Branches of Philosophy Podcast

An introduction and summary of "Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind" By Paul Churchland 1979 A study in the philosophy of science, proposing a strong form of the doctrine of scientific real...

1 Okt 202410min

An introduction and summary of "Transparency and Self-knowledge" By Alex Byrne 2018 Alex Byrne sets out and defends a theory of self-knowledge-knowledge of one's mental states. Inspired by Gareth Eva...

30 Sep 20249min

In this fascinating, provocative, passionate, funny, endlessly entertaining work, renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning author and scientist Jared Diamond, author of Gun, Germs, and Steel, explores how the ...

30 Sep 202415min

An introduction and summary of "Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders and the Rise of Social Engineering" By Malcolm Gladwell 2024 Twenty-five years after the publication of his g...

29 Sep 202415min

An introduction and summary of "Subjectivity and Selfhood: Investigating the First-person Perspective" By Dan Zahavi 2005 What is a self? Does it exist in reality or is it a mere social construct -- ...

29 Sep 202413min

An introduction and summary of "Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI" By Yuval Noah Harari 2024 For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous pow...

28 Sep 202414min

Soon after Charles Darwin formulated his theory of evolution, primate cognition became a major area of research. In this book, Michael Tomasello and Josep Call assess the current state of our knowledg...

28 Sep 202415min

An introduction and summary of "The Centered Mind: What the Science of Working Memory Shows Us about the Nature of Human Thought" By Peter Carruthers 2015 The Centered Mind offers a new view of the n...

27 Sep 202415min