Branches of Philosophy Podcast

Ai generated & human edited. Introduction and summary of "A Theory of Sentience" By Austen Clark 2000'A Theory of Sentience is as valuable for the questions it opens up as for the positive theory it p...

2 Aug 202553min

Ai generated & human edited. Introduction and summary of "Becoming Human: From Pointing Gestures to Syntax" By Teresa Bejarano 2011What do the pointing gesture, the imitation of new complex motor patt...

26 Jul 202533min

Ai generated & human edited. Introduction and summary of "The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding" By Dan Sperber & Hugo Mercier 2017Reason, we are told, is what makes us human, the ...

20 Jul 202522min

Ai generated & human edited. Introduction and summary of "Phenomenal Consciousness: A Naturalistic Theory" By Peter Carruthers 2000How can phenomenal consciousness exist as an integral part of a physi...

9 Jul 202523min

Ai generated & human edited. Introduction and summary of "Wittgenstein's Poker" By David Edmonds & John Eidinow 2001On 25 October 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Pop...

1 Jul 202531min

Ai generated & human edited. Introduction and summary of "The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences" By Michel Foucault 1966When one defines "order" as a sorting of priorities, it beco...

24 Jun 202530min

Ai generated & human edited. Introduction and summary of "The Phenomenological Mind" By Shaun Gallagher & Dan Zahavi 2008The Phenomenological Mind, Third Edition introduces fundamental questions about...

12 Jun 202526min

Ai generated & human edited. Introduction and summary of "The Intercorporeal Self: Merleau-Ponty on Subjectivity" By Scott L. Marratto 2012Challenging a prevalent Western idea of the self as a discret...

4 Jun 202534min