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The Wright Show
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Kant’s Transcendental Philosophy (Robert Wright & David Ottlinger)
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Distinguishing between the numinous and the noumenal ... Kant’s religious vision ... The Copernican revolution in philosophy ... What, if anything, does the Buddhist idea of emptiness have to do with Kant? ... The transcendental status of space and time ... Can the Matrix help us understand Kant? ... Distinguishing between the noumenal and the phen…
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Philosophy For Our Times
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Experiencing The World | Annaka Harris, Hilary Lawson, Reza Negarestani, Bernardo Kastrup
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For centuries we have distinguished between our experience and the world, between the subjective and the objective, between consciousness and material reality. Might the very distinction between subject and object, conscious experience and the world, be the mistake? Or could we formulate a new conceptual framework that might enable us to escape the…
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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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136 | Roderick Graham on Cyberspace, Race, and Cultural Conservatism
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The internet has made it so much easier for people to talk to each other, in a literal sense. But it hasn’t necessarily made it easier to have rewarding, productive, good-faith conversations. Here I talk with sociologist Rod Graham about what kinds of conversations the internet does enable, and should enable, and how we can work to make them better…
More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/what-has-replaced-freud.Although the concept that we can have thoughts and desires hidden from consciousness can be traced back to antiquity, it was Freud who truly popularized it in the twentieth century. Now Freud’s theory of the unconscious mind has mostly been abandoned for being unscientific and lac…
Subscribe to get Part 2 of this episode. Listen to a preview. Hear this part ad-free. On the later Platonic dialogue from around 360 BCE. How is nature put together? Plato speaks through the fictional Timaeus (not Socrates) to give a "likely story" about the universe, physics, and biology involving a Craftsman (Demi-Urge) who created everything bas…
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Episode 92, 'The Philosopher Queens' with Rebecca Buxton and Lisa Whiting (Part II - Further Analysis and Discussion)
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In Plato’s ideal state, the wisest amongst the populous would be selected to rule. These rulers, who could see beyond the shadows to glimpse the light of truth, would be trusted to make choices to the benefit of all. The gender of these leaders, said Plato, was not to matter – despite him labelling them ‘the philosopher kings’. That ideal was never…
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History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 367 - Brian Copenhaver on Renaissance Magic
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Our guest Brian Copenhaver joins us to explain how Ficino and other Renaissance philosophers thought about magic.By Peter Adamson
Women in Japanese Politics - Dr Emma Dalton discusses how the Major political parties in Japan constructed the modern Japanese political system, how political women negotiate the male dominated world of Japanese politics and experiences of women that have been involved in party politics in Japan.By Dr Emma Dalton - Beth Matthews
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the man who, according to Machiavelli, was the last of the Five Good Emperors. Marcus Aurelius, 121 to 180 AD, has long been known as a model of the philosopher king, a Stoic who, while on military campaigns, compiled ideas on how best to live his life, and how best to rule. These ideas became known as his Meditation…
Understanding the holistic structure of life and the universe.By Leo Gura
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New Books in Philosophy
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Patricia Hill Collins, "Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory" (Duke UP, 2019)
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Is intersectionality a critical social theory? What must intersectionality do to be both critical and a social theory? Must social justice be a guiding normative principle? And what does or should social justice mean in intersectional theory? Patricia Hills Collins explores these questions, and many more, in Intersectionality as Critical Social The…
Jacques Derrida was a controversial philosopher, and his writing could be fiendishly difficult to read. He nevertheless attracted many followers and imitators. Here Peter Salmon, author of a recent biography of Derrida, explains Derrida's key concept: deconstruction.Listen to Pete Salmon on Derrida on Deconstruction…
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LIBERALISM AFTER TRUMP With Ian Dunt
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Ian Dunt returns to the podcast for a pig picture talk on liberalism - What is it's future after trump, how does/should the ideology manage conflict, what are the differences between the UK and US left? We cover a lot and end on an uncharacteristically (for us) optimistic note.By Toby Buckle
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The Sunday Stoic
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220: Philosophy the Guide of Life with Simon Drew
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I joined Simon Drew on the Practical Stoic Podcast to discuss one of Seneca's moral letters. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Letter_16 Help support Simon's work by going to https://www.patreon.com/simonjedrew For the video see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5I_0-nik8o www.sundaystoicpodcast.com…
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THIRD EYE DROPS
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Mind Meld 243 | Surviving Death with Dr. Bruce Greyson
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Join Michael and hundreds of other wonder-dippers on Patreon-- Chat on Discord, hang on Zoom, get in on our book club, get rewards, and more! Dr. Bruce Greyson is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia. He is the author of After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and…
In the third of her curated series of essays about the way rain is experienced across the globe, Nandini Das introduces the Australian poet and environmentalist Mark O'Connor. Mark explores the uniquely Australian experiences of rain, which include the vivid smell of it. The word petrichor was coined by Australian scientists to try and capture the …
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Walking the Talk on Free Speech? With Triggernometry
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What does free speech mean in practice, and just as importantly, what are the rights and responsibilities of creators and journalists? Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller and Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster of Triggernometry explore the complexities of free speech in an enjoyable and sometimes heated conversation. Triggernometry Channel To discuss the …
In the first military action of his Presidency, Joe Biden orders an airstrike on Syria which results in backlash from Congressional Democrats. In the news this week, the passing of Vernon Jones marks another milestone, while Johnson & Johnson rolls out an all-new, one-shot COVID-19 vaccine. Political controversy is afoot as well, with several claim…
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S02E21: Are we in a simulation? Does it matter? - Rizwan Virk
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Quantum mechanics, mathematical robustness, dream state deja vu oddities... these are all things that one would expect to find in a simulated world. Wait, so are we in a simulation? Author, investor, and video game pioneer Rizwan Virk joins Jay for a deep conversation taking on the Simulation Theory first made famous by Nick Bostrom and strike gold…
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Stoic Meditations
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803. The difference between facts and judgments
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The process of nature is this: that in the same manner as our birth was the beginning of things with us, so death will be the end; and as we were not concerned with anything before we were born, so neither shall we be after we are dead. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support…
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C. L. Estes and N. B. DiCarlo, "Aging A-Z: Concepts Toward Emancipatory Gerontology" (Routledge, 2019)
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It’s often said that the time in our lives can often pass without us noticing. Old age can come before we realize it, and it brings with it new elements to our own daily lives that we couldn’t have anticipated before. Observed from a distance and growing old can seem like a universal experience, but observed up close, it becomes clear that the diff…
Ryan speaks to author Ron Lieber about the key Stoic virtue of temperance, how money can be a great tool for teaching, how parents and kids should approach college and gap years, and more. Ron Lieber is a bestselling author of several books and has been a New York Times columnist since 2008. His newest book The Price You Pay for College: An Entirel…
“You’ve been reading for years now. You’ve been studying your Stoicism. You’ve been keeping up with your morning journals, doing your evening review. So when does this all culminate and coalesce into wisdom? When are you good? Never. The answer is never. “Until when is a person obligated to study Torah?” Maimonides once asked. “Until the day of one…
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Marx Madness
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S5E57 - Black Reconstruction in America: Episode 52
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Episode 545: Logical Fallacies Explained and Answered and More w/ Keith Knight and Sal the Agorist
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63 Minutes Safe for Work Keith Knight of the "Don't Tread on Anyone" podcast invited Pete and Sal the Agorist to come on his show to discuss several logical fallacies that are commonly used in argumentation and how to recognize them. They also discuss various current libertarian luminaries and list the specific impacts they've had on their thought.…
When the rains of the fifth month, samidare, arrive in Japan it seems they'll never stop. In the second of Nandini Das's curated series of essays on rain and the way it's experienced across the globe, she invites art historian Timon Screech to introduce us to the rains of Japan where he now lives.The rains that flood country and city alike are also…
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Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux
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Philosopher Stefan Molyneux is joined by his 11 year old daughter Isabella to reveal their top Disney movie clichés - hilarity ensues! (Recorded Nov 2020) Free Documentaries: https://www.freedomain.com/documentaries Free novel: https://www.freedomain.com/almost ▶️ Donate Now: https://www.freedomain.com/donate ▶️ Sign Up For Our Newsletter: https://…
Girls on film, in fiction, art, and society: the messages girls receive about girlhood and growing up. Shahidha Bari is joined by three researchers whose work looks at ideas about girlhood: Chisomo Kalinga, Tiffany Watt Smith, and Elspeth Mitchell. Chisomo Kalinga is researching the way storytelling informs concepts of health and wellbeing in Malaw…
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Intelligence Squared
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The Cyber Weapons Arms Race, with Nicole Perlroth and Josh Glancy
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Zero day: a software bug that allows a hacker to break into your devices and move around undetected. One of the most coveted tools in a spy's arsenal, a zero day has the power to silently spy on your iPhone, dismantle the safety controls at a chemical plant, alter an election, and shut down the electric grid (just ask the Ukraine). For decades, und…
The government has announced a series of proposals to “strengthen free speech and academic freedom at universities in England”, with a “free speech champion” investigating potential infringements on campuses. The Education Secretary Gavin Williamson warned of a “chilling effect” where students and staff feel they cannot express themselves freely. M…
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Other Life
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On Vaush, Tim Pool, and Antiracist Baby with Live Q&A
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Bob Murphy Show
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Ep. 184 Nonviolent Solutions to Social Problems
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Bob discusses three separate items all related to nonviolence: (1) Gene Sharp's work, (2) Bob's old dream of how to topple a tyrant, and (3) the winners of the Louis CK contest. Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest: Gene Sharp's book, From Dictatorship to Democracy. #CommissionsEarned (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying p…
It never occurs to a man that such a disaster may befall himself. As if the number of the happy exceeded that of the miserable; or as if there were any certainty in human affairs. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support
“You’ve been reading for years now. You’ve been studying your Stoicism. You’ve been keeping up with your morning journals, doing your evening review. So when does this all culminate and coalesce into wisdom? When are you good? Never. The answer is never. “Until when is a person obligated to study Torah?” Maimonides once asked. “Until the day of one…
Nandini Das, Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at Oxford, brings us stories and personal experiences of rain and the way it informs and combines with different cultures across the globe. Each of the five essays takes a particular sense and location as focus, beginning with Nandini's native India and the sound of rainfall. She recalls…
Philosopher Stefan Molyneux goes in-depth into the new Citi report on the MASSIVE potential for Bitcoin! NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE OF COURSE! But damn useful... Free Documentaries: https://www.freedomain.com/documentaries Free novel: https://www.freedomain.com/almost ▶️ Donate Now: https://www.freedomain.com/donate ▶️ Sign Up For Our Newsletter: https:…
Catherine Pepinster, Kate Kennedy, Tim Stanley and New Generation Thinker Dafydd Mills Daniel join Rana Mitter to look at the poet, theologian and now Saint John Henry. The programme marks 175 years since Newman's conversion from the high church tradition of Anglicanism and the Oxford Movement to the Catholic faith on 23 Feb 1846, with a conversati…
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Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux
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4799 "HELP I WAS RAISED BY A VIOLENT SINGLE BLACK MOM!" Freedomain Call In
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Hi Stefan, My name is [x], I am 28, in two short years I will be 30. I haven't done much with my life. I have crippling anxiety and depression which makes it close to impossible to achieve any of my goals. I have no sense of self worth. I am currently on Zoloft and an anti-anxiety med to help me survive the day. Before the meds I was having constan…
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The Partially Examined Life
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Ep. 264: Plato's "Timaeus" on Cosmology (Part One)
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On the later Platonic dialogue from around 360 BCE. How is nature put together? Plato speaks through the fictional Timaeus (not Socrates) to give a "likely story" about the universe, physics, and biology involving a Craftsman (Demi-Urge) who created everything based on a pre-existing perfect model (the Forms!). Timaeus derives his whole story from …
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Infants on Thrones
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Ep 712 – Navigating a Faith Crisis in Real Time, P1
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Reed Christensen isn’t happy about this whole faith crisis thing. It leads to too much discomfort. He would much rather just have peace. Will he find it? Fill out the new survey here. Support the podcast on Patreon here Contact Glenn at infantsonthrones@gmail.comBy Infants on Thrones
Cicero argues that sometimes people live too long for their own good. Which makes the Stoic point that life itself is not an intrinsic good, but the means by which we exercise virtue. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support
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The Daily Stoic
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Don’t Get Even, Get Justice | Cultivate Indifference
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“These are angry times… with plenty to be angry about. From politicians that have failed us to systemic evils that have gone on for too long. Maybe you’re someone who was conned, pressured into spending money you didn’t have with the hope of promises someone didn’t keep. Maybe you were hurt in an accident. Maybe you were wrongly deprived of your li…
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Serious Inquiries Only
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SIO281: Frank and Dan Want You To Run for Something!
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Somehow we've all been podcasting for 10 years in atheism and never done anything together (except a midnight tryst back on NYE) but Frank and Dan of Thank God I'm Atheist are finally on the show! We talk about their background and also their drive to get more atheists into office! That could mean you! Click on the link and check it out, but also l…
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Free Man Beyond The Wall
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Episode 544: The Progressive War On Our Food and 'Tower Power' Explained
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54 Minutes Some Strong Language Doc is a friend of Pete's from Twitter who comes on the show to talk about a couple subjects. First, he talks about his time working for The Humane Society undercover at farms and facilities where he was supposed to get secret video footage and keep a diary of animal abuses. He talks about how rare these instances ac…
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Intelligence Squared
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This bonus podcast features an episode from another Intelligence Squared podcast called How I Found My Voice. In this episode Hollywood star Kate Winslet speaks to the BBC journalist Samira Ahmed. They speak about her life and career, from discovering her love of acting in childhood and becoming a Hollywood sensation in Titanic to never-before-told…
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Everyday Ethics
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Is it easier to offend some faiths than others?
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Is a fear of causing offence to some religions rife with unintended consequences?By BBC Radio Ulster
Today’s episode features an excerpt from Jeffrey Beneker’s How To Be A Leader: An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership. How To Be A Leader is a modern translation and collection of essays about successful leadership from the ancient biographer Plutarch. Jeff Beneker is a Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. His primary resea…
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Philosopher's Zone
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What we talk about when we talk about race
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The 19th century notion of race as something rooted in biology and genetics is a well-debunked idea whose time has passed. But the more recent liberal conception of race as a social construct fails to acknowledge the ways in which race is lived in and through the body (something the COVID pandemic has thrown into sharp relief). This week we’re talk…
In this episode we discuss Stoic Paradox 2 and 3 from Cicero's Stoic Paradoxes. 1. Virtue is all you need to be happy. 2. All evils are equally bad. All good is equally good. Readings are from https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.186497 Support the show by going to www.patreon.com/sundaystoic…
