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#80 (C&R Series, Chap. 7) - Dare to Know: Immanuel Kant and the Enlightenment
Immanuel Kant was popular at his death. The whole town emptied out to see him. His last words were "it is good". But was his philosophy any good? In …
1 year, 1 month ago
#79 (Bonus) - The Mitford Sisters
Hope everyone is having a great holiday! Today we're releasing a short lil' bonus episode from the patreon archives before we get back into the serio…
1 year, 2 months ago
#78 - What could Karl Popper have learned from Vladimir Nabokov? (w/ Brian Boyd)
Where do you arrive if you follow Vaden's obsessions to their terminus? You arrive at Brian Boyd, the world expert on the two titanic thinkers of the…
1 year, 3 months ago
#77 (Bonus) - AI Doom Debate (w/ Liron Shapira)
Back on Liron's Doom Debates podcast! Will we actually get around to the subject of superintelligent AI this time? Is it time to worry about the end …
1 year, 4 months ago
#76 (Bonus) - Is P(doom) meaningful? Debating epistemology (w/ Liron Shapira)
Liron Shapira, host of [Doom Debates], invited us on to discuss Popperian versus Bayesian epistemology and whether we're worried about AI doom. As on…
1 year, 4 months ago
#75 - The Problem of Induction, Relitigated (w/ Tamler Sommers)
When Very Bad Wizards meets Very Culty Popperians. We finally decided to have a real life professional philosopher on the pod to call us out on our …
1 year, 5 months ago
#74 - Disagreeing about Belief, Probability, and Truth (w/ David Deutsch)
What do you do when one of your intellectual idols comes on the podcast? Bombard them with disagreements of course. We were thrilled to have David De…
1 year, 5 months ago
#73 - The Unfairness of Proportional Representation
Want to make everyone under 30 extremely angry? Tell them you don't like proportional representation. Tell them proportional representation sucks, ju…
1 year, 6 months ago
#72 (C&R, Chap. 19: Part II) - On the (alleged) Right of a Nation to Self-Determination
Part two on Chapter 19 of Conjectures and Refutations! Last time we got a little hung up arguing about human behavior and motivations. Putting that d…
1 year, 6 months ago
#71 (C&R, Chap 19: Part I) - The History of Our Time: An Optimist's View
Back to the Conjectures and Refutations series, after a long hiatus! Given all that's happening in the world and the associated rampant pessimism, we…
1 year, 7 months ago