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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
Ep. 229: Descartes's Rules for Thinking (Part Three)
Concluding René Descartes's Rules for Direction of the Mind (1628).
We finish rule 12 through the end, talking about simples, the faculties of intuit…
6 years, 10 months ago
Ep. 229: Descartes's Rules for Thinking (Part Two)
Continuing on René Descartes's Rules for Direction of the Mind (1628), covering rules 7 through the first part of the lengthy rule 12.
We try to figu…
6 years, 11 months ago
Ep. 229: Descartes's Rules for Thinking (Part One)
On René Descartes's Rules for Direction of the Mind (1628).
Is there a careful way to approach problems that will ensure that you'll always be right?…
6 years, 11 months ago
PEL Presents PMP#17: Comedy as Philosophy w/ Daniel Lobell
Are stand-up comedians the Modern Day Philosophers? This is the premise of Daniel's podcast, but really, only some comedians express original claims;…
6 years, 11 months ago
Ep. 228: Social Construction of Race (Appiah, Mills) (Part Two)
Continuing on Kwame Anthony Appiah's "Race, Culture, Identity: Misunderstood Connections" (1994), Charles Mills's "But What Are You Really?, The Meta…
6 years, 11 months ago
Ep. 228: Social Construction of Race (Appiah, Mills) (Part One)
On Kwame Anthony Appiah's "Race, Culture, Identity: Misunderstood Connections" (1994), Charles Mills' "But What Are You Really?, The Metaphysics of R…
6 years, 11 months ago
Ep. 227: What Is Social Construction? (Hacking, Berger) (Part Two)
Continuing Ian Hacking's The Social Construction of What (1999) and Peter Berger's "Religion and World Construction" (1967).
We break down Hacking's …
7 years ago
Ep. 227: What Is Social Construction? (Hacking, Berger) (Part One)
On Ian Hacking's The Social Construction of What (1999) and Peter Berger's "Religion and World Construction" (1967).
Guest Coleman Hughes from Dilemm…
7 years ago
Ep. 226: Francis Bacon Invents Science (Part Two)
Continuing on Sir Francis Bacon's New Organon (1620).
We cover more of Bacon's "idols" and how Bacon divides religion from science (and what this mea…
7 years ago