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Episode 22: Is Being Unintelligible?

Episode 22: Is Being Unintelligible?

FromTerrifying Questions


Episode 22: Is Being Unintelligible?

FromTerrifying Questions

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Length:
53 minutes
Released:
Jul 31, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

What is it to be?  We be, and we be jammin' but what about other things?  Is a hole a thing?  Or just a lack of dirt?  Unicorns aren't real, but are they in some other way?  Perhaps unicorns are, but don't exist.  But if so, what about non-existent unicorns? What's their deal?  What is the “metaphysics of presence,” and why did it annoy Martin Heidegger?  Do all why questions have answers? If so, why? If not, why not? Tune in and turn on and help Taylor and Eric grapple with the question (and the mystery) of being. 
Released:
Jul 31, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (50)

Eric Kaplan, a comedy writer (Futurama, Big Bang Theory) and doctor of philosophy, and Taylor Carman (Barnard College, Columbia University), a distinguished but humble authority on matters of existence and existentialism, host a philosophy podcast that addresses the most unsettling questions concerning human life and the nature of things and finds a path to courage using comedy, imagination, and far-ranging intellectual philosophical investigation. Along the way they grapple with the deep uncanniness of being.