In which we discuss issues of epistemology, troubled heritage and etiquette.
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*Robot Unicorn Attack (what’s your high score?)
*Dave attributed the idea of Justified True Belief to those wacky funsters, The Logical Positivists. This is incorrect. Like most ideas, this is one of Plato’s. Specifically from the Theaetetus (in which it is interestingly dismissed, even though it is accepted by many modern philosophers)
We try and figure out hwhat the deal with hwhites is.
Also we got snowed on.
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In this episode, things get a little bit scifi as we discuss gadgets (yes, the goddamned iPad) and our impending Star Trek future, as well as other mid-century science fiction films and the genitals contained therein.
Also, the Electric Light Orchestra.
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In which we attempt to understand interfaith relations through the prism of Bill Murray, discover the wonders of shopping for science supplies, and answer viewer mail!
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We’re back for the new year. Join us as we contemplate what has come to pass, then give those things stupid awards.
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- As promised, Slaughterhouse 90210: http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/
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In which we discuss religious road advertising, strip clubs and the virtues of simplicity.
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In which we discuss holiday albums, the songs of Boston (the city not the band, but also the band), and Ursine assault.
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- Bob Dylan’s amazing video for Must Be Santa
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In which we discuss the importance of turkey, the future of fortune cookies, the insignificance of a certain celebrity athlete’s personal life and the law of the excluded middle!
Show Notes:
- That’s (apparently) a version of “Awesome God” in Kirundi.
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We had a short holiday break, but I’m Trying to Think will return triumphantly on Tuesday, December 8 with a mind-splitting episode full of mind-blowing and mind-altering topics by our resident mind-numbing experts.
In which we discuss Laser-based entertainments, the looming 2012 disaster (hint: not looming, not a disaster) and some religious magazines!
Show Notes:
The phrase “That’s some Bertrand Russell shit” refers to Russell’s work on definite descriptions, a significant landmark in the philosophical study of the truth value of claims involving fictional entities.
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