On The Very Idea - A Philosophy Podcast

By Tony Bologna

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A self-indulgent vanity project of a man with a microphone in hand, each episode explores a philosophical theme hopefully with a certain degree of accuracy. I try to keep it pretty light. More philosophy nerd than academic, it sprung out of free time during the pandemic. @KMaca5

Episode Date
John McDowell Part 3: Nothing Human is Artificial Or Everything We Do Is Nature
Mar 24, 2023
John McDowell Part 2: Squinting to Get a Glimpse of the Real World
Jan 28, 2023
Mind and World Part 1: The Active and Passive in John McDowell
Dec 12, 2022
Scientific Realism or Scientific Relativism: Kuhn Part 4
Nov 11, 2022
Thomas Kuhn (Part 3): Epistemic Incommensurabiity or How Theory Can Affect Your Eye Balls
Oct 07, 2022
Kuhn and Science Part Two: When a 'Planet' Isn't a Planet
Sep 06, 2022
Kuhn (Part 1) Revolution, Crabs and Realism: Is There Progress Across the History of Science?
Jul 14, 2022
Kant At The Court Of King Arthur (Part 2): How to Chastise Genghis Khan From a Safe Distance
Jun 17, 2022
Kant at the Court of King Arthur (Part 1) - Bernard Williams and the Relativism of Historical Distance
May 23, 2022
3 for the Price of 1 - Donald Davidson's Principle of Charity Slays Empiricism, Conceptual Schemes & The Cartesian Skeptic (Maybe)
Apr 22, 2022
Donald Davidson and White Snow: A Bare Bones Theory of Meaning
Mar 14, 2022
Hume and Practical Rationality: The World vs. The Scratching of Hume's Finger (Part Deux)
Jan 27, 2022
Hume and Practical Rationality: Is There Any Connection Between Morality and Reason?
Jan 06, 2022
What Is The Meaning of Life? (Part 2)
Dec 10, 2021
What Isn't The Meaning of Life (Part 1)
Nov 19, 2021
Two Dogmas of Empiricism: Gary Gutting Questions The Paper's Status
Oct 29, 2021
The Two Dogmas Of Empiricism: Where Are The Arguments?
Oct 05, 2021
The Two Dogmas Of Empiricism: The Greatest Philosophy Paper of the 20th Century?
Sep 15, 2021
Everything Old is Regrooved Again: The Permanent Present and Vaporwave Aesthetics
Aug 18, 2021
PF Strawson and JL Mackie: Science: Just Another Way of Seeing the World (Part 3)
Aug 04, 2021
PF Strawson and AJ Ayer: Perception: Raw Like Sushi? (Part 2)
Jul 19, 2021
PF Strawson Takes on AJ Ayer: Perception and Its Objects (Part 1)
Jun 23, 2021
Is There A Coherence That Binds Together a Political Ideology? Short Episode
Jun 16, 2021
Can Genes Be Any More Selfish Than Jeans?: The Misuse of a Metaphor Part 2
Jun 01, 2021
Selfish Genes and Abstract Elephants: The Misuse of a Metaphor
May 18, 2021
Electromagnetic Consciousness: Short Episode
May 06, 2021
New Atheism and the Alt-Right
Apr 27, 2021
Emancipation Now ... Well Not Now, A Little Bit Later: Is Reflective Equilibrium The Tool to Lead Us To New Poltical and Ethical Visions (Part 3)
Apr 15, 2021
Back to the Past: The Historical Roots of Reflective Equilibrium (Part 2)
Apr 01, 2021
Bringing It All Into Balance: The Reflective Equilibrium Story (Part 1)
Mar 18, 2021
Moral Realism (Part 3) - A Moral Realist's Reply to Mackie
Feb 03, 2021
Moral Realism (Part 2) J.L. Mackie's Error Theory
Jan 20, 2021
Moral Realism (Part 1) Are There Moral Facts?
Jan 05, 2021
Hillary Putnam and Realism with a Human Face (Part 3): Tarski's Theory of Truth and How Mere Aristocratic Brain Teasers Became Philosophical Obsessions
Dec 23, 2020
Hillary Putnam and Realism with a Human Face (Part 2): Wrapping up Quantum Physics and Following Putnam into the The Liar's Paradox
Dec 08, 2020
Hillary Putnam and Realism with a Human Face (Part 1): On the Possibility of a God's Eye View
Nov 25, 2020
Narrativity (Part 2) -When You Don't Think of Your Life as a Story
Nov 11, 2020
The Tyranny of Narrativity (Part 1) - Is Life Just One Big Self-Authored Story?
Oct 30, 2020
Wittgenstein (Part 3) - From Simples to Samples
Oct 23, 2020
Wittgenstein (Part 2) - The Unravelling of the Tractatus
Oct 16, 2020
Wittgenstein - The First Incarnation: In Search of the Elusive Simple (Part 1)
Oct 09, 2020
Heidegger Against the Technocrats (Big Data Part 2)
Oct 02, 2020
The Utopian Impulses of the TED Talk Crowd: Can Big Data Solve Our Social Problems?
Sep 25, 2020
Love (Part 2): How to Love in Such a Way to Satisfy Both Your Wife and Kant and perhaps Bernard Williams Too
Sep 18, 2020
Love (Part 1): The Philosophy Of Love and The Demands of Morality
Sep 11, 2020
Qualia (Part 4): A Bit More on Qualia Plus Philosophy in Mass Media
Sep 04, 2020
Qualia (Part 3): Daniel Dennett and Frank Jackson on Mental Experience
Aug 28, 2020
Qualia (Part 2): What Do We Most Intimately Know
Aug 21, 2020
Qualia: Consciousness and the Limits of Science
Aug 14, 2020
Awakening From His Dogmatic Slumbers: Kant and His Development of a Theory of A Priori Knowledge
Aug 07, 2020
Immanuel Kant and the Rationalist vs. Empiricist Debate that Defined Modern Philosophy - Part One
Jul 31, 2020
Communitarianism vs. Liberalism Part Three: The Good Life, Neoliberalism and the Citizen
Jul 24, 2020
Communitarianism vs. Liberalism Part 2
Jul 17, 2020
Communitarianism vs. Liberalism Part 1
Jul 10, 2020
Hegel and How the History of Consciousness Drives Historical Progress Part 2
Jul 03, 2020
Hegel and How the History of Consciousness Drives Historical Progress
Jun 26, 2020
The Rich Modern Concept of the Self and the Art of Reading Silently Part 2
Jun 19, 2020
The Rich Modern Concept of the Self and the Art of Reading Silently
Jun 05, 2020
Foucault and the Recklessness of the Rebel Philosopher - Episode 3
May 05, 2020
Foucault and the Recklessness of the Rebel Philosopher Part 2
Apr 22, 2020
Foucault and the Recklessness of the Rebel Philosopher Part 1
Apr 21, 2020