Increments

#80 (C&R Series, Chap. 7) - Dare to Know: Immanuel Kant and the Enlightenment

January 27th, 2025  |  1 hr 6 mins

categorical imperative, conjectures and refutations, cosmology, enlightenment, kant, morality, popper, romanticism, transcendental idealism

Back to the Conjectures and Refutations series. We discuss Immanuel Kant and his contributions to ethics, cosmology, politics, and the Enlightenment.

#72 (C&R, Chap. 19: Part II) - On the (alleged) Right of a Nation to Self-Determination

August 27th, 2024  |  51 mins 18 secs

conjectures and refutations, nation-state, nationalism, optimism, popper, progress

Second half of Chapter 19 of Conjectures and Refutations. Can we make it through more than one of Popper's five theses this time? (Hint: No, no we cannot)

#71 (C&R, Chap 19: Part I) - The History of Our Time: An Optimist's View

August 2nd, 2024  |  1 hr 12 mins

conjectures and refutations, evil, good, history, incentives, popper, progress

A dive into Chapter 19 of Conjectures and Refutations, resulting in an hour long argument between Ben and Vaden about whether people are good, bad, or you know, just signaling.

#38 (C&R Series, Ch. 2) - Wittgenstein vs Popper

March 8th, 2022  |  1 hr 3 mins

conjectures and refutations, philosophical problems, popper, wittgenstein, wittgenstein's poker

What made Wittgenstein so angry with Popper that he threatened him with a poker? We analyze Chapter 2 of C&R to find out.

#8 - Philosophy of Probability III: Conjectures and Refutations

July 28th, 2020  |  1 hr 10 mins

ben does a 180, conjectures and refutations, karl popper, probability