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Epistemology

Episode 3 - Knowledge, Descartes, and The Matrix

Contains Spoilers for The Matrix and Santa! Join Wholesome and Heathen as they determine if you can really know, well, anything. Unpack the teachings of René Descartes, David Hume and Bertrand Russell using lessons from The Matrix, The Truman Show and a little creature called the Mantis Shrimp. And as always, enjoy the banter and interpersonal insults you crave. Welcome to the Wholesome and Heathen show!

Here’s the comic that we referred to in the episode: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp

Philosophers we discussed on this episode:

  • René Descartes

  • Edmund Gettier

  • David Hume

  • Bertrand Russell

 
 
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