Rationally Speaking #70 - Graham Priest on Buddhism and Other Asian Philosophies

Rationally Speaking Podcast

New York City Skeptics

Society & Culture, Skepticism, Science, Philosophy

4.6 • 787 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2012

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

For all the time Massimo and Julia have spent discussing and debating philosophy on Rationally Speaking, so far, it's all been philosophy from Europe and North America. What about the philosophical traditions of, for example, Asia? In this episode, professor of philosophy Graham Priest offers a brief introduction to the philosophy of India, China, and Japan, and explains why he thinks it should be better known in the West.

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0:00.0	Rationally speaking is a presentation of New York City skeptics dedicated to promoting critical thinking, skeptical inquiry, and science education.
0:22.4	For more information, please visit us at NYC Skeptics.org.
0:30.8	Welcome to Rationally Speaking, the podcast where we explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense.
0:40.3	I'm your host, Massimo Pilucci, and with me, as always, is my co-host, Julia Galev.
0:44.8	Julia, what are we going to talk about today?
0:46.9	Massimo, today we have a special guest with us in our studio.
0:50.9	Please welcome Graham Priest, who is the Boyce Gibson Professor of Philosophy at the
0:56.1	University of Melbourne and a distinguished professor of philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center.
1:01.3	Priest was educated at Cambridge and the London School of Economics, and he specialized
1:06.1	in a wide variety of interesting topics, most notably logic and especially recently Eastern philosophy,
1:14.4	which is what we're going to focus on in today's episode. We've covered a lot of philosophical topics
1:18.8	in our history of the Ratcheling speaking podcast, but we've never focused on philosophy of the East.
1:25.8	Loggingly because I don't know anything about it.
1:27.5	Which is why we bring in a guest who can school us on the philosophy of the East.
1:32.6	So I'm really excited to get into today's discussion.
1:36.6	Welcome, Graham.
1:37.4	Hi.
1:38.3	Great to have you on the show.
1:39.2	Thank you.
1:40.2	So, how did you get interested in Buddhism in particular, I take it, within what is the philosophy?
1:46.1	Well, like so many things in life, it's sort of an accident.
1:51.0	The accident was that I met someone who knew a lot more about it than I did, a guy called
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