PREMIUM-Episode 70: Marx on the Human Condition
On Karl Marx's The German Ideology, Part I, an early, unpublished work from 1846. What is human nature? What drives history? How can we improve our situation? Marx thought that fundamentally, you are ...
30 Jan 201330min
Partially Examined Life Not School Digest Jan 2013
Excerpts of discussions about Deleuze & Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus, an article on emergence called "More Is Different" by Nobel Prize Winning physicist P.W. Anderson, John Searle's Mind: A Brief ...
23 Jan 201350min
PREMIUM-Episode 69: Plato on Rhetoric vs. Philosophy
On Plato's Dialogue, "Gorgias" (380 BCE or so). Why philosophize? Isn't it better to know how to persuade people in practical matters, like a successful lawyer or business leader? Plato (via Socrates)...
13 Jan 201332min
Not Episode 69: PEL Players Full Cast Audiobook of Plato's "Gorgias" (part 1)
Three podcasters and two listeners join to read Plato's fabulous dialogue.
12 Jan 20131h 23min
PREMIUM-Episode 68: David Chalmers Interview on the Scrutability of the World
On David Chalmers's book Constructing the World (2012). How are all the various truths about the world related to each other? David Chalmers, famous for advocating a scientifically respectable form of...
22 Dec 201230min
Not School Digest Nov-Dec 2012: A Bonus Quasisode
Excerpts of discussions about David Chalmers's The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory, Thomas Nagel's Mind and Cosmos, and Paul Auster's City of Glass.
16 Dec 201230min
PREMIUM-Episode 67: Carnap on Logic and Science
On Rudolph Carnap's The Logical Structure of the World (1928). What can we know? Carnap thinks that all the various spheres of knowledge are logically interrelated, that you can translate sentences ab...
7 Dec 201231min
PREMIUM-Episode 66: Quine on Linguistic Meaning and Science
On W.V.O. Quine's "On What There Is" (1948) and "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" (1951). What kind of metaphysics is compatible with science? Quine sees science and philosophy as one and the same enterprise...
21 Nov 201230min
