Podcast Episodes

Episode 9: Utilitarian Ethics: What Should We Do?

Discussing Jeremy Bentham’s An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation chapters 1-5, John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism, and Peter Singer's "Famine, Affluence, and Morality."

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Published on 15 years, 11 months ago

Episode 8: Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (and Carnap): What Can We Legitimately Talk About?

Continuing last ep's discussion of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus with some Rudolph Carnap from his 1935 book Philosophy and Logical Syntax.

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Published on 16 years ago

Episode 7: Wittgenstein’s Tractatus: What Is There and Can We Talk About It?

Discussing the beginning (through around 3.1) of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921).

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Published on 16 years ago

Episode 6: Leibniz’s Monadology: What Is There?

Discussing Gottfried Wilhelm Liebniz's Monadology (1714).

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Published on 16 years, 1 month ago

Episode 5: Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics

Discussing Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Books I and II.

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Published on 16 years, 1 month ago

Episode 4: Camus and the Absurd

Discussing Camus's "An Absurd Reasoning" and "The Myth of Sisyphus" (1942).

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Published on 16 years, 2 months ago

Episode 3: Hobbes’s Leviathan: The Social Contract

Discussing Hobbes's Leviathan, Chapters 13-15.

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Published on 16 years, 3 months ago

Episode 2: Descartes’s Meditations: What Can We Know?

On Descartes's Meditations 1 and 2.

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Published on 16 years, 4 months ago

Episode 1: “The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living.”

Discussing Plato's "Apology." Does studying philosophy make you a better person? No.

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Published on 16 years, 4 months ago

Episode 0: Introduction to the Podcast

What are we trying to do here? Why should you bother to listen to us?

Published on 16 years, 4 months ago