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PEL Presents PMP#27: For the Love of Star Wars
Mark, Erica, and Brian talk about the unique place these films have in the brains of people of a certain age, how we grappled with the prequels, and …
6 years, 8 months ago
Ep. 233: Plato's "Protagoras" on Virtue (Part Two)
Continuing on the dialogue, where Socrates argues that Protagoras doesn't actually know what virtue is, because he thinks that the various virtues (e…
6 years, 9 months ago
PEL Presents PMP#26: We Watch "Watchmen" w/ David Pizarro (Very Bad Wizards)
Covering Alan Moore's 1986 graphic novel, the new HBO series and the 2009 film.
Mark, Erica, and Brian are joined by David, psych prof at Cornell and…
6 years, 9 months ago
Ep. 233: Plato's "Protagoras" on Virtue (Part One)
On the Platonic dialogue written around 380 BCE about an encounter between Socrates and one of the leading Sophists of his day.
What is virtue ("the …
6 years, 9 months ago
Ep. 232: Simone De Beauvoir's "The Second Sex" (Part Two)
Continuing Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949) with guest Jennifer Hansen.
How does one become a Subject and how do women traditionally get sh…
6 years, 9 months ago
Ep. 232: Simone De Beauvoir's "The Second Sex" (Part One)
On Simone De Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949): the intro, conclusion, "Woman's Situation and Character" and parts of "Lived Experience," with guest J…
6 years, 9 months ago
Ep. 231: Descartes's "Discourse" on Wisdom and Certainty (Part Two)
Continuing on Descartes's Discourse on Method, looking closely at part 4 (his proto-Meditations) and his "provisional" Stoic ethics.
Listen to part o…
6 years, 9 months ago
Ep. 231: Descartes's "Discourse" on Wisdom and Certainty (Part One)
On René Descartes's Discourse on Method (1637), an overview of his work that distills his method, outlines his famous Meditations, presents a provisi…
6 years, 10 months ago
Ep. 230: Bruno Latour on Science, Culture, and Modernity (Part Two)
Continuing on Latour's We Have Never Been Modern (1993) with guest Lynda Olman.
Latour rejects the idea of objective truth totally apart from perceiv…
6 years, 10 months ago
Ep. 230: Bruno Latour on Science, Culture, and Modernity (Part One)
On Latour's We Have Never Been Modern (1993) with guest Lynda Olman.
What's the "modern" ideology of science, and is there something we should critiq…
6 years, 10 months ago