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Ep. 286: Malebranche on Causality and Theology (Part One)
On Dialogues on Metaphysics and Religion (1688), dialogues 5-7.
We get clearer on M's rationalist epistemology and into his occasionalist theory of c…
4 years, 8 months ago
PREMIUM-Ep. 285: Nicolas Malebranche on Knowledge (Part Two)
Continuing on Dialogues on Metaphysics and Religion (1688), ch. 1-4. We talk about the character of the intelligible world, how we generate general c…
4 years, 9 months ago
Ep. 285: Nicolas Malebranche on Knowledge (Part One)
On Dialogues on Metaphysics and Religion (1688), ch. 1-4. We walk through M's rationalist (post-Descartes, pre-Leibniz) epistemology with its surpris…
4 years, 9 months ago
PEL Special: Nightcap New Year's Party to Welcome 2022
Welcome to an extra special, intentionally public edition of Nightcap to catch you up on what Mark, Wes, Seth, and Dylan are all up to personally and…
4 years, 9 months ago
PREMIUM-Ep. 284: Mark Twain's Philosophy of Human Nature (Part Two)
Continuing on "What Is Man" (1905). We work through Twain's metaphors for human nature, say what he means by "instinct," contemplate his notion of id…
4 years, 9 months ago
Ep. 284: Mark Twain's Philosophy of Human Nature (Part One)
On "What Is Man" (1905). Twain describes a person as a machine. We have no free will and always act to win our own self-approval. This was a bleak en…
4 years, 9 months ago
PREMIUM-Ep. 283: Alain Badiou on Love (Part Two)
Continuing on "What Is Love?" (1992). We consider B's account of love as resolution of a paradox: The positions of man and woman in no way overlap, y…
4 years, 10 months ago
Ep. 283: Alain Badiou on Love (Part One)
On "What Is Love," which is ch. 11 of Conditions (1992). We see what it means to call love a "truth procedure": It's a new way of seeing, through the…
4 years, 10 months ago
PREMIUM-Ep. 282: Alain Badiou: What Is Philosophy? (Part Two)
Continuing on Conditions, "The (Re)turn of Philosophy Itself."
What makes philosophy possible? The four "conditions," i.e. mathematics, politics, art…
4 years, 10 months ago
Ep. 282: Alain Badiou: What Is Philosophy? (Part One)
On Conditions (1992), Ch. 1 "The (Re)turn of Philosophy Itself."
Against post-structuralists who deny Truth, Badiou argues that truths are generated …
4 years, 10 months ago