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 31: Branden Fitelson discusses reasoning fallacies
In this episode, Branden Fitelson discusses some mistakes we often make when reasoning about probabilities, and explains why we may even have evolved to make these mistakes.
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00:44:09 |
Wed 11 Jan 2012
Episode 30: Marko Malink discusses modal syllogistic
In this episode, Marko Malink discusses what Aristotle meant by words like 'every' and 'some,' and how his use of these words differs subtly from ours.
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00:30:34 |
Mon 12 Dec 2011
Episode 29: Peter Kail discusses Hume's legacy
In this episode, Peter Kail discusses the importance of David Hume's contributions to philosophy, including his thoughts on the scientific method, human psychology, and religious belief.
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00:33:47 |
Tue 08 Nov 2011
Episode 28: John Searle discusses human reality and basic reality
In this episode, John Searle explores some of the problems that come up when we try to reconcile what's obvious and self-evident about human experience with what we know about how the world works.
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00:38:55 |
Tue 18 Oct 2011
Episode 27: Emma Borg discusses semantic minimalism
In this episode, Emma Borg explains why it's important to have a sharp distinction between what a person literally means when they say something and what they merely imply.
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00:32:13 |
Mon 26 Sep 2011
Episode 26: Robert Richards discusses evolutionary ethics
In this episode, Robert Richards argues that we have evolved an instinct to act for the benefit of other people.
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00:36:09 |
Thu 08 Sep 2011
Episode 25: Robert Stalnaker discusses conversational context
In this episode, Robert Stalnaker draws a distinction between two different meanings of the word 'context,' then explores some of its philosophical ramifications.
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00:28:49 |
Mon 18 Jul 2011
Episode 24: Christopher Peacocke discusses the perception of music
In this episode, Christopher Peacocke discusses what it is to hear emotion in music.
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00:31:16 |
Mon 13 Jun 2011
Episode 23: Quassim Cassam discusses transcendental arguments
In this episode, Quassim Cassam discusses an influential strategy for arguing against the idea that (for example) we're all in the Matrix.
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00:31:46 |
Tue 17 May 2011
Episode 22: Ben Laurence discusses collective action
In this episode, Ben Laurence discusses the difference between what an individual person does and what a group of people does.
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00:29:36 |
Wed 06 Apr 2011
Episode 21: Raymond Geuss discusses political liberalism
In this episode, Raymond Geuss critiques the idea that we should always look to what the general consensus is when deciding which political policies to adopt.
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00:32:34 |
Mon 07 Mar 2011
Episode 20: Simon Critchley discusses faith
In this episode, Simon Critchley considers whether religious faith can serve as a model for faith in ethical principles.
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00:33:06 |
Tue 08 Feb 2011
Episode 19: Dan Sperber discusses epistemic vigilance
In this episode, Dan Sperber discusses the psychological habits we develop in order to figure out whether the information we hear from other people is trustworthy.
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00:35:07 |
Wed 12 Jan 2011
Episode 18: Mark Lance discusses language and power
In this episode, Mark Lance discusses how the conventions by which we address one another verbally define the roles we play in society.
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00:33:43 |
Mon 06 Dec 2010
Episode 17: Brandon Fogel discusses mechanism and causation
In this episode, Brandon Fogel discusses how attitudes toward the idea of action at a distance have changed over the course of history.
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00:33:56 |
Mon 08 Nov 2010
Episode 16: Amartya Sen discusses justice
In this episode, Amartya Sen critiques the idea that in order to make our society more just, we have to model it on an ideal.
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00:27:38 |
Wed 06 Oct 2010
Episode 15: Brian Leiter discusses religious toleration
In this episode, Brian Leiter considers whether claims of religious conscience--as opposed to claims of other matters of conscience--should be given special status under the law.
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00:36:49 |
Wed 08 Sep 2010
Episode 14: Edward Witherspoon discusses skepticism
In this episode, Edward Witherspoon considers whether a disembodied brain could, in principle, have the ability to think.
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00:33:03 |
Mon 02 Aug 2010
Episode 13: Fabrizio Cariani discusses judgment aggregation
In this episode, Fabrizio Cariani discusses how the beliefs held by a single person in a group relate to the beliefs held by that group as a whole.
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00:23:03 |
Fri 09 Jul 2010
Episode 12: Jason Bridges discusses contextualism
In this episode, Jason Bridges discusses how a single sentence can mean completely different things in different contexts, and why this is of particular interest to philosophers.
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00:40:08 |
Thu 03 Jun 2010
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