On Aldous Huxley’s 1932 dystopian novel, recorded on stage with an audience Q&A at Manhattan's Caveat on 4/6/19. If we harness the power of society to employ available technologies to really focus on making people happy, what would the result be? This is Huxley's thought experiment, drawing on the latest thinking (and a bit of sci-fi projection regarding possible future Continue Reading …
Episode 215: Brave New World: PEL Live 10th Anniversary Show (Citizen Edition)
On Aldous Huxley’s 1932 dystopian novel, recorded on stage with an audience Q&A at Manhattan's Caveat on 4/6/19. If we harness the power of society to employ available technologies to really focus on making people happy, what would the result be? This is Huxley's thought experiment, drawing on the latest thinking (and a bit of sci-fi projection regarding possible future Continue Reading …
PREVIEW-Episode 56: More Wittgenstein on Language
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Episode 56: More Wittgenstein on Language (Citizens Only)
Continuing discussion of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, Part I, sections 1-33 and 191-360. Mark, Wes, Dylan, and Philosophy Bro talk about "family resemblances" in concepts, including the concept "game" as used by Wittgenstein: is there really no theory that can capture all and only instances of games, e.g. do all games have rules? Also, what does Continue Reading …
Topic for #55/#56: Wittgenstein on Language
Over two episodes, we discussed Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations,Part I, sections 1-133 and 191-360. Here's a version from the web. The full crew was present along with Philosophy Bro for episode 55, and that group minus Seth (who went to Portugal) was there for #56. The Investigations was published posthumously in 1953; book one was originally ready for Continue Reading …