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What’s Left of Philosophy

What is Aesthetics? Part I. Schiller’s Letters on Aesthetic Education
Live discursive dynamics animated by interesting differences in attitudes. Keen insights and penetrating diagnoses articulated on the basis of the source. In the discussion, they fail to note the difference between spiritually and aesthetically “high art” (let alone the ) and commercially successfully “fine art”, and the dunks on modern art are less keen as a result.

Robert Brandom

Hegel Lectures
Intro to Brandom’s Hegel in 3 dense, beautifully articulated hours.

Come as You Are

Prelude: Pleasure is The Measure
Wanting vs. enjoying. Sex and pleasure and joy and politics and relationships.

Death Panel

Why Mask Mandates Work w/ Ellie Murray
How radically transformative harmonies in our ways of life can emerge from collective action in our complex social systems.

Type Theory For All

Conal Elliot: The Lost Elegance of Computation
Instrumental vs. reflective reason in computer science. Computers as “telescopes for meaning”. A platonic view on the primacy of semantics.