Audio listeners, please note: This episode contains a lot more visuals than my usual podcasts. As always this can be found on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWZ4GcRd-_8 if you want the full experience. I'm referring to images and so on throughout, or the images are illustrating what I am saying without comment.
In this chapter we counter a number of prevailing views about the arts: the purposes of art and the possibility of objective standards of beauty. This leads to a discussion of the place of inexplicit knowledge when creating in the arts and how the "hard to vary" quality of explanations finds an analogue in the art. All of this discussion comes through the lens of beauty in nature and how flowers evolved to be attractive. But this attractive quality of flowers is not a mere matter of opinion for both insects and people find flowers attractive.
Ep 147: Memes
Ep 146: Mindless
Ep 145: Minds
Ep 144: Monarchy
Ep 143: Metaphysics
Ep 142: Multiverses
Ep 141: The Mathematicians’ Misconception
Ep 140: Mathematics
Ep 139: Misconceptions
Ep 138: Things that make you go mmmmm? Part 5: Minds II - Part the Second
Ep 137: Things that make you go mmmmm? Part 4: Minds - Part the First
Ep 136: Things that make you go mmmmm? Part 3: Multiverses
Ep 135: Lookouts
Ep 134: Things that make you go mmmmm? Part 2: Mathematics
Ep 133: Things that make you go mmmmmm? Part 1: Many Misconceptions
Ep 132: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 7 ”A Conversation about Justification”. Part 2
Ep 131:Corroboration? Excerpts and Analysis of Popper’s ”Realism & The Aim of Science”.
Ep 130: Steven Pinker’s ”Rationality” Ch 6 ”Risk and Reward” (Rational Choice & Expected Utility). Analysis.
Ep 129: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 7 ”A Conversation about Justification”.
Ep 128: Steven Pinker’s ”Rationality” Chapter 5 ”Beliefs & Evidence (Bayesian Reasoning” Remarks & Analysis
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