Elucidations: A University of Chicago Podcast
By Matt Teichman & Mark Hopwood
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Podcast Description
Elucidations is a monthly philosophy podcast recorded at the University of Chicago. Each month, a prominent philosopher sits down with our graduate student co-hosts to talk about his or her latest work and areas of philosophical expertise. The podcast covers a wide range of topics from the theoretical to the practical (including causation, metaphor, agency, religious freedom, and moral psychology) and explores a wide range of problems from the perennial to the cutting-edge (including skepticism and experimental philosophy).
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CleanEpisode 35: Martha Nussbaum discusses the capabilities approach | In this episode, Martha Nussbaum proposes a new set of criteria for determining the overall health and prosperity of a country. | 5/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 34: Kieran Setiya discusses moral disagreement | In this episode, Kieran Setiya discusses the difference between disagreeing with someone about how you should live your life and disagreeing with someone about what you just saw (like, for example, who was the winner of a very close race). | 4/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 33: Daniel Sutherland discusses the philosophy of mathematics | In this episode, Daniel Sutherland explains some of the difficulties involved in trying to say what numbers are. | 3/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 32: Jennifer Lockhart discusses ignorant knowledge | In this episode, Jennifer Lockhart tells us what happens when a person is unable to go ahead and do something they know how to do in theory. | 2/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 31: Branden Fitelson discusses reasoning fallacies | In this episode, Branden Fitelson discusses some mistakes we often make when reasoning about probabilities, and explains why we may even have evolved to make these mistakes. | 1/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 30: Marko Malink discusses modal syllogistic | In this episode, Marko Malink discusses what Aristotle meant by words like 'every' and 'some,' and how his use of these words differs subtly from ours. | 12/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 29: Peter Kail discusses Hume's legacy | In this episode, Peter Kail discusses the importance of David Hume's contributions to philosophy, including his thoughts on the scientific method, human psychology, and religious belief. | 11/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 28: John Searle discusses human reality and basic reality | In this episode, John Searle explores some of the problems that come up when we try to reconcile what's obvious and self-evident about human experience with what we know about how the world works. | 10/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 27: Emma Borg discusses semantic minimalism | In this episode, Emma Borg explains why it's important to have a sharp distinction between what a person literally means when they say something and what they merely imply. | 9/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 26: Robert Richards discusses evolutionary ethics | In this episode, Robert Richards argues that we have evolved an instinct to act for the benefit of other people. | 9/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 25: Robert Stalnaker discusses conversational context | In this episode, Robert Stalnaker draws a distinction between two different meanings of the word 'context,' then explores some of its philosophical ramifications. | 7/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 24: Christopher Peacocke discusses the perception of music | In this episode, Christopher Peacocke discusses what it is to hear emotion in music. | 6/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 23: Quassim Cassam discusses transcendental arguments | In this episode, Quassim Cassam discusses an influential strategy for arguing against the idea that (for example) we're all in the Matrix. | 5/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 22: Ben Laurence discusses collective action | In this episode, Ben Laurence discusses the difference between what an individual person does and what a group of people does. | 4/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 21: Raymond Geuss discusses political liberalism | In this episode, Raymond Geuss critiques the idea that we should always look to what the general consensus is when deciding which political policies to adopt. | 3/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 20: Simon Critchley discusses faith | In this episode, Simon Critchley considers whether religious faith can serve as a model for faith in ethical principles. | 2/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 19: Dan Sperber discusses epistemic vigilance | In this episode, Dan Sperber discusses the psychological habits we develop in order to figure out whether the information we hear from other people is trustworthy. | 1/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 18: Mark Lance discusses language and power | In this episode, Mark Lance discusses how the conventions by which we verbally address one another define the roles we play in society. | 12/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 17: Brandon Fogel discusses mechanism and causation | In this episode, Brandon Fogel discusses how attitudes toward the idea of action at a distance have changed over the course of history. | 11/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 16: Amartya Sen discusses justice | In this episode, Amartya Sen critiques the idea that in order to make our society more just, we have to model it on an ideal. | 10/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 15: Brian Leiter discusses religious toleration | In this episode, Brian Leiter considers whether claims of religious conscience--as opposed to claims of other matters of conscience--should be given special status under the law. | 9/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 14: Edward Witherspoon discusses skepticism | In this episode, Edward Witherspoon considers whether a disembodied brain could, in principle, have the ability to think. | 8/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 13: Fabrizio Cariani discusses judgment aggregation | In this episode, Fabrizio Cariani discusses how the beliefs held by a single person in a group relate to the beliefs held by that group as a whole. | 7/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 12: Jason Bridges discusses contextualism | In this episode, Jason Bridges discusses how a single sentence can mean completely different things in different contexts, and why this is of particular interest to philosophers. | 6/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 11: Martin Gustafsson discusses philosophical pictures | In this episode, Martin Gustafsson discusses Ludwig Wittgenstein's thoughts on the commonsense belief that the meaning of a word is the thing for which the word stands. | 5/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 10: Richard Kraut discusses goodness | In this episode, Richard Kraut discusses the contrast between being good for someone and simply being good. | 4/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 9: Ted Cohen discusses metaphor | In this episode, Ted Cohen argues that metaphorical language is a tool we use to identify with other people. | 3/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 8: Chris Haufe discusses evolutionary psychology | In this episode, Chris Haufe discusses the problems involved in trying to give an evolutionary account of our psychological traits. | 2/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 7: Daniel Groll discusses nature and ethics | In this episode, Daniel Groll discusses how one might invoke the idea of nature when making an argument about what is right or wrong. | 1/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 6: Jesse Prinz discusses experimental philosophy | In this episode, Jesse Prinz discusses a new movement in philosophy which makes use of findings in psychology and the social sciences to address traditional philosophical problems. | 12/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 5: Jocelyn Benoist discusses the philosophy of perception | In this episode, Jocelyn Benoist reflects on whether our sense perception is reliable. Should we worry about whether we can be certain that there is a real, tangible, external world, or is that worry misplaced? | 11/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 4: Martha Nussbaum discusses sexuality and the law | In this episode, Martha Nussbaum discusses how and whether sexual conduct should be legally regulated. | 10/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 3: Brian Leiter discusses Nietzsche on morality | In this episode, Brian Leiter discusses Nietzsche's critique of morality and his naturalist approach to human psychology. | 9/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 2: Gabriel Richardson Lear discusses Plato's philosophy of poetry | In this episode, Gabriel Richardson Lear tells us why Plato thought that the stylistic choices made by a poet could have ethical ramifications. | 8/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 1: Agnes Callard discusses desire and satisfaction | In this episode, Agnes Callard offers a new account of what it is to want something, and what it means to get the thing you want. | 7/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 35 Episodes |
