Branches of Philosophy Podcast

An introduction and summary of The Life of the Mind An Essay on Phenomenological Externalism By Gregory McCulloch 2003 The Life of the Mind presents an original and striking conception of the mind and...

16 Nov 202418min

An introduction and summary of "Why Solipsism Matters"By Sami Pihlström 2020 Solipsism is one of the philosophical thesis or ideas that has generally been regarded as highly implausible, or even crazy...

15 Nov 202420min

An introduction and summary of "Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit"By Martin Heidegger 1988 The text of Martin Heidegger's 1930-1931 lecture course on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit contains some of Hei...

14 Nov 202430min

An introduction and summary of "Consciousness Demystified" By Todd E. Feinberg, Jon M. Mallatt 2018 Demystifying consciousness: how subjective experience can be explained by natural brain and evolutio...

12 Nov 202428min

An introduction and summary of "The Human Evolutionary TransitionFrom Animal Intelligence to Culture" By Magnus Enquist, Stefano Ghirlanda, Johan Lind 2023 A major new theory of why human intelligence...

11 Nov 202422min

An introduction and summary of "Kant and Phenomenology" By Tom Rockmore 2011 Phenomenology, together with Marxism, pragmatism, and analytic philosophy, dominated philosophy in the twentieth century—an...

10 Nov 202419min

An introduction and summary of "The Experience MachineHow Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality" By Andy Clark 2023 For as long as we've studied the mind, we've believed that information flowing from ou...

9 Nov 202425min

An introduction and summary of "When Animals DreamThe Hidden World of Animal Consciousness"By David M. Peña-Guzmán 2022 A spellbinding look at the philosophical and moral implications of animal dreami...

8 Nov 202418min