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Ep. 350: Rorty on Justification and Essentialism (Part One)
On "Universality and Truth" and "Pan-Relationalism," which are lectures 3-5 in Richard Rorty's Pragmatism As Anti-Authoritarianism.
How do we justify…
1 year, 7 months ago
PEL Presents PMP#181: M. Night Shyamalan's Films Are a Trap
In light of the new film Trap, we look at this writer/director's oeuvre. Was he a bright light (The Sixth Sense) that at one point went out (certainl…
1 year, 7 months ago
PEL Presents NEM#222: Amy Rigby's Nostalgic Simplicity
Amy started out as an NYC punk fan, was in the "cow punk" band Last Roundup with her brother, and then in a vocal trio called The Shams that released…
1 year, 7 months ago
Ep. 349: Rorty's Pluralistic Pragmatism (Part Two)
Continuing on Richard Rorty's Pragmatism As Anti-Authoritarianism, ch. 1, "Pragmatism and Religion" and 2, "Pragmatism as Romantic Polytheism."
Rort…
1 year, 7 months ago
PREMIUM-Closereads: Merleau-Ponty on the Body
We begin a long series on Maurice Merleau-Ponty's "Phenomenology of Perception" (1945), focusing on Part I, "The Body": "Experience and Objective Tho…
1 year, 7 months ago
Ep. 349: Rorty's Pluralistic Pragmatism (Part One)
On Richard Rorty's Pragmatism As Anti-Authoritarianism (1997), ch. 1-2 about religion. Should democracy be defended on absolutist grounds, e.g. by re…
1 year, 7 months ago
PEL Presents PMP#180: Season Four Wrap: Nostalgia
As Pretty Much Pop ends its 5th year of podcasting, Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn and Al break from our usual format to talk in a more free-form way about…
1 year, 7 months ago
Ep. 348: Tim Williamson's Knowledge-First Epistemology (Part Two)
Continuing on "Knowledge First Epistemology" (2011), "Justifications, Excuses, and Sceptical Scenarios" (2015), and "Morally Loaded Cases in Philosop…
1 year, 8 months ago
PREMIUM-PEL End-of-Summer Nightcap 2024
Mark, Wes, and Dylan again talk politics, including conspiracy theorist psychology, whether post-modernism is responsible for current "post-truth" di…
1 year, 8 months ago
Ep. 348: Tim Williamson's Knowledge-First Epistemology (Part One)
On "Knowledge First Epistemology" (2011), "Justifications, Excuses, and Sceptical Scenarios" (2015), and "Morally Loaded Cases in Philosophy" (2019).…
1 year, 8 months ago