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You're listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who had one point set on doing philosophy for living, but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 153 is something like, why is the mind body problem so perennially perplexing and we read Richard Roarty's Philosophy in the Mirror of Nature, part one are Glassy Essence, published in 1979.

To get the reading and more information, please check out partiallyexaminedlife.com. My name is Mark Linton Meyer with all my C-Fibers firing in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Wes All-One in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This is Dylan Casey, distinctively universal, in particular, in middle of Wisconsin.

This is Steven Metcalfe in Kent, New York. Welcome back, Steven.

Thank you so much. I'm very psyched to be here. Very psyched to talk about this book.

We plan this shortly after we recorded the one on Nozick with you. That was a couple years ago now in our normal way of taking a long time to get around to things.

But this is a synthesizing work. So it's kind of good that we covered, say, quine. You might want to go listen to that episode, not necessarily before.

This part one on Roarty, this is just kind of the introduction, but we plan on doing a little more to get at the meat of the book.

We'll see how it goes today. It's kind of a big book. It was a little difficult to get through a lot of it.

I really enjoyed reading it so far. I had read a ton of Roarty when I was in undergrad, but I hadn't read this book.

I read Consequences of Pragmatism, Continued Sea Ironies, Solidarity, and those books. I read a ton of his stuff.

And it was fun to read this one. In fact, I sort of wished I had read it back then because it made clear some things about the way he thinks about the history of philosophy.

There's just more spelled out in this book.

So this is his first book, and then he went on to write a lot of things about politics. So Steven, I know you actually took classes from him, right?

That's correct. I started graduate school at University of Virginia in 1989, and got to know him a little bit personally, but also just as a lecturer and a seminar leader.

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