Dialogues, Meditations, and Analyses Devin Sanchez Curry

This brief introductory episode gives the listener advice about how to use the podcast. The episode opens with a clip of the philosopher Cornel West concisely stating a few of the main goals of the next fourteen episodes of the podcast.
Thanks to Galen Curry (of folk-rock band The Currys) for the theme music!

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In this episode, I discuss what you're supposed to be learning in Problems of Philosophy. Then, Dr. Justin Bernstein of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (but of Florida Atlantic University at the time of recording) tells us about the philosopher Alex Guerrero's idea that using a lottery to select our political representatives would be more effective--and indeed more democratic--than voting.
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In this episode, I draw on remarks by the philosophers Iris Murdoch and Susan Stebbing to discuss the art of philosophical conversation, with an emphasis on how it revolves around argumentation. Then, a couple of non-philosophers model an attainably successful submission for the philosophical conversation assignment you'll complete this semester.
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In this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Lindsey Fiorelli of Minerva University to discuss two analyses of b******t: Harry Frankfurt's view that bullshitting involves indifference to truth, and G.A. Cohen's view that bullshit is unclarifiably unclear.
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In this episode, I ask one of the most confounding questions in the study of ancient philosophy: was Socrates a bullshitter?
There won't be another episode of this podcast for a couple weeks. In the meantime, go check out Peter Adamson's episodes on Socrates, the Meno, and the Phaedo, over at his superb podcast on the History of Philosophy without any Gaps.

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In this episode, I invite you, the listener, to meditate with me on reasons to doubt everything you thought you knew.
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