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Egg Timer Philosophy
by Eric Roark
A podcast where philosophical ideas are scrambled up in about five to ten minutes. From ancient philosophy to contemporary approaches and everything in between, if you are looking for accessible, interesting, and relevant philosophy served up fast then you are in the right spot. New episode dished out weekly. Check out the egg timer philosophy website at: www.eggtimerphilosophy.com Send any comments about past episodes or suggestions for new episodes to: [email protected]
Episodes
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147: Thomas Malthus on Population
Today's episode of the egg timer takes a look at Thomas Malthus's ideas about population and the significant influence that they had on 19th century thought. If you have comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes send them over to: [email protected] Image Attribution: By John...
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146: Hardin on The Tragedy of The Commons
in 1968 Garrett Hardin published 'The Tragedy of the Commons' and since that time his ideas have proved highly influential to a wide range of thinkers including philosophers, political scientists, economists, ecologists, and biologists. Tune to learn what the tragedy of the commons is and what...
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145: The Commons
This episode of the egg timer takes a critical look at what the commons are and why they matter to the history of ideas. Send you comments, questions, and ideas for future episodes to [email protected] Image Attribution: By Lennart Sikkema - Imported from 500px (archived version) by…
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144: Confirmation Bias
Tune into today's episode to learn more about confirmation bias. What is it? Why do we have it? What can be done about it? Send you comments, questions, and ideas for future episodes to: [email protected]
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143: Bioethics and Organ Donation
Tune in for a discussion of ethical issues related with organ donation and specifically what a system of organ donation ought to be like. Send your questions, comments, and ideas for future episodes to: [email protected] Image Attribution: By Tiiu Sild - Own work, Public Domain,...
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142: Philosophy and 1984: Part 4
This fourth and final installment of the Summer Series takes a look at the philosophical themes from the last quarter of 1984. Winston is being interrogated by O'Brien and what ensues in their encounter is a vivid description of totalitarianism at its worse and lots of ground for philosophical...
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141: Philosophy and 1984: Part 3
This third installment of the Summer Series returns to 1984 where Winston and Julia are becoming increasingly entangled in a dangerous conspiracy against The Party. A free copy of 1984 can be found here: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt Send over your questions, comments, and ideas…
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140: Philosophy and 1984: Part 2
This installment of the Summer Series takes a look at some of the more important philosophical and social themes from the second quarter of 1984. Winston visits the proles section of the city and beings a secret and rebellious romantic relationship with Julia. He also receives an invitation from…
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139: Philosophy and 1984: Part 1
This first installment of the Summer Series takes a look at philosophical themes from the first quarter of Orwell's classic, 1984. Tune in to hear ideas about totalitarian dystopia, power and control, and doublethink. A free copy of 1984 can be found here:...
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138: Philosophy and 1984 Summer Series Announcement
The 2023 Summer series will highlight themes from George Orwell's classic dystopian creation, 1984. The initial episode covering the first quarter of the book will be released June 28th, the second episode on July 12th, the third on July 26th, and the last on August 9th. A free copy of 1984 can…
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137: Leibniz on Monads
What is the fundamental element of reality? In 1714 Leibniz published the Monadology and gave a very interesting answer to this question. There he argued that a non-physical part less basic substance called a Monad was indeed the fundamental element of reality. Tune in to learn more about Monads...
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136: Duties Owed to Future Generations?
Can we owe duties to people who do not yet exist? Tune in as this vexing philosophical and ethical question gets scrambled up.
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135: Ethics And The Law
This episode of the egg timer offers some introductory questions and themes about the relationship between ethics and the law. Send you questions, comments, and ideas for future episodes to: [email protected] Image Attribution: By Themis-jp - 撮影者自身, Public Domain,...
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134: Camus's 'The Stranger': Part 2
This episode of the egg timer scrambles up existential themes from the second half of Albert Camus's 'The Stranger'. You can find the full text of 'The Stranger' here: https://archive.org/stream/CamusAlbertTheStranger/CamusAlbert-TheStranger_djvu.txt Send your comments, questions, and ideas for...
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133: Camus's 'The Stranger': Part 1
This episode of the egg timer scrambles up existential themes from the first half of Albert Camus's 'The Stranger'. You can find the full text of 'The Stranger' here: https://archive.org/stream/CamusAlbertTheStranger/CamusAlbert-TheStranger_djvu.txt Send your comments, questions, and ideas for...
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132: Camus's 'The Stranger' Preview
This episode of the egg timer previews Albert Camus's 20th century classic novel 'The Stranger'. The next two episodes of the podcast will be devoted to taking a look at the major philosophical themes within that work. You can find the full text of 'The Stranger' here:...
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131: Hannah Arendt on the Banality of Evil
This episode of the egg timer takes a look at Hannah Arendt's thoughts about the banality of evil. Arendt's treatment of evil was one of the most important and controversial ideas within 20th century political philosophy. Send your thoughts, questions, and ideas for future episodes to:...
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130: Isaiah Berlin's 'Two Concepts of Liberty'
This episode of the egg timer takes a look at Isaiah Berlin's 20th century political philosophy classic, 'Two Concepts of Liberty'. Tune in to learn more about the distinction Berlin makes between positive and negative liberty and why he rejects the idea that political communities should strive…
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129: Two Utilitarian Thought Experiments
For today's episode a couple of thought experiments meant to provoke some critical thought surrounding utilitarian ethics. Send your comments, questions, and ideas for future episodes to: [email protected]
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128: Price Gouging and Scarcity
For most people price gouging is a very cut and dry ethical issue. Tune in to find out how considerations of scarcity make the issue more complex than it first appears to be. Send your thoughts, questions, and ideas for future episodes to: [email protected] Image Attribution: By...
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127: Herbert Spencer's Evolutionary Individualism
Herbert Spencer was an extremely influential 19th century thinker but his ideas exist in relative obscurity today. He coined the phrase 'survival of the fittest' and wrote extensively on a variety of topics within evolutionary theory, political thought, sociology, psychology, and ethics. Tune in…
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126: Darwin on Natural Selection
Tune in to learn more about Charles Darwin's idea of Natural Selection and how that idea was impactful well beyond the biological sciences. Send over your questions, thoughts, and ideas for future episodes to [email protected] Image Attribution: By Julia Margaret Cameron - Reprinted in...
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125: Princess Elisabeth's Objection to Descartes's Dualism
In 1643 Elisabeth, Princess of Bohemia, wrote a series of letters to Descartes which posed a strong objection to his dualism. Tune in to learn more about that objection and how Descartes responded in a lively correspondence with the Princess. You can find the correspondences between Elisabeth and...
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124: The Gettier Problem and Knowledge
In 1963 Edmund Gettier's short paper offering counterexamples to the idea that knowledge amounts to justified true belief sent shock waves around the philosophical world. Tune in to learn more about Gettier's influential ideas that still garner a great deal of attention today. You can find a copy...
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123: Knowledge as Justified True Belief
Knowledge is often defined today as justified true belief. This episode is devoted to taking a look at each part of this influential approach to understanding what knowledge amounts to. Send your comments, questions, and ideas for future episodes to [email protected]
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122: Natural Procedural Rights
Do people have natural procedural rights to be judged by fair and reliable processes? That's the topic for this episode of the egg timer. Tune in for an application of natural rights to an age old question. Send your comments, questions, and ideas for future episodes to:...
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121: Rousseau on Inequality
Why does inequality exist? That's the question that Jean Jacques Rousseau set out to answer in the mid 18th century. Tune in to find out the answer he gives and why his ideas about inequality still hold significant relevance today. Send over your questions, comments and ideas for future episodes…
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120: Egalitarianism
Today's episode takes a look at the nuanced idea of egalitarianism. Tune in to find out why the view is much more than simply giving everyone the same. Send over you comments, questions, and ideas for future episodes to [email protected]
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119: The Ring of Gyges in Plato's Republic
If a person found a ring that gave them the ability to be invisible and face no consequences for how they acted would they have any reason to act justly? This is the Ring of Gyges example found in the second book of Plato's Republic. Tune in as this long standing philosophical thought experiment…
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118: The Prisoner's Dilemma and Game Theory
For this episode of the egg timer a look at the classic prisoner's dilemma. This is the game that ushered in contemporary game theory in the 1950's and it remains highly relevant today. Send over your questions, comments, and ideas for future episodes to: [email protected]
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117: The Rabbit Duck Illusion
Take a look at the cover art for the episode. What do you see? I see a duck but many other people see a rabbit. Listen in to find out how the rabbit duck illusion brings with it some very interesting philosophical discussion. Send over your thoughts, questions and ideas for future episodes to:...
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116: Aristotle On The Best Type of Life
This episode of the egg timer takes a look at why Aristotle thought the best type of life could only be the life of contemplation. Send your questions, comments, and ideas for future episodes to [email protected] Art Attribution: By After Lysippos - Jastrow (2006), Public Domain,...
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115: The Montey Hall Puzzle
The Montey Hall Puzzle has perplexed people for over three decades. Tune in to find out what the puzzle can teach about the idea about making decisions under conditions of variable change. Image Attribution: By The logo is from the following website: cbs.com/lmad cbs.com, Fair use,...
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114: Presentism
Philosophical presentism is the view that the present or present entities are the only things that are real. Tune in to learn more about this intriguing view. Send over your thoughts, questions and ideas for future episodes to: [email protected]
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113: Big Lotteries and Expected Value
For today's episode a look at the topic of expected value through the lens of the lottery. Send over your thoughts, questions and ideas for future episodes to: [email protected] Image Attribution: By Santeri Viinamäki, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=49450513
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112: Descartes's Sixth Meditation
Today's episode concludes the Summer Series and takes a look at how Descartes makes his final push to move from global skepticism to general knowledge. Send your thoughts, questions, or ideas for future episodes to [email protected] Art Attribution: Frans Hals - André Hatala [e.a.]...
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111: The Blind Chessmaster
Where does a game of chess actually exist? That's the question for this episode of the egg timer and its answer open a number of very interesting philosophical possibilities. Send your thoughts, questions, and ideas for future episodes to [email protected] Photo Attribution: By Alan...
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110: Descartes's Fifth Meditation
This episode covers major themes from Descartes's fifth meditation in his 'Meditations on First Philosophy'. His primary focus in the fifth meditation is to address how it is that thoughts relate with the essence of abstract objects like triangles as well as material objects such as mountains....
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109: Descartes's Fourth Meditation
This episode covers major themes from Descartes's fourth meditation in his 'Meditations on First Philosophy'. His central concern in the fourth meditation is to address the source of our error in a way that still leaves room for a non deceiving God. He tries to accomplish this through a very...
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108: Descartes's Third Meditation
This episode of the egg timer covers Descartes's Third Meditation within his Meditations on First Philosophy. During the Second Meditation Descartes made the case for people having absolute certainty, knowledge, that the self as a thinking thing exists in some fashion. In his third Meditation...
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107: Descartes's Second Meditation
This episode covers Descartes's Second Meditation within his Meditations on First Philosophy. Here Descartes introduces his infamous idea, 'I think, therefore I am'. Send your thoughts, questions, or ideas for future episodes to [email protected] Art Attribution: Frans Hals - André...
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106: Self-Defense
For this episode a discussion of self-defense with emphasis given to the ideas of proportionality and aggression. Send over your thoughts, questions, or ideas for future episodes to [email protected] Image Attribution: By Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-00504 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de,...
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105: Descartes's First Meditation
Descartes first meditation from his Meditations on First Philosophy kicks off the Summer Series. Listen in the find out how Descartes demolishes all of his beliefs in order to begin the search for a foundation for anything that he can know with absolute undoubtable certainty. Send over your...
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104: Descartes Summer Series Announcement
Listen in to find out details about the Descartes Summer Series. Send over your thoughts, questions or ideas for future episodes to: [email protected] Art Attribution: Frans Hals - André Hatala [e.a.] (1997) De eeuw van Rembrandt, Bruxelles: Crédit communal de Belgique, ISBN...
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103: Tocqueville's Democracy in America: Part 2
Join in for this part two of a discussion about Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America. Special focus will be given the the greatest threats to democracy that Tocqueville sees and how he thinks the idea of enlightened self interest can be used to confront them. Send your comments…
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102: Tocqueville's Democracy in America: Part 1
Alexis de Tocqueville is most well known for his phrase, 'the tyranny of the majority'. Listen in to learn more about Tocqueville's thoughts about Democracy in America that he formed after his journey to the United States in the early 1830's. Send over your comments, questions, and ideas for…
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101: Economics Without Ethics?
This episode of the egg timer takes a look at the possibility of offering a comprehensive economic view without an ethical foundation. Those prospects are not good. Image Attribution: By Foto: Jonn Leffmann, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=81842350 Send your comments,...
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100: Are Numbers Even Real?
A hundred episodes of the egg timer later, but are numbers even real? Send your comments, questions, and ideas for future episodes to: [email protected] Image Attribution: By Alex1011 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1013851
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99: Peter Kropotkin on Mutual Aid
Listen in the learn more about the late nineteenth century philosopher and historian Peter Kropotkin. Kropotkin was a communist and anarchist. He argued that mutual aid, not competition, defined the evolution of species, including that of human beings. Send your comments, questions, and ideas for...
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98: Religious Liberty And The State
This episode of the egg timer reviews the topic of religious liberties and toleration within political communities. Special focus is given to the tension between the state as a being understood as a supreme authority with the belief by many that actually this is false and God, not the state, is…
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A podcast where philosophical ideas are scrambled up in about five to ten minutes. From ancient philosophy to contemporary approaches and everything in between, if you are looking for accessible, interesting, and relevant philosophy served up fast then you are in the right spot. New episode dished out weekly. Check out the egg timer philosophy website at: www.eggtimerphilosophy.com Send any comments about past episodes or suggestions for new episodes to: [email protected]
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