Featuring Mark Linsenmayer, Michael Burgess, Tara Leigh Bell, John Ludders, Chris Eyre, Benjamin Feddersen. Recorded April 26, 2015, 1 hr., 50 min. Jaspers thinks that we should neither live as if the objective world the sole object of real knowledge (per natural science) or to act like all we can know is ourselves (per Cartesian doubt) but to acknowledge that both are part Continue Reading …
PREVIEW-Episode 73: Why Do Philosophy? (And What Is It?)
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Episode 73: Why Do Philosophy? (And What Is It?) (Citizens Only)
Mark, Seth, Wes, and Dylan share what drove them into philosophy and keeps them there. How is philosophy different than (or similar to) science? Than religion? Art? The consensus seems that philosophy, to us, is inevitable for the curious. It's just inquiry, unbounded (in principle at least) by any fixed assumptions. While scientific and religious endeavors can be Continue Reading …