For the Love of Sophia!

In this episode, Giuseppe and Anthony discuss the Analytic/Continental split within philosophy. Why do these different types of philosophers hate each other? When and why did the split happen? What kinds of problems did the analytics see within the history of philosophy that warranted a change? What goals should philosophy aim for? What does “progress” look like in philosophy? How should science a...

In this episode, Giuseppe and Anthony continue their conversation on the nature of paradoxes: If something can't emerge from nothing, then how is learning possible? Is "rareness" a necessary condition for paradoxes? What are we to think about so called time-travel paradoxes? What is the relationship between paradoxes and contradiction? Can paradoxes exist within originary presentation, or only in...

In this episode, Giuseppe and Anthony discuss a number of fundamental questions pertaining to the nature of paradoxes: What exactly is a paradox? Are paradoxes a feature of reality itself, or only of the relationship between the mind and reality? If space can be divided infinitely, how is motion possible? At what point in a process exactly does something become something else? For questions or sug...

In this episode, Giuseppe and Anthony continue their conversation on the concept of disagreement: What exactly is being disagreed upon when we have a disagreement? Is it possible to move beyond absolute difference? Can we ever access “the other,” or are we just monads necessarily in isolation? How does any of this stuff relate to our current — social media driven — epoch? To what extent do economi...

In this episode, Giuseppe and Anthony discuss the nature of disagreement: What is the difference between agreement and disagreement? What types of disagreements are there? What is the difference between a disagreement and a verbal dispute? Is it correct to describe the social-political conflict that characterizes our time as a matter of disagreement? Or is it something else? For questions or sugge...

In this episode, Giuseppe and Anthony continue their conversation on the nature of ideas: What is the difference between ideas and mental structures? What is the relationship between ideas and knowledge? What is the difference between knowledge and instinct? What are the best arguments for and against the existence of innate ideas? How might this conversation be related to the nature/nurture debat...

In this episode, Giuseppe and Anthony begin discussing a number of preliminary questions regarding the nature of ideas: What even is an idea in the first place? Where do they come from? How are they accessed? Do we prioritize certain kinds of ideas? What is the relationship between particulars and universals? For questions or suggestions for future episodes: PublicPhilProject@gmail.com. Support us...

In this episode, Giuseppe and Anthony continue their conversation on Stoicism: What is the stoic way of achieving the Good life? What relationship should we have with nature? Is a life without pain worth it if it's also a life without pleasure? Are intense sensations intrinsically bad? For questions or suggestions for future episodes: PublicPhilProject@gmail.com. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon...

In this episode, Giuseppe and Anthony discuss a number of concepts related to the philosophical movement known as "stoicism": What is the proper way of handling our emotions? What do we and don't we have control over? How can we act in accordance with nature? What is freedom? Is there overlap between the original cultural context in which Stoicism arose and our present epoch? For questions or sugg...

In this conversation, Giuseppe, Anthony, and Gene continue their conversation on the nature of history: How can historians infer causality? What exactly makes history different from myth? How can we establish when an event "begins" and when it "ends?" Are there fundamental differences between philosophy and history that make conversations between the disciplines difficult if not impossible? For qu...

In this conversation, Giuseppe and Anthony sit down with Gene Nassar (a philosophy professor who also teaches high school history) to discuss a number of fundamental questions pertaining to the nature of history: What is history as a discipline? Is history the actual events that happened or narratives about the actual events that happened? How do philosophers and historians approach the past diffe...

In this video, Giuseppe and Anthony continue their conversation on the nature of property: How might one's position with regard to the self affect one's position with regard to property? Is property an intrinsic part of conscious life, or is it a construct with pros and cons? Are some ways of being-with-property better than others? Is some kind of property necessary for the Good life? Should peopl...

In this video, Giuseppe and Anthony discuss the fundamental nature of property: What does it mean to own something? How does one become an owner? Are there different types of property? What is theft? Is there such a thing as intellectual property? How are these things related to the self? For questions or suggestions for future episodes: PublicPhilProject@gmail.com. Support us on Patreon: www.patr...

In this episode, the gang's all here for a philosophical conversation about the concept of "holiday": What is a holiday? Are there different types of holidays? How is the experience of holidays different for children and adults? How might religious and non-religious attitudes towards holidays differ? What are our favorite holidays? For questions or suggestions for future episodes: PublicPhilProjec...

In this episode, Giuseppe and Anthony continue their metaphilosophical conversation: How does actual philosophy differ from people's expectations about what philosophy is? How does the process of making a logical argument differ from merely reporting one's feelings? What exactly does philosophy do? How is philosophy different from other disciplines? What is the relationship that philosophy has wit...

In this episode, Giuseppe and Anthony tackle the question of all questions: What is Philosophy? In order to do this, a number of preliminary/adjacent questions are addressed: Why do people assume that a difficult question is an unanswerable one? Why do people gravitate towards quick and easy answers rather than comprehensive ones? Why do some people jump to the conclusion that there are no correct...

In this episode, Giuseppe and Anthony continue their 100th year celebration of Wittgenstein's "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus." Questions addressed this time include: What does it mean to say that language is a "picture" of reality? What exactly is a contradiction? What is nonsense? What, by definition, cannot be spoken of? What is the role of a thinking subject in all of this? For questions or su...

In this episode, Giuseppe and Anthony celebrate the 100th anniversary of Wittgenstein's "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" by discussing some of its central themes: Can all of reality be reduced to a set of less than 10 basic propositions? What exactly is "the world?" What is the relationship between language and thought? For questions or suggestions for future episodes: PublicPhilProject@gmail.com....

In this episode, Giuseppe and Anthony continue their conversation on the "sub-method" of philosophy known as phenomenology: What can descriptive analysis of basic experiences tell us about the fundamental structures of consciousness? What assumptions do we typically make but take for granted in everyday experience? Is phenomenology a kind of metaphysics, epistemology, both, or neither? What is the...

In this episode, Giuseppe and Anthony discuss a number of questions pertaining to the "sub-method" of philosophy known as phenomenology: How is phenomenology distinct from other types of philosophy? What is the relationship between phenomenology and psychology? What assumptions run in the "background" of our everyday experience? How can we drop these assumptions and move into a more phenomenologic...

In this episode, Giuseppe, Anthony, and Claire continue their conversation on propaganda: Is the idea of a justice system intrinsically propagandistic? What propagandistic methods do social media companies use to push ideology? Is the techno-nihilism that characterizes our epoch the result of radical individualism, or its opposite? Is individualism different from id-ism? How do new systems of prop...

In this episode, Giuseppe and Anthony engage with questions asked by listeners. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/publicphilosophyproject. For questions or suggestions: publicphilproject@gmail.com

*DISCLAIMER: There are a number of audio issues with this episode. It is wholly listenable (and it was a fun one too), but expect to hear some trippy audio echoes throughout. In this episode, Giuseppe and Anthony are joined by Claire Celi to discuss questions pertaining to propaganda: What is the difference between propaganda and non-propaganda? Does propaganda always have to be political in natur...

In this episode, Giuseppe and Anthony continue their conversation on the concept of beauty. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/publicphilosophyproject. For questions or suggestions: publicphilproject@gmail.com

In this episode, Giuseppe and Anthony begin to discuss some preliminary questions pertaining to beauty: What kinds of things are capable of being beautiful?; What is the relationship between beauty and "the Good?"; How do concepts like desire and limit relate to beauty? Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/publicphilosophyproject. For questions or suggestions: publicphilproject@gmail.com