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Adventures Among Ideas David Dennen
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This podcast by David Dennen, PhD explores ideas in philosophy, cultural history, and literary theory. The point is view is generally Romanticist, pragmatist, and behaviorist, but other traditions are explored as well. Episodes are usually monologues, occasionally dialogues.
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Exploring Fundamental Reality with Daniel Tarpy and Tyler Piteo-Tarpy
In this conversation I, Daniel Tarpy, and Tyler Piteo-Tarpy discuss several ways of thinking about fundamental reality, including idealism, materialism/physicalism, pantheism and panentheism, pragmatism/relationalism, and triunalism. The conversation is exploratory; hopefully we’ll revisit certain topics in more depth in the future.
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Discussing Free Will & Determinism: On Sapolsky, Harris, Dennett, and Others
Do we have free will? Does it matter? Daniel Tarpy joins me to discuss the free will debate. We discuss some classic and recent ideas about free will and determinism, including those of Robert Sapolsky, Kevin Mitchell, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, John Dewey, C. A. Campbell, and Roderick Chisolm.
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Is Frank Jackson's Knowledge Argument about Knowledge?
I argue that the problem with Frank Jackson's Knowledge Argument (or Mary's Room Argument) against physicalism is that it's not about knowledge.
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What Is Aesthetic Experience? Part 1: Dewey
What does John Dewey have to say about aesthetic experience?
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Are Chatbots Conscious?
Is it possible for an artificial intelligence to become really conscious? Are some AIs already conscious, as at least a few people think? And in particular, are large-language-model-based chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s Bard—which after all seem to express thoughts and feelings—conscious? If so, in what sense are they conscious? How conscious are they?
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Jay Ogilvy in 4 Essays: Paradigms, Power, and Possible Futures
In this episode I look at four essays by the philosopher Jay Ogilvy on paradigm shifts, the nature of power, and possible futures.
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Ogilvy, James. “Understanding Power.” Philosophy & Social Criticism, vol. 5, no. 2 (1978): 128–144. https://doi.org/10.1177/019145377800500202
Ogilvy, James. “From Command to Co-Evolution: Toward a New Paradigm for Human Ecology.” Ecological Consciousness: Essays from the Earthday X Colloquium, University of Denver, April 21–24, 1980, pp. 265–293. Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1981.
Ogilvy, Jay. “Scenario Planning, Art or Science?” World Futures, vol. 61, no. 5 (2005): 331–346. https://doi.org/10.1080/026040290500561
Ogilvy, Jay. "Facing the Fold: From the Eclipse of Utopia to the Restoration of Hope." Foresight, vol. 13, no. 4 (2011): 7–23. https://doi.org/10.1108/14636681111153931
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