Ep. 295: Kant on Preventing War (Part One)

Continuing on Consciousness Explained (Ch. 5, 12). We talk about appearance vs. judgment and whether Dennett's denial of this distinction makes sense or just holds for very short time-scales, as in the phi-phenomenon experiment. Does the rejection of appearances and rejection of ...  Show more

Future co-host philosophy Jenny joins past co-host improviser Bill along with the usual Mark and Mary for some tag-team mud swimming, hot takes about The Odyssey, and discussion and play about Bill's return to school, Maslow's hierarchy, gamified syllabi, some math stuff, and aca ...  Show more

In this episode, I cover Immanuel Kant's essay "Perpetual Peace." If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Twitter: @DavidGuignion IG: @theory_and_philosophy 

What subjects did Kant explore in his works? What questions did he seek to answer? In our sixth episode of Kant Talk 2.0, we delve into Kant’s political philosophy. We are joined by Dr. Cristóbal Garibay-Petersen, a Kant expert and fellow in European Philosophy at the London Scho ...  Show more

Have we done everything we could to avoid war? Everything? Is there another possibility that could exist without the need to go to war? 

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