Becoming Who We Are

E1: Introduction

CHAPTERS
00:59    What this Course Is02:31    How to Succeed in the Class05:11    How to Use this Podcast
Note: chapters are listed here for reference. You can skip directly to a chapter while listening to the episode using the links in the player.

E2: Mary Midgley

READING
What is Philosophy For?, excerpts from sections 1-13
CHAPTERS
02:13     Introduction06:03     Section 1 (pattern creation)09:06     Section 2 (Socrates)14:03     Section 4 (learning how to think)15:44     Section 8 (progress)20:16     Section 9 (conceptual geography)28:19     Section 10 (plumbing)36:15     Section 11 (the concept of toleration)45:23     Section 12 (facilitating change)51:27     Section 13 (philosophy is relevant)56:44     Conclusion
Note: chapters are listed here for reference. You can skip directly to a chapter while listening to the episode using the links in the player.
 

E3: Sextus Empiricus

READING
Outlines of Pyrrhonism, excerpts from chapters 1, 4, 6-8, 10, 12-14
CHAPTERS
01:21      Introduction06:34      Chapter 1 (schools of philosophy)08:22      Chapter 4 (definition)15:17      Chapter 6 (cause)20:40      Chapter 7 (dogmatizing)29:37      Chapter 8 (doctrine)35:14      Chapter 10 (assent to appearances)38:30      Chapter 12 (end)47:31      Chapters 13 & 14 (modes)55:01      Conclusion
Note: chapters are listed here for reference. You can skip directly to a chapter while listening to the episode using the links in the player.

E4: William James

READING
"The Will to Believe" 
CHAPTERS
0:01:15      Introduction0:06:05      Section 1 (genuine option)0:12:22      Section 2 (psychology of human opinion)0:19:01      Section 3 (the willing nature)0:25:32      Section 4 (thesis)0:31:31      Section 5 (faith in truth)0:35:13      Section 6 (criterion for truth)0:40:05      Section 7 (quest for the avoidance of error)0:45:34      Section 8 (suspension of judgment)0:49:44      Section 9 (when the passional nature decides)1:00:19      Section 10 (courage)1:08:38      Conclusion
Note: chapters are listed here for reference. You can skip directly to a chapter while listening to the episode using the links in the player.

E5: Plato

READING
Discourses, Book I, excerpts from chapters 1, 2, 4, 15, and 24
CHAPTERS
01:08    Introduction02:49    Branches of Philosophy04:22    Allegory of the Cave32:45    Analogy of the Divided Line56:24    Conclusion
Note: chapters are listed here for reference. You can skip directly to a chapter while listening to the episode using the links in the player.

E6: Epictetus

READING
Discourses, Book I, excerpts from chapters 1, 2, 4, 15, and 24
CHAPTERS
01:10    Introduction02:41    Stoic Metaphysics07:46    Stoic Happiness14:09    Stoic Theory of Emotions29:08    Excerpts from Epictetus54:37    Conclusion
Note: chapters are listed here for reference. You can skip directly to a chapter while listening to the episode using the links in the player.

E7: Rene Descartes

READING
Meditations on First Philosophy, excerpts from Meditations I & II
CHAPTERS
03:49    Introduction06:25    Meditation I Begins17:49    1st Thought Experiment (Dreaming)28:28    2nd Thought Experiment (Deceiving God/Genius)41:50    Meditation 2 Begins42:02    Cogito (“I think, I am”)51:02    Wax Example57:19    Conclusion
Note: chapters are listed here for reference. You can skip directly to a chapter while listening to the episode using the links in the player.

E8: David Hume

READING
A Treatise of Human Nature, Book 1, chapters 1-3
CHAPTERS
01:42    Introduction06:25    Impressions & Ideas08:37    Simple & Complex Impressions13:14    Simple Ideas & Simple Impressions17:26    Impressions of Sensation & Impressions of Reflection34:51    Principles of Association48:59    Conclusion
Note: chapters are listed here for reference. You can skip directly to a chapter while listening to the episode using the links in the player.

E9: Immanuel Kant

READING
Critique of Pure Reason, excerpts from Introduction B
CHAPTERS
01:55    Introduction15:45    The Hume Problem23:47    A priori & A posteriori Judgments28:04    Synthetic & Analytic Judgments33:59    Critique of Rationalism38:02    Critique of Empiricism42:48    Transcendental Arguments52:21    Conclusion
Note: chapters are listed here for reference. You can skip directly to a chapter while listening to the episode using the links in the player.

E10: Arthur Schopenhauer

READING
“On the Sufferings of the World” & “On the Vanity of Existence”
CHAPTERS
01:19    Introduction05:30    Two-Part Universe07:35    World as Will & Representation18:31    Inversion of Reason & Will22:28    Argument for Pessimism29:08    Suffering35:19    Moral Action39:44    Path of Asceticism54:50    Conclusion
Note: chapters are listed here for reference. You can skip directly to a chapter while listening to the episode using the links in the player.

E11: Friedrich Nietzsche

READING
The Gay Science, Preface, sections 124-124, 343-344, and 346
CHAPTERS
02:03     Introduction04:08     Relationship to Schopenhauer08:54     Why a Critique of Morality?12:53     Origin of good and evil21:20     Inversion of Morals30:40     Development of the Subject37:42     Development of the Conscience44:36     Threat of Nihilism55:50     Revaluation of all Values59:34     Conclusion
Note: chapters are listed here for reference. You can skip directly to a chapter while listening to the episode using the links in the player.

E12: Simone de Beauvoir

READING
“The Second Sex,” excerpts from the Introduction
CHAPTERS
01:54     Introduction 06:44     What is a Woman?14:56     Woman as Other19:02     Women’s Complicity26:56     How Did This Begin?28:18     Justifications of Men41:08     Existentialist Morality51:00     Exclusion of Women from Philosophy58:15     Conclusion
Note: chapters are listed here for reference. You can skip directly to a chapter while listening to the episode using the links in the player.

E13: Charles W. Mills

READING
Blackness Visible, excerpts from the Preface and chapter 5
CHAPTERS
03:13     Introduction 07:26     Race in Philosophy14:21     The Preface25:56     Ch. 5: The Problem36:55     Ch. 5: Personhood55:23     New Approaches 59:36     Conclusion
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E14: Conclusion

CHAPTERS
01:01     Why this guy? 02:53     Slowing Down04:42     The Value of Thinking07:20     Intersections10:33     Teaching Philosophy vs. Teaching Philosophically13:45     Managing Resistance16:13     Flashlight Tag19:45     Becoming a Sociosopher21:16     So, who are we?
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