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Much of how we describe ethics in war comes from a tradition that was born relatively recently in comparison to the history of warfare. In premodern times, before the renaissance or the enlightenment, the scale of warfare often extended well beyond the warfighter, even as different creeds and belief systems set limitations on the man wielding the sword. 

During the enlightenment, as Europe inched closer to the idea of a balance of power, various nations, kingdoms, and warriors began to place limitations on the warfare they waged, at least until they reached a certain level of desperation. 

In some ways, that tradition of limited warfare never really manifested, and in others, what was left very well died on the battlefields of World War 1. 

Now, we are here in an age of decentralization, where not only nations go to war against each other in every way but the official way, and grey zone between combatant and non-combatant is the most lively battlefield at play. 

So, in this episode we address how the idea of warfare has changed from age to age, and how it looks to be rhyming, if not returning to a pre-modern, but more genuine format, partially by breaking down the barrier between the professional warfighter, and the citizen capable for becoming a warrior. 

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Are reading challenges worth it? What thousand page book is Dan dying to read? And what in god's name is an "anti-library?" Enjoy!

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Here’s the rub, The Name of the Rose is one of the highest selling books ever. Ever! It sold more copies than The Great Gatsby and To Kill a Mockingbird, and yet it is hard to fathom how. The book is extraordinarily dense, so fraught with allusions and references that 50% of the its subtext sails quietly past, like a ship in the night. On the podcast we discuss a few theories how this could be. To us, it seems that Eco essentially wrote two novels in one—a detective thriller for the common man6, and a critical commentary for the 20th century post-modernist. At bottom it’s a medieval detective whodunnit whose principle characters are not investigators but 13th century christian monks. Church thrillers are not my jam, but I sure as h-e-c-k admire its commentary, and the man’s hustle 🧠🫡.

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Medicine involves more than science and evidence-based experiments. In today’s health climate—where there seems to be a conflict of interest between health care, on the one hand, and pharmaceutical companies and the privatization of medicine, the other hand—it is easy to overlook a more holistic approach that understands how illness is causally linked to both the mind and body. David Corfield (University of Kent, UK) is Associate Professor of Philosophy, with special interests in the philosophies of mathematics, science, logic, medicine, history, and psychoanalysis. He discusses the importance of the role of the mind in medicine, and more generally, how a well-rounded approach to academic research and investigation provides a much more balanced and informed perspective.

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David Corfield (Wikipedia | University of Kent)
Twitter (@DavidCorfield8)

Why Do People Get Ill? by Corfield and Leader (Amazon)
Modal Homotopy Type Theory: The Prospect of a New Logic for Philosophy (Oxford University Press)

Darian Leader (Psychoanalyst)
Thomas Kuhn (SEP)
Imre Lakatos (SEP)
Alasdair MacIntyre (Wikipedia)
Albert Lautman (Wikipedia)
R. G. Collingwood (SEP)
John Ruskin (Wikipedia)

Lacanian Psycholanalysis (Wikipedia)
Vienna Circle (SEP)
Type Theory (SEP)
Idiographic vs. Nomothetic Analysis (Wikipedia)

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We see it every day—the problem of misunderstanding and misreading meaning and intentions. It can be the cause of frustration, hurt, and even violence. Hermeneutics is the branch of philosophy interested in how the interpretation of language, symbols, texts, and even the nature of existence requires a nuanced and open-minded approach. It can potentially help us to resolve a lot of the problems of miscommunication. Listen to three experts—Andreea Deciu Ritivoi (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), David Utsler (North Central Texas College, USA), and Nicholas Davey (University of Dundee, UK)—reflect on the importance of hermeneutics and why it matters to our everyday lives.

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Andreea Deciu Ritivoi (Carnegie Mellon University)
David Utsler (Discursive Dialectics)
Nicholas Davey (Wikipedia)

Intro to Hermeneutics (YouTube)
Hans Georg-Gadamer (SEP)
Paul Ricoeur (SEP)
Wilhelm Dilthey (SEP)
Georgia Warnke (PhilPeople)

Antigone (Wikipedia)
Anthropocentrism (Oxford Bibliographies)

Reading Suggestions by the Panelists
Hans Weidenfeld, Absolute Nothingness
Walter Kempowski, Swangsong 1945
Wilhelm Dilthey, Introduction to the Human Sciences
Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Culture
Wolfgang Iser, The Range of Interpretation
Gianni Vattimo, Beyond Interpretation: The Meaning of Hermeneutics for Philosophy
Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
Walter Benjamin, The Storyteller

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In this episode I introduce you to the podcast with the text of Genesis 1 in its historical context.

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On this week's episode of Animal Instinct, host Celia is joined in studio by Dr. James Brusseau, PhD in philosophy, and author of numerous books and articles in the history of philosophy and ethics. His most recent is the short narrative nonfiction Dignity, Pleasures, Vulgarity, which investigates animal rights reflecting between the nonhuman and human animal realms.