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Books by Bertrand Russell mentioned on podcasts
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Icarus
Icarus is a gripping documentary film directed by Bryan Fogel that initially sets out to explore amateur doping in competitive cycling before unearthing a massive, state-sponsored Russian athletic doping scandal.
Discussed“There was a There's some guy whether it was in his documentary or in Icarus and he said I tested personally tested Lance Armstrong 50 times and he passed every single one of them. Now I believe that he passed those tests because they said it pretty explicitly in that documentary. It was either Icarus or it was I think”
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Principia Mathematica
Principia Mathematica by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell is a massive, multi-volume foundational work in mathematical logic that famously attempted to prove the logical basis of mathematics, including taking hundreds of pages to formally demonstrate that one plus one equals two.
Discussed“And although his uh you wrote a three volume insane project um is it two or three volumes? I always get too confused. No, no, nobody's read the whole thing. This is like because it's it's deeply impenetrable. It takes like what 300 pages to prove that one ad one is two.”
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The Conquest of Happiness
The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell is a philosophical exploration examining the psychological roots of human fulfillment and the common pitfalls that prevent people from leading joyful lives.
Discussed“he identified that there are five ways that people eat this is from the conquest of Happiness”
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Why I Am Not a Christian
Why I Am Not a Christian is a famous essay and lecture collection by philosopher Bertrand Russell that critiques traditional religious dogma, institutional Christianity, and supernatural metaphysics while championing a secular, evidence-based approach to reality.
Discussed“And Burton Russell has a book called Why I Am Not a Christian. And I'm wondering, you can edge into this however you would like, but I'm curious what you think he gets right or wrong in that book since you see him very familiar with his work.”
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In praise of idleness
Discussed“so I was rereading um Bertrand Russell's essay In Praise of idleness um where he's basically talking about how this you know this attitude that the modern world inculcates within us”
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Logic and Knowledge
Discussed“very thoughtful very deep thinker and his book on mysticism and logic I mean it's an essay but he describes this battle between intuition and intellect”
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Marriage and morals
Discussed“people objected to his appointment because of what he'd written in an essay called marriage and morals”
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Mysticism and Logic
Discussed“very thoughtful very deep thinker and his book on mysticism and logic I mean it's an essay but he describes this battle between intuition and intellect”
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Philosophical essays
Discussed“He wrote an essay called ‘Mysticism and Logic’ where he discusses the battle between intuition and intellect, and the point is—we now have these skills; we are intellectually equipped to apply the scientific method and determine if things are real or fake, yet we're not using it as well as we could be!”
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