Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
By Sean Carroll
Ever wanted to know how music affects your brain, what quantum mechanics really is, or how black holes work? Do you wonder why you get emotional each time you see a certain movie, or how on earth video games are designed? Then you've come to the right place. Each week, Sean Carroll will host conversations with some of the most interesting thinkers in the world. From neuroscientists and engineers to authors and television producers, Sean and his guests talk about the biggest ideas in science, philosophy, culture and much more.
Recent Episodes
346 | Erica Cartmill on How Human and Animal Minds Think and Play
9 Mar 2026
AMA | March 2026
2 Mar 2026
345 | Adam Elga on Being Rational in a Very Large Universe
23 Feb 2026
344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It
16 Feb 2026
343 | Tom Griffiths on The Laws of Thought
9 Feb 2026
AMA | Feb 2026
2 Feb 2026
Rachell Powell on Evolutionary Convergence, Morality, and Mind
26 Jan 2026
Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle
19 Jan 2026
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on What Matters and Why It Matters
12 Jan 2026
Ned Block on Whether Consciousness Requires Biology
5 Jan 2026
Holiday Message 2025 | The Romance of the University
22 Dec 2025
AMA | December 2025
15 Dec 2025
Ryan Patterson on the Physics of Neutrinos
8 Dec 2025
Kevin Zollman on Game Theory, Signals, and Meaning
1 Dec 2025
Anil Ananthaswamy on the Mathematics of Neural Nets and AI
24 Nov 2025
AMA | November 2025
17 Nov 2025
Andrew Jaffe on Models, Probability, and the Universe
10 Nov 2025
Daniel Whiteson on the Physics of and by Aliens
3 Nov 2025
Gordon Pennycook on Unthinkingness, Conspiracies, and What to Do About Them
27 Oct 2025
Dmitri Tymoczko on the Mathematics Behind Music
20 Oct 2025
AMA | October 2025
13 Oct 2025
Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse
6 Oct 2025
Petter Törnberg on the Dynamics of (Mis)Information
29 Sep 2025
Steven Pinker on Rationality and Common Knowledge
22 Sep 2025
Mary Roach on Replacing Parts of Our Bodies
15 Sep 2025
AMA | September 2025
8 Sep 2025
Cass Sunstein on Liberalism
1 Sep 2025
Natalie Batalha on What We Know and Will Learn About Exoplanets
25 Aug 2025
Alvy Ray Smith on Pixar, Pixels, and the Great Digital Convergence
18 Aug 2025
Elizabeth Mynatt on Universities and the Importance of Basic Research
