Egg Timer Philosophy

Do people have natural procedural rights to be judged by fair and reliable processes?  That's the topic for this episode of the egg timer.  Tune in for an application of natural rights to an age old question.   Send your comments, questions, and ideas for future episodes to: eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com Image Attribution: By Jonathunder - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wiki...

Why does inequality exist?  That's the question that Jean Jacques Rousseau set out to answer in the mid 18th century.  Tune in to find out the answer he gives and why his ideas about inequality still hold significant relevance today. Send over your questions, comments and ideas for future episodes to eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com Art Attribution: By Maurice Quentin de La Tour - Unknown so...

Today's episode takes a look at the nuanced idea of egalitarianism.  Tune in to find out why the view is much more than simply giving everyone the same. Send over you comments, questions, and ideas for future episodes to eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com

If a person found a ring that gave them the ability to be invisible and face no consequences for how they acted would they have any reason to act justly?  This is the Ring of Gyges example found in the second book of Plato's Republic.   Tune in as this long standing philosophical thought experiment is cracked open. Send your questions, comments, and ideas for future episodes to: egg...

For this episode of the egg timer a look at the classic prisoner's dilemma.  This is the game that ushered in contemporary game theory in the 1950's and it remains highly relevant today. Send over your questions, comments, and ideas for future episodes to: eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com

Take a look at the cover art for the episode.  What do you see?  I see a duck but many other people see a rabbit.  Listen in to find out how the rabbit duck illusion brings with it some very interesting philosophical discussion. Send over your thoughts, questions and ideas for future episodes to: eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com Art Attribution: By Unknown artist - Vectorized using Inks...

This episode of the egg timer takes a look at why Aristotle thought the best type of life could only be the life of contemplation.   Send your questions, comments, and ideas for future episodes to eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com Art Attribution: By After Lysippos - Jastrow (2006), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1359807

The Montey Hall Puzzle has perplexed people for over three decades.  Tune in to find out what the puzzle can teach about the idea about making decisions under conditions of variable change. Image Attribution: By The logo is from the following website: cbs.com/lmad cbs.com, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33711854 Send you thoughts, questions, and ideas for future episodes...

Philosophical presentism is the view that the present or present entities are the only things that are real.  Tune in to learn more about this intriguing view. Send over your thoughts, questions and ideas for future episodes to: eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com

For today's episode a look at the topic of expected value through the lens of the lottery.   Send over your thoughts, questions and ideas for future episodes to: eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com Image Attribution: By Santeri Viinamäki, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=49450513

Today's episode concludes the Summer Series and takes a look at how Descartes makes his final push to move from global skepticism to general knowledge. Send your thoughts, questions, or ideas for future episodes to eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com Art Attribution: Frans Hals  - André Hatala [e.a.] (1997) De eeuw van Rembrandt, Bruxelles: Crédit communal de Belgique, ISBN 2-908388-32-4 .

Where does a game of chess actually exist?  That's the question for this episode of the egg timer and its answer open a number of very interesting philosophical possibilities. Send your thoughts, questions, and ideas for future episodes to eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com Photo Attribution: By Alan Light - Own work by the original uploader, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...

This  episode covers major themes from Descartes's fifth meditation in his  'Meditations on First Philosophy'.  His primary focus in the fifth meditation is to address how it is that thoughts relate with the essence of abstract objects like triangles as well as material objects such as mountains.  Descartes gives special attention in this meditation to how claims about knowledg...

This episode covers major themes from Descartes's fourth meditation in his 'Meditations on First Philosophy'.  His central concern in the fourth meditation is to address the source of our error in a way that still leaves room for a non deceiving God.  He tries to accomplish this through a very thought provoking treatment of human will and freedom.  Tune in to see if you think Descar...

This episode of the egg timer covers Descartes's Third Meditation within his Meditations on First Philosophy.  During the Second Meditation Descartes made the case for people having absolute certainty, knowledge, that the self as a thinking thing exists in some fashion.  In his third Meditation Descartes goes further and attempts to demonstrate that people can possess absolute certainty...

This episode covers Descartes's Second Meditation within his Meditations on First Philosophy.  Here Descartes introduces his infamous idea, 'I think, therefore I am'. Send your thoughts, questions, or ideas for future episodes to eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com Art Attribution: Frans Hals  - André Hatala [e.a.] (1997) De eeuw van Rembrandt, Bruxelles: Crédit communal de Belgique, ISBN ...

For this episode a discussion of self-defense with emphasis given to the ideas of proportionality and aggression. Send over your thoughts, questions, or ideas for future episodes to eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com Image Attribution: By Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-00504 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5478932

Descartes first meditation from his Meditations on First Philosophy kicks off the Summer Series.  Listen in the find out how Descartes demolishes all of his beliefs in order to begin the search for a foundation for anything that he can know with absolute undoubtable certainty. Send over your thoughts, questions or ideas for future episodes to: eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com Art Attribution: Fra...

Listen in to find out details about the Descartes Summer Series. Send over your thoughts, questions or ideas for future episodes to: eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com Art Attribution: Frans Hals  - André Hatala [e.a.] (1997) De eeuw van Rembrandt, Bruxelles: Crédit communal de Belgique, ISBN 2-908388-32-4 .

Join in for this part two of a discussion about Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America.  Special focus will be given the the greatest threats to democracy that Tocqueville sees and how he thinks the idea of enlightened self interest can be used to confront them. Send your comments, questions, and ideas for future episodes to eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com Image Attribution: Image Att...

Alexis de Tocqueville is most well known for his phrase, 'the tyranny of the majority'.  Listen in to learn more about Tocqueville's thoughts about Democracy in America that he formed after his journey to the United States in the early 1830's.   Send over your comments, questions, and ideas for future episodes to eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com Image Attribution: By Théodore Chassériau - [1...

This episode of the egg timer takes a look at the possibility of offering a comprehensive economic view without an ethical foundation.  Those prospects are not good. Image Attribution: By Foto: Jonn Leffmann, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=81842350 Send your comments, questions, and ideas for future episodes to: eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com

A hundred episodes of the egg timer later, but are numbers even real?   Send your comments, questions, and ideas for future episodes to: eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com Image Attribution: By Alex1011 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1013851

Listen in the learn more about the late nineteenth century philosopher and historian Peter Kropotkin.  Kropotkin was a communist and anarchist.  He argued that mutual aid, not competition, defined the evolution of species, including that of human beings.   Send your comments, questions, and ideas for future episodes to: eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com Image Attribution: By Nadar - NYPL...

This episode of the egg timer reviews the topic of religious liberties and toleration within political communities.  Special focus is given to the tension between the state as a being understood as a supreme authority with the belief by many that actually this is false and God, not the state, is the supreme authority.  Send you thoughts, questions, or ideas for future episodes to: eggtim...