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Back to SearchEp 160: Knowledge and Ignorance Part 3
Episode 161
How can we perceive the truth? Was it naive for the ancients to think it was "the Muses" or some such who guaranteed the truth was the truth? Was Des…
3 years, 5 months ago
Ep 159: Knowledge and Ignorance Part 2
Episode 160
In this I take things a little slower - but it's well worth the journey through Plato - even Plato's uncle "Critias" makes an appearance - and the gr…
3 years, 5 months ago
Ep 158: Knowledge and Ignorance Part 1
Episode 159
Part 1 of a new short series where I am commenting on Karl Popper's lecture "On the sources of knowledge and of ignorance". This paper sets the scene…
3 years, 6 months ago
Ep 157: (Preview) Popper vs Other Philosophers
Episode 158
This is a preview of a series where I will be commenting on Popper's "On the sources of knowledge and of ignorance". In this part I remark on my own …
3 years, 6 months ago
Ep 156: Induction under Objectivist Epistemology - Part 2
Episode 157
This is part 2 of a deep dive into the role of induction in objectivist epistemology as interpreted by an objectivist scholar of Ayn Rand. Thomas Mio…
3 years, 6 months ago
Ep 155: The Logical Leap - ”Induction in Physics”
Episode 156
This is an excerpt from a longer episode yet to come. After my analysis of Objectivist Epistemology (so far) I was implored to read a book by objecti…
3 years, 6 months ago
Ep 154: Breakthrough (in Quantum Computation) Prize!
Episode 155
Stop Presses.
We interrupt regular programming to discuss the announcement of David Deutsch's share in the award of a Breakthrough Prize - one of the…
3 years, 6 months ago
Ep 153: ”Induction” under Objectivist Epistemology - Part 1
Episode 154
This is in response to a paper by Objectivist scholar Thomas Miovas Jr who operates a website about Objectivism here: https://www.appliedphilosophyon…
3 years, 6 months ago
Ep 152: ”Observing the facts of reality”.
Episode 153
Ayn Rand claims we are "observing the facts of reality" when forming concepts. Here I explain why that is wrong and how facts are things we conclude …
3 years, 6 months ago
Ep 151: ”Objectivist” ”Epistemology” - The errors of objectivism
Episode 152
Here I read from Ayn Rand's work "Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology" and reflect upon it by comparing it to actual epistemology (how knowledge…
3 years, 6 months ago