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PEL Special: Combat & Classics on Rousseau's "Discourse on the Arts and Sciences"
A new podcast for the PEL Podcast Network! Meet Jeff, Lise, and Brian, who are joined by Wes and Dylan to discuss Rousseau's claim that the arts and …
9 years, 2 months ago
Episode 169: Analyzing Hitchcock's "Vertigo"
On the 1958 film and articles including Laura Mulvey's "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" (1975) and Robin Wood's "Vertigo" (1965). What's the na…
9 years, 2 months ago
Episode 168: Darwin's "Origin of Species" (Part Two)
More on Darwin's famous book. Why does it matter for philosophy, beyond providing an alternative to intelligent design? Is it really anti-religious? …
9 years, 2 months ago
Episode 168: Darwin's "Origin of Species" (Part One)
On Charles Darwin's 1859 book, ch. 1-4, 6, and 14. What are the philosophical ramifications of Darwin's theory of evolution? We go through Darwin's a…
9 years, 2 months ago
Episode 167: Hume on Intelligent Design (Part Two)
Continuing on David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779), with guest Stephen West. We get further into what's wrong with the design ar…
9 years, 2 months ago
Episode 167: Hume on Intelligent Design (Philosophize This! Crossover) (Part One)
On David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779). How would a scientifically minded person argue for the existence of God?
In Hume's dial…
9 years, 3 months ago
Episode 166: Spinoza on Politics and Religion (Part Two)
Concluding on the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (1670) and Tractatus Politicus (1677). What's the relationship between ethics, reason, and revelatio…
9 years, 3 months ago
Episode 166: Spinoza on Politics and Religion (Part One)
On Benedict de Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (1670), ch. 12-20 and the Tractatus Politicus (1677).
What's the relationship between ethics …
9 years, 3 months ago
Episode 165: Spinoza on Biblical Criticism (Part Two)
Continuing on the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (1670), ch. 1–11. We go more into natural laws vs. ordinances; does it make sense to say that God ma…
9 years, 3 months ago
Episode 165: Spinoza on Biblical Criticism (Part One)
On Benedict de Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (1670), ch. 1–11. For Spinoza, the Bible was a political issue, and he was interested in a wa…
9 years, 4 months ago