{"podcast":{"title":"Delving In with Stuart Kelter","slug":"delving-in-with-stuart-kelter-5848973","podcast_index_feed_id":5848973,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/delving-in/","website_url":"https://delving-in.captivate.fm","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/ad94544c-e15e-4196-9402-c13f599bfdfa/wnwGKikP8HU8St2LkavDpw7h.jpg","author":"Stuart Kelter","episode_count":192,"summary":"Knowledge-seeker and psychologist Stuart Kelter shares his joy of learning and “delving in.” Ready? Let’s delve... Join Chris Churchill on the possible reasons why the search for intelligent life in the universe is coming up empty. Let’s hear from Israeli psychiatrist Pesach Lichtenberg about a promising approach to schizophrenia—going mainstream in Israel—that uses minimal drugs and maximal support through the crisis, rejecting the presumption of life-long disability. Find out what Pulitzer Prize winning historian, David Kertzer learned from recently opened Vatican records about Pius XII, the Pope During WWII. We explore the fascinating and intriguing... What did journalist Eve Fairbanks learn about race relations in post-Apartheid South Africa? Did you realize there were dozens and dozens of early women scientists? Let’s find out about them through a sampling of poems with poet Jessy Randall. How shall we grapple with the complexities of the placebo effect in drug development and medical practice? Harvard researcher Kathryn Hall confirms just how complicated it really is! But beware: increasing one’s knowledge leads to more and more questions. If that appeals to you, join us on…","last_synced_at":"2026-06-29T04:18:26.132097+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/delving-in-with-stuart-kelter-5848973"},"episode":{"title":"#174. Conundrums of the Mind-Body Problem and the Ethical Dilemmas of Possibly Conscious A.I.","slug":"174-conundrums-of-the-mind-body-problem-and-the-ethical-dilemmas-of-possibly-conscious-a-i","published_at":"2025-12-14T15:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/delving-in-with-stuart-kelter-5848973/174-conundrums-of-the-mind-body-problem-and-the-ethical-dilemmas-of-possibly-conscious-a-i","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/delving-in-with-stuart-kelter-5848973","url":"https://delving-in.captivate.fm","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/20202b7e-b59b-465c-a177-399a3a2fa6c1.mp3","summary":"Eric Schwitzgebel is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, whose main interests include philosophy of mind, metaphysics, the nature of belief, the impact or lack thereof of ethical thinking on behavior, and classical Chinese philosophy. He is the author of four books:  Perplexities of Consciousness , published in 2011,  Describing Inner Experience?: Proponent Meets Skeptic  co-written with Russell Hurlburt, also published in 2011,  A Theory of Jerks and Other Philosophical Misadventures , published in 2019, and  The Weirdness of the World,  published in 2024. He is also a science fiction writer and was a contributor to  Philosophy through Science Fiction Stories: Exploring the Boundaries of the Possible.  Starting in 2006, Eric has written a blog called, “The Splintered Mind.” Recorded 12/9/25.","meta_description":"Eric Schwitzgebel is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, whose main interests include philosophy of…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3324,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/delving-in-with-stuart-kelter-5848973/episodes/174-conundrums-of-the-mind-body-problem-and-the-ethical-dilemmas-of-possibly-conscious-a-i/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/delving-in-with-stuart-kelter-5848973/174-conundrums-of-the-mind-body-problem-and-the-ethical-dilemmas-of-possibly-conscious-a-i.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}