Interviews
Conversations with scholars, thinkers, and professors
Scholar Conversations
November 13, 2025 · ESP Live Interview
A Conversation on AI Ethics with the Director of Ethics @ Harvard
A live interview and discussion with Professor Jeff Behrends, Director of Ethics at Harvard, exploring the ethical dimensions of artificial intelligence, moral responsibility in technology, and the philosophical foundations of AI governance.
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June 1, 2026 · ESP Live Interview
A Conversation on Social Philosophy with a UW Philosopher
A live interview and discussion with Erica Bigelow, PhD candidate at the University of Washington, exploring social philosophy, the philosophy of emotion, and how emotional expectations can function as instruments of injustice.
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Can Evil and God Exist? The Logical Problem of Evil
Interviewed by Elijah Anteneh (ESP Virginia Team). A conversation with Dr. Graham Oppy, one of the world's leading philosophers of religion, on the logical problem of evil - one of the oldest and most powerful arguments against the existence of God.
Watch on YouTube →June 5, 2026 · Inference Studios
Free Will and Morality
Interviewed by Elijah Anteneh (ESP Virginia Team). A conversation with Dr. Joshua Knobe, professor of philosophy and cognitive science at Yale University and founder of the field of experimental philosophy, on free will, moral responsibility, and how ordinary people think about intentional action.
Watch on YouTube →June 24, 2026 · Inference Studios
Epistemic Disagreement
Interviewed by Elijah Anteneh (ESP Virginia Team). A conversation with Professor David Christensen of Brown University on epistemic disagreement - how we should respond when equally informed, rational people come to different conclusions about the same evidence.
Watch on YouTube →April 30, 2026 · Inference Studios
How Do You Know Anything? Radical Skepticism and Epistemology
Interviewed by Elijah Anteneh (ESP Virginia Team). A conversation with Professor Duncan Pritchard of UC Irvine, one of the world's leading epistemologists, on radical skepticism - how we can claim to know anything at all in the face of skeptical challenges.
Watch on YouTube →April 26, 2026 · Inference Studios
Is the Universe Fine-Tuned? Science and Religion
Interviewed by Elijah Anteneh (ESP Virginia Team). A conversation with Dr. Samuel Blitz, mathematical physicist and UC Davis PhD, on fine-tuning arguments, the relationship between science and religion, and whether the constants of the universe point to design or chance.
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