PREMIUM-Episode 50: Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
On Robert M. Pirsig's philosophical, autobiographical novel from 1974. What's the relationship between science and values? Pirsig thinks that modern rationality, by insisting on the fundamental distin...
3 Feb 201231min
PREMIUM-Episode 49: Foucault on Power and Punishment
Discussing Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish (1975), parts 1, 2 and section 3 of part 3. With guest Katie McIntyre.
11 Jan 201232min
PREMIUM-Episode 48: Merleau-Ponty on Perception and Knowledge
Discussing Maurice Merleau-Ponty's "Primacy of Perception" (1946) and The World of Perception (1948).
17 Dec 201133min
PREMIUM-Episode 47: Sartre on Consciousness and the Self
Discussing Jean-Paul Sartre's The Transcendence of the Ego (written in 1934).
1 Dec 201130min
PREMIUM-Episode 46: Plato on Ethics & Religion
Discussing Plato's "Euthyphro." With guest Matt Evans.
17 Nov 201129min
PREMIUM-Episode 45: Moral Sense Theory: Hume and Smith
Discussing parts of David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature (1740) and Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759). With guest Getty Lustila.
29 Okt 201132min
PREMIUM-Episode 44: New Atheist Critiques of Religion
Discussing selections from Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel C. Dennett.
11 Okt 201132min
PREMIUM-Episode 43: Arguments for the Existence of God
Discussing the arguments by Descartes, St. Anselm, Thomas Aquinas, William Paley, Kant, and others, as analyzed in J.L. Mackie's The Miracle of Theism: Arguments For and Against the Existence of God (...
15 Sep 201132min
