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Episode 197: Parmenides on What There Is (Part Two)

Continuing with guest Peter Adamson with “On Nature” (475 BCE).

We finally get to fragment 8, which describes why Being must be singular and eternal, given that the notion of Non-Being is nonsense. But how could we as individuals be asking these questions then? Does his “Way of Seeming” work to explain the appearances, as opposed to reality?

Listen to part one first, or get the unbroken, ad-free Citizen Edition. Please support PEL!

End song: “Circle” by Gareth Mitchell, as discussed on Nakedly Examined Music #4.

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Plus: Episode 143: Plato’s “Sophist” on Lies, Categorization, and Non-Being
Featuring: Episode 79: Heraclitus on Understanding the World

Nakedly Examined Music

NEM#80: Rod Picott: Literary Workin’ Man

August 19, 2018 By Mark Linsenmayer

Nashville singer/songwriter/fiction-writer Rod laid sheet rock for years before releasing his first  Continue Reading …

Combat and Classics

Combat & Classics #22: Interview with Matt Young

August 26, 2018 By Brian Wilson

Brian interviews Matt Young, Marine Corps veteran, English professor, and author of Eat the Apple, a  Continue Reading …

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Phi Fic #23 “To The Lighthouse” by Virginia Woolf

August 24, 2018 By Nathan Hanks

It was a house full of unrelated passions. –To The Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf In the incredible  Continue Reading …

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New Books in Philosophy: Richard Deming’s “Art of the Ordinary”

August 22, 2018 By Richard Deming

Because the ordinary is always at hand, it is, in fact, too familiar for us to perceive it and become fully aware of it. The ordinary is what most needs to be discovered and yet is something that can never be approached, since to do so is to immediately change it. Art of the Ordinary explores how philosophical questions can be revealed in surprising places—as in a stand-up comic’s routine, for instance, or a Brillo box, or a Hollywood movie.

From the blog

Epistemic Tribalism, Epistemic Chaos, and Epistemic Exhaustion

August 28, 2018 By Mark Satta

The 2016 US presidential election and the Trump presidency have helped make visible that a variety of epistemically perilous features are far too common in the thought and behavior of  Continue Reading …

Episode 197: Parmenides on What There Is (Part One)

August 20, 2018 By Mark Linsenmayer

On the fragments referred to as "On Nature" from ca. 475 BCE, featuring guest Peter Adamson from the History of Philosophy without Any Gaps podcast. One of the most influential Presocratic  Continue Reading …

Episode 197: Parmenides on What There Is (Citizen Edition)

August 20, 2018 By Mark Linsenmayer

On the fragments referred to as "On Nature" from ca. 475 BCE, featuring guest Peter Adamson from the History of Philosophy without Any Gaps podcast. One of the most influential Presocratic  Continue Reading …

Bonus: (sub)Text #2: Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse Five”: Is There Such a Thing as a War Story? (Part One)

August 20, 2018 By Wes Alwan

For Episode 2 of (sub)Text, Wes discusses Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five with Phi Fic podcaster and PEL Blog Managing Editor Mary Ricci. Slaughterhouse Five is a story about war, yet one that  Continue Reading …

Science, Religion, and Secularism Part XXXIII: Justin L. Barrett—Why Would Anyone Believe in God? Part A

August 16, 2018 By Daniel Halverson

In the last four articles, we explored two sides of the theist/atheist debate. On the atheist side, we explored Antony Flew's argument that we start from a position of atheism, as a default, and that  Continue Reading …

Updated “Episodes by Topic” and “Upcoming” pages

August 14, 2018 By Mark Linsenmayer

Have you gotten lost in our 200+ episodes? Don't quite know where to dive into our back catalog? Due to several people nagging me over email in recent years, I've finally updated our Episodes by Topic  Continue Reading …

Episode 196: Guest Simon Blackburn on Truth (Part Two)

August 13, 2018 By Mark Linsenmayer

Continuing with Simon on his book On Truth (2018). We move to part two of the book, where we get down to the procedures used to obtain truth in art, ethics, and science. Simon is well known for his  Continue Reading …

(sub)Text #2: (sub)Text #2: Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse Five”: Is There Such a Thing as a War Story? (Citizens Only)

August 9, 2018 By Mark Linsenmayer

For Episode 2 of (sub)Text, Wes discusses Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five with Phi Fic podcaster and PEL Blog Managing Editor Mary Ricci. Slaughterhouse Five is a story about war, yet one that  Continue Reading …

Combat & Classics #21: Aristotle’s Politics Bk. I

August 7, 2018 By Brian Wilson

Jeff, Lise, and Brian roll up their sleeves and dig in to Aristotle’s Politics. How are this and other “Great Books” relevant to how we live our lives? What is good political rule? What does it mean  Continue Reading …

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The Ethics of Heroic Bloodshed

August 7, 2018 By Edward Sakowsky

John Woo is synonymous with Hollywood blockbuster action films, or what in Hong Kong was referred to as the Heroic Bloodshed genre: tempestuous plots, explosive action scenes, and shootouts that often  Continue Reading …

Episode 196: Guest Simon Blackburn on Truth (Part One)

August 6, 2018 By Mark Linsenmayer

The Cambridge/UNC-Chapel Hill/etc. prof best known for his neo-Humean meta-ethics joins Mark, Wes, and Dylan to discuss his book On Truth (2018). What is truth? A pragmatist like William James  Continue Reading …

Episode 196: Guest Simon Blackburn on Truth (Citizen Edition)

August 5, 2018 By Mark Linsenmayer

The Cambridge/etc. prof best known for his neo-Humean meta-ethics joins Mark, Wes, and Dylan to discuss his book On Truth (2018). What is truth? A pragmatist like William James wants to define  Continue Reading …

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