Ep. 324: Plato's "Cratylus" on Language (Part One)
On Plato's mid-period dialogue from around 388 BCE. How do words relate to the things they represent? Socrates first argues that words represent things, and so doing etymology is a way of learning phi...
4 Sep 202345min
PREMIUM-PEL End-of-Summer Nightcap 2023
Mark, Seth, Dylan, and eventually Wes talk about traveling, Barbie, gender, evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, and more. If you're not hearing the full version of this discussion, sign up via...
29 Aug 202310min
Ep. 323: Acquiring Language: Tomasello vs. Chomsky (Part Two)
Continuing on Michael Tomasello's "Language Is Not an Instinct" (1995) and Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition (2003), as contrasted with Chomsky universal grammar (t...
28 Aug 202347min
Ep. 323: Acquiring Language: Tomasello vs. Chomsky (Part One)
On Michael Tomasello's "Language Is Not an Instinct" (1995) and Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition (2003). With guest Christopher Heath. Get more at partiallyexamine...
21 Aug 202345min
PEL Closereads: Emerson's Oversoul (New Podcast Premiere)
Are we underlyingly all really a single, unified organism? Or do we just have a lot in common? PEL's most verbose hosts Mark Linsenmayer and Wes Alwan begin unraveling this puzzling claim by reading R...
14 Aug 202355min
Ep. 322: Schelling on Art vs. Nature (Part Three)
Mark and Wes conclude with some close reading of Part 6 of System of Transcendental Idealism (1800), section 3: "Relation of Art to Philosophy." Schelling thinks that art enables us to do intuitively ...
7 Aug 202357min
Ep. 322: Schelling on Art vs. Nature (Part Two)
Continuing on "On the Relation Between the Plastic Arts and Nature" (1807) and Part 6 of System of Transcendental Idealism (1800). We talk sculpture vs. painting and why art is the direct, intuitive w...
31 Juli 202348min
Ep. 322: Schelling on Art vs. Nature (Part One)
Discussing "On the Relation Between the Plastic Arts and Nature" (1807) and Part 6 of System of Transcendental Idealism (1800). Is the goal of art to imitate nature? Only if that means showing the div...
24 Juli 202343min
