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Ep. 324: Plato's "Cratylus" on Language (Part Two)
Continuing on Plato's mid-period dialogue about language. Is attaching a word to a thing, i.e. naming it, like other activities such as carpentry or …
2 years, 7 months ago
PEL Presents PMP#157: What Is a Pop Culture Podcast For? (Season Finale)
What is media criticism, and is that what we're doing? For our Season 3 finale (i.e. the end of PMP's 4th year of operation), your now officially off…
2 years, 7 months ago
PEL Presents NEM#202: Richard Lloyd (Television): Guitar is Combustible
Richard joined Television in 1973 and has released three albums with them, plus seven solo albums starting in 1980. He has also played with Matthew S…
2 years, 7 months ago
Ep. 324: Plato's "Cratylus" on Language (Part One)
On Plato's mid-period dialogue from around 388 BCE. How do words relate to the things they represent? Socrates first argues that words represent thin…
2 years, 7 months ago
PREMIUM-PEL End-of-Summer Nightcap 2023
Mark, Seth, Dylan, and eventually Wes talk about traveling, Barbie, gender, evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, and more.
If you're not heari…
2 years, 7 months ago
PEL Presents PvI#60: Elu-Sedations w/ Matt Teichman
Philosopher Matt, host of the Elucidations podcast and frequent PEL guest, finally gets in on Philosophy vs. Improv in this, our Season Two Finale. A…
2 years, 7 months ago
Ep. 323: Acquiring Language: Tomasello vs. Chomsky (Part Two)
Continuing on Michael Tomasello's "Language Is Not an Instinct" (1995) and Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition (200…
2 years, 7 months ago
PEL Presents (sub)Text: Home as Identity in "The Odyssey"
He was famously a man of many ways, whether we interpret these as abilities or norms; designs or deceptions; reasons or identities. Yet despite such …
2 years, 7 months ago
Ep. 323: Acquiring Language: Tomasello vs. Chomsky (Part One)
On Michael Tomasello's "Language Is Not an Instinct" (1995) and Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition (2003). With gu…
2 years, 8 months ago
PEL Presents PMP#156: Black Mirror's Tech Horrors
Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn, and Al talk about Charlie Brooker's British anthology TV series that began in 2011 and recently released its 6th season.
Ho…
2 years, 8 months ago