Episode 19: Transcendental Idealism

A little on how Hume's controversial claim about the nature of cause-and-effect associations led Kant to rethink his approach to metaphysics.

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Episode 18 - The Attack on Metaphysics: Hume on Cause and Effect

What was it that Hume said that awoke Kant from his so-called dogmatic slumber? In this episode we look at how susceptible we are to the inferences our minds make.

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Episode 17 - Pieces of Infinity Pt 2: Kant on Space

In this episode we contrast Hume's idea of space as a concept derived from experience and Kant's idea of space as an a priori presentation.

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Episode 16 - Pieces of Infinity: Hume on Space

A brief tangent from our survey of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, here we take a look at one of David Hume's unpopular discussions from A Treatise of Human Nature, namely his ideas on Space and infinite divisibility.

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Episode 15: More on the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction - Leibniz, Hume, and Kant

We slow things down a little bit and spend a little more time on the analytic/synthetic distinction. A few thoughts from Leibniz and Hume, as well as Kant.
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Episode 14 - From Perceptions to Knowledge Pt 2: Pure Intuition Pt 2

Continuing Transcendental Aesthetic in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. In this episode we cover the pure intuition of time.
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Episode 13 - Podcast Title Update

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