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Episode 110: Alfred North Whitehead: What Is Nature?
On The Concept of Nature (1920). Nature, i.e. the object of our experience, is events, not things, ya dig?
11 years, 8 months ago
Precognition of Ep. 110: Whitehead
Mark Linsenmayer outlines Alfred North Whitehead's book The Concept of Nature (1920)
11 years, 8 months ago
Ep. 109 Aftershow (PREMIUM) with Stephen West
The first chunk of our new after-the-episode discussion, featuring Stephen West from Philosophize This! and Mark Linsenmayer. This is a 20-min previe…
11 years, 8 months ago
Episode 109: Jaspers's Existentialism with Guest Paul Provenza
On Karl Jaspers's "On My Philosophy" (1941), featuring comedian/actor/director/author Paul Provenza
11 years, 8 months ago
Precognition of Ep. 109: Karl Jaspers
Mark Linsenmayer introduces Karl Jaspers's existentialist tract, "On My Philosophy." (1941)
11 years, 8 months ago
Episode 108: Dangers of A.I. with Guest Nick Bostrom
On Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, and Strategies (2014) with the author. What can we predict about, and how can we control in advance, the motiva…
11 years, 8 months ago
Episode 107: Edmund Burke on the Sublime
On A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, where young Burke lays out our knee-jerk aesthetic reactions, i…
11 years, 9 months ago
Not Ep. 107: The 12 Interminable Days of Xmas: A Musical Extravaganza
Mark Lint and the PEL Orchestra present the longest, slowest, biggest, fattest, most surreal Christmas carol ever.
11 years, 9 months ago
Episode 106: Pyrrhonian Skepticism According to Sextus Empiricus
On "Outlines of Pyrrhonism" from 200 C.E. Can you live while suspending judgment about all non-everyday matters? WIth guest Jessica Berry.
11 years, 10 months ago
Episode 105: Kant: What Is Beauty?
On Critique of Judgment (1790), Part I, Book I. What is beauty? Disinterested pleasure!
11 years, 10 months ago