Branches of Philosophy Podcast

Shaun Gallagher offers an account of psychopathologies as disorders of the self. The Self and its Disorders develops an interdisciplinary approach to an 'integrative' perspective in psychiatry. In con...

27 Sep 202412min

An introduction and summary of "Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies" By Nick Bostrom 2014 The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinc...

26 Sep 202410min

An introduction and summary of "The Evolution of Consciousness: Representing the Present Moment" By Paula Droege 2022 The Evolution of Consciousness brings together interdisciplinary insights from ph...

26 Sep 202418min

An introduction and summary of "Self and World" By Quassim Cassam 1997 Self and World is an exploration of the nature of self-awareness. Quassim Cassam challenges the widespread and influential view ...

26 Sep 202410min

An introduction and summary of "On the Genealogy of Morality" By Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1887 On The Genealogy of Morals is made up of three essays, all of which question and critique the value o...

25 Sep 202410min

An introduction and summary of "The Evolution of Agency Behavioral Organization from Lizards to Humans" By Michael Tomasello 2022 A leading developmental psychologist proposes an evolutionary pathway...

25 Sep 202410min

An introduction and summary of "Being and Nothingness: An Essay in Phenomenological Ontology" By Jean-Paul Sartre 1943 First published in French in 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre’s L’Être et le Néant is one ...

24 Sep 202413min

An introduction and summary of "Principles of Synthetic Intelligence PSI: An Architecture of Motivated Cognition" By Joscha Bach 2009 From the Foreword:"In this book Joscha Bach introduces Dietrich D...

24 Sep 202424min