Free Will is a Scam!
Philosophy Podcasts
In which I try not to fight with my brother while we both try to shut up and listen to my sister-in-law. This is a periodic Philosophy podcast, in the form of a free-flowing conversation on a central text. It was incepted as an aid to my high school students in their Philosophy studies.
Location:
United States
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Philosophy Podcasts
Description:
In which I try not to fight with my brother while we both try to shut up and listen to my sister-in-law. This is a periodic Philosophy podcast, in the form of a free-flowing conversation on a central text. It was incepted as an aid to my high school students in their Philosophy studies.
Language:
English
Email:
lukeweiss@gmail.com
Episodes
Episode 9: Wang Yangming - Inquiry on the Great Learning and Instructions for Practical Living
8/3/2020
This one stretched to a discussion of Art, particularly Bada Shanren (1626-1705 CE), then we wandered into a discussion of teleology, religion, and progress in society. For some background on Wang and the tradition of Neo-Confucianism that he was at once a part and a critic of, click here.
Enjoy!
Duration:01:45:14
Episode 8: Søren Kierkegaard, The Present Age
6/18/2020
Excerpt from Two Ages: A Literary Review 1846
It is a review of Thomasine Christine Gyllembourg-Ehrensvärd's 1845 novel, Two Ages
Enjoy!
Duration:01:15:29
Episode 7: Is Free Will A Scam? (Part 2)
6/3/2020
Duration:00:40:54
Episode 6: Is Free Will a Scam? (Part 1)
5/24/2020
We broke this week's content up into two episodes. In this first part we mostly wrestle with Spinoza's logic and the question of a naturally determined reality vs. a pre-determined one.
Stay tuned for Part 2!
Duration:00:29:59
Episode 5: David Foster Wallace - E Unibus Plurum
5/17/2020
In the "Depressingly Prophetic" file, just behind Forster's The Machine Stops, lies this week's essay, E Unibus Plurum, by David Foster Wallace.
We enjoyed the conversation, and promise zero irony, and only minimal cynicism.
Enjoy!
Duration:01:18:26
Episode 4: Kwame Anthony Appiah
5/10/2020
This week we discuss Appiah's In My Father's House chapters 1-5, and assorted other works by and about Appiah.
Duration:01:11:15
Episode 3: Irigaray - When Our Lips Speak Together
4/18/2020
The theme for this week (and next) is Feminism, and we read several brilliant works, including:
Luce Irigaray - When Our Lips Speak Together
Julia Kristeva - Powers of Horror
(Chapter One - Approaching Abjection)
and discussed several more:
Delouze and Guattari - A Thousand Plateaus
Irigaray - The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger
Enjoy!
Duration:00:47:15
Episode 2: Zhuangzi Inner Chapters
4/4/2020
This week we dig into the first 7 chapters of the classic proto-Daoist text, the Zhuangzi, named for Master Zhuang, or Zhuang Zhou. We worked primarily from Brook Ziporyn's excellent translation. Some other texts mentioned, and also worth reading are listed below, linked to their publisher's sites. Buy them! But not from Amazon.
Victor Mair's Wandering on the Way
Victor Mair, ed, Experimental Essays on Zhuangzi
Livia Kohn's Zhuangzi Text and Context
Geling Shang's Liberation as Affirmation - the Religiosity of Zhuangzi and Nietzsche
Duration:01:20:26
Episode 1: Nietzsche - On the Geneology of Morality
3/29/2020
Welcome to Free Will is a Scam! A new Philosophy podcast, in which I (mawkishly? Tepidly?) attempt to stay out of a fight with my brother, and we both defer to the better judgment of my sister-in-law.
We are all teachers, and we love to talk with each other. So, we also hope you enjoy our conversation as much as we did!
Additionally, as I made no attempt to acquire copyright approval to use the scant recordings that exist of Nietzsche musical oeuvre, here is some lovely violin and piano music from Loretta Altman, who seems to be Nietzsche's champion in the recording world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2afrV4f-9EI
Duration:01:03:34