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Doing Philosophy is a podcast for original philosophy. Its episodes are philosophical essays, but then in the medium of sound. They contain interviews with leading names in the field, such as Huw Price, Crispin Wright, and Sanford Goldberg. Doing Philosophy is created and hosted by Tom Kaspers, who recently obtained his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of St Andrews. If you like this format, and you want your own work to be featured on this podcast, please do get in touch. For more information, go to https://tomkaspers.com or send an email to [email protected].Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Original philosophy essays and interviews • Truth theories: correspondence, pragmatism, deflationism, alethic pluralism • Epistemic rationality: personal vs shared inquiry • Testimony, peer disagreement, philosophical progress, intellectual tastes and moral convictionsThis podcast presents original philosophy in an audio-essay format, combining the host’s sustained arguments with interviews featuring prominent contemporary philosophers. Across its episodes, the discussions center on foundational issues in epistemology and meta-philosophy, with particular attention to how philosophical inquiry works and what standards govern it.
A major theme is the concept of truth and how different theories of truth relate to one another. The podcast examines tensions between correspondence approaches and pragmatist perspectives, asking what role “truth” plays in our practices and whether that role requires truth to be a matter of matching facts. It also explores truth pluralism—the idea that truth may not have a single uniform nature across all domains—considering how pluralist views compare with alternatives such as deflationism and correspondence, and how these positions might be reconciled or systematically related.
Another recurring focus is rationality and disagreement. The episodes develop a distinction between “personal” and “shared” inquiry, proposing that rational assessment depends on the structure of inquiry and the kinds of commitments it allows. On this approach, some inquiries incorporate “personal nodes” (for example, aesthetic or moral starting points), while others aim at an impersonal structure grounded in shareable evidence. This framework is used to analyze testimony and peer disagreement and to argue for a conception of philosophy as importantly personal—helping explain how philosophers might rationally maintain theories amid persistent expert disagreement, while still making sense of philosophical progress.
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4. The Personal Nature of Philosophy with Sanford Goldberg and Crispin Wright 2024-Mar-07 48 minutes |
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3. Rationality, Personal and Shared with Sanford Goldberg 2024-Mar-06 36 minutes |
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2. Truth, Part Two. The Plurality of Truth with Crispin Wright 2024-Feb-22 46 minutes |
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1. Truth, Part One. Pragmatism and Correspondence with Huw Price 2024-Feb-22 44 minutes |