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Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Clarifications About Idealism - Sadler's Lectures
May 08, 2024 13:55 - 12 minutes - 17.3 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on the "Appendix", specifically the discussion distinguishing Kant's own critical or transcendental idealism from other, earlier forms of idealism ranging from that of Parmenides all the way down to Berkeley. Kant asserts that on some matters concerning space, time, experience, the understanding, and reason his idealism is in fact the rev...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Probability, Common Sense, And Metaphysics - Sadler's Lectures
May 06, 2024 15:10 - 16 minutes - 24.8 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on the "Solution of the General Problem of the Prolegomena", specifically his discussion of two common philosophical approaches that will not work for developing a genuine metaphysics, or even just producing one valid a priori synthetic proposition. One of these is appealing to probability (Wahrscheinlichkeit) or conjecture (Mutmaßung). ...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Critique And Metaphysics As Science - Sadler's Lectures
May 04, 2024 14:36 - 17 minutes - 24.6 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on the "Solution of the General Problem of the Prolegomena", where Kant contrasts the kind of metaphysics that can be developed after the critique of pure reason (by itself) with what passes as metaphysics (dogmatic or "school" metaphysics), and discusses how critique can carry us beyond the skepticism the dialectic of reason inevitably l...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - How Does Reason Set Boundaries? - Sadler's Lectures
May 03, 2024 13:35 - 12 minutes - 17.9 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on he conclusion of the third part, specifically his discussion of the boundaries (Grenzen) for reason. These limits take place where we go beyond the field of experience into the "empty space" that is the field of the noumena or things in themselves. Reason not only recognizes these limits but also imposes them upon itself and on the fac...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Natural Ends Of Reason's Transcendent Concepts - Sadler's Lectures
May 01, 2024 15:25 - 14 minutes - 20.7 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on the conclusion of the third part, specifically what he calls the "natural ends of reason's uses of transcendent concepts." Kant notes that what he is engaging in is conjecture rather than deriving knowledge. He also clarifies whether or not this study fits into the domain of metaphysics proper. To support my ongoing work, go to my P...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Deism, Theism, And Anthropomorphism - Sadler's Lectures
April 30, 2024 16:09 - 22 minutes - 31.7 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on the conclusion of the third part, specifically his discussion of the distinction between deism and theism, and David Hume's critique of both standpoints for, among other things, engaging in "anthropomorphism". Kant argues that deism involves only a "symbolic anthropomorphism", and that it relies upon analogy properly defined and unders...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Completion, Satisfaction, And Noumena - Sadler's Lectures
April 29, 2024 14:29 - 13 minutes - 19.8 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on the conclusion of the third part, specifically on his discussion of how transcending the limits of possible experience, while problematic, is something that is a draw and desire for reason, because it seeks out not only the unrealizable completion of matters of experience in the psychological, cosmological, and theological ideas, but a...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Bounds And Limits Of Reason - Sadler's Lectures
April 27, 2024 20:02 - 13 minutes - 18.8 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on the conclusion of the third part, specifically the distinction that Kant makes between bounds or boundaries (Grenzen) and limits (Schranken). Pure mathematics and pure natural science have limits but not bounds, because they deal with what is homogenous (gleichartig), whereas the field of metaphysics has both bounds and limits To supp...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Dogmatism, Skepticism, And Critique - Sadler's Lectures
April 26, 2024 13:56 - 14 minutes - 20.9 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on the conclusion of the third part, specifically Kant's discussion of how skepticism is bound to arise from the dialectic of pure reason, with critical philosophy, that is, a critical use of reason to examine itself, as the remedy for skepticism and the dogmatism it arises out of. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www....
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Transcendental Ideas And Systematic Unity - Sadler's Lectures
April 24, 2024 13:10 - 13 minutes - 19.7 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on the section finishing the third part, before the conclusion, titled "General Remark on the Transcendental Ideas." Kant writes: "The objects, which are given us by experience, are in many respects incomprehensible, and many questions, to which the law of nature leads us, when carried beyond a certain point (though quite conformably to ...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - The Theological Idea or The Ideal of Reason - Sadler's Lectures
April 22, 2024 13:47 - 13 minutes - 18.7 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Third Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How is metaphysics in general possible? Specifically this bears upon what he calls the "theological idea". Kant writes: "The third transcendental Idea, which affords matter for the most important, but, if pursued only speculatively, transcendent and thereby dialectical us...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - The Dynamic Antinomies - Sadler's Lectures
April 21, 2024 13:31 - 16 minutes - 24 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Third Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How is metaphysics in general possible? Specifically this bears upon the third and fourth of the antinomies Kant discusses in that section, which he calls "dynamical" antinomies To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to m...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - The Mathematical Antinomies - Sadler's Lectures
April 17, 2024 18:07 - 14 minutes - 20.4 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Third Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How is metaphysics in general possible? Specifically this bears upon the two "mathematical" antinomies Kant examines in the section on the Cosmological Ideas. These are: First Antinomy. Thesis: The world has a temporal and spatial beginning or limit. Antithesis: The worl...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Cosmological Ideas And Antinomies - Sadler's Lectures
April 16, 2024 18:51 - 18 minutes - 25.7 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Third Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How is metaphysics in general possible? Specifically this bears upon his discussion of the cosmological ideas, which Kant frames in terms of antinomies of pure reason. Two of these are "mathematical" and concern limits of space and time, and simplicity or composition of ...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - The Psychological Ideas - Sadler's Lectures
April 15, 2024 13:18 - 22 minutes - 33.2 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Third Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How is metaphysics in general possible? Specifically this bears upon what Kant terms the "psychological idea" or "ideas" of pure reason, which have to do primarily with the consciousness or soul of a human being, and the idea that it is a substance that has permanency. Thi...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - The System Of The Categories - Sadler's Lectures
April 12, 2024 18:51 - 16 minutes - 24.6 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Second Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How Is Pure Natural Science Possible? Specifically this bears upon his "Appendix to pure natural science. On the system of the categories." Kant contrasts his own systematic deduction of the table of the categories of the understanding against the unsystematic "rhapsody...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Experience And Pure Ideas Of Reason - Sadler's Lectures
April 10, 2024 13:21 - 15 minutes - 23.3 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Third Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How is metaphysics in general possible? Specifically this bears upon his discussion about how the ideas of reason involve and aim at a completeness to experience that can never be found in experience itself. He discusses what use these ideas of reason are, and also clarif...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Syllogisms And Pure Ideas Of Reason - Sadler's Lectures
April 09, 2024 16:50 - 15 minutes - 21.9 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Third Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How is metaphysics in general possible? Specifically this bears upon Kant's discussion of the ideas or pure concept of reason, derived from his consideration of three main types of syllogisms (Verstandschlüsse): categorical, hypothetical, and disjunctive. These correspond ...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - The Peculiarity Of Metaphysics - Sadler's Lectures
April 08, 2024 17:32 - 14 minutes - 21.9 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Third Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How is metaphysics in general possible? Specifically this bears upon what is distinctive, specific, or peculiar to metaphysics by contrast to pure mathematics and pure natural science. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd li...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Phenomena And Noumena - Sadler's Lectures
April 05, 2024 16:39 - 14 minutes - 19.5 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Second Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How Is Pure Natural Science Possible? Specifically this bears upon the distinction between phenomena and noumena, that is things of sense or appearances, and beings of the understanding. Kant argues that we cannot have any determinate knowledge of the noumena, but we als...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Removing Hume's Doubt About Causality - Sadler's Lectures
April 03, 2024 15:18 - 14 minutes - 19.9 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Second Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How Is Pure Natural Science Possible? Specifically this bears upon Kant's situating himself in relation to his predecessor David Hume, who argues that we have no experience of causality as such, and that we can and should have doubts about the relationship between what w...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Principles Of Possible Experience - Sadler's Lectures
April 02, 2024 17:36 - 16 minutes - 23.7 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Second Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How Is Pure Natural Science Possible? Specifically this bears upon what Kant calls "principles of possible experience". Principles (Grundsatze) are rules that are not determined by other rules, and these correspond to pure concepts of the understanding. Taken as a total...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Pure Concepts Of The Understanding - Sadler's Lectures
April 01, 2024 14:57 - 14 minutes - 20.2 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Second Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How Is Pure Natural Science Possible? Specifically this bears upon his exposition of what he identifies as pure concepts of the understanding (Verstandsbegriffe), which, as he tells us, make possible for us universal, objectively valid judgements. These correspond to the...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Judgements Of Perception And Experience - Sadler's Lectures
March 30, 2024 19:36 - 14 minutes - 20.8 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Second Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How Is Pure Natural Science Possible? Specifically this bears upon the distinction Kant makes between two kinds of judgements, those of perception (Wahrnehmungsurteile) and those of experience (Erfarhungsurteille). The latter involve the addition of pure concepts of the ...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Nature And Pure Natural Science - Sadler's Lectures
March 29, 2024 19:42 - 15 minutes - 22.4 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Second Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How Is Pure Natural Science Possible? Specifically this bears upon what 'nature" means, what the extent and scope of pure natural science is, and an explanation of how pure natural science is possible. Kant argues that pure natural science cannot be cognition of things ...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Avoiding Non-Critical Idealism - Sadler's Lectures
March 27, 2024 14:02 - 13 minutes - 19.6 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on Kant's defense of his own transcendental or critical idealism from accusations that he turns the spatio-temporal world of sense-experience into mere "illusion" (Schein). Kant explains how illusions do arise out of other philosophical positions and their key assumptions. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.c...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - How Illusions Arise - Sadler's Lectures
March 25, 2024 13:45 - 15 minutes - 23 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on Kant's defense of his own transcendental or critical idealism from accusations that he turns the spatio-temporal world of sense-experience into mere "illusion" (Schein). Kant explains how illusions do arise out of other philosophical positions and their key assumptions. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.c...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Sensibility, Representations, And Geometry - Sadler's Lectures
March 23, 2024 15:39 - 16 minutes - 23.8 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion of geometry in particular, in the course of which he briefly examines geometric proofs resting on congruence and objects that may be the same in some respects but are not congruent, such as spherical triangles, mirror images of hands, and helixes. Kant argues that geometry, based on the pure intuition of space as a form ...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Intuitions, Space, And Time - Sadler's Lectures
March 17, 2024 19:49 - 13 minutes - 19.6 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussions of the a priori intuitions that are the basis for pure mathematics, namely space and time. These are the forms of empirical intuitions, preceding them logically, and they also provide geometry, arithmetic, and pure mechanics their bases. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - A Priori Intuitions - Sadler's Lectures
March 15, 2024 13:25 - 15 minutes - 23 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion of the possibility of a priori intuition (Anschauung), which makes pure mathematics possible. Time and Space are such a priori intuitions, namely the forms of sensibility, the condition. for having empirical intuitions of objects. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like ...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Dogmatism, Skepticism, Metaphysics - Sadler's Lectures
March 13, 2024 12:56 - 13 minutes - 19.9 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Preamble on the peculiarities of all metaphysical knowledge, bearing upon how and why his transcendental or critical philosophy takes metaphysics beyond two other sets of positions, those of dogmatism and skepticism To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make ...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - How Are Synthetic A Priori Cognitions Possible? - Sadler's Lectures
March 11, 2024 18:07 - 11 minutes - 16 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Preamble on the peculiarities of all metaphysical knowledge, bearing upon what he takes to be a central problem that must be resolved if there is to be any genuine well-founded metaphysics, namely how it is that synthetic a priori cognitions (or judgements or propositions) are possible. To support my ongoing work...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Analytic And Synthetic Judgements - Sadler's Lectures
March 10, 2024 14:51 - 17 minutes - 26.2 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Preamble on the peculiarities of all metaphysical knowledge, bearing upon the distinction he makes between analytic and synthetic judgements. Analytic judgements do not add anything to our knowledge or understanding, though they can help us to clarify concepts. Synthetic judgements do add something new to our cogn...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Metaphysical Judgements As Synthetic - Sadler's Lectures
March 08, 2024 16:42 - 11 minutes - 15.7 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Preamble on the peculiarities of all metaphysical knowledge, bearing upon the nature of properly metaphysical judgements, cognitions, or propositions, namely that they are all synthetic a priori. This is what allows there to be any genuine advance in knowledge through metaphysics To support my ongoing work, go t...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Mathematical Judgements As Synthetic - Sadler's Lectures
March 07, 2024 15:25 - 14 minutes - 20.2 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Preamble on the peculiarities of all metaphysical knowledge, bearing upon the nature of mathematical judgements, properly speaking. Kant argues, against previous thinkers, that properly mathematical judgements are not analytic but synthetic a priori. There is still scope for analytic judgements within mathematic...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Differentiating Metaphysics As A Science - Sadler's Lectures
March 05, 2024 14:52 - 13 minutes - 19.9 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Preamble on the peculiarities of all metaphysical knowledge, bearing upon how Metaphysics is to be differentiated as a science from other sciences. Kant tells us that there are three main differentiating factors, namely the object, the sources of cognition, and the kind of cognition. To support my ongoing work, ...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - The Prolegomena And The First Critique - Sadler's Lectures
March 04, 2024 18:50 - 14 minutes - 20.8 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Preface that outlines the relationship between the Prolegomena and his earlier published Critique of Pure Reason. The Prolegomena as a work addresses some of the obscurity that Kant admits is present in the Critique, and is structured in an analytic rather than synthetic style of presentation To support my ongoin...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - David Hume's Spur To Kants Thinking - Sadler's Lectures
March 03, 2024 20:46 - 16 minutes - 23.7 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Preface bearing upon how David Hume's critical examination of causality - the necessary connection between causes and effects - broke Kant's "dogmatic slumber" and spurred him to examine the possibility of metaphysics in a radical manner. This would lead to the work contained in the Critique of Pure Reason To su...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Problems With Metaphysics As A Science - Sadler's Lectures
March 02, 2024 15:25 - 11 minutes - 16.2 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it on his discussion in the Preface, in which he raises several problems with metaphysics of his time as a science. These include the lack of universal agreement or consensus, the advances of all the other sciences, and the lack of any settled criteria for the discipline. in Kant's view, it is time to ask the question whether metaphysics as a scienc...
Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Rachel Rosen, Nexus-6 Android
February 29, 2024 15:47 - 21 minutes - 31.2 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the character Rachel Rosen, who is a rather unusual Nexus-6 Android owned directly by the Rosen Corporation. She interacts with Rick Deckard in a number of ways, with her motivations eventually becoming clear late in the novel. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com...
Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Mercerism As Swindle And Truth
February 28, 2024 17:35 - 21 minutes - 30.7 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the expose by Buster Friendly of Mercer as a fraud and Mercerism as a "swindle", as well as how and why "nothing changes" as a result of this revelation. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - ...
Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - The Mission Street Hall Of Justice
February 27, 2024 19:17 - 17 minutes - 25.3 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the fake, "android-infested" Hall of Justice located not on Lombard Street but on Mission Street, where Deckard is taken after he attempts to use the Voight-Kampff empathy test on Luba Luft. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a di...
Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Empathy And Antipathy Towards Androids
February 26, 2024 18:33 - 20 minutes - 26.8 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the emotional attitudes and responses that various characters in the novel have or develop towards androids. Androids lack the capacity for empathy and therefore do not exhibit it towards each other. Rick Decker find himself feeling empathy towards at least some androids. To support my ongoing w...
Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Mercerism And The Empathy Box
February 25, 2024 13:25 - 19 minutes - 28.2 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the religion and life philosophy of Mercerisim, centered around the figure of Wilbur Mercer, the practice of using empathy boxes, and the experience of fusion with Mercer and other minds while one uses the empathy box. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler I...
Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - The Voight-Kampff Test - Sadler's Lectures
February 23, 2024 13:08 - 22 minutes - 32.7 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the Voight-Kampff Empathy Test used by bounty-hunters to distinguish between androids and humans. We cover how the test works, whether or not it is or remains a valid instrument, representative questions from the test, and who the test is given to in the course of the novel. To support my ongoi...
Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep - Kipple, Form-Destroying, And The Tomb-World
February 21, 2024 19:01 - 16 minutes - 23.6 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the various ways in which entropy and breakdown get articulated, experienced, and feared in the book. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www...
Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - John R. Isidore, Special - Sadler's Lectures
February 19, 2024 18:41 - 20 minutes - 29 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the character John R Isidore, who has been recently classified as a "special". He is ineligible for emigration to the colonies, lives by himself in an apartment building in the suburbs, and holds a job as a driver for a false/electric animal hospital. A number of the chapters of the novel focus ...
Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Deckard's Six Android Bounties
February 17, 2024 14:01 - 19 minutes - 29.5 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the plot of the novel, namely that bounty hunter Rick Deckard has to track down and kill six dangerous androids masquerading as human beings, and likely to try to kill him. These are: Polokov, Garland, Luft, Stratton, and the two Batys To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.pat...
Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep - Real And Electric Animals - Sadler's Lectures
February 15, 2024 19:47 - 22 minutes - 32.9 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the importance animals have assumed for human beings in the post-war era, after the death of most animals. Empathy towards animals has become a major characteristic of human beings. Animals are also replicated in "electric" or mechanical forms To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - ...
Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Dialing Up Moods - Sadler's Lectures
February 14, 2024 17:46 - 14 minutes - 21.1 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the Penfield mood organ which people can use to deliberately induce moods, emotional states, and even outlooks and attitudes in themselves and others To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www....