Episode 18: Truth and Naturalism
Space Time Mind
English - November 30, 2014 23:56 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsSociety & Culture Philosophy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode 17: Memory, Emotion, and Consciousness (with Joe LeDoux)
Next Episode: Episode 19: Fun, Pain, and Ontology (with Eric Kaplan)
Philosophers Richard Brown and Pete Mandik continue their discussion from the SpaceTimeMind podcast’s Episode 11 on Scientism. Here they focus on naturalistic versions of truth and reality. Can evolution by natural selection ground our ability to represent truths that transcend usefulness? If it can’t, what can?
Episode Notes and Links
Philosophers Richard Brown and Pete Mandik continue their discussion from the SpaceTimeMind podcast’s Episode 11 on Scientism. Here they focus on naturalistic versions of truth and reality. Can evolution by natural selection ground our ability to represent truths that transcend usefulness? If it can’t, what can?
(Audio for this episode is drawn from the last part of the video chat viewable here: @YouTube.)
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