#227 – Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning

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Lex Fridman

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

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🗓️ 30 September 2021

⏱️ 179 minutes

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0:00.0	The following is a conversation with Sean Kelly, a philosopher at Harvard,
0:04.2	specializing in existentialism and the philosophy of mind.
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