Ep. 350: Rorty on Justification and Essentialism (Part One)
On "Universality and Truth" and "Pan-Relationalism," which are lectures 3-5 in Richard Rorty's Pragmatism As Anti-Authoritarianism. How do we justify democracy? Rorty says we don't have to refer to tr...
16 Sep 202451min
Ep. 349: Rorty's Pluralistic Pragmatism (Part Two)
Continuing on Richard Rorty's Pragmatism As Anti-Authoritarianism, ch. 1, "Pragmatism and Religion" and 2, "Pragmatism as Romantic Polytheism." Rorty evaluates past pragmatists' approaches to religion...
9 Sep 202451min
PREMIUM-Closereads: Merleau-Ponty on the Body
We begin a long series on Maurice Merleau-Ponty's "Phenomenology of Perception" (1945), focusing on Part I, "The Body": "Experience and Objective Thought." To get the whole recording, you can become ...
6 Sep 202415min
Ep. 349: Rorty's Pluralistic Pragmatism (Part One)
On Richard Rorty's Pragmatism As Anti-Authoritarianism (1997), ch. 1-2 about religion. Should democracy be defended on absolutist grounds, e.g. by reference to God-given or natural rights, the nature ...
2 Sep 202446min
Ep. 348: Tim Williamson's Knowledge-First Epistemology (Part Two)
Continuing on "Knowledge First Epistemology" (2011), "Justifications, Excuses, and Sceptical Scenarios" (2015), and "Morally Loaded Cases in Philosophy" (2019). How does knowledge-first epistemology r...
26 Aug 202451min
PREMIUM-PEL End-of-Summer Nightcap 2024
Mark, Wes, and Dylan again talk politics, including conspiracy theorist psychology, whether post-modernism is responsible for current "post-truth" discourse on the Right (see the PvI David Shields ep...
25 Aug 20249min
Ep. 348: Tim Williamson's Knowledge-First Epistemology (Part One)
On "Knowledge First Epistemology" (2011), "Justifications, Excuses, and Sceptical Scenarios" (2015), and "Morally Loaded Cases in Philosophy" (2019). Is knowledge basic, or is it dissolvable into more...
19 Aug 202448min
Ep. 347: Nyaya Sutra Against Buddhist Skeptics (Part Two)
Mark, Seth, and Dylan now turn to ch. 4 of Dasti/Phillips' Nyaya Sutra: Selections with Early Commentaries about the self. Buddhism famously claims that there is no self, and the Nyaya philosophers re...
12 Aug 202437min
