Philosophy Gets Schooled

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Philosophy podcast aimed at school students. Fun, informative, engaging. Philosophers at universities and schools talk about loads of questions and topics that come up in Philosophy, Ethics and Political Theory - A-Levels / IB / Highers and even GCSE. Hosted by Simon Kirchin, University of Leeds and Director of the British Philosophical Association. Timetable of topics: https://stkirchin.wixsite.com/mysite/schools-podcast (Music by Alex Grohl)

  1. 11/21/2023

    PGS - Property Dualism

    Part 1: Introduction to metaphysics of mind, dualism and property dualism.  Chalmers's zombies!  Part 2 (starts 31min 05 sec): Jackson's Mary argument.  Epiphenomenalism, introspection, natural selection.  Evaluation.  Ben Jones, DaN McKee and Mabel Rowe chat with Simon Kirchin.  (Music by Alex Grohl.)

    1h 19m

  2. 11/20/2023

    PGS - Mind-Brain Type Id. Theory / Eliminative Materialism

    Part 1: Intro to metaphysics of mind, physicalism, mind-brain type identity theory - explanation, arguments for and against.  Part 2 (starts 35 min 15 sec): eliminative materialism - explanation, arguments for and against.  Michael Lacewing, Sally Latham and Adrian Samuel chat with Simon Kirchin.  (Music by Alex Grohl.)

    1h 21m

  3. 11/14/2023

    PGS - Substance Dualism

    Part 1: Intro to metaphysics of mind, dualism and substance dualism.  Descartes' Indivisibility Argument.  Part 2 (starts: 21min40sec): Descartes' Conceivability Argument, criticisms (possibility of other minds, interaction, and category errors).  Ben Jones, DaN McKee and Mabel Rowe chat with Simon Kirchin.  (Music by Alex Grohl.)  [AND APOLOGIES - SK's mic goes funny right at the end.  Hope it doesn't spoil your enjoyment!]

    1h 13m

  4. 11/13/2023

    PGS - Philosophical Behaviourism

    Part 1: intro to metaphysics of mind and physicalism, 'hard' & 'soft' behaviourism.  Part 2 (starts 29min50sec): dualism against behaviourism, Putnam's super-Spartans, circularity and multiple realisability, asymmetry between self-knowledge and knowledge of others, and evaluations.  Michael Lacewing, Sally Latham and Adrian Samuel talk with Simon Kirchin.  (Music by Alex Grohl.)

    1h 17m

  5. 10/23/2023

    PGS - Functionalism

    Part 1: intro to metaphysics of mind, functionalism, advantages. Part 2 (starts: 24min55sec): inverted qualia, no qualia, Mary argument, zombies, Turing/Chinese room/AI and evaluation of functionalism.  Sally Latham, Mabel Rowe and Adrian Samuel chat with Simon Kirchin (Kent/Leeds).  (Music by Alex Grohl.)

    1h 5m

  6. 05/11/2023

    PGS - Reason as a Source of Knowledge

    Part 1: Types of knowledge, definitions. Part 2 (18min15sec): Innate knowledge: Plato's Meno, Leibniz, Locke and Hume.  Part 3 (41min15sec): 'Intuition and Deduction' - Hume's Fork, Descartes' Cogito, clear and distinct ideas, Trademark Argument, etc. Sally Latham and DaN McKee chat with Simon Kirchin.  [Music by Alex Grohl]

    1h 14m

  7. 04/22/2023

    PGS - Cosmological Argument(s)

    Part 1: Intro, Kalam and Aquinas (first 2 ways).  Part 2 (23min25sec): Descartes and criticisms. Part 3 (41min45sec) Aquinas (3rd way), Leibniz and evaluation.  Matt Harris and Michael Lacewing chat with Simon Kirchin. [Music by Alex Grohl]

    59 min

  8. 04/13/2023

    PGS - Scepticism

    Part 1: Scepticism: definition and purpose, brains in vats, scepticism vs. normal disbelief.  Part 2 (25min25sec): Descartes: waves of doubt and his responses.  Part 3 (45min45sec): empiricist responses (Locke, Berkeley and Russell), and reliabilism.  Beth Mackintosh and Ben Jones chat with Simon Kirchin.  [Music by Alex Grohl]

    1h 18m
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Philosophy podcast aimed at school students. Fun, informative, engaging. Philosophers at universities and schools talk about loads of questions and topics that come up in Philosophy, Ethics and Political Theory - A-Levels / IB / Highers and even GCSE. Hosted by Simon Kirchin, University of Leeds and Director of the British Philosophical Association. Timetable of topics: https://stkirchin.wixsite.com/mysite/schools-podcast (Music by Alex Grohl)

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    philosophy-gets-schooled
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2023
  • Episodes
    42
  • Rating
    Clean
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