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The Partially Examined Life
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"We feel that even when all possible scientific questions have been answered, the problems of life remain completely untouched. Of course there are then no questions left, and this itself is the answer." - Ludwig Wittgenstein, TLP 6.52.
Partially Examined Life #344: Gettier and Goldman on Justified True Belief (Part One)
On "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?" (1963) by Edmund Gettier, "What Is Justified Belief?" (1979) by Alvin Goldman, and "The Inescapability of Gettier Problems" (1994) by Linda Zagzebski.
What is knowledge? Even if a belief is true and justified, does that make it knowledge? Gettier came up with exceptions, and other philosophers tried to figure out how to revise "justification" to rule these out.
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What is knowledge? Even if a belief is true and justified, does that make it knowledge? Gettier came up with exceptions, and other philosophers tried to figure out how to revise "justification" to rule these out.
Get more at partiallyexaminedlife.com. Visit partiallyexaminedlife.com/support to get ad-free episodes and tons of bonus discussion.
Learn about our new book at partiallyexaminedlife.com/book.
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Philosophy vs Improv with Sheri Flanders (#77)
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The actor/writer/comedian joins us to talk FASHION. Learn more about her at sheriflanders.com. Hear (and see) more at philosophyimprov.com. Support the podcast to get all our post-game discussions and other bonus stuff at patreon.com/philosophyimprov.
Closereads: Plotinus on The Intelligence (Part One)
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On "The Intelligence, The Ideas, and Being" from the Enneads, about the various elements of Neo-Platonist cosmology: You've got The One, which is so awesome that it has literally no properties (so you can't even say it's awesome), then The Intelligence, which is the repository of the Forms (these first two together serve the same function as Aristotle's Unmoved Mover), then The Soul (the World ...
Pretty Much Pop #175: Podcast of the Planet of the Apes
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We discuss the ten films that all started with the 1968 Charlton Heston vehicle (based on Pierre Boulle's 1963 novel) through the latest offering, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. What psychologically are these films about? Which parts of this sprawling franchise are worth your time? For more, visit prettymuchpop.com. Hear bonus content at patreon.com/prettymuchpop or by subscribing via Apple...
The Partially Examined Life #343: Plotinus the Neo-Platonist (Part Two)
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Continuing with guest Chris Sunami, mostly discussing "The Good or The One," though we start off by completing "The Descent of the Soul" about why there is something rather than nothing, given that materiality is so undesirable compared to The One. Continued from ruclips.net/video/qRau-p0GUK0/видео.html. Get more at partiallyexaminedlife.com. Visit partiallyexaminedlife.com/support to get ad-fr...
Nakedly Examined Music #217: Richard Thompson's Moments in Time
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Richard started as guitarist in the folk-rock staple Fairport Convention in 1967 but left in 1970 after five albums. He then recorded his debut solo album, six as Richard and Linda Thompson, and has since recorded 20 more solo albums of lyrically inventive, stylistically varied tunes that nearly always feature very skilled guitar work. We discuss "Freeze," the first single from his new album Sh...
The Partially Examined Life #343: Plotinus the Neo-Platonist (Part One)
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On selections from the Enneads (270 C.E.), as presented by Elmer O'Brien as the first four essays in The Essential Plotinus: "Beauty," "The Intelligence, Ideas and Being," "The Descent of the Soul," and "The Good or The One." Featuring Mark, Wes, Dylan, Seth, and guest Chris Sunami. Continues with ruclips.net/video/Tmwes8O9ez4/видео.html. Get more at partiallyexaminedlife.com. Visit partiallyex...
Partially Examined Life #342: Zhuangzi on Knowledge and Virtue (Part Two)
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We're concluding our treatment of the Daoist sage, focusing on the relation between metaphysics and ethics. Is a "wu wei" (non-action) philosophy compatible with fighting for justice? Does it even necessitate kindness? This discussion continues from ruclips.net/video/vPxod5oEgqg/видео.html. Get more at partiallyexaminedlife.com. Visit partiallyexaminedlife.com/support to get ad-free episodes an...
Pretty Much Pop #174: Fallout Plays Post-Apocalyptic
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Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn and Al discuss the new Amazon TV show based on on the video game series that launched in 1997. How does one best adapt a sandbox game? How dark is too dark for comedy? We talk world-building and exposition dumps, narrative structure and character revelation, and morality in a ruined world. For more, visit prettymuchpop.com. Hear bonus content at patreon.com/prettymuchpo...
Nakedly Examined Music #216: Kim Richey Learns to Cherish Collaboration
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Kim has recorded about ten meticulously recorded country-evolving-to Americana albums out of Nashville since 1995. We discuss "Joy Rider" (and listen at the end to "Floating on the Surface") from Every New Beginning (2024), "A Place Called Home" from Rise (2002), and "I’m Alright" from Bitter Sweet (1997), which is also the home of the intro, "Every River." More at kimrichey.com. Hear more Nake...
Partially Examined Life #342: Zhuangzi on Knowledge and Virtue (Part One)
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More on the Zhuangzi, books 1-6 and 17-19 with guest Theo Brooks. We discuss epistemology (Can we know the mind of someone else? How can virtue make truth more accessible?), metaphysics (Is the world constantly changing such that we can't actually refer to anything? Does each thing somehow contain its opposite in virtue of being defined by its contrast with all that it is not?), and ethics (Wha...
Closereads: Levinas on Buber (Part One)
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We read the first pages of Emmanuel Levinas' 1958 article, "Martin Buber and the Theory of Knowledge." In these initial sections, subtitled "The Problem of Truth" and "From the Object to Being," he's recounting how Heideggerian phenomenology argued that being (including our unarticulated awareness of being) is more fundamental than knowledge (a verbalized, objectifying attitude toward the world...
Pretty Much Pop #173: Cowboy Beyoncé? (Cross-Genre Music)
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Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn, and Al look at pop music and the idea of genre. Beyoncé is beloved enough that she can do whatever she wants to musically, but the response to her Cowboy Carter album among country music listeners has been pretty critical. Is it real country, and what is it to even ask that question? Is gate-keeping about your favorite genre always stupid? For more, visit prettymuchpop...
Closereads: Philosophy with Mark and Wes: Zhuangzi, ch. 19
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We're reading the "Fathoming Life" chapter of this seminal Daoist philosopher, using the Ziporyn translation: Just the first couple pages to really focus in on some text that came up tangentially in Partially Examined Life ep. 341. Read along with us, starting on PDF p. 188: terebess.hu/english/zipo.pdf Thanks for watching Closereads: Philosophy with Mark and Wes, a podcast by the creators of T...
Partially Examined Life #341: Guest Karyn Lai on Daoism in the Zhuangzi
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Mark, Dylan, Seth, and Theo Brooks discuss the Zhuangzi (ca. 325 BCE) UNSW Sydney prof. Karyn, co-author of the History of Philosophy Podcast Chinese series. We talk through Daoist advice about virtue, political action, perspectivism, and more. Get more at partiallyexaminedlife.com. Visit partiallyexaminedlife.com/support to get ad-free episodes and tons of bonus discussion. Learn about our new...
Partially Examined Life #340: Brian Ellis on the Implications of Essentialism (Part Two)
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Partially Examined Life #340: Brian Ellis on the Implications of Essentialism (Part Two)
Nakedly Examined Music #215: Lynn Drury's New Orleans Emotionality
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Nakedly Examined Music #215: Lynn Drury's New Orleans Emotionality
Pretty Much Pop #172: Curb Larry David's Shtick
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Pretty Much Pop #172: Curb Larry David's Shtick
Partially Examined Life #340: Brian Ellis on the Implications of Essentialism (Part One)
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Partially Examined Life #340: Brian Ellis on the Implications of Essentialism (Part One)
Closereads: Peter Railton's "Moral Realism" (Part One)
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Closereads: Peter Railton's "Moral Realism" (Part One)
Partially Examined Life 15th Anniversary and Book Release
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Partially Examined Life 15th Anniversary and Book Release
Nakedly Examined Music w/ Roger Joseph Manning, David Christian, Rachel Taylor Brown
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Nakedly Examined Music w/ Roger Joseph Manning, David Christian, Rachel Taylor Brown
Philosophy vs. Improv w/ David Pena Guzman (ep. 74)
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Philosophy vs. Improv w/ David Pena Guzman (ep. 74)
Partially Examined Life #339: Brian Ellis on the Metaphysics of Science (Part Two)
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Partially Examined Life #339: Brian Ellis on the Metaphysics of Science (Part Two)
Pretty Much Pop #171: The Traitors - A Multi-National Reality Game Show Phenom
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Pretty Much Pop #171: The Traitors - A Multi-National Reality Game Show Phenom
Partially Examined Life #339: Brian Ellis on the Metaphysics of Science (Part One)
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Partially Examined Life #339: Brian Ellis on the Metaphysics of Science (Part One)
Partially Examined Life #338: Aristotle on Potential vs. Actual and the Unmoved Mover (Part Two)
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Partially Examined Life #338: Aristotle on Potential vs. Actual and the Unmoved Mover (Part Two)
Philosophy vs. Improv w/ Colleen Doyle (ep. 73)
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Philosophy vs. Improv w/ Colleen Doyle (ep. 73)
Partially Examined Life #338: Aristotle on Potential vs. Actual and the Unmoved Mover (Part One)
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Partially Examined Life #338: Aristotle on Potential vs. Actual and the Unmoved Mover (Part One)
"See, there are conditions for the possibility of all of us being who we are and doing what we do, and sometimes they're as bloody and ordinary as economics". Bars
I would give my pinky finger to see Rick and Slavoj in conversation. To Habermas or to Lacan that is the question.
He’s integrating some of Jean Baudrillards social theory on the hyper real and perhaps Marshal McCluhan’s medium is the message.
Found this. Thank you! Love her and her music.
Please try Charles Taylor!
The key to understanding and even going beyond Tomasello is the notion of primary empathy, with which we are born. We virtually identify with our significant other (usually our mother from whose womb we have just emerged). We don't have to learn of the other's consciousness: we have to learn of our distinctness. We don't need a "theory of mind" to conceive of other minds, for we are born identifying with another's mind. It takes learning, exploration, & experimentation to learn of our own identity.
I think you're wrong on "concepts". A concept must be a symbol to have *meaning* in itself. It's not just a feeling.
In his later works, Tomasello went beyond joint intentionality to "collective intentionality", which has a moral component. I'm not sure if this works. (And surely you know Langer is getting the information you cite on signal vs symbol right from Cassirer?)
Some misunderstanding of Tomasello. Joint intentionality is a shared focus and to some extent cultural consciousness, but he does not say this ability is "innate", though *primary empathy* may lead to it. Primary empathy (which, by the way, does away with the need for "mind-reading" or "theory of mind") probably comes with development in the womb and being born as a dependent.
Mostly with Tomasello, but better: Philippe Rochat (2009). *Others in Mind: Social origins of self-consciousness*. Cambridge University Press. Emphasis on the creativity of language: Charles C. Taylor (2017). *The Language Animal: The full shape of the human linguistic capacity*. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Both anti-Chomsky.
10:12 maybe the kind of intelligence they have in DC and Chicago is not the kind of intelligence the benevolent ETs are interested in conversing with No one ever considers that
alright alright alright
My favorite philosopher. Cheers.
Love me some G.E. Moore!
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Gotta love “Hai-degger” and “moh-derna-tee.” Just discovered this guy, big fan. Reminds me of home (TN), though I think his accent is from a different state. It’s hilarious because you expect a Baptist sermon from that accent, and then you realize you’re not in church.
Could you please avoid using the phrase "mind-independent reality" for the sake of those who believe in objects and everyone?
"refusal as a fear of complexity" damn. thats truth.
I'm just a "regular guy", and I think there is a neo platonic resurgence on the horizon. Maybe I'm wrong but I describe it as a "non religious Hellenistic spiritual path". I think that having an experience of transcendental Beauty helps one be more open to the words of Plotinus. I found neo Platonism after searching for something that might explain an ineffable encounter I had with that "Beauty". I was a staunch materialist at the time and the way that Plotinus and Plato approach the transcendent allowed me to find ways to grok that experience without feeling "weird" about delving into the world religion or new age.
The great Peter Green, after he had his unfortunate experience with LSD and while he was recovering from a bout of mental illness from that experience, reportedly said that although he could still play, he could (as a way of trying to explain what he had lost) no longer play the notes "between the lines." Not that I am anywhere near the same league, but as a bass player, I understood what that meant. When I felt I had become a good bass player (early 80s, began playing in late 60s), my best lines happened when I stopped thinking about what I was playing. The magic happens when you just let yourself go and see what happens. Unfortunately, Greeny was no longer able to do that, and it only happens to me, anymore, on those rare occasions when I have been practicing a lot and am on top of my game, as it were. So I totally get what Bruce Thomas means when he says he plays it and then figures out what he played. I think the best playing, on any instrument, comes when you can shut off your conscious mind and let the music play your fingers, rather than the other way around, if that makes any sense. Trying to explain music is like trying to dance to architecture, as I believe Frank Zappa (and no doubt others) said.
Thank you
Very interesting, thank you.
"They hope nothing, dream nothing, expect nothing." He might as well be describing Gen Z.
at around 20:10 or so Roderick speaks on the phrase "The one who dies with the most toys wins" and then makes a remark about Trump's funeral :')
Hey Partially Examined Life, I have to turn my volume up really high to hear this.
22:22 - Foucault's Whole New Disciplinary Matrix Around Madness: "I've joked about this process - I don't want to use the strong word “madness” here - but when we look at the expansion of this therapeutic zone on into the late 20th century, we now find out that very few of us don't belong in it. I mean, if you're not on a 12-step program today, you're out of fashion; I mean, who would have guessed, that the discourse of madness would eventually cover the whole social field and, until, perhaps the last growth industry we have - other than making movies about sex and violence - is psychiatry, and in running 12-step programs? This is a growth industry." Who would have guessed? Thomas Szasz, in his book The Myth of Mental Illness, published in 1961. It wasn't a guess, either.
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Someone ought to re animate Rick so he can talk about the Cynics.
Well he was wrong about rejecting Chaucer in colleges that has begun to happen at some colleges already. Of course it didn't happen when he was alive.
The film THX1138 came to mind.
Thanks for mentioning They Live as a helpful visual aid. Fight Club might have something to offer as well.
Love your podcast. But one thing that would be really helpful is to first hear about where your personal sympathies lie in terms of, among the hundreds of philosophical ideas and thinkers you have read, which ones you agree with the most. Not the hosts as a group but individually. You can get the sense of this as you listen to many episodes but it's still not very clear. This would help the listener frame your discussion and actually help in better understanding the topic in question. If there is a previous episode or something that you have released that serves this purpose then please point me to it as i haven't seen it yet. Thank you, you guys are awesome.
Your comments on country music shocked me. You say you played Bob Willis and that it was "square" Nashville cats were some of the hippest musicians anywhere. You can't judge a genre by the mediocre. Every genre is largely mediiocre because unfortunately most of us humans are mediocre and shallow, but country has some of the best musicians. Also those guys could keep people dancing as well as cryin and laughing. Funny the black guy has the best take and country the whites are ignorant. Politics?
I wish professors were all this down to earth. I thoroughly love listening to him.
What an inspirering human being. Thank you Rick Roderick.
He seems very resentful for a smart man.
Looking forward to the next part.
Then go to www.patreon.com/closereadsphilosophy
How prescient this guy is. I feel like David Foster wallace listened to this guy, or read a lot of marcuse
mentioned trump 20:21
Haber Mouse :) I love caption done by AI :)
Camille Paglia I am looking at you two bit soul sister!!!!! Rousseaus corpse sits at Foucaults feet yet you continue to fart
Rest in peace mister Roderick.
I am re-watching this series once a year at minimum. Always with a new thought. Now I see how Neuromancer is a delicious paradox. Poet wrote about the highly instrumental future. This is why Neuromancer will always be a special book. There is no school to teach you how to write Gibson :)
The commodification of dissent, borrowing your parents car to drive to the mall to buy an Anarchy symbol decal to put on your iPad.
What a great talk! RIP to a great American teacher…
Great analysis! Where is part 3?
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dispositions are not causal or they would always cause their result. they are modally conditional. see nagarjuna's mulamadhyamakakarika.
I wonder what Rick Roderick would think about queer theory, cancel culture, DIE, and the "new left" now.... would he be on the side of the conservatives now.... you're John A. Right he would be a conservative.
the properties/attributes/affective powers are not entities. they are just that thing as it is. our direct apprehension/our being effected is not an entity. it just us as we are when we are interfacing. the cognitions we after the fact construct are entities.