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E43: Rorty’s Mirror of Nature Part II – Dividing by Zero
The thigh-ly anticipated second half of the Richard Rorty Dawdle. Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Part II!
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E23: The Moonlight Walks – Aesthetics in Science
Yeats repeats “a terrible beauty is born” in his poem “Easter, 1916”. The poem expresses the emotional limbo of Yeats as he grapples with the post World War I Irish rebellion in response to the broken promise of Irish liberation. Out of acts of violence, comes the hope of freedom. Read more…
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E21: Ever Since the Universe Invented Imagination – What Do You Believe but Can’t Prove?
We are as much our biases as we are our perception to others. Fallibility. It works in mysterious ways. This week the Dawdlers present a discussion from an earlier time than the present moment. It’s a conversation they’ve been meaning to have but not really sure when to have it. Read more…
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Shorts – E2: Determinism
In this episode, the Dawdlers take on determinism. Are killers gonna kill? Haters gonna hate? Chefs gonna cook? Eh…Anyway, Harland plays therapist and Ryan plays games because they’re fun. And this is just the way it is because it has to be, as all things must be in the Determiverse.
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Anything You Can Do I Can Do Meta
A “philosopher” attempts to define “science”, a “scientist” attempts to define “philosophy”. What is a “thought experiment” anyway? Einstein rides in on his space elevator as the Dawds take spins on the gedanken-spiel.
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E15: The Rolling Wall of Fog – Science v. Philosophy
There may not be philosophy-free science, but there *is* radical-free philosophy. Harland tries it out for as long as he can in this episode on the possible differences between science and philosophy. Buckle your chin straps, Truth Seekers! 00:04:50 – Science? Philosophy?/Thought experiments/Provisionalism vs Definitionalism 00:42:48 – Modes of Indeference/Progress Read more…
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E10: The Argument Argument – Walking the Tightrope ‘twixt Truth and Nihilism
The free world is kind of a mess right now. Seems we’ve lost something in a trade or hit a wall. We’re so team oriented sending and receiving messages is like exchanging alien signals. Naturally, if we are to decode these strange outbursts, it’s time to get innovative. We have Read more…
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E8: Curing this Guy’s Headache – Alfred Korzybski’s General Semantics
Hey you! Yeah you, dummy. You know what time binding is? No? Good! We (Ryan) don’t either. This episode the Dawdlers get in over their heads with Alfred Korzhybski’s General Semantics. Well, Ryan is in over his head. Harland just can’t get his out of his bum. Badum ching! Rim Read more…