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PREVIEW-Episode 20: Pragmatism – Peirce and James

June 9, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 18 Comments

C.S. Peirce

On Pragmatism (1907) by William James and “The Fixation of Belief” (1877) and “How to Make Our Ideas Clear” (1878) by Charles Sanders Peirce. Is truth a primitive relation between our representations and things objectively in the world, or is it an analyzable process by which propositions “prove their worth” by being useful in some way, like by fitting well with other portions of our experience or being delicious?

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Episode 19: Kant: What Can We Know? (Citizens Only)

May 14, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 4 Comments

Discussing Immanuel Kant’s Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (1783). Do we have any business doing metaphysics, which is by definition about things that we could not possibly experience? With guest Azzurra Crispino.

End song: “Subjectivity” by The MayTricks, from Happy Songs Will Bring You Down (1994)

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

May 14, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 51 Comments

Discussing Immanuel Kant’s Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (1783). Do we have any business doing metaphysics, which is by definition about things that we could not possibly experience? With guest Azzurra Crispino.

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Episode 18: Plato: What Is Knowledge? (Citizens Only)

April 20, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

Discussing Plato’s Theatetus and Meno. In the Theaetetus, Plato considers and rejects a series of mostly very lame conceptions of knowledge and replaces them at the end with… NOTHING. In the Meno, knowledge is “remembrance” (maybe).”

End song: “Obvious Boy,” by Mark Lint and the Fake from So Whaddaya Think? (2000).

PREVIEW-Episode 18: Plato: What Is Knowledge?

April 20, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 14 Comments

Discussing Plato’s Theatetus and Meno. In the Theaetetus, Plato considers and rejects a series of mostly very lame conceptions of knowledge and replaces them at the end with… NOTHING. In the Meno, knowledge is “remembrance” (maybe).”

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Episode 17: Hume’s Empiricism: What Can We Know? (Citizens Only)

March 29, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 4 Comments

David Hume

On David Hume’s An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748). Hume thinks that all we can know are our own impressions, but that no experience shows us one event causing another event. So, causality must just be regular patterns of conjoined events.

End song: “Twitch” by The MayTricks, from Happy Songs Will Bring You Down (1994).

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

March 29, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 25 Comments

David Hume

On David Hume’s An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748). Hume thinks that all we can know are our own impressions, but that no experience shows us one event causing another event. So, causality must just be regular patterns of conjoined events.

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Episode 2: Descartes’s Meditations: What Can We Know?

May 13, 2009 by Mark Linsenmayer 67 Comments

On Descartes’s Meditations 1 and 2.

Episode 2: Descartes’s Meditations: What Can We Know?

May 13, 2009 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Discussing Descartes’s Meditations 1 and 2. Descartes engages in the most influential navel gazing ever, and you are there! We discuss what Descartes thinks he knows with certainty (hint: it is not you). Mark and Wes agree to disagree about agreeing that they disagree. Seth had a long day and is very tired.

End song: “Axiomatic” by New People from The Easy Thing (2009).

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