Welcome to the pilot. This episode tackles the question that keeps everybody awake at night: ‘What on Earth is Philosophy?!’ Geoff Allen presents his original take on the project of philosophy and its relationship to the project of science. In his view, philosophy has three functions (procedural, mapping, substantive) and the proper content of philosophy is… extrapolation.

Taking a meta-approach to philosophy is, in fact, comparable to the meta-approach of Rick and Morty. (It’s all about attaining meta-awareness of devices, arcs and structures.) Topics also include: everything that’s wrong with armchair philosophy, the history of natural philosophy, and how to extrapolate from physics from metaphysics.

A bibliography for each episode is available here: https://geoffallenwriting.wordpress.com/2020/10/06/extrapolator-bibliography/

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