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 91: Paolo Santorio discusses counterfactuals
In this episode, Paolo Santorio argues that to explain what statements like 'If A were, then B would be' mean, we need to understand them as statements about causal networks.
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00:35:10 |
Fri 23 Dec 2016
Episode 90: Ásta Sveinsdóttir discusses social construction
In this episode, our guest argues that we confer social statuses on each other by treating each other has having different obligations and entitlements.
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00:29:09 |
Sun 20 Nov 2016
Episode 89: John Collins discusses language universals
In 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.
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00:41:01 |
Fri 28 Oct 2016
Episode 88: Kent Bach discusses jumping to conclusions and knowing when to think twice
In this episode, Kent Bach discusses the importance of subconscious processes that underlie ordinary, everyday reasoning.
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00:30:13 |
Wed 12 Oct 2016
Episode 87: Susanna Schellenberg discusses perceptual particularity
In this episode, Susanna Schellenberg argues that hallucination involves the very same ability as ordinary visual experience--it's just that the ability goes wrong.
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00:31:13 |
Sun 11 Sep 2016
Episode 86: Daniel Smyth discusses photographs and their vicissitudes
In this episode, Daniel Smyth discusses the vast amount of background knowledge that goes into interpreting a photograph.
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00:46:24 |
Thu 18 Aug 2016
Episode 85: Bryce Huebner discusses race and cognitive science
In this episode, Bryce Huebner argues that our implicit racial biases are shaped by the physical environments we inhabit.
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00:35:19 |
Mon 01 Aug 2016
Episode 84: Amanda Greene discusses the legitimacy of democracy
In this episode, Amanda Greene argues that democracy is the form of government that most reliably leads to long-term stability and acceptance.
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00:43:10 |
Fri 10 Jun 2016
Episode 83: Bob Simpson discusses genealogical anxiety
In 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.
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00:35:44 |
Thu 12 May 2016
Episode 82: Robert May discusses Frege and the problem of identity
In this episode, Robert May discusses the problems that arise when we try to explain what simple statements of arithmetic are saying.
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00:41:08 |
Wed 13 Apr 2016
Episode 81: Cathy Legg discusses what Peirce's categories can do for you
In this episode, Cathy Legg talks about why Charles Sanders Peirce thought that existing was only one of three ways of being.
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00:37:58 |
Tue 15 Mar 2016
Episode 80: Mark Hopwood discusses love and moral value
In this episode, Mark Hopwood discusses the moral relation that results when one person values another as a particular individual.
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00:31:59 |
Wed 10 Feb 2016
Episode 79: Anthony S. Gillies discusses conditionals
In this episode, Anthony S. Gillies shows us how difficult it is to figure out what if/then statements mean!
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00:32:39 |
Wed 06 Jan 2016
Episode 78: Stephen Engstrom discusses the categorical imperative
In this episode, Stephen Engstrom discusses the principle that Immanuel Kant thought to underlie all of ethics.
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00:32:09 |
Wed 09 Dec 2015
Episode 77: Mark Schroeder discusses reasons for action and belief
In 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.
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00:38:49 |
Fri 13 Nov 2015
Episode 76: Barbara Herman discusses gratitude
In this episode, Barbara Herman describes the intricacies of the relationship between two people that is created when one does a favor for the other.
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00:42:02 |
Tue 13 Oct 2015
Episode 75: Malte Willer discusses non-monotonic logic
In 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.
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00:31:50 |
Tue 08 Sep 2015
Episode 74: Christina van Dyke discusses gender and medieval mysticism
In 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.
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00:30:00 |
Fri 07 Aug 2015
Episode 73: Greg Salmieri discusses Ayn Rand's moral philosophy
In this episode, Greg Salmieri explains why Ayn Rand thought a good life is oriented, first and foremost, toward the goal of benefitting oneself.
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00:39:44 |
Wed 15 Jul 2015
Episode 72: Robert May discusses pejorative expressions
In this episode, Robert May explains what racial, ethnic, and homophobic slurs literally mean.
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00:38:56 |
Thu 25 Jun 2015
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