The Canadian Philosophy Show
The Canadian Philosophy Show is a radio program and podcast that was founded as “Spring Forward” in 2017 by students at Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, BC, in conjunction with CHLY campus-community radio. The Canadian Philosophy Show is currently produced by students from Vancouver Island University and Simon Fraser University, with participation from other Canadian students and authoritative community members. We explore issues of classical and modern philosophy, including contemporary scientific, political, and ethical issues. The radio program is broadcast on CHLY (Nanaimo) each Monday at noon PT on 101.7 FM and streaming at https://www.chly.ca/; and on CJSF (Burnaby BC) each Thursday at 9 AM PT on 90.1 FM and streaming at https://cjsf.ca/contents/cjsf-901fm. Email us at: hello@philosophyshow.ca
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Episodes
Tuesday Sep 17, 2024
Tuesday Sep 17, 2024
Reading the Presocratics: Pherecydes and Xenophanes
Description: In this episode, Hale and Brandon bring together Pherecydes and Xenophanes to read them each as criticising and revising the inherited theological picture of the Ancient Greek world.
with:
Hale Rothery (Vancouver Island University)
Brandon Brownlee
Recorded August 4, 2024
Monday Aug 12, 2024
Monday Aug 12, 2024
Reading the Presocratics: Pythagoras
In this episode, Brandon and Hale introduce and discuss Pythagoras, a religious and political leader whose Pythagorean community would go on to have an enormous influence on Ancient Greek philosophy. We relate him to the intellectual climate at the time and read through a selection of the various sayings and anecdotes attributed to Pythagoras.
with:
Hale Rothery (Vancouver Island University)
Brandon Brownlee
Recorded July 21, 2024
Tuesday Jul 30, 2024
Tuesday Jul 30, 2024
What is superintelligence?
An entry level discussion of the idea and problem of superintelligence.
https://nickbostrom.com/ethics/ai
with:
Aaron Wang (Vancouver Island University)
Brandon Brownlee
Recorded July 26, 2024
Tuesday Jul 16, 2024
Tuesday Jul 16, 2024
What is superintelligence?
An entry level discussion of the idea and problem of superintelligence.
https://nickbostrom.com/ethics/ai
with:
Aaron Wang (Vancouver Island University)
Brandon Brownlee
Kyra Tianen (Vancouver Island University)
Recorded July 13, 2024
Tuesday Jul 09, 2024
Tuesday Jul 09, 2024
Reading the Presocratics: The Melisians part 2
In this episode of our Reading the Presocratics series, Brandon and Hale continue surveying the fragmentary remains of the Milesians and their metaphysical thought. Part 2 reviews Thales and covers Anaximander and Anaximenes.
with:
Hale Rothery (Vancouver Island University)
Brandon Brownlee
Recorded July 4, 2024
Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
In this episode, Hale and Brandon begin reading the Presocratic philosophers, starting with the Milesians. They introduce the Milesians and the context which gave rise to their philosophical project, and work through some of the ideas and deeds attributed to Thales.
with:
Hale Rothery (Vancouver Island University)
Brandon Brownlee
Recorded June 28, 2024
Tuesday Jun 25, 2024
Tuesday Jun 25, 2024
Special guest Jillian Maguire discusses the fight to clean up public pensions in British Columbia and the importance of climate action on a massive scale.
Jillian Maguire is a BC public school teacher who co-founded the BCTF Divest Now campaign with Kim Benson. The BC Teachers’ Pension Plan is a subsidiary of BCI (British Columbia Investments). BCI has holdings in fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, big banks and logging. Given the existential threat the world is facing due to runaway climate change, teachers are demanding that the government stop pilfering teachers’ paycheques to prop up these future-destroying industries and start funding ethical, sustainable solutions.
with:
Michael Robert Caditz (University of British Columbia)
Jillian Maguire, BC School Teacher
Recorded June 22, 2024
Tuesday Jun 18, 2024
Tuesday Jun 18, 2024
In this episode, Brandon and Hale explore Martin Heidegger's philosophy with a focus on the experience of presence. We begin with an article by Lawrence Berger outlining the experience Heidegger wants to illuminate and its relation to our modern scientific perspectives, before turning to his essay Building Dwelling Thinking to take a closer look at how Heidegger understands how our experience of presence is structured.
with:
Hale Rothery (Vancouver Island University)
Brandon Brownlee
Recorded June 14, 2024
Monday Jun 10, 2024
Monday Jun 10, 2024
In this episode, Brandon and Hale briefly sketch out skepticism within contemporary epistemology and explore one answer to radical skepticism: hinge epistemology. Following Michael Williams', they discuss the immediate appeal and ultimate failure of hinge propositions to answer skeptical challenges.
with:
Hale Rothery (Vancouver Island University)
Brandon Brownlee
Recorded June 3, 2024
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
There is no ethical obligation to obey laws
Michael will make a deductive argument with the unusual conclusion that although one might sometimes abide by laws for practical reasons, there are neither ethical nor principled reasons to do so.
with:
Brandon Brownlee (Vancouver Island University)
Michael Robert Caditz (University of British Columbia)
Recorded April 4th, 2024