Ep. 286: Malebranche on Causality and Theology (Part One)
Subscribe to get Parts 2 and 3 of this episode. Listen to a preview of part two. Hear this part ad-free. On Dialogues on Metaphysics and Religion (1688), dialogues 5-7, featuring Mark, Wes, Dylan, and Seth. Continuing from ep.
Ep. 285: Nicolas Malebranche on Knowledge (Part One)
Subscribe to get Part 2 of this episode. Listen to a preview. Hear this part ad-free. On Dialogues on Metaphysics and Religion (1688), dialogues 1-4, featuring Mark, Wes, Dylan, and Seth. Malebranche presents a rationalist epistemology that is more like an early modern version of Plato than anyone else we've read.
Ep. 283: Alain Badiou on Love (Part One)
Subscribe to get Part 2 of this episode. Listen to a preview. Hear this part ad-free. On "What Is Love," which is ch. 11 of Conditions (1992), supplemented by In Praise of Love (2009 with Nicolas Truong), with Mark, Wes, Dylan and Seth.
Ep. 282: Alain Badiou: What Is Philosophy? (Part One)
Subscribe to get Part 2 of this episode. Listen to a preview. Hear this part ad-free. On Conditions (1992), Ch. 1 "The (Re)turn of Philosophy Itself," featuring Mark, Wes, Dylan, and Seth. Sponsors: Get connected with a licensed therapist at betterhelp.com/partially.
Ep. 280: Imre Lakatos on Scientific Progress (Part One)
Subscribe to get Part 2 of this episode. Listen to a preview. Hear this part ad-free. On "Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes" (1970), featuring Mark, Wes, Dylan, and Seth. In what way is scientific progress rational? Sponsors: Get connected with a licensed therapist at betterhelp.com/partially.
Ep. 278: Derrick Bell on the Dynamics of Racism (Part One)
Subscribe to get Part 2 of this episode. Listen to a preview. Hear this part ad-free. On Faces At the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism (1992), a foundational text in critical race theory that presents stories and essays related chiefly to the philosophy of law.
REISSUE-Ep 36: Hegel on the Social Dimension of Self-Consciousness
For our final 2021 installment on G.W.F. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, we give you a second episode originally posted in 2011, where Mark and Seth continue from ep. 35 with guest Tom McDonald to cover the rest of chapter 4, focusing on sections 178-230.
What was Ernest Hemingway's last published work?
In this episode, we discuss Ernest Hemingway’s last published work in his lifetime: The Old Man and the Sea. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and contributed to his being awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954.
Who are the hosts of the Hustle podcast?
Mark, Erica, Brian, plus Jon, the host of The Hustle Podcast share their nostalgia and discuss “guilty pleasures,” the different pre-critical stages at which songs burrow themselves into our brains, aging pop stars, film soundtracks, and more.
Who wrote the overlapping critique of modern society?
An overlapping critique of modern society came from Hannah Arendt (episode 125). A Marxist cultural critique of our economic lives came from Guy Debord (episode 170). We'd like to get more into anarchism, socialism, and other contemporary movements, with more economics and sociology. epistemology.
What episode does Augustine talk about artificial intelligence?
In the area of philosophy of mind, we had a general introduction with episode 21, jumped back to Aristotle's creation of this subject in episode 131, and Augustine's take in episode 122 , then considered the dangers of artificial intelligence in our interview with Nick Bostrom for episode 108 ).
What episode of Consequentialism is Bentham and Mill?
Consequentialism: episode 9 on Bentham and Mill, which starts ethics by determining what's the optimal state of affairs. (We covered a contemporary version of this by interviewing Peter Singer for episode 150 on the ethics of famine specifically.)
Which philosopher said perception puts us directly in contact with reality?
Contemporary philosopher John Searle (episode 138) also gives us a form of direct realism that says that perception puts us directly in contact with reality, though he eschews the phenomenologists starting with Hegel (episode 134) who also seem to hold this view.
Where does Mark Linsenmayer live?
Mark Linsenmayer has lived in Madison, WI since 2000, has two kids, and works from home writing about transportation research. He's a musician who's been cranking out albums since 1992 under the name Mark Lint (listen to many tracks here and follow current doings on Facebook.
Where did Dylan Casey study?
Dylan Casey studied physics and political philosophy as an undergrad at Michigan State University and experimental high energy particle physics as a graduate student at the University of Rochester, working primarily on the Dzero experiment at Fermilab in Illinois.
What was Ernest Hemingway's last published work?
In this episode, we discuss Ernest Hemingway’s last published work in his lifetime: The Old Man and the Sea. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and contributed to his being awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954.
Who are the hosts of the Hustle podcast?
Mark, Erica, Brian, plus Jon, the host of The Hustle Podcast share their nostalgia and discuss “guilty pleasures,” the different pre-critical stages at which songs burrow themselves into our brains, aging pop stars, film soundtracks, and more.