Episode 25: Robert Stalnaker discusses conversational context

In this episode, Amanda Greene argues that democracy is the form of government that most reliably leads to long-term stability and acceptance.

In this episode, Bob Simpson discusses how a person should respond to the realization that they only believe something because of how they were brought up.

In this episode, Robert May discusses the problems that arise when we try to explain what simple statements of arithmetic are saying.

In this episode, Cathy Legg talks about why Charles Sanders Peirce thought that existing was only one of three ways of being.

In this episode, Mark Hopwood discusses the moral relation that results when one person values another as a particular individual.

In this episode, Anthony S. Gillies shows us how difficult it is to figure out what if/then statements mean!

In this episode, Stephen Engstrom discusses the principle that Immanuel Kant thought to underlie all of ethics.

In this episode, Mark Schroeder discusses an example of how something other than evidence against a claim can give you a reason not to believe that it's true.

In this episode, Barbara Herman describes the intricacies of the relationship between two people that is created when one does a favor for the other.

In this episode, Malte Willer discusses attempts to give a formal theory of commonsense reasoning, and how it differs from the kind of reasoning that has traditionally been studied.