4 Podcast Episodes
83 - Barry Loewer: Probability, Laws of Nature, and Statistical Mechanics
83 - Barry Loewer: Probability, Laws of Nature, and Statistical Mechanics
Barry Loewer is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers. Before that he did his PhD in philosophy at Stanford (... Read more
30 Apr 2023
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1hr 27mins
215 | Barry Loewer on Physics, Counterfactuals, and the Macroworld
215 | Barry Loewer on Physics, Counterfactuals, and the Macroworld
The founders of statistical mechanics in the 19th century faced an uphill battle to convince their fellow physicists tha... Read more
24 Oct 2022
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1hr 34mins
Sean Carroll and Barry Loewer: What Does Physics Tell Us About Consciousness?
Sean Carroll and Barry Loewer: What Does Physics Tell Us About Consciousness?
We previously had a long chat with Sean Carroll. A big bone of contention with Philip and Sean was the degree to which p... Read more
28 Jun 2022
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2hr 9mins
Lecture 10; Barry Loewer, Tim Maudlin and David Albert.mp3
Lecture 10; Barry Loewer, Tim Maudlin and David Albert.mp3
Barry Loewer is the guest lecturer for this class. Tim starts by recapitulating the notion of typicality introduced in t... Read more
11 Apr 2012
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