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As one can probably surmise from the title, this episode is about arguing. We explore some of Harland's thoughts and ideas on the middle ground between dogmatic appeals to truth and defeatist egalitarianism. You may not be entitled to your own facts, but you do have the capacity for building an argument through premises and conclusions!
Listen up, extremists!
-The Dawdlers
00:04:00 – Argumentation Theory as the middle way between Dogmatism and Epistemic Egalitarianism / Preferring Agreement to Disagreement
00:11:15 – Descriptive v. Normative Argumentation Analysis / Argument “In the wild” v. Argument Institutionalized / Charles Wilard
00:21:45 – Some Basic Concepts of Argumentation Theory: Pro/Con, Pragmatic Speech Acts/Propositions, Enthymemes, Resolve/Settle
00:38:15 – Domesticated Primates, Munchausen’s Angels, & Impossible Gods – Idealization in Engineering Helps Chimps Transcend Animal Limitations
00:50:30 – What is Argument? / Some Definitions Compared / Normative Semantics
01:14:10 – The Argument Argument / The Procedure: Claims, Premises, Conclusions, Definitions, Logic, Reasoning / Ham & Eggs v. Ham & Cheese
01:26:05 – Reasonable People Can’t Disagree / I/O Concordance Given Successful Communication / Tending Toward Resolution
01:43:45 – The Burden of Proof / Are any Topics Off-Limits?
Shorts - E17: Life is Meaningless
Shorts - E16: The Good Life
Shorts - E15: Health
Shorts - E14: Fairness
E29: Hustling Past the Graveyard - Ideation in the New Gilded Age
E28: The Pleistocene - Part II
E27: The Pleistocene - Part I
Shorts - E13: The Future
Shorts - E12: Scarcity
E26: Hofstadter's Scrumptious Edibles - Analogy as the Core of Cognition
Shorts - E11: Authority
Shorts - E10: End ofs
Shorts - E9: Stupidity
Haunting the Margins - E2: Terence McKenna
Shorts - E8: Artificial Intelligence
E25: A Fetish of Fallacies - Are All Fallacies Created Equal?
Shorts - E7: Anything is Possible
E24: In Lieu of Arguments - The Gettier Problem
Shorts - E6: What Came First: Thinking or Language?
E23: The Moonlight Walks - Aesthetics in Science
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