Increments

#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.

#51 - Truth, Moose, and Refrigerated Eggplant: Critiquing Chapman's Meta-Rationality

May 29th, 2023  |  1 hr 12 mins

chapman, epistemology, nebulosity, popper, rationality

We discuss David Chapman's work on nebulosity, the correspondence theory of truth, and how it relates to Karl Popper's epistemology.

#48 (C&R Chap. 18) - Utopia and Violence

February 24th, 2023  |  1 hr 41 secs

popper, rationality, utopia, violence

Violent utopias? Utopian violence? Are the rationalists going to destroy the world? Chapter 18 of Conjectures and Refutations coming in hot.

#42 (C&R, Chap 12+13) - Language and the Body-Mind Problem

July 20th, 2022  |  50 mins 39 secs

causality, determinism, karl buhler, language, mind-body problem, popper

We wrestle with chapter 12 and 13 of Conjectures and Refutations, on the topic of the mind-body problem, theories of language, determinism, and causality. This one is a real doozy folks.

#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.

#24 - Popper's Three Worlds

May 11th, 2021  |  1 hr 13 mins

abstractions, explanation, logic, popper, reality

#21 (C&R Series, Ch.1) - The Problem of Induction

March 23rd, 2021  |  53 mins 58 secs

epistemology, induction, natural law, philosophy of science, popper