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Sam Kimpton-Nye
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09/29/21 • 11 min
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12/01/21 • 11 min
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Ep. 28: "Panpsychism", Thomas Nagel (CM classic!)
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03/16/22 • 9 min
The focus of this episode is Thomas Nagel’s “Panpsychism”, published by Cambridge University Press in his “Mortal Questions” anthology.
This isn’t a recent paper, it was first published in 1979. But it is a nice, sober, discussion of panpsychism that makes quite clear a relatively sensible motivation for the view as well as what is involved in its denial. This all makes for a nice change to some of the rather heated public debates of the issue nowadays. So, call this a Condensed Matter classic. Maybe I’ll do more of these in future because I definitely think there are plenty of older papers out there that are worth revisiting in this format.
Link to the paper: https://philpapers.org/rec/NAGP
Ep. 24: “Going Beyond the Fundamental: Feminism in Contemporary Metaphysics”, Elizabeth Barnes
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12/15/21 • 9 min
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Episode 10: "Realism and the Absence of Value", Shamik Dasgupta
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08/11/21 • 14 min
The focus of this episode is Shamik Dasgupta's article "Realism and the Absence of Value", published in The Philosophical Review in 2018.
Link to the article: https://read.dukeupress.edu/the-philosophical-review/article-abstract/127/3/279/135296/Realism-and-the-Absence-of-Value
Also: http://shamik.net/papers/dasgupta%20realism%20and%20the%20absence%20of%20value.pdf
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The focus of this episode is Otávio Bueno and Scott Shalkowski’s article: Troubles with Theoretical Virtues: Resisting Theoretical Utility Arguments in Metaphysics, published in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research in 2019.
Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/phpr.12597
08/23/22 • 73 min
In this episode, I ask Donnchadh O'Conaill about themes from his book "Substance" which is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press as part of the Cambridge Elements in Metaphysics series. We cover the roles in metaphysical theorising that substance plays, candidate examples of substance, the methodology of metaphysics and its relationship to science among other things.
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30: “How Skeptical is Quine’s “Modal Skepticism”?”, John Divers
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07/05/22 • 14 min
Was Quine really a modal sceptic--someone who thought that modality was unintelligible or paradoxical? Divers thinks he is better cast as a non-sceptical modal anti-realist.
Here's a link to the paper: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/122483/1/how%20Skeptical%3F.pdf
Ep. 29: "Modal Conventionalism", Ross Cameron
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04/06/22 • 9 min
The focus of this episode is Ross Cameron's "Modal Conventionalism" published in The Routledge Handbook of Modality in 2021.
Here is a link to the paper, but these handbooks are insanely expensive, which I suppose is a good reason to do more episodes based on their chapters!
37: "Why Being Necessary Really Is Not the Same As Being Not Possibly Not", Dana Goswick
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06/04/24 • 9 min
Modality (possibility, necessity and related phenomena) is central to philosophy both as a topic of inquiry and as a methodological tool. There are many controversies about the nature of possibility and necessity and about what counts as possible or necessary. But it is generally agreed that possibility and necessity are intimitely related, they are interdefinable: being possible is the same as being not necessarily not. Goswick, however, denies this! Listen to find out why.
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The podcast is about Culture, Society & Culture, Metaphysics, Podcasts, Science, Philosophy and Arts.
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The first episode of Condensed Matter was released on Jul 7, 2021.
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