Elucidations

In this episode, Brian Leiter discusses Nietzsche's critique of morality and his naturalist approach to human psychology... Read more

In this episode, Robert May discusses the problems that arise when we try to explain what simple statements of arithmeti... Read more

In this episode, Stephen Engstrom discusses the principle that Immanuel Kant thought to underlie all of ethics. Hosted o... Read more

Ever wonder what 'gender non-binary' means? Don't worry--Robin Dembroff (Yale University) is here to walk us through the... Read more

In this episode, Anubav Vasudevan argues that there is no conflict between the belief that the future is completely dete... Read more

In this episode, John Collins discusses the philosophical significance of Noam Chomsky's theory of universal grammar, al... Read more

In this episode, Raymond Geuss critiques the idea that we should always look to what the general consensus is when decid... Read more

In this episode, Anthony S. Gillies shows us how difficult it is to figure out what if/then statements mean! Hosted on A... Read more

In this episode, Julia Annas introduces us to the ancient Greek conception of ethics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri... Read more

In this episode, John Searle explores some of the problems that come up when we try to reconcile what's obvious and self... Read more

In this episode, Martha Nussbaum discusses how and whether sexual conduct should be legally regulated. Hosted on Acast. ... Read more

In this episode, Simon Critchley considers whether religious faith can serve as a model for faith in ethical principles.... Read more

In this episode, Matt Teichman and Julia Liu talk to Aaron Ben Ze'ev (University of Haifa) about lifelong romantic love.... Read more

In this episode, Martin Stokhof argues that understanding what formal theories of linguistic meaning are actually doing ... Read more

In this episode, Malte Willer discusses attempts to give a formal theory of commonsense reasoning, and how it differs fr... Read more

In this episode, Peter Adamson gives us a tour through the impressively wide-ranging work of Al-Kindi, including his arg... Read more

In this episode, Mark Lance defends the view that instead of answering to a central authority, our society should self-g... Read more

In this episode, Christel Fricke discusses a view in ethics according to which you determine the right thing to do by im... Read more

In this episode, Sally Sedgwick runs through Immanuel Kant’s idea that doing the right thing means doing whatever respec... Read more

In this episode, Patricia Blanchette explains why Gottlob Frege and other early 20th century philosophers wanted to unde... Read more