Egg Timer Philosophy

More discussion of transhumanism and immortality with focus given to why many people are not so sure they would want to live forever.  

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Could people in the not too distant future become immortal?  Sounds unlikely, right.  Well, tune in to find out how this might not be so unlikely.  

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Today's topic is how to best think about ethical truth as it relates with truth in other areas of human inquiry such as mathematics and the natural sciences.  Many people believe that truth within ethics is something very different than truth within math, physics, or chemistry.  This episode takes a critical look at how well that belief stands up.  

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During this episode of the egg timer three major themes/questions related with truth are covered.  What is it that truth applies to?  How do subjectivity and objectivity relate with truth? What are the major philosophical approaches to thinking about truth?  

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In 1950 Alan Turing introduced an inventive test to explore whether people could distinguish between interacting with another person or with a machine.  That test has been come to be known as the Turing test and it continues to be one of most important ideas in the philosophy of technology.  Listen in to find out more about Alan Turning's innovative and thought provoking test.

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Today's episode takes a look at Karl Marx's thoughts about alienated labor.  Tune in to find out why Marx valued labor a great deal but thought that capitalistic working conditions tended to alienate people from their labor.

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This episode of the egg timer takes a look at the relationship between economic inequality and history.  Special attention will be given to Robert Nozick's Wilt Chamberlin example.  

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This episode of the egg timer takes a look at the economics and ethics of the secondary ticket market.  This is a market understandably loathed by many but the existence of the market involves economic and psychological factors that often go ignored.

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Today's episode looks at some major themes from Thomas Kuhn's 1962 book, 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions'.  That book was one of the most important and influential philosophical works of the 20th century and led many scientists and others to reconsider the nature of science.  Tune in to learn a bit more about Kuhn's groundbreaking approach to scientific inquiry.

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Today's episode takes a look at St. Anselm's ontological argument to prove the existence of God.  Anselm makes the case that the existence of God can be established in a purely rational way without appealing to divine revelation or any empirical features of the world.  For Anselm our ability to imagine a being of which none greater can be imagined is enough to establish the existence of God.  His argument is often disputed and most philosophers and others think that it goes wrong somewhere but yet its simplicity and eloquence has vexed thinkers for a millennia who disagree with the argument to show how it goes wrong.

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