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PREMIUM-Episode 55: Wittgenstein on Language
On Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, Part I, sections 1-33 and 191-360 (written around 1946). What is linguistic meaning? Wittgenst…
14 years, 4 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 54: More Buddhism and Naturalism
Continuing our discussion of Owen Flanagan's The Bodhisattva's Brain: Buddhism Naturalized (2011). Are the basic tenets of Buddhism compatible with a…
14 years, 5 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 53: Buddhism and Naturalism with Guest Owen Flanagan
Discussing The Bodhisattva's Brain: Buddhism Naturalized (2011) with Owen Flanagan. What philosophical insights can we modern folks with our science …
14 years, 6 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 52: Philosophy and Race (DuBois, Martin Luther King, Cornel West)
On W.E.B. DuBois's "Of Our Spiritual Strivings" (1903), Cornel West's "A Genealogy of Modern Racism" (1982), and Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter fro…
14 years, 6 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 51: Semiotics and Structuralism (Saussure, et al)
On Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics (1916) (Part I and Part II, Ch. 4), Claude Levi-Strauss's "The Structural Study of Myth" (19…
14 years, 7 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 50: Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
On Robert M. Pirsig's philosophical, autobiographical novel from 1974. What's the relationship between science and values? Pirsig thinks that modern …
14 years, 7 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 49: Foucault on Power and Punishment
Discussing Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish (1975), parts 1, 2 and section 3 of part 3. With guest Katie McIntyre.
14 years, 8 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 48: Merleau-Ponty on Perception and Knowledge
Discussing Maurice Merleau-Ponty's "Primacy of Perception" (1946) and The World of Perception (1948).
14 years, 9 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 47: Sartre on Consciousness and the Self
Discussing Jean-Paul Sartre's The Transcendence of the Ego (written in 1934).
14 years, 10 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 46: Plato on Ethics & Religion
Discussing Plato's "Euthyphro." With guest Matt Evans.
14 years, 10 months ago