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so go reserve your spots right now. Look for the link to PELive at partialexaminedlife.com.

You're listening to the partialexamined life, a philosophy podcast by some guys who are at one

point set on doing philosophy for living, but then thought better of it. Our question for episode 96

is something like, what are the philosophical implications of rhetoric and political discourse,

specifically focusing on discourse around scientific topics. Today we will be discussing the book

Scientist as Profits, a rhetorical genealogy with the author Linda Walsh, focusing especially on

chapters 5 with Jay Robert Oppenheimer, plus an address from 1950 by Oppenheimer called

Encouragement of Science. You can join the discussion, get the text, and last more information

at partialexaminedlife.com. This is Seth Paskin, dialing in from Austin, Texas. This is Mark

Linton, my name is Madison Wisconsin. This is Dylan Casey in Middleton, Wisconsin. Hi, and I'm Linda Walsh,

I'm calling from the Reno, Nevada. And we are delighted to welcome Linda to our group today.

Linda and I have known each other for quite some time. She was a graduate student at the University of

Texas in English and linguistics at the same time that Mark, Wes and I were there studying philosophy

and based on her cross interests in rhetoric and linguistics that crossed over into the philosophical

field, I think we somehow stumbled across each other and became fast friends. I think we

met at a philosophy party actually. Yeah. We linguists like to go to the philosophy parties because

they were always more exciting than our parties, which is a desperately sad comment. Well, yeah,

I know, but I know what I'm saying about linguists. It's fine. You should come to the physics parties.

Well, welcome, Linda. Welcome. Yeah. Thank you. And where do you work now, Linda? The University of

Nevada, Reno and I'm an associate professor of English there. And like Seth says, I've got a

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