• Socrates and the limits of free speech
    Sep 13 2024

    In this episode of the Spinoza Triad, Dr. Richard Miller, Dan Rowland, and John Gibbs discuss how the life and death of Socrates might help us understand our current debate over the limits of free speech.

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    39 mins
  • Techno Feudalism. What killed Capitalism?
    Aug 27 2024

    In this episode of the Spinoza Triad, Dr Richard Miller, Dan Rowland, and John Gibbs discuss Techno Feudalism by Yanis Varoufakis. The premise of this book is that capitalism was killed in 2008 and replaced by techno feudalism where consumers are serfs, producers are vassals and the kings are tech giants like Amazon and Google.

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    51 mins
  • Philosophy and the age of fear.
    Jun 26 2024

    In this episode, the Spinoza Triad, Dr Richard Miller, John Gibbs, and Dan Rowland discuss the topic of fear. We start by reflecting on stoicism and later consider Satre, Hagel, Gramsci, Althusser, and Neil Postman.

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • The philosophy of history and the lost past.
    Nov 15 2023

    In this episode Dr Richard Miller, Dan Rowland and John Gibbs discuss how philosophy has grappled with the problem of defining history.

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    53 mins
  • Truth in the age of Post Truth.
    Oct 31 2023

    In this episode the Spinoza Triad, Dr. Richard Miller, Dan Rowland and John Gibbs, discuss the philosophy of truth and the post truth world. We discuss how philosophy might help us understand the rise of populi, social media, conspiracy theories and the privatisation of truth. We also discuss the possibilities of UFOs.

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    55 mins
  • How to learn. An interview with Dr Richard Miller
    Aug 24 2023

    In this episode, I interview my fellow Spinoza host Dr. Richard Miller. We discuss learning, schools, music, MMA, and philosophy.

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    58 mins
  • Artificial Intelligence and the problem of Consciousness.
    Aug 17 2023

    In this episode, Dan, Richard, and John discuss consciousness, intelligence, and AI. We discuss the Turing Test, the Chinese Room, and the future of AI.

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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Thus Spake Zarathustra: The Jester and the Tightrope Walker
    Aug 6 2023

    In this episode Richard and John discuss the first part of Friedrich Nietzsche's most poetic book, Thus Spake Zarathustra and as usual, we ask, what does it say to us today?

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    1 hr and 4 mins