Elucidations
Elucidations is an unexpected philosophy podcast produced in association with Emergent Ventures. Every episode, Matt Teichman temporarily transforms himself back into a student and tries to learn the basics of some topic from a person of philosophical interest.
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- Update frequency
- every 36 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 151
- Years Active
- 2009 - 2025
Episode 111: Greg Kobele discusses mathematical linguistics
In this episode, Greg Kobele discusses how abstract mathematics can be useful for arriving at a unified theory of what patterns a person has mastery over when they can speak a language.
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00:41:08 |
Sun 27 Jan 2019
Episode 110: Chike Jeffers discusses the social and political philosophy of W.E.B. Du Bois
What is the best way forward for a group of people fairly recently freed from slavery? Booker T. Washington emphasized economic enfranchisement, whereas W.E.B. Du Bois thought it was necessary to ach…
00:37:04 |
Sat 15 Dec 2018
Episode 109: Bonus Episode with Matt Teichman and Toby Buckle
Bonus episode! In this joint edition of Elucidations and the Political Philosophy Podcast, Matt Teichman and Toby Buckle sit down and have a freeform conversation about why we do podcasts, the nature…
00:47:39 |
Sat 13 Oct 2018
Episode 108: Mariam Thalos discusses freedom
What do you think of yourself as? A musician? A mother? A political organizer? In this episode, our guest argues that your ability to act and reason freely is premised on your ability to shape and so…
00:36:06 |
Sat 15 Sep 2018
Episode 107: Linda Martín Alcoff discusses identity and history
In this episode, Linda Martín Alcoff discusses the subtle ways that things like your race, gender, sexual orientation, and class can influence your life. She argues that the best way to understand th…
00:50:07 |
Fri 03 Aug 2018
Episode 106: R. A. Briggs discusses gender
In this episode, R. A. Briggs discusses some complexities underlying our use of the terms 'man' and 'woman.'
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00:37:29 |
Fri 22 Jun 2018
Episode 105: R. A. Briggs discusses epistemic decision theory
How do we tell what the best strategies for changing our beliefs on the basis of new evidence might be?
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00:37:00 |
Fri 20 Apr 2018
Episode 104: Seth Yalcin discusses the question-sensitivity of belief
In this episode, Seth Yalcin argues that every belief we have is implicitly framed as the answer to a question, and that at different times we're considering different questions.
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00:38:53 |
Sun 04 Mar 2018
Episode 103: Brian Leiter explains why we should think about Marx
In this episode, we talk to Brian Leiter about why the writings of Karl Marx are helpful for understanding the current situation of the working and middle class in America, the 2016 Presidential elec…
00:50:54 |
Tue 09 Jan 2018
Episode 102: Josh Knobe discusses the true self
In this episode, Josh Knobe discusses a series of experiments that try to tease out what we implicitly assume about who a person really is, deep down.
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00:33:20 |
Fri 01 Dec 2017
Episode 101: Miranda Fricker discusses blame and forgiveness
In this episode, Miranda Fricker argues that the purpose of blaming someone is to communicate to them your sense of why what they did was wrong.
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00:49:32 |
Sat 21 Oct 2017
Episode 100: Agnes Callard discusses aspiration
In this episode, Agnes Callard explains why she thinks aspiration is the process of moving from one set of values to a new set of values in the way you live your life.
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00:49:02 |
Fri 22 Sep 2017
Episode 99: Steven Nadler discusses Spinoza on freedom
In this episode, Steven Nadler discusses Benedict de Spinoza's unique reason-centric conception of what it is to live a good life and be free.
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00:39:22 |
Sun 13 Aug 2017
Episode 98: Jennifer Lackey discusses credibility
In this episode, Jennifer Lackey discusses both how you can get things factually wrong and do something morally wrong by trusting people more than they deserve to be trusted.
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00:32:08 |
Mon 17 Jul 2017
Episode 97: Meghan Sullivan discusses time biases
In this episode, Meghan Sullivan argues that if it's irrational to sacrifice long-term benefits for short-term gain, then it's also irrational to prefer for bad experiences to have already happened.
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00:55:54 |
Sun 11 Jun 2017
Episode 96: Nic Koziolek discusses the role of belief in reasoning
In this episode, Nic Koziolek offers an account of what thought, belief, and reasoning are in terms of what knowledge is.
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00:41:20 |
Mon 08 May 2017
Episode 95: Zed Adams discusses the genealogy of color
In this episode, Zed Adams argues that philosophers are in an irresolvable debate about whether colors are real because they inherited multiple conflicting conceptions of what color is from previous …
00:32:59 |
Mon 10 Apr 2017
Episode 94: Zsofia Zvolenszky discusses fictional names
In this episode, Zsofia Zvolenszky argues that names like 'Harry Potter' or 'Princess Leia' stand for non-concrete human-made artifacts.
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00:36:26 |
Thu 23 Mar 2017
Episode 93: Barry Lam discusses obligations after death
In this episode, Barry Lam examines our common assumption that we should prioritize honoring the wishes of dead people.
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00:41:35 |
Mon 30 Jan 2017
Episode 92: Kristie Dotson discusses epistemic oppression
In this episode, Kristie Dotson discusses how imbalances in the way we share information with each other reflect broader power imbalances between social groups.
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00:43:53 |
Sat 14 Jan 2017
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