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Feb 2021
- Parsing Science
- Philosophy
- Jonathan Blow, constructivism, popular culture, epistemological relativism, pop culture, realism, epistemology, scientific realism, Socrates, nondualism, Plato, Hilary Putnam, philosophy, Sophists, theory of knowledge, knowledge acquisition, epiphany, The Witness, Thomas Kuhn, aporia, video game, paradigms, videogame, objective knowledge
What can a video game teach us about our epistemic philosophy? In episode 93, Luke Cuddy from Southwestern College’s philosophy program talks with us about the video game The Witness, which presents players with a multitude of increasingly sophisticated and frustrating puzzles that perhaps result fr...
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Mar 2020
Can even a single-celled organism truly learn? In Episode 70, Jeremy Gunawardena with the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School talks with us about his replication of an experiment originally conducted over a century ago, which suggested that at least one single-cell organism - t......