The Canadian Philosophy Show

Artificial intelligence, art, politics, and ethics.   With: Aaron Wang Kyra Tianen Michael Robert Caditz   Recorderd October 14, 2024 in Vancouver BC

18 Okt 202457min

Reading the Presocratics: Parmenides (part 1) In this episode, Hale and Brandon begin reading the surviving passages of Parmenides' poem, unpacking the novel idea that "it is."   with: Hale Rothery (V...

24 Sep 202457min

Reading the Presocratics: Heraclitus Description: In this episode, Hale and Brandon introduce and read through a selection of the fragments of Heraclitus, especially those concerned with his paradoxic...

17 Sep 202457min

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 Juli 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 Juli 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 Juli 202457min