The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Episodes
PREMIUM-Episode 25: Spinoza on Human Nature
10 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Discussing Spinoza's the Ethics, Books II through V.
PREMIUM-Episode 24: Spinoza on God and Metaphysics
24 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Discussing Spinoza's Ethics (1677), books 1 and 2.
PREMIUM-Episode 23: Rousseau: Human Nature vs. Culture
29 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Discussing Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse in Inequality (1754) and book 1 of The Social Contract (1762).
PREMIUM-Episode 22: More James's Pragmatism: Is Faith Justified? What is Truth?
18 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Discussing William James's "The Will to Believe".
PREMIUM-Episode 21: What Is the Mind? (Turing, et al)
28 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Discussing articles by Alan Turing, Gilbert Ryle, Thomas Nagel, John Searle, and Dan Dennett. With guest Marco Wise.
PREMIUM-Episode 20: Pragmatism – Peirce and James
09 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
On Pragmatism (1907) by William James and "The Fixation of Belief" (1877) and "How to Make Our Ideas Clear" (1878) by Charles Sanders Peirce.
PREMIUM-Episode 19: Kant: What Can We Know?
14 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Discussing Immanuel Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (1783). With guest Azzurra Crispino.
PREMIUM-Episode 18: Plato: What Is Knowledge?
21 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Discussing Plato's Theatetus and Meno.
PREMIUM-Episode 17: Hume's Empiricism: What Can We Know?
29 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
On David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748).
PREMIUM-Episode 16: Danto on Art
04 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Discussing three essays by Arthur Danto from The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art (1986): the title essay, "The Appreciation and Interpretation...
Episode 15: Hegel on History
24 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Discussing G.W.F Hegel's Introduction to the Philosophy of History (1837). Get this and every episode ad-free by becoming a PEL supporter at partiall...
Episode 14: Machiavelli on Politics
07 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Discussing Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince (1532) and Ch. 1-20 of The Discourse on the First Ten Books of Titus Livy. Get this and every episode ad-...
Episode 13: What Are the Metaphysical Implications of Quantum Physics?
03 Jan 2010
Contributed by Lukas
On Werner Heisenberg's Physics and Philosophy. Dylan Casey's first appearance (as a guest). Get this and every episode ad-free by becoming a PEL suppo...
Episode 12: Chuang Tzu's Taoism: What Is Wisdom?
06 Dec 2009
Contributed by Lukas
On the Chuang Tzu, Chapters 2, 3, 6, 18, and 19. With guest Erik Douglas. Get this and every episode ad-free by becoming a PEL supporter at partiallye...
Episode 11: Nietzsche's Immoralism: What Is Ethics, Anyway?
10 Nov 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Discussing The Genealogy of Morals (mostly the first two essays) and Beyond Good and Evil Ch. 1 (The Prejudices of Philosophers), 5 (Natural History o...
Episode 10: Kantian Ethics: What Should We Do?
19 Oct 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Discussing Fundamental Principles (aka Groundwork) of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785).
Episode 9: Utilitarian Ethics: What Should We Do?
18 Sep 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Discussing Jeremy Bentham's An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation chapters 1-5, John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism, and Peter Sin...
Episode 8: Wittgenstein's Tractatus (and Carnap): What Can We Legitimately Talk About?
04 Sep 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing last ep's discussion of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus with some Rudolph Carnap from his 1935 book Philosophy and Logical Sy...
Episode 7: Wittgenstein's Tractatus: What Is There and Can We Talk About It?
19 Aug 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Discussing the beginning (through around 3.1) of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921). Get this and every episode ad-free by b...
Episode 6: Leibniz's Monadology: What Is There?
31 Jul 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Discussing Gottfried Wilhelm Liebniz's Monadology (1714). Get this and every episode ad-free by becoming a PEL supporter at partiallyexaminedlife.com...
Episode 5: Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics
16 Jul 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Discussing Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Books I and II. Get this and every episode ad-free by becoming a PEL supporter at partiallyexaminedlife.com...
Episode 4: Camus and the Absurd
22 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Discussing Camus's "An Absurd Reasoning" and "The Myth of Sisyphus" (1942). Get this and every episode ad-free by becoming a PEL supporter at partial...
Episode 3: Hobbes's Leviathan: The Social Contract
07 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Discussing Hobbes's Leviathan, Chapters 13-15. Get this and every episode ad-free by becoming a PEL supporter at partiallyexaminedlife.com/support.
Episode 2: Descartes's Meditations: What Can We Know?
14 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
On Descartes's Meditations 1 and 2. Get this and every episode ad-free by becoming a PEL supporter at partiallyexaminedlife.com/support.
Episode 1: "The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living."
13 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Discussing Plato's "Apology." Does studying philosophy make you a better person? No. Get this and every episode ad-free by becoming a PEL supporter at...
Episode 0: Introduction to the Podcast
11 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
What are we trying to do here? Why should you bother to listen to us?