Branches of Philosophy Podcast

An introduction and summary of "Seeing Things as They are: A Theory of Perception" By John R. Searle 2015This book provides a comprehensive account of the intentionality of perceptual experience. With...

9 Okt 202413min

An introduction and summary of "Thought in a hostile world" By Kim Sterelny2003Thought in a Hostile World is an exploration of the evolution of cognition, especially human cognition, by one of today's...

9 Okt 202417min

An introduction and summary of "How infants know minds" By Vasudevi Reddy 2008Most psychologists claim that we begin to develop a “theory of mind”—some basic ideas about other people’s minds—at age tw...

8 Okt 202415min

An introduction and summary of "The Paradox of False Belief UnderstandingThe Role of Cognitive and Situational Factors for the Development of Social Cognition" By Julia Wolf 2021 Our ability to unders...

7 Okt 202417min

An introduction and summary of "The Phenomenology of Spirit” By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1807 The Phenomenology of Spirit is the most widely discussed philosophical work of Georg Wilhelm Friedri...

6 Okt 202418min

An introduction and summary of "Thinking Without Words" By José Luis Bermúdez 2007Thinking without Words provides a challenging new theory of the nature of non-linguistic thought. Many scientific disc...

6 Okt 202415min

An introduction and summary of "Consciousness Explained" By Daniel C. Dennett 1991In Consciousness Explained, Daniel C. Dennett reveals the secrets of one of the last remaining mysteries of the univer...

5 Okt 202412min

An introduction and summary of "The Age of AI: And Our Human Future" By Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel P. Huttenlocher 2021"An A.I. that learned to play chess discovered moves that no human cha...

5 Okt 202416min