In this episode I'll be going over the ontological argument- explaining what exactly 'ontology' is with reference to sandwiches, considering some context from Descartes' fourth meditation, considering what it means for something to be true by definition, explaining the idea of existence as a perfection with the help of a side ramble about greek myths, and hopefully helping you understand why Descartes says for God to exist, he's got to be (e e e e e e), perfect.

In this episode, I will be covering Descartes' Cosmological Argument for the existence of God, provided by him as an alternative argument for God's existence in case his empirical adversaries weren't already convinced enough by the first one. Can't knock him for being thorough. Also, references to Taylor Swift's eras tour as a surprisingly helpful analogy for a life divided into independent parts, too many mentions of the c-word (cause), and mild self-directed shade in the name of demonstrating that we definitely aren't responsible for our own existence, or it's maintenance.

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In this episode I will be covering Descartes' Trademark Argument for the existence of God, as a way to attempt to prove the existence of the external world through reason alone- featuring surprisingly relevant rambles on the sims and a recent horror movie that got me spooked.

(New intro, outro and interlude done by: me, a failed musician in Carnap's eyes <3)

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0:00 - intro + introductory babble (where the heck I've been, what I'm currently studying at uni)

8:38 - relevance of the cogito to this argument

13:44 - judgements and ideas

15:40 - CW! mildly spooky horror analogy w.r.t the film 'Tarot' (2024)

19:05 - the origins of ideas

22:10 - 'the cause must have as much reality as the effect' explanation + sims analogy

25:30 - where do we get our ideas of people and physical objects?

27:44 - could we have come up with the idea of God ourselves?

30:55 - where *does* the idea of God come from?

32:45 - breakdown of the trademark argument in standard form + episode conclusion

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In this episode I'll be going over the cogito argument- and also discussing hive minds, intrusive thoughts, and karen from mean girls.

CW: general discussion of intrusive thoughts- [tbd]

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In this episode, we begin looking at Descartes' approach to reason as a source of knowledge by introducing the 'Intuition and Deduction Thesis', and considering the concept of clear and distinct ideas. I also ramble about my favourite little personality test, a strange intuitive connection between best friends, and a rather horrifying sci-fi story from the sixties that provides to be a perfect little sceptical scenario.

In this episode, I'll be going over criticisms of the empiricist theory of concepts covered in the last episode- and also rambling about the mandela effect, sartre, tattoos, and other such weird things I've managed to turn into analogies.

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00:00 - Introduction Bits
02:47 - Shades of Blue argument
16:35 - Leibniz criticisms
28:36 - Berkeley on Substance
33:11 - Concluding Bits

In today's episode, I'll be covering the alternate empiricist account to innatism, a few criticisms of the innatist theory, and leibniz's take on locke's attack on innatism. Also, I read a section of a dr. seuss poem to help visualise simple and complex ideas, and talk about how rad miley cyrus's new song is whilst describing impressions and ideas. Two philosophers actually show some appreciation for each other's works, too.

TIME STAMPS:
Intro: 0:00 - 4:57
Locke on Innatism: 4:57 - 12:34
Leibniz reply to Locke: 12:34 - 17:40
Tabula Rasa: 17:40 - 18:33
Sensation and Reflection/Impressions and Ideas: 18:33 - 23:30
Simple and Complex Ideas: 23:30 - 27:25
Conclusion: 27:25 - 29:51