The Canadian Philosophy Show

Reading the Presocratics: Pherecydes and Xenophanes Description: In this episode, Hale and Brandon bring together Pherecydes and Xenophanes to read them each as criticising and revising the inherited ...

17 Sep 202457min

Reading the Presocratics: Pythagoras In this episode, Brandon and Hale introduce and discuss Pythagoras, a religious and political leader whose Pythagorean community would go on to have an enormous in...

12 Aug 202457min

What is superintelligence? An entry level discussion of the idea and problem of superintelligence. https://nickbostrom.com/ethics/ai     with: Aaron Wang (Vancouver Island University) Brandon Brownle...

30 Jul 202457min

What is superintelligence? An entry level discussion of the idea and problem of superintelligence. https://nickbostrom.com/ethics/ai     with: Aaron Wang (Vancouver Island University) Brandon Brownle...

16 Jul 202457min

Reading the Presocratics: The Melisians part 2 In this episode of our Reading the Presocratics series, Brandon and Hale continue surveying the fragmentary remains of the Milesians and their metaphysi...

9 Jul 202457min

In this episode, Hale and Brandon begin reading the Presocratic philosophers, starting with the Milesians. They introduce the Milesians and the context which gave rise to their philosophical project, ...

2 Jul 202456min

Special guest Jillian Maguire discusses the fight to clean up public pensions in British Columbia  and the importance of climate action on a massive scale. Jillian Maguire is a BC public school teache...

25 Jun 202457min

In this episode, Brandon and Hale explore Martin Heidegger's philosophy with a focus on the experience of presence. We begin with an article by Lawrence Berger outlining the experience Heidegger wants...

18 Jun 202457min