The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Episodes
Ep. 364: Max Scheler on Sympathy (Part One)
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On The Nature of Sympathy (1913, expanded 1922), Part I: "Fellow Feeling," Ch. 1-4. What is it to feel sympathy (aka "fellow feeling") for another p...
PEL Presents Closereads: Husserl on Perceiving Minds
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Edmund Husserl's Ideas, Vol. 2 (1928), Section 3, "The Constitution of the Spiritual World," Ch. 1, "Opposition Between the Naturalistic and Pers...
Ep. 363: Franz Brentano's Moral Epistemology (Part Two)
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing on "The Origin of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong" (1889), getting into how we measure the comparative value of things. While Brentano doe...
Ep. 363: Franz Brentano's Moral Epistemology (Part One)
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On "The Origin of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong" (1889). What justifies basic moral facts? Brentano claims that right there in our experience, we c...
Ep. 362: Ecclesiastes: Biblical Existentialism? (Part Two)
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing on Ecclesiastes with guest Jesse Peterson, getting into some more close reading of particular sections. We make some connection from the au...
Ep. 362: Ecclesiastes: Biblical Existentialism? (Part One)
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ecclesiastes is often cited as one of the most philosophical books of the Bible, so we approached it in that spirit with the help of Jesse M. Peterson...
Ep. 361: Marx on Machines (Part Two)
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On "Fragment on Machines" (1858). Shouldn't automating work free workers? Not according to Marx, until capitalism is overthrown. Until then, automatio...
Ep. 361: Marx on Machines (Part One)
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We finish our treatment of Capital, Ch. 1, covering the little bit that Marx says about actual communism (he was wary of utopianism, contra his reputa...
Ep. 360: Karl Marx on Economic Value (Part Two)
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing on Capital, Ch. 1 on commodities. We go into detail on his account of how money gets derived from the continued comparison of various commo...
Ep. 360: Karl Marx on Economic Value (Part One)
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Capital (1867), Ch. 1, "The Commodity." What makes something we buy or sell valuable? Marx says it's ultimately the labor that goes into it, though...
PEL Presents Closereads: Marx on Stirner (Part One)
01 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mark and Wes read through and discuss Karl Marx's The German Ideology (1846), delving deep into the middle of his critique of Max Stirner's The Ego an...
Ep. 359: Karl Marx's Project (Part Two)
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We continue on the introduction to Marx's Grundrisse, going through his criticisms of prior economists who were too ahistorical and didn't understand ...
Ep. 359: Karl Marx's Project (Part One)
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the intro to Marx's Grundrisse (1857) and "Theses on Feuerbach" (1845). Why economics, and why do it the way Marx does? We see Marx argues that Feu...
Ep. 358: Max Stirner's Egoism (Part Two)
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing on The Ego and Its Own, focusing now on the sections "The Owner" and "My Power." Stirner lets us know that his egoism ("ownness") is not co...
Ep. 358: Max Stirner's Egoism (Part One)
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On The Ego and its Own (1844), another big influence on Karl Marx and a precursor of Nietzsche, or perhaps an early Ayn Rand. Get more at partiallyexa...
PEL '24-'25 Transition Nightcap
30 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mark, Wes, Seth, and Dylan reflect on our past year of PEL recording, catch you up on our habits and interests, and talk about what might come next. G...
Ep. 357: Feuerbach on the Evolution of Philosophy (Part Two)
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We finally discuss Feuerbach's proposed post-Hegelian, materialist approach to philosophy in his "Principles of the Philosophy of the Future" (1843). ...
Ep. 357: Feuerbach on the Evolution of Philosophy (Part One)
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mark, Wes, and Dylan continue to look at Ludwig Feuerbach's "Principles of the Philosophy of the Future" (1843), recounting his story about how increa...
Ep. 356: Feuerbach Against Theology (Part Two)
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We dig in and start our detailed treatment of Ludwig Feuerbach's essay "Principles of the Philosophy of the Future" (1843). Feuerbach claims that peop...
Ep. 356: Feuerbach Against Theology (Part One)
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On Ludwig Feuerbach's "Principles of the Philosophy of the Future" (1843) and the introduction to The Essence of Christianity (1841). What was the ori...
Ep. 355: Marx on Alienation (Part Two)
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing on "Estranged Labor," "Private Property and Communism," and "The Power of Money on Bourgeois Society" with guest Lawrence Dallman. Does cap...
Ep. 355: Marx on Alienation (Part One)
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On three of Karl Marx's Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, "Estranged Labor," "Private Property and Communism," and "The Power of Money on ...
PREMIUM-PEL Thick-of-Fall Nightcap 2024
17 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mark, Wes, and Seth talk about horror media and what scares us in light of Halloween. We then give some follow-up discussion re. our Williamson and Ch...
Ep. 354: Guest Tim Williamson on Philosophic Method (Part Two)
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We continue talking with Tim about Overfitting and Heuristics in Philosophy (2024), considering Tim's overall project and view of what philosophy shou...
Ep. 354: Guest Tim Williamson on Philosophic Method (Part One)
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Oxford philosophy professor Timothy Williamson talks to us about his new book, Overfitting and Heuristics in Philosophy. How can we best apply the ins...
Ep. 353: Reid on Visual Knowledge (Part Two)
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Concluding our treatment of "Of Seeing" in Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense. We continue to hammer at this idea of "resem...
Ep. 353: Reid on Visual Knowledge (Part One)
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're continuing our treatment of Thomas Reid's Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense (1764), now discussing ch. 6: "Of Seeing...
Ep. 352: Thomas Reid on Smelling and Knowledge (Part Two)
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing on Inquiry into the Human Mind, getting further into the chapter on smelling as well as the conclusion and Reid's exchange with Hume. What ...
Ep. 352: Thomas Reid on Smelling and Knowledge (Part One)
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense (1764): the introduction, conclusion, ch. 2 "Of Smelling" ch. 4 "Of Hearing," and som...
PREMIUM-Ep. 351: Sophie Grace Chappell on Transgender (Part Two)
05 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mark, Seth and Dylan continue talking about philosophy surrounding trans phenomena in light of our interview with Sophie Grace about Trans Figured. In...
Ep. 351: Guest Sophie Grace Chappell on Transgender (Part One)
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mark, Seth, and Dylan interview this British philosophy prof about her new book, Trans Figured, and philosophy's role in discussing the phenomena of t...
Ep. 350: Rorty on Justification and Essentialism (Part Two)
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Concluding on "Universality and Truth" from Richard Rorty's Pragmatism As Anti-Authoritarianism. It it coherent to simply not have a theory of truth? ...
Ep. 350: Rorty on Justification and Essentialism (Part One)
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On "Universality and Truth" and "Pan-Relationalism," which are lectures 3-5 in Richard Rorty's Pragmatism As Anti-Authoritarianism. How do we justify ...
Ep. 349: Rorty's Pluralistic Pragmatism (Part Two)
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing on Richard Rorty's Pragmatism As Anti-Authoritarianism, ch. 1, "Pragmatism and Religion" and 2, "Pragmatism as Romantic Polytheism." Rorty ...
PREMIUM-Closereads: Merleau-Ponty on the Body
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We begin a long series on Maurice Merleau-Ponty's "Phenomenology of Perception" (1945), focusing on Part I, "The Body": "Experience and Objective Thou...
Ep. 349: Rorty's Pluralistic Pragmatism (Part One)
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On Richard Rorty's Pragmatism As Anti-Authoritarianism (1997), ch. 1-2 about religion. Should democracy be defended on absolutist grounds, e.g. by ref...
Ep. 348: Tim Williamson's Knowledge-First Epistemology (Part Two)
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing on "Knowledge First Epistemology" (2011), "Justifications, Excuses, and Sceptical Scenarios" (2015), and "Morally Loaded Cases in Philosoph...
PREMIUM-PEL End-of-Summer Nightcap 2024
25 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mark, Wes, and Dylan again talk politics, including conspiracy theorist psychology, whether post-modernism is responsible for current "post-truth" dis...
Ep. 348: Tim Williamson's Knowledge-First Epistemology (Part One)
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On "Knowledge First Epistemology" (2011), "Justifications, Excuses, and Sceptical Scenarios" (2015), and "Morally Loaded Cases in Philosophy" (2019). ...
Ep. 347: Nyaya Sutra Against Buddhist Skeptics (Part Two)
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mark, Seth, and Dylan now turn to ch. 4 of Dasti/Phillips' Nyaya Sutra: Selections with Early Commentaries about the self. Buddhism famously claims th...
Ep. 347: Nyaya Sutra Against Buddhist Skeptics (Part One)
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're continuing to explore Nyaya epistemology, in this part focusing on ch. 3, "In Defense of the Real," in Nyaya Sutra: Selections with Early Commen...
Ep. 346: Nyaya Sutra on Knowledge (Part Two)
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing on ch. 1, "Knowledge Sources," of the Matthew Dasti/Stephen Phillips presentation of the Nyaya-Sutra: Selections with Early Commentaries. W...
Ep. 346: Nyaya Sutra on Knowledge (Part One)
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On The Nyaya Sutra: Selections with Early Commentaries, originally by Gautama (ca. 150 CE), plus explanations by Vatsyayana (450 CE), Uddyotakara (550...
Ep. 345: William James on Religious Experience (Part Two)
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing on The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902). Does James' claim that science and culture shouldn't ignore the subjective point of view r...
Ep. 345: William James on Religious Experience (Part One)
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), focusing on lectures 1-3 and 20. What is religion and how should philosophers study it? James describ...
PREMIUM-PEL Mid-Summer Nightcap 2024
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mark, Wes, and Seth talk about worries about the utility of various subgenres or explanation types in philosophy, Dr. Drew's recent interview with Set...
Ep. 344: Gettier and Goldman on Justified True Belief (Part Two)
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On "What Is Justified Belief?" (1979) by Alvin Goldman, where he tries to come up with a "function" for justification: If a belief has such-and-such n...
Ep. 344: Gettier and Goldman on Justified True Belief (Part One)
23 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?" (1963) by Edmund Gettier, "What Is Justified Belief?" (1979) by Alvin Goldman, and "The Inescapability of Get...
Ep. 343: Plotinus the Neo-Platonist (Part Two)
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing with guest Chris Sunami, mostly discussing "The Good or The One," though we start off by completing "The Descent of the Soul" about why the...
PEL Presents NEM#217: Richard Thompson's Moments in Time
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Richard started as guitarist in the folk-rock staple Fairport Convention in 1967 but left in 1970 after five albums. He then recorded his debut solo a...
Ep. 343: Plotinus the Neo-Platonist (Part One)
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On selections from the Enneads (270 C.E.), as presented by Elmer O'Brien as the first four essays in The Essential Plotinus: "Beauty," "The Intelligen...
Ep. 342: Zhuangzi on Knowledge and Virtue (Part Two)
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're concluding our treatment of the Daoist sage, focusing on the relation between metaphysics and ethics. Is a "wu wei" (non-action) philosophy comp...
Ep. 342: Zhuangzi on Knowledge and Virtue (Part One)
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
More on the Zhuangzi, books 1-6 and 17-19 with guest Theo Brooks. We discuss epistemology (Can we know the mind of someone else? How can virtue make t...
Ep. 341 Supplemental: Zhuangzi for Closereads Evergreen Network Launch
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mark and Wes read through and discuss the first couple of pages of ch. 19, "Fathoming Life," following up on ep. 341. How does Daoism compare to Stoi...
Ep. 341: Guest Karyn Lai on Daoism in the Zhuangzi
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mark, Dylan, Seth, and Theo Brooks discuss the Zhuangzi (ca. 325 BCE) UNSW Sydney prof. Karyn, co-author of the History of Philosophy Podcast Chinese ...
Ep. 340: Brian Ellis on the Implications of Essentialism (Part Two)
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Concluding on The Philosophy of Nature: A Guide to the New Essentialism (2002) with guest Chris Heath. Are we OK with the metaphysical necessity of na...
Ep. 340: Brian Ellis on the Implications of Essentialism (Part One)
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing on The Philosophy of Nature: A Guide to the New Essentialism. Ellis' essentialism about physics and chemistry says that, for example, atoms...
PEL 15th Anniversary and Book Release
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Your four hosts plus book editor Chris Sunami reflect on doing the podcast for 15 years and making the new book, which you should order on April 25. P...
Ep. 339: Brian Ellis on the Metaphysics of Science (Part Two)
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing on The Philosophy of Nature: A Guide to the New Essentialism (2002) with guest Chris Heath. We get further into the text about metaphysical...
Ep. 339: Brian Ellis on the Metaphysics of Science (Part One)
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On The Philosophy of Nature: A Guide to the New Essentialism (2002). What kind of metaphysics underlies chemistry and physics? Ellis argues that items...
Ep. 338: Aristotle on Potential vs. Actual and the Unmoved Mover (Part Two)
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To conclude our discussion of Aristotle's Metaphysics, we finish discussing potency by talking about the potential to learn (the Meno problem), the me...
Ep. 338: Aristotle on Potential vs. Actual and the Unmoved Mover (Part One)
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We read portions of books 9 (Theta) and 12 (Lambda) of Aristotle's Metaphysics, first on "being-at-work" (actuality) vs. mere potency, then on Aristot...
PREMIUM-PEL Nightcap w/ Chris Sunami (March 2024)
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mark, Seth, and Dylan are joined by the editor of our new book (see partiallyexaminedlife.com/book) to talk a bit about his background, meeting celebr...
Ep. 337: Aristotle on Primary Being (Part Two)
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing on Aristotle's Metaphysics, Book 7 (Zeta), on essences and what sorts of things have them. Contrasting with Plato, Aristotle believes that ...
Ep. 337: Aristotle on Primary Being (Part One)
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing for our third session on Aristotle's Metaphysics, now covering Book 7 (Zeta). What exactly is the type of being that is the chief reason wh...
Ep. 336: Aristotle on Being and Non-Contradiction (Part Two)
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing on Book 4 (Gamma) of the Metaphysics. We discuss further the relations between the logical and metaphysical versions of the principle of no...
PEL Presents NEM#212: Graham Parker's Hard Graft
02 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Graham has released 25+ studio albums of soul-infused British singer-songwriter goodness since 1976, first with the Rumour, but often in the second ha...
Ep. 336: Aristotle on Being and Non-Contradiction (Part One)
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On Aristotle's Metaphysics, book 4 (aka Gamma) (ca. 340 BCE). What does studying "being" entail? It involves claiming that all beings are distinct ind...
Ep. 335: Aristotle on Fundamental Explanations (Part Two)
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing on Aristotle's Metaphysics, book 1. We get seriously into Aristotle's four types of causation and how previous philosophers in leaving out ...
Ep. 335: Aristotle on Fundamental Explanations (Part One)
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On Aristotle's Metaphysics, book 1 (aka Alpha) (ca. 340 BCE). What constitutes a basic explanation of the universe? We talk about how mere practical k...
PREMIUM-PEL Long Winter's Nightcap (Jan-Feb 2024)
03 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We anticipate our upcoming series on Aristotle's Metaphysics by talking through some preliminary issues about the text including what translations we'...
Ep. 334: Gabriel Marcel's Christian Existentialism (Part Two)
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing on "On the Ontological Mystery" (1933), we talk more about problems vs. mysteries: The latter implicate OURSELVES; we are not merely witnes...
Ep. 334: Gabriel Marcel's Christian Existentialism (Part One)
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Discussing "On the Ontological Mystery" (1933) about our need for meaning. Marcel asserts that our need for "mystery" is much more primal than the sci...
PEL Presents NEM#209: Bruce Hornsby Is a Lifelong Student
20 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bruce is best known for his first album The Way It Is (1986), but has come light years since then through 18+ albums, experimenting with different sty...
Ep. 333: Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling" on Faith (Part Two)
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing on Kierkegaard's perhaps most famous book, this time focusing largely on "Problem One: Is There a Teleological Suspension of the Ethical?" ...
Ep. 333: Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling" on Faith (Part One)
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To wrap up our coverage of Kierkegaard, we consider his religious stage of development through this 1843 text analyzing the Biblical story of Abraham....
PREMIUM-PEL Winter Nightcap (Concluding 2023)
07 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mark, Wes, Seth, and Dylan set ourselves as part of our ongoing Kierkegaard reading to re-listen to our 2010 episode 29 on Kierkegaard's The Sickness ...
Ep. 332: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Ethical Self (Part Two)
01 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Concluding our discussion of Either/Or, still this time considering "The Balance Between the Esthetic and the Ethical in the Development of the Person...
Ep. 332: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Ethical Self (Part One)
25 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the second half of "The Balance Between the Esthetic and the Ethical in the Development of the Personality" from Vol. 2 of Either/Or (1843). How do...
PREMIUM-Ep. 331: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Ethical Life (Part Three)
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mark and Wes talk in more details about the "stages of despair" Kierkegaard lays out in "The Balance Between the Esthetic and the Ethical in the Devel...
Ep. 331: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Ethical Life (Part Two)
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing on "The Balance Between the Esthetic and the Ethical in the Development of the Personality," with a critique of (Hegelian) philosophy and c...
Ep. 331: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Ethical Life (Part One)
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On "The Balance Between the Esthetic and the Ethical in the Development of the Personality" from Vol. 2 of Soren Kierkegaard's Either/Or (1843). What ...
PREMIUM-Ep. 330: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Aesthetic Life (Part Three)
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mark, Wes, and Seth read through more of Kierkegaard's Diapsalmata, translated as "Refrains," which are the aphorisms that begin the book and demonstr...
Ep. 330: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Aesthetic Life (Part Two)
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing on "Diapsalmata" and "Rotation of Crops" from the "Either" portion of Kierkegaard's pseudonymous book. We talk through more of K's aphori...
PEL Presents PvI#66: Legacy Mops w/ Kevin Allison
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin is the creator and host of the storytelling podcast RISK! and is the alphabetically foremost member of the MTV-televised, newly reformed, celebr...
Ep. 330: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Aesthetic Life (Part One)
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the aphorisms ("Diapsalmata") that begin Soren Kierkegaard's Either/Or (1843), plus the essay also in the first volume, "Rotation of Crops." What i...
Ep. 329: Kierkegaard on Irony (Part Three/Closereads Part One)
25 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mark and Wes Closeread the conclusion to Soren Kierkegaard's On the Concept of Irony (1841), "Irony as a Controlled Element, the Truth of Irony." The ...
Ep. 329: Kierkegaard on Irony (Part Two)
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing with On the Concept of Irony, defined as "infinite absolute negativity." K criticizes his Romantic peers of taking irony too far. So what i...
Ep. 329: Kierkegaard on Irony (Part One)
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Discussing On the Concept of Irony (1841). Kierkegaard builds up to telling us what irony is by showing how Socrates invented irony, as characterized ...
PREMIUM-Ep. 328: Yascha Mounk Against Identity Politics (Part Three)
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mark, Wes, Dylan, and now Seth too discuss further Mounk's project in The Identity Trap and what philosophically we can glean from it. If you're not h...
Ep. 328: Guest Yascha Mounk Against Identity Politics (Part Two)
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing on The Identity Trap (2023). Which works better to achieve social progress; classical liberalism, or strategies involving emphasis of ident...
Ep. 328: Guest Yascha Mounk Against Identity Politics (Part One)
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On The Identity Trap (2023), an intellectual history of wokeness (aka "the identity synthesis") and defense of philosophical liberalism against this s...
PREMIUM-PEL Fall Nightcap 2023
28 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mark, Wes, and Seth talk more about bullshit, Derrida and other difficult and arguably bullshitty philosophy, expressing truths through bodily movemen...
Ep. 327: Harry Frankfurt on Bullsh*t and Authenticity (Part Two)
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On Frankfurt's essay "The Importance of What We Care About" (1982), which distinguishes the question of what to value from ethical questions and explo...
Ep. 327: Harry Frankfurt on Bullsh*t and Authenticity (Part One)
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mark, Wes, Dylan, and Seth discuss the celebrated 1986 essay "On Bullshit." Does bullshit necessarily involve lying? Frankfurt defines it as instead i...
PEL Presents PvI#63: Virtual Socrates w/ David Chalmers
14 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The New York University Prof and author of many influential books including the new Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy joins Mark...
Ep. 326: Michael Tomasello on the Evolution of Agency (Part Two)
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Wes, Dylan, and guest Chris Heath continue to discuss The Evolution of Agency (2022) in light of our interview with the author. We relate examples fro...
Ep. 326: Guest Michael Tomasello on the Evolution of Agency (Part One)
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On The Evolution of Agency (2022), with the author, and guest panelist Chris Heath. What is human agency? How would we determine whether an animal is ...
Ep. 325: Paul Grice on Meaning and Conversation (Part Two)
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing on "Meaning" (1957), "Utterer's Meaning and Intentions" (1969), and "Logic and Conversation" (1975) with guest Steve Gimbell. We tie the ar...
Ep. 325: Paul Grice on Meaning and Conversation (Part One)
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On "Meaning" (1957), "Utterer's Meaning and Intentions" (1969), and "Logic and Conversation" (1975), featuring Mark, Seth, Dylan, and guest Steve Gimb...