Branches of Philosophy Podcast

An introduction and summary of "Life As No One Knows ItThe Physics of Life's Emergence" By Sara Imari Walker 2024 What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up ther...

23 Okt 202416min

An introduction and summary of "Industrial Society and Its Future" By Ted Kaczynski 1995 Industrial Society and Its Future, also known as the Unabomber Manifesto, is a 1995 anti-technology essay by Te...

22 Okt 202415min

An introduction and summary of "The Mirror of the World Subjects, Consciousness, and Self-Consciousness" By Christopher Peacocke 2014Christopher Peacocke presents a philosophical theory of subjects of...

21 Okt 202416min

An introduction and summary of "Feeling & KnowingMaking Minds Conscious" By Antonio Damasio 2021 From one of the world’s leading neuroscientists: a succinct, illuminating, wholly engaging investigatio...

20 Okt 202412min

An introduction and summary of "Discipline and PunishThe Birth of the Prison" By Michel Foucault 1975 Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison is a 1975 book by French philosopher Michel Foucaul...

19 Okt 202417min

An introduction and summary of "Seeing and VisualizingIt's Not what You Think" By Zenon W. Pylyshyn 2003 In Seeing and Visualizing, Zenon Pylyshyn argues that seeing is different from thinking and tha...

18 Okt 202417min

An introduction and summary of "Organisms, Agency, and Evolution" By D. M. Walsh 2015 The central insight of Darwin's Origin of Species is that evolution is an ecological phenomenon, arising from the ...

17 Okt 202421min

An introduction and summary of "The Mind's Construction: The Ontology of Mind and Mental Action" By Matthew Soteriou 2013 Philosophers working on the ontology of mind have highlighted various distinct...

17 Okt 202414min