Alexis McLeod
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first heard Apr 2018
last heard Apr 2020
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There was actually recently this, I don't know if you saw this in, I think it's National Geographic had this about the this lidar, I think they called it, a kind of radar that they showed that a kind of technique and they showed that the Maya cities in Mesoamerica were actually much more vast than we previously believed.
which p which uncut which shows us a number of possible sites that haven't haven't even been touched yet by archaeologists.
So it's it's a very it's definitely an exciting time to be to be working on this area because a lot is really starting to be understood uh now.
Absolutely.
And this is this is this is one of the things I keep like every day I keep up with.
Maybe they'll uncover some interesting Maya text.
But they're they're constant it's constantly happening, right?
You'll find you'll see some information about archaeologists who uncover some new stele, right?
And people are reading it and it's it's it's very exciting to find these.
It happens in Chinese philosophy as well, but not quite as much as it seems to happen in the in in the Maya world.
Yeah, so the uh the analogical method, I mean I t I see it as a kind of additional tool in the tool in the toolkit um that historians of philosophy can use to try to construct um plausible um uh interpretations of of these systems that can be used not only in the case of uh of Maya thought, but in case of you know, Chinese thought or or kind of early modern um European thought, um and any different kind of
Uh area of the history of philosophy.
And I think it's it really is something that you see often in um in the history of philosophy, maybe more than we recognize.
Um we uh it seems to me that we already kind of implicitly use it in a lot of ways when we do things like um call the the one one thing that you used to commonly see, or you see sometimes still, is a discussion of early Confucianism as, say, virtue ethics, right?
Or when we use kind of terms or concepts that are part of our kind of contemporary philosophical tradition.
to understand things that are going on in um
in early China or in uh in Maya thought or any other any any other place.
And it seems like to me what we're doing there is we're reading these texts, we're looking at this tradition these traditions using a particular frame.
Uh and so the the analogical method is a kind of way of of doing something like this, right?
It it w it it goes a bit beyond this, and that it there's a kind of assumption behind it, which I get into to some extent in the book, that um human minds tend to work generally in the same way.
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