Episode #039 ... The Limits of Empiricism

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Today we talk about Kurt Vonnegut’s book Slaughterhouse-Five. How war stories can distort the reality of war, how trauma can fracture our experience of time and identity, and why Billy Pilgrim becomes attracted to the strange philosophy of the Tralfamadorians. Hope you love it. : ...  Show more

In this podcast we cover realism: the common sense claim that there exists an external reality beyond our own minds that we can come to understand through the tools of science and reason more broadly. We compare this to some of the popular rivals that have cropped up over the yea ...  Show more

In this episode of Podverse:We start off this week facing some pretty hard questions, we ask what binds us and how do we do it. We discuss how we as a society prejudge and why? You all, get an opportunity to drag me through the mud and ridicule me. We refer back to episode 2 for ...  Show more

In this episode, I will talk about perception and the role it plays in how we experience our reality. Reality is in the eye of the beholder. “Dependent on the eye and forms, eye-consciousness arises...The meeting of the three is contact.”With contact as a requisite condition, the ...  Show more