Egg Timer Philosophy

This episode of the egg timer considers the topic of governmentally imposed vaccine mandates.  Specific attention is given to the types variables that ought to be considered when the government sets policy surrounding harms and risk.

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Does freedom require alternative possibilities?  That's the question for this episode of the egg timer.  Tune in as Harry Frankfurt's enduring answer to this question is cracked open.  

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For Today's episode of the Egg Timer Justin McBrayer discusses ideas related with his book, 'Beyond Fake News: Finding the Truth in a World of Misinformation'.  Listen in as Justin discusses the increasingly prominent problem of navigating the media in an environment of disinformation and falsehoods.  

For further information about Justin's book you can check out his webpage about his book here: https://www.justinmcbrayer.com/fake-news

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On this episode of the egg timer the topic is Charles Horton Cooley's looking glass self.  Cooley offers a fascinating and dynamic social interpretation of the self.  Tune in to find out more.

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On today's episode of the egg timer the topic is William Paley's watchmaker analogy to prove the existence of God.  Paley suggests that a person who finds a watch on a beach is right to think that someone designed the watch.  And likewise by analogy someone who realizes the complexity of a person is right to think that people are designed and that their designer is God.  Does this analogy work to prove the existence of God?  Tune in as that question is explored.

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This episode of the egg timer delves into the topic of harm.  Harm is often treated is a purely comparative way by asking if a person has been made 'worse off' than they were before the harm.  But as we'll see this idea is not nearly so iron clad as it is often treated.  

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On this episode of the egg timer the topic is the bootstrapping problem within the empirical sciences.  In particular, the question of what reasons do we have to think that vision is a reliable and true representation of reality will be discussed.  Often answers to this question double down on using vision as an answer to this question, but as we'll discover that answer just gets caught in the wheels of circular reasoning.

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What role should luck play in our moral assessments?  If a person intends to harm another but as luck would have it is not able to do so should we morally assess their action the same as if they had succeeded in harming another?  Tune in as those and other questions related with moral luck are discussed on this episode of the egg timer.

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On this last episode of the Nietzsche Summer Series the topic will be Nietzsche and The Arts.  Tune in to learn more about the forces of Greek Tragedy that helped to carve out Nietzsche's artistic and philosophical views.  

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On this fourth installment of the Nietzsche Summer Series the topic will be Nietzsche's ideas and nihilism.  Nietzsche is sometimes mistakenly treated as a nihilist and this episode of the egg timer seeks to be better clarify his position toward questions of value.  

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