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  • Review: Adaptation and Natural Selection by George Williams

    Review: Adaptation and Natural Selection by George Williams
    2025/07/11
    In this episode I look at George Williams' famous rebuke to group selection theory as outlined in Adaptation and Natural Selection. I focus on secondary adaptations, sexual reproduction as an organic adaptation, and the difference between male and female mating strategies.
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    1 時間 10 分
  • Review: Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James

    Review: Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James
    2025/07/05
    In this episode I examine William James' 1904 address to the American Psychological Association, The Experience of Activity, as presented in Essays in Radical Empiricism. I focus on the illusory aspect of agency and the need to operate within the version of reality that accessible to our experiences.
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    1 時間 14 分
  • Review: Essays in Experimental Logic by John Dewey

    Review: Essays in Experimental Logic by John Dewey
    2025/06/29
    In this episode I look at John Dewey's 1900 essay Some Stages in Logical Thought, as published in this 1916 collection, Essays in Experimental Logic. I focus on Dewey's assertion that both some fixity and some flexibility is required on the part of ideas for them to serve in the human task of overcoming obstacles.
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    1 時間 4 分
  • Review: History of Politics (Kant) edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey

    Review: History of Politics (Kant) edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey
    2025/06/14
    In this episode I return to Strauss and Cropsey's magisterial History of Political Philosophy to examine the essay on Kant. I focus on the split between science and morality, and the contradiction formed by Kant's fundamental mistake.
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    1 時間
  • Review: Heidegger by Michael Inwood

    Review: Heidegger by Michael Inwood
    2025/05/14
    In this episode I engage in an extra-long two-hour examination of the basic philosophy of Martin Heidegger, as described in Michael Inwood's study, Heidegger. Inwood focuses primarily on Heidegger's magnum opus, Being and Time. In this episode I pay particular attention to Heidegger's discussion of the state of being he calls 'ready-to-hand,' as well as authenticity and being-toward-death.
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    1 時間 58 分
  • Review: Be Like the Fox by Erica Benner

    Review: Be Like the Fox by Erica Benner
    2025/05/10
    In this episode I revisit Niccolo Machiavelli through the lens of Erica Benner's biography of the Renaissance Italian thinker, Be Like the Fox. I examine Machiavelli's dedication to the ideals of the Florentine Republic and his opposition to leaders who come to rule by the blessings of Fortune.
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    59 分
  • Review: History of Political Philosophy (Machiavelli) edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey

    Review: History of Political Philosophy (Machiavelli) edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey
    2025/04/11
    In this episode I return to Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey's History of Political Philosophy, to look at Strauss' own examination of Machiavelli. I focus on Machiavelli's strategic deployment of virtue and vice, and his comparison of Christianity and Paganism.
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    1 時間 5 分
  • Review: The Oldest Dead White European Males by Bernard Knox

    Review: The Oldest Dead White European Males by Bernard Knox
    2025/03/29
    In this episode I look again at the Sophists with a focus on their dedication to rhetoric, as described by classicist Bernard Knox in his collection of essays, The Oldest Dead White European Males.
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    45 分