Thursday, July 19, 2018

Episode 21: Transcendental Logic Introduction

We briefly touch upon the opening section of Transcendental Logic in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

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Thursday, July 5, 2018

Episode 20: More on Transcendental Idealism

Continuing Kant's Critique of Pure Reason...
What does the mind bring to experience?
A little more on transcendental idealism as touched on in Transcendental Aesthetic.

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Sunday, June 24, 2018

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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Saturday, June 9, 2018

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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Saturday, May 26, 2018

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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Friday, May 18, 2018

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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Sunday, May 6, 2018

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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