Category: Podcast

This is my breakdown of David Chalmers’ interview on the Closer to Truth Series – about metaphysics and ontology. Are there entities in the world, or is there just stuff?

Original video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0QPWQR5f9Q

If animals can suffer, does that make it immoral to eat meat?

I’m joined again by Dr. Mike Huemer to help me answer this question. He has recently released a series of four dialogues on the topic, which address many of the issues we talk about in this episode:

Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism, Part 1
Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism, Part 2
Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism, Part 3
Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism, Part 4

Also covered: free will, empathy, and whether the nutritional value of meat changes our ethical judgments.

Previous interview with Dr. Huemer

Does objective truth exist? Thaddeus Russell joins me for part two of our discussion about postmodernism. In this episode, we focus on the philosophy of truth.

Can we know anything about the world? Can we know anything about our minds? Are the laws of logic objective or just a convention of language?

Part one of our discussion here.

I am joined by Dr. Thaddeus Russell to talk about postmodernism. With the popularity of people like Jordan Peterson, who vocally criticize postmodernism, Thaddeus thinks most of the criticism is misplaced.

We also have a great conversation about love, religion, and people’s motivation for their actions.

Season 2 is here! The show starts up again with a fantastic interview with Dr. Bernardo Kastrup about idealism. I’ve spent a lot of time arguing against physicalism and for a kind of “reluctant dualist” worldview, but I’ve not explained my position on idealism. So, I brought Dr. Kastrup on the show to give his case that only mental stuff exists.