Send Me To Sleep | Kant
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just before Emmanuel Kant. European philosophers were divided broadly into Two camps of thinking, I suppose. There was rationalism and empiricism. Rationalism would state that the facts of life, the facts of the universe could be rationalized in some way, that there was no knowledge that couldn't in some way be must be worked out via some kind of internal logic that made sense. And then empiricism would say that all things in fact are Or knowledge, that is to say. Could only be discovered through D Analysis of the world, so observing the world around us measuring it, as it were, and taking conclusions from these measurements that we've taken. And David Hume, a Scottish philosopher, at the time, Push this. into
a slightly unnerving position, pushed empiricism, should I say, into an unnerving position, because what he then went on to say, or or to observe, moreover, is that though we seem to claim That cause and effect. Is this recurring? thing that happens uh in the world. Um cause and effect. Is the It's the way in which Things happen. In the universe. We never actually get to witness first hand. causation itself. Which sounds like quite a strange thing. But When you really think about What Hume is trying to say there? You can understand that there is some truth in it, you know. We see separate events happening, but there is no causation to point at, you know, there is a for example, billiard ball. On a table that gets knocked forward.
And we watch the ball roam forward. And we watch that ball hit into a second ball. And then we watch that second ball roll forward. And Stitching those events together in our mind. We observe or we claim that there has been some cause and effect there, that there has been some kind of causation, that the firstborn caused the second ball. To move. But in actuality, all we're doing
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the purpose of the Send Me To Sleep intro and premium promotion?
0:00–1:57
2
What is the new Sleepy History series and what topics does it cover?
1:57–6:19
3
Who are the other Slumber Studios podcasts and how do they relate to this episode?
6:19–12:49
4
What were the rationalist and empiricist camps in pre‑Kantian European philosophy?
12:49–13:10
5
How does David Hume’s critique of causation challenge empirical reasoning?
13:10–28:38
6
What was Kant’s “Copernican Revolution” and how does it resolve the causation problem?
28:38–34:33