Dr. Tim Maudlin is an internationally-renowned philosopher of science currently associated with New York University. He is known for the clarity of his thought and the poignancy (sic) of his critiques, above all in the foundations of physics, which is the subject of today’s discussion. Maudlin has undergraduate degrees in physics and philosophy from Yale University and a PhD from the Univ. of Pittsburgh. His books, released by the world’s most respected publishing houses, include "Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity", "Truth and Paradox", "The Metaphysics Within Physics", and two volumes of "Philosophy of Physics". In addition, his "New Foundations for Physical Geometry" has received wide acclaim as a novel mathematical approach to a better understanding of space-time. 

Dr. Maudlin is a member of the International Academy of the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi). He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, taught at Rutgers for many years and has been a visiting lecturer at Harvard. He is also founder and director of the John Bell Institute for the Foundation of Physics.

Relevant links:

Interview web page: https://eism.eu/tim-maudlin/
Dr. Maudlin's personal website: http://www.tim-maudlin.site.
Dr. Maudlin's NYU page: https://tinyurl.com/y2beyfhw
Dr. Maudlin's books: https://tinyurl.com/5n7t69vp
Weyl, Freedman & Fabinger article: https://tinyurl.com/ycnu9myj
Weyl, Freedman & Fabinger paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.08144
Bell's Inequality Paper: https://tinyurl.com/2p869sw4
Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen paper: https://tinyurl.com/yckhnst7
Robert Wald on electromagnetism as potentials: https://tinyurl.com/j3fxvjt6

Time stamp:

00:09 -- Interview Set-up
02:40 -- Dr. Maudlin's background
04:10 -- Goals of Discussion
05:10 -- Weyl, Freedman, and Faber paper
06:38 -- Historical context of the '22 Nobel Physics prize
08:25 -- Einstein's unhappiness with quantum mechanics
10:40 -- Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen
12:30 -- The appearance of John Bell / David Bohm's Pilot Wave theory
15:10 -- Isaac Newton and Non-locality
21:48 -- Bell's Inequality and non-locality
23:12 -- Nobel Prize to Clauser, Aspe, and Zeilinger
24:10 -- Maudlin corrects a misconception among the Nobel Prize committee
27:28 -- Why is non-locality significant?
31:42 -- Why is quantum theory hard to put together with relativity?
33:35 -- Attempts to reconcile quantum physics with relavity
35:30 -- Maudlin expounds on the Aharanov-Bohm effect
39:33 -- Maudlin on Coulomb gauge
40:05 -- Aharanov-Bohm, potentials, and non-locality
43:41 -- Robert Wald on understanding electromagnetism as potentials
44:45 -- Maudlin's objections to Aharanov's two-state vector formalism
49:52 -- Razo responds to Maudlin's objections
50:55 -- Aristotle's notion of final causes
52:30 -- Maudlin responds to Aristotle's notion of final causes
58:32 -- Which interpretation helps keep humans alive?
1:01:09 -- A possible wormhole between quantum theory and social theory
1:02:03 -- Maudlin on the importance of avoiding catastophe
1:03:12 -- Razo on social choice theory
1:04:55 -- Maudlin's upcoming trip to Israel / Many Worlds