Ep. 259: Locke Clarifies Misleading Complex I...

On Daniel C. Dennett's Consciousness Explained (Ch. 1, 5), featuring guest Mark, Seth, Dylan, and guest Chris Heath. What is the mind? Dennett puts forth his "multiple drafts" model against the centralization that he characterizes as the "Cartesian Theater." Dennett claims that t ...  Show more

Chris Sunami, the editor of the PEL book, joins Mark, Wes and Seth as part of the launch of his new book, Free Your Mind, which is a series of PEL-like conversations all coming out of Chris' brain, using the model of Plato's symposium to talk about race, AI, art, religion, and mo ...  Show more

Philosophy is often thought of as proceeding via elaborate conceptual systems. But sometimes, a choice phrase is all you need to get you thinking. 

It’s tempting to imagine that a sentence will translate rather neatly, word by word, from one language to another. It’s also naive. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lexicon Valley⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. A Booksmart Studios production. Episode 250: "What a Young Brain Can ...  Show more

In this episode, I cover John Locke's "First Treatise of Government." Tune in next week for the much-more-important Second Treatise. If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Twitte ...  Show more

Is the mind a blank slate? John Locke's famous essay on Human UnderstandingThis video is a voice over of the introduction from John Locke's publication from 1689: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Essa...Author: John LockeLearn more: https:/ ...  Show more