meaning

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:17:38Dec 1, 2025

336 | Anil Ananthaswamy on the Mathematics of Neural Nets and AI

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:14:12Nov 24, 2025

AMA | November 2025

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

3:34:19Nov 17, 2025

335 | Andrew Jaffe on Models, Probability, and the Universe

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:17:40Nov 10, 2025

334 | Daniel Whiteson on the Physics of and by Aliens

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:14:22Nov 3, 2025

333 | Gordon Pennycook on Unthinkingness, Conspiracies, and What to Do About Them

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:10:22Oct 27, 2025

332 | Dmitri Tymoczko on the Mathematics Behind Music

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:21:12Oct 20, 2025

AMA | October 2025

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

3:37:19Oct 13, 2025

331 | Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:54:46Oct 6, 2025

330 | Petter Törnberg on the Dynamics of (Mis)Information

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:12:03Sep 29, 2025

329 | Steven Pinker on Rationality and Common Knowledge

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:16:34Sep 22, 2025

328 | Mary Roach on Replacing Parts of Our Bodies

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:07:21Sep 15, 2025

AMA | September 2025

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

3:30:05Sep 8, 2025

327 | Cass Sunstein on Liberalism

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:10:17Sep 1, 2025

326 | Natalie Batalha on What We Know and Will Learn About Exoplanets

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:12:13Aug 25, 2025

325 | Alvy Ray Smith on Pixar, Pixels, and the Great Digital Convergence

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:26:42Aug 18, 2025

324 | Elizabeth Mynatt on Universities and the Importance of Basic Research

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:13:33Aug 11, 2025

AMA | August 2025

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

3:39:59Aug 4, 2025

323 | Jacob Barandes on Indivisible Stochastic Quantum Mechanics

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

2:58:23Jul 28, 2025

322 | Philip Pettit on Language, Agency, Politics, and Freedom

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:20:49Jul 21, 2025

321 | David Tong on Open Questions in Quantum Field Theory

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:19:27Jul 14, 2025

AMA | July 2025

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

4:03:27Jul 7, 2025

320 | Solo: Complexity and the Universe

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

2:14:46Jun 30, 2025

319 | Bryan Van Norden on Philosophy From the Rest of the World

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:12:41Jun 23, 2025

318 | Edward Miguel on the Developing Practice of Development Economics

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:20:40Jun 16, 2025

317 | Nicole Rust on Why Neuroscience Hasn't Solved Brain Disorders

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:14:51Jun 9, 2025

AMA | June 2025

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

3:23:08Jun 2, 2025

316 | Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:28:52May 26, 2025

315 | Branden Fitelson on the Logic and Use of Probability

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:28:57May 19, 2025

314 | Karen Lloyd on the Deep Underground Biosphere

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:09:19May 12, 2025

313 | Eric Topol on the Changing Face of Medicine and Aging

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:12:04May 5, 2025

AMA | May 2025

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

3:38:08Apr 28, 2025

312 | Thomas Levenson on the Mutual History of Humans and Germs

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:31:30Apr 21, 2025

311 | Annaka Harris on Whether Consciousness is Fundamental

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:10:00Apr 14, 2025

AMA | April 2025

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

3:30:23Apr 7, 2025

310 | Marc Kamionkowski on Dark Energy and Cosmic Anomalies

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:26:16Mar 31, 2025

309 | Christof Koch on Consciousness and Integrated Information

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:20:48Mar 24, 2025

308 | Alison Gopnik on Children, AI, and Modes of Thinking

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:09:57Mar 17, 2025

AMA | March 2025

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

2:58:02Mar 10, 2025

307 | Kevin Peterson on the Theory of Cocktails

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:16:37Mar 3, 2025