Episode 65: Philocalypse Now

Summary: <p></p><p>Holy crap, it's the apocalypse!!!!  </p><p>...for philosophy. Maybe. Has this 2500 year old discipline become too technical, too disconnected from the real world? Is it just a handmaiden to the sciences? (Which would make Tamler Dave's handmaiden.) And what the hell is conceptual analysis? Plus, a short excerpt of Tamler's interview with Simon Blackburn, and definitive proof that worms have free will (sorry Sam). <a href="http://teespring.com/verybadwizards">And only one more week to buy our t-shirt!</a></p><h2>Links</h2><ul> <li> <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/03/150313110402.htm">Free Will? Analysis of worm neurons suggest how a single stimulus can trigger different responses</a> [sciencedaily.com]</li> <li>Strawson, P. F. (1962). <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~ereading/P.F.%20Strawson%20-%20Freedom%20And%20Resentment%20pg.%204-20.pdf">Freedom and resentment.</a> [princeton.edu]</li> <li>Doomen, J. (2015). <a href="http://verybadwizards.com/s/end-of-philosophy.pdf">The end of philosophy.</a> Think, 14(39), 99-109. [verybadwizards.com]</li> <li> <a href="http://www.jehsmith.com/1/2015/01/my-discipline.html">For a Non-Ideal Metaphysics</a> by Justin Smith [jehsmith.com] </li> <li> <a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/concepts/">Concepts</a> [plato.stanford.edu]</li> <li> <a href="http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2015/03/harry-frankfurt-on-philosophy-being-in-the-doldrums.html">Harry Frankfurt says Philosophy is in the Doldrums</a> [<a href="http://leiterreports.typepad.com" rel="nofollow">http://leiterreports.typepad.com</a>]</li> <li> <a target="_blank" href="http://www2.phil.cam.ac.uk/~swb24/">Simon Blackburn's Website</a> [phil.cam.ac.uk]</li> </ul><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/verybadwizards">Support Very Bad Wizards</a></p>