Immanuel Kant's "What is Enlightenment?"

*Note: The Getty was meant to collect pre-20th century Western European art, not just 19th century Western European art, as per Paul Getty's will* In this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Eunsong Kim, Associate Professor of English at Northeastern, to discuss her new book, "The Politic ...  Show more

In this episode, I cover chapters 5-12 of Patricia Hill Collins' "Black Feminist Thought." Please consider donating to one of the following organizations: Palestinian Children's Relief Fund: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/general United Nations Relief and Works Agency: https ...  Show more

On this episode of the podcast, we discuss Kant’s answer to the question “What is enlightenment?” We begin by recounting the story of how Kant came to answer this question in the first place and why this was an important question to consider at the time. Next, we examine why Kant ...  Show more

On this episode of the podcast, we begin our discussion of Immanuel Kant. We first examine the historical context Kant was born into and consider the challenges philosophy was faced with, thanks to David Hume. We also discuss the change in the way humans were beginning to look at ...  Show more

Buddhists are famous for their thesis that selves do not exist. But if they are right, what would that thesis mean for our apparent sense of self and for ordinary practices involving selves—or at least persons? In Selfless Minds: A Contemporary Perspective on Vasubandhu’s Metaphy ...  Show more

Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks is one of the more obscure texts in Friedrich Nietzsche’s corpus. There are many good reasons for this: it is unfinished, and ends abruptly; it was never published; and it concerns subject matter that is not as immediately accessible as ...  Show more