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PREMIUM-Ep. 261: Derek Parfit on Personal Identity (Part Two)

More on Parfit's Reasons and Persons (1984), ch. 10-13. In this preview, we consider how Parfit deals with Bernard Williams' materialist thought experiment to show that the whole concept of personal identity doesn't make sense. Also, split brains! To hear this second part, you'll need to go sign up…

#133: Academia is just a job!

Do you ever worry that you're not serious enough for academia? That you're constantly playing whack-a-mole with hiding your many frivolous and unimpressive traits as you try to convince everyone that you deserve your place at the table? That you're a big old fake because you need to curate yourself…

How To Value A Small Business Before You Buy

Most small business owners dream about the day they sell, but the market doesn’t care about dreams. A company is only valuable if it can be verified, financed, and operated without the founder holding everything together. That’s why we sat down to talk about acquisition entrepreneurship, the buy-si…

Zena Hitz: Gulliver's Travels and the Failures of Human Understanding

What a lot of fun I had talking to Zena Hitz about Gulliver’s Travels. As well as discussing Swift, slavery, genocide, rationality, Christianity, and science, Zena told me that good philosophy is like a box of cake mix and that a liberal education requires you to be freed of false expertise. I also…

Luck (and Lucklessness) in Ancient Greek Thought

Daniel Schillinger joins me in the Lesche to discuss his new book Luckless: The Idea of Luck in Ancient Greek Thought, which recently appeared with Oxford University Press. Find out more about Daniel's work here: https://www.danielschillinger.com/ Ancient authors and texts Sophocles, Oedipus Rex E…

Undoing the Moral Empire Podcast

In this episode Miles is joined by Lesley Chamberlain to discuss her newly-published monograph, 'Undoing the Moral Empire: Moral Philosophy in post-War Britain'. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/undoing-the-moral-empire-9781350457751/ After 1945, Britain wanted to be a new country. The authority o…

HR Outsourcing & AI Hiring Risks with Tina Hamilton

Tina Hamilton, CEO and founder of myHR Partner, joins Bernard Williams to unpack HR outsourcing, the new hiring risks created by AI (including an all-AI reference-check scam), why employment disputes tend to be the most expensive litigation a company faces, and when a workplace issue needs an attor…

18. The badness of death, Part III; Immortality, Part I

Death (PHIL 176)The discussion of the badness of death continues by asking whether it is bad that we do not exist before our birth. The views of a number of contemporary philosophers, such as Tom Nagle, Fred Feldman, and Derek Parfit, are introduced. Then Professor Kagan turns to the subject of imm…

Episode 339: Is Analytic Philosophy Truthmaxxing?

Since well before the big bang, people have been bitching about Tamler's chosen field. We talk about Bernard Williams' (qualified) defense of analytic philosophy in his essay "On Hating and Despising Philosophy." We also dig into Lily Hu's review of a recent book by Christoph Schuringa, an ideologi…

OGYN Podcast #47 Can't Outrun Jokes with Olympian Entertainer Bernard Williams

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Send us Fan Mail Or Something. Thank you All for Listening!!  Mad Love and Respect! In this episode: Bernard Williams joins.  Bernard is a two time olympian in track and field. He has won a gold and a silver medal, in consecutive olympics. Mr. Williams is a proud husband and father, a comedian, an…