4 Podcasts for June 9: Apply Rational Principles to Your Life

Here are the podcast I try, and mostly succeed, to listen to each week. Most discuss applying rational principles, not always strictly objectivist, to issues of everyday life.

Philosophy in Action: Responsibility and Luck, Chapter Two

– Dr. Diana Hsieh continues the discussion of her book Responsibility and Luck. This session covers chapter two which deals with some of the common proposed solutions for the problem of moral luck.

Philosophy in Action

– Dr. Diana Hsieh and Greg Perkins answer questions, applying rational principles to everyday life. This week they answer questions on:

  • Disabled children
  • Muslim immigrants
  • Dealing with a cashier’s mistake
  • and more

Peikoff.com: Episode 325

– Yaron Brook answers questions on a variety of topics including:

  • Are preemptive strikes moral?
  • Does the Ayn Rand Institute have an impact?
  • Is Putin a greater threat to Russia than Obama does to the US?
  • Objectivism’s view on a republican form of government?
  • In an ideal state, what is the government’s role in marriage?

Other items of interest

This weekend I received as a birthday present Harry Binswanger’s book How We Know: Epistemology on an Objectivist Foundation, which I am really enjoying, though I have just gotten started with it, being up to the chapter on concept formation. I was pleased to find that one of the podcasts I sometimes listen to, the Objectivism Seminar, is doing a series of discussions on this book, so I have started listening to this one as well. That is one very cool feature of the Objectivism Seminar, that they spend fairly large amounts of time going over various books and articles on Objectivism and “chew” them from various perspectives. For example, in their series on the How We Know book, they are already up to 7 episodes covering the preface and chapter one.

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