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On The Very Idea - A Philosophy Podcast — 61 episodes

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John McDowell Part 3: Nothing Human is Artificial Or Everything We Do Is Nature

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John McDowell Part 2: Squinting to Get a Glimpse of the Real World

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Mind and World Part 1: The Active and Passive in John McDowell

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Scientific Realism or Scientific Relativism: Kuhn Part 4

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Thomas Kuhn (Part 3): Epistemic Incommensurabiity or How Theory Can Affect Your Eye Balls

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Kuhn and Science Part Two: When a 'Planet' Isn't a Planet

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Kuhn (Part 1) Revolution, Crabs and Realism: Is There Progress Across the History of Science?

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Kant At The Court Of King Arthur (Part 2): How to Chastise Genghis Khan From a Safe Distance

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Kant at the Court of King Arthur (Part 1) - Bernard Williams and the Relativism of Historical Distance

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3 for the Price of 1 - Donald Davidson's Principle of Charity Slays Empiricism, Conceptual Schemes & The Cartesian Skeptic (Maybe)

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Donald Davidson and White Snow: A Bare Bones Theory of Meaning

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Hume and Practical Rationality: The World vs. The Scratching of Hume's Finger (Part Deux)

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Hume and Practical Rationality: Is There Any Connection Between Morality and Reason?

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What Is The Meaning of Life? (Part 2)

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What Isn't The Meaning of Life (Part 1)

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Two Dogmas of Empiricism: Gary Gutting Questions The Paper's Status

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The Two Dogmas Of Empiricism: Where Are The Arguments?

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The Two Dogmas Of Empiricism: The Greatest Philosophy Paper of the 20th Century?

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Everything Old is Regrooved Again: The Permanent Present and Vaporwave Aesthetics

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PF Strawson and JL Mackie: Science: Just Another Way of Seeing the World (Part 3)

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PF Strawson and AJ Ayer: Perception: Raw Like Sushi? (Part 2)

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PF Strawson Takes on AJ Ayer: Perception and Its Objects (Part 1)

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Is There A Coherence That Binds Together a Political Ideology? Short Episode

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Can Genes Be Any More Selfish Than Jeans?: The Misuse of a Metaphor Part 2

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Selfish Genes and Abstract Elephants: The Misuse of a Metaphor

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Electromagnetic Consciousness: Short Episode

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New Atheism and the Alt-Right

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Emancipation Now ... Well Not Now, A Little Bit Later: Is Reflective Equilibrium The Tool to Lead Us To New Poltical and Ethical Visions (Part 3)

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Back to the Past: The Historical Roots of Reflective Equilibrium (Part 2)

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Bringing It All Into Balance: The Reflective Equilibrium Story (Part 1)

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Moral Realism (Part 3) - A Moral Realist's Reply to Mackie

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Moral Realism (Part 2) J.L. Mackie's Error Theory

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Moral Realism (Part 1) Are There Moral Facts?

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Hillary Putnam and Realism with a Human Face (Part 3): Tarski's Theory of Truth and How Mere Aristocratic Brain Teasers Became Philosophical Obsessions

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Hillary Putnam and Realism with a Human Face (Part 2): Wrapping up Quantum Physics and Following Putnam into the The Liar's Paradox

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Hillary Putnam and Realism with a Human Face (Part 1): On the Possibility of a God's Eye View

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Narrativity (Part 2) -When You Don't Think of Your Life as a Story

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The Tyranny of Narrativity (Part 1) - Is Life Just One Big Self-Authored Story?

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Wittgenstein (Part 3) - From Simples to Samples

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Wittgenstein (Part 2) - The Unravelling of the Tractatus

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Wittgenstein - The First Incarnation: In Search of the Elusive Simple (Part 1)

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Heidegger Against the Technocrats (Big Data Part 2)

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The Utopian Impulses of the TED Talk Crowd: Can Big Data Solve Our Social Problems?

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Love (Part 2): How to Love in Such a Way to Satisfy Both Your Wife and Kant and perhaps Bernard Williams Too

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Love (Part 1): The Philosophy Of Love and The Demands of Morality

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Qualia (Part 4): A Bit More on Qualia Plus Philosophy in Mass Media

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Qualia (Part 3): Daniel Dennett and Frank Jackson on Mental Experience

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Qualia (Part 2): What Do We Most Intimately Know

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Qualia: Consciousness and the Limits of Science

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Awakening From His Dogmatic Slumbers: Kant and His Development of a Theory of A Priori Knowledge

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Immanuel Kant and the Rationalist vs. Empiricist Debate that Defined Modern Philosophy - Part One

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Communitarianism vs. Liberalism Part Three: The Good Life, Neoliberalism and the Citizen

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Communitarianism vs. Liberalism Part 2

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Communitarianism vs. Liberalism Part 1

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Hegel and How the History of Consciousness Drives Historical Progress Part 2

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Hegel and How the History of Consciousness Drives Historical Progress

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The Rich Modern Concept of the Self and the Art of Reading Silently Part 2

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The Rich Modern Concept of the Self and the Art of Reading Silently

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Foucault and the Recklessness of the Rebel Philosopher - Episode 3

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Foucault and the Recklessness of the Rebel Philosopher Part 2

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Foucault and the Recklessness of the Rebel Philosopher Part 1