Elucidations
Hosted by Matt Teichman · Matt Teichman
4.9from 231 ratings
- 158
- Episodes
- 7
- Transcribed
- 231
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2009
- First episode
About Elucidations
Elucidations is an unexpected philosophy podcast produced in association with Emergent Ventures. Every episode, Matt Teichman temporarily transforms himself back into a student and tries to learn the basics of some topic from a person of philosophical interest. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Matt Teichman
- Category
- society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 6 Jul 2009
- Latest episode
- 4 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
7 of 158 episodes have a transcript.
4 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 158: Marshall Abrams discusses the nature of the evolutionary process
21 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 157: Robin Hanson discusses prediction markets
7 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 156: Oliver Traldi discusses political expertise
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Episode 158: Marshall Abrams discusses the nature of the evolutionary process
Published 4 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Yeah, right. Right. So then your thought maybe is that, okay, maybe that's not exactly what fitness is then. Maybe it's something different from really surviving. Yeah. And so one really important idea that came from John Beattie and Susan Mills-Vinson and Robert Brandon is to think that fitness is not defined in terms of the number of offspring that an organism actually has. It's defined in terms of some sort of probabilistic disposition to have offspring. Mm-hmm. So the idea, and we don't have to get into the details of this propensity idea, but the general idea is that to be fitter is to have a disposition to have more offspring. […]
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- Marshall Abrams
- Robin Hanson
- Oliver Traldi
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 168 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 63 ratings
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- 77
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- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 97
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