Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind for a non-academic audience. This episode contemplates the philosophy of mind from the perspective of the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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#87: Data Science and Ethics and Morality
Basics of how the wordgame of data science may affect normative wordgames of ethics and morality. Definitions and implications of science for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective.
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#86: Data Science and Normative Language
Basics of how the wordgame of data science may affect normative wordgames of ethics and morality. Definitions and implications of science for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective.
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#85: Data Science
Basics of how data science is defining a new scientific wordgame and scientific methodology. Definitions and implications of science for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective.
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#84: Existential Philosophy of Law
This is an introduction to the philosophy of law viewed from a working class ontology. This episode summarizes an existential philosophy of law.
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#74: Social Constructs
Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of the concept of a “social construct” in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism. Specific examples of social constructs acting as delusions to hide reality are the popular disputes over the words “gender” and “cognitive science”. This podcast deals with a pragmatic theory of language and emphasis is on how dominant philosophies have and do affect the working classes throughout history because this is the group of people who suffer the worst and adverse affects of whatever are the dominant philosophical ideals of any given age and who usually are the least knowledgeable about the nature of the ideals and why they are dominant.
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#73: Meaning, Sense Experience, Theory, and Social Constructs
Contemplates further and tries to clarify the relationship between existentialist and pragmatic theories of language as exhibited in popular culture by the use of the wordgame “social construct”. Tries to contemplate for workers and from the perspective of the working class how wordgames become techniques to hide the reality of the use and usefulness of words as a means for aesthetics at best or as power as an end in itself at worse.
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#72: Rule Following Paradox
Contemplates philosophy of language further and tries to clarify the relationship between existentialist and pragmatic theories of language by contemplating Wittgenstein’s Rule Following Paradox.
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#71: Free Will
What is free will? Is it real or simply a useful fiction for justifying the execution and punishment inflicted by the ethics and law of the powers-that-be? Basics of the metaphysics and ontology branch of philosophy. Metaphysics is the study of first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space. Ontology is the study of being. This episode contemplates the metaphysical and ontological question of what is free will within the context of philosophy of language.
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#70: Time and Space
What is time and space? Are they real or simply attributes or wordgames in our perceptions and language about reality? Basics of the metaphysics and ontology branch of philosophy. Metaphysics is the study of first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space. Ontology is the study of being. This episode contemplates the metaphysical and ontological questions of what is time and space in preparation for the question of what is free will?
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#69: Ontology
Basics of the metaphysics and ontology branch of philosophy. Metaphysics is the study of first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space. Ontology is the study of being. This episode contemplates ontology as having separated from metaphysics and having become existentialist reasoning and thought capable of contemplating being without the language games problems of metaphysics and the philosophy of language.
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#68: Modern Metaphysics Part II
Basics of the metaphysics branch of modern philosophy. Metaphysics is the study of first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space. Modern metaphysics in this episode is contemplated as a language game in modern philosophy of language.
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#67: Modern Metaphysics Part I
Basics of the metaphysics branch of philosophy. Metaphysics is the study of first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space. The emphasis in this episode is on modern metaphysics as a language game in the philosophy of language.
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#66: Ontology and Metaphysics
Basics of classical metaphysics and ontology as a subset of metaphysics. Metaphysics is the study of first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space. This contemplation is for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective varying from ancient pre-Socratic to modern philosophies and theologies of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism.
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#65: Introduction to Metaphysics
Basics of the metaphysics branch of philosophy. Metaphysics is the study of first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space. Philosophers and theologians will be discussing basic history, problems, and issues in philosophy and metaphysics for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective varying from ancient pre-Socratic to modern philosophies and theologies of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism. The emphasis is on how dominant philosophies have and do affect the working classes throughout history because this is the group of people who suffer the worst and adverse affects of whatever are the dominant philosophical ideals of any given age and who usually are the least knowledgeable about the nature of the ideals and why they are dominant.
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#64: Introduction to Epistemology
Basics of the epistemology branch of philosophy. Epistemology is the study of knowledge and justified true belief. Philosophers and theologians will be discussing basic history, problems, and issues in philosophy and epistemology for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective varying from ancient pre-Socratic to modern philosophies and theologies of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism.
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#62: Order from Disorder / Probability and Statistics
Basics of philosophy of science. Definitions and implications of science for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective. The emphasis in this episode is on probability and statistics used as a means to hide the falsification attribute of science and to hide the inability of science to give certain truth.
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#61: Order from Disorder / Evolution and Intelligent Design
Basics of philosophy of science. Definitions and implications of science for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective. The emphasis in this episode is on the basics for comparison of rational tools and theories to differentiate between science and non-science such as art and trades and pseudo-sciences such as the social sciences. Example comparisons consist of evolution and intelligent design.
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#60: Social Sciences
Basics of philosophy of science. Definitions and implications of science for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective. The emphasis in this episode is on the basics for comparison of rational tools and theories to differentiate between science and non-science such as art and trades and pseudo-sciences such as the social sciences.
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#59: Scientific Language
Basics of philosophy of science. Definitions and implications of science for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective. The emphasis in this episode is on the ability of science to assume or ignore contradiction as part of its technique for achieving pragmatic truth.
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#58: Falsification
Basics of philosophy of science. Definitions and implications of science for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective. The emphasis in this episode is on the required attribute of falsification for something to be a science.
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#57: The Problem of Cause and Effect
Basics of philosophy of science. Definitions and implications of science for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective. The emphasis in this episode is on the concept and problem of cause and effect.
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#56: Inductive Reasoning and the Ravens Paradox
Basics of philosophy of science. Definitions and implications of science for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective. This episode deals with the problem of inductive reasoning.
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#55: What is Science?
Basics of philosophy of science. Definitions and implications of science for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective. The emphasis is on how dominant philosophies have and do affect the working classes throughout history because this is the group of people who suffer the worst and adverse affects of whatever are the dominant philosophical ideals of any given age and who usually are the least knowledgeable about the nature of the ideals and why they are dominant.
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#53: Ontological Proof
Contemplation of the ontological proof within the context of a philosophy of language. Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism.
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#52: Assumption of the Contradiction: Scientific Language, Consciousness, Subconscious, and Analytic Philosophy
Contemplation on the unique attributes of scientific language: falsification and the ability to assume contradiction into language as a benefit. This contemplation uses the example of “subconscious thought”, entropy, and dark matter/energy and others. Does the existentialist and pragmatic nature of language apply to the language of science? Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism.
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#51: The Language of Science
Does the existentialist and pragmatic nature of language apply to the language of science? Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism.
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#50: The Language of Mathematics, Logic, and Science
Does the existentialist and pragmatic nature of language apply to the language of mathematics, logic, and science? Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism.
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#49: Philosophy of Language Clean-up Part II
Contemplates further and tries to clarify the relationship between existentialist and pragmatic theories of language and the metaphysics of idealism, rationalism, materialism, empiricism, and solipsism. Argues that existentialist and pragmatic theories of language are the only way to avoid solipsism.
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#48: Philosophy of Language Clean-up Part I
Contemplates further and tries to clarify the relationship between existentialist and pragmatic theories of language and the metaphysics of idealism, rationalism, materialism, empiricism, and solipsism. Argues that existentialist and pragmatic theories of language are the only way to avoid solipsism.
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#47: Quine’s Fabric
What is language? What is the meaning of words? Is a private language possible? Do words such as mind, consciousness, and even pure logic and mathematics have any existential meaning? Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism. This podcast deals with a pragmatic theory of language and emphasis is on how dominant philosophies have and do affect the working classes throughout history because this is the group of people who suffer the worst and adverse affects of whatever are the dominant philosophical ideals of any given age and who usually are the least knowledgeable about the nature of the ideals and why they are dominant.
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#46: Pragmatic Theory of Language
What is language? What is the meaning of words? Is a private language possible? Do words such as mind, consciousness, and even pure logic and mathematics have any existential meaning? Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism. This podcast deals with a pragmatic theory of language and emphasis is on how dominant philosophies have and do affect the working classes throughout history because this is the group of people who suffer the worst and adverse affects of whatever are the dominant philosophical ideals of any given age and who usually are the least knowledgeable about the nature of the ideals and why they are dominant.
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#45: Existence Precedes Essence
What is language? What is the meaning of words? Is a private language possible? Do words such as mind, consciousness, and even pure logic and mathematics have any existential meaning? Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism. This podcast deals with an existentialist theory of language and emphasis is on how dominant philosophies have and do affect the working classes throughout history because this is the group of people who suffer the worst and adverse affects of whatever are the dominant philosophical ideals of any given age and who usually are the least knowledgeable about the nature of the ideals and why they are dominant.
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#44: Existentialist Theory of Language
What is language? What is the meaning of words? Is a private language possible? Do words such as mind, consciousness, and even pure logic and mathematics have any existential meaning? Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism. This podcast deals with an existentialist theory of language and emphasis is on how dominant philosophies have and do affect the working classes throughout history because this is the group of people who suffer the worst and adverse affects of whatever are the dominant philosophical ideals of any given age and who usually are the least knowledgeable about the nature of the ideals and why they are dominant.
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#42: Wittgenstein’s Beetle
What is language? What is the meaning of words? Is a private language possible? Do words such as mind, consciousness, and even pure logic and mathematics have any existential meaning? If the meaning of words is their use, how is a philosophy of language even possible? Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism.
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#41: Intro to Philosophy of Language Part II
What is language? What is the meaning of words? Is a private language possible? Do words such as mind, consciousness, and even pure logic and mathematics have any existential meaning? Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism.
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#40: Intro to Philosophy of Language Part I
What is language? What is the meaning of words? Is a private language possible? Do words such as mind, consciousness, and even pure logic and mathematics have any existential meaning? Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism.
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#20: Pascal’s Wager and a religious, pragmatic, or existentialist nature of God.
Pascal’s Wager and religious, pragmatic, and existentialist views of the nature of God. Introduction to Theology: Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in theology from ancient pre-Socratic to medieval and modern philosophies and theologies of religion, language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism. The emphasis is on how dominant theologies have and do affect the working classes throughout history because this is the group of people who suffer the worst and adverse affects of whatever are the dominant philosophical and theological ideals of any given age and who usually are the least knowledgeable about the nature of the ideals and why they are dominant. Theology is studied as a branch of philosophy and not as religious theology though the subject of comparative religion and the nature of God will also be discussed.
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#21: Comparative religion including realism, non-realism, and pragmatic and Ludwig Wittgenstein theory of language.
Comparative religion including realism, non-realism, and pragmatic and Ludwig Wittgenstein theory of language.
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#22: Islam, religion or politics, plus Christianity and Buddhism logically compared.
A practical application of discussed theories of comparative religion using Islam plus Christianity and Buddhism logically compared and discussed as to whether they are religion or politics. Islam is studied as a warrior religion exhibiting a “master morality” in comparison to “slave morality” modern versions of Christianity.
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#12: Truth Rebuttal #1
Buddhist definition of truth and illusion and rebuttal to Aristotelian logic; being and non-being.
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#13: Truth Rebuttal #2
Christian and Buddhist rebuttal on truth, illusion, and ethics.
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#14: Rebuttal on David Hume, induction/deduction distinction, morality, and ethics
Philosophical rebuttal on David Hume, induction/deduction distinction, morality, and ethics in opposition to existentialism and pragmatics as being the last hope of ethics and morality.
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#15: Rebuttal on Friederich Nietzsche, Christianity, Jesus Christ, ethics, Plato, and morality.
Philosophical rebuttal on Friederich Nietzsche, Christianity, Jesus Christ, ethics, Plato, and morality in opposition to existentialist and pragmatic views.
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#16: John Rawls and Christian Ethics and morality
Philosophical rebuttal and discussion of John Rawls and Christian Ethics and morality in opposition to existentialist and pragmatic views that they also are simply ruling class ideology.
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#8: Is/ought, Open Question Problem
Discusses the arbitrary nature of ethics and morality and their insurmountable is/ought and open question dilemmas. Discusses David Hume’s and modern philosophy’s analyses of ethics and compares it to the history of ethics beginning with Plato and Aristotle continuing to their modern spectrum of versions from John Rawls to Marxism. It concludes with modern ethics being simply practical enforcement of ruling class ideology that is distinct from morality and existentialist and religious morality. Discusses 20th Century ethics and morality from the perspective of existentialism as the last hope for defining morality.
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#9: Ethics, the Pretend Spectrum of Choices
A history of ethics beginning with Plato and Aristotle continuing to their modern spectrum of versions in John Rawls to Marxism. Discusses the arbitrary nature of ethics and morality and their insurmountable is/ought and open question dilemmas with a history of ethics beginning with Plato and Aristotle continuing to their modern spectrum of versions from John Rawls to Marxism. It concludes with modern ethics being simply practical enforcement of ruling class ideology that is distinct from morality and existentialist and religious morality. Discusses 20th Century ethics and morality from the perspective of existentialism as the last hope for defining morality.
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#10: Modern Ethics: Business as Usual
Ethics as ruling class ideology that is distinct from morality and existentialist and religious morality. A history of ethics beginning with Plato and Aristotle continuing to their modern spectrum of versions in John Rawls to Marxism. Discusses the arbitrary nature of ethics and morality and their insurmountable is/ought and open question dilemmas.
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#11: Existentialism, the Last Hope of Morality
Ethics as ruling class ideology that is distinct from morality and existentialist and religious morality. Discusses 20th Century ethics and morality.
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#1: Prologue / Philosophical Truth and Illusion
Truth or Illusion? Is there a difference in the modern world of algorithms and statistical knowledge? If there is, does it matter to individual happiness which one chooses? Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy and theology from ancient pre-Socratic to modern philosophies and theologies of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism. The emphasis is on how dominant philosophies have and do affect the working classes throughout history because this is the group of people who suffer the worst and adverse affects of whatever are the dominant philosophical ideals of any given age and who usually are the least knowledgeable about the nature of the ideals and why they are dominant. Theology is studied as a branch of philosophy and not as religious theology.
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#2: Philosophical Truth
Truth, Red Pill or Blue Pill, Does It Matter?
Basics of truth and illusion in philosophy and reality are discussed in this episode. The basic elements and problems of defining truth and separating it from illusion are discussed. Definitions and implications of truth are summarized from ancient empiricism and materialism to idealism, rationalism, 20th Century pragmatism, and philosophy of language. Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy and theology from ancient pre-Socratic to modern philosophies and theologies of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism. The emphasis is on how dominant philosophies have and do affect the working classes throughout history because this is the group of people who suffer the worst and adverse affects of whatever are the dominant philosophical ideals of any given age and who usually are the least knowledgeable about the nature of the ideals and why they are dominant. Theology is studied as a branch of philosophy and not as religious theology.
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#5: 20th Century
Truth, Red Pill or Blue Pill, Does It Matter?
Basics of philosophy. Definitions and implications of truth in 20th Century pragmatism, rationalism, philosophy of language, mathematical logic, Wittgenstein, and Gödel. Philosophers and theologians will be discussing basic history, problems, and issues in philosophy and theology for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective varying from ancient pre-Socratic to modern philosophies and theologies of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism. The emphasis is on how dominant philosophies have and do affect the working classes throughout history because this is the group of people who suffer the worst and adverse affects of whatever are the dominant philosophical ideals of any given age and who usually are the least knowledgeable about the nature of the ideals and why they are dominant. Theology is studied as a branch of philosophy and not as religious theology. Both Western and Eastern perspectives will be covered.
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#6: Clean-up
Truth, Red Pill or Blue Pill, Does It Matter?
Basics of philosophy. Definitions and implications of truth in empiricism, materialism to idealism, rationalism, pragmatism, and philosophy of language and the use of fiction and imagination as a means for truth. Philosophers and theologians will be discussing basic history, problems, and issues in philosophy and theology for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective varying from ancient pre-Socratic to modern philosophies and theologies of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism. The emphasis is on how dominant philosophies have and do affect the working classes throughout history because this is the group of people who suffer the worst and adverse affects of whatever are the dominant philosophical ideals of any given age and who usually are the least knowledgeable about the nature of the ideals and why they are dominant. Theology is studied as a branch of philosophy and not as religious theology. Both Western and Eastern perspectives will be covered.
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#7: Red Pill/Blue Pill
Truth, Red Pill or Blue Pill, Does It Matter?
Basics of philosophy. Truth in the Matrix as an example of the nature of rational and irrational choice of truth or illusion from the perspective of existentialism, 20th Century pragmatism, and philosophy of language. Vote for truth or illusion as the best choice for happiness in life. Philosophers and theologians will be discussing basic history, problems, and issues in philosophy and theology for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective varying from ancient pre-Socratic to modern philosophies and theologies of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism. The emphasis is on how dominant philosophies have and do affect the working classes throughout history because this is the group of people who suffer the worst and adverse affects of whatever are the dominant philosophical ideals of any given age and who usually are the least knowledgeable about the nature of the ideals and why they are dominant. Theology is studied as a branch of philosophy and not as religious theology. Both Western and Eastern perspectives will be covered.
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