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Are we 'hardwired' to believe in God?
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Saving the world, one accusation at a time.
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Missing episodes?
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Points initially spread across the spectrum.
Dials turned, frequencies adjusted.
Out of the noise something began to take form.
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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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Were you naughty or nice in 2018?
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An intuitive breakdown of the threefold synthesis of the first edition of Critique of Pure Reason.
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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 INTUITIONA101-102: 2. ON THE SYNTHESIS OF REPRODUCTION IN IMAGINATIONA103-106: 3. ON THE SYNTHESIS OF RECOGNITION IN THE CONCEPT
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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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In this episode, hopefully we nail down what it is that Kant means when he uses the term 'transcendental.' Also, the cognitive mechanism Kant calls 'synthesis' is introduced.
Readings from Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant:
(A56/B80) - General logic vs. transcendental logic
(A57/B82) - Brief but clear description of what transcendental logic is
(A58-59/B82-83) - A little about what truth is
(A77-79/B102-105) - Synthesis is introduced
Reading from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume:
Book I, Part III, Section VIII - Intensity of belief in terms of probability
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What makes cognition possible according to Kant? We dive slightly deeper into Transcendental Logic.
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We briefly touch upon the opening section of Transcendental Logic in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.
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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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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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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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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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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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Continuing Transcendental Aesthetic in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. In this episode we cover the pure intuition of time.
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