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PREVIEW-Episode 30: Schopenhauer on Explanations and Knowledge

December 19, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 40 Comments

Arthur Schopenhauer

This is a 33-minute preview of a 2 hr, 14-minute episode.Buy Now Purchase this episode for $2.99. Or become a PEL Citizen for $5 a month, and get access to this and all other paywalled episodes, including 68 back catalogue episodes; exclusive Part 2's for episodes published after September, 2020; and our after-show Nightcap, where the guys respond to listener email and chat  Continue Reading …

PREVIEW-Episode 29: Kierkegaard on the Self

November 21, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 57 Comments

This is a 32-minute preview of a 1 hr, 56-minute episode.Buy Now Purchase this episode for $2.99. Or become a PEL Citizen for $5 a month, and get access to this and all other paywalled episodes, including 68 back catalogue episodes; exclusive Part 2's for episodes published after September, 2020; and our after-show Nightcap, where the guys respond to listener email and chat  Continue Reading …

PREVIEW-Episode 28: Nelson Goodman on Art as Epistemology

October 31, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 24 Comments

Nelson Goodman

This is a 31-minute preview of a 2 hr, 10-minute episode. Buy Now Purchase this episode for $2.99. Or become a PEL Citizen for $5 a month, and get access to this and all other paywalled episodes, including 68 back catalogue episodes; exclusive Part 2's for episodes published after September, 2020; and our after-show Nightcap, where the guys respond to listener email and chat  Continue Reading …

PREVIEW-Episode 27: Nagarjuna on Buddhist “Emptiness”

October 10, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 31 Comments

This is a 32-minute preview of a 1 hr, 44-minute episode.Buy Now Purchase this episode for $2.99. Or become a PEL Citizen for $5 a month, and get access to this and all other paywalled episodes, including 68 back catalogue episodes; exclusive Part 2's for episodes published after September, 2020; and our after-show Nightcap, where the guys respond to listener email and chat  Continue Reading …

PREVIEW-Episode 26: Freud on the Human Condition

September 25, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 42 Comments

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PREVIEW-Episode 25: Spinoza on Human Nature

September 10, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 13 Comments

This is a 32-minute preview of a 1 hr, 38-minute episode.Buy Now Purchase this episode for $2.99. Or become a PEL Citizen for $5 a month, and get access to this and all other paywalled episodes, including 68 back catalogue episodes; exclusive Part 2's for episodes published after September, 2020; and our after-show Nightcap, where the guys respond to listener email and chat  Continue Reading …

PREVIEW-Episode 24: Spinoza on God and Metaphysics

August 24, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 25 Comments

This is a 32-minute preview of a 1 hr, 36-minute episode. Buy Now Purchase this episode for $2.99. Or become a PEL Citizen for $5 a month, and get access to this and all other paywalled episodes, including 68 back catalogue episodes; exclusive Part 2's for episodes published after September, 2020; and our after-show Nightcap, where the guys respond to listener email and chat  Continue Reading …

PREVIEW-Episode 23: Rousseau: Human Nature vs. Culture

July 29, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 27 Comments

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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PREVIEW-Episode 22: More James’s Pragmatism: Is Faith Justified? What is Truth?

July 18, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 23 Comments

This is a 31-minute preview of a 1 hr, 38-minute episode. Buy Now Purchase this episode for $2.99. Or become a PEL Citizen for $5 a month, and get access to this and all other paywalled episodes, including 68 back catalogue episodes; exclusive Part 2's for episodes published after September, 2020; and our after-show Nightcap, where the guys respond to listener email and chat  Continue Reading …

PREVIEW-Episode 21: What Is the Mind? (Turing, et al)

June 28, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 69 Comments

Alan Turing

This is a 31-minute preview of a 2 hr, 20-minute episode. Buy Now Purchase this episode for $2.99. Or become a PEL Citizen for $5 a month, and get access to this and all other paywalled episodes, including 68 back catalogue episodes; exclusive Part 2's for episodes published after September, 2020; and our after-show Nightcap, where the guys respond to listener email and chat  Continue Reading …

PREVIEW-Episode 20: Pragmatism – Peirce and James

June 9, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 18 Comments

C.S. Peirce

This is a 31-minute preview of a 2 hr, 8-minute episode. Buy Now Purchase this episode for $2.99. Or become a PEL Citizen for $5 a month, and get access to this and all other paywalled episodes, including 68 back catalogue episodes; exclusive Part 2's for episodes published after September, 2020; and our after-show Nightcap, where the guys respond to listener email and chat  Continue Reading …

PREVIEW-Episode 19: Kant: What Can We Know?

May 14, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 53 Comments

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PREVIEW-Episode 18: Plato: What Is Knowledge?

April 20, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 14 Comments

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PREVIEW-Episode 17: Hume’s Empiricism: What Can We Know?

March 29, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 25 Comments

David Hume

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PREVIEW-Episode 16: Danto on Art

March 4, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 65 Comments

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Episode 15: Hegel on History

February 24, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 35 Comments

Discussing G.W.F Hegel's Introduction to the Philosophy of History. Though he didn't actually write a book with this name, notes on his lectures on this topic were published after his death, and the first chunk of that serves as a good entrance point to Hegel's very strange system. How should a philosopher approach the study of history? Is history just a bunch of random  Continue Reading …

Episode 14: Machiavelli on Politics

February 7, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 15 Comments

Reading Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince and Ch. 1-20 of The Discourse on the First Ten Books of Titus Livy. What's a philosophically astute approach to political matters? What makes a government successful? Should you keep that fortress or sell it for scrap? If you conquer, say, Iraq, do you have to then go and live there for the occupation to work out? Is it OK to display  Continue Reading …

Episode 13: What Are the Metaphysical Implications of Quantum Physics?

January 3, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 48 Comments

Werner Heisenberg

On Werner Heisenberg’s “Physics and Philosophy" (1958), and talking about it with an actual former particle physicist, Dylan Casey. What weird stuff about reality does quantum physics imply? Is Heisenberg (of the Uncertainty Principle fame) right that we need to reject "metaphysical realism" based on this very well established scientific framework? The discussion ranges  Continue Reading …

Episode 12: Chuang Tzu’s Taoism: What Is Wisdom?

December 6, 2009 by Mark Linsenmayer 36 Comments

Discussing the "Chuang Tzu," Chapters 2, 3, 6, 18, and 19. It's the second-most-famous Taoist text and the most humorous, with anecdotes about people singing at funerals and jumping out of moving coaches while drunk. What could it possibly mean to "make all things equal?" and how is the Taoist sage different from our other favorite paragons of virtue (hint: magical  Continue Reading …

Episode 11: Nietzsche’s Immoralism: What Is Ethics, Anyway?

November 10, 2009 by Mark Linsenmayer 91 Comments

Discussing The Genealogy of Morals (mostly the first two essays) and Beyond Good and Evil Ch. 1 (The Prejudices of Philosophers), 5 (Natural History of Morals), and 9 (What is Noble?). We go through Nietzsche's convoluted and historically improbable stories about about the transition from master to slave morality and the origin of bad conscience. Why does he diss  Continue Reading …

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