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Previously, on Elucidations: Episode 117: Brian L. Frye says why you should plagiarize this podcast hosted by Matt Teichman and Steven Chen Episode 116: Tommy Curry discusses black male studies hosted by Matt Teichman introduction by Caroline Wall Episode 115: Katherine Ritchie discusses social groups hosted by Matt Teichman introduction by Yuezhen Li Episode 114: Sally Haslanger discusses ideology hosted by Emily Dupree and Matt Teichman Episode 113: Tom Pashby discusses quantum mechanics hosted by Matt Teichman Episode 112: Myisha Cherry discusses the skill of conversation hosted by Matt Teichman Episode 111: Greg Kobele discusses mathematical linguistics hosted by Matt Teichman Episode 110: Chike Jeffers discusses the social and political philosophy of W.E.B. Du Bois hosted by Matt Teichman Episode 109: Bonus episode on morality and politics with Matt Teichman and Toby Buckle Episode 108: Mariam Thalos discusses freedom hosted by Matt Teichman Episode 107: Linda Martín Alcoff discusses identity and history hosted by Matt Teichman and Emily Dupree Episode 106: R.A. Briggs discusses gender hosted by Matt Teichman Episode 105: R.A. 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Gillies discusses conditionals hosted by Matt Teichman Episode 78: Stephen Engstrom discusses the categorical imperative hosted by Matt Teichman and Francey Russell Episode 77: Mark Schroeder discusses reasons for action and belief hosted by Matt Teichman and Dhananjay Jagannathan Episode 76: Barbara Herman discusses gratitude hosted by Matt Teichman and Daniel Smyth Episode 75: Malte Willer discusses non-monotonic logic hosted by Matt Teichman and Daniel Smyth Episode 74: Christina van Dyke discusses gender and medieval mysticism hosted by Matt Teichman Episode 73: Greg Salmieri discusses Ayn Rand’s moral philosophy hosted by Matt Teichman and Dhananjay Jagannathan Episode 72: Robert May discusses pejorative expressions hosted by Matt Teichman and Emily Dupree Episode 71: Kent Schmor discusses Carnap’s Aufbau hosted by Matt Teichman Episode 70: Susan James discusses Spinoza on the good embodied life hosted by Matt Teichman and Jaime Edwards Episode 69: Christel Fricke discusses Adam Smith’s theory of moral sentiment hosted by Matt Teichman and Francey Russell Episode 68: Mark Lance discusses anarchism hosted by Matt Teichman and Jaime Edwards Episode 67: John Protevi discusses Darwin, disaster, and prosociality hosted by Matt Teichman Episode 66: Haim Gaifman discusses mathematical reasoning hosted by Matt Teichman Episode 65: Julian Savulescu discusses doping in sports hosted by Matt Teichman and Emily Dupree Episode 64: James Conant and Jay Elliott discuss the analytic tradition hosted by Matt Teichman and Daniel Smyth Episode 63: Michael Devitt discusses reference hosted by Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood Episode 62: Sally Sedgwick discusses Hegel’s critique of Kant hosted by Matt Teichman and Jaime Edwards Episode 61: Jeff Buechner discusses Kripke and functionalism hosted by Matt Teichman Episode 60: Fabrizio Cariani shares his thoughts about oughts hosted by Matt Teichman Episode 59: Rebecca Kukla discusses reproductive risk hosted by Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood Episode 58: Stewart Shapiro discusses vagueness (part II) hosted by Matt Teichman Episode 57: Julia Annas discusses virtue ethics hosted by Matt Teichman and Dhananjay Jagannathan Episode 56: Philip Pettit discusses corporate rights and responsibilities hosted by Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood Episode 55: Branden Fitelson discusses paradoxes of consistency hosted by Matt Teichman Episode 54: Patricia Blanchette discusses Frege’s logicism hosted by Matt Teichman and Jaime Edwards Episode 53: Martin Stokhof discusses formal semantics and Wittgenstein hosted by Matt Teichman Episode 52: Rafeeq Hasan discusses Rousseau on freedom and happiness hosted by Matt Teichman and Francey Russell Episode 51: Jeroen Groenendijk and Floris Roelofsen discuss inquisitive semantics hosted by Matt Teichman Episode 50: Greg Salmieri discusses the Aristotelian good life and productive work hosted by Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood Episode 49: Hans Kamp discusses discourse representation theory hosted by Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood Episode 48: Jennifer Frey discusses the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas hosted by Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood Episode 47: Alexandru Baltag discusses the logic of knowledge hosted by Matt Teichman Episode 46: Frank Veltman discusses normality hosted by Matt Teichman Episode 45: Anubav Vasudevan discusses probability and determinism hosted by Matt Teichman and Alex Langlinais Episode 44: Joelle Proust discusses metacognition hosted by Matt Teichman Episode 43: Peter Adamson discusses the philosophy of Al Kindi hosted by Matt Teichman Episode 42: Agustín Rayo discusses the construction of logical space hosted by Matt Teichman Episode 41: David Enoch discusses metaethics hosted by Mark Hopwood and Jaime Edwards Episode 40: Johan van Benthem discusses logical dynamics hosted by Matt Teichman Episode 39: Nicholas Asher discusses the philosophy of language hosted by Matt Teichman Episode 38: Christopher Frey discusses Aristotle on living organisms and their parts hosted by Matt Teichman and Jaime Edwards Episode 37: Catarina Dutilh Novaes discusses methods in philosophy hosted by Matt Teichman Episode 36: Robert van Rooij discusses vagueness hosted by Matt Teichman Episode 35: Martha Nussbaum discusses the capabilities approach hosted by Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood Episode 34: Kieran Setiya discusses moral disagreement hosted by Matt Teichman and Jaime Edwards Episode 33: Daniel Sutherland discusses the philosophy of mathematics hosted by Matt Teichman and Jaime Edwards Episode 32: Jennifer Lockhart discusses ignorant knowledge hosted by Matt Teichman Episode 31: Branden Fitelson discusses reasoning fallacies hosted by Matt Teichman and Jaime Edwards Episode 30: Marko Malink discusses modal syllogistic hosted by Matt Teichman and Jaime Edwards Episode 29: Peter Kail discusses Hume’s legacy hosted by Matt Teichman and Jaime Edwards Episode 28: John Searle discusses human reality and basic reality hosted by Matt Teichman and Jaime Edwards Episode 27: Emma Borg discusses semantic minimalism hosted by Matt Teichman and Jaime Edwards Episode 26: Robert Richards discusses evolutionary ethics hosted by Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood Episode 25: Robert Stalnaker discusses conversational context hosted by Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood Episode 24: Christopher Peacocke discusses the perception of music hosted by Matt Teichman and Jaime Edwards Episode 23: Quassim Cassam discusses transcendental arguments hosted by Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood Episode 22: Ben Laurence discusses collective action hosted by Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood Episode 21: Raymond Geuss discusses political liberalism hosted by Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood Episode 20: Simon Critchley discusses faith hosted by Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood Episode 19: Dan Sperber discusses epistemic vigilance hosted by Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood Episode 18: Mark Lance discusses language and power hosted by Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood Episode 17: Brandon Fogel discusses mechanism and causation hosted by Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood Episode 16: Amartya Sen discusses justice hosted by Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood Episode 15: Brian Leiter discusses religious toleration hosted by Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood Episode 14: Edward Witherspoon discusses skepticism hosted by Matt Teichman Episode 13: Fabrizio Cariani discusses judgment aggregation hosted by Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood Episode 12: Jason Bridges discusses contextualism hosted by Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood Episode 11: Martin Gustafsson discusses philosophical pictures hosted by Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood Episode 10: Richard Kraut discusses goodness hosted by Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood Episode 9: Ted Cohen discusses metaphor hosted by Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood Episode 8: Chris Haufe discusses evolutionary psychology hosted by Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood Episode 7: Daniel Groll discusses nature and ethics hosted by Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood Episode 6: Jesse Prinz discusses experimental philosophy hosted by Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood Episode 5: Jocelyn Benoist discusses philosophy of perception hosted by Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood Episode 4: Martha Nussbaum discusses sexuality and the law hosted by Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood Episode 3: Brian Leiter discusses Nietzsche on morality hosted by Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood Episode 2: Gabriel Richardson Lear discusses Plato’s philosophy of poetry hosted by Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood Episode 1: Agnes Callard discusses desire and satisfaction hosted by Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood ...

Subscribe to Elucidations:       Robert Stalnaker is Professor of Philosophy at MIT. Click here to listen to our conversation with him. Philosophers of language have always been interested in how the context of a conversation can affect what the participants in the conversation are saying. (For some examples of how the context of a conversation can affect the meaning of what the conversational participants are saying, see our episode on contextualism.) But in this episode, Robert Stalnaker draws a distinction between two senses in which philosophers of language talk about ‘context.’ In the first sense of the term, the context of a statement is the situation in which it takes place. In the second sense of the term, the context of a statement is the whole of what has been said or established so far: something like ’the conversation up to that point.’ ...

Subscribe to Elucidations:       Christopher Peacocke is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. Click here to listen to our conversation with him. In this episode, Christopher Peacocke discusses what it is to hear an emotion in a piece of music. Even instrumental music seems to be emotionally charged–minor chords, for example, usually have a melancholy ring to them. But it isn’t entirely clear why this should be. What it is about certain combinations of notes that makes them feel a certain way? ...

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