You're listening to the partially examined life a podcast by some guys who at one point

set on doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 350 is something like, what should a pragmatist say about truth

and essentialism?

We read lectures three through five about epistemology continuing

in Richard Rorty's pragmatism as anti-authoritarianism in 1997.

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This is Mark Linton Meyer, convincing to all possible audiences in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Seth Paskin at a cocktail party with all the major figures in the history of philosophy in Austin, Texas.

This is Westallown, only what I am in virtue of my relations to other things in Cambridge,

Massachusetts. This is Dylan Casey convicted by the charge of

performative self-contradiction in Madison, Wisconsin.

So we had read the beginning of this self-contradiction in Madison, Wisconsin.

So we had read the beginning of this book last time, focusing largely on religion, but we could not

help ourselves in getting into the epistemology since that is clearly the more interesting part of this.

The book is as a whole about promoting democracy and so in this, the main thing we read, it was sort of two lectures stuffed together into one chapter presentation called universality and truth.

But then after that was a lecture called pan-relationalism, which was at least kind of clear in some ways.

We sort of made optional, there was one more epistmological lecture after that called

against depth, which is just really giving some implications of pan-relationalism

and getting into some examples that we won't get into about qualia

and heartesian skepticism and things,

but these are reasonable things to bring up,

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