Impossible Worlds

December 17, 2023

Listen

LOGIN or Subscribe TO LISTEN
Philosophers often speculate about possible worlds: ways that things could be. Some of them also believe in impossible worlds: ways that things couldn’t be. Are impossible worlds places where strange things happen, or descriptions, or abstract objects, or something else entirely? How can you describe an impossibility without contradicting yourself? Could we imagine worlds where even the laws of logic are different? Josh and Ray imagine the unimaginable with Koji Tanaka from the Australian National University, author of “Logically Impossible Worlds.”

 

Log In or Subscribe for FREE to view the show transcript

Buy the Episode

Listen to the Preview

Guest

315ff44855809d54a726e8c586da6618910c4812e16ad3eacc2580fe3adba825
Koji Tanaka, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Australian National University

Related Blogs

  • The Possibility of Impossibility

    December 15, 2023

Get Philosophy Talk

Radio

Sunday at 11am (Pacific) on KALW 91.7 FM, San Francisco, and rebroadcast on many other stations nationwide

Podcast

Full episode downloads via Apple Music and abbreviated episodes (Philosophy Talk Starters) via Apple PodcastsSpotify, and Stitcher