Egg Timer Philosophy

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.

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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.  

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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.

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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.

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For today's episode a look at the topic of expected value through the lens of the lottery.  

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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.

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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.

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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 knowledge of God's essence necessarily relate with God's existence in ways that cannot be applied so directly to other things.

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Art Attribution: Frans Hals  - André Hatala [e.a.] (1997) De eeuw van Rembrandt, Bruxelles: Crédit communal de Belgique, ISBN 2-908388-32-4.

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 Descartes manages to successfully locate the origin of human error while preserving a God who does not engage in deception.

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Art Attribution: Frans Hals  - André Hatala [e.a.] (1997) De eeuw van Rembrandt, Bruxelles: Crédit communal de Belgique, ISBN 2-908388-32-4.

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 about an external world beyond the self.  

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Art Attribution: Frans Hals  - André Hatala [e.a.] (1997) De eeuw van Rembrandt, Bruxelles: Crédit communal de Belgique, ISBN 2-908388-32-4.