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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
PREMIUM-Episode 45: Moral Sense Theory: Hume and Smith
Discussing parts of David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature (1740) and Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759). With guest Getty Lustila.
14 years, 11 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 44: New Atheist Critiques of Religion
Discussing selections from Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel C. Dennett.
14 years, 11 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 43: Arguments for the Existence of God
Discussing the arguments by Descartes, St. Anselm, Thomas Aquinas, William Paley, Kant, and others, as analyzed in J.L. Mackie's The Miracle of Theis…
15 years ago
PREMIUM-Episode 42: Feminists on Human Nature and Moral Psychology
Discussing Charlotte Perkins Gilman's utopian novel Herland (1915) and psychologist Carol Gilligan's In a Different Voice (1983). With guest Azzurra …
15 years, 1 month ago
PREMIUM-Episode 41: Pat Churchland on the Neurobiology of Morality (Plus Hume's Ethics)
Patricia Churchland on her new book Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality. We also discussed David Hume's ethics as foundational to h…
15 years, 2 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 40: Plato's Republic: What Is Justice?
Discussing The Republic by Plato, primarily books 1 and 2.
15 years, 2 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 39: Schleiermacher Defends Religion
Discussing Friedrich Schleiermacher's "On Religion; Speeches to its Cultured Despisers" (1799, with notes added 1821), first and second speeches. Wit…
15 years, 3 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 38: Bertrand Russell on Math and Logic
Discussing Russell's Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (1919), ch. 1-3 and 13-18. With guest Josh Pelton.
15 years, 4 months ago