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Extrapolator is a philosophy/science podcast hosted by Geoff Allen. What is philosophy? How do we define what is true or what exists? Is human cognition special? What can empirical science say about religion, free will and the meaning of life? These topics, and more.
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Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
Welcome to the pilot. This episode tackles the question that keeps everybody awake at night: ‘What on Earth is Philosophy?!’ Geoff Allen presents his original take on the project of philosophy and its relationship to the project of science. In his view, philosophy has three functions (procedural, mapping, substantive) and the proper content of philosophy is… extrapolation.
Taking a meta-approach to philosophy is, in fact, comparable to the meta-approach of Rick and Morty. (It’s all about attaining meta-awareness of devices, arcs and structures.) Topics also include: everything that’s wrong with armchair philosophy, the history of natural philosophy, and how to extrapolate from physics from metaphysics.
A bibliography for each episode is available here: https://geoffallenwriting.wordpress.com/2020/10/06/extrapolator-bibliography/
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