Episode · Conversations with Tyler · 2021-06-16
Books mentioned on Elijah Millgram on the Philosophical Life
What can studying the lives of philosophers tell us about how to organize and interpret our own lives? Elijah Millgram is a professor of philosophy at the University of Utah whose research focuses on the theory of rationality.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The unity of philosophical experience
Discussed“and this book is called the unity of philosophical experience”
Where to get it
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The fragility of goodness
Discussed“i don't know if you remember martha nussbaum's uh fragility of goodness”
Where to get it
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Reasons and Persons
Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit is a landmark 1984 work of analytic philosophy that challenges conventional notions of personal identity, rationality, and ethics across generations.
Discussed“maybe it's some of reasons and persons and it has teletransporters and things like teletransporters”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“we're going to get to your work on jon stewart mill and nietzsche and your current project on the lives of philosophers”
“we're going to get to your work on jon stewart mill and nietzsche and your current project on the lives of philosophers”
“if you have one big project a project that's the um that you think is the meaning of your life”
“if you have one big project a project that's the um that you think is the meaning of your life”