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A list of episodes from the trailing year of selected podcast series with associated Twitter feeds. Also see series listing.
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| 1. |  Liam Bright on VerificationismVerificationists believe that every meaningful statement is either true by definition or else empirically verifiable (or falsifiable). Anything which fails to pass this two-pronged test for meaningfulness is neither true nor false, but literally meaningless. Liam Bright discusses Verificationism and its links with the Vienna Circle with David Edmonds in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast... (@philosophybites, 27 minutes, 2020-Sep-16) |
| 2. |  David Edmonds on Undercover RobotDavid Edmond, author of many books, including Wittgenstein's Poker (which he co-wrote with John Eidinow) has recently co-written Undercover Robot, a brilliant and amusing children's story about a girl-robot. I interviewed him about this book, and how he came to write it for this episode of the Thinking Books podcast. (@philosophybites, 13 minutes, 2020-Sep-01) |
| 3. |  HoP 355 - Town and Gown - Italian UniversitiesThe blurry line dividing humanism and scholastic university culture in the Italian Renaissance. (@HistPhilosophy, 23 minutes, 2020-Sep-13) |
| 4. |  HAP 58 - A Common Circle - Anténor FirminHaitian anthropologist Anténor Firmin debunks racist pseudo-science and argues that inequalities among humans are caused by social, not biological, factors. (@HistPhilosophy, 23 minutes, 2020-Sep-06) |
| 5. |  509: Citizenship and JusticeMore at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/cit... Securing citizenship to a developed country could guarantee people enormous privileges and opportunities. Some condemn those who try illegally to reap the benefits that come with such citizenship. But are our ways of determining who gets to enter borders arbitrary and unfair? Should we grant border access to people born in a nation’s territo... (@philtalkradio, 11 minutes, 2020-Sep-13) |
| 6. |  Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics - Happiness And The Function Of A Human BeingThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics Specifically it focuses focuses upon his discussion about the (proper) function of a human being and what that tells us about the nature of human happiness To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contrib... (@philosopher70, 15 minutes, 2020-Sep-17) |
| 7. |  The future of privacyOur phones, our fitbits, our social media use, our internet searches, are all providing information about us (@DavidEdmonds100, 2020-Sep-14) |
| 8. | Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics - Activities, Arts, And Purposes This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics Specifically it focuses focuses upon his of activities, arts, sciences, and the like as purposive activities, brought up in the very first paragraph of the work To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct... (@philosopher70, 22 minutes, 2020-Sep-16) |
| 9. |  A Philosopher’s Duty? | Julian BagginiJulian Baggini discusses the everyday applications of philosophy (@IAI_TV, 26 minutes, 2020-Sep-15) |
| 10. |  Why do we laugh?There are thousands of academic papers about depression. There are, in comparison, virtually none about laughter. We’ve been talking to a leading expert on laughter, who argues that we should take it more seriously. (@DavidEdmonds100, 9 minutes, 2020-Sep-12) |
| 11. |  Rebroadcasting ETV11+12: Trump's Malignant NarcissismTaking a two week break to commune with the void. In the meantime enjoy this double wide rebroadcast of our discussion of Trump's narcissism and diagnosing at a distance.Here's a link to the DSM-5 definition of narcissism:http://www.mayoclinic.org/dis... by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcas... by GW RodriguezSibling Pod Philosoph... (@ETVPod, 100 minutes, 2020-Sep-18) |
| 12. |  Bringing back extinct animals. What could go wrong?So many birds, mammals and insects which once existed on Earth are now gone forever — extinct, kaput! This got Carl thinking, what if forever wasn't really forever? Should we try and bring some of these creatures back, especially if it was humans who caused them to become extinct in the first place? (@matthewtbeard, 24 minutes, 2020-Sep-17) |
| 13. | Should Gabi have climbed the cherry blossom tree? Cherry blossom trees are very important in Japan. They're so special they even have their own festival every year. Our listener Gabi lives in Japan and got in trouble for climbing one. But did he really do the wrong thing? Do the rules of another culture (or even another family) apply to us when we visit? (@matthewtbeard, 21 minutes, 2020-Sep-17) |
| 14. | Do you always have to keep a secret? If your friend asks you to keep a secret, should you ever break that promise? When should you keep your mouth zipped and when should you spill the beans? Join us for an old-fashioned detective story involving a crime and a secret. (@matthewtbeard, 24 minutes, 2020-Sep-17) |
| 15. | Food fight! Can you be an ethical snacker? Molly and Carl love snacks and treats. But when one of our listener's challenges them to buy only ethical snack foods, they face tricky choices in the supermarket. Join us on a race to see whether things that are yummy to eat can also be good for the world. (@matthewtbeard, 25 minutes, 2020-Sep-17) |
| 16. | Should we censor stuff on the internet? When Molly and Carl are not making Short & Curly they are in charge of the world's biggest video sharing platform, called, TubeVids. That's right, it's their job to watch gaming videos, and movie parodies all day long! But it's not all fun and cat videos, people also post lots of mean stuff, as well as videos that are straight out untrue. What should they do about it? Let all the videos stay onlin... (@matthewtbeard, 24 minutes, 2020-Sep-17) |
| 17. | Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics - Principles And Exactness In Ethics - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics Specifically it focuses focuses upon his discussion of how first principles are derived and used, and what degree of exactness is possible, within the discipline of ethics, in book 1. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'... (@philosopher70, 14 minutes, 2020-Sep-14) |
| 18. |  Evan Thompson Live!Join me for a discussion with Evan Thompson, Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and an Associate Member of the Department of Asian Studies and the Department of Psychology (Cognitive Science Group). Evan’s website (@onemorebrown, 2020-Sep-16) |
| 19. |  David ChristensenI ask the philosopher David Christensen five questions about himself. David Christensen is Professor of Philosophy at Brown University and the author of "Putting Logic in its Place" (2004). (@KieranSetiya, 24 minutes, 2020-Sep-15) |
| 20. | Jeremy Bentham, Introduction To Principles - Partial And Extensive Benevolence This lecture discusses key ideas from the Utilitarian philosopher, Jeremy Bentham's work, Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation Here we examine the distinction he makes between partial and extensive benevolence. Partial Benevolence is a motivation which involves taking pleasure in helping -- producing pleasure or removing pain -- a limited portion of the larger community. ... (@philosopher70, 10 minutes, 2020-Sep-11) |
| 21. |  114 | Angela Chen on Asexuality in a Sex-Preoccupied WorldSexuality is, and always has been, a topic that is endlessly fascinating but also contentious. You might think that asexuality would be more straightforward, but you’d be wrong. Asexual people, or “aces,” haven’t been front and center in the public discussion of gender and sexuality, and as a result there is confusion about such basic issues as what “asexuality” even means. Angela Chen i... (@seanmcarroll, 69 minutes, 2020-Sep-14) |
| 22. |  Ep. 252: Habermas on Communication as Sociality (Part One)On Jürgen Habermas' "Actions, Speech Acts, Linguistically Mediated Interactions, and the Lifeworld" (1998), with guest John Foster. What's the relation between individuals and society? Habermas says that language has ethics built right into it: I'm trying to get you to agree with me, to engage in a cooperative enterprise of mutual understanding. Part two of this episode is only going to be availab... (@PartiallyExLife, 55 minutes, 2020-Sep-14) |
| 23. | Jeremy Bentham, Introduction To Principles - Motives In Utilitarianism This lecture discusses key ideas from the Utilitarian philosopher, Jeremy Bentham's work, Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation Here we examine the different main motives for human actions and choices which Bentham distinguishes. It also discusses how these motives can be evaluated in moral terms. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/... (@philosopher70, 15 minutes, 2020-Sep-10) |
| 24. |  #366 Ann Druyan - Cosmos: Possible Worlds------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 62 minutes, 2020-Sep-17) |
| 25. | PEL Presents (sub)Text: Filial Ingratitude in in Shakespeare’s "King Lear" Do we owe parents our gratitude for our upbringing? What if they haven’t done such a great job? And anyway, perhaps we inevitably resent all the forces that have shaped the characters that confine and limit us. If so, the quest for filial gratitude is ultimately hopeless. It could even be a kind of madness: a foolish attempt to transcend the same formative forces that we resent in our parents, to ... (@PartiallyExLife, 86 minutes, 2020-Sep-13) |
| 26. | Jeremy Bentham, Introduction To Principles - Intentions, Motives, Dispositions This lecture discusses key ideas from the Utilitarian philosopher, Jeremy Bentham's work, Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation Here we examine his discussion of Intentions, Motives, and Dispositions. He examines what they are, and addresses how they can be evaluated morally. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like... (@philosopher70, 19 minutes, 2020-Sep-09) |
| 27. |  0G116: Avatar the Last Airbender and Agent Neutral Buddhist Ethics, Part 1Free Will...Ethics...Consciousness...Boxes, these are the four elements of the philosophical universe, each element mastered by benders that can shape the very fabric of the metaverse with their will. Into each generation is born one podcast, the Avapod, that can bend all four elements and bring peace to the metaverse. This is the story of that podcast, and how it balanced personal and impersonal ... (@0gPhilosophy, 37 minutes, 2020-Sep-16) |
| 28. |  Is it wrong to respond to arguments with allegations?Disagreements these days are often met with claims that an argument is “offensive, harmful, unhelpful, or divisive.” What consideration should be given to the likely consequences of an argument? How is this open to abuse? (@RadioNational, 99 minutes, 2020-Sep-16) |
| 29. |  Ep.109 Kant Vs. Bentham The FinalThis week we come to the end of the Kant/Bentham rumble. Who will be judged victorious and who will have to swallow the bitter dregs of defeat? Listen in as Kant delivers his signature “categorical smack down’ move. Will Bentham’s "hedonic round house” be sufficient to counter the Crusher from Konigsberg? Bow your heads in reverence and let Mike and Danny root out the evils of the world and join t... (@PhilosophyWtf, 27 minutes, 2020-Sep-16) |
| 30. | Bernardo Kastrup and Philip Goff Live! Join me for the continuation of my discussion with Bernardo Kastrup and Philip Goff (@onemorebrown, 2020-Sep-12) |
| 31. | Understanding Consciousness | Bernardo Kastrup, Susan Blackmore, Tim Crane Tim Crane, Susan Blackmore and Bernardo Kastrup debate popular and alternative theories of consciousness. (@IAI_TV, 51 minutes, 2020-Sep-08) |
| 32. | EV - 159 Racial Capitalism with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò My guest this week is Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (@OlufemiOTaiwo), assistant professor at Georgetown university with an interest in pan African community action. We discuss a recent exchange that he and Liam Bright had with Michael Wazler on the issue of Racial Capitalism.Wazler's article: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_a... and Femi's response article: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_a... w... (@ETVPod, 66 minutes, 2020-Sep-11) |
| 33. | PEL Presents (sub)Text: The “Intelligent Way to Approach Marriage” in Hitchcock’s "Rear Window" L.B. Jefferies has the perfect girlfriend—beautiful, intelligent, wealthy—but too perfect, he insists, for marriage. And so he spends his time spying on the love lives of his neighbors, and ropes his girlfriend into this project as well. Which, strangely enough, turns out to be a really effective form of couples’ therapy. What’s the connection between voyeurism and what Jefferies calls “the intell... (@PartiallyExLife, 72 minutes, 2020-Sep-11) |
| 34. | PEL Presents: The “Intelligent Way to Approach Marriage” in Hitchcock’s "Rear Window" L.B. Jefferies has the perfect girlfriend—beautiful, intelligent, wealthy—but too perfect, he insists, for marriage. And so he spends his time spying on the love lives of his neighbors, and ropes his girlfriend into this project as well. Which, strangely enough, turns out to be a really effective form of couples’ therapy. What’s the connection between voyeurism and what Jefferies calls “the intell... (@PartiallyExLife, 72 minutes, 2020-Sep-11) |
| 35. |  Ann-Sophie Barwich, "Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind" (Harvard UP, 2020)Smells repel and attract; they bring emotionally charged memories to mind; they guide behavior and thought nonconsciously; they give food much of its taste; and the loss of sense of smell can help diagnose disease. But what features of the world do smells pick out? What is the olfactory code? In her new book, Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind (Harvard UP, 2020), Ann-Sophie Barwich delves... (@NewBooksPhil, 69 minutes, 2020-Sep-10) |
| 36. | Jeremy Bentham, Introduction To Principles - Pleasure, Pain, And Utility - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the Utilitarian philosopher, Jeremy Bentham's work, Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation Here we focus in particular on Bentham's commitment to ethical hedonism, and his refinement of the notion of "utility", absolutely central to the Utilitarian philosophical tradition. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patr... (@philosopher70, 21 minutes, 2020-Sep-07) |
| 37. | Jeremy Bentham, Introduction To Principles - Distinctive Kinds Of Pleasure And Pain This lecture discusses key ideas from the Utilitarian philosopher, Jeremy Bentham's work, Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation Here we run through the many different main types of pleasures and pains which he discusses in chapter 5 of that work To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, ... (@philosopher70, 22 minutes, 2020-Sep-07) |
| 38. | #365 Dan McAdams: The Psychology of Donald Trump ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 75 minutes, 2020-Sep-14) |
| 39. |  Episode 5: The Consequence Argument with Peter van InwagenIn this episode, Peter van Inwagen explains the consequence argument for incompatibilism. Afterwards, he discusses what he takes to be the problem of freedom and determinism.Peter’s Website: https://philosophy.nd.edu/people/emeritu... collection of Peter’s written work: https://andrewmbailey.com/pvi/Papers referenced in the episode:"Are We Free to Break the Laws?" by David Lewishttps://onlinelibra... (@thefreewillshow, 33 minutes, 2020-Sep-14) |
| 40. |  S02E09: What is Art? - SWOONJay tackles the age old question of philosophically defining art with the incredible street artist SWOON (Caledonia Curry). Together they wonder, can machines make art? Swoon's recent piece: The Medea (@DilemmaPodcast, 66 minutes, 2020-Sep-14) |
| 41. |  Episode 86, Taoism (Part III - Practices)There was once a wise farmer named Oliver who, enjoying the evening’s sun at the end of a summer’s day, watched on as one of his prized horses escaped from his farm. That evening, having heard the news, Jack and Andrew came to Oliver’s farm to express their sympathies. Oliver turned to his neighbours upon their arrival and said, “maybe.” The next day the horse returned, but brought with it six wil... (@ThePanpsycast, 58 minutes, 2020-Sep-13) |
| 42. | David Edmonds on Wittgenstein's Poker For this special episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast (produced under lockdown) Nigel Warburton interviews David Edmonds about his bestselling book, written with David Edinow, Wittgenstein's Poker. It focuses on a heated argument between the two great Viennese philosophers Karl Popper and Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the differing accounts that were give of it by those who were there. (@philosophybites, 18 minutes, 2020-Jul-07) |
| 43. |  The abominable hereticIn July 1656, the young philosopher Baruch Spinoza was cast out of his Jewish community for "abominable heresies". We don't know what those crimes were, but we do know that Spinoza has remained a polarising figure within Judaism ever since. (@DavidPZone1, 29 minutes, 2020-Sep-13) |
| 44. |  STM Podcast #67: Samir Chopra - How Psychedelics Can Affect Mental HealthOn episode 67, we welcome back philosopher Samir Chopra to discuss the recent research on the mental health benefits of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, the history of psychedelic use, the potential harm, our personal psychedelic experiences, how empathy may be the mechanism behind their medicinal effects, ego-dissolution and its potential to distance one from their negative core beliefs, and h... (@seize_podcast, 76 minutes, 2020-Sep-13) |
| 45. |  “Can There Be A Philosophy of Hate?”Jack Weinstein visits with Berit Brogaard, author of HATRED: Understanding Our Most Dangerous Emotion. (@whyradioshow, 81 minutes, 2020-Sep-13) |
| 46. | PEL Presents PMP#59: David Lynch's Popular Surrealism Mark, Erica, Brian, and guest Mike Wilson discuss the director's films from Eraserhead to Inland Empire plus Twin Peaks and his recent short films. We get into the appeal and hallmarks of his mainstays--Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Lost Highway, and Mulholland Drive--and also consider outliers like Dune, The Elephant Man, and The Straight Story. How many of these films actually make sense, and is f... (@PartiallyExLife, 46 minutes, 2020-Sep-08) |
| 47. | Barbara Herman I ask the philosopher Barbara Herman five questions about herself. Barbara Herman is Griffin Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law at UCLA. Her books include "Moral Literacy" (2008) and "The Practice of Moral Judgment" (2006). (@KieranSetiya, 26 minutes, 2020-Sep-08) |
| 48. |  Episode 196: The Loneliest Paper in PhilosophyShe’s beautiful, smart, funny, and head over heels in love with you. There’s only one problem – she’s from a possible world, not the actual one. What we thought would be a funny opening segment idea turns into a semi-serious discussion of Neil Sinhababu’s 2008 article “Possible Girls.” Plus David and Tamler share some thoughts on teaching in normal times and today. (@verybadwizards, 110 minutes, 2020-Sep-08) |
| 49. | Jeremy Bentham, Introduction To Principles - Principles Opposed To Utility This lecture discusses key ideas from the Utilitarian philosopher, Jeremy Bentham's work, Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation Here we focus in particular on his discussion of three principles for moral decision making that would seem to be opposed to the principle of utility. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd lik... (@philosopher70, 11 minutes, 2020-Sep-04) |
| 50. | #364 Limor Raviv: Psycholinguistics, Child Development, and Language Acquisition ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 82 minutes, 2020-Sep-11) |
| 51. | 113 | Cailin O'Connor on Game Theory, Evolution, and the Origins of Unfairness You can’t always get what you want, as a wise person once said. But we do try, even when someone else wants the same thing. Our lives as people, and the evolution of other animals over time, are shaped by competition for scarce resources of various kinds. Game theory provides a natural framework for understanding strategies and behaviors in these competitive settings, and thus provides a lens with... (@seanmcarroll, 80 minutes, 2020-Sep-07) |
| 52. |  IdentityThings get scary when the two cows are stranded in a motel on a rainy night with James Mangold. What makes a good twist? What’s the appeal of Agatha Christie? Is this a movie about white guilt, or flaws in the criminal justice system? Tune in to find out! (@cowspod, 62 minutes, 2020-Sep-11) |
| 53. | Ep. 251: Simone Weil's Ideal Society On "Theoretical Picture of a Free Society" (1934). What's the ideal living situation for us all, given the peculiarities of human nature? Weil describes fulfillment as coming from being able to picture goals and plans and knowingly put them into effect, so social groups need to maximize that power by being small and cooperative. End song: "Libreville" by Bill Bruford, as interviewed for Nakedly Ex... (@PartiallyExLife, 75 minutes, 2020-Sep-07) |
| 54. | Jeremy Bentham, Introduction To Principles - Utilitarianism As A Moral Theory This lecture discusses key ideas from the Utilitarian philosopher, Jeremy Bentham's work, Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation Here we focus in particular on his discussion of the basic notion of his version of Utilitarianism as a moral theory. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, ... (@philosopher70, 7 minutes, 2020-Sep-03) |
| 55. | #363 Nina Jablonski: The Evolution of Human Skin, and Racism ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 51 minutes, 2020-Sep-10) |
| 56. | Peter Singer, Biological Basis Of Ethics - Group Altruism - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the contemporary Utilitarian philosopher, Peter Singer's essay The Biological Basis of Ethics, excerpted from his book, The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology Here we focus in particular on his discussion of group altruism, which he distinguishes from kin altruism and reciprocal altruism. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - ww... (@philosopher70, 18 minutes, 2020-Sep-02) |
| 57. | Rebroadcasting 0G63: Fury Road and Ecofeminism Witness our attempt to gain entry into a post gendered Valhalla! Led by the feminist valkyrie Jamie M. Lombardi (@euthyphro), Professor of philosophy at Bergen Community College, we EXPLODE the feminist symbolism and environmental messaging of Mad Max: Fury Road! ::fire guitar solo:: Seriously, this episode has everything. Top 10 action movie, progressive messaging, a guest who steals the sho... (@0gPhilosophy, 42 minutes, 2020-Sep-09) |
| 58. | Why does COVID-19 attract conspiracy theories? The COVID-19 pandemic has proven particularly conducive for those intent on discerning an insidious plot behind both the emergence of the virus and the political response. To what extent are these conspiracies part of a wider culture of pervasive distrust and mutual suspicion? (@RadioNational, 48 minutes, 2020-Sep-09) |
| 59. | Ep. 108. Kant Vs. Bentham Part 4 This week - do we really want the truth? What would we do with it? Better a comfortable lie, right? Consider, if you will, the existential anguish of the “extensive menu” - do we get incapacitated by indecision the more options we are given? What would you prefer, Mike’s Spam Egg & Chips, Spam and Chips or just plain Spam OR will you go for Danny’s 150 dish tasting menu with a selection of starter... (@PhilosophyWtf, 27 minutes, 2020-Sep-09) |
| 60. | The Ancient Indian Roots of Consciousness | Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad Professor Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad delves into ancient Indian systems of thought,. (@IAI_TV, 30 minutes, 2020-Sep-01) |
| 61. | 508: The Merits of Meritocracy More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/mer... For centuries, the promise of the “American Dream” has been that as long as someone buckles down and works hard, she can achieve her goals. In other words, we’ve perpetuated the meritocratic notion that the more effort one puts in and the more ability one possesses, the more success one can attain. But is this really the case? Given the hist... (@philtalkradio, 10 minutes, 2020-Aug-27) |
| 62. |  Should You Vote? | Politics, Virtue, Duty, and JusticeShould we be pushing everyone to vote? Should you vote for the sake of voting? Do you have a duty to vote? Let's discuss... My Stuff.... Bonus Feed ($5 a month): https://www.patreon.com/thephilosophyguy Podcast: https://thephilosophyguy.fireside.fm/ Youtube: https://bit.ly/2Z0rAjA All the Links You Need: https://linktr.ee/brendenweber (@philosophyguy2, 27 minutes, 2020-Sep-07) |
| 63. | Peter Singer, Biological Basis Of Ethics - Reciprocal Altruism & Prisoners Dilemma This lecture discusses key ideas from the contemporary Utilitarian philosopher, Peter Singer's essay The Biological Basis of Ethics, excerpted from his book, The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology Here we focus in particular on his discussion of the problem the prisoner's dilemma raises for egoists, and how reciprocal altruism provides a resolution to the dilemma. To support my on... (@philosopher70, 12 minutes, 2020-Sep-01) |
| 64. |  FinThe final episode of the Vim Podcast. Ask the Vim Anything with Justin C., Dylan, Gabe, Zach, and Justin D. Questions include: - What political issue doesn't get enough attention? - If you could meet with Trump for 15 minutes, would you? And if so, what would you tell him? - Is democracy overrated or underrated? - If you could snap your fingers and pass any constitutional amen... (@thevimblog, 78 minutes, 2020-Sep-06) |
| 65. | EV - 158 The Tragedy of the Epistemic Commons with Kevin Dorst My guest this week is Kevin Dorst (@kevin_dorst), a philosopher at Oxford University and University of Pittsburg with a particular interest in polarization and irrationality. We discuss why current polarization involves elevated levels of demonization and if there's any way to break out of this spiral.Kevin's Website: https://www.kevindorst.com/Convocation: The Tower of BabelEditing by Lu Lyons, c... (@ETVPod, 61 minutes, 2020-Sep-04) |
| 66. | #362 Manvir Singh: Shamanism, Witchcraft, Religion, and Music ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 69 minutes, 2020-Sep-07) |
| 67. | STM Podcast #66: Liz Dorval - The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Why Incompetent People Think They're Great On episode 66, we welcome back Liz Dorval to discuss the Dunning-Kruger Effect; social and psychological strategies to mitigate its harm such as fostering the growth mindset, eliminating echo chambers, and teaching how to accept feedback; appealing to authority because of our general inability to be specialists in a multitude of areas; why self-diagnosing is often counter-productive; Jordan Peters... (@seize_podcast, 82 minutes, 2020-Sep-07) |
| 68. | PRESENTS – Mackaroy Uncovered Episode 1 Team Short & Curly has got its hands on the first episode of new podcast, Mackaroy Uncovered. It’s a mystery adventure we think you’ll love about two middle schoolers who discover super weird stuff happening in their town. (@matthewtbeard, 18 minutes, 2020-Sep-02) |
| 69. | S02E08: Your Right To Say It - David Goldberger David Goldberger was raised as a proud Jew. In 1977, he was working as a civil liberties attorney for the ACLU in Illinois when a Neo-Nazi named Frank Collin knocked on his door claiming his first amendment rights were being violated. In this episode David Goldberger revisits the famous Supreme Court case, National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie. Jay and David tease out the ... (@DilemmaPodcast, 70 minutes, 2020-Sep-07) |
| 70. |  FROM HILLARY TO BIDEN With Seth MasketI'm joined by Seth Masket to discuss his latest book, Learning from Loss, in which he looks at the various narratives democrats constructed after their defeat in 2016. We consider both how true those narratives where, how they impacted the 2020 primary, and how they might shape a Biden administration. (@PolPhilPod, 95 minutes, 2020-Sep-05) |
| 71. | Episode 86, Taoism (Part II - The Tao Te Ching) There was once a wise farmer named Oliver who, enjoying the evening’s sun at the end of a summer’s day, watched on as one of his prized horses escaped from his farm. That evening, having heard the news, Jack and Andrew came to Oliver’s farm to express their sympathies. Oliver turned to his neighbours upon their arrival and said, “maybe.” The next day the horse returned, but brought with it six wil... (@ThePanpsycast, 53 minutes, 2020-Sep-06) |
| 72. | Peter Singer, Biological Basis Of Ethics - Motivation And Reciprocal Altruism - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the contemporary Utilitarian philosopher, Peter Singer's essay The Biological Basis of Ethics, excerpted from his book, The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology Here we focus in particular on his discussion of how perceived motivation plays a role in reciprocal altruism To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler ... (@philosopher70, 16 minutes, 2020-Aug-30) |
| 73. | Shifting the frame on COVID-19 When we think about COVID-19 as a medical issue first and foremost, what are we missing? This week we explore the ways in which legal, economic, cultural and ethical perspectives on COVID-19 could be just as important as the medical. (@DavidPZone1, 29 minutes, 2020-Sep-06) |
| 74. |  How to be a Good Ancestor: Thinking and Acting for the Future- with Roman KrznarikThis episode is an interview with public philosopher Roman Krznarik. Roman is a founding member of the school of life, and has previously published books on empathy (Empathy: why it matters and how to get it) and redefining existentialism for the modern world (carpe diem regained). We discuss issues of empathy in this episode, but the discussion is focused around the ideas and problems raised by R... (@RoomPhilosophy, 82 minutes, 2020-Sep-06) |
| 75. | Lisa Bortolotti, "The Epistemic Innocence of Irrational Beliefs" (Oxford UP, 2020) There is something intuitive about the idea that when we believe, we ought to follow our evidence. This entails that beliefs that are the products of garden varieties of irrationality, such as delusion, confabulation, false memory, and excessive optimism, are for that reason epistemically derelict. Many philosophers would go so far as to say that people ought not to hold such beliefs; some would g... (@NewBooksPhil, 70 minutes, 2020-Sep-01) |
| 76. |  Introduction to Season 2How can we become better thinkers and better human beings? What’s the connection between critical thinking and reducing suffering? In this intro episode to Season 2, we’ll learn about the Indian tradition known as “Nyaya,” who says these things are very closely related, and whose ideas we’ll be focusing on in detail this coming season. Music: Brittle Rille by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://i... (@cmalcolmkeating, 11 minutes, 2020-Sep-04) |
| 77. | Tim Crane I ask the philosopher Tim Crane five questions about himself. Tim Crane is Professor of Philosophy at the Central European University. He is the author of "The Mechanical Mind" (1995/2003), "The Objects of Thought" (2013), and "The Meaning of Belief" (2017). (@KieranSetiya, 24 minutes, 2020-Sep-01) |
| 78. | Peter Singer, Biological Basis Of Ethics - Reciprocal Altruism As A Norm - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the contemporary Utilitarian philosopher, Peter Singer's essay The Biological Basis of Ethics, excerpted from his book, The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology Here we focus in particular on his discussion about how reciprocal altruism functions as an ethical norm in many settings. He also engages in some speculation about how evolutionary developm... (@philosopher70, 11 minutes, 2020-Aug-28) |
| 79. | 112 | Fyodor Urnov on Gene Editing, CRISPR, and Human Engineering Not too long ago nobody carried a mobile phone; now almost everybody does. That’s the kind of rate of rapid progress we’re seeing with our ability to directly edit genomes. With the use of CRISPR-Cas9 and other techniques, gene editing is becoming commonplace. How does that work — and perhaps more importantly, how are we going to put it to use? Fyodor Urnov has worked in this area from i... (@seanmcarroll, 80 minutes, 2020-Aug-31) |
| 80. | #361 Joseph Henrich: The WEIRDest People in the World ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 87 minutes, 2020-Sep-04) |
| 81. | 500: (There's Still) Time for Summer Reading More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/tim... When John and Ken began shopping around their idea for a philosophy-on-the-radio show nearly 20 years ago, many believed it would never work, let alone stay on the air. Nearly two decades later, the program that questions everything (except your intelligence) has hit 500 episodes -- just in time for current co-hosts Josh and Ray to spend our... (@philtalkradio, 17 minutes, 2020-Aug-22) |
| 82. |  Ep. 14 - (ft.) Brandon Robshaw: Eternal Recurrence (& Banning the Burqa?)In this episode, I speak with Dr. Brandon Robshaw about his recent piece in Philosophy Now on Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence. We also discuss his new book, 'Should a Liberal State Ban the Burqa?' (The short answer is no.) Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://brandonrobshawtheenglishlanguage... https://twitter.com/BrandonRobshaw https://philosophynow.org/issues/137/Ete... ... (@Jordan_C_Myers, 55 minutes, 2020-Sep-04) |
| 83. | Ep. 250: Simone Weil on Human Needs (Part Three) Concluding on "The Needs of the Soul" from The Need for Roots (1943). This time we cover punishment, security, risk, private property, collective property, freedom of opinion, and truth. Start with part one or get the full, ad-free Citizen Edition. Supporting PEL will also get you access to our PEL Nightcaps End song: "Even Though the Darkest Clouds" by liar, flower. Mark interviewed KatieJane Gar... (@PartiallyExLife, 58 minutes, 2020-Aug-31) |
| 84. | Peter Singer, Biological Basis Of Ethics - Kin Altruism And The Family - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the contemporary Utilitarian philosopher, Peter Singer's essay The Biological Basis of Ethics, excerpted from his book, The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology Here we focus in particular on his discussion of altruistic behavior extended towards family members or "kin", the roles it plays in ethics, and speculations about the basis of kin altruism. ... (@philosopher70, 16 minutes, 2020-Aug-27) |
| 85. | Peter Singer, Biological Basis Of Ethics - Kin Altruism And The Family This lecture discusses key ideas from the contemporary Utilitarian philosopher, Peter Singer's essay The Biological Basis of Ethics, excerpted from his book, The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology Here we focus in particular on his discussion of altruistic behavior extended towards family members or "kin", the roles it plays in ethics, and speculations about the basis of kin altruism. ... (@philosopher70, 16 minutes, 2020-Aug-27) |
| 86. | #360 Bo Winegard: The Intellectual Elite, and Social Conservatism ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 68 minutes, 2020-Sep-03) |
| 87. | Nigel Warburton on A Little History of Philosophy For this first of two special lockdown episodes of Philosophy Bites we interviewed each other. Here David Edmonds interviews Nigel Warburton about his bestseller A Little History of Philosophy. In the companion episode Nigel interviews David about his bestseller Wittgenstein's Poker. (@philosophybites, 16 minutes, 2020-Jun-24) |
| 88. | Heraclitus, Fragments - The Meaning of the Logos - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient pre-Socratic philosopher, Heraclitus of Ephesus (sometimes called "the obscure"). Here we focus in particular on those of his fragments which have to do with what he calls "the logos". To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.payp... (@philosopher70, 17 minutes, 2020-Aug-26) |
| 89. | Rebroadcasting 0G19: Black Mirror, Hang the DJ, Part 1: Newcomb's Paradox We're on break this week so we're rebroadcasting the origin story of The Box! All hail the box!: We've returned to Black Mirror to talk about one of the episodes that started this all, Hand the DJ. Or maybe we're just yet another simulation of that in a test by a marketing brand to see if this show would work. Hard to say, really. A breakdown of Newcomb's Paradox: https://brilliant.org/... (@0gPhilosophy, 35 minutes, 2020-Sep-02) |
| 90. | A World of Illusions | Jan Westerhoff Oxford professor of Buddhist philosophy Jan Westerhoff breaks down illusions and dreams. (@IAI_TV, 17 minutes, 2020-Aug-25) |
| 91. | US president as "sufferer in chief"? Joe Biden has presented himself as a person who knows pain and loss, a tragic figure of uncommon empathy and compassion. Does this tell us anything about how political leadership may be changing under the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic? (@RadioNational, 48 minutes, 2020-Sep-02) |
| 92. | Ep.107 Kant Vs. Bentham Part 3 This week, if you’re happy and you know it please contact Mike and Danny with details. Yes, it’s the greatest happiness for the greatest number folks. Join Mike and Danny as they decide on the minimum amount of happiness required for them to get up in the morning. What, exactly, do we have a right too? Are we really “worth it”? Listen in as Danny all but admits to speeding at 2 o’clock in the mor... (@PhilosophyWtf, 21 minutes, 2020-Sep-02) |
| 93. | Andrew Y. Lee Live! Join me for a discussion with Andrew Y. Lee as we discuss mental qualities and the value of consciousness. Andrew’s website: https://www.andrewyuanlee.com (@onemorebrown, 2020-Aug-29) |
| 94. | Heraclitus, Fragments - Fire, The Elements, And The Cosmos - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient pre-Socratic philosopher, Heraclitus of Ephesus (sometimes called "the obscure"). Here we focus in particular on those of his fragments which have to do with fire and the other three elements (air, water, earth), and with the ordering of cosmic processes To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If yo... (@philosopher70, 16 minutes, 2020-Aug-25) |
| 95. | EV - 157 GPT-3 with Raphaël Millière My guest this week is Raphaël Millière (@raphamilliere), a philosopher of mind and cognitive science at Columbia university’s Center for Science and Society. We discuss the new natural language processor GPT-3 and it's potential benefits and risks to various parts of society.Raphaël's website: http://raphaelmilliere.com/Convocation: GPT-3's Manifesto of Void ArtEditing by Lu Lyons, check out her a... (@ETVPod, 73 minutes, 2020-Aug-28) |
| 96. | Philip Goff and Bernardo Kastrup Live! Join me for a discussion with Philip Goff and Bernardo Kastrup as we discuss panpsychism, analytic idealism, quantum mechanics, fine-tuning and a whole lot more! (@onemorebrown, 2020-Aug-28) |
| 97. | PEL Presents (sub)Text: Truth as Beauty in Keats’ Ode on a "Grecian Urn" The poet John Keats is famous for the concept of “negative capability,” his description of the ability to tolerate the world’s uncertainty without resorting to easy answers. Literary minds in particular should be more attuned to beauty than facts and reason. In fact, truth in the highest sense is the same thing as beauty, he tells us at the end of his poem Ode on a Grecian Urn. What does that mean... (@PartiallyExLife, 68 minutes, 2020-Aug-28) |
| 98. | Heraclitus, Fragments - The Divine And The Human - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient pre-Socratic philosopher, Heraclitus of Ephesus (sometimes called "the obscure"). Here we focus in particular on those of his fragments which have to do with the divine (the daimon, theos, or Zeus in Greek) and its relations with the human. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to ma... (@philosopher70, 20 minutes, 2020-Aug-24) |
| 99. | #359 Guy Madison: Gender Studies, and the Politics of Gender ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 110 minutes, 2020-Aug-31) |
| 100. | STM Podcast #65: Douglas Edwards - The Philosophy of Pro Wrestling On episode 65, we welcome philosopher Douglas Edwards to discuss the similarities between the philosophical quest for truth and the search for the behind-the-scenes information about professional wrestling, how story-lines get entangled with reality, how the Montreal Screwjob affected the pro-wrestling industry, character development and how wrestlers’ identities often mimic our own hidden desires... (@seize_podcast, 82 minutes, 2020-Aug-31) |
| 101. | Episode 4: Divine Foreknowledge with Linda Zagzebski In this episode, Linda Zagzebski explains the argument from God’s infallible foreknowledge to the conclusion that no one has free will. After discussing several responses to the argument, she then explains why this problem is interesting—whether one is a theist or not.Linda’s website: https://www.ou.edu/cas/philosophy/people... resources:Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Foreknowledge and Free... (@thefreewillshow, 45 minutes, 2020-Aug-31) |
| 102. | S02E07: The Lessons of Black Panther - Chloe Valdary Chloe Valdary, Coleman Hughes, and Jay Shapiro consider the analogies and lessons of Marvel's Black Panther. Discussed in this episode: tensions with policing, Black Lives Matter, the original Black Panther movement of the 60's, the differing philosophies of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, and the eternal task of the superhero to resist our darkest impulses. This conversation was r... (@DilemmaPodcast, 103 minutes, 2020-Aug-31) |
| 103. |  Podcast episode 8: Language as an institution – William Dwight WhitneyIn this episode, we look first at the critiques of Schleicher’s “physcial” and Steinthal’s “psychological” theory of language put forward by the American linguist William Dwight Whitney. We then turn to Whitney’s own conception of language as a “human institution”…Read more › (@hiphilangsci, 2020-Aug-31) |
| 104. | Episode 86, Taoism (Part I - The Life of Lao Tzu) There was once a wise farmer named Oliver who, enjoying the evening’s sun at the end of a summer’s day, watched on as one of his prized horses escaped from his farm. That evening, having heard the news, Jack and Andrew came to Oliver’s farm to express their sympathies. Oliver turned to his neighbours upon their arrival and said, “maybe.” The next day the horse returned, but brought with it six wil... (@ThePanpsycast, 51 minutes, 2020-Aug-30) |
| 105. | Heraclitus, Fragments - Strife, Opposition, And Harmony - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient pre-Socratic philosopher, Heraclitus of Ephesus (sometimes called "the obscure"). Here we focus in particular on those of his fragments which have to do with the war, strife, opposition, and harmony - a set of key ideas that run through his thought about the world, reality, and human beings To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon sit... (@philosopher70, 18 minutes, 2020-Aug-23) |
| 106. | Lev Shestov: staying awake in the dark Lev Shestov is one of the great forgotten modern philosophers, and now could be the time to rediscover him. His was a philosophy of hope in the face of hopelessness, and the parallels between his time and our own are compelling. (@DavidPZone1, 28 minutes, 2020-Aug-30) |
| 107. | HUMILIATION & FREEDOM I refine my account of humiliation and develop a series of original arguments for the moral value of republican freedom based on it. (@PolPhilPod, 68 minutes, 2020-Aug-28) |
| 108. | PEL Presents PMP#58: "TAYLOR SWIFT RULES!" (Conversation with a Swiftie) Prompted by the release of new album Folklore and the 2020 documentary Miss Americana, Mark, Erica, and Brian speak with Amber Padgett about her love of Taylor, ranking the albums, why the hate, weird levels of fan engagement, double standards for female artists, and more. Designed to interest fans, haters, and folks curious as to what all the fuss is about. For more, visit prettymuchpop.com. Hear... (@PartiallyExLife, 48 minutes, 2020-Aug-26) |
| 109. | Plato, Republic Book 4 - Cardinal Virtues And Parts Of The Soul This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's work, The Republic, in particular book 4. Specifically it examines the four "cardinal virtues" -- justice, wisdom, courage, and temperance -- and how they correlate with parts of the soul To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can... (@philosopher70, 16 minutes, 2020-Aug-22) |
| 110. | 451: Misogyny and Gender Inequality More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/mis... With the recent #MeToo viral campaign, along with the wave of prominent male figures toppled for being serial sexual harassers or worse, the topic of misogyny has come into sharp focus. But what exactly is misogyny? And how does it differ from sexism? What set of beliefs or attitudes makes someone a misogynist? And why does misogyny persist ... (@philtalkradio, 11 minutes, 2020-Aug-16) |
| 111. | Jane Heal I ask the philosopher Jane Heal five questions about herself. Jane Heal is Professor in Philosophy Emerita at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of "Fact and Meaning" (1989) and "Mind, Meaning, and Imagination" (2003). (@KieranSetiya, 26 minutes, 2020-Aug-25) |
| 112. | Episode 195: Jesus on Trial (Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov") David and Tamler dive into the most celebrated and philosophically rich scenes in Dostoevsky’s masterpiece "The Brothers Karamazov." Alyosha gets in the middle of a rock-fight, Ivan Karamazov makes a devastating moral case against God, and the Grand Inquisitor convicts Jesus Christ of heresy against the church. (Note: this segment is the second of an upcoming five episode VBW miniseries on The B... (@verybadwizards, 116 minutes, 2020-Aug-25) |
| 113. | 111 | Nick Bostrom on Anthropic Selection and Living in a Simulation Human civilization is only a few thousand years old (depending on how we count). So if civilization will ultimately last for millions of years, it could be considered surprising that we’ve found ourselves so early in history. Should we therefore predict that human civilization will probably disappear within a few thousand years? This “Doomsday Argument” shares a family resemblance to ideas used by... (@seanmcarroll, 81 minutes, 2020-Aug-24) |
| 114. | Forrest Gump The cows revisit 1994’s Best Picture winner, Forrest Gump. Is it a conservative agenda piece, portraying Forrest’s racial colorblindness as the envisioned end of racism in America, or is it a sober reflection on the history of violence and racism baked into contemporary America and American cinema? Is Jenny’s the story of an entire generation’s complex relationship with shifting power dynamics and... (@cowspod, 105 minutes, 2020-Aug-28) |
| 115. | Ep. 250: Simone Weil on Human Needs (Part Two) Continuing on "The Needs of the Soul" from The Need for Roots (1943). We got started in part one with our need for order, and in this part we add liberty, obedience, responsibility, equality, hierarchy, and honor. We'll conclude with part 3, covering freedom of speech, punishment and more, but you needn't wait: Get the full, ad-free Citizen Edition now. and you'll also get our Nightcap recordings.... (@PartiallyExLife, 54 minutes, 2020-Aug-24) |
| 116. | Plato, Republic Book 4 - Ideal City And Parts Of The Soul This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's work, The Republic, in particular book 4. Specifically it examines Plato's analogy between the ideal city and the human soul. Both the city and the soul turn out to have three main parts, each of which has its proper function. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd lik... (@philosopher70, 16 minutes, 2020-Aug-20) |
| 117. | #358 Michael McCullough: The Kindness of Strangers ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 114 minutes, 2020-Aug-27) |
| 118. |  "The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)" with Dr Katie MackThroughout history philosophers, poets and explorers have been pondering upon and debating the question that what the long term future of our universe would be. The focus has been on two intriguing perspectives: would the universe continue to exist forever or would it end at some point in time in future. Modern scientists seem to be in agreement that in the distant future the world will end; our u... (@BTG_ie, 53 minutes, 2020-Aug-27) |
| 119. | Chris Matheson | Bill & Ted, God, Comedy, Buddhism, and Meaning Today I'm joined by Chris Matheson...the creator of the hilarious Bill & Ted film series! Bill & Ted Face the Music: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1086064/ Chris's books: The Story of God (https://www.amazon.com/The-Story-of-God... The Buddha's Story (https://www.amazon.com/Buddhas-Story-Ch... and The Trouble with God (https://www.amazon.com/The-Trouble-with... My Stuff.... Bonus Feed ($5... (@philosophyguy2, 81 minutes, 2020-Aug-25) |
| 120. |  Out of the Vat: Brian GlenneyWe talk to Brian Glenney about perception, illusion and (literally) seeing the world through the eyes of another being… Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Aug-12) |
| 121. | Panpsychism to the rescue | Philip Goff Philip Goff asks whether panpsychism can solve philosophy's core problems. (@IAI_TV, 32 minutes, 2020-Aug-18) |
| 122. | Listener Qs 16 Thank you all so much for your support! Hope this hits the spot. Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcas... Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.... (@0gPhilosophy, 46 minutes, 2020-Aug-26) |
| 123. | Should a COVID-19 vaccine be mandatory? Before walking it back, Scott Morrison said he expected a COVID-19 vaccine "to be as mandatory as you can possibly make [it]". The Prime Minister thereby brought to the fore a series of complicated, but fundamental, ethical questions. (@RadioNational, 44 minutes, 2020-Aug-26) |
| 124. | Ep.106 Kant Vs. Bentham Part 2 This week join Dr Mike as he gives a mad axeman Danny’s exact postal address and contact details, just in case. Listen carefully and take extensive notes as Mike and Danny consider what the untestable beliefs are that ground their understanding of reality. Do we have to assume an absolute judge in order to be good guys or can we work it out as we go along? Just how fast can nonsense travel on sti... (@PhilosophyWtf, 24 minutes, 2020-Aug-26) |
| 125. | Kwame Anthony Appiah on Cosmopolitanism In the penultimate Vim Podcast episode, Justin and Zach do a book report. They read Kwame Anthony Appiah's 2006 book 'Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers'. Appiah is a British-Ghanaian political and moral philosopher at NYU and regularly writes for the NY Times. Justin and Zach attempt to unpack the philosophical content of the book. They discuss different types of cosmopolitanis... (@thevimblog, 86 minutes, 2020-Aug-23) |
| 126. | EV - 156 Convergence vs. Consensus Liberalism with Marcus Schultz-Bergin My guest this week is Marcus Schultz-Bergin (@schultzbergin), a teaching professor in philosophy at Cleveland State University who’s interests include ethics and political philosophy. Marcus is also a former colleague of mine from the Colorado State masters program. We discuss different kinds of Liberalism and what the view can still bring to the table.Marcus's Website: http://schultzbergin.xyz/Co... (@ETVPod, 67 minutes, 2020-Aug-21) |
| 127. | PEL Presents (sub)Text: Love and Wit in Shakespeare’s "Much Ado About Nothing" At the center of every courting ritual, there’s a great unknown. How do we know when we’ve met someone we can love? How do we know the other person is actually who they seem to be? In the beginning, all we have to go on is surface appearances, which amount to a kind of hearsay. The question is how to get beyond them. Wes and Erin discuss Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, which seems to suggest... (@PartiallyExLife, 90 minutes, 2020-Aug-21) |
| 128. | S02E06: Illusionism Part 2 : Finding Each Other - Keith Frankish In part 2 of this conversation, Keith Frankish and Jay talk about the implications of the illusionists view of mind and consciousness. They forecast the moral, social, and political fallout of a world which would embrace illusionism while lamenting the confused state of conversations being exported to the public on this subject. Jay recalls a depressing experience in Iceland with a Buddhist monk... (@DilemmaPodcast, 60 minutes, 2020-Aug-25) |
| 129. | Plato, Republic Book 4 - The Virtue Of Justice - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's work, The Republic, in particular book 4. Specifically it examines his discussion of what the virtue of justice is and where it is situated within the ideal city and in the human soul. As it turns out, justice is different than the other three virtues - wisdom, courage, and temperance, in that it is located in the proper r... (@philosopher70, 14 minutes, 2020-Aug-17) |
| 130. |  80 - Bias, Algorithms and Criminal JusticeLots of algorithmic tools are now used to support decision-making in the criminal justice system. Many of them are criticised for being biased. What should be done about this? In this episode, I talk to Chelsea Barabas about this very question. Chelsea is a PhD candidate at MIT, where she examines the spread of algorithmic decision making tools in the US criminal legal system. She works with int... (@JohnDanaher, 2020-Aug-13) |
| 131. | Beata Stawarska, "Saussure’s Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology: 'The Course in General Linguistics' after a Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) In Saussure’s Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology: The Course in General Linguistics after a Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Beata Stawarska guides us to consider Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics anew. By delving into Saussure’s autograph notes, letters, and student lecture notes Stawarska reframes all of the hierarchical pairs promoted as part of his doctrine—th... (@NewBooksPhil, 62 minutes, 2020-Aug-20) |
| 132. | #357 Elliott Sober: Group Selection, Altruism, and Multilevel Selection ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 64 minutes, 2020-Aug-24) |
| 133. | STM Podcast #64 Helen De Cruz - The Philosophy of Science and Awe On episode 64, we welcome philosopher Helen De Cruz to discuss the politicization and polarization of scientific information, the necessity of cultivating awe for an open mind and scientific exploration, creating popular philosophy through fiction and non-fiction to reach a wider audience, new and potential technological innovations, and fostering awe through philosophy and science in film. Helen ... (@seize_podcast, 67 minutes, 2020-Aug-24) |
| 134. | Episode 85, ‘How Male Privilege Hurts Women’ with Kate Manne (Part II - Further Analysis and Discussion) Misogyny is the hatred of women, practiced only by a few bigoted men. A hatred, which is far from systemic. Sexual and domestic violence are at record lows and continue to decline. Women are entitled to equal pay, positions of power, and bodily autonomy, and these rights and liberties have been enshrined in law and accepted by the general population. Feminism is the rule, misogyny the exception: w... (@ThePanpsycast, 62 minutes, 2020-Aug-23) |
| 135. | Moral grandstanding Moral grandstanding is not a harmless pastime. It’s insidious and corrosive, eating away at the foundations of public discourse and deepening the divisions between us. But how to stop it? (@DavidPZone1, 29 minutes, 2020-Aug-23) |
| 136. | Ep. 13 - (ft.) David Papineau: Materialism and Consciousness In this episode, I talk with David Papineau about his rejection of the Hard Problem of Consciousness, how dualism infects thinking about theory of mind, and how materialism is the best account of why we have experiences. Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://iai.tv/articles/we-must-shed-our... https://www.davidpapineau.co.uk/unpublis... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ekMv... (@Jordan_C_Myers, 52 minutes, 2020-Aug-23) |
| 137. | Plato, Republic Book 4 - The Virtue Of Temperance - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's work, The Republic, in particular book 4. Specifically it examines his discussion of what the virtue of temperance is and where it is situated within the ideal city and in the human soul To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can ... (@philosopher70, 14 minutes, 2020-Aug-15) |
| 138. | 507: Can Streets Disciminate? More at www.philosophytalk.org/shows/can-streets... City streets play an important role in our everyday lives. We commute to work, walk our dogs, meet our friends, and stage protests on city streets. In theory, streets are open for anyone to physically access. But do streets, by their design, actually discriminate against certain people? If so, who has less access to city streets? Is the desi... (@philtalkradio, 10 minutes, 2020-Aug-09) |
| 139. | PEL Presents PMP#57: Back to the Damn Arena - The Hunger Games Prequel Remember when The Hunger Games was everywhere? Suzanne Collins returns to Just War Theory lessons with the prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Mark, Erica, and Brian review the new book and look back on the YA novel/film franchise. Does the work critique yet glorify violence at the same time? Will the film version of the new novel be our next Phantom Menace? For more, visit prettymuchp... (@PartiallyExLife, 44 minutes, 2020-Aug-18) |
| 140. | Plato, Republic Book 4 - The Virtue Of Courage - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's work, The Republic, in particular book 4. Specifically it examines his discussion of what the virtue of courage is and where it is situated within the ideal city and in the human soul To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do ... (@philosopher70, 14 minutes, 2020-Aug-14) |
| 141. | Tom Baldwin I ask the philosopher Tom Baldwin five questions about himself. Tom Baldwin has taught Philosophy at Cambridge University and the University of York (UK), where is now an emeritus Professor. His publications include "G. E. Moore" (1990) and "Contemporary Philosophy: Philosophy in English since 1945" (2001). From 2005 until 2015 he was editor of Mind. (@KieranSetiya, 27 minutes, 2020-Aug-18) |
| 142. | 110 | Neil Johnson on Complexity, Conflict, and Infodemiology Physicists have traditionally simplified systems as much as possible, in order to shed light on fundamental properties. But small, simple parts build up into large, complex wholes. Are there new rules and laws of nature that apply specifically to the realm of complexity? This has been a popular question for a few decades now, and we have some answers but not as many as we would like. Neil Johnson ... (@seanmcarroll, 84 minutes, 2020-Aug-17) |
| 143. | Ep. 250: Simone Weil on Human Needs (Part One) On "The Needs of the Soul" from The Need for Roots (1943) and "Meditation on Obedience and Liberty" (1937). What are our needs that should then drive what kind of society would be best for us? Weil says we need liberty yet obedience, equality yet hierarchy, security yet risk... and none of these words mean quite what you'd think. And to start off, why do the many obey the few? Don't wait for Part ... (@PartiallyExLife, 53 minutes, 2020-Aug-17) |
| 144. | Plato, Republic Book 4 - Happiness Of Citizens And The City - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's work, The Republic, in particular book 4. Specifically it examines his discussion about the happiness of the citizens of his ideal city or political community. The goal is to produce happiness for all of the classes of the city, not just one class, and to do so by allowing them to express their natures through their distin... (@philosopher70, 18 minutes, 2020-Aug-13) |
| 145. | Plato, Republic Book 4 - Injustice, Overreaching, And Faction - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's work, The Republic, in particular book 4. Specifically it examines his discussion about how things go wrong in the human soul when the three parts Plato distinguishes - the rational part, the spirited part, and the appetitive part - are in disharmony with each other, producing the disorder and vice of injustice. To sup... (@philosopher70, 13 minutes, 2020-Aug-13) |
| 146. | #356 David Haig: Genetics, Development, and Intragenomic Conflict ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 61 minutes, 2020-Aug-20) |
| 147. | HoP 354 - Greed is Good - Economics in the Italian Renaissance Leon Battista Alberti, Benedetto Cotrugli, and Poggio Bracciolini grapple with the moral and conceptual problems raised by the prospect of people getting filthy rich. (@HistPhilosophy, 26 minutes, 2020-Jul-26) |
| 148. | A Political Mountain: Jumping Off Mount Stupid For you and I who need a political humbling... Spoiler...you don't want to be on mount stupid. Research mentioned: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep3958... My Stuff.... Bonus Feed ($5 a month): https://www.patreon.com/thephilosophyguy Podcast: https://thephilosophyguy.fireside.fm/ Youtube: https://bit.ly/2Z0rAjA All the Links You Need: https://linktr.ee/brendenweber (@philosophyguy2, 27 minutes, 2020-Aug-18) |
| 149. | Power and Philosophy: East vs West |Julian Baggini, Jamie Whyte, Vivienne Shue Is the sun setting on Western ideas as well as Western economies? (@IAI_TV, 37 minutes, 2020-Aug-11) |
| 150. | Listener Qs 15 Thank you all so much for your support! Hope this hits the spot. Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcas... Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.fa... (@0gPhilosophy, 36 minutes, 2020-Aug-19) |
| 151. | What if COVID-19 doesn’t go away? What if the hoped for COVID-19 vaccine is delayed by months – or years? Do we have the emotional and interpersonal resources to bear up under the strain? Alda Balthrop-Lewis joins Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens to discuss the habits and practices which might help us cultivate the kind of inner life, and life with others, that could see us through the pandemic. (@RadioNational, 46 minutes, 2020-Aug-19) |
| 152. | PEL Presents (sub)Text: Mastery and Repetition in "Groundhog Day" When egotistical weatherman Phil Connors gets trapped in a time loop in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, he gets drunk, steals money, manipulates women, binges on breakfast food, plays God… and finally grows up. The story charts Phil’s development over the course of thousands of repeated February 2nds. Along the way, it raises questions about our own capacity for growth. How do we go about improving ou... (@PartiallyExLife, 61 minutes, 2020-Aug-15) |
| 153. | Ep. 105 Philosopher Cage Fight! Kant Vs. Bentham Part 1 Join Mike and Danny this week as they pull up at the traffic lights and start revving the engine to show off to their mates. Stick with them as the lights change, they drop the clutch, release the breaks and the philosophical wheels start to spin. Gaze on in uncritical adoration as they screech away burning philosophical rubber to play chicken with Kant and Bentham. Who will blink first, how far w... (@PhilosophyWtf, 21 minutes, 2020-Aug-19) |
| 154. | Knowledge, Great Philosophers and Philosophy of Mind -with Barney Walker This episode is an interview with Warwick Philosophy's Barney Walker. We discuss how his interest in philosophy began, what it is to be a good or even great philosopher, how the difference between knowledge and true belief matters and the subject matter of philosophy of mind. Listen to this episode for an exploration of questions like: What is a great philosopher and who actually was one... (@RoomPhilosophy, 49 minutes, 2020-Aug-19) |
| 155. | Plato, Republic Book 4 - Distinguishing Parts Of The Soul - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's work, The Republic, in particular book 4. Specifically it examines his argument about why there are three main parts to the human soul - the reasoning/rational part (logos), the passionate or spirited part (thumos), and the appetitive part (epithumia). To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.co... (@philosopher70, 14 minutes, 2020-Aug-11) |
| 156. |  Ep. 5 - Reflective Reasoning For Real People (Dissertation Defense Overview)Welcome to Upon Reflection. In this episode, I review the major take-aways and findings from my dissertation titled, "Reflective Reasoning For Real People". I explain what cognitive scientists mean by terms like "reflective reasoning", how reflection is measured empirically, how reflection can either help or hinder our reasoning, how more reflective philosophers tend toward certain philosophical b... (@byrd_nick, 16 minutes, 2020-Aug-10) |
| 157. | EV - 155 Reviewing Cynical Theories with Sam Hoadley-Brill My guest this week is Sam Hoadley-Brill (@deonteleologist), a grad student in philosophy at CUNY Graduate Center with interests in moral, social, and political philosophy. We discuss his forthcoming review of Cynical Theories by James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose.Convocation: Terry PratchettHelen Longino "Cognitive and Non-Cognitive values in science": https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.100... Wy... (@ETVPod, 66 minutes, 2020-Aug-14) |
| 158. | PEL Presents NEM#128: Roger Joseph Manning Jr.'s Crazy Fun with Arrangements Roger rose to fame as keyboardist/songwriter for Jellyfish in the early '90s, then formed Imperial Drag, The Moog Cookbook, TV Eyes, backed Beck, and finally released two albums under his own name starting in 2006. He's recently released a solo EP and one with The Likerish Quartet that reunites him with some other members of Jellyfish. We discuss "Lighthouse Spaceship" by The Lickerish Quartet fro... (@PartiallyExLife, 89 minutes, 2020-Aug-14) |
| 159. | Epicurus, Principal Doctrines - The Value Of Friendship - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient hedonist philosopher Epicurus' Principal Doctrines (as well as the Letter to Menoecius and the Vatican Sayings) Specifically it examines his discussion of Friendship, which he considers not only to be useful in terms of providing security from pains and fears, and to be useful for providing pleasure -- but also in some cases a good valuable fo... (@philosopher70, 12 minutes, 2020-Aug-10) |
| 160. | Epicurus, Principal Doctrines - Nature And Usefulness Of Justice - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient hedonist philosopher Epicurus' Principal Doctrines (as well as the Letter to Menoecius and the Vatican Sayings) Specifically it examines his discussion of the nature and the usefulness of Justice for human beings. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, y... (@philosopher70, 11 minutes, 2020-Aug-10) |
| 161. | #355 Kay Holekamp: Hyenas, and the Evolution of General Intelligence ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 37 minutes, 2020-Aug-17) |
| 162. | PEL Presents (sub)Text: Marital Economics in Jane Austen’s "Pride and Prejudice" An advantageous marriage is Elizabeth Bennet’s only potential escape from a foolish mother, a disinterested father, three very silly sisters, and a house that’s entailed away to her idiotic cousin Mr. Collins. But she turns down fabulously wealthy Mr. Darcy because he’s prideful—and maybe a little prejudiced. But then, so is she. How do we know if two people are well-suited to each other? What mak... (@PartiallyExLife, 81 minutes, 2020-Aug-13) |
| 163. | 79 - Is There A Techno-Responsibility Gap? What happens if an autonomous machine does something wrong? Who, if anyone, should be held responsible for the machine's actions? That's the topic I discuss in this episode with Daniel Tigard. Daniel Tigard is a Senior Research Associate in the Institute for History & Ethics of Medicine, at the Technical University of Munich. His current work addresses issues of moral responsibility in e... (@JohnDanaher, 2020-Aug-05) |
| 164. | Episode 3: Logical Fatalism with Alicia Finch In this episode, Alicia Finch explains an intriguing argument for logical fatalism—the view that the laws of logic preclude out having free will—as well as four types of response to the argument.Alicia’s website: https://www.aliciafinch.com/Recommended resources:Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Fatalism”: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fatal... you have a question you’d like us to answer ... (@thefreewillshow, 55 minutes, 2020-Aug-17) |
| 165. | S02E05: Illusionism Part 1 : What Needs Explaining - Keith Frankish “Illusionists deny that experiences have phenomenal properties and focus on explaining why they seem to have them” In part 1 of this 2 part interview Jay discusses what exactly is meant by this statement from renowned philosopher of mind and author Keith Frankish. What part of our conscious experience, if any, is real and demands an explanation? Does the idea of a philosophical zombie make any... (@DilemmaPodcast, 62 minutes, 2020-Aug-17) |
| 166. | Ep. 12 - (ft.) Bernardo Kastrup: Why Materialism Cannot Explain Consciousness In this episode, I speak with Bernardo Kastrup, who holds a PhD in Philosophy and Computer Engineering, about the hard problem of consciousness, idealism, theory of mind, panpsychism, and why materialistic reductionism cannot account for the fact of conscious experience. Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://www.bernardokastrup.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itSSn6jj.... (@Jordan_C_Myers, 60 minutes, 2020-Aug-17) |
| 167. |  Episode 128: Melissa Fusco discusses free choice permissionOne of the foundational ideas behind philosophical logic is that when you say something, that has further implications beyond the single thing you said. Like, if I think ‘every single frog is green’ and ‘Fran is a frog’, then I am committed to thinking that Fran is green. I don't have to have actually thought to myself or said out loud that Fran is green—I'm just required to believe that Fran is g... (@ElucidationsPod, 41 minutes, 2020-Aug-16) |
| 168. | AI home devices: A feminist perspective Smart home devices make life easier, and they're increasingly popular. But are they gender-neutral entities, or "smart wives"? (@DavidPZone1, 29 minutes, 2020-Aug-16) |
| 169. | STM Podcast #63: Alan Levinovitz - Natural: How Faith in Nature's Goodness Leads to Harmful Fads On episode 63, we welcome author Alan Levinovitz to discuss the ways in which the words natural and unnatural have been used in popular culture, science, and religious ideologies; the importance of admitting and learning from mistakes; demagogy and how people fall for confidence; fostering healthier dialogue on social media; being right vs being kind; system one and system two thinking; our genera... (@seize_podcast, 64 minutes, 2020-Aug-16) |
| 170. | Episode 85, ‘How Male Privilege Hurts Women’ with Kate Manne (Part I - Entitled) Misogyny is the hatred of women, practiced only by a few bigoted men. A hatred, which is far from systemic. Sexual and domestic violence are at record lows and continue to decline. Women are entitled to equal pay, positions of power, and bodily autonomy, and these rights and liberties have been enshrined in law and accepted by the general population. Feminism is the rule, misogyny the exception: w... (@ThePanpsycast, 55 minutes, 2020-Aug-15) |
| 171. | 449: James Baldwin and Social Justice More at www.philosophytalk.org/shows/james-baldw... Sometimes, we struggle to tell the truth -- especially when it's the truth about ourselves. Why did James Baldwin, a prominent Civil Rights-era intellectual and novelist, believe that telling the truth about ourselves is not only difficult but can also be dangerous? How can truth deeply unsettle our assumptions about ourselves and our relati... (@philtalkradio, 11 minutes, 2020-Aug-02) |
| 172. | PEL Presents PMP#56: Black + Nerd = BLERD w/ Anthony LeBlanc The Interim Executive Producer of The Second City joins Mark, Erica, and Brian to discuss the scope of black nerd-dom: what nerdy properties provide to those who feel "othered," using sci-fi to talk about race, Black Panther, afrofuturism, black anime fans, Star Trek, Key & Peele, Get Out vs. Us, and more. For more, visit prettymuchpop.com. Hear bonus content for this episode at patreon.com/pretty... (@PartiallyExLife, 51 minutes, 2020-Aug-11) |
| 173. | Epicurus, Principal Doctrines - Two Sources Of Groundless Fears - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient hedonist philosopher Epicurus' Principal Doctrines (as well as the Letter to Menoecius and the Vatican Sayings) Specifically it examines his discussion of two sources of what he determines to be "groundless" fears for human beings -- the wrath, envy, or favoritism on the part of the gods; and suffering Death To support my ongoing work, go... (@philosopher70, 12 minutes, 2020-Aug-07) |
| 174. | Alva Noë I ask the philosopher Alva Noë five questions about himself. Alva Noë is an author and philosopher at the University of California, Berkeley. His writings include "Action in Perception" (2004), "Strange Tools" (2015), and "Infinite Baseball" (2019). (@KieranSetiya, 29 minutes, 2020-Aug-11) |
| 175. | David Livingstone Smith, "On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It" (Oxford UP 2020) The phenomenon of dehumanization is associated with such atrocities as the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and the Holocaust in World War II. In these and other cases, people are described in ways that imply that they are less than fully human as a prelude to committing extreme forms of violence against them. In On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It (Oxford University Press, 2020), David Li... (@NewBooksPhil, 68 minutes, 2020-Aug-10) |
| 176. | Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson) David and Tamler welcome special guest Chris Matheson - co-writer of the "Bill and Ted" movies and author of "The Story of God" and "The Buddha’s Story" - to talk about religion, immortality, comedy, Freud, and why the secret ingredient to good satire is love. Plus David and Tamler do a conceptual analysis of stoner movies and discuss their favorites. Special Guest: Chris Matheson. (@verybadwizards, 114 minutes, 2020-Aug-11) |
| 177. | 109 | Jason Torchinsky on Our Self-Driving Future It’s easy to foresee that technological progress will change how we live; it’s much harder to anticipate exactly how. Self-driving cars represent an enormous technological challenge, but one that is plausibly on the way to being solved. What will be the unanticipated consequences when autonomous vehicles become commonplace? Jason Torchinsky is a fan of technology, but also a fan of driving, and hi... (@seanmcarroll, 78 minutes, 2020-Aug-10) |
| 178. | Cheryl Misak on Frank Ramsey and Ludwig Wittgenstein Cheryl Misak has recently published a biography of F.P. Ramsey, the great Cambridge thinker who died at the age of only 26, but who nevertheless made a significant impact in several different fields including philosophy, mathematics, and economics. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast she discusses Ramsey's interactions with Wittgenstein. The two thinkers had very different personal sty... (@philosophybites, 20 minutes, 2020-May-30) |
| 179. | Epicurus, Principal Doctrines - Three Types Of Desires - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient hedonist philosopher Epicurus' Principal Doctrines (as well as the Letter to Menoecius and the Vatican Sayings) Specifically it examines his discussion of three types of desires: natural and necessary desires; natural but not necessary desires; and desires that are neither natural nor necessary, but based on "groundless opinion" To supp... (@philosopher70, 19 minutes, 2020-Aug-06) |
| 180. | Epicurus, Principal Doctrines - Mental And Bodily Pleasures - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient hedonist philosopher Epicurus' Principal Doctrines (as well as the Letter to Menoecius and the Vatican Sayings) Specifically it examines his discussion on the difference between mental and bodily pleasures, and the superiority of mental pleasures to bodily ones. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler ... (@philosopher70, 15 minutes, 2020-Aug-06) |
| 181. | Ep. 249: Dewey on Education and Thought (Part Two) Continuing on John Dewey's Democracy and Education (1916) ch. 1, 2, 4, and 24 with guest Jonathan Haber. How is education different than mere conditioning, and how does it relate to habits and growth? We discuss how much of what Dewey recommends lines up with liberal education and multiculturalism. Also, can education change taste? Start with part one, or get the full, ad-free Citizen Edition, whi... (@PartiallyExLife, 72 minutes, 2020-Aug-10) |
| 182. | PEL Presents (sub)Text: Expediency and Intimacy in Billy Wilder’s "The Apartment" You know, it’s that old story of boy meets girl … girl is dating boy’s married boss … girl tries to commit suicide … boy saves girl’s life …. Okay, that sounds pretty dark. But somehow it’s the basis for a classic romantic comedy, Billy Wilder’s 1960 film, The Apartment. The film raises the question of how we distinguish authentic relationships from relationships of utility and convenience. What c... (@PartiallyExLife, 57 minutes, 2020-Aug-10) |
| 183. | Ep. 11 - (ft.) Russell Blackford: Philosophy's Future In this episode, I speak with the Philosopher Russell Blackford about his edited book with Damien Broderick on the problems of philosophical progress, pop-philosophy, academic isolation, interdisciplinary work, and more. This was a wonderful insight on the niche details of the field, and will be of interest to both PhD's and fans of philosophy alike. Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper... (@Jordan_C_Myers, 69 minutes, 2020-Aug-14) |
| 184. | Artificial Intelligence: Fascinating Opportunities & Emerging Challenges with Professor Bart Selman Research and development in the field of Artificial Intelligence is progressing at an amazing pace. These developments are moving beyond simple applications such as machine vision, autonomous vehicles, natural language processing and medical diagnosis. Future AI systems will be able to use reasoning to make decisions; will employ innovative models of non-human intelligence; will augment human inte... (@BTG_ie, 53 minutes, 2020-Aug-14) |
| 185. | Titanic The cows go back to Titanic and explore how Cameron weaves together themes of love, memory, duty, and class into a massive scale disaster flick. Is Titanic, which was at the time the most expensive and highest grossing movie ever, secretly an anti-capitalist propaganda piece? Or is it just the pinnacle of Hollywood bombast? Tune in to find out! (@cowspod, 58 minutes, 2020-Aug-14) |
| 186. | HAP 57 - Race First, Then Party - T. Thomas Fortune T. Thomas Fortune uses newspaper editorials to put forth a theory of civil rights and set out a plan of political action for protecting them. (@HistPhilosophy, 22 minutes, 2020-Jul-19) |
| 187. | #354 Agner Fog: Warlike and Peaceful Societies ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 86 minutes, 2020-Aug-13) |
| 188. | Truth and Scientific Progress | Nancy Cartwright Philosopher of Science Nancy Cartwright discusses the role of authority within science. (@IAI_TV, 24 minutes, 2020-Aug-04) |
| 189. | 0G115: Anathem and Polycosmic Protism, Part 3 The incantor chanting was successful! We've reached the timeline where we all survived Anathem and learned a valuable lesson about picking the right timeline. Thanks again to Noah for chanting us safely through and hope you enjoy this discussion of Polycosmic Platonism. Many Worlds Interpretation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-world... Arbre to Earth Translations: https://anathem.fandom.co... (@0gPhilosophy, 45 minutes, 2020-Aug-12) |
| 190. | Ordinary vices: Ingratitude Many of us are prone to express our sense of having hardship inflicted upon us by the COVID-19 pandemic — only to be reminded that someone else, somewhere else, has it much worse than we do. Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens discuss when we are permitted to complain, without being guilty of ingratitude. (@RadioNational, 48 minutes, 2020-Aug-12) |
| 191. | Ep. 104 Film Night: The Day the Earth Stood Still This week join Mike and Danny as they settle in for their final movie of the night. Once again we ask the question - are we safe to be let out by ourselves or do we need supervision? Without guidance are we doomed to forever run, with scissors, through the corridors of history and stick our fingers in to the fires of eternity? Nod wisely in thoughtful consideration as we ask the question - should ... (@PhilosophyWtf, 27 minutes, 2020-Aug-12) |
| 192. | EV - 154 Better know Richard Rorty with Adrian Rutt My guest this week is Adrian Rutt adjunct at Cleveland state, editor at Liberal Currents, and the manager of the Rorty Stan Account on twitter (@Adrian_Rutt). Adrian helps me to better understand Richard Rorty and his roll in all of this ::gestures wildly at the culture war::Convocation: Richard RortyEditing by Callie WrightMusic by GW RodriguezSibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosop... (@ETVPod, 2020-Aug-07) |
| 193. | The Three Types of Trump Supporters Part 3 of the discussion of the new guide for talking to Trump supporters (and the antepenultimate Vim Podcast episode ever!). Dylan and Zach consider how to divide Trump supporters into different types. Then they discuss three types, the “true believer,” the partisan,” and the “fence-sitter.” How should you engage with them? Read the article: https://thevimblog.com/2020/02/02/a-guid... ... (@thevimblog, 56 minutes, 2020-Aug-09) |
| 194. | Epicurus, Principal Doctrines - Moving And Static Pleasures - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient hedonist philosopher Epicurus' Principal Doctrines (as well as the Letter to Menoecius and the Vatican Sayings) Specifically it examines his discussion of two distinct sorts of pleasures -- moving or kinetic pleasures, caused by some sort of change on the part of the one experiencing it (e.g. drinking wine), and static pleasures, consisting in... (@philosopher70, 9 minutes, 2020-Aug-03) |
| 195. | #353 Guy Madison: The Psychology of Music ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 68 minutes, 2020-Aug-10) |
| 196. | Epicurus, Principal Doctrines - Epicurean Practical Reasoning - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient hedonist philosopher Epicurus' Principal Doctrines (as well as the Letter to Menoecius and the Vatican Sayings) Specifically it examines his conception of practical reasoning, involving prudential determination of the values of pleasures and pains against each other. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadl... (@philosopher70, 13 minutes, 2020-Aug-02) |
| 197. | Episode 84, The Patricia Churchland Interview (Part II - The Conscience) Introduction Resting on our shoulders is the most complex object in the known universe: 86 billion neurons, each connected to 10,000 others. From Plato to Descartes, to the modern-day, philosophers have largely been ignorant of the workings of the brain, despite many questions in philosophy seeming to be intimately linked with its nature. Questions like: What are the origins of our moral intuition... (@ThePanpsycast, 55 minutes, 2020-Aug-09) |
| 198. | Epicurus, Principal Doctrines - Pleasure, Prudence, And Justice - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient hedonist philosopher Epicurus' Principal Doctrines (as well as the Letter to Menoecius and the Vatican Sayings) Specifically it examines his discussion about the relationship between living pleasantly, living justly, and living prudently. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make... (@philosopher70, 10 minutes, 2020-Aug-01) |
| 199. | Inhumanity Our capacity to do terrible things to each other seems boundless. But we'd find it a lot more difficult without recourse to a neat conceptual trick: dehumanisation. (@DavidPZone1, 29 minutes, 2020-Aug-09) |
| 200. | PEL Presents PMP#55: Food as Pop w/ Thi Nguyen Mark, Erica, and Brian are joined by Utah philosophy prof and former food writer C. Thi Nguyen to talk food as art, foodies, elitism, food TV, cooking vs. eating, and how analyzing food is like analyzing games. For more, visit prettymuchpop.com. Hear bonus content for this episode at patreon.com/prettymuchpop. (@PartiallyExLife, 46 minutes, 2020-Aug-05) |
| 201. | STM Podcast #62: Sulaiman Jenkins Talks Life is Raw, Napoleon, 2Pac, Outlawz On episode 62, we welcome back author Sulaiman Jenkins to discuss his new book, Life is Raw: The Story of a Reformed Outlaw, 2Pac’s transition from loving everyone to becoming wary, Napoleon's journey from rags to riches, alcoholism and why people remain addicts, how trauma makes it difficult to accept and trust love, Islam’s influence on Napleon’s beliefs about the world and his relationships, an... (@seize_podcast, 62 minutes, 2020-Aug-09) |
| 202. | “Is a Universal Basic Income too Utopian to Work?” An encore episode from 2017 as Jack visits with Rutger Bregman. (@whyradioshow, 75 minutes, 2020-Aug-09) |
| 203. | Nihilism; It Lurks Within All Of Us How should we understand nihilism? And why does it matter? My Stuff.... Bonus Feed ($5 a month): https://www.patreon.com/thephilosophyguy Podcast: https://thephilosophyguy.fireside.fm/ Youtube: https://bit.ly/2Z0rAjA All the Links You Need: https://linktr.ee/brendenweber (@philosophyguy2, 28 minutes, 2020-Aug-07) |
| 204. | 78 - Humans and Robots: Ethics, Agency and Anthropomorphism Are robots like humans? Are they agents? Can we have relationships with them? These are just some of the questions I explore with today's guest, Sven Nyholm. Sven is an assistant professor of philosophy at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His research focuses on ethics, particularly the ethics of technology. He is a friend of the show, having appeared twice before. In this epis... (@JohnDanaher, 2020-Jul-27) |
| 205. | Gabriel Marcel, On The Ontological Mystery - Despair, Betrayal, And Suicide - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher, playwright, and musician, Gabriel Marcel's essay Concrete Approaches to Investigating the Ontological Mystery. Specifically it examines his discussion of despair, betrayal, and even suicide as human possibilities that need to be taken into consideration. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com... (@philosopher70, 17 minutes, 2020-Jul-31) |
| 206. | Helen Steward I ask the philosopher Helen Steward five questions about herself. Helen Steward is Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Action at the University of Leeds. She is the author of two books: "The Ontology of Mind" (1997) and "A Metaphysics for Freedom" (2012). (@KieranSetiya, 25 minutes, 2020-Aug-04) |
| 207. | 108 | Carl Bergstrom on Information, Disinformation, and Bullshit We are living, in case you haven’t noticed, in a world full of bullshit. It’s hard to say whether the amount is truly increasing, but it seems that everywhere you look someone is trying to convince you of something, regardless of whether that something is actually true. Where is this bullshit coming from, how is it disseminated, and what can we do about it? Carl Bergstrom studies information in th... (@seanmcarroll, 84 minutes, 2020-Aug-03) |
| 208. | Gabriel Marcel, On The Ontological Mystery - The Mystery Of Hope This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher, playwright, and musician, Gabriel Marcel's essay Concrete Approaches to Investigating the Ontological Mystery. Specifically it examines his discussion of hope, which stresses that it this state or act is something active, and which connects us to ourselves, others, and the world. Hope has conative and cognitive as well as af... (@philosopher70, 18 minutes, 2020-Jul-30) |
| 209. | HoP 353 - The Good Place - Utopias in the Italian Renaissance Tommaso Campanella’s “The City of the Sun” and other utopian works of the Italian Renaissance describe perfect cities as an ideal for real life politics. (@HistPhilosophy, 23 minutes, 2020-Jul-12) |
| 210. | 506: The Ethical Jerk More at www.philosophytalk.org/shows/ethical-jer... Ethics philosophers are more ethical than the average person — right? Well, maybe not. Studies show that philosophy professors are just as biased as the rest of us, and no more generous in their charitable giving. So does that mean they’re not any more ethical too? What’s the point of doing moral philosophy if it’s not to make ourselves more... (@philtalkradio, 11 minutes, 2020-Jul-24) |
| 211. | Gabriel Marcel, On The Ontological Mystery - Examples Of Mysteries - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher, playwright, and musician, Gabriel Marcel's essay Concrete Approaches to Investigating the Ontological Mystery. Specifically it examines the examples of mysteries that he provides in that essay. These include: knowledge, the union of the body and the mind, death, hope, being, evil, value, and encounter. To support my on... (@philosopher70, 17 minutes, 2020-Jul-29) |
| 212. | #352 Marco Del Giudice: The Evolutionary Psychology of Gender Differences (Part 2) ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 142 minutes, 2020-Aug-06) |
| 213. | Ep. 249: Dewey on Education and Thought (Part One) On John Dewey's How We Think (1910) ch. 1 and Democracy and Education (1916) ch. 1, 2, 4, and 24. What model of human nature should serve as the basis for education policy? Dewey sees learning as growth, and the point of education as to enable indefinite growth. With guest Jonathan Haber. Don't wait for part two; get the full, ad-free Citizen Edition now. Please support PEL! Sponsors: Visit SJC.ed... (@PartiallyExLife, 52 minutes, 2020-Aug-02) |
| 214. | Bo Mou, "Philosophy of Language, Chinese Language, Chinese Philosophy" (Brill, 2018) Contributors to Philosophy of Language, Chinese Language, Chinese Philosophy, edited by Bo Mou, professor of philosophy at the San Jose State University, bring together work on the syntax and semantics of the Chinese language with philosophy of language, from the classical Chinese and contemporary analytic Anglophone traditions. The result is an anthology which explores what Mou calls “the constru... (@NewBooksPhil, 93 minutes, 2020-Aug-01) |
| 215. | S02E04: History Rhymes - Uyghur Genocide - Rahima Mahmut An urgent episode about a genocide unfolding in China. Rahima Mahmut is the U.K. Project Director, World Uyghur Congress. https://www.uyghurcongress.org/en/ Crowdfunding link here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/stop-Uyghur-g... www.stopuyghurgenocide.org.uk Study about the global supply chains stained with Uyghur slave labor: Uyghurs for Sale https://www.aspi.org.au/report/uyg... PBS’... (@DilemmaPodcast, 73 minutes, 2020-Aug-06) |
| 216. | Humanity's Distant Future | Anders Sandberg Fellow at Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute Anders Sandberg investigates the road we must take to reach the mind-boggling possibilities and of a transhuman future. (@IAI_TV, 18 minutes, 2020-Jul-28) |
| 217. | Gabriel Marcel, On The Ontological Mystery - Meta-Problem And Mystery - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher, playwright, and musician, Gabriel Marcel's essay Concrete Approaches to Investigating the Ontological Mystery. Specifically it examines his distinction between a problem and a mystery. The latter is a meta-problematic, and involves the subject engaging with the problem in it in some way. To support my ongoing work, go ... (@philosopher70, 20 minutes, 2020-Jul-28) |
| 218. | Out of the Vat: Richard Ashcroft Richard Ashcroft discusses his recent work on utopias, his love of trains, and 'the other Richard Ashcroft'… Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Jul-21) |
| 219. | 0G114: Anathem and the Linguistic Turn, Part 2 The epic longnwalkin continues with Anthem part two! We cross Arbre and 120 years of philosophical history at the same time. I do my best to explain how philosophy got really obsessed with language for a few decades in the early 1900's and now philosophy is healing. Arbre seems to have never escaped the linguistic turn and that fact explains so much of the subtext of the Mathic world. Hope this he... (@0gPhilosophy, 52 minutes, 2020-Aug-05) |
| 220. | What is the “value” of philosophy? The fee changes to university degrees announced by the federal government are designed to produce “job ready graduates” by funnelling students into “job-relevant” courses — but at the expense of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Professor Moira Gatens joins Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens to discuss what society loses when philosophy is devalued. (@RadioNational, 46 minutes, 2020-Aug-05) |
| 221. | Ep. 103 Film Night: 2001 A Space Odyssey This week join Mike and Danny at the monolith as they discover the joys of hitting each other over the head with pieces of bone. Yes we travel back 19 years into the future (you work it out) to ask the question, how do we develop? Is it important to be lead out of the cave by more enlightened minds or would we eventually find our own way out? What triggers human evolution? Do we need a guide or ar... (@PhilosophyWtf, 22 minutes, 2020-Aug-05) |
| 222. | S02E03: Virtual Afterlives - Candi Cann Are virtual worlds any different than real worlds? A mother is reunited with her deceased daughter in virtual reality for a South Korean TV show. Jay Shapiro speaks with Associate Professor and author Candi Cann about the ways in which technology is intersecting with death and grief rituals. Professor Cann's book on the subject is available here. Find a bonus conversation with Adelle Archer,... (@DilemmaPodcast, 54 minutes, 2020-Aug-05) |
| 223. | EV - 153 Filial Piety and Abuse with Janelle Shiroshita-Wawrzyniak My guest this week is Janelle Shiroshita-Wawrzyniak. We discuss Confucian views about filial piety and what that virtue means for people who come from abusive households.Convocation: Joshua Ray DerkeEditing by Brian ZiegenhagenMusic by GW RodriguezSibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoidIf you enjoy the show, please Like and Review... (@ETVPod, 70 minutes, 2020-Jul-31) |
| 224. | Gabriel Marcel, On The Ontological Mystery - Problems, Techniques, And Technology This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher, playwright, and musician, Gabriel Marcel's essay Concrete Approaches to Investigating the Ontological Mystery. Specifically it examines his discussion of the interrelation between what he calls "problems" (as distinguished from mysteries), the range of techniques, and technology. To support my ongoing work, go to my Pa... (@philosopher70, 21 minutes, 2020-Jul-26) |
| 225. | #351 H. Clark Barrett: Consciousness, Moral Judgment, and Cross-cultural Studies ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 64 minutes, 2020-Aug-03) |
| 226. | STM Podcast #61: Armand D'Angour - What Socrates Has to Teach Us About Love On episode 61, we welcome philosopher Armand D’Angour to discuss the human side of Socrates, his love life and the ancient Greek conception of love, how patriarchal dominance precluded heterosexual romance, our persistent need to idealize great, historical figures, the benefits of Socratic dialogue in philosophy and psychotherapy, and why wisdom equates with the maintenance of an open mind. Armand... (@seize_podcast, 57 minutes, 2020-Aug-03) |
| 227. | Episode 84, The Patricia Churchland Interview (Part I - The Hornswoggle Problem) Introduction Resting on our shoulders is the most complex object in the known universe: 86 billion neurons, each connected to 10,000 others. From Plato to Descartes, to the modern-day, philosophers have largely been ignorant of the workings of the brain, despite many questions in philosophy seeming to be intimately linked with its nature. Questions like: What are the origins of our moral intuition... (@ThePanpsycast, 58 minutes, 2020-Aug-02) |
| 228. | 448: Frantz Fanon and the Violence of Colonialism More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/fra... Frantz Fanon is a thinker who has inspired radical liberation movements in places ranging from Palestine to South Africa to the United States. Most famous for his work "The Wretched of the Earth," Fanon is often understood as a proponent of revolutionary violence. But is this a fair characterization of Fanon, or is it an oversimplification o... (@philtalkradio, 11 minutes, 2020-Jul-19) |
| 229. | PEL Presents PMP#54: The Genius(?) of Rick and Morty Mark, Erica, and Brian address critically acclaimed Adult Swim show. What kind of humor is it? Can we take the sci-fi and family drama elements seriously? How smart are the show and its fans? Is Rick a super hero, or Dr. Who? What will this serialized sit-com look like in longevity? For more, visit prettymuchpop.com. Hear bonus content for this episode at patreon.com/prettymuchpop. (@PartiallyExLife, 47 minutes, 2020-Jul-29) |
| 230. | What are we doing when we argue? Argument and debate don’t need to be blood sports. Done properly, argument can be about beneficial mutual exchange and trust. (@DavidPZone1, 28 minutes, 2020-Aug-02) |
| 231. | 77 - Should AI be Explainable? If an AI system makes a decision, should its reasons for making that decision be explainable to you? In this episode, I chat to Scott Robbins about this issue. Scott is currently completing his PhD in the ethics of artificial intelligence at the Technical University of Delft. He has a B.Sc. in Computer Science from California State University, Chico and an M.Sc. in Ethics of Technology from t... (@JohnDanaher, 2020-Jul-20) |
| 232. | Gabriel Marcel, On The Ontological Mystery - Mistaken Attitudes Towards The Ontological Need This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher, playwright, and musician, Gabriel Marcel's essay Concrete Approaches to Investigating the Ontological Mystery. Specifically it examines his discussion of what he calls the ontological need or exigency, and what stands in the way of understanding and approaching this. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - ww... (@philosopher70, 17 minutes, 2020-Jul-24) |
| 233. |  Ep89 - BC17 - Education and GenderAfter a long hiatus, we're back to release this short, breadcrumb episode, number 89, with Dr. Jane Roland Martin on Education and Gender. Dr. Martin has been a prolific author on the philosophy of education, and in this short episode, explains some of her thinking about past figures in that area, who excluded some things that need to be taught to everyone, and considered their narrower visions th... (@PhilosophyBB, 13 minutes, 2020-Jul-24) |
| 234. | Richard Holton I ask the philosopher Richard Holton five questions about himself. Richard Holton is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and the author of "Willing, Wanting, Waiting" (2006). (@KieranSetiya, 25 minutes, 2020-Jul-28) |
| 235. | HAP 56 - African Personality - Edward Blyden Edward Blyden gains appreciation for Islam in West Africa and gradually moves from political nationalism to cultural nationalism. (@HistPhilosophy, 26 minutes, 2020-Jul-05) |
| 236. | 107 | Russ Shafer-Landau on the Reality of Morality Despite occasional and important disagreements, most people are in rough agreement about what it means to be moral, to do the right thing. There’s much less agreement about why we should be moral, or even what kind of answer to that question could be convincing. Philosopher Russ Shafer-Landau is one of the leading proponents of moral realism — the view that objective moral trut... (@seanmcarroll, 91 minutes, 2020-Jul-27) |
| 237. | Gabriel Marcel, On The Ontological Mystery - A Functionalized World And Persons - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher, playwright, and musician, Gabriel Marcel's essay Concrete Approaches to Investigating the Ontological Mystery. Specifically it examines his discussion of the reduction of human beings to vital, psychological, and social functions. He also connects this to a world understood in terms of problems, with no room maintained for m... (@philosopher70, 22 minutes, 2020-Jul-23) |
| 238. | Ep. 248: Racism and Policing (Al-Saji, Merleau-Ponty, et al) (Part Two) Continuing on Alia Al-Saji’s “A Phenomenology of Hesitation” (2014) and other things with guest Phil Hopkins. Can we restructure our (and the police's) reactions and live with each other? We further explore the psychology of habit and Al-Saji's notion of hesitation. How does it compare to other types of heistation recommended by philosophies and religions? Start with part one, or get the full, ad... (@PartiallyExLife, 71 minutes, 2020-Jul-27) |
| 239. |  018 – SunbathingWhat's that burning smell? The BBQ or your shoulders? Elena and Ian delve into the history, and often dubious science, of sunbathing and find scouts, hats, and granola along the way. If you liked this episode, subscribing/following means you'll get the next one automatically. We'd love it if you could leave us a review on Apple Podcasts too. And if you want to get in touch with us, you can do that... (@wondercupboard, 56 minutes, 2020-Jul-31) |
| 240. | Vampire's Kiss / The Assistant The two cows journey into the madness of toxic masculinity, pairing the madcap Nicolas Cage classic “Vampire’s Kiss” with the recent Kitty Green masterpiece, “The Assistant.” How do artists use hyper-realism and non-realist expressionism to depict challenging and often elusive problems? What is the significance of using vampirism as the framing device to portray workplace misogyny? And how can we ... (@cowspod, 55 minutes, 2020-Jul-31) |
| 241. | Immanuel Kant, Groundwork - Means, Ends, & Value - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work of ethics, The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. Specifically it examines his discussion about means, ends, and the human capacity to will, i.e. to set itself ends and to determine means to those ends. Examining how we value means and ends helps us to understand what sort of value a person has (or... (@philosopher70, 15 minutes, 2020-Jul-22) |
| 242. | Epiphanies, Experiences, and Ethics | Sophie-Grace Chappell Sophie Grace Chappell argues her case against systematic thought and for epiphanies as moments of truth. (@IAI_TV, 39 minutes, 2020-Jul-21) |
| 243. | Out of the Vat: Steven French Steven French discusses his current interest in phenomenological approaches to quantum mechanics, and his early forays into art-rock journalism Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Jul-14) |
| 244. | Immanuel Kant, Groundwork - Universal Rules And Exceptions - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work of ethics, The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. Specifically it examines his discussion about how people who recognize that moral rules must be articulated as universal laws binding on everyone nevertheless manage to make exceptions for themselves, by construing the rules as general rather than un... (@philosopher70, 9 minutes, 2020-Jul-21) |
| 245. | EV - 152 Criminal justice reform with Barry Lam My guest this week is Barry Lam (@ProfBarryLam), host of Hi-Phi Nation (@HiPhiNation). We discuss philosophy of justice and his recent coverage of criminal justice reform.Hi-Phi Nation: https://hiphination.org/Convocation: Jindrich Styrsky, Emilie přichází ke mně ve snuEditing by Brian ZiegenhagenMusic by GW RodriguezSibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/Support us at ... (@ETVPod, 70 minutes, 2020-Jul-25) |
| 246. | Philip Goff on Galileo and Consciousness Philip Goff discusses some of Galileo's insights into the nature of matter. He then goes on to discuss his own view about consciousness, panpsychism. Goff believes that matter is conscious at some level. (@philosophybites, 19 minutes, 2020-May-09) |
| 247. | 0G113: Anathem and Platonism, Part 1 Pod-Apert has finally arrived! Throw open the doors of the RSS feed and let some causal wisdom trickle down the wick. We're doing a three part journey though Neal Stephenson's Anathem, and we're joined by the Grandfraa Jad to my Fraa Erasmus, Noah Lugeons! This is by far the most requested pairing of material and guest we've ever had, and there's no question why. This is what this show was built f... (@0gPhilosophy, 44 minutes, 2020-Jul-29) |
| 248. | Is there a moral imperative to wear masks? The COVID-19 pandemic presents us with an all-too concrete situation in which seemingly minor, individual actions can have dire consequences for thousands of others. Is the pandemic an extreme situation that makes unusual demands of us, or does it simply make visible the kinds of moral demands which are upon us even in more 'normal' times? (@RadioNational, 50 minutes, 2020-Jul-29) |
| 249. | Ep. 102 Film Night: A Matter of Life and Death This week we ask the question, what is the difference between a blow to the head, a religious experience and an aberrant psychological condition? Is the after life really in black and white or are other realities, as Dorothy will attest, actually more colourful than the one we know? Will there be dogs in heaven? Join Mike and Danny once more on the stairway to heaven as they ask the question - wha... (@PhilosophyWtf, 25 minutes, 2020-Jul-29) |
| 250. | Episode 2: Fatalism, Foreknowledge, and Determinism with John Martin Fischer In this episode, John Martin Fischer explains three potential threats to our having free will in the sense of having the freedom to do otherwise than what we actually do: the threats from logical fatalism, divine foreknowledge, and causal determinism. John ends by giving a teaser for an alternative conception of free will.John Martin Fischer’s website: https://alaw003.wixsite.com/johnmartinfi... r... (@thefreewillshow, 51 minutes, 2020-Jul-29) |
| 251. |  Timothy Williamson on Relativism and Vagueness | Episode 8Professor Timothy Williamson is one of the most important philosophers alive. He is the Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford, a position that he has been holding since 2000. His groundbreaking work in the areas of philosophical logic, philosophy of language, epistemology and metaphysics has shaped many of the contemporary debates. Today I’m joined by him to discuss Relativism abo... (@tedynenu, 71 minutes, 2020-Jul-29) |
| 252. | The Shadow: Know Yourself by Knowing Your Lurking Darkness Understanding Carl Jung's concept of The Shadow...Have you ever wondered, how well do you really know yourself? As Plato once said, “know thyself.” But why? My Stuff.... Bonus Feed ($5 a month): https://www.patreon.com/thephilosophyguy Podcast: https://thephilosophyguy.fireside.fm/ Youtube: https://bit.ly/2Z0rAjA All the Links You Need: https://linktr.ee/brendenweber (@philosophyguy2, 26 minutes, 2020-Jul-27) |
| 253. | Pandemicast III: How to Wear a Mask Zach and Gabe speak ‘moistly’ to each other about the state of the coronavirus pandemic. They start with some regional issues. Why is the USA such a horror show and what should Americans learn from that fact? Then they discuss mask wearing. Where and when should you wear one? What should we make of the anti-maskers? They end with some discussion of Gabe’s article about the ‘stay home’ mandates. ... (@thevimblog, 89 minutes, 2020-Jul-26) |
| 254. | Episode 1: An Introduction to Free Will In this episode, cohosts Taylor Cyr and Matt Flummer present an introduction to the philosophy of free will, including a discussion of differing conceptions of free will, how free will is related to moral responsibility, and why it matters if we have free will.Recommended resources:Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Free Will”: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freew... study by psychologists ... (@thefreewillshow, 40 minutes, 2020-Jul-28) |
| 255. | Albert Camus, The Myth Of Sisyphus - Existentialism, The Absurd, And Escape - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher, novelist, and essayist Albert Camus' work The Myth of Sisyphus Specifically it examines on his discussion of authors who realize the absurd, but then employ it for what Camus terms "escape", the "leap", or even "philosophical suicide". In the process he considers and criticizes a number of different existentialist authors. ... (@philosopher70, 19 minutes, 2020-Jul-19) |
| 256. | Albert Camus, The Myth Of Sisyphus - Imagining Sisyphus Happy - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher, novelist, and essayist Albert Camus' work The Myth of Sisyphus Specifically it examines on his discussion about why we must imagine Sisyphus happy, even though he is condemned to an eternity of seemingly pointless labor as a punishment from the gods. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sad... (@philosopher70, 16 minutes, 2020-Jul-19) |
| 257. | #350 Julian De Freitas: The Self, Morality, And Common Knowledge ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 49 minutes, 2020-Jul-27) |
| 258. | Episode 0: Introduction to the Free Will Show In this episode, cohosts Taylor Cyr and Matt Flummer introduce themselves and this podcast. Along the way they discuss what the discipline of philosophy is and why they’re making this podcast.Taylor’s website: taylorwcyr.comMatt’s website: matthewflummer.weebly.com/Also, Matt forgot to mention the name of his college: Porterville CollegeIf you have a question you’d like us to answer in our Q&A... (@thefreewillshow, 39 minutes, 2020-Jul-27) |
| 259. | Episode 83, The David Chalmers Interview (Part II - Further Analysis and Discussion) Introduction The hard problem of consciousness is the problem of experience. How do 100 billion neurons come together to bring about a unified, conscious mind, and the rich tapestry of qualities that make up our world? This might be the most difficult problem in philosophy and science. No matter how rich our description of the brain, it seems that we’ll still be left with this same question: where... (@ThePanpsycast, 54 minutes, 2020-Jul-26) |
| 260. | 505: Walter Bejamin and the Re-Enchanted World More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/wal... Walter Benjamin was a German Jewish critical theorist, essayist, and philosopher who died tragically during the Second World War. His thoughts about modernity, history, art, disenchantment, and re-enchantment are still discussed today. So who was Benjamin, and what is his intellectual legacy? Why did he believe that Enlightenment values, suc... (@philtalkradio, 9 minutes, 2020-Jul-12) |
| 261. |  15/6/2020: Walter Dean on Consistency and Existence in Mathematics<p>Walter Dean works in philosophy of mathematics and mathematical and philosophical logic. He also has interests in theoretical computer science and the history and philosophy of computation. He is currently working on applications of Reverse Mathematics and computational complexity theory within philosophy and on the historical and foundational significance of Gödel’s completeness theorem.... (@Aristotweets, 71 minutes, 2020-Jun-29) |
| 262. | PEL Presents PMP#53: The Hamilton Phenomenon w/ Sam Simahk Erica, Mark, and Brian are joined by Broadway actor Sam to discuss this unique convergence of musical theater, rap, and historical drama. Does Hamilton deserve its accolades? We cover the re-emergence of stage music as pop music, live vs. filmed vs. film-adapted musicals, creators starring in their shows, race-inclusive casting, and the politics surrounding the show. For more, visit prettymuchpop.... (@PartiallyExLife, 52 minutes, 2020-Jul-22) |
| 263. | Nihilism and utopia COVID-19 has exposed a streak of nihilism in 21st century capitalist societies. How do we move forward without succumbing to despair on one hand, or utopian thinking on the other? (@DavidPZone1, 29 minutes, 2020-Jul-26) |
| 264. | STM Podcast #60: David Livingstone Smith - Dehumanization and How to Resist It On episode 60, we welcome philosopher David Livingstone Smith to discuss the sources and consequences of dehumanization, including its historical manifestations and the psychological needs and drives that foster it; the role that the philosophy of essentialism plays in racism; how categorization and hierarchical thinking contribute to brutality; the evolution of agreeableness and the ways in which... (@seize_podcast, 73 minutes, 2020-Jul-26) |
| 265. |  Shorts - E31: The Two CulturesThe value of history is that one has the chance to make sense of their present circumstances. How did we get to now? Can we come up with the best solutions to our problems if we think we understand how those problems arose in the first place? Fingers crossed. In 1959, author and scientist, C.P. Snow, gave a lecture on what he saw as a problem in the West. Two intellectual and influential cu... (@dawdlerspodcast, 27 minutes, 2020-Jul-26) |
| 266. | Albert Camus, The Myth Of Sisyphus - The Absurd - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher, novelist, and essayist Albert Camus' work The Myth of Sisyphus Specifically it examines on his discussion on his discussion about what the Absurd is, and the triadic relation that comprises it, consisting of the human being, the world, and the divorce between them. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.... (@philosopher70, 18 minutes, 2020-Jul-17) |
| 267. | HoP 352 - The Teacher of Our Actions - Renaissance Historiography Bruni, Poggio, Machiavelli, and Guicciardini explore political ideas and historical method in works on Roman and Italian history. (@HistPhilosophy, 23 minutes, 2020-Jun-28) |
| 268. | Jennifer Hornsby I ask the philosopher Jennifer Hornsby five questions about herself. Jennifer Hornsby is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London. She is the author of "Actions" (1980) and "Simple Mindedness: In Defense of Naive Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mind" (2001). (@KieranSetiya, 24 minutes, 2020-Jul-21) |
| 269. | Episode 193: Free Wanting (Frankfurt's "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person") David and Tamler want to go old school and discuss a classic Frankfurt paper on free will. But do they want to want that? Are they free to want what they want to want? Are they free to will what they want to will or to have the will they want? And if that’s not Dr. Seuss enough for you, shouting “FUCK” increases pain tolerance but what about shouting “TWIZPIPE”? (@verybadwizards, 88 minutes, 2020-Jul-21) |
| 270. | 106 | Stuart Bartlett on What "Life" Means Someday, most likely, we will encounter life that is not as we know it. We might find it elsewhere in the universe, we might find it right here on Earth, or we might make it ourselves in a lab. Will we know it when we see it? “Life” isn’t a simple unified concept, but rather a collection of a number of life-like properties. I talk with astrobiologist Stuart Bartlett, who (in collaboration with&nbs... (@seanmcarroll, 86 minutes, 2020-Jul-20) |
| 271. | Albert Camus, The Myth Of Sisyphus - The Feeling And Passion Of The Absurd - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher, novelist, and essayist Albert Camus' work The Myth of Sisyphus Specifically it examines on his discussion of what he terms the feeling and passion of the absurd, which is in some respects a precursor to its explicitly worked-out concept. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler I... (@philosopher70, 13 minutes, 2020-Jul-16) |
| 272. | Ep. 248: Racism and Policing (Al-Saji, Merleau-Ponty, et al) (Part One) On Alia Al-Saji’s “A Phenomenology of Hesitation” (2014), bits of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception (1945), and Linda Martín Alcoff’s Visible Identities (2006), plus Alex Vitale's The End of Policing (2017). Is there sub-conscious racism, and how might we root it out and fix our policing problems? Ex-cop Phil Hopkins joins to look at how phenomenology can help. Don't wait for par... (@PartiallyExLife, 52 minutes, 2020-Jul-20) |
| 273. | How should humans relate to animals? Can we betray an animal's trust in us? (@DavidEdmonds100, 2020-Jul-12) |
| 274. | Can saving an important building ever be worth a life? How far should we go to protect a building? (@DavidEdmonds100, 2020-Jul-12) |
| 275. | Albert Camus, The Myth Of Sisyphus - Belief, Truth, And Action - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher, novelist, and essayist Albert Camus' work The Myth of Sisyphus Specifically it examines on his discussion early on in the work about the connection between what a person believes is true and the action that follows from that - for a person who "does not cheat". To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patr... (@philosopher70, 13 minutes, 2020-Jul-15) |
| 276. | Science and Spiritual Practices | Rupert Sheldrake Panpsychist Rupert Sheldrake explores the science behind everyday spiritual practices. (@IAI_TV, 15 minutes, 2020-Jul-14) |
| 277. | Albert Camus, The Myth Of Sisyphus - Suicide As A Philosophical Problem - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher, novelist, and essayist Albert Camus' work The Myth of Sisyphus Specifically it examines on his discussion of suicide as a philosophical problem. He criticizes other thinkers, particularly existentialists, later in the work for committing what he calls "philosophical suicide". To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon... (@philosopher70, 17 minutes, 2020-Jul-14) |
| 278. | PEL Presents NEM#126: Jim Peterik Eyes Much More Than the Tiger Jim has released 30+ albums since 1964 with Ides of March, Survivor, Pride of Lions, et al. Intro: His biggest hits, the title tracks of Vehicle (1970) and The Eye of the Tiger (1983). We discuss his new solo single "Empty Arena" and two Ides of March tunes, "Friends Like You" from Play On (2019) feat. Mindi Abair and "L.A. Goodbye," recorded in 1992 but originally from Common Bond (1971). End son... (@PartiallyExLife, 73 minutes, 2020-Jul-18) |
| 279. | 0G112: Psychopass and Freewill QnA Well, as a result of our near pitch black psychopasses, we've both been pressed into service by the AI sovereign to continue to talk about free will for all eternity. We got some great questions from folks about the relationship between free will and the justice system that pair nicely with the virtue ethics version of Minority Report. Dennett on Free Will as Moral Competence: https://www.youtube.... (@0gPhilosophy, 46 minutes, 2020-Jul-22) |
| 280. | Is COVID-19 the end of globalisation? COVID-19 has reversed the dynamics and inner-logic of globalisation. As we begin imagining a world after COVID-19, will things go back to “normal”? Should things go back to “normal” (@RadioNational, 45 minutes, 2020-Jul-22) |
| 281. | Ep. 101 Film Night : Romero's Zombie Trilogy Part 2 This week join Mike and Danny on a shopping spree as they take to the Mall. Yes, it’s all there to be consumed, just join the crowd and head on over. Everything under one roof! What’s that? We can’t get in? It’s locked down?? But we must get in, we have to get in, we need those socks and that washing up bowl!!! They can’t keep us out, storm the entrance, break the windows, find the back way in, th... (@PhilosophyWtf, 21 minutes, 2020-Jul-22) |
| 282. | EV - 151 Critical Studies in the Current Climate with Johnathan Flowers My guest this week is Dr. Johnathan Flowers (@shengokai). Dr. Flowers teaches a range of topics at Wooster State university including asian and africana philosophy and aesthetics when he gets the chance. We discuss the role that critical studies is and should be playing in our current period of social transition.Convocation: General IrohEditing by Brian ZiegenhagenMusic by GW RodriguezSibling Pod ... (@ETVPod, 77 minutes, 2020-Jul-17) |
| 283. | John Kubie Live! Join me for a discussion with john Kubie, a cognitive neuroscientist at SUNY Downstate (@onemorebrown, 2020-Jul-17) |
| 284. |  Season 2 - Episode 9: "Ballpark Figures Part I"We flip to the B-Side of Season 2, as we enter a section of the season devoted to statistics and mathematical modeling. In this episode we examine the life and career of baseball great Ted Williams and consider how adding new variables to a model can change what the model shows, for better or worse. (@AMLGpodcast, 42 minutes, 2020-Jul-21) |
| 285. | #349 Jean-François Bonnefon: Morality, Machine Behavior, And Moral Machines ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 65 minutes, 2020-Jul-20) |
| 286. | DEHUMANIZATION with David Livingstone Smith I discuss the phycology and politics of dehumanization with David Livingstone Smith. We also cover what ancient people's meant by 'clean' and 'unclean' in a religious context & dehumanization in contemporary US politics. (@PolPhilPod, 86 minutes, 2020-Jul-18) |
| 287. | S02E02: The Meaning of Travel - Emily Thomas What does travel mean? Why has formal philosophy largely ignored the question? Just how strange is it to release a book on travel in the time of a global lock down and what exactly is the world missing right now? Jay introduces Frank Jackson's famous "Mary's Room" thought experiment to consider the notion of experience vs imagination in the context of travel. Jay and Emily swap travel stories of... (@DilemmaPodcast, 85 minutes, 2020-Jul-20) |
| 288. | Episode 83, The David Chalmers Interview (Part I - Consciousness) Introduction The hard problem of consciousness is the problem of experience. How do 100 billion neurons come together to bring about a unified, conscious mind, and the rich tapestry of qualities that make up our world? This might be the most difficult problem in philosophy and science. No matter how rich our description of the brain, it seems that we’ll still be left with this same question: where... (@ThePanpsycast, 52 minutes, 2020-Jul-19) |
| 289. | John Rawls, A Theory Of Justice - Rawls' Contract And Ethics - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher John Rawls' work of ethics and political theory, A Theory of Justice Specifically it examines his discussion of how the rather restricted theory of justice in his work would connect with and lead to a broader moral theory or ethics. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd l... (@philosopher70, 15 minutes, 2020-Jul-11) |
| 290. | Mind, matter and motherhood When Nicola Redhouse had each of her two children, she experienced shattering post-natal anxiety that sent her deep into the mystery of the self, and the relationship between mind and body. A long standing participant in psychoanalysis, she found herself up against the practical limits of Freudian theory - but would science provide more useful insight? (@DavidPZone1, 29 minutes, 2020-Jul-19) |
| 291. | STM Podcast #59: Samir Chopra - The Philosophy of Anxiety On episode 59, we welcome philosopher Samir Chopra to discuss the importance and utility of anxiety in self-discovery, how philosophy helped him cope with the untimely deaths of his parents, the influence our beliefs have on our perceptions and conceptions of the world, why emotional intensity should be redirected rather than suppressed, the universality and inevitability of existential anxiety, h... (@seize_podcast, 69 minutes, 2020-Jul-19) |
| 292. | HAP 55 - Planting the Seeds - James Africanus Beale Horton Africanus Horton looks toward a future of self-government for West Africa beyond slavery and colonialism. (@HistPhilosophy, 22 minutes, 2020-Jun-21) |
| 293. | John Rawls, A Theory Of Justice - Reflective Equilibrium - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher John Rawls' work of ethics and political theory, A Theory of Justice Specifically it examines how he outlines how the rather restricted theory of justice in his work would connect with and lead to a broader moral theory or ethics. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd lik... (@philosopher70, 16 minutes, 2020-Jul-10) |
| 294. | PEL Presents: PMP#52: The Twilight Zone from Serling to Peele Something's strange... Is it a dream? If it's a morality tale with a twist ending, you're probably in the Twilight Zone. Brian, Erica, Mark, and guest Ken Gerber are in it this week, discussing the thrice revived TV series. Does the 1959-1963 show hold up? What makes for a good TZ episode, and does Jordan Peele's latest iteration capture the spirit? We talk about episodes new and old, the 1983 fil... (@PartiallyExLife, 55 minutes, 2020-Jul-14) |
| 295. | Cora Diamond I ask the philosopher Cora Diamond five questions about herself. Cora Diamond is Kenan Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of Virginia. She works on Wittgenstein and in moral philosophy and is the author of "The Realistic Spirit" (1995) and "Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going on to Ethics" (2019). (@KieranSetiya, 22 minutes, 2020-Jul-14) |
| 296. | 105 | Ann-Sophie Barwich on the Science and Philosophy of Smell We gather empirical evidence about the nature of the world through our senses, and use that evidence to construct an image of the world in our minds. But not all senses are created equal; in practice, we tend to privilege vision, with hearing perhaps a close second. Ann-Sophie Barwich wants to argue that we should take smell more seriously, and that doing so will give us new insights into how the ... (@seanmcarroll, 78 minutes, 2020-Jul-13) |
| 297. | John Rawls, A Theory of Justice - Two Principles of Justice - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher John Rawls' work of ethics and political theory, A Theory of Justice Specifically it examines his discussion of the two main principles of justice that he thinks rational agents in an initial condition, deciding behind a veil of ignorance, will settle upon To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.co... (@philosopher70, 16 minutes, 2020-Jul-09) |
| 298. | Ep. 247: Aristotle on Rhetoric and Emotions (Part Two) Continuing on the Rhetoric (ca. 335 BCE) book 1, ch. 1–6 and book 2, ch. 1–5, 18–24. We finish up with enthymemes (rhetorical arguments), maxims, and signs. We then move to emotions, where we chiefly talk about anger: Is it always a matter of status injury, or is frustration equally (or more) foundational? Begin with part one, or get the unbroken, ad-free Citizen Edition now. Please support PEL! E... (@PartiallyExLife, 53 minutes, 2020-Jul-13) |
| 299. | Searching for Bobby Fischer The two cows visit the chess hustlers in Washington Square Park to dive deep on one of the best sports/parenting movies, Searching for Bobby Fischer. What does the pursuit of excellence demand, and is it ultimately worth it? How should we as parents or mentors advise those who would strive for such greatness? Also discussed: the tragic and cautionary tale of Bobby Fischer, Jordan vs. LeBron, conte... (@cowspod, 65 minutes, 2020-Jul-17) |
| 300. | The Importance of Identity and Belonging | Homi Bhabha, Yassmin Abdel-Magied, David Miller Post-colonial theorist Homi Bhabha, activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied and political theorist David Miller debate tribal division. (@IAI_TV, 38 minutes, 2020-Jul-07) |
| 301. | John Rawls, A Theory of Justice - The Initial Condition - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher John Rawls' work of ethics and political theory, A Theory of Justice Specifically it examines his discussion of one of the key insights of the work. This is what Rawls calls the "initial situation" or "condition" in which people would choose basic rules of justice governing a fair society. He envisions this as taking place b... (@philosopher70, 21 minutes, 2020-Jul-07) |
| 302. | Episode 127 - Nic Koziolek discusses self-knowledge In this episode, Nic Koziolek (Washington University in St. Louis) returns to talk to me and Nora Bradford about self-consciousness.Self-consciousness, as philosophers use the term, is a word for when you know something about one of your own mental states. Like when I really enjoy some pizza and note that I'm enjoying it. Someone else might ask me: ‘Hey Matt, do you like that pizza?’ And I'm typic... (@ElucidationsPod, 41 minutes, 2020-Jul-15) |
| 303. | Cailin O’Connor, "Games in the Philosophy of Biology" (Cambridge UP, 2020) The branch of mathematics called game theory – the Prisoners Dilemma is a particularly well-known example of a game – is used by philosophers, social scientists, and others to explore many types of social relations between humans and between nonhuman creatures. In Games in the Philosophy of Biology (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Cailin O’Connor introduces the basics of game theory and its p... (@NewBooksPhil, 67 minutes, 2020-Jul-10) |
| 304. | 0G111: Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom and Dennett's Compatibilism, Part 2 So, apparently no matter what timeline we're in, I'm always going to end up in a debate about free will. At least this is a good one! Thomas brought some great short stories to the party and we continue to hash out what of Dennett's compatibilism is valuable and where does it fall short. After you listen make sure to submit questions for our last episode on Dennett before we move on to ANATHEM! Al... (@0gPhilosophy, 52 minutes, 2020-Jul-15) |
| 305. | Is "cancel culture" really constricting free speech? How does liberal democracy manage incommensurable disagreement? Do the moral and political demands for justice and inclusion trump the principles of free expression and open debate? What is the moral status of "opinion"? (@RadioNational, 50 minutes, 2020-Jul-15) |
| 306. | Ep. 100 Film Night: Romero's Zombie Trilogy Part 1 Ergggh...argh...errrrr…mmmmm.arrrrr…grah... Yes, this week work on your cardio exercises, check the corners and always, always double tap as Danny and Mike hold up with you all in a deserted farmhouse. As we all hunker down together who will be the first to crack? Will our supplies hold out? Which of us will hear a noise and just 'step out side for a few minutes to check - be back before you know ... (@PhilosophyWtf, 22 minutes, 2020-Jul-15) |
| 307. | Hannah Arendt, Lectures On Political Theory - The Desert, Sandstorms, And Oases This lecture focuses on the conclusion to Hannah Arendt's 1955 course lectures on the History of Political Theory, in which she uses the metaphor of the desert for our late modern condition. She also discusses the sandstorms of totalitarian movements, the lure of escapism, and four types of "oases" - Art, Philosophy, Friendship, and Love. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - w... (@philosopher70, 18 minutes, 2020-Jul-06) |
| 308. | Elizabeth Anderson on 'Let's Talk' In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast, recorded before the Covid-19 lockdowns, the political philosopher Elizabeth Anderson explains why we need to be prepared to talk more, even with people with whom we strongly disagree. (@philosophybites, 21 minutes, 2020-Apr-19) |
| 309. | Which Machines Should we Make? Dylan and Zach discuss ethics and technology. How should we think about the ethics of creation? They discuss the term ‘creative responsibility’ and what Zach has in mind with it. Humans are developing more and more sophisticated technologies that influence the world in deeper ways. Surely we don’t want technologies to harm humans, but does it make sense also to consider what is best for the techno... (@thevimblog, 53 minutes, 2020-Jul-12) |
| 310. | Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics - The Quasi-Virtue Of Shame - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics Specifically it focuses upon his discussion of a feeling or emotion (pathos) that is not itself a virtue, but does have a mean or middle position, in book 4. This morally relevant emotion is that of shame(aidos), and Aristotle tells us why the virtuous person will feel shame... (@philosopher70, 9 minutes, 2020-Jul-05) |
| 311. | EV - 150 Sovereign Nations and the Grievance Hoaxers Welcome to a very special episode 150! No guest this week, it's sadly a solo episode where I take a deep dive down a dark rabbit hole that I've been stuck in for some time. I hope y'all find this valuable in understanding the culture wars.Convocation: YeatsReferenced Materials:https://twitter.com/GSpellchec... by Brian ZiegenhagenMusic by GW RodriguezSibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gph... (@ETVPod, 63 minutes, 2020-Jul-09) |
| 312. | #348 Robyn Bluhm: Medicine, Psychiatry, And Neurosexism ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 49 minutes, 2020-Jul-13) |
| 313. | Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics - The Virtue Of Good Humor - Sadler's Lectures his lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics Specifically it focuses on book 4 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (and some parallel discussions in the Eudemian Ethics), where he discusses the Virtue of Good Humor or Wittiness, and its opposed vices of Buffoonery (or Vulgarity, or Jackassery) and Boorishness (or Being-A-... (@philosopher70, 15 minutes, 2020-Jul-04) |
| 314. | Shorts - E30: The American Dream What is a dream? How do we come to form “cherished aspirations” as one dictionary put it? Why do we bother? And how can such aspirations be American? How can such aspirations be shared widely? Equality, egalitarianism, opportunity. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. For whom do these bells toll? Is it a good dream? And does one “have to be asleep to believe it”? In this long short,... (@dawdlerspodcast, 43 minutes, 2020-Jul-13) |
| 315. | HoP 351 - Quentin Skinner on Machiavelli Leading Machiavelli scholar Quentin Skinner joins Peter to discuss morality, history, and religion in the Prince and the Discourses. (@HistPhilosophy, 35 minutes, 2020-Jun-14) |
| 316. | Montesquieu and despotism Montesquieu was the 18th century French philosopher who introduced the term "despotism" into our political vocabulary. Today, his analysis is as relevant as ever. (@DavidPZone1, 29 minutes, 2020-Jul-12) |
| 317. | STM Podcast #58: Yolanda Danae' - Black Lives Matter, Police Reform, Systemic Racism On episode 58, we welcome Yolanda Danae’ to discuss the black lives matter movement, the resultant policy changes, the inherent racism in the history and ideology of policing, police reform, and effective strategies for challenging racist beliefs and behaviors, holding others accountable. Yolanda Danae’ is the Creator of The Sassy Rant, a brand and blog that discusses the real life accounts of a m... (@seize_podcast, 67 minutes, 2020-Jul-12) |
| 318. | "Is Free Speech Worth It?" Host Jack Russell Weinstein visits with Thane Rosenbaum, novelist, essayist, and Distinguished University Professor. He is the director of the Forum on Life, Culture, & Society, hosted by Touro College. (@whyradioshow, 79 minutes, 2020-Jul-12) |
| 319. | Episode 82, ‘The Nature of Consciousness’ with Susan Blackmore (Part II - Further Analysis and Discussion) The smell of coffee, the taste of asparagus, the warmth of a hug, and the agony of death: conscious experience makes up the fabric of our world, yet many consider it to be the most intractable mystery in philosophy and science. What is it like to undergo experience? What is the function of consciousness? Where does consciousness occur? What are the contents of this experience? Is our stream of con... (@ThePanpsycast, 42 minutes, 2020-Jul-11) |
| 320. | 504: Pet Ethics More at www.philosophytalk.org/shows/pet-ethics. Many of us, even the staunchest animal activists, usually take it for granted that keeping a pet is morally acceptable. But regardless of how well we treat our animal “companions,” by keeping pets we are declaring ownership and paternal authority over other living creatures, and confining them to our homes. Is there any good moral justification... (@philtalkradio, 9 minutes, 2020-Jun-26) |
| 321. | Barry Lam I ask the philosopher Barry Lam five questions about himself. Barry Lam is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College. He is the producer and host of the podcast, Hi-Phi Nation, a show about philosophy that turns stories into ideas. (@KieranSetiya, 24 minutes, 2020-Jul-07) |
| 322. | Episode 192: Postmodern Wet Dreams (Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote") David and Tamler dive into “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote,” a very funny Borges story that also raises deep questions about authorship, reading, and interpretation. What would it mean for the same text to be written by two different authors more than three hundred years apart? Is this story the post-modernist manifesto that literary critics like Roland Barthes believed it to be? Or is the n... (@verybadwizards, 97 minutes, 2020-Jul-07) |
| 323. | 8/6/2020: Béatrice Han-Pile on Two Puzzles in the Early Christian Constitution of the Self: Reflections on Foucault’s Interpretation of John Cassian (@Aristotweets, 56 minutes, 2020-Jun-12) |
| 324. | 104 | David Rosen and Scott Miles on the Neuroscience of Music and Creativity Creativity is one of those things that we all admire but struggle to define or make concrete. Music provides a useful laboratory in which to examine what creativity is all about — how do people become creative, what is happening in their brains during the creative process, and what kinds of creativity does the audience actually enjoy? David Rosen and Scott Miles are both neuroscientists and musici... (@seanmcarroll, 86 minutes, 2020-Jul-06) |
| 325. | Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics - The Virtue Of Truthfulness - Sadler's Lectures his lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics Specifically it focuses on book 4 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (and some parallel discussions in the Eudemian Ethics), where he discusses the Virtue of Truthfulness (about oneself), and its opposed vices of Boastfulness and Self-Deprecation. To support my ongoing wo... (@philosopher70, 12 minutes, 2020-Jul-02) |
| 326. | Defending Jordan Peterson's God and Religion | ft. Rationality Rules and Genetically Modified Skeptic YT version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUESdR-Z... My Stuff.... Bonus Feed ($5 a month): https://www.patreon.com/thephilosophyguy Podcast: https://thephilosophyguy.fireside.fm/ Youtube: https://bit.ly/2Z0rAjA Social Links: Discord Squad: https://discord.gg/tH5Fydn Twitter: https://twitter.com/brendenweber_ Email List: https://bit.ly/2rKz8Zn Facebook: https://www.facebook.com... (@philosophyguy2, 16 minutes, 2020-Jul-09) |
| 327. | Ep. 247: Aristotle on Rhetoric and Emotions (Part One) On the Rhetoric (ca. 335 BCE) book 1, ch. 1-6 and book 2, ch. 1-5, 18-24. What role does persuasion play in philosophy? Aristotle (contra Plato) argues it can and should be used for good: in law courts, political debates, public speeches. He describes the arguments forms used in rhetoric ("enthymemes") and analyzes the emotions that an audience might have so that speakers know what points are wort... (@PartiallyExLife, 55 minutes, 2020-Jul-06) |
| 328. |  #20 Friedrich Nietzsche | Dr Matthew BennettIn this episode, I host Dr Matthew Bennett, a lecturer of philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Dr Bennett talks about the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, explaining his concept of the Übermensch and his understanding of self-overcoming. Dr Bennett further expands on Nietzsche’s views on morality and analyzes the meaning of one of the most famous phrases in Nietzsche’s works, “God is dead,... (@PremisePodcast, 54 minutes, 2020-Jul-10) |
| 329. | Reality and Evolution | Donald Hoffman Cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman breaks down the nature of reality (@IAI_TV, 42 minutes, 2020-Jun-30) |
| 330. |  Out of the Vat #7 – Philip GoffPhilip Goff is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Durham University. In this episode, Philip discusses everything from panpsychism and the problem of consciousness to Philip Pullman and talking... Philosophers’ work and philosophers’ lives, both inside and outside of philosophy. Brought to you by the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, the Centre for Philosophy of Natural... (@LSEPhilosophy, 31 minutes, 2020-Jun-26) |
| 331. | Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics - The Virtue Of Friendliness - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics Specifically it focuses on book 4 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (and some parallel discussions in the Eudemian Ethics), where he discusses the Virtue of Friendliness, and its opposed vices of Obsequiousness (or Flattery) and Unfriendliness (or Quarrelsomeness). To s... (@philosopher70, 13 minutes, 2020-Jun-30) |
| 332. | PEL Presents NEM#125: Victor DeLorenzo (ex Violent Femmes) Starts with Drums Victor started as a singer/songwriter, drummed with the Femmes for five albums in the '80s, and has since recorded six solo releases and five more with nine thirteen, plus other collaborations, jazz jamming, and work in the theater. We discuss "Invisible Shadows" from Tranceaphone (2020), "Carry Me" from Victor DeLorenzo (2013), "Arco, Pizzicato" by Nineteen Thirteen from The Dream (2016), and lis... (@PartiallyExLife, 68 minutes, 2020-Jul-04) |
| 333. | Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics - The Virtue Of Magnanimity - Sadler's Lectures his lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics Specifically it focuses on book 4 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (and some parallel discussions in the Eudemian Ethics), where he discusses the Virtue of Magnanimity or Great-Souledness, the opposed vices of Small-Souledness and Vanity -- and a fourth state of Modesty or H... (@philosopher70, 20 minutes, 2020-Jun-29) |
| 334. | 0G110: What's Expected of Us and Dennett's Compatibilism Turns out Thomas has a bit of a free will monkey on his back, so we're going the full Dune on Daniel Dennett's compatibilism. We started out with Devs and the paradox of predictability and now we're on to a short story about predictors and what they might mean for our sense of meaning and purpose. We're going to follow up with another short story from Ted Chiang's Exhalation and then check out the... (@0gPhilosophy, 42 minutes, 2020-Jul-08) |
| 335. | Can you enjoy sport without crowd noise? Teams across codes and countries are facing the prospects of competing in empty or largely empty stadiums. Whatever that might mean for the players themselves, the lack of crowd noise is proving too off-putting for fans watching from home. Kasey Symons from Swinburne University joins us to discuss why. (@RadioNational, 47 minutes, 2020-Jul-08) |
| 336. | Ep. 99 Film Night: Things to Come This week WAR! What is it good for? Reflection on the human condition as it turns out. Listen in as Mike and Danny act all tough over the phone but avoid actual face to face confrontation. Yes, this week we consider the 1936 film version of HG Wells “Things to Come” - an epic exploration of human savagery, nobility and indomitable exploration of the universe or an hour and a half promotional video... (@PhilosophyWtf, 17 minutes, 2020-Jul-08) |
| 337. |  Religion and Human Development (Jennifer Herdt)Humanists argue that there is something special about human beings and that to live well we must grow up, overcome our childish and brutish temptations, and become fully human. Secular Enlightenment humanists think this is something human beings can and should try to pull off on their own – through personal and collective human efforts. Religious Humanists raise worries about this secu... (@ethicaltheoryr1, 60 minutes, 2020-Jul-08) |
| 338. | REISSUE-PEL Ep 75: Lacan & Derrida Criticize Poe's "The Purloined Letter" (w/ New Intro) Enjoy this normally paywalled episode from Apr. 2013 about Jacques Lacan’s “Seminar on ‘The Purloined Letter'” (1956) and Jacques Derrida’s “The Purveyor of Truth” (1975). How should philosophers approach literature? Lacan read Edgar Allen Poe’s story about a sleuth who outthinks a devious Minister as an illustration of his model of the psyche, and why we persist in self-destructive patterns. Der... (@PartiallyExLife, 131 minutes, 2020-Jul-03) |
| 339. | EV - 149 White Fragility with Rod Graham My guest this week is Rod Graham (@roderickgraham), Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Old Dominion University. We discuss Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility and why it's so hot right now.White Fragility: https://libjournal.uncg.edu/ijcp/article... YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RoderickGraham... Litany against fear from DuneEditing by Brian ZiegenhagenMusic by GW Rodriguez... (@ETVPod, 71 minutes, 2020-Jul-02) |
| 340. | 396: Jean-Paul Sartre More at www.philosophytalk.org/shows/sartre. Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the first global public intellectuals, famous for his popular existentialist philosophy, his works of fiction, and his rivalry with Albert Camus. His existentialism was also adopted by Simone de Beauvoir, who used it as a foundation for modern theoretical feminism. So what exactly is existentialism? How is man condemned ... (@philtalkradio, 11 minutes, 2020-Jun-21) |
| 341. | Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke, "Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk" (Oxford UP, 2020) College courses in Ethics tend to focus on theories of the moral rightness or wrongness of actions. This emphasis sometimes obscures the fact that morality is a social project: part of what makes a decent and stable society possible is that we uphold standards of conduct. We call out bad behavior, blame wrongdoers, and praise those who do the right things. We apologize and forgive in public ways. ... (@NewBooksPhil, 69 minutes, 2020-Jul-01) |
| 342. | HAP 54 - Wilson Moses on the Roots of Black Nationalism Wilson Moses speaks to us about his research into early black notionalism, as represented by Crummell, Douglass, and others. (@HistPhilosophy, 25 minutes, 2020-Jun-07) |
| 343. | BEAUTY, SHAME, & HUMILIATION with Heather Widdows I'm joined by Professor Heather Widdows to discuss beauty as an ethical ideal. We cover the benefits and costs of an increasingly globalized ideal of beauty, the limitations of current liberalism, and how to theorize shame and humiliation. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PoliticalPhiloso... Store: https://teespring.com/stores/political-p... (@PolPhilPod, 71 minutes, 2020-Jul-04) |
| 344. | #347 Laura Crucianelli: Interoception, Affective Touch, And Anorexia Nervosa ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 28 minutes, 2020-Jul-06) |
| 345. | Episode 82, ‘The Nature of Consciousness’ with Susan Blackmore (Part I - Mystery and Illusion) The smell of coffee, the taste of asparagus, the warmth of a hug, and the agony of death: conscious experience makes up the fabric of our world, yet many consider it to be the most intractable mystery in philosophy and science. What is it like to undergo experience? What is the function of consciousness? Where does consciousness occur? What are the contents of this experience? Is our stream of con... (@ThePanpsycast, 61 minutes, 2020-Jul-05) |
| 346. | S02E01: Unattractive Discrimination - Francesca Minerva We often hear about racism, sexism, classism, and other familiar kinds of discrimination. But there is a bias which might dwarf them all, discrimination against unattractive people. Jay Shapiro speaks with philosopher, author, and researcher Francesca Minerva on the topic of "Lookism" and introduces John Rawls' famous "Veil of Ignorance" thought experiment to consider just how challenging this t... (@DilemmaPodcast, 82 minutes, 2020-Jul-06) |
| 347. | Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics - The Virtue Of Right Ambition - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics Specifically it focuses on book 4 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, where he discusses the Virtue of Right Ambition, and the associated Vices of Ambitiousness and Unambitiousness. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd ... (@philosopher70, 12 minutes, 2020-Jun-26) |
| 348. | The digital dead When we die, our digital selves sometimes live on. The line between death and life — already blurred by medical technology — is even blurrier in the digital domain. How should we prepare for our electronic afterlives? (@DavidPZone1, 52 minutes, 2020-Jul-05) |
| 349. | Testimony, Self-knowledge and the aims of Philosophy- with Guy Longworth This episode is an interview with Warwick Philosophy's Guy Longworth. We discuss how his interest in philosophy began and was maintained, his ideas around testimony and self knowledge, and how ambitious philosophers should be in the claims that they make. Listen to this episode for an exploration of questions such as: What is philosophy for? What is at stake in research about testimony... (@RoomPhilosophy, 51 minutes, 2020-Jul-05) |
| 350. | "Philosophy of Information" and "Ethics of Information" with Professor Luciano Floridi Information is a crucial concept. Its significance is evident by the fact that the present era is labelled as the information age. An intriguing question is: What is information? Although information is always around us, in the realm of digital artefacts and connectivity as well as in biological entities and processes, it is still an elusive concept. This is perhaps the hardest and most central pr... (@BTG_ie, 63 minutes, 2020-Jul-05) |
| 351. | 1/6/2020: Anna Mahtani on Dutch Book and Accuracy Theorems (@Aristotweets, 46 minutes, 2020-Jun-05) |
| 352. |  Justice and RetributionA woman spends 40 years in and out of prison for shoplifting and finally gets a break from a judge in her late 50s. She uses the opportunity to abolish a jail and transform her city. This week we look at prison abolition and the arguments for eliminating all punishment from the system. From the denial that we have free will, to the view that perpetuating injustice disqualifies the state from punis... (@HiPhiNation, 55 minutes, 2020-Jun-27) |
| 353. | Nancy Bauer I ask the philosopher Nancy Bauer five questions about herself. Nancy Bauer is Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. She is the author of "Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism" (2001) and "How to Do Things with Pornography" (2015). (@KieranSetiya, 22 minutes, 2020-Jun-30) |
| 354. | 103 | J. Kenji López-Alt on Cooking As and With Science Cooking is art, but it’s also very much science — mostly chemistry, but with important contributions from physics and biology. (Almost like a well-balanced recipe…) And I can’t think of anyone better to talk to about the intersection of these fields than Kenji López-Alt: professional chef and restauranteur, MIT graduate, and author of The Food Lab. We discuss how modern scientific ideas can i... (@seanmcarroll, 75 minutes, 2020-Jun-29) |
| 355. | Ep. 246: Susan Sontag on Interpreting Art (Part Two) Continuing on Sontag's essays “On Style” (1965) and "The Death of Tragedy” (1963). Mark, Wes, Seth and Dylan keep talking about the appropriate distance to retain (or not) to a work of art, which is supposed to be relevant to moral action in the world. We also spell out how this is relevant to our recent episodes on tragedy. Start with Part One or get the full, ad-free Citizen Edition. Please supp... (@PartiallyExLife, 53 minutes, 2020-Jun-29) |
| 356. | Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics - The Virtue Of Magnificence - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics Specifically it focuses on book 4 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (and some parallel discussions in the Eudemian Ethics), where he discusses the Virtue of Magnificence, and the associated Vices of Meanness and Vulgarity. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon si... (@philosopher70, 22 minutes, 2020-Jun-24) |
| 357. | Children of Men The two cows are joined by friend Vishal Dave to visit humanity in its final days in Children of Men, a movie that seems in retrospect sadly prescient for our current times. What would knowledge of the imminent end of humanity mean for the final generation of humans and how might it affect what matters to them? How does Cuarón weave does art and iconography into the film and what themes does he us... (@cowspod, 71 minutes, 2020-Jul-03) |
| 358. | Doing Wrong To Do Right | Stephen de Wijze Political philosopher Stephen de Wijze explores what happens when doing wrong is right (@IAI_TV, 26 minutes, 2020-Jun-23) |
| 359. | Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics - The Virtue Of Generosity - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics Specifically it focuses on book 4 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (and some parallel discussions in the Eudemian Ethics), where he discusses the Virtue of Liberality (or Generosity), and the associated Vices of Stinginess/Meanness and Prodigality. To support my ongoin... (@philosopher70, 21 minutes, 2020-Jun-23) |
| 360. | Shane Mauss | Psychedelics, Consciousness, Understanding, and Science Entering the labyrinth today is the popular scientifically minded comedian, Shane Mauss.... Shane's stuff: Podcast: Here We Are (https://www.herewearepodcast.com/) Website: Shane Mauss (http://www.shanemauss.com/) My Stuff.... Bonus Feed ($5 a month): https://www.patreon.com/thephilosophyguy Podcast: https://thephilosophyguy.fireside.fm/ Youtube: https://bit.ly/2Z0rAjA Social Li... (@philosophyguy2, 67 minutes, 2020-Jun-30) |
| 361. | 0G109: Uploaded and For-Profit Afterlife Welcome to Amazon Prime, the best media empire money can buy as long as we're not talking Disney or Netflix money. Here in Amazon Prime you can enjoy shows that are either too slow and deep to be accessible, like Tales from the Loop, or shows too shallow and mainstream to convey any meaning, like this weeks installment, Uploaded! Uploaded is the kind of show that would be free in the heaven depict... (@0gPhilosophy, 43 minutes, 2020-Jul-01) |
| 362. | Should the police be abolished? Following the deaths of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks, there are serious calls to defund or even "abolish" the police in the United States. It’s a serious proposal, and it deserves to be taken seriously. But what does it mean, and how can it be done? Yale Law School Professor Tracey Meares joins us to discuss what police abolition looks like. (@RadioNational, 40 minutes, 2020-Jul-01) |
| 363. | Ep. 98 Film Night: Seven Samurai This week take to the road with Danny San in search of honour and glory. Listen in unbounded admiration as Danny comes to the defence of the weak and disadvantaged while Mike sneaks round the back to make off with their valuables. What is the ethics of responsibility? Who can afford honour? Is expediency the only pragmatic route to survival and is honour an outmoded concept always destined to end ... (@PhilosophyWtf, 21 minutes, 2020-Jul-01) |
| 364. | Malcolm X, the Philosopher Gabe, Zach, and Kevin discuss the ideas and arguments of Malcolm X. What does he have to teach us? What philosophical contributions does he make to ethics, politics, and race? Themes of the discussion include nationalism, violence and nonviolence, and voting. The primary speeches they discuss: “The Ballot or the Bullet”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRNciryI... “The Black Revoluti... (@thevimblog, 106 minutes, 2020-Jun-28) |
| 365. | Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics - The Virtue Of Mildness - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics Specifically it focuses on book 4 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (and some parallel discussions in the Eudemian Ethics), where he discusses the Virtue of Mildness (also known as Good Temper and Gentleness), and a number of different vices of excess and deficiency concerne... (@philosopher70, 25 minutes, 2020-Jun-21) |
| 366. | HoP 350 - The Sentence - Machiavelli on Republicanism Peter celebrates reaching 350 episodes by explaining a single sentence in Machiavelli's "Discourses." (@HistPhilosophy, 24 minutes, 2020-May-31) |
| 367. | EV - 148 Social Justice and Street Epistemology with Reid Nicewonder pt.2 My guest this week is Reid Nicewonder (@ReidN), president of Street Epistemology International (@501c3forSE) and host of Cordial Curiosity YouTube Channel (@CordialCurious). We continue our discussion of street epistemology, its connections to the grievance studies folks, and social justice.SE International: https://streetepistemologyinternational.... referenced: https://letter.wiki/conversation/1... (@ETVPod, 66 minutes, 2020-Jun-25) |
| 368. | #346 Peter Jonason: Mating, The Dark Triad, Booty Calls, And Evo Psych ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 69 minutes, 2020-Jun-29) |
| 369. |  Episode #144 ... Max Weber - Iron CageToday we discuss some of the work of Max Weber in preparation for an upcoming series. (@iamstephenwest, 24 minutes, 2020-Jun-29) |
| 370. | Episode 81, ‘The End of Everything: Astrophysically Speaking’ with Katie Mack (Part II - Further Analysis and Discussion) Approximately 13.8 billion years ago, an infinitely dense state of an infinitely large universe lay dormant upon the backdrop of existence. Then, the expansion of everything. The potential for trillions of galaxies sprung out from this same point, and today, they shine like fairy lights in the darkness of the vast cosmos. From our own little planet, bursting with life, art, culture, and science, w... (@ThePanpsycast, 47 minutes, 2020-Jun-28) |
| 371. | 017 – Air Conditioning Is it me or is it hot in here? Elena and Ian try to keep their cool as they find out how A/C came to be, and the surprising ways it's changed our world. If you liked this episode, subscribing/following means you'll get the next one automatically. We'd love it if you could leave us a review on Apple Podcasts too. And if you want to get in touch with us, you can do that at wondercupboard.com. (@wondercupboard, 56 minutes, 2020-Jun-29) |
| 372. | Podcast episode 7: Interview with Clara Stockigt on missionary grammars in Australia In this interview, we talk to Dr Clara Stockigt about missionary grammars in Australia and their links to the academic linguistic scholarship of the time. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts References for Episode 7 Primary Sources Bleek, Wilhelm H.…Read more › (@hiphilangsci, 2020-Jun-29) |
| 373. | Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics - The Virtue Of Temperance - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics Specifically it focuses on his discussion in book 3 of the Virtue of Temperance (or Moderation), and the associated Vices of Self-Indulgence and Insensibility. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct... (@philosopher70, 17 minutes, 2020-Jun-19) |
| 374. | Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics - The Virtue Of Courage - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics Specifically it focuses on book 3 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (and some parallel discussions in the Eudemian Ethics), where he discusses the Virtue of Courage, the opposed vices of Cowardice and Rashness -- and several other moral phenomena that seem like, but are not ... (@philosopher70, 25 minutes, 2020-Jun-19) |
| 375. | DEMOCRACY & THE AMERICAN LEFT With Elizabeth Anderson, Elizabeth Cohen, Angie Maxwell, & David Faris Elizabeth Anderson, Elizabeth Cohen, Angie Maxwell, and David Faris return to the podcast for a group discussion on US democracy, representation, polarization, & political narratives. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PoliticalPhiloso... Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/political-p... (@PolPhilPod, 107 minutes, 2020-Jun-26) |
| 376. | Philosophy by postcard A fascinating public philosophy project, celebrating a major figure whose work deserves greater recognition — not just as a philosopher, but as a pioneering woman in a very male world. (@DavidPZone1, 28 minutes, 2020-Jun-28) |
| 377. | STM Podcast #57: Kirk Schneider - The Depolarizing of America: A Guidebook for Social Healing On episode 57, we welcome existential psychologist Kirk Schneider to discuss healthy dialogues among members of the opposite ends of the political spectrum, the need for a US psychology czar, the importance of looking for truths in distorted beliefs, and his current campaign for APA President. Kirk J. Schneider Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and leading spokesperson for contemporary existential... (@seize_podcast, 76 minutes, 2020-Jun-28) |
| 378. | PEL Presents PMP#49: Conspiracy Theories as Pop w/ Al Baker Al works for Logically, a company that fights misinformation. He joins Mark, Erica, and Brian to try to discuss the appeal of conspiracy theories, whether their fandom is like other fandoms, the relation between pernicious and fun theories, and theories that end up true. We touch on echo chambers, the role of irony and humor in spreading these theories, how both opponents and proponents claim to b... (@PartiallyExLife, 50 minutes, 2020-Jun-23) |
| 379. | Cressida J. Heyes, "Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge" (Duke UP, 2020) How should we think about the relationship between subjectivity and experience? In Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge (Duke University Press, 2020), Cressida J. Heyes approaches this question through interrogating the apparent limits of experience found in unconsciousness—including sleep; forms of “checking out”—including general anesthesia and a glass of wine; and childbi... (@NewBooksPhil, 63 minutes, 2020-Jun-22) |
| 380. | Tommie Shelby I ask the philosopher Tommie Shelby five questions about himself. Tommie Shelby is the Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. He’s the author of “Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform” (2016) and “We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity” (2005). (@KieranSetiya, 26 minutes, 2020-Jun-23) |
| 381. | Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics - The Aristotelian Moral Virtues - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics Specifically it focuses upon his listing of the moral virtues in book 2, and his discussions about how these virtues are differentiated from each other, and what their distinctive subject-matters are. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/s... (@philosopher70, 11 minutes, 2020-Jun-18) |
| 382. | Episode 191: All the Rage A lotta anger out there right now, but does it do more harm than good? Is anger counterproductive, an obstacle to progress? And even when it is, can anger be appropriate anway? We talk about two excellent articles by the philosopher Amia Srinivasan criticizing anger's critics. Plus we express some counterproductive anger of our own at the IDWs response to the protests. (@verybadwizards, 97 minutes, 2020-Jun-23) |
| 383. | 102 | Maria Konnikova on Poker, Psychology, and Reason The best chess and Go players in the world aren’t human beings any more; they’re artificially-intelligent computer programs. But the best poker players are still humans. Poker is a laboratory for understanding how rationality works in real-world situations: it features stochastic events, incomplete information, Bayesian updating, game theory, reading other people, a battle between emotions and rea... (@seanmcarroll, 80 minutes, 2020-Jun-22) |
| 384. | Ep. 246: Susan Sontag on Interpreting Art (Part One) On Sontag's essays “Against Interpretation” (1964), “On Style” (1965), and "The Death of Tragedy” (1963). What is it to understand a work of art? Sontag objects to critics' need to decode art into its "meaning" or "content," divorcing it from how this content is embodied. She argues that the content vs. form distinction isn't tenable; that the style of a work is an essential part of experiencing i... (@PartiallyExLife, 47 minutes, 2020-Jun-22) |
| 385. | From the vaults: Artificial Meat Anat Pick, Mark Post and Adam Shriver discuss the science, ethics and meaning of cultured (or lab-grown) meat. Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Jun-09) |
| 386. | From the vaults: Animals In this episode, John Ó Maoilearca, Undine Sellbach, and Lynn Turner discuss the role animals play in our understanding of issues as wide as ethics, art, friendship, and technology. Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Jun-09) |
| 387. | From the vaults: Stewards of the Earth Are humans exceptional among living beings? How should we understand our relationship with the natural world? Jennifer Gabrys and Simon James discuss. Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Jun-09) |
| 388. | From the vaults: Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer discusses themes from Eating Animals, his exhaustively argued account of one man's decade-long struggle with vegetarianism. Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Jun-09) |
| 389. | From the vaults: Multiculturalism and Animal Ethics What should we do when cultural or religious traditions appear to conflict with current ideas about animal welfare? In a world where animal rights are often used as a cover for racism, David Grumett,... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Jun-09) |
| 390. | From the vaults: Invasive Species When does conservation become 'green xenophobia'? Fred Pearce, Chris Thomas, and Emma Townshend discuss theoretical and practical responses to non-native species. Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Jun-09) |
| 391. | FREEDOM, EMPIRE, & TRUMP with James Kurth I'm joined by the conservative scholar of defense & foreign policy James Kurth. We discuss the contradictions of the American empire & its ideological justifications. We then use this discussion to situate the Trump presidency in a historical context. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PoliticalPhiloso... Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/political-p... (@PolPhilPod, 119 minutes, 2020-Jun-24) |
| 392. | Morality and Humanity | Simone Schnall, Joel Robbins, Rae Langton Psychologist Simone Schnall, philosopher Rae Langton and anthropologist Joel Robbins discuss morality relativity. (@IAI_TV, 43 minutes, 2020-Jun-16) |
| 393. | 18/5/2020: Maria Rosa Antognazza on the Distinction of Kind between Knowledge and Belief (@Aristotweets, 55 minutes, 2020-May-26) |
| 394. |  Choosing Now for Later: Precedent Autonomy and Problem of Surrogate Decision-Making After Severe Brain InjuryRecording of the New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar on surrogate decision-making after severe brain injury. Patients with ‘covert awareness’ may continue to have values and an authentic sense of self, which may differ from their past values and wishes, despite lacking decision-making capacity in the present. Accordingly, surrogate decision-makers should make decisions based on how the patient is... (@ethicsinthenews, 56 minutes, 2020-Jun-19) |
| 395. | Immanuel Kant, Groundwork - More Examples For 2nd Formulation Of Categorical Imperative This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work of ethics, The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. Specifically it provides additional examples of how to apply the second formulation of the Categorical Imperative. This formulation tells us to act so as to always treat humanity in our own person or in others never as a means but always as an end, ... (@philosopher70, 30 minutes, 2020-Jun-16) |
| 396. | Enhancing Human Beings What are the ethics of genetic enhancement? (@DavidEdmonds100, 2020-Jun-12) |
| 397. | 0G108: The Island and The Categorical Imperative So, one of our patrons pointed out that The Island is actually Michael Bay's best movie, and that one comment is more of a gear stripper than this entire movie. Enjoy clone explosions and some stuff about Kant! Kantian Moral Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-... Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Face... (@0gPhilosophy, 45 minutes, 2020-Jun-24) |
| 398. | How to acknowledge the debt of historical injustice? What does it mean for a nation - whether it be the United States, Germany, or Australia - fully to acknowledge the truth of its past, to drag its moral debts into the light of day? Should a sense of guilt play any role in that acknowledgement? (@RadioNational, 52 minutes, 2020-Jun-24) |
| 399. | Michelle Janikian | Author of Your Psilocybin Mushroom Companion We dive deep on this one friends! Discussing psychedelics, drugs, counterculture, cultural shifts, spirituality, and more! Tune in! Entering the labyrinth is Michelle Janikian... Check out her book: https://www.amazon.com/Your-Psilocybin-M... Her Website: https://www.michellejanikian.com/ My Stuff.... Bonus Feed ($5 a month): https://www.patreon.com/thephilosophyguy Podcast: https:/... (@philosophyguy2, 75 minutes, 2020-Jun-22) |
| 400. | Ep. 97 Film Night Part 3 Tune in this week as Mike and Danny start to listen to the voices in their heads OR are the voices listening to Mike and Danny? How coherent is our identity? What would it take to separate out one voice from our internal cacophony? If only there were some sort of medication we could take? Step forward Dr Jekyll and his patented bottled "two weeks half board in Ibiza” guaranteed to lubricate the I... (@PhilosophyWtf, 26 minutes, 2020-Jun-24) |
| 401. | Hakwan Lau Live! Join me for a discussion with Hakwan Lau (@onemorebrown, 2020-Jun-19) |
| 402. | Thomas Cormen on The CLRS Textbook, P=NP and Computer Algorithms | Episode 7 Thomas Cormen is a world-renowned Computer Scientist, famous for co-writing the indispensable 'Introduction to Algorithms' textbook. He is currently a professor at Dartmouth College and former Chairman of the Dartmouth College Department of Computer Science. In 2013 he wrote a wonderful algorithmic book aimed at nonexperts which is entitled 'Algorithms Unlocked'. Professor Cormen also is well-know... (@tedynenu, 43 minutes, 2020-Jun-24) |
| 403. | HAP 53 - Pilgrim’s Progress - Alexander Crummell Alexander Crummell moves from pan-Africanism to reform of African American culture, identifying progressive “civilization” as a means of liberation. (@HistPhilosophy, 24 minutes, 2020-May-24) |
| 404. | EV - 147 Social Justice and Street Epistemology with Reid Nicewonder pt.1 My guest this week is Reid Nicewonder (@ReidN), president of Street Epistemology International (@501c3forSE) and host of Cordial Curiosity YouTube Channel (@CordialCurious). We discuss street epistemology, its connections to the grievance studies folks, and social justice.SE International: https://streetepistemologyinternational.... referenced: https://letter.wiki/conversation/166Conv... A Scanner... (@ETVPod, 69 minutes, 2020-Jun-18) |
| 405. | Immanuel Kant, Groundwork - Kant's Examples For 2nd Formulation Of Categorical Imperative This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work of ethics, The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. Specifically it examines Kant's examples of how to apply the second formulation of the Categorical Imperative. This formulation tells us to act so as to always treat humanity in our own person or in others never as a means but always as an end ... (@philosopher70, 24 minutes, 2020-Jun-13) |
| 406. | 397: White Privilege and Racial Injustice More at www.philosophytalk.org/shows/white-privi... “White privilege” has become a buzzword in discussions about racial inequality and racial justice. The call to “check your privilege” appeals to those privileged to acknowledge the various ways they receive special treatment that others don’t. But when white people explicitly acknowledge their privilege, does this do anything to further raci... (@philtalkradio, 11 minutes, 2020-Jun-06) |
| 407. | #345 Colin Holbrook: Threat, And Human-Robot Interaction (Part 1) ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 59 minutes, 2020-Jun-22) |
| 408. | Episode 81, ‘The End of Everything: Astrophysically Speaking’ with Katie Mack (Part I - The Death of the Universe) Approximately 13.8 billion years ago, an infinitely dense state of an infinitely large universe lay dormant upon the backdrop of existence. Then, the expansion of everything. The potential for trillions of galaxies sprung out from this same point, and today, they shine like fairy lights in the darkness of the vast cosmos. From our own little planet, bursting with life, art, culture, and science, w... (@ThePanpsycast, 63 minutes, 2020-Jun-21) |
| 409. | Claudia Passos-Ferreira Live! Join me for a discussion with Claudia Passos-Ferreira, a visiting assistant professor at NYU’s Center for Bioethics, as we discuss infant consciousness (@onemorebrown, 2020-Jun-17) |
| 410. | Immanuel Kant, Groundwork - 2nd Formulation Of Categorical Imperative - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work of ethics, The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. Specifically it examines his discussion in sec. 2 providing the second formulation of the Categorical Imperative. In this video, I discuss the second formulation in general and break it down into its main components. This formulation tells us to a... (@philosopher70, 28 minutes, 2020-Jun-12) |
| 411. | The ethics of uterus transplantation If a woman wants to experience pregnancy but can't, the answer could be a uterus transplant. The technology is promising, if still very new — but how ethically sound is it? (@DavidPZone1, 29 minutes, 2020-Jun-21) |
| 412. | The Loophole Two men committed a double murder in rural Maine in 1990. Only one pulled the trigger. The state prosecutor decided to try them separately, but that was a mistake, and both were acquitted. Then the Feds came in, and sentenced one man to life in prison for a crime he was already acquitted of doing. How is this possible in America? The answer is a loophole in criminal law. Today we examine that loop... (@HiPhiNation, 43 minutes, 2020-Jun-13) |
| 413. | Schopenhauer on Boredom, Loneliness and Compassion- with David Bather Woods This episode is part two of an interview with Warwick Philosophy's senior teaching fellow David Bather Woods. David has written on Schopenhauer's views on boredom, solitude and loneliness as well as on the intersection of his political and moral philosophy. In this episode we discuss these topics as well as relevant facts and anecdotes from Schopenhauer's life which help to inform our interpretati... (@RoomPhilosophy, 50 minutes, 2020-Jun-21) |
| 414. | Gideon Rosen I ask the philosopher Gideon Rosen five questions about himself. Gideon Rosen is Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. He works in the philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, and moral philosophy, and is the author, with John Burgess, of "A Subject with No Object" (2000). (@KieranSetiya, 26 minutes, 2020-Jun-16) |
| 415. | Immanuel Kant, Groundwork - More Examples 1st Formulation Categorical Imperative - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work of ethics, The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. Specifically it provides additional examples used to clarify the first formulation of the Categorical Imperative. This formulation tells us to act always upon maxims that we can will to be universal laws of nature. To support my ongoing work, g... (@philosopher70, 31 minutes, 2020-Jun-11) |
| 416. | White Ignorance Zach, Justin, and Gabe discuss the concept of white ignorance. Is a feature of white supremacy that white people are by default unable to perceive the world accurately? The concept is discussed by Charles Mills, a contemporary political philosopher, perhaps best known for the racial contract. In this episode the vimmers explain the idea and discuss its implications. "Global White Ignorance":... (@thevimblog, 107 minutes, 2020-Jun-18) |
| 417. |  Can’t Complain by Kathryn NorlockComplaining about our pains is often viewed as weak or soft. Kant and Aristotle went so far as to say that it should never be done. And they say it's something a real man would never do. But could complaining actually be a virtue, even when you can't fix the thing that makes you sad or mad? When done well, complaining can expose our vulnerabilities, invite others to commiserate over share pains, a... (@wesbuc, 33 minutes, 2020-Jun-04) |
| 418. | 101 | David Baltimore on the Mysteries of Viruses I recently saw an estimate that if you took all the novel coronaviruses in the world (the actual viruses, not patients), you could fit them into a bucket no more than a couple of liters in volume. A huge impact has been wrought by a very small amount of stuff. The world of viruses is vast and complicated, and we’re still learning some of its basic features. Today’s guest David Baltimore won the No... (@seanmcarroll, 74 minutes, 2020-Jun-15) |
| 419. | From the vaults: The Politics of Memorials Some people and events are remembered by communities, others forgotten. Who and what ought to be remembered? Should some memorials be removed? And who should decide? Michelle Codrington-Rogers,... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Jun-02) |
| 420. | From the vaults: Affirmative Action In this episode, philosopher Elizabeth Anderson and Runnymede Trust Director Omar Khan discuss affirmative action. What is it? Why is it so controversial? Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Jun-02) |
| 421. | From the vaults: Is Political Violence Ever Justified? Are some types of political violence more rational, ethical, or justifiable than others? Maeve Cooke and Kimberley Hutchings discuss. Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Jun-02) |
| 422. | From the vaults: Prejudice Are we more or less prejudiced than at other points in history? And is prejudice always wrong, or even avoidable? If it is avoidable, how can this be achieved? Marco Cinnirella, Katharine Jenkins,... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Jun-02) |
| 423. | From the vault: The Philosophy of Race In this episode, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Priyamvada Gopal, and Nasar Meer consider what we understand by race, and the relationships between race, inequality, and prejudice. Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Jun-02) |
| 424. | From the Vaults: Frantz Fanon and Political Activism Michael Burns, Madhu Krishnan and John Narayan explore what Fanon's work can teach us about the contemporary world. Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Jun-02) |
| 425. | Ep. 245: Fashion (Derrida, Foucault, Sontag) w/ Shahidha Bari (Part Two) We conclude with Foucault's "The Ethics of the Concern of the Self As A Practice of Freedom" (1984) and add Susan Sontag's "On Style" (1965). After our guest's departure, we give some concluding remarks about her book Dressed: A Philosophy of Clothes (2020) and Derrida's "The Animal That Therefore I Am" (1999). Start with part one or get the ad-free, unbroken Citizen Edition. Support PEL and be en... (@PartiallyExLife, 51 minutes, 2020-Jun-15) |
| 426. | Unpacking The Ethics of Covid-19 |Susan Neiman, Peter Hitchens, Patricia Churchland Susan Neiman, Peter Hitchens and Patricia Churchland debate the big moral issues of the pandemic. (@IAI_TV, 52 minutes, 2020-Jun-09) |
| 427. | #344 Joseph Henrich: Cultural Evolution, Human Cooperation, and WEIRD Psychology ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 74 minutes, 2020-Jun-19) |
| 428. | Scott Aaronson on Computational Complexity, Philosophy & Quantum Computing | Episode 6 Scott Aaronson is a world-renowned expert in the fields of Quantum Computing and Computational Complexity Theory. He is a David J. Bruton Centennial Professor of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin. Every Computer Science enthusiast knows who Prof. Aaronson is because of his extremely clear and engaging way of communicating difficult theoretical ideas. His book Quantum Computing ... (@tedynenu, 86 minutes, 2020-Jun-19) |
| 429. | Ep. 10 - (ft.) Jon Rosen: What's Fair Game in a Conversation? In this episode, I speak with Dr. Jon Rosen about his Facebook discussion group Fair Game and about how to have difficult conversations generally. We discuss the challenges, what it means to be a reasonable interlocutor, and more. Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fairgame If you learned something from this episode, please consider supporting me he... (@Jordan_C_Myers, 112 minutes, 2020-Jun-19) |
| 430. | The Blair Witch Project The two cows delve into the Black Hills Forest to sort out why the Blair Witch Project was the tenth highest grossing movie of 1999, why it took so long for Hollywood to capitalize on found footage horror, the nature of horror itself and why we desire to be horrified, as well as what makes the Blair Witch Project so especially horrifying. (@cowspod, 62 minutes, 2020-Jun-19) |
| 431. | 11/5/2020: Derrick Darby on Rights Externalism and Racial Injustice (@Aristotweets, 50 minutes, 2020-May-18) |
| 432. | Immanuel Kant, Groundwork - Kant's Examples for the 1st Formulation of the Categorical Imperative This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work of ethics, The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. Specifically it examines Kant's examples used in that text to illustrate the first formulation of the categorical imperative. This formulation tells us to act always upon maxims that we can will to be universal laws of nature. To support my ongo... (@philosopher70, 18 minutes, 2020-Jun-09) |
| 433. | Mike Brancatelli | Meaning, Inner Reflection, Wonder, Curiosity, Wisdom, Psychedelics and More Entering the labyrinth today is Mike Brancatelli....we dive deep into the wonder of life. Enjoy! Hit up the Mikeadelic podcast..... Website: https://bit.ly/2GqH7kX Patreon: https://bit.ly/3d0piI0 Instagram: https://bit.ly/2Pqc50B Facebook: https://bit.ly/2XCchg7 Twitter: https://bit.ly/2IwIhik Email: https://bit.ly/2Dsv2v4 Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2Vf2RKf Spotify: https:... (@philosophyguy2, 86 minutes, 2020-Jun-16) |
| 434. | The History of Philosophy: its value and limitations- with David Bather Woods This episode is part one of an interview with Warwick Philosophy's senior teaching fellow David Bather Woods. David has taught extensively on the history of philosophy as well as researching the work of Arthur Schopenhauer. In this first part of the interview we discuss David’s path into philosophy before moving on to discuss the value of studying the history of philosophy, and how we can address ... (@RoomPhilosophy, 28 minutes, 2020-Jun-18) |
| 435. | Immanuel Kant, Groundwork - 1st Formulation Of The Categorical Imperative - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work of ethics, The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. Specifically it examines his discussio in sec. 2 where he introduces the first formulation of the Categorical Imperative. This video discusses the formulation in general, breaks it down, and suggests and how it might be applied. This formulation te... (@philosopher70, 16 minutes, 2020-Jun-08) |
| 436. | HoP 349 - No More Mr Nice Guy - Machiavelli Machiavelli’s seminal work of political advice, "The Prince," tells the ruler how to be strong like a lion and cunning like a fox. (@HistPhilosophy, 21 minutes, 2020-May-17) |
| 437. | EV - 146 Revising the Chinese Room with Daniel Estrada My guest this week is Daniel Estrada (@eripsa), a Lecturer at the New Jersey Institute of Technology where he teaches on engineering ethics, AI, and philosophy of mind. We discuss his critiques of the Chinese room and why he prefers Lady Lovelace's objection to Turing.Daniel's Website: https://www.madeofrobots.com/Invocation: Aaron's Chinese RoomEditing by Brian ZiegenhagenMusic by GW RodriguezSib... (@ETVPod, 68 minutes, 2020-Jun-12) |
| 438. | 0G107: Devs and the Paradox of Predictability I'm going to present these show notes, knowing that you already could have predicted that I would do a big meta thing and also knowing that it still impacts you that I engage in the physical act of doing the thing. Basically this all makes sense because quantum determinism, here ::starts up machine and shows you video of yourself understanding all of this in the future and how you'll happily respo... (@0gPhilosophy, 44 minutes, 2020-Jun-17) |
| 439. | Democratic politics is being challenged, but is it changing? What are we to make of the fact that, in a time when democratic politics is being radically challenged by a series of seismic shocks, and when ideas or options once thought impossible are now squarely back ‘on the table’, our political leaders and their opponents have rarely seemed more conventional? David Runciman, Professor of Politics at Cambridge University and host of the Talking Politics pod... (@RadioNational, 48 minutes, 2020-Jun-17) |
| 440. | 503: Covid Conundrums and Moral Dilemmas More at www.philosophytalk.org/shows/covid-conun... In just months the world changed radically, and we have all had to adjust our lifestyles to stop the spread of Covid-19. Those working on the frontlines are taking on great personal risk while the rest of us are required to socially distance. But even if you follow all the guidelines, you may still face moral dilemmas. Is it ethical to order... (@philtalkradio, 9 minutes, 2020-May-31) |
| 441. | Ep. 96 Film Night Part Two This week the lights have gone down, the adverts have run and the trailers have been noted. Join Mike and Danny as the annoying kid behind them starts kicking the back of their seats while the couple next to them keep checking their phones and talking too loudly. What do we have to hope for? Are children really the future or are they just the repetition of all our past mistakes in hipper clothes? ... (@PhilosophyWtf, 31 minutes, 2020-Jun-17) |
| 442. | Robert Pippin, "Filmed Thought: Cinema as Reflective Form" (U Chicago Press, 2020) Robert Pippin's book Filmed Thought: Cinema as Reflective Form (University of Chicago Press, 2020) is a work in the philosophy of film published in 2020 by the University of Chicago Press. Each chapter in Filmed Thought treats a film in-depth, including works by Hitchcock, Ray, Malick, Sirk, Almodovar, Polanski, and the Dardenne brothers. The book is written in an accessible style that does not se... (@NewBooksPhil, 102 minutes, 2020-Jun-11) |
| 443. | Matthew Duncombe, "Ancient Relativity: Plato, Aristotle, Stoics and Skeptics" (Oxford UP, 2020) As a matter of basic metaphysics, we classify individuals in terms of their relations to other things – for example, a parent is a parent of someone, a larger object is larger than a smaller object. The nature of relativity – the question of how things relate to other things – is a topic that winds its way through the history of philosophy to the present day. In Ancient Relativity: Plato, Aristo... (@NewBooksPhil, 62 minutes, 2020-Jun-10) |
| 444. | Kai von Fintel on Language, Semantics and Possible Worlds | Episode 5 Professor Kai von Fintel is a world-leading linguist (Section Head at MIT) who is well known for his contributions to Semantics, an academic fields which sits at the intersection of many disciplines which is typically concerned with the meaning of linguistic expressions. He is the co-founder of the open access journal Semantics & Pragmatics. You can find more about his work on his website: htt... (@tedynenu, 74 minutes, 2020-Jun-16) |
| 445. | #343 Marco Del Giudice: The Evolutionary Psychology of Gender Differences (Part 1) ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 74 minutes, 2020-Jun-15) |
| 446. | Immanuel Kant, Groundwork - Three Types Of Imperatives - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work of ethics, The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. Specifically it examines his discussion of the three types of imperatives he distinguishes. These include categorical imperatives of morality and hypothetical imperatives of skill and prudence. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site... (@philosopher70, 21 minutes, 2020-Jun-05) |
| 447. | E44: Subjective Chiroptera of Experience - Thomas Nagel's "What is it Like to Be a Bat?" This episode is slightly different, in that it is our first attempt at recording while doing a Live Stream! Sounds about the same I reckon. But we're excited anyway. An analysis of Thomas Nagel's 1974 paper "What is it Like to Be a Bat?", which initiated "decades of confusion" in the philosophy of mind literature, and gave us the phrase still in use today "what-it's-like"-ness as a pseudo-de... (@dawdlerspodcast, 49 minutes, 2020-Jun-15) |
| 448. | Punishment without End A teen-aged girl gets caught with a suitcase stuffed with powdered cocaine, and she comes before a federal judge. That judge learns that a felony conviction carries punishments for life for her. He embarks on a mission to get all other judges to shorten prison sentences in light of this. Meanwhile, a researcher learns of a pervasive but secretive practice where prosecutors, defense attorneys, and ... (@HiPhiNation, 56 minutes, 2020-Jun-06) |
| 449. | Race in America pt 2: Lewis Gordon Any conversation about racial justice has to go back to basics: questions about the nature of humanity and the meaning of freedom. Philosopher Lewis Gordon explores these questions in the light of COVID-19 and America's current upheavals. (@DavidPZone1, 28 minutes, 2020-Jun-14) |
| 450. | STM Podcast #56: Eric Adams - Black Lives Matter, Structural Change in Law Enforcement, COVID-19 On episode 56, we welcome Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams to discuss the black lives matter movement, creating structural changes in law enforcement, the similarities in the current struggles of different communities, and how to effectively protest injustice in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Eric Adams is the Borough President of Brooklyn, New York City. Adams served as an officer in th... (@seize_podcast, 33 minutes, 2020-Jun-14) |
| 451. | Episode 80, ‘Human Nature’ with Steven Pinker and Rutger Bregman (Part II - Further Analysis and Discussion) What was life like before we emerged from hunter-gatherer tribes and pulled ourselves into the civilised world? Notoriously, this same question was asked by the great philosopher Thomas Hobbes in the seventeenth century. His answer? The state of nature is a ‘time of war, where every man is enemy to every man’; where all live in ‘continual fear’, and in ‘danger of violent death; and the life of m... (@ThePanpsycast, 45 minutes, 2020-Jun-13) |
| 452. | Immanuel Kant, Groundwork - Reason, Happiness, And Duty - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work of ethics, The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. Specifically it examines his discussion in sec. 1 about the connection between rationality, morality, and happiness. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you... (@philosopher70, 15 minutes, 2020-Jun-04) |
| 453. | Scott Shapiro I ask the philosopher Scott Shapiro five questions about himself. Scott Shapiro is the Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at Yale Law School. His areas of interest include jurisprudence, international law, constitutional law, criminal law and cybersecurity; and he is the author of "Legality" (2011) and, with Oona Hathaway, of "The Internationalists: How a Radica... (@KieranSetiya, 28 minutes, 2020-Jun-09) |
| 454. | Episode 190: We Pod. We Pod-Cast. We Podcast. (Frankfurt’s “On Bullshit”) David and Tamler talk about police violence, the protests, and Harry Frankfurt's journal article turned bestseller ”On Bullshit." Plus we dive into a comic masterpiece of late capitalism: the University of Oregon's brand guidelines. (@verybadwizards, 121 minutes, 2020-Jun-09) |
| 455. | 100 | Solo | Life and Its Meaning A podcast only hits the century mark once! And for Mindscape, this is it. There have been holiday messages and bonus episodes and the like. But this is the 100th officially-numbered episode. To celebrate, I decided to treat myself to a solo episode in which I reflect, somewhat non-systematically, on the age-old question of the meaning of life. I end up spending a lot (most?) of the time talking ab... (@seanmcarroll, 93 minutes, 2020-Jun-08) |
| 456. | LIBERALISM, REPUBLICANISM, & VIOLENCE I present an original account of how my J S Mill Style liberalism might fit together with my 'Neo-Machiavellian' Republicanism. The context is a consideration of social norms around speech and violence but I develop this into a larger theory of how to normatively understand American politics. BRAND NEW: We now have a store where you can buy Political Philosophy Podcast merchandise! https://... (@PolPhilPod, 97 minutes, 2020-Jun-11) |
| 457. | From the vaults: A Right to Be an Independent State? John Breuilly and Cara Nine on what gives a territory the right to become an independent country, and under what conditions can or should a state prevent it from doing so. Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-May-26) |
| 458. | From the vaults: Immigration Detention Should the state be allowed indefinitely detain people who have committed no crime? What does detention tell us about the ethics of immigration control? In this episode, Mishka, Mary Bosworth, and... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-May-26) |
| 459. | From the vaults: Sovereignty In this episode, Serena Ferente, Carmen Pavel and David Runciman explore 'sovereignty' and ask whether it is still a useful concept in the twenty-first century. Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-May-26) |
| 460. | From the vaults: Who Is a Refugee? Some people crossing borders are called refugees while others are not. But who is a refugee? What precisely is the relationship between migration and seeking refuge? Can we justify the distinction... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-May-26) |
| 461. | From the vault: What Are Prisons For? Christopher Bennett, Kimberley Brownlee, and Andrew Neilson discuss the arguments against the use of imprisonment as a dominant form of punishment. Why do they so often fall on deaf ears? Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-May-26) |
| 462. | UPDATE: NEWS + SUPPORT All of you were extremely kind and helpful over these past few months. I feel very humbled and grateful from the bottom of my heart to you all! But I am still going through hard times. In order to sustain the channel, and even to support myself I need your help. I am trying to get another job to complement what I am getting from the channel, but you certainly now that that is extremely dif... (@TheDissenterYT, 9 minutes, 2020-Jun-13) |
| 463. | Ep. 245: Fashion (Derrida, Foucault) w/ Shahidha Bari (Part One) On Jacques Derrida's "The Animal That Therefore I Am" (1999), Michel Foucault's "The Ethics of the Concern of the Self As A Practice of Freedom" (1984), and our guest's Dressed: A Philosophy of Clothes (2020). Philosophy devalues appearances, but our changing dominant metaphysics (there is no "underneath" but rather a complex built out of appearance itself) should have changed this. Our guest prov... (@PartiallyExLife, 54 minutes, 2020-Jun-08) |
| 464. | Immanuel Kant, Groundwork - The Notion Of Duty - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work of ethics, The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. Specifically it examines his discussion in sec. 1 about the connection about what it means to have Duty as the motive for one's actions and decisions. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like ... (@philosopher70, 21 minutes, 2020-Jun-03) |
| 465. | The Margins of Language | Stanley Fish, Genia Schönbaumsfeld, Hilary Lawson Stanley Fish, Genia Schönbaumsfeld and Hilary Lawson explore the limits of language. (@IAI_TV, 41 minutes, 2020-Jun-02) |
| 466. | From the vault: A Right to Migrate? Most would agree that we have a right to leave our country of origin. But since this usually means arriving in another, do we also have a right to immigrate? Chris Bertram, Emily Dugan, Matthew... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-May-25) |
| 467. | Immanuel Kant, Groundwork - The Good Will - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work of ethics, The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. Specifically it examines his discussion in sec. 1 about the Good Will as being the only unqualifiedly good thing. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you ca... (@philosopher70, 13 minutes, 2020-Jun-02) |
| 468. | “Why Does Income Equality Make Society Stronger?” Host Jack Russell Weinstein visits with Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, authors of "The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better," and their newest book, "The Inner Level, How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-Being." (@whyradioshow, 85 minutes, 2020-Jun-12) |
| 469. | Episode 126 - Listener Q&A with Agnes Callard and Ben Callard Three philosophers. Eight head-scratchers. 50 minutes. In this episode, Agnes Callard, Ben Callard and I respond to the world's most awesome listener-recorded questions.A lot of people have the impression that philosophy is, first and foremost, an enterprise in which college professor types read books that no one can understand, then issue a response in the form of more books that no one can under... (@ElucidationsPod, 48 minutes, 2020-Jun-11) |
| 470. | Ep. 8 - (ft.) Dr. Eric Louw In this episode, I speak with Dr. Eric Louw about his experiences in South Africa during the transition from Apartheid and how it has shaped his thinking on the question of Affirmative Action and diversity in education and the work force. If you learned something from this episode, please consider supporting me here: https://www.patreon.com/jordanmyers Every dollar that comes in will go toward... (@Jordan_C_Myers, 108 minutes, 2020-Jun-12) |
| 471. | Ep. 9 - (ft.) Matthew McManus: Myth and Mayhem In this episode, I sit down with Matthew McManus to discuss the new book he co-authored: Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson. Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://twitter.com/MattPolProf https://left2right.webflow.io/ https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Mayhem-Lefti... If you learned something from this episode, please consider supporting me here: https://www.... (@Jordan_C_Myers, 60 minutes, 2020-Jun-12) |
| 472. |  Black Lives MatterAs the Black Lives Matter movement spreads across the globe in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, Monty shares his perspective on systemic racism and Tim looks at the role that he and others like him can play to confront racism and make real change. This was a powerful and emotional episode for us to record, and we hope that it can help others find clarity and hope around an immensely import... (@ockhamsbeard, 65 minutes, 2020-Jun-10) |
| 473. | HAP 52 - Great White North - Emigration to Canada Mary Ann Shadd and Samuel Ringgold Ward reflect on what Canada can offer African Americans, differing on the problem of racism. (@HistPhilosophy, 26 minutes, 2020-May-10) |
| 474. | Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From Underground - Enlightenment, Nature, And The Will - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky's work, Notes from Underground, which raises a number of issues concerning human freedom, progress, rationality, and desire. Specifically it examines the assumptions made about laws of nature, social science and planning, and the will. These tend to be made from perspectives that could be categorized as enlight... (@philosopher70, 15 minutes, 2020-Jun-01) |
| 475. | Chinese Philosophy, Daoism and a Philosophy of Comparisons- with Max Lacertosa This episode is an interview with Warwick Philosophy's newly appointed teaching fellow Massimiliano Lacertosa. Max is interested in Chinese Philosophy (specifically Daoism) and in this interview we discuss questions such as: How can a course on "Chinese Philosophy" be taught without being too reductive? What is the benefit of approaching Philosophy comparatively? What does "Chinese Philosophy" eve... (@RoomPhilosophy, 47 minutes, 2020-Jun-11) |
| 476. | George Floyd and the Storm Zach gives a brief statement about the protests and future podcasts. The bonkers LA police union: https://www.theeastsiderla.com/news/live... Another example: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020... Aph and Syl Ko: https://smile.amazon.com/Aphro-ism-Cultu... A reading list: https://www.radicalhistoryreview.org/abu... An action list: https://www.indiewire.com/2020/05/h... (@thevimblog, 12 minutes, 2020-Jun-08) |
| 477. | 502: Comforting Conversations (Part 2) More at www.philosophytalk.org/shows/comforting-... In troubling, uncertain times, the arts and humanities are more important than ever. Engaging with works of literature can provide both much needed insight into our current struggles and a sense of perspective in a crisis. In what ways do novels or plays help us come to terms with human suffering? Can fictional narratives about past pandemic... (@philtalkradio, 14 minutes, 2020-May-24) |
| 478. | EV - 145 Void Crossing with James Croft My guest this week is James Croft (@CroftSpeaks), host of the Ethics and Chill podcast and the leader of the Ethical Society of St. Lewis. We try to say profound things about coping with the void through pop culture content, but mostly it's a lot of jokes about Animal Crossing and some advice on how to get that cult money.Ethics and Chill: https://ethicsandchill.org/Ethical Society of St. Lewis: h... (@ETVPod, 70 minutes, 2020-Jun-05) |
| 479. | A Discussion on Consciousness | Panpsychism, Materialism, Idealism, Dualism, and the Foundations of Experience Woooooo weeeeee tune into this fun conversation on consciousness! Matthew Taylor's Podcast: https://reasonpress.net/ Bonus Feed ($5 a month): https://www.patreon.com/thephilosophyguy Podcast: https://thephilosophyguy.fireside.fm/ Youtube: https://bit.ly/2Z0rAjA Social Links: Discord Squad: https://discord.gg/tH5Fydn Twitter: https://twitter.com/brendenweber_ Email List: https://bi... (@philosophyguy2, 121 minutes, 2020-Jun-08) |
| 480. | 0G106: The Platform and Methods of Social Change Comrades, join me and rise up! We have nothing to lose but our overwrought allegories for social inequality! Together we can escape whatever arrangement of boxes we've been placed in and smash whatever faceless system of control is distributing our resources in a physically impossible but philosophically meaningful arrangement. Hear the call of our people: Obviously! We're covering The Platform an... (@0gPhilosophy, 42 minutes, 2020-Jun-10) |
| 481. | Ordinary vices: Impatience The vice of impatience reflects a particular relationship to time: the notion that time is a finite commodity that ‘must be made the most of’, not an opportunity for encounter or an invitation to attentiveness and mutual discovery. Better put, impatience is ultimately about control. (@RadioNational, 50 minutes, 2020-Jun-10) |
| 482. | Ep. 95 Film Night Having dragged their way through the historic corridors of philosophy Danny and Mike emerge from the mists of time in need of some R & R, a good long bath and some clean clothes. Listen in this week as our weary philosonauts hang up their togas, berets and black roll-neck jumpers and put their feet up for a well earned change of pace and a large glass of something tasty from the cellars. Sink back... (@PhilosophyWtf, 21 minutes, 2020-Jun-10) |
| 483. | Frank Wilderson III, "Afropessimism" (Liveright, 2020) How should we understand the pervasiveness – and virulence – of anti-Black violence in the United State? Why and how is anti-Black racism different from other forms of racism? How does it permeate our moral and political ideals? Frank Wilderson III combines memoir and works of political theory, critical theory, literature, and film to offer a philosophy of Blackness. In his new book Afropessimis... (@NewBooksPhil, 59 minutes, 2020-Jun-03) |
| 484. | #342 H. Clark Barrett: On Mental Adaptations And Modularity Of Mind ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 59 minutes, 2020-Jun-08) |
| 485. | Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From The Underground - Desire And Reason - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky's work, Notes from Underground, which raises a number of issues concerning human freedom, progress, rationality, and desire. Specifically it examines the relationship between desire and reason, and the priority that desire ultimate has over reason To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patr... (@philosopher70, 17 minutes, 2020-May-29) |
| 486. | Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020) Brian Greene is a Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Columbia University in the City of New York, where he is the Director of the Institute for Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics, and co-founder and chair of the World Science Festival. He is well known for his TV mini-series about string theory and the nature of reality, including the Elegant Universe, which tied in with his best-s... (@NewBooksPhil, 121 minutes, 2020-Jun-02) |
| 487. |  Sacred and Profane Love Episode 24: On Reading The Plague in a PlagueSacred and Profane Love Episode 24: On Reading The Plague in a Plague by Sacred and Profane Love (@eudaimoniapod, 83 minutes, 2020-Jun-08) |
| 488. | Redemption in the DDU Erick Williams tells the story of how one bad night in the chow hall got him into solitary confinement at Walpole. The path out of solitary, and eventually out of prison, took another decade. On this episode, we look at the unique power of the Department of Corrections to do with prisoners what they will at their discretion. Philosopher Lisa Guenther tells the history of solitary in America, and ... (@HiPhiNation, 51 minutes, 2020-May-30) |
| 489. | Race in America pt 1: George Yancy Speaking out against racism by insisting on the collusion of white people — even well-meaning ones — in a system that's racist to the core can bring serious consequences. George Yancy knows this well. (@DavidPZone1, 36 minutes, 2020-Jun-07) |
| 490. | Ilya Somin, "Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2020) When we think of democracy, we typically think of voting; and when we think of voting, we ordinarily have elections and campaigns in minds. In this intuitive sense, voting is a matter of casting a ballot. After Election Day, votes are counted, and, typically, the majority rules. But things really aren’t so simple. For one thing, citizens bring differing levels of information and ignorance into the... (@NewBooksPhil, 64 minutes, 2020-Jun-01) |
| 491. | STM Podcast #55: Liz Dorval - Is it Time for a 4-Day Work Week and to Work From Home? On episode 55, we welcome back Liz Dorval to discuss the appearance of our work-lives after the pandemic subsides, the benefits of working from home and implementing a universal basic income and the four day work-week, and the downside of “bullshit jobs.” Leon Garber is a philosophical writer, contemplating and elucidating the deep recesses of man's soul. He is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor/P... (@seize_podcast, 70 minutes, 2020-Jun-07) |
| 492. | Episode 80, ‘Human Nature’ with Steven Pinker and Rutger Bregman (Part I - Humankind) What was life like before we emerged from hunter-gatherer tribes and pulled ourselves into the civilised world? Notoriously, this same question was asked by the great philosopher Thomas Hobbes in the seventeenth century. His answer? The state of nature is a ‘time of war, where every man is enemy to every man’; where all live in ‘continual fear’, and in ‘danger of violent death; and the life of... (@ThePanpsycast, 47 minutes, 2020-Jun-06) |
| 493. | Zena Hitz I ask the philosopher Zena Hitz five questions about herself. Zena Hitz is a Tutor at St. John's College, Annapolis. Her new book, "Lost in Thought," is about the pleasures of intellectual life. (@KieranSetiya, 26 minutes, 2020-Jun-02) |
| 494. | From the vaults: The Good Life What makes a life good? Is the good life a happy life? We address the meaning and significance of the ‘good life’ today. Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-May-19) |
| 495. | From the vaults: Sleep Marina Benjamin, Russell Foster and Simon Morgan discuss the science, literature and philosophy of sleep. Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-May-19) |
| 496. | From the vaults: Being Alone In this episode, John Burnside, Barbara Taylor, and James Warren explore the idea of loneliness and solitude, in philosophy, art and politics, as well as in our own lives. Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-May-19) |
| 497. | From the vaults: Feminism What is the future for feminism? How does feminism interact with concerns about other forms of oppression, such as those based on race and class? Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-May-19) |
| 498. | Haunting the Margins - E3: Alan Watts After another mammoth Dawdle, the Dawdlers finally return to the Margins seeking specters, and find this time the anti-improvement, anti-guru, self-improvement guru Alan Watts. They consider some of Mr. Watts' most controversial opinions with oodles of juicy quotes. As is the nature of considering the centrality / marginality of thinkers, many guests come to the party this week, but Alan h... (@dawdlerspodcast, 138 minutes, 2020-Jun-07) |
| 499. | 99 | Scott Aaronson on Complexity, Computation, and Quantum Gravity There are some problems for which it’s very hard to find the answer, but very easy to check the answer if someone gives it to you. At least, we think there are such problems; whether or not they really exist is the famous P vs NP problem, and actually proving it will win you a million dollars. This kind of question falls under the rubric of “computational complexity theory,” which formal... (@seanmcarroll, 113 minutes, 2020-Jun-01) |
| 500. | Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From The Underground - The Most Advantageous Advantage - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky's work, Notes from Underground, which raises a number of issues concerning human freedom, progress, rationality, and desire. Specifically it examines what he calls the "most advantageous advantage", which outweighs all other advantages or perceived goods or values. To support my ongoing work, go to my Pat... (@philosopher70, 17 minutes, 2020-May-27) |
| 501. | Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From Underground - Self-Interest And the Advantageous - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky's work, Notes from Underground, which raises a number of issues concerning human freedom, progress, rationality, and desire. Specifically it examines his discussion of the modern thinkers who assert that if human beings simply understood their own self-interest, they would not engage in immoral, unjust, or other... (@philosopher70, 14 minutes, 2020-May-27) |
| 502. | Ep. 244: Camus on Strategies for Facing Plague (Part Two) Continuing on Albert Camus's 1947 novel, covering the old functionary Grand, the criminal (or just paranoid?) Cottard, and more of our narrators Dr. Rieux and his doomed friend Tarrou, plus more on the overall message of the book and how it might relate to our current situation. Start with part one or get the unbroken Citizen Edition. Please support PEL! End song: "You Will Kill the One You Love" ... (@PartiallyExLife, 65 minutes, 2020-Jun-01) |
| 503. | How to Make the Right Decision | Jason McKenzie Alexander (@IAI_TV, 41 minutes, 2020-May-26) |
| 504. | 27/4/2020: Nancy Cartwright asks Why Trust Science? (@Aristotweets, 45 minutes, 2020-May-03) |
| 505. | HoP 348 - The Sweet Restraints of Liberty - Republicanism and Civic Humanism Did “civic humanism” really make republicanism a newly dominant political theory in the Italian Renaissance? (@HistPhilosophy, 21 minutes, 2020-May-03) |
| 506. | No Country For Old Men The two cows head to Texas with their pal Edward to consider one of the best film adaptations of a book ever. Topics discussed include encounters with the unintelligible, grappling with our shared fate of becoming lost to the passage of time, Sartrean bad faith, and Anton Chigurh’s quarantine haircut. (@cowspod, 86 minutes, 2020-Jun-05) |
| 507. | 501: Comforting Coversations (Part 1) More at www.philosophytalk.org/shows/comforting-... In troubling, uncertain times, the arts and humanities are more important than ever. Engaging with works of literature can provide both much needed insight into our current struggles and a sense of perspective in a crisis. In what ways do novels or plays help us come to terms with human suffering? Can fictional narratives about past pandemic... (@philtalkradio, 13 minutes, 2020-May-17) |
| 508. | 016 – Ice Ice, Ice, Baby. Not just lyrics from one of history’s great musicians, but also the topic of this episode. Elena and Ian take a cold, hard look at how chilling changed the world. Cool story, bro. If you liked this episode, subscribing/following means you'll get the next one automatically. We'd love it if you could leave us a review on iTunes too. And if you want to get in touch with us, you can do... (@wondercupboard, 75 minutes, 2020-Jun-04) |
| 509. | ASK ME ANYTHING I take on a range of audience questions from winning political campaigns, rights and COVID, political forgiveness, & more. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PoliticalPhiloso... (@PolPhilPod, 66 minutes, 2020-Jun-01) |
| 510. | Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From The Underground - Revenge, Anger, And Justice - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky's work, Notes from Underground, which raises a number of issues concerning human freedom, progress, rationality, and desire. Specifically it examines the emotion of anger, the impulse towards revenge, and the conception of justice. Ordinary people, and "people of action", precisely because they don't think or u... (@philosopher70, 19 minutes, 2020-May-24) |
| 511. | 0G105: Picard and the Butlerian Jihad Oh hey, you look keen for some decent fan service mixed with cribbing from Dune. Perfect for CBS's business model. We're covering Picard, which is decent, and how it gives away that Star Trek is just the precursor to Dune. Picard has your Butlerian Jihad, your incompetent intergalatic federation, your weird biotech. All the makings of a solid Dune Prequel. I'm sure we'll find out the Romulan kid i... (@0gPhilosophy, 46 minutes, 2020-Jun-03) |
| 512. | After the death of George Floyd The death of 46-year-old George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police was both shocking and sickeningly familiar. What are the protesters communicating about the moral content of the police-killing of black men and women? (@RadioNational, 49 minutes, 2020-Jun-03) |
| 513. | Ep. 94 Postmodernism Part 4 This week listen in with all due deference as Danny and Mike … no, hang on, I’m not doing this. Why should I impose a narrative on you? The cast is out there now, you make of it what you will. Look, I’ll even leave you space to construct your own blurb, enough of this authorial priority, you go to it. I’ll just sit here and watch. Away you go then. [ ] There, see, not as easy a... (@PhilosophyWtf, 29 minutes, 2020-Jun-03) |
| 514. | EV - 144 Conservative Postmodernism with Matt McManus My Guest this week is Matt McManus (@MattPolProf), a professor of philosophy at TEC De Monterrey. Matt is the Solo or co-author of Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson and The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism. We discuss his understanding of postmodernism and how he thinks it can sometimes fruitfully be applied to the right as well.Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Pe... (@ETVPod, 74 minutes, 2020-May-28) |
| 515. | Alex Kiefer and Pete Mandik Live! Join me for a discussion with Alex Kiefer, a Lecturer at Monash University, and Pete Mandik, a professor at William Patterson University, as we discuss predictive coding, mental representation, the Free Energy Principle, and a lot more! Alex’s website Pete’s website (@onemorebrown, 2020-May-28) |
| 516. | "The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for The Anthropocene" with Professor Jürgen Renn Most history of science publications narrowly focus on specific periods in human history, or particular disciplines of scientific discovery, or small sets of scientists and philosophers. However there is a view that history of science can be better understood against the background of a history of knowledge including not only theoretical but also intuitive and practical knowledge. This can be furt... (@BTG_ie, 65 minutes, 2020-Jun-02) |
| 517. | Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From Underground - Pleasure Perversity And Suffering - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky's work, Notes from Underground, which raises a number of issues concerning human freedom, progress, rationality, and desire. Specifically it examines his discussion about the range of pleasures a human being can experience, including those stemming from suffering and from perverse motivations. To support m... (@philosopher70, 15 minutes, 2020-May-22) |
| 518. | #341 Scott Barry Kaufman - Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 60 minutes, 2020-Jun-01) |
| 519. | Episode 79, The Absurd (Part III - Further Analysis and Discussion) Meet Jack. Jack, like most individuals, takes great care of his health, appearance, the fulfilment of his projects, and the quality of his relationships with friends and family. Today Jack is preparing for another episode of his iconic philosophy podcast. He has been reading diligently, noting fastidiously, and practicing his jokes in the mirror. Fully invested in his work, he goes to great length... (@ThePanpsycast, 53 minutes, 2020-May-31) |
| 520. | E43: Rorty's Mirror of Nature Part II - Dividing by Zero The thigh-ly anticipated second half of the Richard Rorty Dawdle. Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Part II! (@dawdlerspodcast, 60 minutes, 2020-Jun-01) |
| 521. | Gender Justice On this episode, we look at feminist and progressive prosecution; how does a prosecutor balance the aims of prosecuting more gender-based crimes while also being sensitive to the problems of mass incarceration? We look at the story of one Maine prosecutor who is winning victories in sexual assault cases that were once deemed unwinnable, and whether this lowers the bar of burden of proof to unjust ... (@HiPhiNation, 57 minutes, 2020-May-23) |
| 522. | Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From The Underground - The Intellectual, Inertia, And Negativity This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky's work, Notes from Underground, which raises a number of issues concerning human freedom, progress, rationality, and desire. Specifically it examines the narrator's depiction of the 19th century intellectual as a person who is caught up in reflection, and unable to develop a distinctive identity. To support... (@philosopher70, 17 minutes, 2020-May-21) |
| 523. | From the vaults: Anatomy of a Language In this episode, we probe the philosophical underpinnings of grammar and how it functions in communication, understanding and humour. Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-May-12) |
| 524. | From the vaults: Bad Language In this episode, Emma Byrne, John Gallagher and Rebecca Roache navigate the deeper issues around swearing, slurring, and slander. Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-May-12) |
| 525. | From the Vaults: Streaming Consciousness Eimear McBride and Kaye Mitchell discuss what literature and philosophy can tell us about the self Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-May-12) |
| 526. | From the vaults: Protest Art Sacha Golob/ Robert Montgomery/ Stephanie Schwartz Listen to the recording here or on YouTube What is protest art? What are its limits and what are its possibilities? Might there be a... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-May-12) |
| 527. | From the vaults: Reason and Rhetoric Political discussion often turns ugly. John Crace, Catarina Dutilh Novaes, William Outhwaite, and Jo Phillips explore whether spin and negative campaigning are an unavoidable, even essential, feature... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-May-12) |
| 528. | From the vaults: A Right to Be Believed? Louise Ellison, Gloria Origgi, and Stephen Vullo discuss whether the principle of innocent until proven guilty can be reconciled with believing the victims of sexual offences Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-May-12) |
| 529. | Santiago Zabala, "Being at Large: Freedom in the Ago of Alternative Facts" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2020) In recent years, questions around the nature of truth and facts have reentered public debate, often in discussions around journalistic bias, and whether politically neutral reporting is possible, or even desirable. Many pundits have tried to place blame for the increasingly slippery and fickle nature of truth in reporting on the ideas developed in much 20th-century philosophy, particularly post... (@NewBooksPhil, 57 minutes, 2020-May-25) |
| 530. | Choosing a personal philosophy: Existentialism Tired of having a casual, abstract flirtation with philosophy? It might be time to commit. A personal philosophy of life can be hugely helpful — but which one to choose? (@DavidPZone1, 29 minutes, 2020-May-31) |
| 531. | Béatrice Longuenesse I ask the philosopher Béatrice Longuenesse five questions about herself. Béatrice Longuenesse is Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University. Among her recent publications are "I, Me, Mine: Back to Kant and Back Again" (2017) and "The First Person in Cognition and Morality" (2019), her 2017 Spinoza Lectures at the University of Amsterdam. (@KieranSetiya, 26 minutes, 2020-May-26) |
| 532. | STM Podcast #54: How Out-of-the-Box Thinking Can Help You Achieve Your Goals On episode 54, Alen and Leon discuss the importance of 'out-of-the-box' thinking and carving out incremental time-slots to implementing your goals, focusing on the lessons from the film 'Moneyball', our own journey to becoming podcasters, and providing tips on bouncing back from setbacks to help you see the bigger picture of your progress and achieve your long-term goals. *Correction: The author o... (@seize_podcast, 62 minutes, 2020-May-31) |
| 533. | Episode 189: The Anality of Evil (Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents") David and Tamler dive into Sigmund Freud’s world of unconscious drives, death instincts, and thwarted incestuous urges in his classic text “Civilization and its Discontents.” If society has made so much progress, why are human beings perpetually dissatisfied? Can religion help us or is it a big part of the problem? What’s really going on when you piss on a fire to put it out? Also: how seriously s... (@verybadwizards, 98 minutes, 2020-May-26) |
| 534. | 98 | Olga Khazan on Living and Flourishing While Being Weird Each of us is different, in some way or another, from every other person. But some are more different than others — and the rest of the world never stops letting them know. Societies set up “norms” that define what constitute acceptable standards of behavior, appearance, and even belief. But there will always be those who find themselves, intentionally or not, in violation of those norms — people ... (@seanmcarroll, 62 minutes, 2020-May-25) |
| 535. | James Rachels, The Challenge Of Cultural Relativism - Relativism And Criticizing Cultural Practices This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher James Rachels' essay, The Challenge of Cultural Relativism, found in his Elements of Moral Philosophy. Specifically it examines whether we can or cannot criticize the practices or moral norms of other cultures or not. The relativist is committed to the view that we cannot - and should not - criticize them, without simply impo... (@philosopher70, 13 minutes, 2020-May-20) |
| 536. | Episode 8: Binging Binge-watching. You sit down, popcorn and soda at the ready, and before you know it, three hours have gone by and Netflix pops up with a message: “Are you still watching?” While binge-watching is a fairly new English phrase (attested by the OED back to 1998 in verb form) in the sense of “overindulgence,” binging goes back to the 19th century, associated with gluttony. While binging on televi... (@cmalcolmkeating, 14 minutes, 2020-May-29) |
| 537. | Ep. 244: Camus on Strategies for Facing Plague (Part One) On Albert Camus' existentialist novel The Plague. How shall we face adversity? Camus gives us colorful characters that embody various approaches. Yes, the plague is an extreme situation, but we're all dying all the time anyway, right? Join Mark, Wes, Dylan and Seth to tease out Camus' positions from this bleak yet colorful text. Don't wait for part two; get the unbroken Citizen Edition now. Please... (@PartiallyExLife, 47 minutes, 2020-May-25) |
| 538. | HAP 51 - I Read Men and Nations - Sojourner Truth and Frances Harper The moral crusades of Sojourner Truth and Frances Harper, activists against racial and gender oppression. (@HistPhilosophy, 26 minutes, 2020-Apr-26) |
| 539. | Knowledge Resistance | Åsa Wikforss Asa Wikforss helps us explore the importance of facts in our post truth world. (@IAI_TV, 12 minutes, 2020-May-19) |
| 540. | Podcast episode 6: Schleicher’s morphology and Steinthal’s Völkerpsychologie In this episode, we look first at August Schleicher’s proposal for a linguistic “morphology” and its intellectual background in nineteenth-century biology. We then compare Schleicher’s approach to the scheme of language classification developed by H. Steinthal within Völkerpsychologie, or “psychology…Read more › (@hiphilangsci, 2020-May-30) |
| 541. | James Rachels, The Challenge Of Cultural Relativism - Universal Values In Differing Cultures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher James Rachels' essay, The Challenge of Cultural Relativism, found in his Elements of Moral Philosophy. Specifically it examines the issue whether - as cultural relativists tend to claim - moral norms really are not shared across differing cultures, so that each culture would have its own set of moral norms. Rachels argues fo... (@philosopher70, 14 minutes, 2020-May-19) |
| 542. | #340 Melanie Meng Xue: Economics And Gender In Imperial And Modern China ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 51 minutes, 2020-May-29) |
| 543. | Science and the Spiritual Experience | Altered States, Higher Consciousness, Meaning, Purpose, Science, Atheism, and Spirituality How does science relate to meaning? How does spirituality relate to meaning? How does science view truth? How does spirituality view truth? Bonus Feed ($5 a month): https://www.patreon.com/thephilosophyguy Podcast: https://thephilosophyguy.fireside.fm/ Youtube: https://bit.ly/2Z0rAjA Social Links: Discord Squad: https://discord.gg/tH5Fydn Twitter: https://twitter.com/brendenweber_ E... (@philosophyguy2, 23 minutes, 2020-May-27) |
| 544. | Ed Cooke on Memory Competitions, The Art of Remembering and Attention | Episode 4 Ed Cooke is a Grandmaster of Memory and the CEO and co-founder of Memrise, one of the most used Language Learning apps in the world. He was also a main character in the international bestseller “Moonwalking with Einstein”. He graduated with a first-class degree in Psychology and Philosophy from the University of Oxford and today we are discussing various memory related issues, briefly described in... (@tedynenu, 35 minutes, 2020-May-29) |
| 545. | Christian List on Free Will What is free will? Do we have it? These are difficult questions. Neuroscience seems to point in the direction of determinism. But Christian List suggests that there might still be room for genuine free will. (@philosophybites, 24 minutes, 2020-Feb-05) |
| 546. | Jennifer Corns Live! Join me for a discussion about pain eliminativism with Jennifer Corns, lecturer in philosophy at the University of Glasgow Jennifer’s book The Complex Reality of Pain (@onemorebrown, 2020-May-23) |
| 547. | 459: The Value of Care - Feminism and Ethics More at www.philosophytalk.org/shows/value-care. We sometimes think of the domains of ethics and morality as divorced from feeling and emotion. You keep your promises because it maximizes good. But what if care were thought of as the bedrock of morality? While we know that more care work is performed by women, would a care-based approach to ethics be feminist, or merely feminine? What would i... (@philtalkradio, 11 minutes, 2020-May-10) |
| 548. | #339 Shaun Nichols: The Philosophy And Psychology Of Morality ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 55 minutes, 2020-May-28) |
| 549. | James Rachels, The Challenge Of Cultural Relativism - Five Claims Of Cultural Relativism This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher James Rachels' essay, The Challenge of Cultural Relativism, found in his Elements of Moral Philosophy. Specifically it examines five main claims that are typically made by advocates of cultural relativism. These bear upon the differences in moral norms, cultural practices, and sentiments between different cultures, and what i... (@philosopher70, 15 minutes, 2020-May-17) |
| 550. | 0G104: The Expanse and The Myth of Catching Up Listen closely my beratna and sesata and we'll convert you from a tumang to a belta in no time. We're just scratching the surface of the Ex-pants world, basic world building stuff so we can come back later or all the weirdness. We introduce a postcolonial interpretation of Expanse tied specifically to The Myth of Catching Up. Stay space woke. The Myth of Catching Up: https://wmbranchout.files.wor... (@0gPhilosophy, 41 minutes, 2020-May-27) |
| 551. | Free riding: Why act, when acting is likely to make no difference? Are there reasons to act in a particular way, to willingly make some sacrifice, do something which may be good, and which we may even be committed to, when our actions (or lack of action) are likely to be of no consequence? Is size detrimental to democratic community? Professor Roger Crisp joins us to discuss whether the free rider problem highlights the limitation of moral philosophy. (@RadioNational, 44 minutes, 2020-May-27) |
| 552. | Ep. 93 Postmodernism Part 3 Pst, hey, kids, do you want some po-mo? Don’t sweat it brah, this is the good stuff won’t make you go blind or nothing. No this is quality stuff and the best of it is the first hit is absolute free. Yeah, you heard us, Danny and Mike are hooking you up with the real deal and it will set…you,,,free! No more living in a world that’s already written oh no, with our high grade po-mo you can play by yo... (@PhilosophyWtf, 25 minutes, 2020-May-27) |
| 553. | How to Talk to Trump Supporters Part 2 of the discussion of the new guide for talking to Trump supporters. Gabe, Kevin, Zach, and Dylan discuss some general principles. Is it acceptable to enter a conversation hoping to change someone’s mind? Should you call Trump supporters racist? And Kevin wonders whether there should be a guide at all! Read the article: https://thevimblog.com/2020/02/02/a-guid... www.thevimblog.co... (@thevimblog, 72 minutes, 2020-May-24) |
| 554. | EV - 143 Better Know Mary Astell with Simone Webb My guest this week is Simone Webb (@SimoneWebbUCL), a PhD student in gender studies at UCL. We do another of our many many parts better know a philosopher series. We focus on the early conservative feminist philosopher Mary Astell, with a little Foucault appetizer.Simone's website: https://simonewebb.weebly.com/Invocation... Rishi SanghaniEditing by Brian ZiegenhagenMusic by GW RodriguezSibling Po... (@ETVPod, 69 minutes, 2020-May-21) |
| 555. | E42: Richard Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature - Part I - An Ironic Kind of Fellow Can’t we all just get along and get awards for attendance? Or not? Your science is not better than my poetry! This week we talk about Richard Rorty’s “Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature”. In Part 1 of this topic (WHAT!?) there are plenty of misgivings, mischaracterizations, and misunderstandings along the way. But we keep retuning to this framework of ours: the modes of inquiry (E3: Triamond Jo... (@dawdlerspodcast, 78 minutes, 2020-May-26) |
| 556. | James Rachels, The Challenge Of Cultural Relativism - Argument For And Implications Of Relativism This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher James Rachels' essay, The Challenge of Cultural Relativism, found in his Elements of Moral Philosophy. Specifically it examines his analysis of common ways people argue for the validity of Cultural Relativism as a moral perspective. He also critically examines some of the main implications of cultural relativism. To supp... (@philosopher70, 14 minutes, 2020-May-15) |
| 557. | GRANDSTANDING With Justin Tosi & Brandon Warmke Is moral grandstanding harmful? Is it something a virtuous person would do? I'm joined by Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke to discuss their book on the issue. Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PoliticalPhiloso... Pre-Order Grandstanding: https://t.co/jJjqd1xs7P?amp=1 (@PolPhilPod, 72 minutes, 2020-May-23) |
| 558. | #338 Don Moore - Perfectly Confident: How To Calibrate Your Decisions Wisely ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 48 minutes, 2020-May-25) |
| 559. | Episode 79, The Absurd (Part II - Camus, Criticisms, and Comparison) Meet Jack. Jack, like most individuals, takes great care of his health, appearance, the fulfilment of his projects, and the quality of his relationships with friends and family. Today Jack is preparing for another episode of his iconic philosophy podcast. He has been reading diligently, noting fastidiously, and practicing his jokes in the mirror. Fully invested in his work, he goes to great length... (@ThePanpsycast, 42 minutes, 2020-May-24) |
| 560. | The Informant This week we go inside investigative operations in NYPD internal affairs and in the war and drugs to look at the police use of discretion to selectively break laws in order to pursue the bad guys. One former FBI special agent turned political philosopher argues that local and federal law enforcement are the biggest threat to the rule of law in their ongoing use of discretion to secure informant de... (@HiPhiNation, 52 minutes, 2020-May-16) |
| 561. | From the vaults: Black Holes Stephen Baxter, Amelie Saintonge, and Karim Thébault discuss the science, philosophy, and science fiction of black holes Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-May-05) |
| 562. | From the Vaults: Chaos Paul Glendinning and Charlotte Werndl discuss the insights gained from chaos research about unpredictability, as well as the evolution of mathematical ideas. Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-May-05) |
| 563. | From the Vaults: The Trouble with Numbers How seriously should we take philosophical worries about mathematics? And should mathematical results ever force our philosophical hands? Nicholas Bingham, Tim Button, Mary Leng, and Adam Ostaszewski... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-May-05) |
| 564. | From the vaults: Parallel Universes Fay Dowker, Eleanor Knox, and Simon Saunders discuss the strange consequences of the ‘many-worlds interpretation’ of quantum mechanics and why it's so controversial. Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-May-05) |
| 565. | From the Vaults: Time Travel Adam Roberts, Bryan Roberts, and Emily Thomas discuss time travel, and how thinking and writing about it has changed science and philosophy. Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-May-05) |
| 566. | The Social Network The two cows revisit a more innocent time, when Facebook was just a silly site where people posted relationship statuses and the only concerns about it involved whether your mom saw that frat party photo your friend tagged you in. Is Sorkin overrated? Is this a breakup movie? Is it a movie about revolutions without ideals? What is Jesse Eisenberg like in real life? (@cowspod, 65 minutes, 2020-May-25) |
| 567. | Geoffrey Lee Live! Join me for a discussion with Geoffrey Lee, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at UC Berkeley, as we discuss his case for deflationary pluralism. Geoff’s website (@onemorebrown, 2020-May-19) |
| 568. | Richard Moran I ask the philosopher Richard Moran five questions about himself. Richard Moran is Brian D. Young Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. He is the author of Authority and Estrangement: "An Essay on Self-Knowledge" (2001), "The Exchange of Words: Speech, Testimony, and Intersubjectivity" (2018), and "The Philosophical Imagination" (2017). (@KieranSetiya, 29 minutes, 2020-May-19) |
| 569. | HoP 347 - Bonfire of the Vanities - Savonarola The prophetic preacher Girolamo Savonarola attacks pagan philosophy and puts forward his own political ideas, before coming to an untimely end. (@HistPhilosophy, 19 minutes, 2020-Apr-19) |
| 570. | Driverless cars, inequality and the 'trolley problem' in a high-tech world The road has always been a great social leveller — we all get stuck in the same traffic jams. But with the advent of driverless cars, that could all be about to change, with troubling ethical consequences. (@DavidPZone1, 29 minutes, 2020-May-24) |
| 571. | STM Podcast #53: Glen Sharp - How to Develop Your Authentic Self On episode 53, we welcome back writer Glen Sharp to discuss what it means to be authentic, the internal and external barriers to becoming your true self, the difference between responsibility and blame, and the psychology of Mike Tyson’s upcoming in-ring return. Glen Sharp was former professional boxer. He is the author of the novel Bethany Park and his memoir Punching From The Shadows. In becomi... (@seize_podcast, 80 minutes, 2020-May-24) |
| 572. | 97 | John Danaher on Our Coming Automated Utopia Humans build machines, in part, to relieve themselves from the burden of work on difficult, repetitive tasks. And yet, despite the fact that machines are everywhere, most of us are still working pretty hard. But maybe that’s about to change. Futurists like John Danaher believe that society is finally on the brink of making a transition to a world in which work would be optional, rather than mandat... (@seanmcarroll, 83 minutes, 2020-May-18) |
| 573. | Mary Midgley, Trying Out One's New Sword - Problems With Moral Isolationism This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher, Mary Midgley's essay "Trying Out One's New Sword", from her work, Heart And Mind. Specifically it discusses on her conception of "moral isolationism", and the criticisms she makes bearing upon that version of cultural relativism. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd li... (@philosopher70, 15 minutes, 2020-May-13) |
| 574. | Mysteries of the Mind | Markus Gabriel Why is consciousness so perplexing to so many? (@IAI_TV, 28 minutes, 2020-May-12) |
| 575. | Ep. 243: Aristotle's "Poetics" on Art and Tragedy (Part Two) Continuing on the Poetics from around 335 BCE, on the structure of plot (every element must be essential!), the moral status of the heroes, Homeric poetry, the difference between tragedy and history, and how Aristotle's formula may or may not apply to modern media. Begin with part one or get the full, ad-free Citizen Edition. Please support PEL! End song: "Structure of a Tragedy" by Mark Lint. Rea... (@PartiallyExLife, 55 minutes, 2020-May-18) |
| 576. | 30/3/2020: Dana Nelkin on Equal Opportunity (@Aristotweets, 71 minutes, 2020-Apr-17) |
| 577. | #337 Ann-Sophie Barwich: Philosophy of Science, Neuroscience, And Olfaction ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 58 minutes, 2020-May-22) |
| 578. | Mary Midgley, Trying Out One's New Sword - Moral Isolationism And Cultural Relativism This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher, Mary Midgley's essay "Trying Out One's New Sword", from her work, Heart And Mind. Specifically it discusses on her conception of "moral isolationism", and its status as a variety of cultural relativism. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contrib... (@philosopher70, 15 minutes, 2020-May-11) |
| 579. | 354: Machiavelli More at www.philosophytalk.org/shows/machiavelli... Niccolò Machiavelli is best known for arguing that people in power should use deception, force, and manipulation if those tactics are necessary to achieve their ends. In an age of unscrupulous politics and ruthless business practice, shouldn't we be encouraging a move away from Machiavellian thinking? Then again, are we even sure that those ... (@philtalkradio, 11 minutes, 2020-May-03) |
| 580. | #336 Melinda Zeder: Domestication, And The Origins and Dispersal of Agriculture ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 60 minutes, 2020-May-21) |
| 581. | Lawrence Kohlberg, Moral Development - Moral Development And Education - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century developmental psychologist and moral theorist Lawrence Kohlberg's short work "Moral Development - A Review of the Theory" Specifically it examines his his theory of moral development and how it figures into the k-12 education of his time. His view was that despite the emphasis on "moral education" in public schools, they tended to focus ... (@philosopher70, 16 minutes, 2020-May-10) |
| 582. | 0G103: Dr Who's Heaven Sent and "Self" sacrifice Welcome back Whovians! Our trap has worked, we've caught the time lord Mike Hall of Merseyside skeptics in our web of disrespectful ignorance and we sure do squeeze him for information. He's unrelentingly brilliant though, so of course he escapes unscathed and only slightly annoyed. We discuss the episode Heaven Sent and its connections to Buddhism and whether The Doctor does something profoundly ... (@0gPhilosophy, 49 minutes, 2020-May-20) |
| 583. | Ramadan and the reality of interdependence Much like the month of Ramadan, the COVID-19 pandemic presents an intense reminder of a reality we most often ignore: the fact of the limits we inhabit, and our dependence on others. (@RadioNational, 37 minutes, 2020-May-20) |
| 584. | Lawrence Kohlberg, Moral Development - Form And Content In Moral Development - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century developmental psychologist and moral theorist Lawrence Kohlberg's short work "Moral Development - A Review of the Theory" Specifically it examines his his theory of moral development and the distinction he makes between the form and the content of moral decision-making, judgement, and reasoning. To support my ongoing work, go to m... (@philosopher70, 10 minutes, 2020-May-09) |
| 585. | Ep. 91 Postmodernism Part 2 This week, Mike succumbs to the pressures of the time and mentions Wittgenstein before Danny does. Listen in with mounting disappointment as Danny makes the obvious Lyotard gag - low hanging fruit bro, low hanging fruit. What is the condition of postmodernity? Who was the irritating student who suggested that the movement following postmodernism should be called post-postmodernism? Guess at the ki... (@PhilosophyWtf, 25 minutes, 2020-May-20) |
| 586. | EV - 142 Nonreligious Life in America with Alison Gill My guest this week is Alison Gill, vice president for Legal and Policy at American Atheists (@AmericanAtheist). American Atheists recently completed the largest survey to date compiling and analyzing the experiences of nonbelievers living in America. The results were pretty shocking on the discrimination and stigmatization fronts. Content Waring: Discussions of violence and abuse.Reality Check: Be... (@ETVPod, 65 minutes, 2020-May-14) |
| 587. | RACE & THE 2020 PRIMARY What explains Biden's strong black support in the 2020 primary? What can progressives do better in our platform, candidates, rhetoric, and ideological presentation? (@PolPhilPod, 162 minutes, 2020-May-17) |
| 588. | Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette, "Dialogue and Doxography in Indian Philosophy" (Routledge, 2020) This ground-breaking work on Indian philosophical doxography examines the function of dialectical texts within their intellectual and religious milieu. In Dialogue and Doxography in Indian Philosophy: Points of View in Buddhist, Jaina, and Advaita Vedānta Traditions (Routledge, 2020), Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette examines the Madhyamakahṛdayakārikā of the Buddhist Bhāviveka, the Ṣaḍdarśanasamuccaya o... (@NewBooksPhil, 60 minutes, 2020-May-13) |
| 589. | Lawrence Kohlberg, Moral Development - Six Stages Of Moral Development - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century developmental psychologist and moral theorist Lawrence Kohlberg's short work "Moral Development - A Review of the Theory" Specifically it examines his his theory of moral development and the six stages of moral development he distinguished in that theory. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler ... (@philosopher70, 15 minutes, 2020-May-08) |
| 590. | Medically Assisted Dying in Canada: from where we’ve come; to where we’re heading In this New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Professor Arthur Schafer outlines the current contours of the Canadian euthanasia debate. In June of 2016 the Canadian Parliament passed legislation (Bill-14) legalizing MAiD: medical assistance in dying. Subject to various restrictions, both mercy killing and medically assisted suicide are now legal in Canada. The contours of the Canadian euthanasia de... (@ethicsinthenews, 83 minutes, 2020-May-11) |
| 591. | From the vaults: Hypocrisy Why do we tend to judge hypocrites more harshly than those whose actions, however bad, appear consistent with their beliefs? Joanna Burch-Brown, Jussi Suikkanen, and Demetris Tillyris discuss whether... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Apr-28) |
| 592. | From the vaults: Unrequited Love Ulrika Carlsson, Stephen Grosz, and Erin Plunkett explore responses to unrequited love in philosophy, psychoanalysis and art. Should we mourn or celebrate it? What can it teach us about ourselves? Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Apr-28) |
| 593. | From the vaults: Shame Shame is often depicted as playing only a negative role, but might it have have an important, positive role, for individuals and societies? Phil Hutchinson, Vasudevi Reddy, and Jonathan Webber on the... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Apr-28) |
| 594. | From the vaults: Strong Feelings How did we end up thinking that reason could ever do without emotion? Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Apr-28) |
| 595. | From the vaults: Guilt Is guilt one emotion or many? What is the relationship between different kinds of guilt? Robert Eaglestone and Edward Harcourt on guilt. Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Apr-28) |
| 596. | Police Discretion Is a mobile home a home or a car? Is a car parked inside a home part of the home? The answer to these stoner philosophical questions determine the scope of police power. Over the last 100 years, the Supreme Court has presided over the expansion of police discretionary powers to stop, search, and arrest people through litigation over automobiles. This week, we look at the stories of those decisions... (@HiPhiNation, 52 minutes, 2020-May-09) |
| 597. | #335 Jeroen Hopster: Evolution, Morality, Climate Change, And Animal Rights ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 54 minutes, 2020-May-18) |
| 598. | HAP 50 - Nation Within a Nation - Martin Delany He is called a “father of black nationalism,” but Martin Delany also promoted integration in American society. Can the apparent tension be resolved? (@HistPhilosophy, 24 minutes, 2020-Apr-12) |
| 599. | Episode 79, The Absurd (Part I - Thomas Nagel) Meet Jack. Jack, like most individuals, takes great care of his health, appearance, the fulfilment of his projects, and the quality of his relationships with friends and family. Today Jack is preparing for another episode of his iconic philosophy podcast. He has been reading diligently, noting fastidiously, and practicing his jokes in the mirror. Fully invested in his work, he goes to great length... (@ThePanpsycast, 66 minutes, 2020-May-17) |
| 600. | Adrian Johnston, "Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism: The Outcome of Contemporary French Philosophy " (Northwestern UP, 2013) In the contemporary philosophical landscape, a variety of materialist ontologies have appeared, all wrestling with various political and philosophical questions in light of a post-God ontology. Entering into this discussion is Adrian Johnston, with his 3-volume Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, an attempt to develop a systematic and thoroughly atheistic material ontology of the subject. The... (@NewBooksPhil, 80 minutes, 2020-May-11) |
| 601. | B. Earp and J. Savulescu, "Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships" (Stanford UP, 2020) ) Consider a couple with an infant (or two) whose lives have become so harried and difficult the marriage is falling apart. Would it be ethical for them to take oxytocin to help them renew their emotional bonds, or would this be an unethical evasion of the hard work that keeping a marriage going requires? What if someone has sexual desires that they consider immoral – should they be able to take a d... (@NewBooksPhil, 72 minutes, 2020-May-11) |
| 602. | Susan Wolf I ask the philosopher Susan Wolf five questions about herself. Susan Wolf is Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her works include "Freedom Within Reason" (1993), "Meaning in Life and Why It Matters" (2010), and "The Variety of Values: Essays on Morality, Meaning and Love" (2014). (@KieranSetiya, 23 minutes, 2020-May-12) |
| 603. | Episode 188: Conceptual Mummies (Nietzsche's "Twilight of the Idols") Socrates was ugly and tired of life, so he made a tyrant of reason. Philosophers are mummies who hate the body and the senses. Reason is a tricky old woman. Morality is a misunderstanding. Kant is a sneaky Christian. And don't even get Nietzsche started on "free will" or the "self" - just excuse for priests to punish people, a hangman's metaphysics. David and Tamler dive into Friedrich Nietzsche... (@verybadwizards, 102 minutes, 2020-May-12) |
| 604. | 96 | Lina Necib on What and Where the Dark Matter Is The past few centuries of scientific progress have displaced humanity from the center of it all: the Earth is not at the middle of the Solar System, the Sun is but one star in a large galaxy, there are trillions of galaxies, and so on. Now we know that we’re not even made of the same stuff as most of the universe; for every amount of ordinary atoms and other known particles, there is five times as... (@seanmcarroll, 82 minutes, 2020-May-11) |
| 605. | Citizens and urban planning Consensus among citizens in the development of cities is always the goal — but it's rarely achieved. This week we explore the philosophical foundations of a more realistic model for citizen participation in urban planning. (@DavidPZone1, 29 minutes, 2020-May-17) |
| 606. | Situating Feminist Epistemology by Natalie Alana Ashton and Robin McKenna There is often resistance to the claim from feminist philosophy that knowledge is somehow "socially constructed", but what does that actually mean and is it really all that radical? Sometimes, our social situations or experiences dictate the kind of evidence we are likely to encounter and put us in a better position than others to know what's going on around us. Other times, these experiences can ... (@wesbuc, 41 minutes, 2020-Apr-28) |
| 607. | STM Podcast #52: Rachel Atcheson - How to Live a Good Life According to Effective Altruism On episode 52, we welcome Rachel Atcheson to learn about effective altruism as a philosophy of life, discuss the ways we can improve our health care system, and the strategies and barriers to improving our own health. Rachel Atcheson is the Deputy Strategist for Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, she works on nutrition initiatives, healthy eating resources for individuals, and municipal suppor... (@seize_podcast, 55 minutes, 2020-May-17) |
| 608. | Shorts - E29: The Great Server Again, we return to “The Great Filter”. Ryan is obsessed! This time, Ryan, like millions before him—millions!—has a solution to Fermi’s Paradox and “The Great Silence”. It’s “The Great Server”! Yaaaaaaay! Bury those ear buds deep in your ears! It’s about to get virtual! -“The Dawdlers” (@dawdlerspodcast, 23 minutes, 2020-May-17) |
| 609. | Contact The two cows are joined this week by special guest Molly Moltario; together, they embark on an interstellar journey into the bureaucratic maze of academic funding. Join us for a discussion of aliens (where are they?), McConaughey vs. Fichtner (who best?), scrunchies (what do they signify?), our favorite first contact movies, and whether this is Robert Zemeckis's masterpiece! [0:02:08] Overview ... (@cowspod, 89 minutes, 2020-May-17) |
| 610. | In Search of Freedom | Paul Broks, Julian Baggini, Hannah Dawson, Hilary Lawson Do we choose to follow the rules? (@IAI_TV, 37 minutes, 2020-May-05) |
| 611. | Ep. 243: Aristotle's "Poetics" on Art and Tragedy (Part One) These notes from 335 BCE are still used in screenwriting classes. Aristotle presents a formula for what will move us, derived from Sophocles's tragedies. What is art? The text describes it as memesis (imitation), and tragedy imitates human action in a way that shows us what it is to be human. Aristotle has lots of advice about how to structure a plot optimized to our sensibilities. Join Mark, Wes,... (@PartiallyExLife, 51 minutes, 2020-May-11) |
| 612. | 499: (Why) Money Matters More at www.philosophytalk.org/shows/why-money-m... Money, they say, does not buy happiness; but having none can make life extraordinarily hard. Whether we have a little or a lot, we are all familiar with how much money matters in our daily lives. But what exactly is money? Is it a commodity that evolved spontaneously from systems of barter? Or is it purely an invention of government, used as... (@philtalkradio, 10 minutes, 2020-Apr-27) |
| 613. | Episode 7: Craving Do you wish things were different right now? Is there some experience you used to have that you miss? Are you having unpleasant feelings? If so, you've got a lot in common with Buddhist practitioners and philosophers from the 4th century CE. In this episode, I speak with Bryce Huebner, Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. We talk ab... (@cmalcolmkeating, 17 minutes, 2020-May-15) |
| 614. | Cicero On Fate - The Idle Argument - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero's work, On Fate, which discusses problems and perspectives on determinism, causality, and freedom of the will. Specifically it examines his discussion of a mode of practical reasoning in ancient times, often called the "Idle Argument", because its conclusion is that we need not do anything if ev... (@philosopher70, 13 minutes, 2020-May-05) |
| 615. | Tim Crane on Minds, Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness | Episode 3 Tim Crane is a world leading philosopher whose areas of research gravitate towards the study of the mind. His book, The Mechanical Mind, has introduced thousands of people to the central ideas which unite Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science. He is currently the Head of Department at the Central European University, having previously been the Knightbridge Professor of ... (@tedynenu, 63 minutes, 2020-May-16) |
| 616. | Joel David Hamkins on Infinity, Gödel's Theorems and Set Theory | Episode 1 Joel David Hamkins is an American Mathematician who is currently Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford. He is well known for his important contributions in the fields of Mathematical Logic, Set Theory and Philosophy of Mathematics. Moreover, he is very popular in the mathematical community for being the highest rated user on MathOverflow. Outline of the conversation:00:00 Podcast Introduc... (@tedynenu, 77 minutes, 2020-May-16) |
| 617. | Simon Blackburn on Philosophy, Truth and Morality | Episode 2 Simon Blackburn is a Fellow of the British Academy. He is a Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College, University of Cambridge who is well known for his contribution to meta-ethics (where he defends quasi-realism) and for his excellent introductory books (such as 'Think' or 'Being Good'). Outline of the conversation:00:10 What motivated you to write 'Think'?02:00 What is the role of Philosophy?04... (@tedynenu, 53 minutes, 2020-May-16) |
| 618. | Ep. 4 - Online Conferences: Some History, Methods, and Benefits In this episode of Upon Reflection, I explain how academics should conference better. More accurately, I read my chapter, "Online Conferences: Some History, Methods, and Benefits" from Right Research: Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene. This chapter reviews some history of online academic conferencing going back to the 1970s, explain the potential advantages of online con... (@byrd_nick, 35 minutes, 2020-May-04) |
| 619. | #334 Brian Hayden: Cultural Ecology, Feasting, Ritual Sanctuaries, And Funerals ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 71 minutes, 2020-May-15) |
| 620. | Cicero, On Fate - Carneades' Academic Skeptic Position - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero's work, On Fate, which discusses problems and perspectives on determinism, causality, and freedom of the will. Specifically it examines his discussion of of the Academic Skeptic philosopher, Carneades' views on freedom and causal determinism. Carneades maintained that while all things are cause... (@philosopher70, 13 minutes, 2020-May-03) |
| 621. | #333 Bernard Wood: Paleoanthropology, Human Systematics, And Human Evolution ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 42 minutes, 2020-May-14) |
| 622. | EV - 141 Secular Student Alliance with Kevin Bolling My guest this week is Kevin Bolling, executive director of the Secular Student Alliance (@SecularStudents). We discuss the role of secular student groups in the lives of young nonbelievers, and how they especially play a vital community role in the lives of nonbelievers who come from faith based families. This is a particularly fortuitous conversation given what I'll be discussing next week with A... (@ETVPod, 69 minutes, 2020-May-08) |
| 623. | From the vaults: Reason Alexander Douglas/ Peter Millican/ Kirsten Walsh Listen to the podcast here or on YouTube ‘Reason’ and ‘knowledge’, and the relationship between them, were major themes in Enlightenment... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Apr-22) |
| 624. | From the vaults: The Irish Enlightenment Ian McBride, Katherine O'Donnell, and Tom Stoneham explore the Irish Enlightenment and its turbulent politics. Is something distinctively Irish about this group of thinkers? Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Apr-22) |
| 625. | From the vaults: Pragmatism Matthew Festenstein/ Clara Fischer/ Paniel Reyes Cardenas Listen to the recording here or on YouTube What if instead of worrying about truth as a fundamental, objective notion, we just... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Apr-22) |
| 626. | From the vaults: Aristotle Aristotle may be well known, but is he still relevant? Almost two and a half millennia on, what can he tell us about modern life? Joachim Aufderheide, Sophie Grace Chappell, and Sophia Connell on... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Apr-22) |
| 627. | From the vaults: Darwin Tim Lewens/ David Papineau Listen to the podcast here Darwin was primarily a biologist rather than a philosopher, but his work has had huge significance for how philosophers think... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Apr-22) |
| 628. | 0G102: Player of Games and Gamification of Ethics, Part 3 Time to wrap up another opus. It's been a beautiful dance of ideas and symbolism, played out on a board of intrigue and robits, but all good things must come to an end. Has the dance left us as better people? Only the future will tell. Here's to Player of Games, a brilliant first look at the Culture series and a wonderful way to nerd out about games and ethics. Gamification and Ethics: https://bo... (@0gPhilosophy, 42 minutes, 2020-May-13) |
| 629. | Is there a moral case against the COVID-19 “shutdown”? Calls are mounting for an end to the “shutdown” that has been imposed by governments throughout the world in response to the COVID-19 pandemic – including from some highly regarded philosophers. Are there more humane, more democratic ways of responding to the threat of the virus? (@RadioNational, 45 minutes, 2020-May-13) |
| 630. | Ep. 90 Postmodernism This week the pressures of lockdown start to get to Danny and Mike. Listen in as their narratives begin to unravel and they appear to waffle on about anything that comes into their heads under the pretext of a postmodern disposition. Join them in their new stories or are these just the old stories seen from a different perspective? Are they absolutely right in abandoning their previous absolute co... (@PhilosophyWtf, 23 minutes, 2020-May-13) |
| 631. | Dominik Finkelde, "Excessive Subjectivity: Kant, Hegel, Lacan and the Foundations of Ethics" (Columbia UP, 2017) How are we to conceive of acts that suddenly expose the injustice of the current order? This is a question that has puzzled philosophers for centuries, and it’s the question that animates Dominik Finkelde’s book Excessive Subjectivity: Kant, Hegel, Lacan, and the Foundation of Ethics (Columbia University Press, 2017). The book looks at these three major thinkers, and the ways they saw subjects as... (@NewBooksPhil, 77 minutes, 2020-May-06) |
| 632. | Cicero, On Fate - Chrysippus' Stoic Position - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero's work, On Fate, which discusses problems and perspectives on determinism, causality, and freedom of the will. Specifically it examines his discussion of Chrysippus' Stoic views on fate, determinism, and human freedom. Chrysippus endorsed a type of compatibilism, and used several metaphors to e... (@philosopher70, 17 minutes, 2020-May-01) |
| 633. | HoP 346 - Cecilia Muratori on Animals in the Renaissance An interview with Cecilia Muratori, an expert on the surprisingly modern ideas about non-human animals that emerged in the Renaissance. (@HistPhilosophy, 31 minutes, 2020-Apr-05) |
| 634. | Are we "Following the Science"? Zach, Gabe, and real life scientist Aron discuss the article, “How to Listen to Scientific Experts.” They discuss how scientists translate their technical understanding into terms that the rest of us can understand. How does the translation process work? What values guide it? And the group discusses the broader issue of the relationship between science and values. The article: https://thevim... (@thevimblog, 85 minutes, 2020-May-09) |
| 635. | OPEN DEMOCRACY With Hélène Landemore Does democracy have to be a matter of simply electing representatives? I'm joined by Hélène Landemore to discuss the problems with libertarianism, democracy in the workplace, & alternate models of democratic decision making. (@PolPhilPod, 82 minutes, 2020-May-09) |
| 636. | PEL Presents PMP#42: Star Trek Lives Long and Prospers (Intermittently) In light of Star Trek: Picard, Brian, Erica, Mark, and Drew Jackson discuss our most philosophical sci-fi franchise. What makes a Trek story? How do you world-build over generations? How did Picard measure up? Plus Trek vs. Wars and step-children like The Orville and Galaxy Quest. For more, visit prettymuchpop.com. Hear bonus content for this episode at patreon.com/prettymuchpop. This podcast is p... (@PartiallyExLife, 57 minutes, 2020-May-06) |
| 637. | Criminal Minds One place where law and morality are supposed to agree is that there should be no crime without a criminal mind, what is called “mens rea” in criminal law. But there have been a proliferation of crimes that do not require knowledge or intent, contributing to over-prosecution and overincarceration. Conservative and libertarian lawmakers have claimed the moral high ground over progressives in advoca... (@HiPhiNation, 56 minutes, 2020-May-02) |
| 638. | Hi-Phi Nation Plus: Mens Rea versus Moral Luck In this Slate Plus segment, Barry is joined by Sarah Lustbader to discuss the issues raised in Episode 1: Criminal Minds. Sarah expresses skepticism about the significance of mens rea in ordinary prosecution of street crimes, Barry uses the opportunity to discuss the issue of moral luck as an explanation of why egregiousness of outcome seems to be the driving factor for prosecution rather than men... (@HiPhiNation, 21 minutes, 2020-May-02) |
| 639. | #332 Jeffrey Barrett: The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 50 minutes, 2020-May-11) |
| 640. | Episode 78, Moral Luck (Part III - Further Analysis and Discussion) Imagine two possible worlds. In the first world, Andrew is driving home from an intimate dinner party with Olly and Jack. He has been enjoying a range of delicious cheeses and wines, despite being the designated driver. With the exception of Andrew’s singing, the drive is uneventful, and the party arrives home, safe and sound. In the second world, the same initial conditions apply. Andrew has enjo... (@ThePanpsycast, 60 minutes, 2020-May-10) |
| 641. |  Episode 048: Monique Wonderly on GriefMyisha Cherry chats with philosopher Monique Wonderly about attachment, grief and celebrities, what Not to say to the bereaved, and so much more. (@UnMutePodcast, 43 minutes, 2020-May-05) |
| 642. | Episode 052: John Torrey on Reparations Myisha Cherry chats with philosopher John Torrey about reparations, public apologies, what kind of justice is needed for African Americans, and so much more. (@UnMutePodcast, 59 minutes, 2020-May-05) |
| 643. | Episode 051: Ellie Anderson on The Divide in Philosophy Myisha Cherry chats with philosopher Ellie Anderson about the continental/analytic divide, methodology, marginalization in the academy, and so much more. (@UnMutePodcast, 57 minutes, 2020-May-05) |
| 644. | Episode 046: Rose Lenehan on Housing Justice Myisha Cherry chats with philosopher Rose Lenehan about housing justice, tenant unions, gentrification, and so much more. (@UnMutePodcast, 50 minutes, 2020-May-05) |
| 645. | Episode 045: Lindsey Stewart on Black Joy Myisha Cherry chats with philosopher Lindsey Stewart about Black Joy, Zora Neale Hurston, resistance and refusal, and so much more. (@UnMutePodcast, 39 minutes, 2020-May-05) |
| 646. | Episode 047: Nic Bommarito on Buddhism Myisha Cherry chats with philosopher Nic Bommarito about the aims of Buddhism, mental habits, karma, and so much more. (@UnMutePodcast, 59 minutes, 2020-May-05) |
| 647. | Episode 050: Axelle Karera on Frantz Fanon Myisha Cherry chats with philosopher Axelle Karera about anti-colonial thought, Frantz Fanon, existentialism, and so much more. (@UnMutePodcast, 50 minutes, 2020-May-05) |
| 648. | Episode 049: Adam Hosein on Discrimination Myisha Cherry chats with philosopher Adam Hosein about theories of discrimination, inclusion, anti-discrimination norms, and so much more. (@UnMutePodcast, 52 minutes, 2020-May-05) |
| 649. | Episode 053: Michael Burroughs on Children & Agency Myisha Cherry chats with philosopher Michael Burroughs about child development, agency in children, holding children responsible, and so much more. (@UnMutePodcast, 52 minutes, 2020-May-05) |
| 650. | Episode 054: Robert Talisse on Overdoing Democracy Myisha Cherry chats with philosopher Robert Talisse about the value of democracy, what it means to overdo democracy, what we should do instead, and so much more. (@UnMutePodcast, 76 minutes, 2020-May-05) |
| 651. | David Velleman I ask the philosopher David Velleman five questions about himself. David Velleman is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at New York University and Miller Research Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. His new book is "On Being Me: A Personal Invitation to Philosophy." (@KieranSetiya, 22 minutes, 2020-May-05) |
| 652. | Cicero, On Fate - Epicurus' Position - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero's work, On Fate, which discusses problems and perspectives on determinism, causality, and freedom of the will. Specifically it examines his discussion of Epicurus' views on human freedom, determinism, and the swerve of the atom, which introduces randomness into the universe. To support my... (@philosopher70, 13 minutes, 2020-Apr-29) |
| 653. | 95 | Liam Kofi Bright on Knowledge, Truth, and Science Everybody talks about the truth, but nobody does anything about it. And to be honest, how we talk about truth — what it is, and how to get there — can be a little sloppy at times. Philosophy to the rescue! I had a very ambitious conversation with Liam Kofi Bright, starting with what we mean by “truth” (correspondence, coherence, pragmatist, and deflationary approaches), and then getting into the n... (@seanmcarroll, 96 minutes, 2020-May-04) |
| 654. | The big snore Boredom hasn't received a lot of philosophical attention — which isn't surprising, given that it suggests a radical absence of anything to talk about. But even the most tedious things can prove on inspection to be complex, multi-layered and... well, interesting. (@DavidPZone1, 29 minutes, 2020-May-10) |
| 655. | How To Overcome Wilful Blindness | Margaret Heffernan CEO and author Margaret Heffernan explores ethical problems and turning a blind eye (@IAI_TV, 16 minutes, 2020-Apr-28) |
| 656. | “What is the difference between a religion and a cult?” Host Jack Russell Weinstein visits with sociologist Susan Palmer of Concordia University where she is an affiliate professor of religions and cultures. Her primary research interest is new religious movements. (@whyradioshow, 74 minutes, 2020-May-10) |
| 657. | Ep. 242: Stanley Cavell on Tragedy via King Lear (Part Two) Continuing on Cavell's essay "The Avoidance of Love: A Reading of King Lear" (1969), shifting away from Lear in particular to a more general discussion of tragedy and Cavell's psychological insights. Begin with Part One or get the ad-free, unbroken Citizen Edition. Please support PEL! End song: "Out of Your Hands" by Gretchen's Wheel, i.e., Lindsay Murray, as interviewed for Nakedly Examined Music... (@PartiallyExLife, 45 minutes, 2020-May-04) |
| 658. | 278: Poetry as a Way of Knowing More at www.philosophytalk.org/shows/poetry-way-... What is poetry? Mere word play? A pretty, or at any rate striking, way of expressing thought and emotion? Or does great poetry involve an approach to the world that provides insight and information not available in other ways? Ken and John explore how poetry can illuminate what we know with award-winning poet Jane Hirshfield, author of "Come... (@philtalkradio, 11 minutes, 2020-Apr-19) |
| 659. | Cicero, On Fate - Diodorus' Megarian Position - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero's work, On Fate, which discusses problems and perspectives on determinism, causality, and freedom of the will. Specifically it examines his discussion of the position of the Megarian philosopher, Diodorus on necessity, possibility, and impossibility. Diodorus' viewpoint entails that everything,... (@philosopher70, 12 minutes, 2020-Apr-27) |
| 660. | #331 Hugo Mercier: Not Born Yesterday; Gullibility, Vigilance, Politics, and Social Media ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 51 minutes, 2020-May-08) |
| 661. | Emily Thomas, "The Meaning of Travel: Philosophers Abroad" (Oxford UP, 2020) Travel has been a topic lurking in the background (at least) of a lot of philosophy. Socrates was keen to remind his jury as well as his interlocutor Phaedrus that he had spent nearly his entirely life within the city of Athens. For another example, Descartes saw fit to take the intellectual journey of his Meditations from a room in a foreign country. But that’s not all: many great philosophical w... (@NewBooksPhil, 65 minutes, 2020-May-01) |
| 662. | #330 Jonathan Anomaly - Creating Future People: The Ethics of Genetic Enhancement ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 46 minutes, 2020-May-07) |
| 663. | Sacred and Profane Love Episode 23: Lost in Thought with Zena Hitz Sacred and Profane Love Episode 23: Lost in Thought with Zena Hitz by Sacred and Profane Love (@eudaimoniapod, 98 minutes, 2020-May-07) |
| 664. | STM Podcast #51: Sulaiman Jenkins - Life is War: Examining the Post-Traumatic Growth of Mutah Beale On episode 51, we welcome author Sulaiman Jenkins to discuss working on Mutah “Napoleon” Beale’s biography, Life is Raw, overcoming addiction, the elements and sources of post-traumatic growth, and the kinder sides of Mutah and 2Pac. Sulaiman Jenkins earned his MA in TESOL from NYU’s Steinhardt School of Education. He has been in the field of ELT, most notably in Saudi Arabia, for more than 14 yea... (@seize_podcast, 61 minutes, 2020-May-07) |
| 665. | Minority Report The two cows go running with Tom Cruise and discuss the future as it was projected in 2002, the nature of middle knowledge, themes of blindness/control/justice, and give their top five Spielberg movies. 10.44: Future talk 28.34: Justin's philosophy corner 41.31: Theme and variation 67.22: Spielberg ranked (@cowspod, 76 minutes, 2020-May-07) |
| 666. | HAP 49 - Let Your Motto Be Resistance - Henry Highland Garnet Henry Highland Garnet encourages, or actually demands, that enslaved Americans throw off their chains and debates Douglass over how best to resist slavery. (@HistPhilosophy, 25 minutes, 2020-Mar-29) |
| 667. | EV - 140 Campquest.org with Neil Polzin My guest this week is Neil Polzin, a long time patron of the void, director of the So Cal Campquest session, and Board Chair for the national Campquest organization. We discuss the joys of combining science and philosophy with the outdoors to help young individuals learn and grow.Campquest: https://www.campquest.org/Invocation: https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Dark_Y... by Brian ZiegenhagenMusic ... (@ETVPod, 64 minutes, 2020-Apr-30) |
| 668. | 0G101: Player of Games and Authoritarian Essentialism, Part 2 We survived the zombies! We escaped from earth to space and found another society that is also terrible but is not actively being overrun by zombies. For part two of our Player of Game time we dive into the Empire of Azad and their essentialist culture. We discuss how essentialism naturally plays a major role in authoritarian cultures and undermines meritocracy. Essentialism: https://en.wikipedia.... (@0gPhilosophy, 43 minutes, 2020-May-06) |
| 669. | Is COVID-19 bringing the best, or worst, out of our politics? Is the pandemic having a chastening effect on our politics, bringing voters back to the real-world consequences of political decisions, or is the pandemic in fact playing right into the hands of populist politicians, creating ideal conditions in which to fan the flames or fear, resentment and mutual suspicion? (@RadioNational, 48 minutes, 2020-May-06) |
| 670. | Peter Adamson, "Classical Indian Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2020) In Classical Indian Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2020), Peter Adamson and Jonardon Ganeri survey both the breadth and depth of Indian philosophical traditions. Their odyssey touches on the earliest extant Vedic literature, the Mahābhārata, the Bhagavad-Gīta, the rise of Buddhism and Jainism, the sūtra traditions encompassing logic, epistemology, the monism of Advaita Vedānta, and the spiri... (@NewBooksPhil, 88 minutes, 2020-Apr-29) |
| 671. | Shay Welch, "The Phenomenology of a Performative Knowledge System" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) In The Phenomenology of a Performative Knowledge System: Dancing with Native American Epistemology (Palgrave Macmillian, 2019), Shay Welch investigates the phenomenological ways that dance choreographing and dance performance exemplify both Truth and meaning-making within Native American epistemology, from an analytic philosophical perspective. Given that within Native American communities dance i... (@NewBooksPhil, 64 minutes, 2020-Apr-29) |
| 672. | Ep. 89 Wittgenstein Part 4 This week listen with your head cocked to one side, in a bemused and slightly suspicious way, as Mike confesses that while he loves fish and chips he has no desire to sleep with them. Raise your hand and fan you face in the wake of Danny’s confession that he built his daughter out of leftover body parts - he says that, right? Yes, wacky Wittgenstein is at it again, taking the words and phrases we ... (@PhilosophyWtf, 31 minutes, 2020-May-06) |
| 673. | From the vaults: The Politics of Mental Health Victoria Dutchman-Smith/ Emmy Eklundh/ Matthew Ratcliffe Listen to the recording here or on YouTube At the intersection of the personal and the political, we explore the relationship... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Apr-14) |
| 674. | From the vaults: Philosophy as Therapy? Beverley Clack / Molly Macdonald / John Skorupski Listen here or on YouTube There is a rich tradition of claiming therapeutic powers for philosophy, but if philosophy is the love of... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Apr-14) |
| 675. | From the vaults: Can We Learn from Suffering? Danielle Sands/ Anatasia Scrutton/ Tom Stern Listen to the recording here The ‘most depressing lesson’ of suffering, Slavoj Žižek writes, is that ‘there is nothing to... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Apr-14) |
| 676. | From the vaults: Schopenhauer Christine Battersby/ Christopher Janaway/ Christopher Ryan Listen here or on YouTube Schopenhauer’s work prefigured important developments in philosophy, psychology, and political... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Apr-14) |
| 677. | From the vaults: Philosophy and Psychiatry Lisa Conlan/ Jean Khalfa/ Stella Sandford/ Alistair Stewart Listen to the recording here or on YouTube Mental disorders are widely held to have a chemical basis best treated with... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Apr-14) |
| 678. | 76 - Surveillance, Privacy and COVID-19 How do we get back to normal after the COVID-19 pandemic? One suggestion is that we use increased amounts of surveillance and tracking to identify and isolate infected and at-risk persons. While this might be a valid public health strategy it does raise some tricky ethical questions. In this episode I talk to Carissa Véliz about these questions. Carissa is a Research Fellow at the Uehiro Centre fo... (@JohnDanaher, 2020-Apr-18) |
| 679. | Cicero, On Fate - Temperament And Geographical Determinism - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero's work, On Fate, which discusses problems and perspectives on determinism, causality, and freedom of the will. Specifically it examines his discussion early on in the work about a determinism that would view human actions and events as in some way caused by features of the physical environment o... (@philosopher70, 17 minutes, 2020-Apr-24) |
| 680. | Games and the Art of Agency by C. Thi Nguyen Are games art and if so, why? Are they important or valuable and if so, how? A lot of work tries to answer these questions in aesthetics by comparing games to various properties of traditionally acknowledged works that scholars already agree are art. But does this obscure basic features of what games are all about? Unlike most fictions, game designers don't just create a stable object, like a book... (@wesbuc, 33 minutes, 2020-Apr-15) |
| 681. | Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019) Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies (University of Georgia Press, 2019), edited by Leslie M. Harris, James T. Campbell, and Alfred L. Brophy, is the first edited collection of scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic contexts. Gathering together contributions from scholars, activists, and administr... (@NewBooksPhil, 60 minutes, 2020-Apr-28) |
| 682. | Benji Kozuch Live! Join me for a discussion with Benjamin Kozuch, an Assistant Professor in the University of Alabama Philosophy Department, as we discuss his arguments against higher-order theories of consciousness and a whole lot more Benji’s website: https://wetware.ua.edu (@onemorebrown, 2020-Apr-29) |
| 683. | From the vaults: W E B Du Bois Liam Kofi Bright/ Brian Kelly/ Meera Sabaratnam Listen to the recording here or on YouTube W. E. B. Du Bois is usually remembered as a sociologist and civil rights campaigner, and his... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Apr-13) |
| 684. | Virtue and Meaning -- an Interview with David McPherson Interview with David McPherson, Associate Professor at Creighton University. We discuss his new book, Virtue and Meaning, which develops and defends a new theory of human nature – the human being as the meaning seeking creature – and explores its implications for ethical theory. We discuss David's criticism of Aristotelian Naturalists such as Foot, Hursthouse, and MacIntyre, his ... (@ethicaltheoryr1, 73 minutes, 2020-May-05) |
| 685. | Epictetus, Discourses - The Nature Of Freedom - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Epictetus's work, the Discourses. Specifically it examines his discussions of the nature of freedom, understood in a Stoic perspective To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - ... (@philosopher70, 15 minutes, 2020-Apr-23) |
| 686. | COVID-19 Special The global COVID-19 pandemic has shattered normality and created strange and unsettling times. But it's also an opportunity to reflect on what really matters and what we take for granted. In this special episode, Monty talks about how we use ritual and symbols to make sense of the pandemic, and Tim looks at how COVID is revealing the fundamental tension between individual and community. (@ockhamsbeard, 72 minutes, 2020-May-03) |
| 687. | #329 Luciano Floridi: Information, Knowledge, Science, and AI ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 57 minutes, 2020-May-04) |
| 688. | Episode 78, Moral Luck (Part II - Thomas Nagel) Imagine two possible worlds. In the first world, Andrew is driving home from an intimate dinner party with Olly and Jack. He has been enjoying a range of delicious cheeses and wines, despite being the designated driver. With the exception of Andrew’s singing, the drive is uneventful, and the party arrives home, safe and sound. In the second world, the same initial conditions apply. Andrew has enjo... (@ThePanpsycast, 42 minutes, 2020-May-03) |
| 689. | From the vaults: The Young Wittgenstein Ian Ground/ Stephen Mulhall/ Chon Tejedor Watch the video or listen to the recording One of the twentieth century’s greatest philosophers, Wittgenstein published only one book. To... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Apr-12) |
| 690. | 94 | Stuart Russell on Making Artificial Intelligence Compatible with Humans Artificial intelligence has made great strides of late, in areas as diverse as playing Go and recognizing pictures of dogs. We still seem to be a ways away from AI that is “intelligent” in the human sense, but it might not be too long before we have to start thinking seriously about the “motivations” and “purposes” of artificial agents. Stuart Russell is a longtime expert in AI, and he takes extre... (@seanmcarroll, 87 minutes, 2020-Apr-27) |
| 691. | Philosophy Vs Authority | Noam Chomsky, Deirdre McCloskey, Mark Lilla Noam Chomsky joins Mark Lilla and Deirdre McCloskey to discuss freedom, state power and authority. (@IAI_TV, 41 minutes, 2020-Apr-21) |
| 692. | Culture: The War on Your Mind How can we shape our culture to propagate wonder? Culture, capitalism, religion, psychedelics, and the mind.....all of this discussed. Tune in! Bonus Feed ($5 a month): https://www.patreon.com/thephilosophyguy Podcast: https://thephilosophyguy.fireside.fm/ Youtube: https://bit.ly/2Z0rAjA Social Links: Discord Squad: https://discord.gg/tH5Fydn Twitter: https://twitter.com/brendenweber_... (@philosophyguy2, 23 minutes, 2020-May-01) |
| 693. | What can genes tell us? Can our genes tell us if we're gay? Or intelligent? Science says the answer is complex, and that genetic determinism — the idea that we're genetically hardwired for certain outcomes — shouldn't be taken seriously. But genetic determinism has taken hold of the public imagination. (@DavidPZone1, 29 minutes, 2020-May-03) |
| 694. | 75 - The Vital Ethical Contexts of Coronavirus There is a lot of data and reporting out there about the COVID 19 pandemic. How should we make sense of that data? Do the media narratives misrepresent or mislead us as to the true risks associated with the disease? Have governments mishandled the response? Can they be morally blamed for what they have done. These are the questions I discuss with my guest on today's show: David Shaw. David is a Se... (@JohnDanaher, 2020-Apr-15) |
| 695. | Ep. 242: Stanley Cavell on Tragedy via King Lear (Part One) On Cavell's essay "The Avoidance of Love: A Reading of King Lear" (1969). Can money buy you love? What is tragedy? With guest Erin O'Luanaigh. Don't wait for part two; get the full Citizen Edition now. Please support PEL! (@PartiallyExLife, 44 minutes, 2020-Apr-27) |
| 696. | Epictetus, Discourses - Subjecting One's Desires To Other People - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Epictetus's work, the Discourses. Specifically it examines his discussions of making one's own desires subject to other people - a bad idea from a Stoic perspective. Doing so makes one's own happiness or tranquility dependent upon the desires, actions, choices, or beliefs of other people. To support my ongoing work, go to my... (@philosopher70, 16 minutes, 2020-Apr-21) |
| 697. | E41: Every Theory of Everything Ever - The Evolution of Religions Man does not live by bread alone. He also lives with social anxiety and is a bit of a control freak. These neuroses fuel him too. Oh, and lies. This is also critical. Lies must be told. How else can you get people to do shit you don’t want to? In this episode you will be treated to a Pre-Covid discussion had back in December of 2019 that these Dawdlers were too lazy to knit together into a fine ... (@dawdlerspodcast, 87 minutes, 2020-May-03) |
| 698. | 498: Philosophy and the Superhero More at www.philosophytalk.org/shows/philosophy-... Philosophy is replete with thought experiments featuring characters like Descartes’ “Evil Genius” and Davidson’s “Swampman.” Some of the scenarios philosophers conjure up seem like they could’ve been plucked from a superhero comic. Or is it the other way around? Why do philosophy and superhero comics employ such similar thought experiments? ... (@philtalkradio, 9 minutes, 2020-Apr-12) |
| 699. | Episode 6: Expertise Who should you listen to? Now, more than ever before, we have access to advice from a range of self-proclaimed experts. Anyone with a webcam and an Internet connection can dole out advice. But how do we tell if someone is trustworthy? In this episode, I test some so-called experts based on the requirements from Nyaya philosophers. Let's see who makes the cut... Sources and Links Quotes from Ca... (@cmalcolmkeating, 16 minutes, 2020-May-01) |
| 700. | UPDATE: NEW PATREON GOAL (100 patrons) + FUTURE OF THE CHANNEL ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 9 minutes, 2020-May-02) |
| 701. | From the vaults: Hilary Putnam Julian Baggini/ Jesper Kallestrup/ Chris Norris/ Sarah Sawyer Listen to the recording here Does perception give me any reason to believe in an external world, or could I be a ‘brain in... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Apr-10) |
| 702. | 16/3/2020: Andrew Bacon on Vagueness at Every Order (@Aristotweets, 58 minutes, 2020-Mar-23) |
| 703. | #328 Iris Berent - The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason About Human Nature ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 59 minutes, 2020-May-01) |
| 704. | Epictetus, Discourses - Preconceptions Or General Conceptions (Proleipseis) - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Epictetus's work, the Discourses. Specifically it examines discussions of the role of preconceptions or general notions (proleipseis). These are concepts that all human beings have, according to Epictetus, but are at first in a confused form, so that although they do not conflict in themselves, they may in their applications to s... (@philosopher70, 15 minutes, 2020-Apr-19) |
| 705. | HoP 345 - What a Piece of Work is Man - Manetti and Pico on Human Nature Pico della Mirandola and Giannozzo Manetti praise humans as the centerpiece of the created world. But what about the other animals? (@HistPhilosophy, 22 minutes, 2020-Mar-22) |
| 706. | From the vaults: The Minds of Whales Philip Hoare/ Luke Rendell Listen to the podcast here or on YouTube What is it like to be a whale? How do they think and what do they feel? How are their social groups structured, and how do whale... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Apr-08) |
| 707. | From the vaults: What Is It Really Like to Be a Bat? Alison Fairbrass/ Craig French Listen here or on YouTube Are bats conscious, and how can we tell? What is it like to use sound to navigate? In a classic paper called ‘What Is It Like to Be a... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Apr-08) |
| 708. | From the vaults: The Worst Form of Government? Beatrix Campbell/ Peter Hallward/ Edward Kanterian Listen to the recording here Winston Churchill famously described democracy as ‘the worst form of government except for all the others that have... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Apr-08) |
| 709. | From the vaults: The Minds of Birds Nicky Clayton/ Mark Cocker Listen to the recording here or on YouTube What is it like to be a bird? What do they think and how do they feel? What can comparative psychology tell us about the... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Apr-08) |
| 710. | From the vaults: Consciousness Björn Brembs/ Chris Frith/ Eva Jablonka/ David Papineau Listen to the podcast here or on YouTube Other than humans, which animal species are conscious? When did consciousness first evolve, and what... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Apr-08) |
| 711. | From the vaults: Hive Minds Larissa Condradt/ Elli Leadbeater/ Christian List Listen to the podcast here Swarms of bees make decisions as a ‘democratic’ collective, voting on various possible nest sites through waggle dances.... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Apr-08) |
| 712. | From the vaults: The Social Lives of Microbes Kevin Foster/ Sara Mitri/ Maureen O’Malley Listen to the podcast here What are microbial societies? In what ways do they resemble human societies and in what ways do they differ? Can the same... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Apr-08) |
| 713. | EV - 139 New Media Roundtable Something new this week! Some friends put together a roundtable discussion on left/liberal relations and related pressing issues. Hope you enjoy!Video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPI02PAv... Philosophy Podcast:https://www.politicalphilosophyp... Poplar Tapes:https://thepoplartapes.podbean.com... the Humanist:https://www.youtube.com/channel... Aaron's fever dreamsEditing by Brian Ziege... (@ETVPod, 95 minutes, 2020-Apr-24) |
| 714. | #327 Sarah Garfinkel: Interoception, Emotion, And Mental Health ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 41 minutes, 2020-Apr-30) |
| 715. | Episode #143 ... Jürgen Habermas pt. 1 - The Public Sphere Today we begin our discussion of the work of Jürgen Habermas. (@iamstephenwest, 25 minutes, 2020-Apr-30) |
| 716. | James Dow Live! Join me for a discussion with James Dow, a professor at Hendrix College, as we discuss the intersection of aesthetics and environmental ethics plus a whole lot more! Thisness (James’ band) James’ website: http://jamesmdow.com (@onemorebrown, 2020-Apr-24) |
| 717. | Epictetus, Discourses - Making Progress Towards The Good - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Epictetus's work, the Discourses. Specifically it examines his discussions of what it means to make progress towards the Good from a Stoic perspective (and what isn't such progress). To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here ... (@philosopher70, 15 minutes, 2020-Apr-18) |
| 718. | Pandemicast II: Philosophizing Under Quarantine Some fresher thoughts on the pandemic (though we are still stumbling through the topic). Gabe and Zach discuss news consumption in the era of coronavirus and why philosophizing right now is especially difficult. It is a good time to reflect on all the influences that determine our political views. Be sure to look back in the feed for Pandemicast I. See the authorless article: http... (@thevimblog, 49 minutes, 2020-Apr-26) |
| 719. | Epictetus, Discourses - Understanding And Addressing Anger - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Epictetus's work, the Discourses. Specifically it examines his discussions of the emotion of anger, specifically how that emotion should be understood and managed. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/R... (@philosopher70, 19 minutes, 2020-Apr-17) |
| 720. | Listener Qs 14 Thanks thanks thanks thanks! What else is there to say but thanks so much? And also, answers?! Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/98582800... Email us at: [email protected] If you have time, please write ... (@0gPhilosophy, 46 minutes, 2020-Apr-29) |
| 721. | Is it time to end simulated sex on television and film? Why, in the light of the #MeToo movement, have we not questioned the aesthetic, much less moral, justification for the disproportionate amount of nudity and simulated sex required of female actors? Do we really need to prolong this puerile reliance on sex to attract viewers? (@RadioNational, 46 minutes, 2020-Apr-29) |
| 722. | Ep. 88 Wittgenstein Part 3 This week join us as Wittgenstein kicks over his Tractatus and storms out of the room declaring that he doesn't want to play that stupid game any more because it's dumb and we are all stupid and dumb. Listen in as Dr Mike responds by informing Wittgenstein that he's the stupid one and also that he smells like farts. Be amazed as Wittgenstein goes on to elaborate that sticks and stones may break hi... (@PhilosophyWtf, 20 minutes, 2020-Apr-29) |
| 723. | The Unreliability of Naive Introspection by Eric Schwitzgebel How well do you know your own feelings? Is our ability to know this about ourselves less reliable than what we know about the outside world around us? Is there anything we can do to make ourselves less "naive" and improve the reliability of introspection about conscious experiences? Links and Resources * Eric Schwitzgebel (https://faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/) * The Paper (http://faculty.ucr.e... (@wesbuc, 31 minutes, 2020-Apr-08) |
| 724. | Podcast episode 5: Comparativism in the mid-19th century – August Schleicher and materialism In this episode, we look at the expansion of comparative-historical linguistics around the middle of the nineteenth century. We focus in particular on the figure of August Schleicher, the great consolidator of the field, and his “materialist” philosophy of science.…Read more › (@hiphilangsci, 2020-Apr-29) |
| 725. | 74 - How to Understand COVID 19 I'm still thinking a lot about the COVID-19 pandemic. In this episode I turn away from some of the 'classical' ethical questions about the disease and talk more about how to understand it and form reasonable beliefs about the public health information that has been issued in response to it. To help me do this I will be talking to Katherine Furman. Katherine is a lecturer in philosophy at the Unive... (@JohnDanaher, 2020-Apr-10) |
| 726. | Epictetus, Discourses - Indifference In Things - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Epictetus's work, the Discourses. Specifically it examines his discussion of the attitude of indifference (adiaphoria), based on one's grasp that many things are neither good nor bad, but indifferent (adiaphora). To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct con... (@philosopher70, 11 minutes, 2020-Apr-16) |
| 727. | Epictetus, Discourses - Habits And Practices - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Epictetus's work, the Discourses. Specifically it examines his discussions of the role habits play in the moral life, and the need to rework one's habits in order to develop morally. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here ... (@philosopher70, 14 minutes, 2020-Apr-16) |
| 728. | New Media Roundtable with ETVpod, Jerb the Humanist, Chrisiousity, & The Poplar Tapes I was part of a panel discussion of left-wing new media producers. We covered the IDW, the left, free speech, & liberalism vs the left. Participants: Embrace the Void https://voidpod.com/ Chrisiousity: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn1b... https://twitter.com/chrisiousity The Poplar Tapes: https://thepoplartapes.podbean.com/ https://twitter.... (@PolPhilPod, 98 minutes, 2020-Apr-25) |
| 729. | #19 Ethics of War - Professor Cecile Fabre Cecile Fabre is a professor of political philosophy at the University of Oxford and a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. She has published extensively on the areas of political philosophy, the ethics of war, the ethics of peace, theories of justice, and the ethics of foreign policy. In 2011, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. You can access the book via Oxford ... (@PremisePodcast, 50 minutes, 2020-Apr-27) |
| 730. | #326 Cristine Legare: Child Development, Culture, And Scientific Reasoning ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 56 minutes, 2020-Apr-27) |
| 731. | Episode 78, Moral Luck (Part I - Bernard Williams) Imagine two possible worlds. In the first world, Andrew is driving home from an intimate dinner party with Olly and Jack. He has been enjoying a range of delicious cheeses and wines, despite being the designated driver. With the exception of Andrew’s singing, the drive is uneventful, and the party arrives home, safe and sound. In the second world, the same initial conditions apply. Andrew has enjo... (@ThePanpsycast, 61 minutes, 2020-Apr-26) |
| 732. | The Value of Ethics | Bart Streumer Professor of Philosophy Bart Streumer discusses ethics, metaethics and issues surrounding morality. (@IAI_TV, 16 minutes, 2020-Apr-14) |
| 733. | 015 – Are Viruses Alive? Not THAT virus. Well, yes, that one too, but not specifically. All of them, actually. Elena and Ian take a look at life and times of these vivacious virions by asking what it means to be alive at all… If you liked this episode, subscribing/following means you'll get the next one automatically. We'd love it if you could leave us a review on iTunes too. And if you want to get in touch with us, you c... (@wondercupboard, 49 minutes, 2020-Apr-27) |
| 734. | 93 | Rae Wynn-Grant on Bears, Humans, and Other Predators Human beings have a strange fascination with dangerous, predatory animals — bears, lions, wolves, sharks, and more. The top of the food chain is an interesting and precarious place to live; while you might be the boss of your local environment, you also depend on the functioning of an entire ecology. Rae Wynn-Grant is a carnivore ecologist who studies how large predators migrate, feed, reproduce —... (@seanmcarroll, 62 minutes, 2020-Apr-20) |
| 735. | Episode 187: More Zither With a global pandemic and a collapsing economy upon us, it's time to ask ourselves some tough questions. Sex robots or platonic love robots - what are you more excited for? If you walked in on your partner with one of them, which would make you more jealous? Are you male or female? Can evolutionary psychology explain sex-linked preferences for sensitive, empathetic Alexas? We then dive into the s... (@verybadwizards, 101 minutes, 2020-Apr-21) |
| 736. | 447: Fractured Identities More at www.philosophytalk.org/shows/fractured-i... Despite tremendous strides made towards civil and political rights in the United States, discrimination and exclusion based on race, class, gender, and sexuality are still pervasive. As a result, individuals seen as "the other" often experience a painful inner fracturing W.E.B. Du Bois called "double consciousness." So, how does one shape a ... (@philtalkradio, 10 minutes, 2020-Apr-05) |
| 737. | Epictetus, Discourses - Duties Roles And Relationships - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Epictetus's work, the Discourses. Specifically it examines his discussions of the connection between Duties on the one hand, and our social roles and relationships on the other hand. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here ... (@philosopher70, 12 minutes, 2020-Apr-14) |
| 738. | Sponsored: Delivering Extraordinary Experiences with Customer Experience Expert Liliana Petrova When it comes to closing a deal, generating client referrals, or getting repeat business, understanding how to elevate the customer’s experience can make all the difference, and can often be a philosophical approach. So how do you go above and beyond to deliver extraordinary experiences? To find out, host JulieGurner talks to customer experience guru and former Head of Customer Experience Programs... (@HiPhiNation, 31 minutes, 2020-Apr-16) |
| 739. | Border patrol Refugees are often spoken and written about as victims: people on the far side of a border that separates them from all the things we citizens know and love about our homeland. But what if the refugee actually knows things about Australia that we don't? (@DavidPZone1, 29 minutes, 2020-Apr-26) |
| 740. | Ep. 241: Political Philosophy and the Pandemic How should we think politically about the current global crisis? Do extreme circumstances reveal truths of political philosophy or do they reinforce whatever it is we already believe? Mark, Wes, Seth, and Dylan talk about applying philosophical insights to real-life situations rife with unknowns, John Rawls' veil of ignorance and Adam Smith on our interconnectedness, utilitarianism, libertarianism... (@PartiallyExLife, 66 minutes, 2020-Apr-20) |
| 741. | STM Podcast #50: Scott Barry Kaufman - Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization On episode 50, we welcome psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman to learn about the steps of personal growth and development, the difference between a healthy ego and narcissism, and focus on the meaning of B-Love, as opposed to selfish love. Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D., is a humanistic psychologist who has taught at Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, New York University, and elsewhere.... (@seize_podcast, 83 minutes, 2020-Apr-26) |
| 742. |  Episode 8: Susan Notess: Listening, silencing, gaslighting and honestySusan suggested a bunch of things to read about the philosophy and ethics of listening, for you to follow up: * Talk: The science of conversation by Elizabeth Stokoe * Yo! And Lo! The Pragmatic Topography of the Space of Reasons by Mark Lance and Rebecca Kukla * Dotson, Kristie. "Tracking Epistemic Violence, Tracking Practices of Silencing", Hypatia 26.2 (2011): 236-257. [link to .pdf (http... (@DrJoeMorrison, 78 minutes, 2020-Apr-21) |
| 743. | Shorts - E28: Science NOW! Still getting our footing here at Dawdler’s HQ. Hence this klunky transition back we’ve been doing since we dropped out after American Thanksgiving. This episode is a long short. Not much structure like a typical long episode, but it is what it is, right? This time we use a twitter thread Ryan saw that raised some flags for him. It’s a thread discussing what might best be described as discussing... (@dawdlerspodcast, 46 minutes, 2020-Apr-26) |
| 744. | Epictetus, Discourses - Anxiety Or Anguish (Agonia)- Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Epictetus's work, the Discourses. Specifically it examines his discussion of the sources of anxiety, and whether one ought to feel anxiety towards them or not. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonI... (@philosopher70, 15 minutes, 2020-Apr-13) |
| 745. | UPDATE: THANK YOU + I NEED MORE SUPPORT All of you were extremely kind and helpful again last month. I feel very humbled and grateful from the bottom of my heart to you all! But I am still going through hard times. I really do hope this is the last time I have to ask for your help. In order to sustain the channel, and even to support myself and my girlfriend I need your help. My girlfriend has just lost her job, a... (@TheDissenterYT, 8 minutes, 2020-Apr-25) |
| 746. | Causing and Nothingness by Helen Beebee Can the absense of something ever be a cause? For example, image you forget to water your plants and your plants all die. Did your failure to water them cause the plants to die? Many people report the intuition you obviously have caused your plants to die, but shocking as it may at first seem, could this intuition actually be wrong? Links and Resources Helen Beebee (https://www.research.manche... (@wesbuc, 39 minutes, 2020-Apr-04) |
| 747. | On Having Bad Persons as Friends by Jessica Isserow "Nietzsche was friends with Wagner, Copperfield with Steerforth, Rick Blaine with Louis Renault...one who enters into a friendship with a bad person very much seems to have gone wrong somewhere," writes Isserow. But what is wrong, exactly, with choosing to make friends with bad people? Does it tell us something important about ourselves and could this fact maybe even reveal a glimmer of truth ab... (@wesbuc, 29 minutes, 2020-Apr-04) |
| 748. | Stop Talking About Fake News! by Joshua Habgood-Coote What, if anything, does "fake news" or "post truth" actually mean? Are they thinly veiled political strategies that do as much harm to democracy as the things they attempt to describe? And if so why did so many academics and philosophers get caught up in using a series of terms with such serious problems? Links and Resources * Joshua Habgood-Coote (https://joshuahabgoodcoote.com/) * The pape... (@wesbuc, 35 minutes, 2020-Apr-04) |
| 749. | Redefine Statistical Significance by Edouard Machery Are decisions made by scientists one century ago still with us and weigh down science? One decision involves the rules scientists play by when it comes to statistical significance, and more specifically, the rule that results fall below a .05 threshold to count as significant. The point of this threshold is to help minimize false positives. But .05 is consistent with at least 33% of results being ... (@wesbuc, 52 minutes, 2020-Apr-04) |
| 750. | Out of the Vat #6 – Mahon O’Brien Mahon O’Brien is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sussex. He specialises in phenomenology. In this episode we speak to Mahon about Heidegger, horse racing, and his obsessive... Philosophers’ work and philosophers’ lives, both inside and outside of philosophy. Brought to you by the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, the Centre for Philosophy of Natural a... (@LSEPhilosophy, 35 minutes, 2020-Apr-07) |
| 751. | HAP 48 - Happy Holidays - Two Speeches by Frederick Douglass In two speeches marking holidays, Frederick Douglass champions the idea of world citizenship, the power of appeals to conscience to bring change, and the role of violence. (@HistPhilosophy, 23 minutes, 2020-Mar-15) |
| 752. | The Creation of a Worldview | Beliefs, Truth, Christianity, Spirituality, and Nihilism I'm joined by Tyler and Urias, which was originally a Discord chat but I found the conversation so helpful that I turned it into an episode! We discuss the creation of our worldviews, how we use spirituality to justify belief, the possibility of truth, and a possible reality of nihilism. All of this and more discussed! Let's Talk Theology Discord: https://discord.gg/WhBceq3 The Freed Thinker ... (@philosophyguy2, 81 minutes, 2020-Apr-22) |
| 753. | Epictetus, Discourses - Confidence And Caution - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Epictetus's work, the Discourses. Specifically it examines his discussion of the compatibility between Confidence and Caution - and also Care/Concern. Caution should be directed towards those things that are indeed under our control. Confidence should be displayed towards those things that are not under our control. To supp... (@philosopher70, 12 minutes, 2020-Apr-12) |
| 754. | #325 Holger Wiese: The Psychology of Face Recognition ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 43 minutes, 2020-Apr-24) |
| 755. | Ep. 7 - (ft.) Public Historian Justin Clark In this episode, I speak with Public Historian Just Clark about the current social and economic situation surrounding COVID and about the underlying philosophy and logic of different political ideologies in general. Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: If you learned something from this episode, please consider supporting me here: https://www.patreon.com/jordanmyers Every dollar tha... (@Jordan_C_Myers, 86 minutes, 2020-Apr-24) |
| 756. | #324 Edward Fischer: The Anthropology of Wellbeing, The Good Life, Values, And Markets ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 55 minutes, 2020-Apr-23) |
| 757. | EV - 138 Naked Shame with Krista Thomason My guest this week is Krista Thomason (@kkthomason), an associate professor at Swarthmore college who studies negative emotions and their role in ethics. We discuss her challenges to the traditional views of shame and how people can integrate a healthy relationship with shame into their lives.Naked: https://www.amazon.com/Naked-Dark-Side-S... Bhagavad GitaEditing by Brian Ziegenhagen, check out hi... (@ETVPod, 65 minutes, 2020-Apr-16) |
| 758. | Epictetus, Discourses - Use Of Argument And Logic - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Epictetus's work, the Discourses. Specifically it examines his discussion of why studying argument and logic is important for Stoic philosophy. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeA... (@philosopher70, 10 minutes, 2020-Apr-10) |
| 759. | Listener Qs 13 Hi all! Another round of profound thanks to our patrons who are keeping the lights on even in these difficult times. Thank you so much and hope you enjoy this special birthday Q and A! Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/grou... (@0gPhilosophy, 54 minutes, 2020-Apr-22) |
| 760. | Ordinary vices: Is pride an affront to, or the basis of, dignity? Can pride be ‘redeemed’, and form the basis of human dignity, or is pride as such a form of moral corruption, a debased form of moral vision? (@RadioNational, 41 minutes, 2020-Apr-22) |
| 761. | 73 - The Ethics of Healthcare Prioritisation during COVID 19 We have a limited number of ventilators. Who should get access to them? In this episode I talk to Lars Sandman. Lars is a Professor of Healthcare Ethics at Linköping University, Sweden. Lars’s research involves studying ethical aspects of distributing scarce resources within health care and studying and developing methods for ethical analyses of health-care procedures. We discuss the ethics of hea... (@JohnDanaher, 2020-Apr-03) |
| 762. | Ep. 87 Wittgenstein Part 2 This week agonise with Danny as he tries to get to the end of the Tractatus without interruptions. Do Mike and Danny LOOK like they have meaning but in actual fact make no logical sense? Are we simply talking nonsense? Does the sentence “Mike and Danny are exemplary Star Fleet Officers” carry any real meaning in spite of its grammatical legitimacy (even though we know it to be 100% true)? Should w... (@PhilosophyWtf, 28 minutes, 2020-Apr-22) |
| 763. | Peter Carruthers, "Human and Animal Minds: The Consciousness Questions Laid to Rest" (Oxford UP, 2019) Do nonhuman animals have phenomenally conscious mental states? For example, do they have the types of conscious experiences we have when, in our case, we experience the smell of cinnamon or the redness of a ripe tomato? In Human and Animal Minds: The Consciousness Questions Laid to Rest (Oxford University Press, 2019), Peter Carruthers argues that there is no fact of the matter as to whether they ... (@NewBooksPhil, 63 minutes, 2020-Apr-14) |
| 764. | Can we distinguish truth from lies? | Sacha Golob, Steve Fuller, Åsa Wikforss, Peter Pomerantsev It seemed that we had all got used to the idea that rather than a single definitive truth there are a multiplicity of competing and alternative perspectives. Now with the rise of 'fake news' and the publicising of blatant lies, we want to reassert the importance of accuracy and truth. Author of Post Truth Steve Fuller, theoretical philosopher Åsa Wikforss, continental philosopher Sacha Golob, an... (@IAI_TV, 45 minutes, 2020-Apr-08) |
| 765. | Shorts - E27: Luck vs. Karma Intent or accident? That is the question. No good deed goes unpunished! But in what world is that!? One where shit is just banging together towards a blah entropic state or one with biased negentropic filters that favor the hustlers? This week the Dawdlers discuss the notions of luck and karma and the preference for inhabiting systems—especially social systems like, y’know, SOCIETY—that reward g... (@dawdlerspodcast, 20 minutes, 2020-Apr-21) |
| 766. | William James The Will To Believe - Religious Faith And Options - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 19th-20th century philosopher and psychologist, William James, and focuses on his essay, "The Will To Believe". Specifically it discusses his views on religious belief and commitment, and his contention that our passional or volitional nature can and should play a role in it. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd l... (@philosopher70, 16 minutes, 2020-Apr-08) |
| 767. | Joseph LeDoux and David Rosenthal Live! Join me for a discussion with Joseph LeDoux and David Rosenthal as we discuss the involvement of the self in conscious experience, higher-order theories of consciousness and a lot more (@onemorebrown, 2020-Apr-14) |
| 768. | #323 Rivka Weinberg: The Ethics of Procreation ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 58 minutes, 2020-Apr-20) |
| 769. | DISABILITY & KNOWLEDGE with Tom Shakespeare I discuss the ethical and epistemic issues surrounding disability with Tom Shakespeare: we cover the medical and social models, eugenics, disability and sexuality, standpoint epistemology, social justice, and the nature of knowledge. (@PolPhilPod, 70 minutes, 2020-Apr-17) |
| 770. | Sacred and Profane Love Episode 22: Huxley on Love and Longing in the Dystopia Sacred and Profane Love Episode 22: Huxley on Love and Longing in the Dystopia by Sacred and Profane Love (@eudaimoniapod, 102 minutes, 2020-Apr-20) |
| 771. | 446: Philosophy of Retirement More at www.philosophytalk.org/shows/philosophy-... Many of us look forward to retirement, that time in life when we stop working for a living. But what exactly is retirement and why do we retire? Does retirement always mean an end to work, or can it sometimes just mean a shift to a different kind of work? Ought we retire for purely selfish reasons, such as to give ourselves more leisure time... (@philtalkradio, 9 minutes, 2020-Mar-29) |
| 772. | 92 | Kevin Hand on Life Elsewhere in the Solar System It’s hard doing science when you only have one data point, especially when that data point is subject to an enormous selection bias. That’s the situation faced by people studying the nature and prevalence of life in the universe. The only biosphere we know about is our own, and our knowing anything at all is predicated on its existence, so it’s unclear how much it can teach us about the bigger pic... (@seanmcarroll, 116 minutes, 2020-Apr-13) |
| 773. | Emily Thomas on Wildly Implausible Metaphysics Some philosophers have drawn very strange conclusions about the nature of reality. Despite this Emily Thomas believes that their work may still be worth studying. They usually have had good reasons for what they concluded. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast she discusses several wildly implausible metaphysical theories with Nigel Warburton. We are grateful for support from the Marc S... (@philosophybites, 20 minutes, 2019-Oct-21) |
| 774. | William James The Will To Believe - Faith Facts And Verification - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 19th-20th century philosopher and psychologist, William James, and focuses on his essay, "The Will To Believe". Specifically it discusses his contention that in some matters, a passional or volitional commitment is required in order to even have the opportunity to register or understand facts that could then confirm one's position. To support my ongoing work, go to... (@philosopher70, 17 minutes, 2020-Apr-07) |
| 775. | Ep. 240: David Lewis on Possible Worlds and Language Games (Part Two) On "Scorekeeping in a Language Game" (1979) and "Truth in Fiction" (1978). Lewis's account of possible worlds can be applied to conversation: As we speak, each sentence adds to the "conversational score" (the set of assumptions that enable us to understand each other) while reducing the field of possible worlds that the picture we're painting together could potentially represent. What are the grav... (@PartiallyExLife, 70 minutes, 2020-Apr-13) |
| 776. | HoP 344 - The Count of Concord - Pico della Mirandola Pico della Mirandola argues for the harmony of the ancient authorities, draws on Jewish mysticism, and questions the value of humanist rhetoric. (@HistPhilosophy, 21 minutes, 2020-Mar-08) |
| 777. | Episode 77, ‘Time Travel: The Grandfather Paradox and Abilities’ with Olivia Coombes (Part II - Further Analysis and Discussion) Olivia Coombes is a philosopher and teacher at the University of Edinburgh whose research focuses on issues about the possibility of time travel, the paradoxes involved in time travel, and how these topics relate to the question of free-will. In addition to this, Liv is also the co-host of the Edinburgh-based podcast Two Philosophers: One Podcast, No Problems. Since the philosopher David Lewis, an... (@ThePanpsycast, 48 minutes, 2020-Apr-18) |
| 778. | Thinking a pandemic We're told that COVID-19 is an unprecedented event, one that's upended all our old certainties — so it's perhaps strange that we're thinking about it in very familiar ways. Considering the history, the politics and the ethics of COVID-19 can reveal fascinating and uncomfortable insights about ourselves and our society. (@DavidPZone1, 28 minutes, 2020-Apr-19) |
| 779. | STM Podcast #49: Massimo Pigliucci - How to Live a Good Life According to Stoicism On episode 49, we welcome philosopher Massimo Pigliucci to discuss how we can use Stoic philosophy to improve mental health, learn about the necessity of separating internal and external success, and how we can implement practices to make us feel in control of our well-being. Massimo Pigliucci is the K D Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. He is the author of How to Be a... (@seize_podcast, 86 minutes, 2020-Apr-19) |
| 780. | William James The Will To Believe - Empiricism And Absolutism - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 19th-20th century philosopher and psychologist, William James, and focuses on his essay, "The Will To Believe". Specifically it discusses his distinction between two different basic approaches to attaining truth, which he calls by the terms "empiricism" and "absolutism" To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to... (@philosopher70, 13 minutes, 2020-Apr-06) |
| 781. | Episode 5: Contagion (part two) Love, happiness, and disease. These are a few things that today we call "contagious." But how did thinkers in the Indian subcontinent, before the discovery of viruses, understand diseases and their treatment? This podcast is part two of a two-part interview with Patricia Sauthoff, an expert in the history of alchemy and medicine in India. Sources and links D... (@cmalcolmkeating, 15 minutes, 2020-Apr-17) |
| 782. | 72 - Grief in the Time of a Pandemic Lots of people are dying right now. But people die all the time. How should we respond to all this death? In this episode I talk to Michael Cholbi about the philosophy of grief. Michael Cholbi is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely in ethical theory, practical ethics, and the philosophy of death and dying. We discus the nature of grief, the ethics of gri... (@JohnDanaher, 2020-Mar-30) |
| 783. | Episode 125: James Koppel discusses counterfactual inference and automated explanation Episode link here.In this episode, James Koppel (MIT, James Koppel Coaching) joins me and Dominick Reo to talk about how we can write software to help identify the causes of disasters.These days, there's often a tendency to think of software primarily as a venue for frivolous pleasures. Maybe there's a new app that's really good at hooking me up with videos of alpacas on skateboards, or making my ... (@ElucidationsPod, 39 minutes, 2020-Apr-17) |
| 784. | Five Streaming Double Features The two cows recommend five double features, all streaming on either Netflix or Amazon Prime. The themes are: High and Low, Paranoia, Families Falling Apart, The Rules of the Universe, How to Win Friends and Influence People. . . . . Movies recommended: High and Low (0:59 Bringing out the Dead // 5:00 Inside Llewyn Davis) Paranoia (9:27 Clue // 12:53 The Conversation) Families Fall... (@cowspod, 56 minutes, 2020-Apr-18) |
| 785. | William James The Will To Believe - Risks, Truth, And Belief - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 19th-20th century philosopher and psychologist, William James, and focuses on his essay, "The Will To Believe". Specifically it discusses his distinction between two different risks - that of not discovering and believing the truth, and that of accepting a falsehood. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to... (@philosopher70, 14 minutes, 2020-Apr-05) |
| 786. | James Wilson on Real World Ethics Are thought experiments the best way of doing practical ethics? Not according to James Wilson. He thinks we need the rich detail of real cases or complex imaginary cases not a simplified version of reality to make sense of the moral problems we face. We are grateful for support for this episode from the Marc Sanders Foundation and from our supporters on Patreon. (@philosophybites, 20 minutes, 2019-Sep-21) |
| 787. | #322 Curtis Marean: Zooarchaeology, Human Origins And Evolution ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 60 minutes, 2020-Apr-17) |
| 788. | William James The Will To Believe - Criticism Of Pascal's Wager - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 19th-20th century philosopher and psychologist, William James, and focuses on his essay, "The Will To Believe". Specifically it discusses his criticism of Blaise Pascal's famous argument for the existence of God, called "Pascal's Wager". To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you ... (@philosopher70, 13 minutes, 2020-Apr-04) |
| 789. | Matthew McManus and Marion Trejo, "Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson" (Zero Books, 2020) In 2016, Jordan Peterson, a relatively obscure professor of psychology, released several videos on YouTube making critical remarks on political correctness and related political legislation. This would kick off a meteoric rise in fame, with sold-out live shows, podcasts, television interviews and a worldwide bestselling book. Along with his newfound fame, however, came a lot of criticism, much of... (@NewBooksPhil, 53 minutes, 2020-Apr-09) |
| 790. | Are you the boss of your emotions? Molly and Carl might be great friends but that doesn't mean they don't fight sometimes. But when they do get into conflict they have very different ways of dealing with things. So, what should you do if you're feeling hurt or angry with someone? Is it best to bottle up your emotions and say nothing, or is it healthier to let it all out? We'll be getting some tips from an ancient group called The S... (@matthewtbeard, 21 minutes, 2020-Apr-08) |
| 791. | Did your brain make you do it? You're at the movies with a giant box of popcorn on your lap, enjoying the film and eating the popcorn. You look down and see the box is empty, but you don't even remember eating it all, because you were focused on the film. As you gobbled on those salty snacks, were you in control of your actions? Are you still responsible if you do something unconsciously? The famous science writer Sam Harris sa... (@matthewtbeard, 23 minutes, 2020-Apr-08) |
| 792. | Oedipus – The Musical Meet Oedipus. He's the main character in one of the world’s oldest stories. He lived a long time ago and he did some pretty bad things. But was it his fault or was it fate? Was there anything he could have done to avoid tragedy? Join Molly, Carl and Matt as they sing their way through an ancient tale of terrible misfortune. (@matthewtbeard, 27 minutes, 2020-Apr-08) |
| 793. | Why is your room so messy? We visit the bedroom of one of the messiest kids we know, Harriet. She hates cleaning her room more than anything in life and it always looks like someone opened every drawer and threw all the contents into the air. But is it her fault that her room is a pigsty? And if other kids can manage to keep their rooms tidy, why can’t Harriet? (@matthewtbeard, 21 minutes, 2020-Apr-08) |
| 794. | Are you really free? This season we look at one of the curliest questions of them all, are you really free? We say all the time that someone made good choices or bad choices. Or that they should be punished or rewarded for the choices they make. But did you really choose to like a certain style of fashion? Is it your fault if you're a messy person? Can society be blamed for people turning to crime? And do Molly and Ca... (@matthewtbeard, 9 minutes, 2020-Apr-08) |
| 795. | Is it society's fault if you become a criminal? The bushranger Ned Kelly led a gang of criminals more than 100 years ago. He was first arrested when he was just 14 and then he went on to rob and kill people. But before his last infamous shootout, Ned Kelly wrote a letter to the world saying that none of it was his fault, that society was unfair and he had no alternative. So, can you really blame society for how your life turns out? (@matthewtbeard, 24 minutes, 2020-Apr-08) |
| 796. | #321 Dick Swaab: The Neuroscience of Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 47 minutes, 2020-Apr-16) |
| 797. | William James The Will To Believe - Willing Nature And Beliefs - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 19th-20th century philosopher and psychologist, William James, and focuses on his essay, "The Will To Believe". Specifically it discusses particular what James calls our "willing", "volitional", or "passional" nature, and its importance in determining our beliefs and choices. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd l... (@philosopher70, 17 minutes, 2020-Apr-03) |
| 798. | EV - 137 Strong Emergence with Emerson Green My guest this week is Emerson Green (@waldenpod), host of the Counterapologetics Podcast and Walden Pod. We continue our discussion on Panpsychism and focus in particular on the argument agains strong emergence, a concept that may be present in common conceptions of how consciousness arises in the world.The Right to Reason Discussion with Emerson: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pa... up on ... (@ETVPod, 71 minutes, 2020-Apr-09) |
| 799. | David Pitt Live! Join me for a discussion with David Pitt, a philosopher at California State University Los Angeles, as we discuss conceptual phenomenology, knowledge by acquaintance, and a lot more (@onemorebrown, 2020-Apr-09) |
| 800. | Georg Northoff Live! Join me for a discussion with Georg Northoff, Georg’s website: http://www.georgnorthoff.com The Spontaneous Brain Minding the Brain: A guide to Philosophy and Neuroscience (@onemorebrown, 2020-Apr-09) |
| 801. | Pandemicast We give some initial, unformed thoughts on the pandemic. It is what we are all thinking about. So what philosophy can we see in it? Gabe, Charlie, and Zach discuss government authoritarianism and personal, bottom up authoritarians, how much thinking is happening right now, and the vagueness of government legislation. Read Gabe’s article: https://thevimblog.com/2020/04/08/arendt... Our e... (@thevimblog, 71 minutes, 2020-Apr-12) |
| 802. | SUFFRAGE, ATHEISM, & EVOLUTION With Kimberly Hamlin I'm joined by professor Kimberly Hamlin to discuss her latest book: Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener. We cover the concept of a "fallen woman', women's suffrage, the relations between feminism, atheism, evolution & race. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PoliticalPhiloso... Website: https://www.politicalphilosophypodcast.c... (@PolPhilPod, 66 minutes, 2020-Apr-12) |
| 803. | Episode #142 ... Richard Rorty Today we begin our discussion of the work of Richard Rorty. (@iamstephenwest, 29 minutes, 2020-Apr-15) |
| 804. | 0G100: WWZ and the Human Cost of Ethics, Part 2 What a wild time to celebrate our 100th episode. At least we're celebrating it talking about something of great value, World War Z's portrayal of the loss of humanity from doing the right thing. I hope it helps to think about how we're all experiencing the grind and that's what makes us humans. Williams against Utilitarianism: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/willi... Support us at Patreon: ht... (@0gPhilosophy, 40 minutes, 2020-Apr-15) |
| 805. | Can we avoid cruelty in the face of COVID-19? As societies, we are having to grapple with the question of whether some will be made to bear a disproportionate amount of the cost of our collective response to COVID-19. (@RadioNational, 37 minutes, 2020-Apr-15) |
| 806. | William James, The Will To Believe - Hypotheses and Options - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 19th-20th century philosopher and psychologist, William James, and focuses on his essay, "The Will To Believe". Specifically it discusses his conceptions of hypotheses and options, which play a central role in the argument of the essay. Hypotheses can either be living or dead, and options between hypotheses can be living or dead, forced or avoidable, momentous or trivi... (@philosopher70, 13 minutes, 2020-Apr-02) |
| 807. | Ep. 86 Wittgenstein Part 1 This week, listen in slack jawed amazement as Danny talks about the Tractatus for over 30 mins without mentioning Wittgenstein once. That’s right, not once but a gazillion times! This is it folks, Danny goes proposition crazy as his time finally comes and he gets to use the W word without let or hindrance. Reel back in stupefied awe as the podcast ladder is kicked away leaving Dr Mike hanging prec... (@PhilosophyWtf, 33 minutes, 2020-Apr-15) |
| 808. | 71 - COVID 19 and the Ethics of Infectious Disease Control As nearly half the world's population is now under some form of quarantine or lockdown, it seems like an apt time to consider the ethics of infectious disease control measures of this sort. In this episode, I chat to Jonathan Pugh and Tom Douglas, both of whom are Senior Research Fellows at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics in Oxford, about this very issue. We talk about the moral principles ... (@JohnDanaher, 2020-Mar-26) |
| 809. | 17/2/2020: Alexander Douglas on Spinoza’s Unquiet Acquiescentia (@Aristotweets, 46 minutes, 2020-Mar-01) |
| 810. | Blaise Pascal, Pensees - The Wager About God's Existence - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees. Specifically it discusses his famous "Wager" about the existence of God. Pascal argues that one has to choose one way or another about the matter, in how one lives and commits one's life. He frames the problem in terms of a bet or gamble, in which we stake our... (@philosopher70, 18 minutes, 2020-Apr-01) |
| 811. | New Gods | Myriam François, Peter Atkins, Hilary Lawson As our churches have emptied our belief in progress, science and reason has also begun to falter, and we find ourselves in a new space in which all beliefs are challenged, and perspectives jostle in a relative world. Might religion, in the form of shared rituals and values, once again have a role to play? To discuss the role of religion we are joined by three leading thinkers: acclaimed chemist ... (@IAI_TV, 50 minutes, 2020-Mar-31) |
| 812. | 444: Can Speech Kill? More at www.philosophytalk.org/shows/can-speech-... Free speech is one of the core tenets of our democracy. We’re inclined to think that more speech is always better. Although the Supreme Court has outlined some minor restrictions to our right to free speech, the most courts are willing to admit is that speech can lead to violence—it cannot itself do violence. But is it possible for speech to... (@philtalkradio, 11 minutes, 2020-Mar-22) |
| 813. | HAP 47 - Written by Himself - the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass' journey from slave to leading figure of 19th century American thought. (@HistPhilosophy, 23 minutes, 2020-Mar-01) |
| 814. | #320 Max Beilby: Evolutionary Organizational Psychology ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 63 minutes, 2020-Apr-13) |
| 815. | 91 | Scott Barry Kaufman on the Psychology of Transcendence If one of the ambitious goals of philosophy is to determine the meaning of life, one of the ambitious goals of psychology is to tell us how to achieve it. An influential work in this direction was Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs — a list of human needs, often displayed suggestively in the form of a pyramid, ranging from the most basic (food and shelter) to the most refined. At the to... (@seanmcarroll, 79 minutes, 2020-Apr-06) |
| 816. | Episode 77, ‘Time Travel: The Grandfather Paradox and Abilities’ with Olivia Coombes (Part I - Time Traveller Abilities) Olivia Coombes is a philosopher and teacher at the University of Edinburgh whose research focuses on issues about the possibility of time travel, the paradoxes involved in time travel, and how these topics relate to the question of free-will. In addition to this, Liv is also the co-host of the Edinburgh-based podcast Two Philosophers: One Podcast, No Problems. Since the philosopher David Lewis, an... (@ThePanpsycast, 50 minutes, 2020-Apr-12) |
| 817. | Blaise Pascal, Pensees - The God Of Philosophers And The God Of Faith - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees. Specifically it discusses his distinction between two different conceptions of God - God as understood by the philosophers, and the God of religious believers, the "God of faith". To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler ... (@philosopher70, 20 minutes, 2020-Mar-31) |
| 818. | Episode 186: The One with Peter Singer The legendary Peter Singer joins us to talk about effective altruism, AI, animal welfare, esoteric morality, future Tuesday indifference, and more. I mean, it’s Peter freakin’ Singer - what more do we need to say? Plus, the explosive ‘one or two spaces after a period' debate: has science resolved it? Special Guest: Peter Singer. (@verybadwizards, 90 minutes, 2020-Apr-07) |
| 819. | Can't Hardly Wait The two cows go back to high school to revisit this classic 90s teen comedy and discuss house parties, a real life Trip McNeely story, and Siskel & Ebert's rating scale. (@cowspod, 43 minutes, 2020-Apr-13) |
| 820. | Pete Mandik Live! Join me for a discussion with Pete Mandik, a professor of philosophy at William Patterson university (@onemorebrown, 2020-Apr-06) |
| 821. | Ep. 240: David Lewis on Possible Worlds and Language Games (Part One) On Ch. 4 of Lewis's book Counterfactuals (1973) and the essays “Scorekeeping in a Language Game” (1979) and “Truth in Fiction” (1978). What makes a sentence about possibility true? Lewis things that we need possible worlds that really exist in order to make sense of our modal intuitions. He uses this possible world talk to make sense of conversations and the worlds created by fiction writers. With... (@PartiallyExLife, 54 minutes, 2020-Apr-06) |
| 822. | Time in a time of excess time Many of us have extra time on our hands at the moment, and for many of us that time can feel like a burden. But what is this mysterious relationship between what time feels like and what it really is? (@DavidPZone1, 29 minutes, 2020-Apr-12) |
| 823. | Blaise Pascal, Pensees - Diversions, Happiness, And Misery - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees. Specifically it discusses the role that "diversions" (divertissments) play in our lives. We engage in them at least in part, to avoid facing up to our actual condition, which is typically more miserable than we acknowledge. We also engage in them, aiming to en... (@philosopher70, 20 minutes, 2020-Mar-30) |
| 824. | STM Podcast #48: Mutah "Napoleon" Beale - How to Live a Good Life According to Islam On episode 48, we welcome back Mutah Beale to discuss how Islam helped him overcome past trauma, what it was like being so honest in his upcoming biography, and how his story could help others grow through their own struggles. Mutah Beale, also known as Napoleon, is a former member of Tupac's rap group Outlawz. Mutah has since converted to Islam and is now a motivational speaker. His upcoming book... (@seize_podcast, 57 minutes, 2020-Apr-12) |
| 825. | "What is the Role of Philosophy During a Global Crisis?" Jack Russell Weinstein visits with Dr. Susan Neiman, director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany as they explore foresight, redemption, and societal values. (@whyradioshow, 87 minutes, 2020-Apr-12) |
| 826. | Blaise Pascal, Pensees - Self-Love And Aversion To Truth - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees. Specifically it discusses about how self-love (amour propre) renders human beings averse to acknowledging the truth about themselves, others, and the world. Self love makes us prefer a false self-image to the truth of who we are, and we pressure others to lie t... (@philosopher70, 20 minutes, 2020-Mar-29) |
| 827. | Philip Goff | Consciousness I'm joined by Professor Philip Goff to discuss the problems facing traditional views of consciousness. His book: here (https://www.amazon.com/Galileos-Error-F... His website: here (https://www.philipgoffphilosophy.com/) Bonus Feed ($5 a month): https://www.patreon.com/thephilosophyguy Podcast: https://thephilosophyguy.fireside.fm/ Youtube: https://bit.ly/2Z0rAjA Social Links: Disc... (@philosophyguy2, 64 minutes, 2020-Apr-08) |
| 828. | #319 Jeff McMahan: The Ethics of Killing; Abortion, Euthanasia, Suicide ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 57 minutes, 2020-Apr-10) |
| 829. | Blaise Pascal, Pensees - The Intuitive And Mathematical Minds - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees. Specifically it discusses his distinction between two different mindsets or perspectives, the "intuitive mind" (l'esprit de finesse) and the mathematical mind (l'esprit de géométrie). Both of these have to do with how persons perceive and understand "axioms" o... (@philosopher70, 19 minutes, 2020-Mar-28) |
| 830. | S01E18: Can We Sue China? - William Burke-White International law scholar and professor William Burke-White speaks with Jay Shapiro during the ongoing global COVID19 crises. They discuss the philosophical foundations of international law, why globalism needs to re-brand itself to be more "local", the legal process of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the apparent absence of the United Nations in this pandemic, the rapidly changing rol... (@DilemmaPodcast, 87 minutes, 2020-Apr-10) |
| 831. | #318 Benjamin Bergen: Embodied Cognition, Embodied Simulation, Language, And AI ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 67 minutes, 2020-Apr-09) |
| 832. | EV - 136 Dialetheism with Michael Bench-Capon My guest this week is Michael Bench-Capon (@MikeBenchCapon), a philosopher turned librarian with an interest in Dialetheism, the view that some things both are and are not P. We discuss this counterintuitive theory and how it applies to paradoxes, aesthetics, and ethics.Michael's Blogpost on Dialetheism: http://michaelbenchcapon.blogspot.com/20... interview: https://historyofphilosophy.net/logic-b... (@ETVPod, 69 minutes, 2020-Apr-02) |
| 833. | 497: The 2020 Dionysus Awards More at www.philosophytalk.org/shows/2020-dionys... What movies of the past year challenged our assumptions and made us think about things in new ways? Josh and guest co-host Jeremy Sabol talk to philosophers and listeners as they present their seventh (mostly) annual Dionysus Awards for the most thoughtful films of the past year. • Most Stimulating and Stressful Vision of today's Americ... (@philtalkradio, 15 minutes, 2020-Mar-16) |
| 834. | Blaise Pascal, Pensees - The Two Infinites - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees. Specifically it discusses his views on the "two infinites" - the infinitely great and the infinitely small (the latter of which, in his view still contains a great amount of stuff) - and their implications for human beings. To support my ongoing work, go to... (@philosopher70, 14 minutes, 2020-Mar-26) |
| 835. | HoP 343 - As Far as East from West - Jewish Philosophy in Renaissance Italy Jewish philosophers in Renaissance Italy, focusing on Leone Ebreo’s Dialogues of Love, the Averroism of Elijah del Medigo, and Italian Kabbalah. (@HistPhilosophy, 23 minutes, 2020-Feb-23) |
| 836. | 0G99: WWZ and Lifeboat Ethics, Part 1 Moving with the kind of speed you'd have hoped to see in our federal government, we have pivoted away from our Culture coverage (don't worry it's just bumped down the timeline a bit) to current events with Max Brooks's epic masterpiece World War Z. Easily one of the best works of horror fiction around. For part one, we talk through the consequentialist arguments in the first half, while marveling ... (@0gPhilosophy, 49 minutes, 2020-Apr-08) |
| 837. | How can we live with coronavirus uncertainty? In little more than a month, the coronavirus has exploded the sense of certainty, confidence, optimism and control on which so much of modern life, the economy and politics are predicated. Were these always just illusions? (@RadioNational, 38 minutes, 2020-Apr-08) |
| 838. | Ep. 85 Phenomenology Part 6 This week FREEDOM! But do we really want it? Listen with care as Sartre warns us that freedom can make us a little queasy. Do we always have choices? Can I choose to have Sugar Puffs for breakfast tomorrow even though I don't have any in the house? What would Sartre have? Our guess is croissants. Enjoy the spectacle of Jean-Paul and Che Guevara having a beret-off. Don't be concerned as Danny and M... (@PhilosophyWtf, 32 minutes, 2020-Apr-08) |
| 839. | 70 - Ethics in the time of Corona Like almost everyone else, I have been obsessing over the novel coronavirus pandemic for the past few months. Given the dramatic escalation in the pandemic in the past week, and the tricky ethical questions it raises for everyone, I thought it was about time to do an episode about it. So I reached out to people on Twitter and Jeff Sebo kindly volunteered himself to join me for a conversation. Jeff... (@JohnDanaher, 2020-Mar-18) |
| 840. | Blaise Pascal, Pensees - What Tyranny Consists In - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees. Specifically it discusses what "tyranny" - including but going beyond the political sense - consists in. In his view, the basis of tyranny is the desire to dominate beyond one's own area of legitimate value, competence, or scope. To support my ongoing work,... (@philosopher70, 14 minutes, 2020-Mar-25) |
| 841. | The World That Disappeared | Peter Atkins, James Ladyman, Joanna Kavenna No-one who has ever stepped on a Lego brick could doubt the reality of physical objects. Yet from Heraclitus to George Berkeley, many philosophers claimed to have disproven the existence of things. Could the world truly be made up of fields and processes, rather than physical stuff? Are the everyday objects that surround us an illusion? To help us discuss the existence of things we are joined by... (@IAI_TV, 44 minutes, 2020-Mar-24) |
| 842. | Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020) Paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick. A magician's purpose is to create the appearance of impossibility, to pull a rabbit from an empty hat. Yet paradox doesn't require tangibles, like rabbits or hats. Paradox works in the abstract, with words and concepts and symbols, to create the illusion of contradiction. There are no contradictions in reality, but there can appear to be. In Sleight ... (@NewBooksPhil, 54 minutes, 2020-Mar-30) |
| 843. | David Papineau Live! Join me for a discussion with David Papineau, a professor of philosophy at King’s College London and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York as we discuss physicalism, casual closure, representationalism, and panpsychism. (@onemorebrown, 2020-Mar-31) |
| 844. | Ep. 6 - (ft.) Peter Boghossian: How to Save Academic Philosophy In this episode, I speak with Dr. Peter Boghossian about where academic philosophy stands in the modern university system. We discuss the problems that it and other humanities create for themselves and for the public, and how to reform the standards in the field by injecting a scientific and Socratic standard. Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://www.philosophersmag.com/opinio... (@Jordan_C_Myers, 76 minutes, 2020-Apr-07) |
| 845. | 90 | David Kaiser on Science, Money, and Power Science costs money. And for a brief, glorious period between the start of the Manhattan Project in 1939 and the cancellation of the Superconducting Super Collider in 1993, physics was awash in it, largely sustained by the Cold War. Things are now different, as physics — and science more broadly — has entered a funding crunch. David Kaiser, who is both a working physicist and an historian of scien... (@seanmcarroll, 95 minutes, 2020-Mar-30) |
| 846. | IDEOLOGIES OF THE ANCIENTS 3 Philip In part 3 of the series, I look at how the Persian empire ended. Setting the stage I go into huge detail on theories of ancient warfare, warrior societies, & cover the backstory of Philip of Macedon. Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PoliticalPhiloso... Website: https://www.politicalphilosophypodcast.c... (@PolPhilPod, 160 minutes, 2020-Apr-03) |
| 847. | #317 Khandis Blake: Evolution, Income Inequality, Female Competition, And Feminism ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 10 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y9r3fc9m PayPal Subscription... (@TheDissenterYT, 65 minutes, 2020-Apr-06) |
| 848. | Ep. 239: Montesquieu Invents Political Science (Part Two) Continuing on The Spirit of the Laws (1748) by Charles Louis de Secondat, aka Baron de Montesquieu. Mark, Wes, Dylan, and Seth talk more about the "motive force" behind each type of government and the separation of powers. Begin with part 1 or get the full, ad-free Citizen Edition. Please support PEL! End song: "King of the Hill" by MINUTEMEN. Listen to Mark interview Mike Watt on Nakedly Examined... (@PartiallyExLife, 52 minutes, 2020-Mar-30) |
| 849. | Blaise Pascal, Pensees - Correcting By Revealing One-Sidedness - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees. Specifically it discusses his advice about how to get a person to accept criticism or correction. Pascal notes that nobody wants to be told he or she is simply wrong about an issue, but people are willing to admit that their view of matters is one-sided. ... (@philosopher70, 14 minutes, 2020-Mar-23) |
| 850. | Episode 76, René Descartes (Part V - Further Analysis and Discussion) All my life, I have been fed apples from that tree. I was told it was the only tree worth eating from. Every day, whether it was in school or in the church, someone would arrive with a basket, and I would take what they offered. Today a similar basket lays in front of me, full of apples I've been saving so to take a closer inspection. Check those apples for me would you? Why so worried? Surely if ... (@ThePanpsycast, 51 minutes, 2020-Apr-04) |
| 851. | Honour in the institution Institutions shape every aspect of our lives, yet they can be strangely amorphous things, operating according to norms and conventions that often undermine each other. For women, this can result in institutional discrimination – in workplaces and public organisations, but also in less tangible institutions like the family and the law. This week we’re talking feminist institutionalism, and the need... (@DavidPZone1, 28 minutes, 2020-Apr-05) |
| 852. | STM Podcast #47: John Kaag - How to Live a Good Life According to William James On episode 47, we welcome philosopher John Kaag to discuss how William James can help us cope with depression and anxiety, form healthier habits, and create meaning through our wills to act, sharing our personal stories of sorrow and alienation. John Kaag is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and a Miller Scholar at the Santa Fe Institute. He just finished... (@seize_podcast, 67 minutes, 2020-Apr-05) |
| 853. | Shorts - E26: Planet(ary Problems) of the Apes Take yer stinkin’ proteins off me you damn, dirty microbe! This time Harland asks the question: Is there any way for us provincial primates—with all our adaptations for dealing with smaller scales—to address planetary-sized problems? We discuss from there topics ranging along the lines of logistics, motivational strategies, and hopelessness and helplessness. Unfortunately, we are the mercy o... (@dawdlerspodcast, 33 minutes, 2020-Apr-05) |
| 854. | Joy Ride The two cows take a road trip to discuss how a decade of bored contentment in America gave rise to both the gen-X slacker and prank culture, laying the seeds for a generational conflict that takes center stage in this highly rewatchable 2001 John Dahl thriller. (@cowspod, 55 minutes, 2020-Apr-05) |
| 855. | Ursula K Leguin - The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the short story by the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin, and the ethical problem for the citizens of the city of Omelas raised by her narrative. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO You can find over 1500 philosophy... (@philosopher70, 20 minutes, 2020-Mar-22) |
| 856. | Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra - The State And Superfluous People - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 19th century philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, and focuses on his work Thus Spoke Zarathustra, specifically his discussion in part 1 of the State as a locus of superfluous people and as a corrupter of the strong. He differentiates between a State and a people or nation (Volk) in terms of the values and the way power operates To support my ongoing work, go to my Pat... (@philosopher70, 18 minutes, 2020-Mar-22) |
| 857. | Episode 4: Contagion (part one) Love, happiness, and disease. These are a few things that today we call "contagious." But how did thinkers in the Indian subcontinent, before the discovery of viruses, understand diseases and their treatment? This podcast is part one of a two-part interview with Patricia Sauthoff, an expert in the history of alchemy and medicine in India. Sources and links A... (@cmalcolmkeating, 17 minutes, 2020-Apr-03) |
| 858. | Sacred and Profane Love Episode 21: Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim Sacred and Profane Love Episode 21: Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim by Sacred and Profane Love (@eudaimoniapod, 79 minutes, 2020-Apr-04) |
| 859. | A Right to a Free Press? Chandrika Kaul/ Sue Mendus/ Peter Oborne Listen here or on YouTube A free press is a fundamental pillar of a healthy democracy. It is a vehicle for free expression, informs public debate, and holds... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Mar-09) |
| 860. | 014 – Beauty Part 2 with Simon Watt Imagine a perfect rhino. Done it? Great. Keep it in mind while Elena and Ian are joined by the Level Up Human podcast's Simon Watt, to discuss what we're really doing when we look for beauty in nature. If you liked this episode, subscribing/following means you'll get the next one automatically. We'd love it if you could leave us a review on iTunes too. And if you want to get in touch with us, you ... (@wondercupboard, 70 minutes, 2020-Apr-04) |
| 861. | Ep. 5 - The Milgram and Zimbardo Experiments (& Golhagen vs Browning on Nazis) In this episode, I discuss the Stanley Milgram and Phil Zimbardo experiments and what they say about our human nature. These experiments are also tied into the Browning vs Goldhagen debate on how he German population was convinced to do such terrible acts during the holocaust. Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanfordpr... https://en.wikipedia.org/w... (@Jordan_C_Myers, 106 minutes, 2020-Apr-04) |
| 862. | #316 Colin Wright: Insect Personality, And The New Evolution Deniers ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 61 minutes, 2020-Apr-03) |
| 863. | Pseudo-Humility | Religion, Christianity, Spirituality , Humility, and Curiosity Are Christians humble? What does it mean to be humble? Can we benefit from being humble and humbling ourselves? The Study mentioned: here (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs... Bonus Feed ($5 a month): https://www.patreon.com/thephilosophyguy Podcast: https://thephilosophyguy.fireside.fm/ Youtube: https://bit.ly/2Z0rAjA Social Links: Discord Squad: https://discord.gg/tH5Fydn T... (@philosophyguy2, 26 minutes, 2020-Mar-31) |
| 864. | HAP 46 - Melvin Rogers on 19th Century Political Thought Melvin Rogers joins us to discuss Hosea Walker, Maria Stewart, and Hosea Easton. (@HistPhilosophy, 30 minutes, 2020-Feb-16) |
| 865. | Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra - War And Warriors - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 19th century philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, and focuses on his work Thus Spoke Zarathustra, specifically his discussion in part 1 of the value of war and of warriors. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - https... (@philosopher70, 9 minutes, 2020-Mar-20) |
| 866. | #315 Edward Hagen: Anthropology, And The Bargaining Model of Depression And Suicide ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 74 minutes, 2020-Apr-02) |
| 867. | EV - 135 Sentientism with Jamie Woodhouse My guest this week is Jamie Woodhouse (@JamieWoodhouse), a community organizer for Sentientism, the view that all sentient life matters morally. We do a deep dive into the strengths and weakness of Sentientism.Jamie's Homepage: https://jamiewoodhouse.com/Jamie's FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sentient... by Brian Ziegenhagen, check out his pod: http://youarehere.libsyn.com/s02e02-rex-..... (@ETVPod, 67 minutes, 2020-Mar-26) |
| 868. | Nature/Nurture Tom Dickins/ Eva Jablonka/ Sophie von Stumm Listen here or on YouTube Scientists agree that nature and nurture are essential ingredients in human development. But if both the blank slate and genetic... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Mar-07) |
| 869. | Bryce Huebner Live! Join me for a discussion with Bryce Huebner, Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Georgetown University, as we discuss embodied cognition, consciousness, meditation, Yogācāra, and a lot more! (@onemorebrown, 2020-Mar-26) |
| 870. | Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra - The Virtues And Ones Own Virtue - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 19th century philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, and focuses on his work Thus Spoke Zarathustra, specifically on his treatment of virtues - positive character traits - in book 1 of that work. Nietzsche's treatment of the virtues is at odds with those of virtue ethicists, particularly on the issue of the unity of the virtues To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreo... (@philosopher70, 17 minutes, 2020-Mar-19) |
| 871. | Is it Worth Talking to Trump Supporters? (and some Coronavirus thoughts) Thus begins a series on the Guide for Talking to Trump Supporters 2.0, found on thevimblog.com. In part 1, Zach, Gabe, Kevin, and Dylan assess the question of whether it is even worth talking to Trump Supporters in the first place. Kevin voices some skepticism. The episode starts with acknowledging the coronavirus and its possible impacts on politics. The Trump guide: https://thevimblo... (@thevimblog, 79 minutes, 2020-Mar-29) |
| 872. | 443: Midlife and Meaning More at www.philosophytalk.org/shows/midlife-and... At some point or another, the midlife crisis comes for us all. But what is it really about? Is it a sense of our mortality, the fear of not achieving what we hoped to, or the sinking feeling that we’ve been spending our whole adult lives chasing our tails? And what is the solution: a new car, a new life goal, or the choice to give up goals a... (@philtalkradio, 10 minutes, 2020-Mar-08) |
| 873. | 0G98: Player of Games and AI Utopia, Part 1 Last episode, Thomas complained that I never take him to any nice utopias, so here we are! The Culture, the closest any sci-fi I've ever read got to anything that sounded like a good outcome, besides maybe Um-Helat. I'm told all of Ian Banks's books are fabulous, but we start with a really easy and satisfying intro to the Culture world, The Player of Games. In part one we cover the Culture society... (@0gPhilosophy, 43 minutes, 2020-Apr-01) |
| 874. | Can we cultivate social solidarity in a time of physical distancing? Any meaningful recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic will require imagination, risk, solidarity and vulnerability; it will mean refusing to ‘free-ride’ and a willingness to sacrifice. How can we cultivate this capacity for social solidarity in our time of social fragmentation and mutual distancing? (@RadioNational, 45 minutes, 2020-Apr-01) |
| 875. | Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Values And Valuation This lecture discusses the 19th century philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, and focuses on his work Thus Spoke Zarathustra, specifically his references in part 1 to values (Werte) and to valuation and evaluation and their grounding in the tables of values generated by peoples. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contrib... (@philosopher70, 14 minutes, 2020-Mar-18) |
| 876. | Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra - The Solitary Person - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 19th century philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, and focuses on his work Thus Spoke Zarathustra, specifically his discussion in part 1 on the "solitary" person and why solitude (Einsamkeit) is necessary for a person to develop as an individual. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution,... (@philosopher70, 20 minutes, 2020-Mar-18) |
| 877. | Ep. 84 Phenomenology Part 5 This week we grab hold of stuff and make it ours, not yours, ours… well… mine actually. How much of the world you live in is authentically ready-to-hand? Consider that, you spectator, as Heidegger judges you hard. Listen with escalating embarrassment as Mike and Danny adjust their black berets and jam along with Jean-Paul Sartre. Yes, it’s blackberry jam all the way this week! (we have been waitin... (@PhilosophyWtf, 32 minutes, 2020-Apr-01) |
| 878. | The Mind and the World | Raymond Tallis Is the mind just a part of the world? Or is the world all in the mind? Neither, argues physician, philosopher and poet Raymond Tallis as he puts forward his take on how we make sense of experience. (@IAI_TV, 23 minutes, 2020-Mar-17) |
| 879. |  Ep. 74: FuturalityJoe and Taylor are back to talk about the future: the inchoate science of the mind; presently-untheorized forms of social organization; transcendental computation. The discussion begins with Laruelle and the belligerence of philosophy. (@Theory_talk, 72 minutes, 2020-Apr-01) |
| 880. | Zahi Zalloua, "Žižek on Race: Towards an Anti-Racist Future" (Bloomsbury, 2020) The Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek’s prolific quips on various cultural and political issues around race and related issues, found either in short YouTube clips or lengthy books have gained a lot of attention, much of it admittedly confused and occasionally offended and frustrated. Part of this is likely due to Žižek’s style, which tends to jump around in a blur of philosop... (@NewBooksPhil, 40 minutes, 2020-Mar-23) |
| 881. | Todd McGowan, "Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution" (Columbia UP, 2019) An Interview with Todd McGowan about his recent Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (Columbia University Press, 2019). The book advocates for the relevance of Hegel’s dialectical method to questions of contemporary theory and politics. It seeks to disabuse readers of common misapprehensions concerning Hegel’s philosophy, such as the familiar thesis-antithesis-synthesis s... (@NewBooksPhil, 53 minutes, 2020-Mar-23) |
| 882. | 89 | Lera Boroditsky on Language, Thought, Space, and Time What direction does time point in? None, really, although some people might subconsciously put the past on the left and the future on the right, or the past behind themselves and the future in front, or many other possible orientations. What feels natural to you depends in large degree on the native language you speak, and how it talks about time. This is a clue to a more general phenomenon, how l... (@seanmcarroll, 89 minutes, 2020-Mar-23) |
| 883. | Episode 185: The Devil's Playground David and Tamler begin by talking about the question on everyone’s mind right now – are we obligated to be pansexual? Then, since many of us have more free time on our hands these days, we thought it might be a good idea to revisit Bertrand Russell’s essay (published in Harper’s Magazine) “In Praise of Idleness.” How did workaholism become the norm? Why do we see working insanely long hours as a v... (@verybadwizards, 85 minutes, 2020-Mar-24) |
| 884. | Episode 76, René Descartes (Part IV - Meditations on First Philosophy, 5-6) All my life, I have been fed apples from that tree. I was told it was the only tree worth eating from. Every day, whether it was in school or in the church, someone would arrive with a basket, and I would take what they offered. Today a similar basket lays in front of me, full of apples I've been saving so to take a closer inspection. Check those apples for me would you? Why so worried? Surely if ... (@ThePanpsycast, 39 minutes, 2020-Mar-29) |
| 885. | #314 Zanna Clay: Bonobo Societies, And Comparative Psychology ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 47 minutes, 2020-Mar-30) |
| 886. | Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra - The Body And The Spirit - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 19th century philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, and focuses on his work Thus Spoke Zarathustra, specifically his discussion in part 1 of the relationship between the body and the spirit, and along with that the Ego and the Self. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so ... (@philosopher70, 13 minutes, 2020-Mar-16) |
| 887. | Ep. 239: Montesquieu Invents Political Science (Part One) On The Spirit of the Laws (1748) by Charles Louis de Secondat, aka Baron de Montesquieu. What keeps a society functioning? Montesquieu, though of course not the first political philosopher, was perhaps the first to systematically explore correlations between characteristics of a government, its people, its climate, dominant industries, religion, and other factors. Some of his ideas directly influe... (@PartiallyExLife, 45 minutes, 2020-Mar-23) |
| 888. | 3/2/2020: Philip Goff on Panpsychism and Free Will (@Aristotweets, 48 minutes, 2020-Feb-10) |
| 889. | S01E17: Surviving a Slow Motion Disaster - Amanda Ripley Amdana Ripley, best selling author of "The Unthinkable: Who Survives when Disaster Strikes and Why" talks with Jay Shapiro during coronavirus lock down. Topics discussed: Ripley's work with ignored hurricane warnings, 9/11 rescues, stampedes at the Hajj, surviving plane crashes, what good risk communication sounds like, what personal resilience means for our collective safety, and the danger of ... (@DilemmaPodcast, 75 minutes, 2020-Mar-30) |
| 890. | Podcast episode 4: Interview with Jürgen Trabant on Wilhelm von Humboldt In this episode, we talk to Jürgen Trabant about Wilhelm von Humboldt. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts References for Episode 4 Primary sources Humboldt, Wilhelm von (1836), ‘Über die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues’, Über die Kawi-Sprache auf der Insel…Read more › (@hiphilangsci, 2020-Mar-30) |
| 891. | Terminator 2: Judgment Day The two cows discuss time travel, religious themes, and the nature of sequels in this action-packed episode. (@cowspod, 65 minutes, 2020-Mar-30) |
| 892. | BONUS—How to work together through coronavirus Like the whole world, the Short & Curly team is dealing with the coronavirus. In this special episode, Matt, Carl and Molly talk about how working together when things get hard can make a big difference for everyone. And Carl learns that wearing lycra and doing jazzercise is great fun when you’re in isolation! If you’re doing it a bit tough and need some help there are a bunch of places you g... (@matthewtbeard, 13 minutes, 2020-Mar-20) |
| 893. | AI and moral intuition: use it or lose it? Artificial intelligence is helping us to make all sorts of decisions these days, and this can be hugely useful. But if we outsource our moral intuition to AI, do we risk becoming morally de-skilled? (@DavidPZone1, 28 minutes, 2020-Mar-29) |
| 894. | STM Podcast #46: Liz Dorval - How Are We Dealing With The Coronavirus? On episode 46, we welcome back Liz Dorval to discuss our lives in the midst of the COVID-19 epidemic, the medical facts of the virus and its spread, how its impacted mental health, and ways of helping others act in the best interests of everyone affected. Leon Garber is a philosophical writer, contemplating and elucidating the deep recesses of man's soul. He is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor/P... (@seize_podcast, 65 minutes, 2020-Mar-29) |
| 895. | Ep. 4 - (ft.) Ben Burgis: Moral Responsibility in a Determined World In this episode, I speak with Ben Burgis for a second time about free will compatiblism in a deterministic world. We speak about the metaphysics of free will and determinism, and what should constitude ground for moral responsibility. We also discuss my grad school writing sample and Christine Korsgaard's work. Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://twitter.com/BenBurgis https... (@Jordan_C_Myers, 95 minutes, 2020-Mar-29) |
| 896. | Episode 3: Reclining If you’re going to recline your seat on an airplane, you should do it gently. And if you’re going to kill your enemy with the shyena ritual, you should build a brick altar. But should we do either of these things? Mimamsa and the logic of troubling commands. Sources and Links BBC clip from “Corona Virus: What is social distancing?” Kei Kataoka (2011), Kumarila on Truth, Omniscien... (@cmalcolmkeating, 16 minutes, 2020-Mar-27) |
| 897. | HoP 342 - Denis Robichaud on Plato in the Renaissance An interview with Denis Robichaud on how, and why, Plato was read in the Italian Renaissance. (@HistPhilosophy, 30 minutes, 2020-Feb-09) |
| 898. | Amy Reed-Sandoval, "Socially Undocumented: Identity and Immigration Justice" (Oxford UP, 2020) In Socially Undocumented: Identity and Immigration Justice (Oxford University Press, 2020), Amy Reed-Sandoval reframes the question of immigration justice by focusing on the historical development and lived experiences of socially undocumented identity. Drawing on ethnography, phenomenological analysis, storytelling, and a non-ideal theory approach, she tracks the development of racialized, class-... (@NewBooksPhil, 60 minutes, 2020-Mar-20) |
| 899. | Episode #141 ... Isaiah Berlin pt. 2 - Pluralism and Culture Today we continue talking about the work of Isaiah Berlin. (@iamstephenwest, 24 minutes, 2020-Mar-28) |
| 900. | EV - 134 Existential Risk with Phil Torres My guest this week is the well timed Phil Torres (@@xriskology), an expert on existential risk. We discuss the field of existential risk and several top contenders for what might kill us all.Phil's website: https://www.xriskology.com/Editing by Brian Ziegenhagen, check out his pod: http://youarehere.libsyn.com/s02e02-rex-... by GW RodriguezSibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.li... (@ETVPod, 69 minutes, 2020-Mar-20) |
| 901. | Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Suffering And The Afterworld - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 19th century philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, and focuses on his work Thus Spoke Zarathustra, specifically his discussion in part 1 of the notion of an afterworld and the people who advocate and hope for it. Nietzsche rejects any such world beyond this one and explains how the conception of it has its source in human responses to their own suffering To support my... (@philosopher70, 12 minutes, 2020-Mar-13) |
| 902. | #313 Robert Kelly: The Fifth Beginning, And The Lifeways Of Hunter-Gatherers ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 10 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y9r3fc9m PayPal Subscription... (@TheDissenterYT, 104 minutes, 2020-Mar-27) |
| 903. | Shorts - E25: Pedants and Magisters Stay in yer lane, puny pedants!! This time the Dawdlers ponder the question: What is preferable, being a pedant or a magister? Tune in to find out which! Then celebrate by doing the ma-corona! [moves: go to beach, dig hole in sand, stick head in] (@dawdlerspodcast, 18 minutes, 2020-Mar-27) |
| 904. | #312 Sven Nyholm - Humans and Robots: Ethics, Agency, and Anthropomorphism ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 10 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y9r3fc9m PayPal Subscription... (@TheDissenterYT, 103 minutes, 2020-Mar-26) |
| 905. | Tara Smith on Coronavirus, Pandemics, and What We Can Do This is a special episode of Mindscape, thrown together quickly. Many thanks to Tara Smith for joining me on short notice. Tara is an epidemiologist, and a great person to talk to about the novel coronavirus (and its associated disease, COVID-19) pandemic currently threatening the world. We talk about what viruses are, how they spread, and a lot of the science behind virology and pandemics. We als... (@seanmcarroll, 81 minutes, 2020-Mar-18) |
| 906. | Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra - The Three Metamorphoses - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 19th century philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, and focuses on his work Thus Spoke Zarathustra, specifically his discussion in part 1 of the three metamorphoses that he suggests a person go through - the camel, the lion, and the child. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can ... (@philosopher70, 17 minutes, 2020-Mar-11) |
| 907. | 442: Philosophy of Trash More at www.philosophytalk.org/shows/philosophy-... "One man's trash is another man's treasure," or so the saying goes. But what makes something trash to begin with? The word can be used to describe disposable objects, pieces of culture, or even people. Underlying each of these uses, however, are feelings of indifference, disdain, or disgust. How do the things that we call trash reflect our v... (@philtalkradio, 10 minutes, 2020-Feb-29) |
| 908. | The Myth of the Self | Julian Baggini, Angie Hobbs, John Milbank It is said that Mother Theresa allowed many to die unnecessarily and glorified suffering. While Stalin was a loving son to his parents, and Hitler - a vegetarian who adored his dog. Are we wrong to assume that there is a single self behind our actions? Are people not good or bad but only individual actions? Should we accept that we are inconsistent and unpredictable? Or is consistency and integ... (@IAI_TV, 43 minutes, 2020-Mar-10) |
| 909. | David Chalmers Live! Join me for a discussion with David Chalmers, University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science and co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at New York University. (@onemorebrown, 2020-Mar-18) |
| 910. | 0G97: Bioshock and Going Galt Hey, podcast listener. Are you feeling down? Don't got enough old timey eugenics in your life? Well come on up to our floating spaceship of horrors, I mean HUMORS! We've got weird new DNA for everybody and we can all go Galt together. Turn that taker mind into a maker mind, with Philosophers in Space brand plasmids. Come on, it's your rational birthright! Who is John Galt?: https://en.wikipedia.or... (@0gPhilosophy, 37 minutes, 2020-Mar-25) |
| 911. | What (new) forms of living might the coronavirus produce? What new forms of life together — of modesty, prudence, simplicity, mutuality, sociality and cooperation — might we discover under the conditions of scarcity and social isolation imposed by the coronavirus, that perhaps we didn’t envision in more 'normal' times? (@RadioNational, 39 minutes, 2020-Mar-25) |
| 912. | Ep.83 Phenomenology Part 4: Inauthenticity This week DON’T join Mike and Danny - seriously, stay away, keep your distance - as they lock themselves down in the WTF bunker to wait for everything to blow over. Listen in (from a remote and safe distance) as we discuss microwaves, freezers and incessant noise. Enjoy the peace and quiet of social isolation as the chatter dies down and we confront the inauthenticity of our existence. Alternative... (@PhilosophyWtf, 18 minutes, 2020-Mar-25) |
| 913. | ARENDT, FREEDOM, & PROTEST With Roger Berkowitz What is the conception of Freedom in the work of Hannah Arendt? How could this be used to justify, or criticize, modern protest movements? (@PolPhilPod, 98 minutes, 2020-Mar-21) |
| 914. | Tony Ro Live! Join me for a discussion with Tony Ro, Presidential Professor of Psychology and Biology and director of the M.S. Program in Cognitive Neuroscience at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York Tony’s Lab: https://rolab.ws.gc.cuny.edu/tro/ (@onemorebrown, 2020-Mar-17) |
| 915. | 88 | Neil Shubin on Evolution, Genes, and Dramatic Transitions “What good is half a wing?” That’s the rhetorical question often asked by people who have trouble accepting Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. Of course it’s a very answerable question, but figuring out what exactly the answer is leads us to some fascinating biology. Neil Shubin should know: he is the co-discoverer of Tiktaalik Roseae, an ancient species of fish that was in th... (@seanmcarroll, 93 minutes, 2020-Mar-16) |
| 916. | Bonus Episode: Top 5 Deadwood Characters Here's something that might help with the Coronavirus blues: we're releasing our latest Patreon bonus episode for everyone. In this (unedited) episode, Tamler and David talk about their Top 5 Deadwood characters. If you've seen the show, let us know if you agree or disagree, or if we should go fuck ourselves. And if you haven’t watched it yet, you might have some time on your hands for the next mo... (@verybadwizards, 87 minutes, 2020-Mar-17) |
| 917. | The Philosophers’ Book Club: Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman Paul Fagan /Clare Moriarty/ David Papineau Listen here or on YouTube ‘What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.’ The Philosopher’s Book... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Feb-25) |
| 918. | HAP 45 - Unnatural Causes - Hosea Easton’s Treatise Hosea Easton’s Treatise provides an overlooked but fascinating theory of race and racism. (@HistPhilosophy, 32 minutes, 2020-Feb-02) |
| 919. | Episode 76, René Descartes (Part III - Meditations on First Philosophy, 3-4) All my life, I have been fed apples from that tree. I was told it was the only tree worth eating from. Every day, whether it was in school or in the church, someone would arrive with a basket, and I would take what they offered. Today a similar basket lays in front of me, full of apples I've been saving so to take a closer inspection. Check those apples for me would you? Why so worried? Surely if ... (@ThePanpsycast, 50 minutes, 2020-Mar-22) |
| 920. | #311 Renee Magnan: Health, Affect, Physical Activity, And Addiction ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 51 minutes, 2020-Mar-23) |
| 921. | Ep. 238: Lingering Questions Mark, Wes, Dylan, and Seth summarize thoughts about our recent series on social construction, gender and sex, and Judith Butler's notion of "grievable lives." Should we stop covering so much contemporary work and/or political topics? End song: "The Size of Luv" by Mark Lint from Mark Lint's Dry Folk (2018). Sponsor: Get your first month of hair loss prevention medication free at keeps.com/pel. Get... (@PartiallyExLife, 76 minutes, 2020-Mar-16) |
| 922. | Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra - The Last Man - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 19th century philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, and focuses on his work Thus Spoke Zarathustra, specifically his discussion in part 1 of a possible end for humanity - the Last Men - people who no longer strongly desire and strive, a herd with no herdsman, whose lives have become largely meaningless. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/... (@philosopher70, 15 minutes, 2020-Mar-08) |
| 923. |  Episode 68 - Sean VallesOn Episode 68, Nick chats with Dr. Sean Valles, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University and author of the book, Philosophy of Population Health: Philosophy for a New Public Health Era, about problematic discourse surrounding COVID-19, the need for promoting a “culture of health,” the dangers of COVID-19 hobbyism, addressing COVID-19 mental health concerns, adv... (@SciPhiPod, 2020-Mar-18) |
| 924. | Elucidations Episode 124: Graham Priest discusses Buddhist political philosophy Episode link here:https://elucidations.now.sh/posts/e... this episode, Graham Priest returns to discuss Buddhist political philosophy with me and Henry Curtis. (Last month, we talked with him about Buddhist metaphysics.) Last month, we discussed the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism: that suffering happens, that this suffering is (partially) caused by emotional attachment, that you can deal ... (@ElucidationsPod, 41 minutes, 2020-Mar-21) |
| 925. | LGBT elders, isolation and loneliness As LGBT people grow old, they can become particularly vulnerable to social isolation and loneliness. Simone de Beauvoir had a keen appreciation of the challenges of ageing – “old age exposes the failure of our entire civilisation” – so can we find resources in her brand of existentialism that address some of the issues raised by LGBT elders? (@DavidPZone1, 28 minutes, 2020-Mar-22) |
| 926. | STM Podcast #45: Hiram Crespo- How to Live a Good Life According to Epicurus On episode 45, we welcome philosopher Hiram Crespo to discuss the philosophy of Epicurus, using the hedonic calculus to form moral judgments, the importance of friendships for our happiness and growth, and creating a society that factors in the changing labor market. Hiram Crespo is a freelance translator, blogger, philosopher, and author whose philosophical and opinion pieces have been featured i... (@seize_podcast, 73 minutes, 2020-Mar-22) |
| 927. | Shorts - E24: Deadlock Longest. Dawdle. Yet. But we come back to you now at the turn of the tide. This time Ryan asks a question and Harland gets it wrong (of course). But we're ok. Are YOU ok? Let's talk about how the world will end then, shall we? (@dawdlerspodcast, 18 minutes, 2020-Mar-22) |
| 928. | Episode 2.1: Disease and debate What does an ancient Sanskrit text have to tell us about reasoning about the coronavirus and debating with people about its treatment? Caraka’s Compendium, a medical treatise, gives some guidelines for when to bother debating with people, and whom we should trust with our health. Sources & links Online Searchable Caraka Samhita Translation of Caraka Samhita from the episode Philosophy a... (@cmalcolmkeating, 13 minutes, 2020-Mar-20) |
| 929. | 496: Is the Self an Illusion? More at www.philosophytalk.org/shows/self-illusi... Most of us think it’s obvious that we have a self, but famously, both Buddhism and British philosopher David Hume are skeptical that such a thing exists. What in the world could it mean to deny that the self exists? Could ‘the self’ just refer to a series of perceptions and feelings we have over time? If so, then whose perceptions and feelin... (@philtalkradio, 11 minutes, 2020-Feb-24) |
| 930. | Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra - The Superman And Man As A Bridge - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 19th century philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, and focuses on his work Thus Spoke Zarathustra, specifically his discussion in part 1 of the work in which Zarathustra introduces the notion of the "superman" or "overman" (Ubermensch), a new type of human as beyond us as we are beyond apes. Current humanity, according to Nietzsche, should be a bridge t and find its meaning... (@philosopher70, 18 minutes, 2020-Mar-06) |
| 931. | #310 Hal Whitehead: The Sociality And Culture Of Whales ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 62 minutes, 2020-Mar-20) |
| 932. | Ep. 3 - (ft.) Professor Alastair Wilson: The Nature of Contingency In this episode, I spoke with Professor Alastair Wilson about his newly released book, The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism. We spoke about contingency, counterfactuals, the multiple worlds interpretation of quantum physics, free will, and more. This was a true education for me with a great mind and a great writer, and I hope you find this conversation valuable as well. ... (@Jordan_C_Myers, 61 minutes, 2020-Mar-20) |
| 933. | EV - 133 Open Minded Centrism with Andrea Lewis My guest this week is Andrea Lewis (@AndreaLynnLewis), host of Andrea with the Bangs on Youtube and the She Wonders Why podcast. We discuss the culture wars from her centrist vantage and what distinguishes her position from progressivism.Andrea with the Bangs: https://t.co/Ijqo7IoaM5?amp=1She Wonders Why: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sh... by Brian Ziegenhagen, check out his pod: http://y... (@ETVPod, 77 minutes, 2020-Mar-12) |
| 934. | SANDERS, WARREN, & the Ideological Future of the Left What enabled the Sanders campaign to attract the support that it did? I consider this question using a variety of analytic frameworks. I also consider the differences/ dividing lines between Sanders & Warren & end looking at the future challenges & opportunities for left-wing ideologies. (@PolPhilPod, 136 minutes, 2020-Mar-16) |
| 935. | #309 Robert Sapolsky: Human Behavior, Evolution, Morality, and Free Will ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 39 minutes, 2020-Mar-19) |
| 936. | Friedrich Nietzsche, Truth And Lies - Myth, Art, Metaphor, And Intuition - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 19th century philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, and focuses on his essay On Truth and Lies in an Extra-Moral Sense. Here we examine Nietzsche's discussion of the continued presence of the metaphor-producing drive of the human being even in late modern culture, and of the clash between the intuitive person and the rational person. Art and Myth are two main expressions a... (@philosopher70, 15 minutes, 2020-Mar-04) |
| 937. | Being a Person of Principle What does it mean to be a person of principle? Should you be a different type of person? Dylan and Zach work through two models of moral deliberation: principles vs. case by case. Which one is best? Might they be the same? If you want to know how to do the right thing, listen up! Dylan's article: https://thevimblog.com/2019/09/04/should... Reach out to us with your thoughts, critiqu... (@thevimblog, 85 minutes, 2020-Mar-15) |
| 938. | Why Philosophy Won't Go Away | Rebecca Goldstein Has science killed philosophy as Hawking famously claimed? What would Plato make of the debates between psychoanalysts and tiger mums, atheists and the religious, or search engines like Google? In this episode of Philosophy for Our Times, philosopher Rebecca Goldstein returns to philosophy's roots and makes her case for why humanity can't thrive without it. (@IAI_TV, 27 minutes, 2020-Mar-03) |
| 939. | Kareem Khalifa, "Understanding, Explanation and Scientific Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2017) What is the relation between understanding and knowledge in science? Can we understand a scientific theory if it is false? Do we understand a scientific proposition we can’t elaborate or do anything with? In Understanding, Explanation, and Scientific Knowledge (Cambridge University Press 2017), Kareem Khalifa argues for a revised version of a traditional view whereby understanding is a function of... (@NewBooksPhil, 59 minutes, 2020-Mar-10) |
| 940. | 20/1/2020: Emily Thomas on Time and Subtle Pictures in the History of Philosophy (@Aristotweets, 56 minutes, 2020-Jan-26) |
| 941. | The Departed The two cows go to confession with Martin Scorsese's Boston crime drama. (@cowspod, 34 minutes, 2020-Mar-19) |
| 942. | HoP 341 - True Romance - Theories of Love Ficino describes a “Platonic” love purified of sexuality, prompting a debate carried on by Pico della Mirandola, Pietro Bembo, and Tullia d’Aragona. (@HistPhilosophy, 32 minutes, 2020-Jan-26) |
| 943. | Friedrich Nietzsche, Truth And Lies - Idealism, Natural Laws, And Science - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 19th century philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, and focuses on his essay On Truth and Lies in an Extra-Moral Sense. Here we examine Nietzsche's discussion of the contrast between the perspectives of idealism and a scientific attitude. Both of these ultimately turn out to involve a similar sort of projection of human categories onto reality. To support my ongoing w... (@philosopher70, 16 minutes, 2020-Mar-03) |
| 944. | 69 - Wood on Sustainable Superabundance In this episode I talk to David Wood. David is currently the chair of the London Futurists group and a full-time futurist speaker, analyst, commentator, and writer. He studied the philosophy of science at Cambridge University. He has a background in designing, architecting, implementing, supporting, and avidly using smart mobile devices. He is the author or lead editor of nine books including, "RA... (@JohnDanaher, 2020-Feb-24) |
| 945. | 0G96: Serenity and Positive Eugenics This episode is about Eugenics in much the same way that Firefly is about the civil war. That is to say, it's okay that we're the baddies here cause we're loveable scamps. We discuss whether it is moral to make people better, which is clearly a separate question from whether it is technically possible, which it totally is. Recent resurgence in Eugenics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics#M...... (@0gPhilosophy, 39 minutes, 2020-Mar-18) |
| 946. | What does the coronavirus reveal about us? Is there a way of responding to the coronavirus that is both effective and ethical? That contributes to the tasks of social cohesion and mutual concern? (@RadioNational, 41 minutes, 2020-Mar-18) |
| 947. | Ep.82 Phenomenology Pt 3: Heidegger and Sartre This week Mike and Danny are there, no not just there but THERE. Listen in as Heidegger throws us all into a party we never signed up for. Will we enjoy it? Will it have decent snacks? What will the toilet-paper situation be like? We just don’t know and nobody will tell us. Yes, join the un-negotiated rollercoaster, don’t listen to the chatter, oh no, ignore the rumours and speculation, yes, that’... (@PhilosophyWtf, 28 minutes, 2020-Mar-18) |
| 948. | Immigration Detention Mishka/ Mary Bosworth/ Matthew Gibney Listen here or on YouTube Thousands of foreign nationals are held in immigration detention across the country. Some are detained on arrival, and others after... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Feb-18) |
| 949. | 87 | Karl Friston on Brains, Predictions, and Free Energy If you tell me that one of the world’s leading neuroscientists has developed a theory of how the brain works that also has implications for the origin and nature of life more broadly, and uses concepts of entropy and information in a central way — well, you know I’m going to be all over that. So it’s my great pleasure to present this conversation with Karl Friston, who has done exactly that. One o... (@seanmcarroll, 90 minutes, 2020-Mar-09) |
| 950. | Friedrich Nietzsche, Truth And Lies - Rationality, Abstraction & Anthropomorphism - Sadlers Lectures This lecture discusses the 19th century philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, and focuses on his essay On Truth and Lies in an Extra-Moral Sense. Here we examine Nietzsche's discussion of the development of a larger framework of truth, in which rationality, abstraction, and anthropomorphism play central roles. An entire domain of what seems to be objective truth ends up being established, connected... (@philosopher70, 11 minutes, 2020-Mar-02) |
| 951. | Episode 184: Tainted Glove David and Tamler start off talking about the infamous Richard Dawkins eugenics tweet. What does it mean for eugenics to “work”? And given the sensitive nature and horrific history of eugenics, is it wrong to raise the topic even if you’re just focused on the science? Hey we’re just asking questions, man… Then, huge baseball fan that he is, David insists that we talk about the massive Houston Ast... (@verybadwizards, 85 minutes, 2020-Mar-10) |
| 952. | Ep. 237: Walter Benjamin Analyzes Violence (Part Two) Continuing on Benjamin's "Critique of Violence" (1921). Mark, Wes, and Seth keep trying to figure out this difficult essay. Is Benjamin really advocating a workers' revolution to end the state, or just reflecting on a hypothetical to explore the limits of the concept of violence? According to Judith Butler's interpretation of the essay, the takeaway is the alternative to motivation through force, ... (@PartiallyExLife, 47 minutes, 2020-Mar-09) |
| 953. | Episode 76, René Descartes (Part II - Meditations on First Philosophy, 1-2) All my life, I have been fed apples from that tree. I was told it was the only tree worth eating from. Every day, whether it was in school or in the church, someone would arrive with a basket, and I would take what they offered. Today a similar basket lays in front of me, full of apples I've been saving so to take a closer inspection. Check those apples for me would you? Why so worried? Surely if ... (@ThePanpsycast, 59 minutes, 2020-Mar-15) |
| 954. | #308 Pedro Galvão: O Que É A Ética? + Aborto E Eutanásia ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 10 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y9r3fc9m PayPal Subscription... (@TheDissenterYT, 127 minutes, 2020-Mar-16) |
| 955. | S01E16: Pandemic Special: Invisible Responsibility COVID-19 Jay and Coleman discuss the giant trolley problem that we're all living through in the midst of the pandemic. Topics discusses: The "worry-wart" paradox. Invisible responsibility of spreading a virus. Social media etiquette and how to deal with accounts with large follower totals in a time of crisis. The case for pure scientific research. Countries focused on how not "get" it versus ... (@DilemmaPodcast, 79 minutes, 2020-Mar-16) |
| 956. | Ep. 2.8 - (ft.) James Lindsay In this episode, James Lindsay joins me for a fun and deep talk on the Grievance Studies papers, his new book with Peter Boghossian, and Twitter trolls. Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/pet... If you leanred something from this episode, please consider supporting me here: https://www.patreon.com/jordanmyers Every dollar that comes in will ... (@Jordan_C_Myers, 81 minutes, 2020-Mar-16) |
| 957. | Ep. 2.10 - Moral Responsibility: Freedom and Resentment by P.F. Strawson In this episode, I discuss P.F. Strawson's landmark paper on moral responsibility, Freedom and Resentment, and its posing challenges towards those who believe free will and determinism have anything to do with responsibility. Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freew... https://letter.wiki/conversation/135 https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/deter...... (@Jordan_C_Myers, 25 minutes, 2020-Mar-16) |
| 958. | Ep. 2.11 - (ft.) Ben Burgis and Jon Rosen: Do We Have Free Will? Ben Burgis and Jon Rosen join me for a discussion on whether we have free will, or not, and if we do have it, is it the important type of freedom? I very much enjoyed hearing the two of them spar and I hope you find it valuable as well. Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: Ben's Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenBurgis Jon's Twitter: https://twitter.com/rosenbaier Iona Italia's talk ... (@Jordan_C_Myers, 97 minutes, 2020-Mar-16) |
| 959. | Ep. 2.9 - Moral Hypocrisy In this episode, Giffin, Jordan, Brian, and Adam talk about what moral hypocrisy is and what it is not. Plus, how bad is being a moral hypocrite really? Is is actually worse to be a hypocrite than just lie? Find out in this episode. Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/13/opini... https://psychology.iresearchnet.com/soci... https://rd.springer.com/a... (@Jordan_C_Myers, 82 minutes, 2020-Mar-16) |
| 960. | Friedrich Nietzsche, Truth And Lies - Metaphor, Language, And Concepts - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 19th century philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, and focuses on his essay On Truth and Lies in an Extra-Moral Sense. Here we examine Nietzsche's discussion of metaphor in that work, during which Nietzsche extends the concept of metaphor to all of the concepts human beings develop and use. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler ... (@philosopher70, 13 minutes, 2020-Feb-29) |
| 961. | Dangerous minds Heidegger was an unrepentant Nazi. Nietzsche's later work contains passages that openly advocate slavery and genocide. Today, with far-right extremism on the rise around the world, how concerned should we be when reading – and teaching – the work of these canonical figures? (@DavidPZone1, 28 minutes, 2020-Mar-15) |
| 962. | Cory Allen | The Astral Hustle joins the podcast to discuss mindfulness, life, and philosophy Mindfulness, life, philosophy, and more.....tune in! Check out Cory's book Now is the Way and his wonderful podcast The Astral Hustle: http://www.cory-allen.com/ Bonus Feed ($5 a month): https://www.patreon.com/thephilosophyguy Podcast: https://thephilosophyguy.fireside.fm/ Youtube: https://bit.ly/2Z0rAjA Social Links: Discord Squad: https://discord.gg/tH5Fydn Twitter: https://twitt... (@philosophyguy2, 72 minutes, 2020-Mar-12) |
| 963. | STM Podcast #44: Daniel A. Kaufman - How to Live a Good Life According to Aristotle On episode 44, we welcome philosopher Daniel A. Kaufman to discuss the flourishing life according to Aristotle, the limited utility of philosophy and self-help, debate the logic of Stoicism, and discuss the importance of experience and moderation in practical wisdom. Daniel A. Kaufman got his B.A. in history and philosophy at the University of Michigan and his Ph.D. in philosophy at the CUNY Grad... (@seize_podcast, 74 minutes, 2020-Mar-15) |
| 964. | Episode 2: The Man Taylor Swift does it, and so does Kalidasa. How does figurative speech work and why do we enjoy it so much? In this episode, I talk about how figurative language from Sanskrit poetry to William Shakespeare to Taylor Swift. Sources and Links Taylor Swift, “The Man” music video https://www.youtube.com/watch... Yigal Bronner, Extreme Poetry http://cup.columbia.edu/book... Kālidāsa, Raghuvaṃ... (@cmalcolmkeating, 16 minutes, 2020-Mar-13) |
| 965. | Ep. 2.4 - Aristotle's Virtue Ethics Part 1 of a 2 part series on Aristotelian virtue ethics. If you leanred something from this episode, please consider supporting me here: https://www.patreon.com/jordanmyers Every dollar that comes in will go towards bettering the show or towards funding my Philosophy PhD. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtM5SXg... You can also get in contact with me through Twitter: @JordanCMye... (@Jordan_C_Myers, 71 minutes, 2020-Mar-15) |
| 966. | Ep. 2.7 - (ft.) Clyde Rathbone In this episode, I speak with Clyde Rathbone who is a co-founder of Letter, a new and very engaging online marketplace of conversations. We discuss why the platform is very unique and inspiring, and about the health of out conversations, doing things that mater, and finding meaning in life. It was a all-around great talk, and I hope you think so too! Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: ... (@Jordan_C_Myers, 66 minutes, 2020-Mar-15) |
| 967. | Ep 2.3 - (ft.) Helen Pluckrose In this episode, I sit down with Helen Pluckrose to discuss the grievance studies papers she co-authored. We also discuss epistemology on the left and her upcoming book and how to combat regressive leftism. Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: http://platoscave.fireside.fm/guests/hel... If you leanred something from this episode, please consider supporting me here: https://www.patre... (@Jordan_C_Myers, 76 minutes, 2020-Mar-15) |
| 968. | Ep. 2.5 - Aristotelian Virtue Ethics vs Consequentialism In this episode, In this episode, Jordan, Brian, and Adam discuss the possible shortcomings of Aristotelian ethics as opposed to consequentialism or deontology. Plus, a quibble on moral relativism. If you leanred something from this episode, please consider supporting me here: https://www.patreon.com/jordanmyers Every dollar that comes in will go towards bettering the show or towards funding m... (@Jordan_C_Myers, 73 minutes, 2020-Mar-15) |
| 969. | Ep. 2.6 - (ft.) Peter Boghossian In this episode, I speak with Peter Boghossian about his new book, co-authored with James Lindsay, How To Have Impossible Conversations. We discuss the book, SJW culture, moral relativism, Twitter, the grievance studies paper, and more. I had a great time speaking to Peter and found him to be a downright decent and honest guy. I hope you enjoy our talk and buy his book. Here's any links you'll... (@Jordan_C_Myers, 62 minutes, 2020-Mar-15) |
| 970. | Ep. 2.2 - (ft.) Pastor Paul Vanderklay I spoke with Paul about many interesting topics: God, my religious experiences, his pastoral work, Jordan Peterson's religiosity, interpreting scripture, and more. This was a really interesting and fun episode, and I hope you think so too! Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://thatsbs.fireside.fm/guests/vande... If you leanred something from this episode, please consider supp... (@Jordan_C_Myers, 83 minutes, 2020-Mar-15) |
| 971. | 440: The Internet of Things More at www.philosophytalk.org/shows/internet-th... Smart TVs, refrigerators, cars, and houses—the internet of things refers to the networking of all the devices in our lives, as they gather data and interact with one another, apparently to make our lives easier. How will this augmented connectivity affect the way we live? If government agencies or hackers can potentially access the data our ... (@philtalkradio, 11 minutes, 2020-Feb-16) |
| 972. | EV - 132 American Atheism with Nick Fish My guest this week is Nick Fish (@AmericanAtheist), president of American Atheists and longtime organizer within the atheist community. We discuss our weirdly similar paths to community organizing and the hopeful direction of movement atheism.Invocation: Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyAmerican Atheist Convention: https://convention.atheists.org/?gclid=C... by Brian Ziegenhagen, che... (@ETVPod, 72 minutes, 2020-Mar-06) |
| 973. | Ep. 2.1 - (ft.) The Dirty History Podcast Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://www.dirtyhistorypod.com/ https://soundcloud.com/thomas-thompson-8... If you learned something from this episode, please consider supporting me here: https://www.patreon.com/jordanmyers Every dollar that comes in will go towards bettering the show or towards funding my Philosophy PhD. You can also get in contact with me through Twitter... (@Jordan_C_Myers, 129 minutes, 2020-Mar-14) |
| 974. | Friedrich Nietzsche, Truth And Lies - Invention Of Truth And Lying - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 19th century philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, and focuses on his essay On Truth and Lies in an Extra-Moral Sense. Here we examine Nietzsche's discussion of how truth and lying were invented by human beings. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.m... (@philosopher70, 10 minutes, 2020-Feb-27) |
| 975. | HAP 44 - Religion and Pure Principles - Maria W. Stewart Maria W. Stewart’s public addresses bring the concerns of African American women into the struggle against racial prejudice. (@HistPhilosophy, 23 minutes, 2020-Jan-19) |
| 976. | #307 Elizabeth Loftus: Memory, Eyewitness Testimony, and Recovered Memory Therapy ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 39 minutes, 2020-Mar-13) |
| 977. | Richard Polt, "Time and Trauma: Thinking Through Heidegger in the Thirties" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020) For some time, the German philosopher Martin Heidegger has been treated with a certain level of skepticism because of his engagement with the Nazi party, a skepticism that has resurfaced with the publication of the Black Notebooks, private journals he kept throughout the last several decades of his life. In his new book Time and Trauma: Thinking Through Heidegger in the Thirties (Rowman and Litt... (@NewBooksPhil, 58 minutes, 2020-Mar-04) |
| 978. | The Philosophy of Love (Actually) Sarah Churchwell/ Robert Hanks / Catherine Wheatley Listen here or on YouTube Marking the death of Stanley Cavell, we explore the philosophy of film in general, and the rom-com in particular. Can we... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Feb-12) |
| 979. | Philosophy Vs Quantum Theory | Tim Maudlin Philosopher of science Tim Maudlin discusses interpretations of quantum mechanics, explaining the pilot wave theory and objective collapse theory, and considers what we stand to learn from quantum theory about the nature of our universe. Tim Maudlin, author of Philosophy of Physics, is an American philosopher of science responsible for influential works on metaphysical foundations of physics and... (@IAI_TV, 21 minutes, 2020-Feb-25) |
| 980. | #306 Nadav Klein: Reputation, Prosociality, Moral Character, and Lie Detection ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 42 minutes, 2020-Mar-12) |
| 981. | Episode #140 ... Isaiah Berlin part one - Pluralism Today we begin discussing the work of Isaiah Berlin. (@iamstephenwest, 23 minutes, 2020-Mar-11) |
| 982. | 0G95: Stargate Atlantis and Gamification Picture in your head the "I'm not saying it was aliens..." guy, but that's the whole series. Boom, you're now caught up on Stargate and can fully enjoy this episode of lighthearted banter between archetypal humans as they toy with the lives of other humans in ways they can't begin to understand. We're watching season 3 episode 15 of Stargate: Atlantis. The episode is called "the game" so we though... (@0gPhilosophy, 44 minutes, 2020-Mar-11) |
| 983. | Is capitalism inimical to ethics? Does capitalism cultivate an ethos, an understanding of the nature of social relations and mutual obligation that is inimical to what might be called the demands of "democratic morality"? (@RadioNational, 80 minutes, 2020-Mar-11) |
| 984. | Ep. 81 Phenomenology Part 1: Husserl Part 2 Join Mike and Danny this week as they put a lasagne through a Star Trek transporter. What will come out the other side? Will the essence of the lasagne be preserved or will we be confronted by a soulless monster of cheese, meat and pasta? Can we ever identify the essence of anything without prior access to the recipe? Join us, and Husserl and judge for yourselves. (@PhilosophyWtf, 19 minutes, 2020-Mar-11) |
| 985. | ETHICS & PUBLIC POLICY with Jonathan Wolff What is the role of moral and political philosophy in policymaking? Should we try to apply ethical theories broadly or look at each case as they come up? I discuss this, and more, with Jonathan Wolff. (@PolPhilPod, 63 minutes, 2020-Mar-07) |
| 986. | Friedrich Nietzsche, Truth And Lies - What Is Truth? - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 19th century philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, and focuses on his essay On Truth and Lies in an Extra-Moral Sense. Here we examine Nietzsche's discussion of what Truth is - and his characterization of it as a "mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms" To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to ... (@philosopher70, 15 minutes, 2020-Feb-24) |
| 987. | "Dark Data: Why What You Don't Know Matters" with Professor David Hand In the era of big data and super-fast information capturing and processing systems, it is easy to imagine that we have all the information that lead to actionable insights, that we need to make good decisions. However, according to David Hand, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Senior Research Investigator at Imperial College London, the data we have are never complete. Just as much of the uni... (@BTG_ie, 44 minutes, 2020-Mar-11) |
| 988. | 86 | Martin Rees on Threats to Humanity, Prospects for Posthumanity, and Life in the Universe Anyone who has read histories of the Cold War, including the Cuban Missile Crisis and the 1983 nuclear false alarm, must be struck by how incredibly close humanity has come to wreaking incredible destruction on itself. Nuclear war was the first technology humans created that was truly capable of causing such harm, but the list of potential threats is growing, from artificial pa... (@seanmcarroll, 100 minutes, 2020-Mar-02) |
| 989. | Friedrich Nietzsche, Truth And Lies - Intellect And Dissimulation - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 19th century philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, and focuses on his essay On Truth and Lies in an Extra-Moral Sense. Here we examine Nietzsche's discussion of the human intellect. Like other philosophers he considers it to be a distinctively human capacity, but by contrast to them, he thinks that its focus isn't attaining truth, but rather that it is involved in dissimu... (@philosopher70, 12 minutes, 2020-Feb-23) |
| 990. | Ep. 237: Walter Benjamin Analyzes Violence (Part One) On "Critique of Violence" (1921). What is violence? Benjamin gives us a taxonomy: law-creating, law-preserving, mythological, and divine. Then he deconstructs his own distinctions to demonstrate that all state power is rotten through its being founded on and continually re-established by violence or the threat of it. Don't wait for part two. Get the full ad-free Citizen Edition now. Please support... (@PartiallyExLife, 44 minutes, 2020-Mar-02) |
| 991. | Episode 76, René Descartes (Part I - The Life of René Descartes) All my life, I have been fed apples from that tree. I was told it was the only tree worth eating from. Every day, whether it was in school or in the church, someone would arrive with a basket, and I would take what they offered. Today a similar basket lays in front of me, full of apples I've been saving so to take a closer inspection. Check those apples for me would you? Why so worried? Surely if ... (@ThePanpsycast, 77 minutes, 2020-Mar-08) |
| 992. | #305 Steven Pinker: The Enlightenment, Cultural Evolution, and the Human Mind ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 55 minutes, 2020-Mar-09) |
| 993. | S01E15: Season 1 in Hindsight - Jay Shapiro Jay reviews Season 1 with the help of his girlfriend, a piano, and a glass of wine. Submit your Season 2 Dilemma Ideas to [email protected] (@DilemmaPodcast, 72 minutes, 2020-Mar-09) |
| 994. | HoP 340 - Footnotes to Plato - Marsilio Ficino Marsilio Ficino’s revival of Platonism, with a focus on his proofs for the soul’s immortality in his magnum opus, the Platonic Theology. (@HistPhilosophy, 24 minutes, 2020-Jan-12) |
| 995. | David Estlund, "Utopophobia: On the Limits (If Any) of Political Philosophy" (Princeton UP, 2020) It is tempting to hold that any proposed principle of social justice is defective if it demands too much of people, given their proclivities. A stronger view, one that many philosophers find attractive, has it that there is something about the concept of justice that makes it the kind of thing that must be kept “down to earth,” and within our reach. A range of conceptual and methodological issues ... (@NewBooksPhil, 82 minutes, 2020-Feb-28) |
| 996. | 439: A World Without Work More at www.philosophytalk.org/shows/world-witho... Work: a lot lot of people do it, and a lot of people don’t seem to like it very much. But as computers and artificial intelligence get increasingly sophisticated, more and more of our workers will lose their jobs to technology. Should we view this inevitability with hope or with despair? Without the order and purpose that meaningful work pro... (@philtalkradio, 10 minutes, 2020-Feb-09) |
| 997. | The many and the one We casually talk about "Australia" as though it were a single entity. But what exactly is such a collective? And how can it be held responsible for its deeds - or misdeeds? This week we're talking group duties - and for International Women's Day, a conversation about gender and progress in philosophy. (@DavidPZone1, 28 minutes, 2020-Mar-08) |
| 998. | Martin Heidegger, Being And Time - Dasein, History, And Tradition - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 20th century philosopher, Martin Heidegger, and focuses on the introduction to his early work, Being and Time. Here we examine Heidegger's discussion of human beings' existence as historical, and understood through a tradition. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so ... (@philosopher70, 16 minutes, 2020-Feb-21) |
| 999. | STM Podcast #43: Derek McAllister - The History of the Diagnosis & Treatment of Mental Illness On episode 43, we welcome Derek McAllister to discuss the history of the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness, the criticisms of psychiatry and the medical model, the importance of being an active participant in psychotherapy, and the role of philosophy and religion in treating depression. Derek McAllister is a Philosophy Ph.D. candidate at Baylor University. He specializes in History of Phil... (@seize_podcast, 68 minutes, 2020-Mar-08) |
| 1000. | EV - 131 Politics sans Free Will with Iona Italia My guest this week is Iona Italia (@IonaItalia), cohost of the Two for Tea podcast and a frequent contributor at sites like letterwiki. We discuss her book on Argentinian Tango, our shared belief that free will is an illusion, and our divergent views on intersectionality.Invocation: David Foster Wallace, Infinite JestIona's book: https://www.amazon.com/Our-Tango-World-v... videos:Carlitos & No... (@ETVPod, 75 minutes, 2020-Feb-28) |
| 1001. | Martin Heidegger, Being And Time - The Concept Of Phenomenology - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 20th century philosopher, Martin Heidegger, and focuses on the introduction to his early work, Being and Time. Here we examine what Heidegger means by "phenomenology" in a discussion where he brings together the concepts of "phenomenon" and "logos" To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contrib... (@philosopher70, 19 minutes, 2020-Feb-20) |
| 1002. | THE IDEOLOGIES OF THE ANCIENTS 2 Cyrus In part 2 of the series, I explore the aftermath of the collapse of the Assyrian Empire and the extraordinary rise of Cyrus of Persia. I go into considerable detail on ancient society and religion, as well as considering how this history is presented in popular culture. (@PolPhilPod, 194 minutes, 2020-Mar-03) |
| 1003. | #304 Bryony Cole: The Future of Sex, Relationships, and Technology ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 10 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y9r3fc9m PayPal Subscription... (@TheDissenterYT, 69 minutes, 2020-Mar-06) |
| 1004. | Is Morality Rooted In Culture? | Joel Robbins From remote groups in Papua New Guinea to Pentecostal Christians, what can values and desires around the world tell us about the nature of morality? Cambridge anthropologist Joel Robbins tours the globe in search of the good. Joel Robbins is the Sigrid Rausing Professor of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University and author of Becoming Sinners. He specialises in the anthropology of religion a... (@IAI_TV, 43 minutes, 2020-Feb-18) |
| 1005. | Peace Louise Arimatsu/ Robin Dunford/ Rachel Julian/ Michael Neu Listen here or on YouTube Peace is highly valued, but how is it achieved? Why are some periods in world history relatively peaceful compared... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Feb-04) |
| 1006. | Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020) How does the world of book reviews work? In Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times (Princeton University Press, 2020), Phillipa Chong, assistant professor in sociology at McMaster University, provides a unique sociological analysis of how critics confront the different types of uncertainty associated with their practice. The book explores how reviewers get matched to books, ... (@NewBooksPhil, 42 minutes, 2020-Feb-25) |
| 1007. | Martin Heidegger, Being And Time - The Concept Of Logos - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 20th century philosopher, Martin Heidegger, and focuses on the introduction to his early work, Being and Time. Here we examine Heidegger's discussion of the meaning of the concept of "logos", which will feed into his discussion of the concept of "phenomenology". To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a ... (@philosopher70, 21 minutes, 2020-Feb-18) |
| 1008. | #18 Agency and Responsibility - Professor Pamela Hieronymi In this episode, I have the pleasure of hosting Professor Pamela Hieronymi, a professor of philosophy at UCLA. We talk about different kinds of responsibility and differentiate between reactive attitudes and objective attitudes in philosophy. We discuss what it means to be an agent, and also expand on the relationship between free will, and responsibility and agency. Lastly, Professor Hieronymi ex... (@PremisePodcast, 43 minutes, 2020-Mar-05) |
| 1009. | #303 Marco Neves: História e Evolução do Português, o AO, e os Nazis da Gramática ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 80 minutes, 2020-Mar-05) |
| 1010. | What Does it Mean to be a Political Pragmatist? The podcast returns with a discussion on the distinction between ideology and political pragmatism. Some politicians are called ideologues, like Bernie. Some are pragmatists, like Pelosi. What do they disagree on? What are the arguments for their differing approaches? Zach wrote an article on the topic. In this episode he attempts to lay out some of the ideas. Dylan, Gabe, Kevin, and John jo... (@thevimblog, 91 minutes, 2020-Mar-01) |
| 1011. | HAP 43 - Kill or Be Killed - David Walker’s Appeal David Walker defends violent resistance and encourages self-improvement in his incendiary and influential Appeal. (@HistPhilosophy, 25 minutes, 2020-Jan-05) |
| 1012. | 0G94: The Good Place and Universalist Enlightenment Okay, I'm finally ready. I've said my goodbyes. Our analysis here is complete, we can walk through the podcast arch and transcend to the next level of podhood. I want to thank you all for your loving patience and I leave you with this parting gift of a final wrap up of The Good Place and the ways it incorporated both Christian Universalism and Buddhism/Taoism into the final resolution. Now I'm gon... (@0gPhilosophy, 42 minutes, 2020-Mar-04) |
| 1013. | 85 | L.A. Paul on Transformative Experiences and Your Future Selves It’s hard to make decisions that will change your life. It’s even harder to make a decision if you know that the outcome could change who you are. Our preferences are determined by who we are, and they might be quite different after a decision is made — and there’s no rational way of taking that into account. Philosopher L.A. Paul has been investigating these transformative experiences — from... (@seanmcarroll, 74 minutes, 2020-Feb-24) |
| 1014. | International Women’s Day – cause for celebration, or commiseration? The corporate rebranding of International Women’s Day (IWD) couldn’t be further from the day’s revolutionary roots, or any meaningful discussion of women’s liberation. It negates any discussion of the nature of power under patriarchy, and how relations of power between women and men might be genuinely transformed. (@RadioNational, 39 minutes, 2020-Mar-04) |
| 1015. | Ep. 80 Phenomenology Part 1: Husserl This week join us as we look at something for a really long time to see what it is…no, much longer than that…longer…longer…okay, there it is! Yes, Danny and Dr Mike are going all phenomenological on your collective asses with our main man Eddy “the essence” Husserl. Listen in as the godfather of Phenomenology tells every philosopher in the room (perhaps with the exception of Aristotle) “You don’t ... (@PhilosophyWtf, 30 minutes, 2020-Mar-04) |
| 1016. | Episode 183: Accept the Mystery (with Paul Bloom) VBW favorite Paul Bloom takes a short break from his Sam Harris duties to help us break down the Coen Brothers' ode to uncertainty, A Serious Man. Does inaction have consequences? Can you understand the cat but not the math? Why are there Hebrew letters carved into the back of a goy's teeth? Dybbuk or no Dybbuk? Why does God make us feel the questions if he’s not gonna give us any answers? Plus,... (@verybadwizards, 99 minutes, 2020-Feb-25) |
| 1017. | Martin Heidegger, Being And Time - The Concept Of Phenomenon - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 20th century philosopher, Martin Heidegger, and focuses on the introduction to his early work, Being and Time. Here we examine Heidegger's discussion of the concept of phenomenon (which will feed into his discussion of what phenomenology means. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contributio... (@philosopher70, 19 minutes, 2020-Feb-16) |
| 1018. | Ep. 236: Judith Butler Interview: "The Force of Nonviolence" On The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind (2020). What is it to be nonviolent in political activity? Most ethics allow for self-defense, but Judith has a problem with defining "self" as well as "violence," and offers a full critique of the individualism that underlies typical Western approaches to both ethics and politics. Mark, Seth, and Wes interview Judith about these issues and the... (@PartiallyExLife, 65 minutes, 2020-Feb-24) |
| 1019. | Ep. 1 - The Allegory of the Cave Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: Plato's Republic, Allegory of The Cave: http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.h... Philophize This! Episodes 90, 91, 92, and 93 --- Primarily #92 That's BS #67 and #68 If you leanred something from this episode, please consider supporting me here: https://www.patreon.com/jordanmyers Every dollar that comes in will go towards bettering the sho... (@Jordan_C_Myers, 38 minutes, 2020-Mar-03) |
| 1020. | 441: Race Matters More at www.philosophytalk.org/shows/race-matter... Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful campaign demanding redress for the mistreatment of African-Americans by law enforcement in the United States. But it has also inspired deep antipathy from those who claim it overemphasizes racial issue... (@philtalkradio, 11 minutes, 2020-Feb-02) |
| 1021. | 68- Earp on the Ethics of Love Drugs In this episode I talk (again) to Brian Earp. Brian is Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy at Yale University and The Hastings Center, and a Research Fellow in the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford. Brian has diverse research interests in ethics, psychology, and the philosophy of science. His research has been covered in Nature, ... (@JohnDanaher, 2020-Feb-06) |
| 1022. | Episode 75, ‘Christian Animal Ethics’ with David Clough (Part II - Further Analysis and Discussion) With the dominance of humankind has come a new age, an age of global warming, ecological collapse, and sixth mass extinction. In 2018, it was reported that of all the Earth’s mammals, 96% are humans and livestock. Our overpopulation, overconsumption, and exploitation have caused a climate catastrophe, but we are not our only victims. Each year, over 70 billion land creatures and 7 trillion sea ani... (@ThePanpsycast, 61 minutes, 2020-Mar-01) |
| 1023. | #302 Jonathan Marks: Origin Stories In The Science Of Human Evolution ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 10 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y9r3fc9m PayPal Subscription... (@TheDissenterYT, 54 minutes, 2020-Mar-02) |
| 1024. | Episode 1: Threads Introduction to the podcast and, what do sutras and Twitter have in common? What do ancient Sanskrit aphorisms have in common with modern Internet communication? In this episode, Malcolm talks about sutras and Twitter, bedbugs and textual interpretation. Sources & Links Reply All: Bedbugs & Aliens: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/... English translation of... (@cmalcolmkeating, 13 minutes, 2020-Feb-29) |
| 1025. | Origin Of Mathematics and Mathematical Thinking with Dr Keith Devlin Mathematics is everywhere. We use numbers, quantities, values and measurements almost all the time. Counting and quantifying is part of almost everything that we do. An interesting question is how did it all start. When did humans start thinking mathematically and what is the origin of mathematical thinking. As we start tacking these questions, we stumble upon few more queries: how did our... (@BTG_ie, 56 minutes, 2020-Mar-02) |
| 1026. | Who Created God? | New Perspectives and the Content Often Missed Around this Question Who created God? What is God? How has the concept of God changed? Is the Universe Conscious? (@philosophyguy2, 33 minutes, 2020-Feb-27) |
| 1027. | The why of philosophy Is philosophy experiencing an unprecedented crisis? And are universities becoming a hostile environment for philosophers? (@DavidPZone1, 28 minutes, 2020-Mar-01) |
| 1028. | STM Podcast #42: Bryan Van Norden - How to Live a Good Life According to Confucius On episode 42, we welcome philosopher Bryan Van Norden to discuss Confucian ethics; how to commit to and implement righteousness, propriety, benevolence, and wisdom; and how our relationships define who we are. Bryan W. Van Norden (born 1962) is a translator of Chinese philosophical texts, scholar of Chinese and comparative philosophy, and public intellectual. He taught for twenty years at Vassar ... (@seize_podcast, 62 minutes, 2020-Mar-01) |
| 1029. | Megan Burke, "When Time Warps: The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence" (U Minnesota Press, 2019) In When Time Warps: The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence (University of Minnesota Press, 2019), Megan Burke considers the relationship of sexual violence to lived time by reexamining and building upon the work of Simone de Beauvoir, and in conversation with Judith Butler, María Lugones, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and many others. Through developing a feminist phenomenology of time... (@NewBooksPhil, 58 minutes, 2020-Feb-20) |
| 1030. | 9/12/2019: Meena Dhanda on the Philosophical Foundations of Anti-Casteism (@Aristotweets, 56 minutes, 2019-Dec-30) |
| 1031. | Martin Heidegger, Being And Time - Interpretations Of Dasein And Temporality This lecture discusses the 20th century philosopher, Martin Heidegger, and focuses on the introduction to his early work, Being and Time. Here we examine the interpretations of Dasein (human existence) and temporality he articulates and examines early on in the work. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, y... (@philosopher70, 16 minutes, 2020-Feb-13) |
| 1032. |  James Shelley (Auburn): “What Makes Aesthetic Value Value?”James Shelley (Auburn) presents “What Makes Aesthetic Value Value?” at Senate House in London (26/02/2020, 16-18:00) for the London Aesthetics Forum. Please do not cite or reproduce without permission. (@aestheticsforum, 2020-Feb-28) |
| 1033. | What’s the Point of Critique? Frida Beckman / Tom Boland Listen here or on YouTube Since Kant, scholars have tended to assume that the critical method is a fundamental part of doing philosophy. But can it help us address the... Podcasts from the Forum for Philosophy. Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective. (@forumphilosophy, 2020-Jan-28) |
| 1034. | Out of the Vat #5 – Heather Widdows Heather Widdows is John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics and Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor Research at the University of Birmingham. In this episode we talk to Heather about beauty, choice, and... Philosophers’ work and philosophers’ lives, both inside and outside of philosophy. Brought to you by the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, the Centre for Philosophy of Natural a... (@LSEPhilosophy, 17 minutes, 2020-Feb-04) |
| 1035. | How To Do Philosophy and Why | Timothy Williamson For millenia, humans have looked to philosophy to help them understand the world, but why is it then that so many people find philosophy confusing? Is the confusion perhaps part of the solution? Philosopher of logic Timothy Williamson outlines how philosophy can help us think more clearly, such as Alan Turing's use of logic to invent the computer, how the principles of logic can be understood as... (@IAI_TV, 21 minutes, 2020-Feb-11) |
| 1036. | Martin Heidegger, Being And Time - The Existential Analysis Of Dasein This lecture discusses the 20th century philosopher, Martin Heidegger, and focuses on the introduction to his early work, Being and Time. Here we examine what Heidegger means by the "existential analysis of Dasein" To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at Bu... (@philosopher70, 17 minutes, 2020-Feb-12) |
| 1037. | EV - 130 The Soul of Libertarianism with Jason Lee Byas My guest this week is Jason Lee Byas, a PhD student in political philosophy at University of Michigan. We discuss Libertarianism as a form of radical liberalism, how it has lost its way in the Trump era, and what can be done to turn it around.Invocation: Jindrich Styrsky, Emilie přichází ke mně ve snuRadical liberalism: The Soul of Libertarianism: https://c4ss.org/content/49939Editing by Brian Zie... (@ETVPod, 73 minutes, 2020-Feb-20) |
| 1038. | Podcast episode 3: Language classification In this episode, we look at language classification in the first half of the nineteenth century and at some key ideas in the work of Wilhelm von Humboldt. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts References for Episode 3 Primary Sources…Read more › (@hiphilangsci, 2020-Feb-29) |
| 1039. | HoP 339 - I’d Like to Thank the Academy - Florentine Platonism The blossoming of Renaissance Platonism under the Medici, who supported the scholarship of Poliziano, Ficino, and Pico della Mirandola. (@HistPhilosophy, 22 minutes, 2019-Dec-29) |
| 1040. | Why is mental healthcare so ethically confusing? Clinicians and institutions from an anthropological perspective In this talk, Neil Armstrong uses ethnographic material of NHS mental healthcare to raise some questions about autonomy, risk and personal and institutional responsibility. Neil Armstrong's research investigates mental health. He is particularly interested in how the institutional setting shapes so much of mental healthcare. His research aims to find ways that we might improve healthcare instituti... (@ethicsinthenews, 40 minutes, 2020-Feb-17) |
| 1041. | #301 Michael Masters: The Anthropology Of Identified Flying Objects ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 44 minutes, 2020-Feb-28) |
| 1042. | Martin Heidegger, Being And Time - Ontic And Ontological - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 20th century philosopher, Martin Heidegger, and focuses on the introduction to his early work, Being and Time. Here we examine what Heidegger means by two terms he uses quite frequently in the work, "ontic" and "ontological". To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so he... (@philosopher70, 19 minutes, 2020-Feb-11) |
| 1043. | PEL Presents: PMP#32: Judging "The Good Place" Mark, Erica, and Brian discuss Michael Schur's NBC TV show. Is it good? Does it actually teach moral philosophy? We talk sit-com tropes, TV finales, the show's convoluted structure, the puzzle of heaven, and more. For more, visit prettymuchpop.com. Hear bonus content for this episode at patreon.com/prettymuchpop. This podcast is part of the Partially Examined Life network and is curated by opencul... (@PartiallyExLife, 45 minutes, 2020-Feb-19) |
| 1044. | #300 Kristen Hawkes: The Grandmother Hypothesis ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 72 minutes, 2020-Feb-27) |
| 1045. | Martin Heidegger, Being And Time - The Question Of The Meaning Of Being - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 20th century philosopher, Martin Heidegger, and focuses on the introduction to his early work, Being and Time. Here we examine what Heidegger means by the "question of the meaning of being" To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at ... (@philosopher70, 13 minutes, 2020-Feb-10) |
| 1046. | Sacred and Profane Love Episode 20: Scruton's Wagner: Sex, Death, and the Sacred Sacred and Profane Love Episode 20: Scruton's Wagner: Sex, Death, and the Sacred by Sacred and Profane Love (@eudaimoniapod, 70 minutes, 2020-Feb-27) |
| 1047. | 495: Death of the Sentence More at www.philosophytalk.org/shows/death-sente... A child’s first sentence is a pivotal moment in her development when she is recognized as now capable of communicating complete thoughts. But in the twenty-first century, thoughts have become increasingly mediated by technology, and language more careless and informal as a result. Are texts, emails, tweets, and emojis responsible for the dec... (@philtalkradio, 9 minutes, 2020-Jan-27) |
| 1048. | 84 | Suresh Naidu on Capitalism, Monopsony, and Inequality Nations generally want their economies to be rich, robust, and growing. But it’s also important to person to ensure that wealth doesn’t flow only to a few people, but rather that as many people as possible can enjoy the benefits of a healthy economy. As is well known, the best way to balance these interests is a contentious subject. On one side we might find free-market fundamentalists who want to... (@seanmcarroll, 87 minutes, 2020-Feb-17) |
| 1049. | OG93: Good Place and Scanlon's Contractualism Why do all the good things gotta end ::Janet wailing gif:: Our wonderful journey has reached its natural conclusion and I'm still not ready. In part one of our goodbye to the good place we explain some of the repeated references to Scanlon's book What We Owe to Each Other, and the strengths and weakness of their setting up of the problem. Part two will discuss the solutions they reach and the role... (@0gPhilosophy, 40 minutes, 2020-Feb-26) |
| 1050. | Why do we want celebrities to be 'authentic'? Why it is that we want to know the 'truth' about celebrities? What happens when the very promise of transparency, of authenticity — of intimacy, even — becomes part of the carefully cultivated appearance of celebrity itself? (@RadioNational, 46 minutes, 2020-Feb-26) |
| 1051. | Ep. 79 Nietzsche Part 4 This week we start the big clean-up after the Nietzsche party. Listen in as Danny sweeps up the fragments of a delicate metaphysic that was carelessly pushed off the mantlepiece. Shake your head in mute disbelief as Mike does his best to scrub suspicious looking stains out of the carpet - has somebody spilt their abyss while wantonly shaking their will to boogie in front of impressionably young po... (@PhilosophyWtf, 32 minutes, 2020-Feb-26) |
| 1052. | S01E14: Selecting for Deafness - David Deutsch In the finale of Dilemma Season 1 famed author of "The Fabric of Reality" and "The Beginning of Infinity", David Deutsch, sits down with Jay Shapiro to discuss the ethics of a situation where deaf parents wish to use genetic selection techniques to intentionally choose having a deaf child. Deutsch lays out his intricately developed theories on knowledge, creativity, explanation, persons, and moral... (@DilemmaPodcast, 140 minutes, 2020-Feb-26) |
| 1053. | Ep. 235: Judith Butler's "Gender Trouble" (Part Three) Concluding "Gender Trouble" (1990), with just Mark, Wes, and Seth going carefully through pt I, sec v: "Identity, Set, and the Metaphysics of Substance," and pt III, sec iv: "Subversive Bodily Acts: Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions." Start with part one or get the unbroken, ad-free Citizen Edition. Please support PEL! End song: "I'm a Boy" by Lys Guillorn as interviewed for Nakedly Ex... (@PartiallyExLife, 68 minutes, 2020-Feb-17) |
| 1054. | IDEOLOGIES OF THE ANCIENTS 1 Ashurbanipal The first part of a multipart series looking at ideology in the ancient world. I start by looking at the royal pronouncements of Ashurbanipal from a Marxist, hermeneutic, and finally domination theory perspective. (@PolPhilPod, 130 minutes, 2020-Feb-21) |
| 1055. | Episode 75, ‘Christian Animal Ethics’ with David Clough (Part I - The Rise of the Vegangelicals) With the dominance of humankind has come a new age, an age of global warming, ecological collapse, and sixth mass extinction. In 2018, it was reported that of all the Earth’s mammals, 96% are humans and livestock. Our overpopulation, overconsumption, and exploitation have caused a climate catastrophe, but we are not our only victims. Each year, over 70 billion land creatures and 7 trillion sea ani... (@ThePanpsycast, 56 minutes, 2020-Feb-23) |
| 1056. | What is Consciousness? | And the Important Understandings Often Missed by Science Bonus Feed ($5 a month): https://www.patreon.com/thephilosophyguy Podcast: https://thephilosophyguy.fireside.fm/ Youtube: https://bit.ly/2Z0rAjA Social Links: Discord Squad: https://discord.gg/tH5Fydn Twitter: https://twitter.com/brendenweber_ Email List: https://bit.ly/2rKz8Zn Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thephilosophygu... Email: [email protected] Help Support t... (@philosophyguy2, 29 minutes, 2020-Feb-21) |
| 1057. | Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion - Seeing And Not Seeing God - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the medieval Christian thinker, monk, and bishop, Anselm of Canterbury's work, the Proslogion, and focuses on the his discussion in chapter 14 of how the human being is able to see and also not to see God. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/Reaso... (@philosopher70, 13 minutes, 2020-Feb-07) |
| 1058. | HAP 42 - James Sidbury on African Identity An interview with James Sidbury about the emergence of a self-conscious African identity in the diaspora. (@HistPhilosophy, 32 minutes, 2019-Dec-22) |
| 1059. | #299 Thom Scott-Phillips: The Biological And Cultural Bases Of Language ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 10 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y9r3fc9m PayPal Subscription... (@TheDissenterYT, 59 minutes, 2020-Feb-24) |
| 1060. | Tribal Truths and New Wisdom | Paul Mason, Hilary Lawson, Ella McPherson From populist demagogues to liberal elites, Fox News to the BBC, the warring tribes of our troubled world agree on few ideals and still fewer facts. Yet they all share the belief that they are right. Are we all suffering from the illusion that we can uncover the truth? Should we embrace a world of competing facts while still seeking a progressive and stable society? Or do we need new grand narra... (@IAI_TV, 39 minutes, 2020-Feb-05) |
| 1061. | Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion - Divine Mercy and Justice - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the medieval Christian thinker, monk, and bishop, Anselm of Canterbury's work, the Proslogion, and focuses on the discussion of the seeming paradox between divine mercy and divine justice in chapter 9-11. How is it that God can be merciful, and forgive those who would be justly punished, without thereby violating justice itself? To support my ongoing work, go to my Pa... (@philosopher70, 13 minutes, 2020-Feb-06) |
| 1062. | Is reason enough? These days it seems that critical thinking could be failing us – and we’re not sure why. Have too many people strayed from the path of reason? Or is reason insufficient – ever overrated – as an ingredient in the formation of good citizens? (@DavidPZone1, 28 minutes, 2020-Feb-23) |
| 1063. | STM Podcast #41: Owen Flanagan - How to Live a Good Life According to Buddhism On episode 41, we welcome philosopher Owen Flanagan to discuss using Buddhist philosophy to reduce suffering, the importance of detaching ourselves from our thoughts for political unity, redefining anger to create more compassion, and how our rigid self-conceptions make behavioral changes difficult. The link to his newest book is down below! Owen Flanagan, Ph.D. is the James B. Duke Professor of ... (@seize_podcast, 78 minutes, 2020-Feb-23) |
| 1064. | Chenyang Wang, "Subjectivity In-Between Times: Exploring the Notion of Time in Lacan's Work" (Palgrave, 2019) If you thought Jacques Lacan’s essay on "Logical Time" was the psychoanalyst’s final word on the subject, then this interview has a lot to teach you! In his new book Subjectivity In-Between Times: Exploring the Notion of Time in Lacan's Work (Palgrave, 2019), emerging scholar of psychoanalytic theory and continental philosophy Chenyang Wang offers the first systematic analysis of the notion of tim... (@NewBooksPhil, 73 minutes, 2020-Feb-12) |
| 1065. | EV - 129 Philosophy of Disability with Elizabeth Barnes My guest this week is Elizabeth Barnes, a professor of philosophy at the glorious University of Virginia. We discuss her book The Minority Body and the challenges she has encountered when engaging with other philosophers on the lives of disabled individuals. We also break new ground in the emerging sub-discipline of doggo metaphysics.Elizabeth's homepage: https://elizabethbarnesphilosophy.weebly..... (@ETVPod, 68 minutes, 2020-Feb-13) |
| 1066. | Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion - Divine Omnipotence and What God Can't Do - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the medieval Christian thinker, monk, and bishop, Anselm of Canterbury's work, the Proslogion, and focuses on the puzzle of how God can be omnipotent if there are things God is not able to do. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at B... (@philosopher70, 13 minutes, 2020-Feb-04) |
| 1067. | Chance Garton (Innerverse) | What is New Age Spirituality? The great, the good, and the bad....Philosophy of Mind, Panpsychism, Idealism, Archetypes, and More I'm joined by Chance of the Innververse podcast to turn the tables a bit! I interview him...but of course this leads into another great discussion. We discuss New Age sprituality....the very loaded term and how it's quite literally making old ideas full of wisdom again. Also, we discuss more philosophy of mind to expand on our last discussion. Check out his show: https://www.innerversepodcast.c... (@philosophyguy2, 122 minutes, 2020-Feb-18) |
| 1068. | #298 Michael Inzlicht: Self-control, Gratification Delay, Ego-depletion, And The Replication Crisis ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 10 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y9r3fc9m PayPal Subscription... (@TheDissenterYT, 80 minutes, 2020-Feb-21) |
| 1069. | Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion - The Ontological Argument - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the medieval Christian thinker, monk, and bishop, Anselm of Canterbury's work, the Proslogion, and focuses on the so-called "ontological argument" as found in chapter 2 (and also chapters 3 and 4) of the work. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/R... (@philosopher70, 15 minutes, 2020-Feb-03) |
| 1070. | Travis Dumsday, "Dispositionalism and the Metaphysics of Science" (Cambridge UP, 2019) Dispositionalism is the view that there are irreducible causal powers in nature that explain why objects behave as they do. To say salt is soluble in water, for example, is to say that salt has the disposition to dissolve in water, and this disposition is understood as a real causal power of salt. In Dispositionalism and the Metaphysics of Science (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Travis Dumsday... (@NewBooksPhil, 66 minutes, 2020-Feb-10) |
| 1071. | HoP 338 - All About Eve - the Defense of Women Refutation of misogyny in Moderate Fonte and Lucrezia Marinella. (@HistPhilosophy, 21 minutes, 2019-Dec-15) |
| 1072. | #297 Richard Ronay: Evolution, Hierarchy, And Leadership ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 54 minutes, 2020-Feb-20) |
| 1073. | 83 | Kwame Anthony Appiah on Identity, Stories, and Cosmopolitanism The Greek statesman Demosthenes is credited with saying “I am a citizen of the world,” and the idea that we should take a cosmopolitan view of our common humanity is a compelling one. Not everyone agrees, however; in the words of former British Prime Minister Theresa May, “If you are a citizen of the world, you are a citizen of nowhere.” On the other side of the political spectrum, groups who shar... (@seanmcarroll, 99 minutes, 2020-Feb-10) |
| 1074. | 438: Post-Truth Politics More at www.philosophytalk.org/shows/post-truth-... You've probably heard about the dangerous effects of fake news, and the spread of sensational and targeted falsities. But what about "legitimate" news, one might still ask? Well, do you want the "liberal truth" or the "conservative truth"? Just stick to the facts? What if my "facts" differ from yours? Listen to science? Those scientists are ... (@philtalkradio, 12 minutes, 2020-Jan-18) |
| 1075. | CIVIL SOCIETY & DEMOCRACY With Robert Talisse Is politics everything? Have we lost our civil society institutions? Is there any hope left for a shared liberal consensus? I take on these questions, and more, in part 2 with Robert Talisse. I also celebrate the podcast's 100th episode and preview my upcoming solo series 'Ideologies of the Ancients.' (@PolPhilPod, 101 minutes, 2020-Feb-15) |
| 1076. | Episode 182: The Paper That Launched a Thousand Twitter Wars (With Yoel Inbar) Podcasting legend Yoel Inbar (from Two Psychologists Four Beers (https://fourbeers.fireside.fm)) joins us to break down Tal Yarkoni's "The Generalizability Crisis,” the paper that launched a thousand Twitter wars. Psychologists make verbal claims about the world, then conduct studies to test these claims - but are the studies actually providing evidence for those claims? Do psychological experimen... (@verybadwizards, 118 minutes, 2020-Feb-11) |
| 1077. | Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion - The "Single Argument" - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the medieval Christian thinker, monk, and bishop, Anselm of Canterbury's work, the Proslogion, and focuses on the scope and meaning of the "unum argumentum" (single argument) running through the work. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO -... (@philosopher70, 16 minutes, 2020-Feb-01) |
| 1078. | Rene Descartes, Meditations - Freedom & Power Of The Will - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher Rene Descartes' work The Meditations on First Philosophy, and focuses on his fourth meditation. This episode discusses the range, freedom, and power of the faculty of the will To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/Reason... (@philosopher70, 16 minutes, 2020-Feb-01) |
| 1079. | 0G92: Watchmen and Subjective vs. Objective This episode feels like a genuine culmination. After Wonkapiercer, I felt a little like Lindelof. Kind of lost, wondering if we could ever wrap something up in a fully satisfying way again. This feels pretty close. We've talked a lot of Watchmen on this show, and a lot of Thomas Nagel, and this week we bring it all together in one big blue climax. Nagel's Mortal Questions: https://www.amazon.com/... (@0gPhilosophy, 42 minutes, 2020-Feb-19) |
| 1080. | Ordinary vices: What’s wrong with lying? This week on The Minefield, we explore what Montaigne referred to as "that accursed vice" — the most corrupt and all-corrupting of them all: lying. (@RadioNational, 44 minutes, 2020-Feb-19) |
| 1081. | Ep. 235: Judith Butler's "Gender Trouble" (Part Two) More Gender Trouble (1990) with Jennifer Hansen. We get into the metaphysics of substance (is gender an attribute that a person has, or is there a better way to describe the situation?), performatives, Beauvoir vs. Irigaray on femininity, and the available mechanisms for changing gender norms. Start with Part One or get the full, ad-free Citizen Edition now so that you don't have to wait for Part ... (@PartiallyExLife, 69 minutes, 2020-Feb-10) |
| 1082. | Ep. 78 Nietzsche Part 3 This week the choice is yours, join the herd, be one with the collective or strike out with the force of your own will and join with…er….others who are doing likewise and form a different more powerful collective. Look on in mild interest as Nietzsche posts pictures of his cat, his lunch and that lovely weekend with the Wagners on social media to establish his own individuality along with everybod... (@PhilosophyWtf, 24 minutes, 2020-Feb-19) |
| 1083. | Parmenides, Fragments - Being And Non-Being - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, Parmenides, looking at the fragments of his work that we posses. This episode discusses the status of being and non-being in Parmenides' poem To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - h... (@philosopher70, 14 minutes, 2020-Jan-31) |
| 1084. | Episode 74, ‘Football’ with Stephen Mumford (Part II - Further Analysis and Discussion) Football is the most popular sport on the planet. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s experienced the excitement of matchday. It’s hard to remain indifferent when thousands of tightly packed fans, each patriotically sporting the colours of their team, sing, cheer and heckle in unison. The thrill of a crunching challenge, a derby victory, or a last-minute winner will undoubtedly elici... (@ThePanpsycast, 43 minutes, 2020-Feb-16) |
| 1085. | Parmenides, Fragments - Thought, Being, And Monism - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, Parmenides, looking at the fragments of his work that we posses. This episode discusses the identity or sameness of Thought and Being in Parmenides' poem To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyM... (@philosopher70, 13 minutes, 2020-Jan-30) |
| 1086. | #296 Laith Al-Shawaf: The Theoretical Bases Of Evolutionary Psychology, And Common Misconceptions ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 81 minutes, 2020-Feb-17) |
| 1087. | How Maths Changed Philosophy | Silvia Jonas What does mathematics have to do with the nature of human thought? How does it change how philosophers think of reality? Philosopher and author of 'Ineffability and its Metaphysics', Silvia Jonas explains how mathematics has come to shape our politics, ethics and our very idea of what the world is. (@IAI_TV, 27 minutes, 2020-Jan-28) |
| 1088. | HAP 41 - Should I Stay or Should I Go? - The Colonization Controversy Questions of political autonomy and group identity in the emigration movement led by Paul Cuffe, Daniel Coker, John Russwurm and others. (@HistPhilosophy, 22 minutes, 2019-Dec-08) |
| 1089. | Episode 123: Graham Priest discusses Buddhist metaphysics In this episode, Matt Teichman and Henry Curtis talk to Graham Priest (CUNY Graduate Center) about the philosophical foundations of Buddhism.Buddhism isn't just a religion--it's an entire family of philosophical traditions that took root all over the Asian continent for thousands of years. The historical Buddha articulated views in what we consider to be many different areas of philosophy, includi... (@ElucidationsPod, 48 minutes, 2020-Feb-15) |
| 1090. | Plato's woman problem In The Republic, Plato outlines a role for women in his ideal society that seems revolutionary, i.e. that they should occupy the highest position in public life. In Athenian society at the time, women were completely excluded from politics, so this is a radical proposal. But elsewhere, Plato expresses doubt about women’s natural abilities. What did he really think? And how does this tension persis... (@DavidPZone1, 28 minutes, 2020-Feb-16) |
| 1091. | STM Podcast #40: Skye Cleary - How to Live a Good Life According to Existentialism On episode 40, we welcome philosopher Skye Cleary to discuss authentic, romantic love, creating meaning according to existential philosophy, and how to effectively deal with the existential dread that all of us face. The link to her newest book is down below! Skye C. Cleary is the author of Existentialism and Romantic Love (2015) and co-editor of How to Live a Good Life (2020). She teaches at Col... (@seize_podcast, 74 minutes, 2020-Feb-16) |
| 1092. | Parmenides, Fragments - The Two Routes - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, Parmenides, looking at the fragments of his work that we posses. This episode discusses the two paths that the goddess sets out before Parmenides, requiring him to think and decide which to take To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so h... (@philosopher70, 14 minutes, 2020-Jan-28) |
| 1093. | 494: Comedy and the Culture Wars More at www.philosophytalk.org/shows/comedy-and-... Comedy can often give offense, especially when it concerns such sensitive topics as race, gender, and sexuality. Should comedy like that be shunned, boycotted, even banned? Can it be enjoyed without danger? Or could it even, at its best, be the road to a better society? Could it somehow help us all to live together, and to come to terms with... (@philtalkradio, 11 minutes, 2020-Jan-13) |
| 1094. | EV - 128 Substantial Selves with Donnchadh O'Conaill My guest is Donnchadh O'Conaill, a post-doc researcher at the University of Frizbourg. We discuss a new project he's working on called "The Subject of Experience: The significance of its Metaphysical Nature in the Philosophy of Mind". We discuss how the project aims to give an account of the self as a substance, which means this episode joins our controversial views library alongside logical posit... (@ETVPod, 74 minutes, 2020-Feb-06) |
| 1095. | A world without work How we will find meaning when machines take our jobs. (@DavidEdmonds100, 2020-Jan-20) |
| 1096. | DISAGREEMENT With Robert Tallise What are we ultimately disputing when we disagree politically? Is progress across moral and political divides possible, and if so when? I get into a spontaneous lively conversion with Robert Talise on the epistemic foundations of political pluralism. (@PolPhilPod, 87 minutes, 2020-Feb-11) |
| 1097. | FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN - I NEED YOUR SUPPORT Thank you all for this great first week of fundraising. It was great, but I still need more support. I would love to keep doing it for another 2 years, but to be honest, I am broke. For these past two years, I have brought on the show some of the top academics/scholars in a diversity of fields, like Psychology, Anthropology, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Philosophy, and even Literary Studie... (@TheDissenterYT, 11 minutes, 2020-Feb-15) |
| 1098. | #295 David Benatar: The Second Sexism; Discrimination Against Men And Boys ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 59 minutes, 2020-Feb-14) |
| 1099. | #294 Rob Dunn: Never Home Alone; The Species We Live With ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 60 minutes, 2020-Feb-13) |
| 1100. | 82 | Robin Carhart-Harris on Psychedelics and the Brain The Convention on Psychotropic Substances was a 1971 United Nations treaty that placed strong restrictions on the use of psychedelic drugs — not only on personal use, but medical and scientific research as well. Along with restrictions placed by individual nations, it has been very difficult for scientists to study the effects of psychedelics on the brain, despite indications that they m... (@seanmcarroll, 78 minutes, 2020-Feb-03) |
| 1101. | HoP 337 - More Rare Than the Phoenix - Italian Women Humanists Cassandra Fedele, Isotta Nogarola, and Laura Cereta seek fame and glory through eloquence and learning. (@HistPhilosophy, 21 minutes, 2019-Dec-01) |
| 1102. | 4/11/2019: Colleen Murphy on Principled Compromises (@Aristotweets, 52 minutes, 2019-Nov-29) |
| 1103. | Ep. 235: Judith Butler's "Gender Trouble" (Part One) On Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990). Is gender socially constructed, and if so, how? Butler describes gender not as an essential quality of a person, but as "performed," as habits of acting in certain ways in accordance with customs. Her idea of social construction is so totalizing that even biological sex itself is constructed. With guest Jennifer Hansen. This is par... (@PartiallyExLife, 52 minutes, 2020-Feb-03) |
| 1104. | Rene Descartes, Meditations - What Nature Teaches Us - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher Rene Descartes' work The Meditations on First Philosophy, and focuses on his sixth meditation. This episode discusses what Descartes takes "nature" to mean, what truths he thinks nature teaches us, and how nature does so. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribut... (@philosopher70, 14 minutes, 2020-Jan-24) |
| 1105. | Episode #139 ... Friedrich Von Hayek - The Road to Serfdom Today we begin our discussion of the work of Friedrich Hayek. (@iamstephenwest, 23 minutes, 2020-Feb-12) |
| 1106. | 0G91: Watchmen and The Absurd I know it's a bit ironically absurd to act like this particular podcast episode really matters, but I still feel like it genuinely does. We're taking HBO's epic one season masterpiece, Watchmen, and combining it with Nagel's epic chapter on The Absurd from the masterpiece book Mortal Questions. I've been thinking about some version of this episode and the next one probably since we started Philoso... (@0gPhilosophy, 42 minutes, 2020-Feb-12) |
| 1107. | Why does democracy demand transparency? Does representative democracy depend on practices of public scrutiny, or exercises of 'popular sovereignty' between elections? (@RadioNational, 48 minutes, 2020-Feb-12) |
| 1108. | Ep. 77 Nietzsche Part 2 This week, there is a party in the Abyss and everyone is invited! Mike and Danny have put you all on the list for the access all areas event of the entire Wednesday! DJ Dionysus will be blasting out some sick beats while MC Nietzsche lays down some bad ass rhymes like it weren’t no ting! This one is straight outta Basel: 'The G is D don’t give me any o' yo morality, It's absurd for the herd... (@PhilosophyWtf, 24 minutes, 2020-Feb-12) |
| 1109. | Rene Descartes, Meditations - Sense - Perception And External Things - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher Rene Descartes' work The Meditations on First Philosophy, and focuses on his sixth meditation. This episode examines his discussion of the sense-faculties and the reasons he gives for thinking that there are external objects and a world that we perceive via the senses To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadle... (@philosopher70, 15 minutes, 2020-Jan-23) |
| 1110. | Katherine Hawley, "How to Be Trustworthy" (Oxford UP, 2019) It is obvious that in our day-to-day lives, a lot hangs on trust, and thus on whether those around us are trustworthy. Yet there are several philosophical issues surrounding trust and trustworthiness. For example, is trusting someone different from relying on them? Correspondingly, is being trustworthy different from being reliable? Assuming that there is a difference, in what does the difference ... (@NewBooksPhil, 69 minutes, 2020-Jan-31) |
| 1111. | Episode 74, ‘Football’ with Stephen Mumford (Part I - The Philosophy Behind the Game) Football is the most popular sport on the planet. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s experienced the excitement of matchday. It’s hard to remain indifferent when thousands of tightly packed fans, each patriotically sporting the colours of their team, sing, cheer and heckle in unison. The thrill of a crunching challenge, a derby victory, or a last-minute winner will undoubtedly elici... (@ThePanpsycast, 65 minutes, 2020-Feb-09) |
| 1112. | Philosophers vs Post-Truth | Homi Bhabha, Rebecca Goldstein, Hilary Lawson In a post-truth world, tribal agreement seems to have replaced reason and evidence. But is a world where our truths are tribal sustainable? Don't we need a shared framework of thought to prevent fragmentation and confrontation? Can we rely on evidence and reason whilst abandoning absolute truth, or do we need reality after all? Philosopher and novelist Rebecca Goldstein, post-colonial theorist H... (@IAI_TV, 48 minutes, 2020-Jan-21) |
| 1113. | Episode 7: Clare Moriarty – Berkeley, Mathematics, Trolling and Tarwater Here are some links to find out even more: Our guest for this episode: Dr Clare Moriarty! * her personal webpage at KCL is here (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/dr-clare-m... and you can find her on twitter @quiteclare (https://twitter.com/quiteclare). * Here's Clare's excellent piece for History Ireland which discusses A Masterclass in Trolling from an 18th Century Bishop: 'Berkeley vs. Walton... (@DrJoeMorrison, 52 minutes, 2020-Feb-03) |
| 1114. | K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020) If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change. However, if you’ve spent the last several years working on a PhD, or if you’re a faculty member whose career has basically consisted of higher ed, switching isn’t so easy. PhD holders are mostly trained to work as professors, and making easy connections t... (@NewBooksPhil, 40 minutes, 2020-Jan-30) |
| 1115. | #293 Kristin Andrews: Animal Minds, Theory of Mind, And Animal Ethics ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 61 minutes, 2020-Feb-10) |
| 1116. | Innerverse | Panpsychism, Materialism, Idealism, and Intelligence in Nature I join Chance Garton from the Innerverse podcast (check it out!). In this host-to-host discussion, we look at the flaws in the materialist worldview and consider a variety of alternative cosmologies. We also consider the epistemology or moral lessons available to us by looking at intelligence in nature, the power of the individual, the ideas of thinkers like J. Krishnamurti, and more. Check out ... (@philosophyguy2, 83 minutes, 2020-Feb-06) |
| 1117. | HAP 40 - American Africans - Early Black Institutions in the US Building black institutions in early American history, with Prince Hall and the Masons in Boston, and Richard Allen and the Methodists in Philadelphia. (@HistPhilosophy, 22 minutes, 2019-Nov-24) |
| 1118. | S01E13: Self Driving Cars - Matthew B. Crawford The best selling author of Shop Class As Soulcraft and The World Beyond Your Head has a new book coming out entitled Why We Drive. He sits down with Jay Shapiro to ponder the philosophical and psychological transformations afoot in a future world of automated driving. "Human Intelligent Action", "Deskilling", "Mass Infantilization", The Luddites, London taxi drivers, speed limits on the Autobahn, ... (@DilemmaPodcast, 140 minutes, 2020-Feb-10) |
| 1119. | 437: Polyamory More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/pol... In most if not all modern Western societies, monogamy is the dominant form of romantic relationship. In polyamorous or "open" relationships, however, each person is free to love multiple partners at once. Just as our friendships are non-exclusive, advocates of polyamory believe our romantic relationship should be too. So why do so many peopl... (@philtalkradio, 10 minutes, 2020-Jan-05) |
| 1120. | Adrian Johnston, "A New German Idealism: Hegel, Žižek and Dialectical Materialism" (Columbia UP, 2018) In 2012, the world-renowned philosopher, psychoanalyst and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek released his 1000-page tome Less Than Nothing, following it up afterwards with its shorter reformulation Absolute Recoil in 2014. The works contained his usual use of movie-references, historical and political events and jokes to engage in some substantial philosophical formulations, particularly in dialogu... (@NewBooksPhil, 119 minutes, 2020-Jan-29) |
| 1121. | In praise of mortality Ever since we humans became conscious of the fact that we’re all going to die, we’ve dreamed of immortality. Life is good, so wouldn't eternal life be even better? Today's guest offers a robust critique of the ideal of immortality - and one that takes a fascinating turn to politics. (@DavidPZone1, 35 minutes, 2020-Feb-09) |
| 1122. | EV - 127 Black Metal Environmentalism with Jesse McWilliams My guest this week is Jesse McWilliams, who reached out to discuss his work on Black Metal philosophy and environmental harm assessment. We look at the day to day work of environmental preservation and why Scandanavians love Black Metal so much.Jesse's Black Metal work:http://amoeba.blue/research/voyd_mm... Environmental work: http://amoeba.blue/research/ascfk_wrstsd... http://amoeba.blue/research... (@ETVPod, 62 minutes, 2020-Jan-30) |
| 1123. | STM Podcast #39: Martha Lawton - The Emotional Side of Money On episode 39, we welcome financial advisor Martha Lawton to discuss the emotional side of our financial choices, the link between mental health and our finances, whether sheer free-will suffices for self-discipline, and the importance of empathizing with our circumstances to foster financial maturity. Squanderlust is the podcast about the emotional side of money, why our actions aren’t always as ... (@seize_podcast, 56 minutes, 2020-Feb-09) |
| 1124. | Rene Descartes, Meditations - Faculties Of The Human Mind And Body - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher Rene Descartes' work The Meditations on First Philosophy, and focuses on his sixth meditation. This episode discusses the various faculties or powers of the human mind and body and how they differ from each other To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you ... (@philosopher70, 13 minutes, 2020-Jan-20) |
| 1125. | “Does it Make Sense to Blame the System?” Jack Russell Weinstein visits with Lisa Herzog, associate professor at the University of Groningen, as they explore the conflict between financial incentives and morality. (@whyradioshow, 73 minutes, 2020-Feb-09) |
| 1126. | #17 Metaphysics and Conceptual Engineering - Professor Amie Thomasson In this episode, I have the pleasure of hosting Professor Amie Thomasson, a Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College. We start by discussing some comments Stephen Hawking made against philosophy, and talk about whether science has made philosophy obsolete. Professor Thomasson shares her thoughts about the role of metaphysics in philosophy and offers a new way of doing metaphysics. She further ... (@PremisePodcast, 50 minutes, 2020-Feb-08) |
| 1127. | THE DISSENTER: 2 YEARS + I NEED YOUR SUPPORT Just this past Sunday, was the 2-year anniversary of the show. I would love to keep doing it for another 2 years, but to be honest, I am broke. In order to sustain the channel, I need your help. For these past two years, I have brought on the show some of the top academics/scholars in a diversity of fields, like Psychology, Anthropology, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Philosophy, and e... (@TheDissenterYT, 15 minutes, 2020-Feb-08) |
| 1128. | Psychedelics | Self-Development, Mental Health, Government Overlords and Morality Discussing our society's contradictory narratives and blind faith in institutions. Le'ts examine psychedelics, self-improvement, mental illness, government, the pharmaceutical industry and morality. Bonus Feed (My thought process and support with duh monies): https://www.patreon.com/thephilosophyguy Podcast: https://thephilosophyguy.fireside.fm/ Youtube: https://bit.ly/2Z0rAjA Social Links... (@philosophyguy2, 24 minutes, 2020-Feb-04) |
| 1129. | PEL Presents PMP#29: Martin Scorsese the Auteur w/ Colin Marshall We consider The Irishman in the context of Scorsese's body of work and the styles and themes that his films tend to exhibit. Writer/podcaster Colin Marshall joins Mark, Erica, and Brian to talk about connecting with Scorsese's sensibility and their status as "art films." Plus S's use of music, comments on Marvel, CGI age alternation, and more. For more, visit prettymuchpop.com. Hear bonus content ... (@PartiallyExLife, 56 minutes, 2020-Jan-29) |
| 1130. | #292 Mattia Riccardi: Nietzsche's Psychology And Epistemology ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 54 minutes, 2020-Feb-07) |
| 1131. | 81 | Ezra Klein on Politics, Polarization, and Identity People have always disagreed about politics, passionately and sometimes even violently. But in certain historical moments these disagreements were distributed without strong correlations, so that any one political party would contain a variety of views. In a representative democracy, that kind of distribution makes it easier to accomplish things. In contrast, today we see strong political polariza... (@seanmcarroll, 82 minutes, 2020-Jan-27) |
| 1132. | HoP 336 - We Built This City - Christine de Pizan Christine de Pizan's political philosophy, epistemology, and the refutation of misogyny in her "City of Ladies". (@HistPhilosophy, 21 minutes, 2019-Nov-17) |
| 1133. | #291 Nicholas Stang: The Metaphysics, Epistemology, And Ethics of Kant ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 138 minutes, 2020-Feb-06) |
| 1134. | Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon") Our whole lives we’ve been frauds. We’re not exaggerating. Pretty much all we’ve ever done is try to create a certain impression of us in other people. Mostly to be liked or admired. This episode is a perfect example, Tamler pretending to be a cinephile (check out his four favorite pieces of 2019 “pop culture” in the first segment), David trying to connect with the people (Baby Yoda, Keanu Reeves ... (@verybadwizards, 129 minutes, 2020-Jan-28) |
| 1135. | Ep. 234: Beauvoir on Romance in "The Second Sex" (Part Two) Concluding Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (1949): "The Woman in Love" and "Myths" with guest Jennifer Hansen. We continue on the ailments of women under patriarchy as well as the existential problems that we're all subject to. Are we doomed to isolation, or does existentialism allow for intimacy? Is marriage in "bad faith"? We also talk narcissism, abjection, and the film Marriage Story. Star... (@PartiallyExLife, 59 minutes, 2020-Jan-27) |
| 1136. | 493: Ken Taylor Tribute More at www.philosophytalk.org/shows/ken-taylor-... The Philosophy Talk team was deeply saddened by Ken Taylor's untimely passing earlier this month. Ken was the show's co-founder, longtime co-host, chief cheerleader, and guiding light. In this special episode, co-hosts Josh Landy and Debra Satz, along with host emeritus and co-creator John Perry, remember their colleague and friend. They als... (@philtalkradio, 52 minutes, 2019-Dec-30) |
| 1137. | 0G90: Mandalorian and Masks ::Totally out of place spur clinking noise:: Well, pardner, looks like it's just you and me. We can't both walk away from this cliche off and I've got a whole bag full of triple crosses so I can go all day. Wait...sorry, what was I saying? I got JJ Abrams brain for a second there. Here, let me just get back to something that makes any sense. We're discussing the Mandalorian and the philosophical a... (@0gPhilosophy, 43 minutes, 2020-Feb-05) |
| 1138. | In the aftermath of the Iowa caucus … Every four years, a disproportionate amount of attention is focused on the unlikely midwestern state of Iowa. In a very real way, the Iowa caucuses encapsulate the profound political and ethical challenges that confront the Democratic Party in its bid to defeat Donald Trump in November — challenges that continue to bedevil democratic politics in other countries: How to mobilise voters around a com... (@RadioNational, 50 minutes, 2020-Feb-05) |
| 1139. | Ep. 76 Nietzsche Part 1 This week we drop the N bomb! That’s right, a philosopher so hip and down with the kids that Danny and Mike feel ill equipped to take him on unaided. Yes, this week calls for skill, daring, panache and certain “she’ll be right” to bring it off. In the face of wicked fascist sisters, well dressed and cold free women and the death of your deity of choice we felt we had no choice but to call in Dr Ne... (@PhilosophyWtf, 24 minutes, 2020-Feb-05) |
| 1140. | THOMAS HOBBES With Arash Abizadeh THOMAS HOBBES With Arash Abizadeh by Toby Buckle (@PolPhilPod, 73 minutes, 2020-Jan-31) |
| 1141. | A Philosophy of Fashion | Shahidha Bari We all get dressed. But how often do we pause to think about the place of clothes in our lives? Can a philosophy of living be wrapped up in a winter coat? Can we see a suit not just as an object, but as an idea? Philosopher, broadcaster, and author of 'Dressed: The Secret Life of Clothes', Shahidha Bari, unveils the hidden power of what we wear. (@IAI_TV, 29 minutes, 2020-Jan-14) |
| 1142. | Rene Descartes, Meditations - Imagination And Intellection Or Conception - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher Rene Descartes' work The Meditations on First Philosophy, and focuses on his sixth meditation. This episode discusses Descartes' distinction between two different faculties of the mind, and their associated ways of grasping things - the imagination, on the one hand, and the intellect or understanding. To support my ongoing work, go to my Pa... (@philosopher70, 14 minutes, 2020-Jan-15) |
| 1143. | HAP 39 - Doris Garraway on the Haitian Revolution An interview with Doris Garraway on the background, intellectual basis, and legacy of the Haitian Revolution. (@HistPhilosophy, 32 minutes, 2019-Nov-10) |
| 1144. | Episode 73, Plato’s Phaedo: The Death of Socrates (Part IV - The Death of Socrates, Further Analysis and Discussion) Let me tell you about the day Socrates drank the poison. You must be aware of his trial and apology? The Athenians have not stopped talking about it since Meletus and the others condemned him. Do not worry, he did not die in fear and nor is he truly gone. He argued his case much like he always had. He died the philosopher’s death, having practiced for it his entire life. What does this mean? Socra... (@ThePanpsycast, 50 minutes, 2020-Feb-02) |
| 1145. | 013 – Beauty Part 1 with Sabine Hossenfelder Phwoar, that equation, huh? Look at the numbers on that! No scientist has ever said this, hopefully, so why are there so-called 'beautiful' theories? Elena and Ian peruse this polynomial pageant, joined by theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, author of 'Lost In Math' and science blog Backreaction. If you liked this episode, subscribing/following means you'll get the next one automatically. W... (@wondercupboard, 52 minutes, 2020-Feb-04) |
| 1146. | #290 Colin Camerer: The Economics And Neuroscience Of Decision-Making ------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissen... PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 1... (@TheDissenterYT, 74 minutes, 2020-Feb-03) |
| 1147. | Rene Descartes, Meditations - Previous Knowledge About Clear And Distinct Ideas Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher Rene Descartes' work The Meditations on First Philosophy, and focuses on his fifth meditation. This episode discusses Descartes' assertion that he can rely upon matters that - although he does not perceive or conceive of them clearly and distinctly at present - he did previously grasp clearly and distinctly. To support my ongoing work, go... (@philosopher70, 11 minutes, 2020-Jan-13) |
| 1148. | Ep. 3 - Causal Network Accounts of Ill-being In this podcast, I read my chapter, "Causal Network Accounts of Ill-being: Depression & Digital Well-being". The paper reviews how well-being and ill-being can be understood in terms of the causal networks studied by economists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and other scientists. (@byrd_nick, 40 minutes, 2020-Jan-12) |
| 1149. | EV - 126 McMindfulness with Ron Purser My guest this week is Ron Purser (@ronpurser), author of McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality. We discuss the commodifying of mindfulness and theInvocation: A life in Vain by Ono no komachi (translation by Peter MacMillon) http://www.thehypertexts.com/Ono%20no%20... by Brian Ziegenhagen, check out his pod: http://youarehere.libsyn.com/s02e02-rex-... by GW Rodriguez... (@ETVPod, 64 minutes, 2020-Jan-23) |
| 1150. | Remembering Roger Scruton An avowed conservative of a kind mistrusted by both modern-day left and right, Scruton remained steadfast in his first principles. He pitted his intellect against what he saw as the encroachments of modernity on human life, including the overreach of science and technology. Wishful thinker, or beacon in a sea of error? (@DavidPZone1, 28 minutes, 2020-Feb-02) |
| 1151. | 21/10/2019 – Glen Pettigrove on Ambition, Love, and Happiness (@Aristotweets, 58 minutes, 2019-Nov-03) |
| 1152. | STM Podcast #38: Gordon Marino - The Art of Listening: Improving Relationships Through Dialogue On episode 38, Gordon Marino returns to teach us about the importance of being a good listener, the connection between being heard and self-esteem, how to increase empathy, and why success can’t make us happy. Gordon Marino is a professor of philosophy and director of the Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. A recipient of the Richard J. He is the author of the bo... (@seize_podcast, 68 minutes, 2020-Feb-02) |
| 1153. | HoP 335 - Sabrina Ebbersmeyer on Emotions in Renaissance Philosophy An interview with Sabrina Ebbersmeyer about the relation of emotion to reason and the body, and panpsychism, in the Renaissance. (@HistPhilosophy, 29 minutes, 2019-Nov-03) |
| 1154. | Maria Dimova-Cookson, "Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty" (Routledge, 2019) Maria Dimova-Cookson's new book Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty (Routledge, 2019) offers an analysis of the distinction between positive and negative freedom building on the work of Constant, Green and Berlin. The author proposes a new reading of this distinction for the twenty-first century. The author defends the idea that freedom is a dynamic interaction between two inseparable, yet so... (@NewBooksPhil, 41 minutes, 2020-Jan-20) |
| 1155. | Sasha Newton (UC Riverside & Leipzig): “On the Subjectivity of Judgments of Beauty” Sasha Newton (UC Riverside & Leipzig) presents “On the Subjectivity of Judgments of Beauty” at Senate House in London (29/01/2020, 16-18:00) for the London Aesthetics Forum. Please do not cite or reproduce without permission. (@aestheticsforum, 2020-Jan-30) |
| 1156. | 80 | Jenann Ismael on Connecting Physics to the World of Experience Physics is simple; people are complicated. But even people are ultimately physical systems, made of particles and forces that follow the rules of the Core Theory. How do we bridge the gap from one kind of description to another, explaining how someone we know and care about can also be “just” a set of quantum fields obeying impersonal laws? This is a hard question that comes up in a vari... (@seanmcarroll, 87 minutes, 2020-Jan-20) |
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