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Ai Generated. Human edited. Introductions and summaries of important books in philosophy and the interdisciplinary cognitive sciences. Modified and curated to improve listening experience. This channel not eligible for monetization due to YouTube"s "reused content" policy. If you"d like to help support us on Patreon.

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00:29:46

[178] Self-Awareness and Alterity: A Phenomenological...

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2025/03/23

Ai generated. Human edited. Introduction and summary of "Self-Awareness and Alterity: A Phenomenological Investigation" By Dan Zahavi 1999Winner of the 2000 The Edward Goodwin Ballard Prize in PhenomenologyIn the rigorous and highly original Self-Awareness and Alterity, Dan Zahavi provides a sustained argument that phenomenology, especially in its Husserlian version, can contribute something decisive to the analysis of self-awareness. Taking on recent discussions within both analytical

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00:20:28

[177] The Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution Made...

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2025/03/19

Ai generated. Human edited. Introduction and summary of "The Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution Made Humans Unique" By Kim Sterelny 2012A new theory of the evolution of human cognition and human social life that emphasizes the role of information sharing across generations.Over the last three million years or so, our lineage has diverged sharply from those of our great ape relatives. Change has been rapid (in evolutionary terms) and pervasive. Morphology, life history, social life, sexual

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00:20:05

[176] Descartes's Method: The Formation of the...

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2025/03/16

Ai generated. Human edited. Introduction and summary of 'Descartes's Method: The Formation of the Subject of Science" By Tarek R. Dika 2023Descartes's Method develops an ontological interpretation of Descartes's method as a dynamic and, within limits, differentiable problem-solving cognitive disposition or habitus, which can be actualized or applied to different problems in various ways, depending on the nature of the problem. Parts I-II develop the foundations of an habitual

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00:29:06

[175] Self-Consciousness By Sebastian Rödl

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2025/03/13

Ai generated. Human edited. Introduction and summary of "Self-Consciousness" By Sebastian Rödl 2007The topic of this book is self-consciousness, which is a kind of knowledge, namely knowledge of oneself as oneself, or self-knowledge. Sebastian R dl's thesis is that self-knowledge is not empirical; it does not spring from sensory affection. Rather, self-knowledge is knowledge from spontaneity; its object and its source are the subject's own activity, in the primary instance its acts

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00:23:28

[174] The Varieties of Reference By Gareth Evans

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2025/03/10

Ai generated. Human edited. Introduction and summary of "The Varieties of Reference" By Gareth Evans 1982Evans' book The Varieties of Reference (1982) was unfinished at the time of his death. The introduction and first two chapters being rewritten by him in the last months of his life.[8] It was edited for publication, and supplemented with appendices drawn from his notes, by McDowell. It has subsequently been influential in both philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. Its

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00:28:17

[173] Hume on Causation By Helen Beebee

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2025/03/05

Ai generated. Human edited. Introduction and summary of "Hume on Causation" By Helen Beebee 2006Causation is one of the most important and enduring topics in philosophy, going as far back as Aristotle. In this lucid and enthralling account, Helen Beebee covers all the major debates and issues in the philosophy of causation, making it the ideal starting point for those approaching the subject for the first time.Beginning with an introduction to the concept, the book examines the most

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00:23:42

[172] Origins of Objectivity By Tyler Burge

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2025/03/02

Ai generated. Human edited. Introduction and summary of "Origins of Objectivity" By Tyler Burge 2010Tyler Burge presents a substantial, original study of what it is for individuals to represent the physical world with the most primitive sort of objectivity. By reflecting on the science of perception and related psychological and biological sciences, he gives an account of constitutive conditions for perceiving the physical world, and thus aims to locate origins of representational mind

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00:27:46

[171] The Given: Experience and Its Content By...

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2025/02/26

Ai generated. Human edited. Introduction and summary of "The Given: Experience and Its Content" By Michelle Montague 2016What is given to us in conscious experience? The Given is an attempt to answer this question and in this way contribute to a general theory of mental content. The content of conscious experience is understood to be absolutely everything that is given to one, experientially, in the having of an experience. Michelle Montague focuses on the analysis of conscious perception,

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00:32:39

[170] Husserl and Transcendental Intersubjectivity By...

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2025/02/21

Ai generated. Human edited. "Husserl and Transcendental Intersubjectivity: A Response to the Linguistic-pragmatic Critique" By Dan Zahavi 2001Husserl and Transcendental Intersubjectivity analyzes the transcendental relevance of intersubjectivity and argues that an intersubjective transformation of transcendental philosophy can already be found in phenomenology, especially in Husserl. Husserl eventually came to believe that an analysis of transcendental intersubjectivity was a conditio sine

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00:21:20

[169] Memory, Consciousness and Temporality By...

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2025/02/18

Ai generated. Human edited. Introduction and summary of "Memory, Consciousness and Temporality" By Gianfranco Dalla Barba 2002Memory, Consciousness, and Temporality presents the argument that current memory theories are undermined by two false assumptions: the `memory trace paradox' and `the fallacy of the homunculus'. In these pages Gianfranco Dalla Barba introduces a hypothesis - the Memory, Consciousness, and Temporality (MCT) hypothesis - on the relationship between memory and

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00:26:10

[168] Becoming Human: The Ontogenesis, Metaphysics,...

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2025/02/15

Ai generated. Human edited. Introduction and summary of "Becoming Human: The Ontogenesis, Metaphysics, and Expression of Human Emotionality" By Jennifer Greenwood 2015A novel, wide-ranging, and comprehensive account of how human emotionality develops, proposing a process in which “nature” and “nurture” are integrated.In Becoming Human, Jennifer Greenwood proposes a novel theory of the development of human emotionality. In doing so, she makes important contributions to the nature-nurture

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00:24:03

[167] The Invention of Tomorrow: A Natural History of...

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2025/02/11

Ai generated. Human edited. Introduction and summary of "The Invention of Tomorrow: A Natural History of Foresight" By Thomas Suddendorf, Jonathan Redshaw, Adam Bulley · 2022"Apes can do a lot of things that we can, too: they can use tools, tell bigger from smaller, and even say hello. But one thing they can't do is say "see you tomorrow." That's not just because they don't speak English, but because they are unable to imagine reencountering another ape in the

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00:26:53

[166] Memory: A Self-referential Account By Jordi...

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2025/02/08

Ai generated. Human edited. Introduction and summary of Memory: A Self-referential Account By Jordi Fernández 2019Jordi Fernandez here offers a philosophical investigation of memory, one which engages with memory's philosophically puzzling characteristics in order to clarify what memory is. Memories interact with mental states of other types in a particular way, and they also have associated feelings that these other mental states lack. They are special in terms of their representational

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00:28:04

[165] The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History...

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2025/02/05

Ai generated. Human edited. "The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality" By Hanno Sauer 2024For almost five million years, humans have been locked in a relationship with morality, inventing and reinventing the concepts of 'Good' and 'Evil', and weaving them into our cities, laws and customs.Morality is a concept that can feel joyless and claustrophobic, associated with restraint and coercion, restriction and sacrifice, inquisition, confession and a guilty

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00:22:11

[164] Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical...

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2025/02/03

Ai generated. Human edited. "Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life" By Agnes Callard 2025 Socrates has been hiding in plain sight. We call him the father of Western philosophy, but what exactly are his philosophical views? He is famous for his humility, but readers often find him arrogant and condescending. We parrot his claim that “the unexamined life is not worth living,” yet take no steps to live examined ones. We know that he was tried, convicted, and executed for

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00:22:55

[163] Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will...

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2025/01/31

Ai generated. Human edited. An introduction and summary of "Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will" By Robert M. Sapolsky 2023One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, mounts a devastating scientific and philosophical case against free will—an argument with profound consequencesRobert Sapolsky’s Behave, his now classic account of why humans do good and why they do bad, pointed toward an unsettling conclusion: we may not grasp exactly how nature and

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00:23:12

[162] The Transcendence of the Ego By Jean-Paul Sartre

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2025/01/27

Ai generated. Human edited. Introduction and summary of "The Transcendence of the Ego" By Jean-Paul Sartre 1936 First published in France in 1936 as a journal article, The Transcendence of the Ego was one of Jean-Paul Sartre's earliest philosophical publications. When it appeared, Sartre was still largely unknown, working as a school teacher in provincial France and struggling to find a publisher for his most famous fictional work, Nausea.The Transcendence of the Ego is the outcome of

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00:22:10

[161] White Queen Psychology and Other Essays for...

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2025/01/23

Ai generated. Human edited. Introduction and summary of "White Queen Psychology and Other Essays for Alice" By Ruth Garrett Millikan 1993The title essay discusses meaning rationalism and argues that rationality is not in the head, indeed, that there is no legitimate interpretation under which logical possibility and necessity are known a priori. In other essays, Millikan clarifies her views on the nature of mental representation, explores whether human thought is a product of natural

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00:24:36

[160] Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos By Jeffrey A. Bell

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2025/01/20

Ai generated. Human edited. Introduction and summary of "Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos: Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Difference" By Jeffrey A. Bell 2006 From the early 1960s until his death, French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) wrote many influential works on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. One of Deleuze's main philosophical projects was a systematic inversion of the traditional relationship between identity and difference. This Deleuzian philosophy of

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00:28:17

[159] Heidegger and the Problem of Consciousness By...

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2025/01/17

Ai generated. Human edited. Introduction and summary of "Heidegger and the Problem of Consciousness" By Nancy J. Holland 2018Nancy J. Holland turns to the thought of Martin Heidegger to help understand an age-old philosophical question: Is there a split between the body and the mind? Arguing against philosophical positions that define human consciousness as an overarching phenomenon or reduce it to the brain or physicality, Holland contends that consciousness is relational and it is this

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