Best Seth Paskin Podcasts (2024)

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Ep. 354: Guest Tim Williamson on Philosophic Method (Part One) 42:33

2h ago42:33

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Oxford philosophy professor Timothy Williamson talks to us about his new book, Overfitting and Heuristics in Philosophy. How can we best apply the insights of philosophy of science to philosophy itself? Maybe some alleged philosophical counter-examples are just the result of psychological heuristics gone wrong. Get more at partiallyexaminedlife.com…

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PEL Presents #184: !BREAKING! Comedy News 50:14

4d ago50:14

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Many people use shows like Last Week Tonight or The Daily Show to not just satirize the news but to provide us with our news. Late night shows, SNL, and many other shows get in on this, and conservative media is catching up via Gutfield! How does the comedy news format relate to panel shows, podcasts, and other light-hearted political talk? For mor…

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PEL Presents PvI#84: Interesting? w/ Lorraine Besser 49:02

3h ago49:02

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Lorraine teaches at Middlebury college and has recently written The Art of the Interesting: What We Miss in Our Pursuit of the Good Life and How to Cultivate It. How does "the interesting" fit into human flourishing? How do we know when some attractive stimulation is really in our interest and really good? Can we find something interesting even the…

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Ep. 353: Reid on Visual Knowledge (Part Two) 47:49

8d ago47:49

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Concluding our treatment of "Of Seeing" in Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense. We continue to hammer at this idea of "resemblance" between mental contents and physical objects, consider more carefully Reid's level of support for the primary/secondary quality distinction, how he treats non-signifying feelings like pain and…

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PEL Presents NEM#224: Steve Dawson (Dolly Varden) Elevates Americana 1:06:24

4d ago1:06:24

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Steve fronted Chicago's Dolly Varden for six albums from the '90s through 2013. He also started releasing albums under his own name 2003 and has just released his seventh. We discuss "A Mile South of Town" (and listen at the end to "Oh, California") from Ghosts (2024), the title track from The Dumbest Magnets by Dolly Varden (2000), and "Bronko Nag…

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Ep. 353: Reid on Visual Knowledge (Part One) 48:59

9d ago48:59

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We're continuing our treatment of Thomas Reid's Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense (1764), now discussing ch. 6: "Of Seeing." Does vision provide the exception to Reid's point that our sensations do not resemble objects in the world? Images surely seem to do so! What does this mean for Reid's epistemology? Get more at par…

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PEL Presents PMP#183: Classic Universal Monster Movies 52:28

10d ago52:28

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It's our Halloween episode! Brucker Nourse from the Autopsy of a Horror Movie podcast joins the gang about a wave of 1930's films including Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Invisible Man. Are these actually enjoyable to modern audiences? For more, visit prettymuchpop.com. Hear bonus content at patreon.com/prettymuchpop or by subscribing via Apple Pod…

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PEL Presents PvI#83: Half Philosophizing (Season 4 Premiere) 51:50

12d ago51:50

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Welcome to the beginning of a new round of shenanigans on Philosophy vs. Improv. Let the senior slump begin! Your hosts Mark Linsenmayer and Bill Arnett here talk a blazin' stream of consciousness and then have a pretty long improv scene. Are we already always philosophizing? Watch the proceedings unedited on YouTube. Hear more at philosophyimprov.…

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Ep. 352: Thomas Reid on Smelling and Knowledge (Part Two) 49:21

16d ago49:21

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Continuing on Inquiry into the Human Mind, getting further into the chapter on smelling as well as the conclusion and Reid's exchange with Hume. What exactly is our relation with objects in the world according to Reid? Get more at partiallyexaminedlife.com. Visit partiallyexaminedlife.com/support to get ad-free episodes and bonus content.…

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PEL Presents SUBTEXT: Love Dishonored in Euripides' "Medea" - Part 6 1:08:20

17d ago1:08:20

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Wes & Erin continue their discussion of Ancient Greece’s most notorious battle of the sexes, and Euripides’ rumination on the question of whether the Athenian ideals of rationality and moderation sufficiently honor the instinctual side of human nature. To hear all the previous parts of this, just go check out subtextpodcast.com.…

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Ep. 352: Thomas Reid on Smelling and Knowledge (Part One) 55:15

23d ago55:15

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On Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense (1764): the introduction, conclusion, ch. 2 "Of Smelling" ch. 4 "Of Hearing," and some correspondence between Reid and Hume. According to Reid, the big mistake of "modern" philosophy is thinking that objects in the world need to resemble the sensations we have of them. Smelling is sup…

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PEL Presents PMP#182: Tim Burton: Shtick Macabre 51:13

28d ago51:13

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In light of the new Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, we discuss the films of director (and occasional writer) Tim Burton since his career was firmly established by his early work in the '80s including the original 1988 Beetlejuice. Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn, and Al have very mixed reactions to the new film, but we agree that the animation style that charact…

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PREMIUM-Ep. 351: Sophie Grace Chappell on Transgender (Part Two) 13:42

1M ago13:42

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Mark, Seth and Dylan continue talking about philosophy surrounding trans phenomena in light of our interview with Sophie Grace about Trans Figured. In this supporter-exclusive discussion, we get into sex and gender as cluster concepts, ethical theory in equity discussions, and the practical matters you'd expect: sports participation, pronouns, bath…

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Ep. 351: Guest Sophie Grace Chappell on Transgender (Part One) 53:13

1M ago53:13

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Mark, Seth, and Dylan interview this British philosophy prof about her new book, Trans Figured, and philosophy's role in discussing the phenomena of transgender (which, yes, can be used as a noun, according to Sophie). Get more at partiallyexaminedlife.com. Part two of this episode (with just the PEL guys) will only be available to PEL supporters. …

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Ep. 350: Rorty on Justification and Essentialism (Part Two) 52:18

1M ago52:18

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Concluding on "Universality and Truth" from Richard Rorty's Pragmatism As Anti-Authoritarianism. It it coherent to simply not have a theory of truth? Rorty claims that he's not a relativist; he's just avoiding some useless parts of philosophy that just cause problems, including inculcating the respect for a non-human absolute, and this attitude und…

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PEL Presents PvI#82: LIVE in Personability w/ James Whittington 52:57

2M ago52:57

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Chicago's iO Theater was graced on August 21 by Mark, Bill, and special guest theater educator James Whittington, who spoke about embodiment (see Maurice Merleau-Ponty), the possible disconnect between meaning and tone, and being in the physical presence of greatness. They acted out scenes (while still sitting!) about an unsuccessful party and Expe…

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Ep. 350: Rorty on Justification and Essentialism (Part One) 51:16

2M ago51:16

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On "Universality and Truth" and "Pan-Relationalism," which are lectures 3-5 in Richard Rorty's Pragmatism As Anti-Authoritarianism. How do we justify democracy? Rorty says we don't have to refer to transcendent Truth or Good to do this. He also denies the disinction between essential and accidental properties, and in fact between substance and prop…

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Ep. 349: Rorty's Pluralistic Pragmatism (Part Two) 51:01

2M ago51:01

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Continuing on Richard Rorty's Pragmatism As Anti-Authoritarianism, ch. 1, "Pragmatism and Religion" and 2, "Pragmatism as Romantic Polytheism." Rorty evaluates past pragmatists' approaches to religion, arguing contra James that it can't be "privatized," that democratic social goals involve shared rationality, which means that all of our beliefs are…

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PREMIUM-Closereads: Merleau-Ponty on the Body 15:19

2M ago15:19

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We begin a long series on Maurice Merleau-Ponty's "Phenomenology of Perception" (1945), focusing on Part I, "The Body": "Experience and Objective Thought." To get the whole recording, you can become a PEL Citizen, or simply go subscribe to the Closereads: Philosophy with Mark and Wes podcast at closereadsphilosophy.com. You can also watch the proce…

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Ep. 349: Rorty's Pluralistic Pragmatism (Part One) 46:45

2M ago46:45

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On Richard Rorty's Pragmatism As Anti-Authoritarianism (1997), ch. 1-2 about religion. Should democracy be defended on absolutist grounds, e.g. by reference to God-given or natural rights, the nature of Man, or the dictates of Reason? Rorty says no! Democracy, ethics, and even truth itself are a matter for societies to decide for themselves. Monoth…

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Ep. 348: Tim Williamson's Knowledge-First Epistemology (Part Two) 51:12

2M ago51:12

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Continuing on "Knowledge First Epistemology" (2011), "Justifications, Excuses, and Sceptical Scenarios" (2015), and "Morally Loaded Cases in Philosophy" (2019). How does knowledge-first epistemology relate to reliabilism? What are its moral implications? Does W. have a good argument against relativism and skepticism? Get more at partiallyexaminedli…

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PREMIUM-PEL End-of-Summer Nightcap 2024 9:18

2M ago9:18

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Mark, Wes, and Dylan again talk politics, including conspiracy theorist psychology, whether post-modernism is responsible for current "post-truth" discourse on the Right (see the PvI David Shields episode), our previous guest John Ganz who now has a bestselling book, and finally the relief at actually having some Presidential choice that is not pas…

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Ep. 348: Tim Williamson's Knowledge-First Epistemology (Part One) 48:29

3M ago48:29

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On "Knowledge First Epistemology" (2011), "Justifications, Excuses, and Sceptical Scenarios" (2015), and "Morally Loaded Cases in Philosophy" (2019). Is knowledge basic, or is it dissolvable into more basic ingredients such as justification, truth, and belief? Williamson argues that these latter things should instead be defined in terms of knowledg…

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Ep. 347: Nyaya Sutra Against Buddhist Skeptics (Part Two) 37:57

3M ago37:57

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Mark, Seth, and Dylan now turn to ch. 4 of Dasti/Phillips' Nyaya Sutra: Selections with Early Commentaries about the self. Buddhism famously claims that there is no self, and the Nyaya philosophers respond with both common-sensical arguments (e.g. psychological properties must be possessed by something) and religious (without a soul, what persists …

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Ep. 347: Nyaya Sutra Against Buddhist Skeptics (Part One) 52:26

3M ago52:26

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We're continuing to explore Nyaya epistemology, in this part focusing on ch. 3, "In Defense of the Real," in Nyaya Sutra: Selections with Early Commentaries (2017). Get more at partiallyexaminedlife.com. Visit partiallyexaminedlife.com/support to get ad-free episodes and tons of bonus discussion. Sponsors: Apply for convenient term life insurance f…

Podcasts Worth a Listen

Seth Paskin Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey

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Ep. 354: Guest Tim Williamson on Philosophic Method (Part One) 42:33

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PEL Presents #184: !BREAKING! Comedy News 50:14

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PEL Presents PvI#84: Interesting? w/ Lorraine Besser 49:02

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Ep. 353: Reid on Visual Knowledge (Part Two) 47:49

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PEL Presents NEM#224: Steve Dawson (Dolly Varden) Elevates Americana 1:06:24

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Ep. 353: Reid on Visual Knowledge (Part One) 48:59

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PEL Presents PMP#183: Classic Universal Monster Movies 52:28

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PEL Presents PvI#83: Half Philosophizing (Season 4 Premiere) 51:50

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Ep. 352: Thomas Reid on Smelling and Knowledge (Part Two) 49:21

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PEL Presents SUBTEXT: Love Dishonored in Euripides' "Medea" - Part 6 1:08:20

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Ep. 352: Thomas Reid on Smelling and Knowledge (Part One) 55:15

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PEL Presents PMP#182: Tim Burton: Shtick Macabre 51:13

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PREMIUM-Ep. 351: Sophie Grace Chappell on Transgender (Part Two) 13:42

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Ep. 351: Guest Sophie Grace Chappell on Transgender (Part One) 53:13

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Ep. 350: Rorty on Justification and Essentialism (Part Two) 52:18

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PEL Presents PvI#82: LIVE in Personability w/ James Whittington 52:57

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Ep. 350: Rorty on Justification and Essentialism (Part One) 51:16

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Ep. 349: Rorty's Pluralistic Pragmatism (Part Two) 51:01

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PREMIUM-Closereads: Merleau-Ponty on the Body 15:19

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Ep. 349: Rorty's Pluralistic Pragmatism (Part One) 46:45

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Ep. 348: Tim Williamson's Knowledge-First Epistemology (Part Two) 51:12

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PREMIUM-PEL End-of-Summer Nightcap 2024 9:18

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Ep. 348: Tim Williamson's Knowledge-First Epistemology (Part One) 48:29

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Ep. 347: Nyaya Sutra Against Buddhist Skeptics (Part Two) 37:57

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Ep. 347: Nyaya Sutra Against Buddhist Skeptics (Part One) 52:26

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