Shownotes
The way we talk about mind, self, and free will create those phenomena to a very large extent - or so we contend. We'll look first at the work of Richard Dawkins and hi notions of Memes, then at Frank Farrell and his analysis of the way the thinking in Medieval Europe has influenced its intellectual descendants, and we'll talk about Shakespeare.
Or, I should say, we INTEND to talk about Shakespeare. According to Claudius, it’s possible we didn't really manage it.
***SEASON ONE READINGS AND SOURCES***
A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities, by Pierre-Simon Laplace
Consciousness Explained, by Daniel C. Dennett (Paul Weiner, Illustrator)
Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting, by Daniel C. Dennett
Freedom Evolves, by Daniel C. Dennett
Meditations on First Philosophy, by René Descartes
Mystery of the Mind: A Critical Study of Consciousness and the Human Brain, by Wilder Penfield
Subjectivity, Realism, and Postmodernism: The Recovery of the World in Recent Philosophy, by Frank B. Farrell
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