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    On The Very Idea - A Philosophy Podcast

    On The Very Idea - A Philosophy Podcast

    On The Very Idea - A Philosophy Podcast

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    Length:
    61 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    A self-indulgent vanity project of a man with a microphone in hand, each episode explores a philosophical theme hopefully with a certain degree of accuracy. I try to keep it pretty light. More philosophy nerd than academic, it sprung out of free time during the pandemic.
    @KMaca5
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 61 episodes

    Title

    John McDowell Part 3: Nothing Human is Artificial Or Everything We Do Is Nature

    In this final episode of a three part series on John McDowell's Mind and World, I take ...

    20 minutes
    		Mar 24, 2023

    John McDowell Part 2: Squinting to Get a Glimpse of the Real World

    In this second episode of a 3 part series on the work of John McDowell, I look at McDow...

    18 minutes
    		Jan 28, 2023

    Mind and World Part 1: The Active and Passive in John McDowell

    In this first episode of a three part series on John McDowell, I talk a bit about the s...

    19 minutes
    		Dec 12, 2022

    Scientific Realism or Scientific Relativism: Kuhn Part 4

    In this final installment of a four episode series, I take a look at criticisms of Thom...

    17 minutes
    		Nov 11, 2022

    Thomas Kuhn (Part 3): Epistemic Incommensurabiity or How Theory Can Affect Your Eye Balls

    In this third installment of a four part series on Thomas Kuhn and the allegedly incomm...

    19 minutes
    		Oct 07, 2022

    Kuhn and Science Part Two: When a 'Planet' Isn't a Planet

    In this second episode of a four part series on the work of Thomas Kuhn, I look at his ...

    19 minutes
    		Sep 06, 2022

    Kuhn (Part 1) Revolution, Crabs and Realism: Is There Progress Across the History of Science?

    In this first episode of a 4 part installment, I would like to look at scientific reali...

    20 minutes
    		Jul 14, 2022

    Kant At The Court Of King Arthur (Part 2): How to Chastise Genghis Khan From a Safe Distance

    In this final part of a two part series on our ability to morally evaluate historical f...

    22 minutes
    		Jun 17, 2022

    Kant at the Court of King Arthur (Part 1) - Bernard Williams and the Relativism of Historical Distance

    In this first episode of a two part series, I look at an issue that has been hot of lat...

    20 minutes
    		May 23, 2022

    3 for the Price of 1 - Donald Davidson's Principle of Charity Slays Empiricism, Conceptual Schemes & The Cartesian Skeptic (Maybe)

    Apologies for the Buzzfeedesque title - In this final episode of a two-part series on t...

    19 minutes
    		Apr 22, 2022