Welcome to Unending Process - the evolutionary thinking tank....podcast.
This is a continuation of the Permanent Evolution and Sympathetic People podcasts.
This week Johanahan and Tim discuss education (in part 1) and evolutionary thinking (part 2). Part 2 is much longer, but contains all the juicy evolutionary pontificating, so don't hesitate to skip to it if that's your bag!
In part 1, we talk about some of the problems with university education, including the importance of being challenged and mentoring.
In part 2, we talk about the origins of evolutionary thinking in the ancient world, and then take a random walk across the philosophical landscape, touching on the mind, Buddhism, ethics and a bunch of other stuff....
Thanks for listening - enjoy, share, comment, criticise!
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Welcome to Unending Process - the evolutionary thinking tank....podcast.
This is a continuation of the Permanent Evolution and Sympathetic People podcasts.
This week Johanahan and Tim discuss education (in part 1) and evolutionary thinking (part 2). Part 2 is much longer, but contains all the juicy evolutionary pontificating, so don't hesitate to skip to it if that's your bag!
In part 1, we talk about some of the problems with university education, including the importance of being challenged and mentoring.
In part 2, we talk about the origins of evolutionary thinking in the ancient world, and then take a random walk across the philosophical landscape, touching on the mind, Buddhism, ethics and a bunch of other stuff....
Thanks for listening - enjoy, share, comment, criticise!
Episode 16 - Knowing Stuff - Socrates on knowledge, role model or arrogant jerk?
The Unending Process
1 hour 21 minutes 25 seconds
7 years ago
Episode 16 - Knowing Stuff - Socrates on knowledge, role model or arrogant jerk?
Episode 16! We chat about Plato's Socrates and whether or not he's a good role model or just an arrogant jerk. We talk about claims to knowledge more broadly, in the context of science, religion, and everyday life.
If we don't think we have knowledge, will this make us apathetic? Is it therapeutic not to make claims about knowledge? What have different thinkers had to say about these things?
We talk about lots of stuff: the Dunning-Kruger effect; epistemic humility, deferring to the experts; climate change, oh my! Buddhism; reincarnation; is fear of death a species of arrogance? Meditation; transcending the self; flow states; free will; giving up the illusion of freedom in order to be truly free.....
Fallibilism, pragmatism, skepticism, etc. What are your epistemological foundations?
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The Unending Process
Welcome to Unending Process - the evolutionary thinking tank....podcast.
This is a continuation of the Permanent Evolution and Sympathetic People podcasts.
This week Johanahan and Tim discuss education (in part 1) and evolutionary thinking (part 2). Part 2 is much longer, but contains all the juicy evolutionary pontificating, so don't hesitate to skip to it if that's your bag!
In part 1, we talk about some of the problems with university education, including the importance of being challenged and mentoring.
In part 2, we talk about the origins of evolutionary thinking in the ancient world, and then take a random walk across the philosophical landscape, touching on the mind, Buddhism, ethics and a bunch of other stuff....
Thanks for listening - enjoy, share, comment, criticise!
