Episode 30: The Condemnation Game

Points initially spread across the spectrum.
Dials turned, frequencies adjusted.
Out of the noise something began to take form.

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Episode 29: The Evil That People Do

Are we honest enough about what each and every one of us is capable of doing to others under certain environmental pressures?

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Episode 28: Naughty or Nice?

Were you naughty or nice in 2018?

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Episode 27 - The Empirical Self and the Transcendental Self: Kant and Critique of Pure Reason

In this episode, we wrap up our extended focus on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason by coming full circle and looking at his view on personal identity, the topic of Episode 1 of this podcast. Recall, in that episode, we were introduced to David Hume's thoughts on the topic.

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Episode 26 - More on the Threefold Synthesis: Kant and Critique of Pure Reason

An intuitive breakdown of the threefold synthesis of the first edition of Critique of Pure Reason.

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Episode 25 - The Threefold Synthesis: Kant and Critique of Pure Reason

We begin Kant's famous Transcendental Deduction this episode, focusing first on what he called 'the threefold synthesis' of cognition.

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Readings from Critique of Pure Reason [first edition], by Immanuel Kant:

• A96-98 
• A 99-100: 1. ON THE SYNTHESIS OF APPREHENSION IN INTUITION
• A101-102: 2. ON THE SYNTHESIS OF REPRODUCTION IN IMAGINATION
• A103-106: 3. ON THE SYNTHESIS OF RECOGNITION IN THE CONCEPT 

 

Episode 24: The Elephant in the Room: Kant and Critique of Pure Reason

Is transcendental idealism philosophically inconsistent? Does Kant not fully get the love he should from the philosophy community because he seems to have violated one of his own doctrines?

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