Mon, 30 December 2013
Mark Linsenmayer lays out some themes from Jean-Paul Sartre's "Existentialism is a Humanism" and the "Bad Faith" chapter (Part 1, Ch. 2) of Being & Nothingness.
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Tue, 24 December 2013
On The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, published mostly in 1962. |
Mon, 23 December 2013
Dylan Casey lays out Thomas Kuhn's thesis in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
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Sat, 7 December 2013
On John Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1971), most of ch. 1-4. |
Fri, 6 December 2013
Seth Paskin summarizes the John Rawls's A Theory of Justice.
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Mon, 11 November 2013
On Friedrich Nietzsche's The Gay Science (1882, with book 5 added 1887). What is wisdom? Nietzsche gives us an updated take on the Socratic project of challenging your most deeply held beliefs. Challenge not just your belief in God (who's "dead"), but uncover all your habits of thinking in terms of the divine. Realize how little of your life is actually a matter of conscious reflection, and the consequent limits on self-knowledge. The very act of systematization in philosophy overestimates what we can know; instead, we need a "gay" (in the sense of cheerful, carefree, and subversive) science (in the sense of organized knowledge) that chases after fleeting insights and is able to question, i.e. laugh at, the pretensions of its own activity.
Direct download: PREVIEW-PEL_ep_084_10-20-13.mp3
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Fri, 1 November 2013
In light of our ep. 83, many listeners had questions on Frithjof's social/political/economic proposals for creating a post-job, pro-meaningful-work world.
Direct download: PEL_QA_with_Frithjof_10-30-13.mp3
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Thu, 10 October 2013
alking with Frithjof Bergmann, Prof. Emeritus from U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor about his book New Work, New Culture (2004, English release coming soon).
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Wed, 9 October 2013
An introduction to and summary of Frithjof Bergmann's New Work, New Culture, read by Mark Linsenmayer.
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Tue, 24 September 2013
On Popper's Conjectures and Refutations (1963), the first three essays. What is science, and how is it different than pseudo-science? From philosophy? Is philosophy just pseudo-science, or proto-science, or what? Popper thinks that all legitimate inquiry is about solving real problems, and scientific theories are those that are potentially falsifiable: they make definitely predictions about the world that, if these fail to be true, would show that the theory is false. |