Sinister Piffle with Brett Hewitt: Recent Episodes
Brett Hewitt
Join Brett Hewitt and his occasional guests for laid-back, contemplative ventures into topics of both the familiar and the strange. This sinister stuff knows no bounds, from conversation about subjects ranging from philosophy and science to music and comedy – and everywhere in between. Regardless of your primary views on the zany antics of this crazy world, this podcast is sure to pique your interest and grip your piffle-malnourished mind.
Episodes range from more to less serious, but this top of the line Ear TV will always be jam packed with content you won't want to miss! Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sinisterpiffle/support
This episode of the Sinister Piffle Podcast is a rant regarding anachronistic cactuses.
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In this important episode of the Sinister Piffle Podcast, we delve into happiness and its relation to epistemology. As always, thank you for listening, and I hope you're happy!
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Today on the Sinister Piffle Podcast we continue our discussion of how epistemology is entwined with reality, and delve more into how explanation works. As always, thank you for listening, and I hope you're well!
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In this episode of the Epistemology Series, we discuss the difference between a tradition and a dogma, and why that's important. As always, thank you for listening, and I hope you're well!
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Oh free will, everyone's favorite topic! In this episode of the Epistemology Series we discuss the common positions on free will and possibility of free will being an abstract phenomenon, similar to knowledge. We also brush up against the crucially important idea of causation in both philosophy and physics, as good, ol' Hume rears his head again. As always, thank you for listening, and I hope you're well!
Correction: I mentioned multiple times erroneously in this episode that Episode #3 was Knowledge and Abstraction; it's episode #4.
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In this episode we discuss the pitfalls of moral relativism and good, old philosopher, David Hume. As always, epistemology hovers in the background, and sometimes in the foreground. As always, thank you for listening, and I hope you're well!
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Finally we begin to get into epistemology proper! In this episode, discussing the basics of David Deutsch's philosophy, we go over some crucial arguments for a powerful conception of knowledge that has vast implications for everything we know. As always, thank you for listening, and I hope you're well!
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Many purport that religion and relativism are something of a binary. There are cases where this may be seen as correct, but we discuss here how neither may be fully tenable. As always, thank you for listening, and I hope you're well!
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In this short episode of the Epistemology Series, we discuss how some of the common intuitions in modern culture may be erected on top of shaky ground. As always, thank you for listening, and I hope you're well!
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This is the first in a series of episodes that I'm grouping together where we discuss philosophy. Specifically epistemology, the study of knowledge, and how it affects other fields such as morality and aesthetics. As always, thank you for listening, and I hope you're well!
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