Latest Elucidaitons Podcast Episodes
Episode 89: John Collins discusses language universals
Elucidations - October 28, 2016 03:45 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, John Collins discusses the philosophical significance of Noam Chomsky's theory of universal grammar, along with some of the scientific evidence for it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 88: Kent Bach discusses jumping to conclusions and knowing when to think twice
Elucidations - October 12, 2016 03:04 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Kent Bach discusses the importance of subconscious processes that underlie ordinary, everyday reasoning. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 87: Susanna Schellenberg discusses perceptual particularity
Elucidations - September 11, 2016 22:17 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Susanna Schellenberg argues that hallucination involves the very same ability as ordinary visual experience--it's just that the ability goes wrong. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 86: Daniel Smyth discusses photographs and their vicissitudes
Elucidations - August 18, 2016 17:10 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Daniel Smyth discusses the vast amount of background knowledge that goes into interpreting a photograph. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 85: Bryce Huebner discusses race and cognitive science
Elucidations - August 01, 2016 17:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Bryce Huebner argues that our implicit racial biases are shaped by the physical environments we inhabit. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 84: Amanda Greene discusses the legitimacy of democracy
Elucidations - June 10, 2016 17:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Amanda Greene argues that democracy is the form of government that most reliably leads to long-term stability and acceptance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 83: Bob Simpson discusses genealogical anxiety
Elucidations - May 12, 2016 17:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Bob Simpson discusses how a person should respond to the realization that they only believe something because of how they were brought up. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 82: Robert May discusses Frege and the problem of identity
Elucidations - April 13, 2016 17:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Robert May discusses the problems that arise when we try to explain what simple statements of arithmetic are saying. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 81: Cathy Legg discusses what Peirce's categories can do for you
Elucidations - March 15, 2016 17:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Cathy Legg talks about why Charles Sanders Peirce thought that existing was only one of three ways of being. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 80: Mark Hopwood discusses love and moral value
Elucidations - February 10, 2016 17:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Mark Hopwood discusses the moral relation that results when one person values another as a particular individual. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 79: Anthony S. Gillies discusses conditionals
Elucidations - January 06, 2016 17:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Anthony S. Gillies shows us how difficult it is to figure out what if/then statements mean! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 78: Stephen Engstrom discusses the categorical imperative
Elucidations - December 09, 2015 17:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Stephen Engstrom discusses the principle that Immanuel Kant thought to underlie all of ethics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 77: Mark Schroeder discusses reasons for action and belief
Elucidations - November 13, 2015 17:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Mark Schroeder discusses an example of how something other than evidence against a claim can give you a reason not to believe that it's true. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 76: Barbara Herman discusses gratitude
Elucidations - October 13, 2015 17:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Barbara Herman describes the intricacies of the relationship between two people that is created when one does a favor for the other. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 75: Malte Willer discusses non-monotonic logic
Elucidations - September 08, 2015 17:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Malte Willer discusses attempts to give a formal theory of commonsense reasoning, and how it differs from the kind of reasoning that has traditionally been studied. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 74: Christina van Dyke discusses gender and medieval mysticism
Elucidations - August 07, 2015 17:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Christina van Dyke discusses the medieval mystics, a loose collection of authors who thought through philosophical issues by writing about their religious experiences. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 73: Greg Salmieri discusses Ayn Rand's moral philosophy
Elucidations - July 15, 2015 17:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Greg Salmieri explains why Ayn Rand thought a good life is oriented, first and foremost, toward the goal of benefitting oneself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 72: Robert May discusses pejorative expressions
Elucidations - June 25, 2015 17:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Robert May explains what racial, ethnic, and homophobic slurs literally mean. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 71: Kent Schmor discusses Carnap's Aufbau
Elucidations - June 05, 2015 17:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Kent Schmor introduces us to Rudolf Carnap's classic work, _The Logical Construction of the World_. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 70: Susan James discusses Spinoza on the good embodied life
Elucidations - May 06, 2015 17:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Susan James explains Spinoza's view that the mind and the body are really just different aspects of the same thing, and how that view led him to think of moral reasoning as having an emotional component. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 69: Christel Fricke discusses Adam Smith's theory of moral sentiments
Elucidations - March 25, 2015 17:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Christel Fricke discusses a view in ethics according to which you determine the right thing to do by imitating the perspective of an ideal, impartial spectator. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 68: Mark Lance discusses anarchism
Elucidations - February 18, 2015 17:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Mark Lance defends the view that instead of answering to a central authority, our society should self-govern, only scaling up what it has to. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 67: John Protevi discusses Darwin, disaster, and prosociality
Elucidations - January 12, 2015 17:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, John Protevi discusses research across several different disciplines which supports the hypothesis that human beings evolved to cooperate with each other. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 66: Haim Gaifman discusses mathematical reasoning
Elucidations - December 17, 2014 17:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Haim Gaifman argues that there are mathematical facts about real, objective, mathematical entities. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 65: Julian Savulescu discusses doping in sports
Elucidations - November 17, 2014 17:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Julian Savulescu argues that professional sports should change their regulations so as to allow for a certain amount of doping. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 64: James Conant and Jay Elliott discuss the analytic tradition
Elucidations - October 18, 2014 17:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, James Conant and Jay Elliott go into the history of the movement known as analytic philosophy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 63: Michael Devitt discusses reference
Elucidations - September 19, 2014 17:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Michael Devitt explains why we need a theory of what it means for a proper name to stand for a person or place. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 62: Sally Sedgwick discusses Hegel’s critique of Kant
Elucidations - August 21, 2014 17:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Sally Sedgwick runs through Immanuel Kant’s idea that doing the right thing means doing whatever respects the dignity of all rational creatures, along with G. W. F. Hegel’s worry that Kant neglected how his moral theory was the product of a particular historical moment. Hosted ...
Episode 61: Jeff Buechner discusses Kripke and functionalism
Elucidations - July 16, 2014 17:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Jeff Buechner gives us an overview of the work of Saul Kripke, and explains his (not yet published) argument against the idea that the human mind is a kind of computer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 60: Fabrizio Cariani shares some thoughts about oughts
Elucidations - June 23, 2014 17:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Fabrizio Cariani explains some of the challenges that arise when we try to precisely define the words 'ought' and 'should.' Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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