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 71: Kent Schmor discusses Carnap's Aufbau
In this episode, Kent Schmor introduces us to Rudolf Carnap's classic work, _The Logical Construction of the World_.
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00:34:46 |
Fri 05 Jun 2015
Episode 70: Susan James discusses Spinoza on the good embodied life
In 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…
00:33:07 |
Wed 06 May 2015
Episode 69: Christel Fricke discusses Adam Smith's theory of moral sentiments
In 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.
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00:32:49 |
Wed 25 Mar 2015
Episode 68: Mark Lance discusses anarchism
In 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.
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00:42:49 |
Wed 18 Feb 2015
Episode 67: John Protevi discusses Darwin, disaster, and prosociality
In this episode, John Protevi discusses research across several different disciplines which supports the hypothesis that human beings evolved to cooperate with each other.
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00:31:36 |
Mon 12 Jan 2015
Episode 66: Haim Gaifman discusses mathematical reasoning
In this episode, Haim Gaifman argues that there are mathematical facts about real, objective, mathematical entities.
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00:40:58 |
Wed 17 Dec 2014
Episode 65: Julian Savulescu discusses doping in sports
In this episode, Julian Savulescu argues that professional sports should change their regulations so as to allow for a certain amount of doping.
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00:39:08 |
Mon 17 Nov 2014
Episode 64: James Conant and Jay Elliott discuss the analytic tradition
In this episode, James Conant and Jay Elliott go into the history of the movement known as analytic philosophy.
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00:52:00 |
Sat 18 Oct 2014
Episode 63: Michael Devitt discusses reference
In 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.
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00:38:21 |
Fri 19 Sep 2014
Episode 62: Sally Sedgwick discusses Hegel’s critique of Kant
In 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 tha…
00:30:56 |
Thu 21 Aug 2014
Episode 61: Jeff Buechner discusses Kripke and functionalism
In 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.
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00:44:57 |
Wed 16 Jul 2014
Episode 60: Fabrizio Cariani shares some thoughts about oughts
In this episode, Fabrizio Cariani explains some of the challenges that arise when we try to precisely define the words 'ought' and 'should.'
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00:26:39 |
Mon 23 Jun 2014
Episode 59: Quill Kukla discusses reproductive risk
In this episode, Quill Kukla questions the assumptions behind the idea that keeping unborn fetuses safe is simply a matter of individual mothers managing risk responsibly.
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00:37:03 |
Wed 14 May 2014
Episode 58: Stewart Shapiro discusses vagueness, part II
In this episode, we return to the topic of vagueness from a new perspective.
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00:27:38 |
Thu 17 Apr 2014
Episode 57: Julia Annas discusses virtue ethics
In this episode, Julia Annas introduces us to the ancient Greek conception of ethics.
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00:39:02 |
Wed 19 Mar 2014
Episode 56: Philip Pettit discusses corporate rights and responsibilities
In this episode, Philip Pettit considers whether a corporation can have any special privileges or rights.
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00:54:04 |
Mon 10 Feb 2014
Episode 55: Branden Fitelson discusses paradoxes of consistency
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00:45:33 |
Wed 08 Jan 2014
Episode 54: Patricia Blanchette discusses Frege's logicism
In this episode, Patricia Blanchette explains why Gottlob Frege and other early 20th century philosophers wanted to understand all of mathematics as really being about logic.
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00:44:29 |
Fri 06 Dec 2013
Episode 53: Martin Stokhof discusses formal semantics and Wittgenstein
In this episode, Martin Stokhof argues that understanding what formal theories of linguistic meaning are actually doing is less straightforward than it might seem.
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00:37:38 |
Thu 14 Nov 2013
Episode 52: Rafeeq Hasan discusses Rousseau on freedom and happiness
In this episode, Rafeeq Hasan argues that according to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, there isn't any conflict between being a free individual and living in a cooperative society.
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00:37:41 |
Mon 14 Oct 2013
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