Free Will is a Scam!

Luke
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In which I try not to fight with my brother while we both try to shut up and listen to my sister-in-law. This is a periodic Philosophy podcast, in the form of a free-flowing conversation on a central text. It was incepted as an aid to my high school students in their Philosophy studies.

Episodes

  1. Episode 9: Wang Yangming - Inquiry on the Great Learning and Instructions for Practical Living

    08/03/2020

    Episode 9: Wang Yangming - Inquiry on the Great Learning and Instructions for Practical Living

    This one stretched to a discussion of Art, particularly Bada Shanren (1626-1705 CE), then we wandered into a discussion of teleology, religion, and progress in society. For some background on Wang and the tradition of Neo-Confucianism that he was at once a part and a critic of, click here.  Enjoy!

    1h 45m

  2. 06/18/2020

    Episode 8: Søren Kierkegaard, The Present Age

    Excerpt from Two Ages: A Literary Review 1846 It is a review of Thomasine Christine Gyllembourg-Ehrensvärd's 1845 novel, Two Ages Enjoy!

    1h 15m

  3. 06/03/2020

    Episode 7: Is Free Will A Scam? (Part 2)

    Free Will is a Scam!

    41 min

  4. 05/24/2020

    Episode 6: Is Free Will a Scam? (Part 1)

    We broke this week's content up into two episodes. In this first part we mostly wrestle with Spinoza's logic and the question of a naturally determined reality vs. a pre-determined one.  Stay tuned for Part 2!

    30 min

  5. 05/18/2020

    Episode 5: David Foster Wallace - E Unibus Plurum

    In the "Depressingly Prophetic" file, just behind Forster's The Machine Stops, lies this week's essay, E Unibus Plurum, by David Foster Wallace.  We enjoyed the conversation, and promise zero irony, and only minimal cynicism.  Enjoy!

    1h 18m

  6. 05/10/2020

    Episode 4: Kwame Anthony Appiah

    This week we discuss Appiah's In My Father's House chapters 1-5, and assorted other works by and about Appiah.

    1h 11m
  7. Episode 3: Irigaray - When Our Lips Speak Together

    04/18/2020

    Episode 3: Irigaray - When Our Lips Speak Together

    The theme for this week (and next) is Feminism, and we read several brilliant works, including: Luce Irigaray - When Our Lips Speak Together Julia Kristeva - Powers of Horror (Chapter One - Approaching Abjection) and discussed several more: Delouze and Guattari - A Thousand Plateaus Irigaray - The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger Enjoy!

    47 min
  8. Episode 2: Zhuangzi Inner Chapters

    04/05/2020

    Episode 2: Zhuangzi Inner Chapters

    This week we dig into the first 7 chapters of the classic proto-Daoist text, the Zhuangzi, named for Master Zhuang, or Zhuang Zhou. We worked primarily from Brook Ziporyn's excellent translation. Some other texts mentioned, and also worth reading are listed below, linked to their publisher's sites. Buy them! But not from Amazon. Victor Mair's Wandering on the Way Victor Mair, ed, Experimental Essays on Zhuangzi Livia Kohn's Zhuangzi Text and Context Geling Shang's Liberation as Affirmation - the Religiosity of Zhuangzi and Nietzsche

    1h 20m

  9. 03/30/2020

    Episode 1: Nietzsche - On the Geneology of Morality

    Welcome to Free Will is a Scam! A new Philosophy podcast, in which I (mawkishly? Tepidly?) attempt to stay out of a fight with my brother, and we both defer to the better judgment of my sister-in-law.  We are all teachers, and we love to talk with each other. So, we also hope you enjoy our conversation as much as we did! Additionally, as I made no attempt to acquire copyright approval to use the scant recordings that exist of Nietzsche musical oeuvre, here is some lovely violin and piano music from Loretta Altman, who seems to be Nietzsche's champion in the recording world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2afrV4f-9EI

    1h 4m
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In which I try not to fight with my brother while we both try to shut up and listen to my sister-in-law. This is a periodic Philosophy podcast, in the form of a free-flowing conversation on a central text. It was incepted as an aid to my high school students in their Philosophy studies.

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