Philosophics — Philosophical and Political Ramblings: Recent Episodes
Bry Willis
Join me as I relate with the world philosophically.
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In this segment, I ask what is the difference between what is real and what is true.
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In this very short segment, I share my story about a toddler who chooses laughter over fussing.
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In this short segment, I talk about the metaphor of God through the prayer/poem/hymn God Be in My Head.
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In this abbreviated segment, I share my perspective on the origins of morality by considering both rational Kantian and sentimental Humean perspectives. Or or it something else or more?
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In this segment, I share my thoughts on why imposed systems and bureaucracies are a form of violence.
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In this segment, I share my perspective on this historical journey from the Protestant Reformation and the Enlightenment to the Modern Condition that includes theretofore schizophrenia. I also share a personal online encounter with Stephen Hicks, author of Explaining Postmodernism.
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In this abbreviated segment, I share my thoughts on intellectual property rights and recommend a video on this topic as it relates to music. Thelonius Monk on the piano is the cover image.
The written blog version of this episode can https://philosophicsblog.wordpress.com/2022/11/19/music-property/
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In this abbreviated segment, I share my perspective on Artificial Intelligence and governance.
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In this segment, I comment on Juston Hawkins getting his audience into the moment.
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In this segment, I comment on a recent interview interaction about the most interesting person.
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In this segment, I comment on the lack of workplace diversity for right-hemisphere-dominant people.
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In this segment, I comment on a video by Dr Geoff Lindsey explaining some English morphology.
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In this segment, I comment on a video by Dr Geoff Lindsey explaining weak forms of the English language.
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In this segment, I discuss Pink Floyd's classic track, Time, written by Roger Waters as part of their Wish You Were Here album.
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In this segment, join me on my journey reading The Matter with Things. I provide a summary and share my thoughts on the eighth chapter, Creativity, which discusses the importance of the right hemisphere in true creativity.
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This is a personal story about nourishing children with the gift of music. YMMV.
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In this short segment, I wax on about the fact that life annihilates life.
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In this segment, I react to a premise made in a video short that there is no free will.
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In this segment, I react again to Iain McGilchrist's book The Master and His Emissary that the construction of the self by the right hemisphere is desirable over a left hemisphere construction. I find this to be debatable. Find out why.
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In this segment, I read a selection from the Dorest narrative poem Orlam by PJ Harvey.
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In this segment, I react to an assertion by Iain McGilchrist in his book The Master and His Emissary that symbolic language is not arbitrary. I disagree. Find out why.
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In this segment, join me on my journey reading The Matter with Things. I provide a summary and share my thoughts on the seventh chapter, Cognitive Intelligence, which extends the conversation on intelligence from social and emotional to cognitive.
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In this segment, I talk about the bi-hemispheric brains of birds and lateralisation of functions with a particular focus on vision.
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In this segment, I discuss the limits of human reason and critical thinking.
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In this segment, I discuss the limitations of morality and the danger of applying morals as a last resort.
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In this abbreviated segment, I share my thoughts on blaming and naming.
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In this abbreviated segment, I share my thoughts on an AI service that modifies foreign accents to sound American to American customers.
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"The Queen is dead. Long live the King," I believe it goes. There is propaganda through symbolism and spectacle. And there is detachment. Witness in this photograph of Queen Elizabeth II's funeral procession, a sea of mobile devices—black mirrors.
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In this segment, join me on my journey reading The Matter with Things. I provide a summary and share my thoughts on the fifth chapter, Emotional and Social Intelligence, which discusses the importance of emotional content in communication and what happens when it's missing owing to right hemisphere deficits.
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I am fascinated with Iain McGilchrist's The Master and the Emissary, so I am sharing a short segment on the precision and insufficiency of language.
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I am fascinated with Iain McGilchrist's The Master and the Emissary, so I am sharing a short segment on some differences in the way the left and right hemispheres perceive the world, particularly regarding specificity and generality.
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I am fascinated with Iain McGilchrist's The Master and the Emissary, so I am sharing a short segment on some differences in the way the left and right hemispheres perceive the world, particularly regarding the forest and the trees.
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I am fascinated with Iain McGilchrist's The Master and the Emissary, so I am sharing a short segment on some differences in the way the left and right hemispheres perceive the world.
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In today’s segment, I share my perspectives on the truth about truth, a notion I don't much believe in.
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In the short segment, I share my thoughts on an Institute of Art and Ideas video labelled 'Should we move away from postmodernism?'.
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In this segment, join me on my journey reading The Matter with Things. I provide a summary and share my thoughts on the fifth chapter, Apprehension, which contains commentary on some neurological case studies with a particular focus on split hemisphere persons.
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In this segment, join me on my journey reading The Matter with Things. I provide a summary and share my thoughts on the fourth chapter, Judgment, which contains commentary on some neurological case studies with a particular focus on split hemisphere persons.
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In this short segment, I share my thoughts on assessing speech from human brain activity.
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In this segment, join me on my journey reading The Matter with Things. I provide a summary and share my thoughts on the third chapter, Perception, which contains commentary on some neurological case studies with a particular focus on split hemisphere persons.
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In this segment, I talk about some problems with white feminism.
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In this segment, join me on my journey reading The Matter with Things. I provide a summary and share my thoughts on the second chapter, Attention, which contains commentary on some neurological case studies with a particular focus on split hemisphere persons.
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In this segment, I discuss the connexion between project managers and hemispheric asymmetries and differences in the human brain.
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In this segment, join me on my journey reading The Matter with Things. I provide some biographical background on the author Iain McGilchrist and discuss the first chapter, Some Preliminaries and How We Got Here, which serves as an introduction and establishes some foundation for the rest of the book.
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In this short segment, I discuss an uncomfortable exchange on soclal media outlet, LinkedIn.
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In this short segment, I provide an introduction to my thoughts on Iain McGilchrist's The Matter with Things. All misinterpretations are my own.
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A quick update on my progress reading Iain McGilchrist's The Matter with Things.
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In the segment, I read The Last Messiah, an Essay by Peter Wessel Zapffe
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In this abbreviated segment, I articulate why Postmodernism is bollocks. Take a listen, and share your comments.
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In this segment I review Deborah Bennett's book Logic Made Easy: How to Know How Language Deceives You by Deborah Bennett
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This is an audio rendition of my review of the book Better Never to Have Been, The Harm of Coming into Existence by David Benatar. In this book, Benatar defends the anti-natalist position that bringing sentient life into the world is immoral, although most of his argumentation is focused on human procreation.
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In this segment, I’ll be reviewing a book by Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, A Contrivance of Horror.
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Richard Taylor presents a thought experiment in response to Camus' take in his Myth of Sisyphus essay, where in Sisyphus a desire to roll stones is embedded into him. What will become of Sisyphus' toil?
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Hear about why I've started a Philosophics Patreon account.
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The segment is part of the content available on free will scepticism. We'll look into the notion of agency and legal responsibility from the perspective of justice, desert, and sentencing given Strawson’s causa sui argument.
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Human Agency is an illusion. This is the end of the story. If you listen for a while, you’ll hear as I rewind and pull back the curtains.
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This short segment is atypical for me if that's even possible. It contains my observations of language development in our toddler and sheds light on related cognitive processes.
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This is an atypical segment where I list the ten women who influenced me the most and for the better. I add a few who made not only my life worse but made the world that much the worst. And I provide some honourable mentions.
This accompanies a blog post that serves as a transcript, so feel free to read along or visit http://Philosophicsblog.Wordpress.com for my thoughts.
In this short segment, I share my thoughts on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. I think it would be fair to say that I am not a fan. Join me as I share my perspective as well.
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Christians and atheists have been at odds for a while now, but some of the arguments seem to lack substance and rationality. In this segment, I react to Drew, the Genetically Modified Skeptic's response to Greg Koukl's course titled, Atheism: Bumping Into Reality. Join me as I share my perspective as well.
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Some are claiming that digital technology is making people stupid. Listen to this short blogcast for a reminder that people have been complaining about technology trends since people started complaining.
This blogcast is also available in writing. Oh, the irony. Give us a listen.
https://philosophicsblog.wordpress.com/2022/04/13/tilting-bodies-politic/
In this segment, I use the Classic myth of the Labyrinth as a device to explore the rift between Modern and Postmodern philosophical perspectives. Postmodernism aptly critiques Modernism, but Moderns don't like it. To ignore the critique is to put your head in the sand. Hearing it creates a cognitive dissonance that needs to be assuaged. Join me as I share my perspective.
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A meme depicting the difference between equality and equity has been circulating the internet for years. In the segment, I share my perspective on these as well as the myriad others that have spawned in response, both for and against the notion.
the companion blog at http://philosophicsblog.wordpress.com, where you can find the transcript for this episode along with accompanying images and commentary on related topics. https://philosophicsblog.wordpress.com/2021/09/07/egality/.
The topic is the absence of free will debate. If there is no free will, does it even matter?
Many people conflate ownership with control, but this is a limited perspective. This perspective bleeds in democracy, where there is only an illusion of control. I discuss this in this brief segment. Come listen.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://philosophicsblog.wordpress.com/2021/05/04/ownership-and-democracy/
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You can't handle the truth! In this episode I discuss the issues with the notion of truth relative to objective reality and the challenges we face trying to assert a concept as being true.
This audio treatment tracks the blog post that can be found here: The Truth about Truth
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In this Behind the Scenes snippet, I discuss my choice to monetise these podcast episodes.
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In this abbreviated episode, I reflect on Carl Hart and his book Drug Use for Grown-Ups, both of which are discussed in an Atlantic magazine article.
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In this snippet, I relate how my text-to-speech voice talent falls flat and his difficulty pronouncing the noun can and the last name of Jean-François Lyotard.
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Postmodernism was summarised by Lyotard as having an incredulity toward metanarratives. What does this mean? What are metanarratives, and why harbour incredulity toward them?
Play this episode and listen to my perspective. Visit the Philosophics blog to read this episode or other related materials.
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This episode is based on a blog post named Diversity of Thought, but the content has been refined and adjusted for this podcast series. This episode has been updated with a segment about Dr Cornel West's denied request for tenure by Harvard University.
Join me and listen to my thoughts about the problem of diversity in the workplace and how the current focus is disingenuous.
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**Democracy is an old friend, but it may also be an anachronism. Does democracy have substance, or is it past its prime and merely provide an illusion of control? Join me as I share my perspective.
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Join me as I explore the fundamental core of postmodernism or as I prefer to label it, disintegrationism. It is an audio rendering of a blog post I wrote in January 2021.
DISCLAIMER: Please note that I am new to Anchor by Spotify, and I experienced several issues in the text-to-speech process. At the start, there was an import process from the original post, which was not written with this conversion in mind. There were placeholders and footnotes that were not intended to be read as the main narrative. I hope someday, there will be a 'don't read me' tag. And there were typographical errors, which have since been fixed on the written page. Unfortunately, the programme does not allow me to re-import the copy, so I manually edited out the offending bits. The provided editing tools is a bit rudimentary, so some of the edits are, let's say, rough. Also, there were some redundant and otherwise unintentional words that may distract the listener. Je m'accuse.
As for the text-to-speech, it actually quite remarkable. Please don't fault me for having chosen the male voice over the female voice offered. There are pronunciation and intonation issues. The voice sounds decidedly American, yet professional.
Please bear with me through this learning process. On balance, this feels like a decent application. Perhaps more intentional content will follow.
This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app