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Thinking Fellows

What Good is Philosophy?

Thinking Fellows

1517 Podcasts

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8869 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The Thinking Fellows reflect on the benefits of studying philosophy. Scott and Adam discuss how 20 years ago, Rod introduced the two of them to reading and studying philosophy. The consensus of this conversation is that the benefit of philosophy is not formal knowledge but an introduction to critical thinking. Sit back, relax, grab a drink, and enjoy the show.

 

Show Notes:

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A Short Introduction To Philosophy 

Why Believe Anything At All

Thomas Nagel Introduction To Philosophy 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello there and welcome to the Thank You Fellows Podcast. My name is Caleb. Today I'm joined by

0:25.2

Dr. Rod Rosenblatt, Scott Keith and Adam Francisco. We just got back from Norway last week.

0:31.7

If you haven't listened to the two episodes that we recorded there, I highly suggest it. The one was

0:37.2

a panel style live recording

0:39.2

semi similar to what we do at the Here We Still Stand conference. It's different than a normal

0:45.3

show because we have generally more people on the show when we do those panels. And also

0:51.5

when we're in front of a live audience at a conference, usually when we

0:56.4

record, we sit at it originally in the old days. We sat around a round table. Now we sit at a square

1:01.0

table sort of facing each other. And at a panel, in order to see the audience, you're all facing

1:06.4

one direction. So the usual sort of conversations that we have are just logistically more difficult.

1:12.5

It really is more difficult to just have sort of a hands-on conversation when you're not

1:18.7

facing each other. So, but it was still a great episode. And then the second episode was in the

1:25.0

normal style of the thinking fellows, but also a little bit of a callback to the past because we sat in a bar and did it and everybody had a drink.

1:34.3

And it was a lot of fun.

1:36.1

It was nice having the mobile rig out.

1:38.1

And we actually, we had some guests on the show.

1:39.9

We passed headsets around.

1:41.2

It was a good time, a little more informal than it's been in recent months and years.

1:46.4

And I had a good time.

1:49.2

And we're back now, and we're going to do a normal episode.

1:52.7

It is going to be a little bit.

1:53.7

Thank you fellow's old school, though, because we busted out the pipes and some whiskey today.

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