Closereads: Philosophy with Mark and Wes

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  • Reading through difficult philosophy texts line-by-line to try to figure out what’s really being said.
    Mark Linsenmayer and Wes Alwan 2024
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Philosophy Social Sciences
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Episodes
  • Marx on Stirner (Part One)

    Marx on Stirner (Part One)
    Jan 28 2025
    Mark and Wes read through and discuss Karl Marx's "The German Ideology" (1846), delving deep into the middle of his critique of Max Stirner's "The Ego and Its Own" (recently covered on The Partially Examined Life ep. 358). Marx articulates and criticizes Stirner's attempt to distinguish the mere common egoism of an unthinking person from the enlightened egoism that Stirner is recommending. Read along with us, starting on p. 259 (PDF p. 255). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr
  • Husserl on Essences (Part One)

    Husserl on Essences (Part One)
    Dec 29 2024
    Mark and Wes read through and discuss Edmund Husserl's Ideas (1913), ch. 1, "Matter of Fact and Essence" in First Book, "General Introduction to a Pure Phenomenology," Part One, "Essence and Eidetic Cognition." This is the book that basically designed phenomenology as a movement, and this part of the reading lays some groundwork by describing what these "essences" that phenomenology studies are, and how they differ from matters of fact. Read along with us, starting on p. 5 (PDF p. 14). To get future parts, subscribe at patreon.com/closereadsphilosophy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Mill on Induction (Part One)

    Mill on Induction (Part One)
    Dec 6 2024
    We're discussing John Stuart Mill's A System of Logic (1843), specifically from Book III, "Of Induction," ch. 8, "Of the Four Methods of Experimental Inquiry." What is induction, and why is it part of logic? Science doesn't just observe regularities, but tries to isolate what is connected with what through a combination of experiments and observations. Read along with us, starting on p. 278, i.e. PDF p. 284. To get future parts, subscribe at patreon.com/closereadsphilosophy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 1 min

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