Branches of Philosophy Podcast

An introduction and summary of "Perception First Form of Mind" By Tyler Burge 2022 In Perception: First Form of Mind, Tyler Burge develops an understanding of the most primitive type of representatio...

24 Sep 202415min

An introduction and summary of "Consciousness and the Social Brain" By Michael S. A. Graziano 2013 What is consciousness and how can a brain, a mere collection of neurons, create it? In Consciousness...

24 Sep 20249min

An introduction and summary of "Difference and Repetition" By Gilles Deleuze 1968 Difference and Repetition was Deleuze's principal thesis for the Doctorat D'Etat alongside his secondary, historical ...

24 Sep 202414min

An introduction and summary of "Folk Physics for Apes: The Chimpanzee's Theory of how the World Works" By Daniel J. Povinelli 2000 From an early age, humans know a surprising amount about basic physi...

24 Sep 202413min

An introduction and summary of "The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes" By Donald Hoffman 2022 Challenging leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report b...

24 Sep 202416min

An introduction and summary of "Being No One The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity" By Thomas Metzinger 2004 According to Thomas Metzinger, no such things as selves exist in the world: nobody ever ha...

24 Sep 202411min

An introduction and summary of "Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy" By Manuel DeLanda 2002 Manuel DeLanda's Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy rapidly established itself as a landmark tex...

24 Sep 202413min

An introduction and summary of "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" By Ludwig Wittgenstein 1921 The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (widely abbreviated and cited as TLP) is the only book-length philosophi...

24 Sep 202411min