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PREMIUM-Episode 71: Martin Buber's "I and Thou"
On Buber's 1923 book about the fundamental human position: As children, and historically, we start fully absorbed in relation with another person (li…
13 years, 7 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 70: Marx on the Human Condition
On Karl Marx's The German Ideology, Part I, an early, unpublished work from 1846. What is human nature? What drives history? How can we improve our s…
13 years, 8 months ago
Partially Examined Life Not School Digest Jan 2013
Excerpts of discussions about Deleuze & Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus, an article on emergence called "More Is Different" by Nobel Prize Winning ph…
13 years, 8 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 69: Plato on Rhetoric vs. Philosophy
On Plato's Dialogue, "Gorgias" (380 BCE or so). Why philosophize? Isn't it better to know how to persuade people in practical matters, like a success…
13 years, 8 months ago
Not Episode 69: PEL Players Full Cast Audiobook of Plato's "Gorgias" (part 1)
Three podcasters and two listeners join to read Plato's fabulous dialogue.
13 years, 8 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 68: David Chalmers Interview on the Scrutability of the World
On David Chalmers's book Constructing the World (2012). How are all the various truths about the world related to each other? David Chalmers, famous …
13 years, 9 months ago
Not School Digest Nov-Dec 2012: A Bonus Quasisode
Excerpts of discussions about David Chalmers's The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory, Thomas Nagel's Mind and Cosmos, and Paul Auster…
13 years, 9 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 67: Carnap on Logic and Science
On Rudolph Carnap's The Logical Structure of the World (1928). What can we know? Carnap thinks that all the various spheres of knowledge are logicall…
13 years, 9 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 66: Quine on Linguistic Meaning and Science
On W.V.O. Quine's "On What There Is" (1948) and "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" (1951). What kind of metaphysics is compatible with science? Quine sees sc…
13 years, 10 months ago
Celebrating Two Million Downloads: A Highlights Minisode
Our highlight reel in thanks to all you listeners who have brought us to the milestone of approximately two million downloads.
13 years, 10 months ago