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Ep. 364: Max Scheler on Sympathy (Part One)
On The Nature of Sympathy (1913, expanded 1922), Part I: "Fellow Feeling," Ch. 1-4.
What is it to feel sympathy (aka "fellow feeling") for another p…
1 year, 6 months ago
NEM#229: Peter Holsapple (dB's, Continental Drifters) Pays Tribute to His Adolescence
Peter recorded with Chris Stamey as early as 1972, and they reconvened as The dB's in the '80s. Peter has released six albums as the dB's, three more…
1 year, 6 months ago
PEL Presents Closereads: Husserl on Perceiving Minds
On Edmund Husserl's Ideas, Vol. 2 (1928), Section 3, "The Constitution of the Spiritual World," Ch. 1, "Opposition Between the Naturalistic and Pers…
1 year, 6 months ago
Ep. 363: Franz Brentano's Moral Epistemology (Part Two)
Continuing on "The Origin of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong" (1889), getting into how we measure the comparative value of things. While Brentano do…
1 year, 6 months ago
Philosophy vs. Improv #90: Empty Street
Mark and Bill introduce a new potential setting and some characters for ongoing use in future improvisations. We talk about techniques for doing that…
1 year, 6 months ago
Ep. 363: Franz Brentano's Moral Epistemology (Part One)
On "The Origin of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong" (1889). What justifies basic moral facts? Brentano claims that right there in our experience, we …
1 year, 6 months ago
Pretty Much Pop #192: Exhibitionist Reality TV
We acknowledge this hugely popular form of "entertainment" recently embodied by The Baldwins, but popularized by shows like The Osbournes and The Kar…
1 year, 6 months ago
Ep. 362: Ecclesiastes: Biblical Existentialism? (Part Two)
Continuing on Ecclesiastes with guest Jesse Peterson, getting into some more close reading of particular sections. We make some connection from the a…
1 year, 7 months ago
Pretty Much Pop #191: Saturday Night Liver
Are we taking for granted this unique, talent-filled weekly nationally televised live comedy event that's been around for 50 years? (as in "What do w…
1 year, 7 months ago
Ep. 362: Ecclesiastes: Biblical Existentialism? (Part One)
Ecclesiastes is often cited as one of the most philosophical books of the Bible, so we approached it in that spirit with the help of Jesse M. Peterso…
1 year, 7 months ago