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A Conversation With Prof. Scott Aikin (Patreon)

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2024-01-10 22:25:49

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2024-02-16 02:08:02

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Prof. Scott Aikin is philosophy professor at Vanderbilt University that has taught logic, ancient philosophy, American pragmatism, and epistemology.

He the author of such titles as Why We Argue (And How We Should) (2013) and Political Argument in a Polarized Age (2020), as well as many writings on Pragmatism alongside his colleague Prof. Robert B. Talisse, whom I have interviewed previously.

Aikin and I have a sprawling conversation where he helps me through various thoughts I have been struggling with and shares his perspective on niche internet political cultures, the state of democracy in the digital era, misconceptions about stoicism and of course, pragmatism. This conversation is from about six weeks ago, and I'm finding that it has been very influential on me. I hope you find it useful in some way too. Scott is a really good man.

There is a random technical error in the middle from which we recovered quickly, and it ends a little abruptly as our call got cut off while we were trailing off about YouTube as a business and institutionalized philosophy. But I feel like this isn't the last we'll see of him on this channel.

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I'm "sorry" I've dwindled in Patreon content over the last few months. I've recorded a lot of Conversations With episodes and Social No Para eps but have felt like I haven't been on my game, and have been more confused and anxious about things, less confident in my creativity and knowledge. It's been a hard few months, personally, spiritually, and intellectually. But I think I am recovering, and I have experienced some reconfiguration and revitalization in my thinking that is finally settling, and I'm excited about creating things again, my motivation slowly returning to its regular surging levels.

So the video is coming along very well and Kill The Internet Book Reports / Live Event are/is coming along well and I have new ideas and some awesome Conversations With episodes coming down the pipeline. Thank you for putting your trust in me this past year allowing me to cook and cook and cook. I come back biting. And I'll review the stuff I made and scrapped this past year to see if I was looking at it through an overly negative lens.

Either way, I'm excited to start dancing like a monkey for you again. *blows you a kiss that explodes on impact*

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A Conversation With Prof. Scott Aikin

Prof. Scott Aikin is philosophy professor at Vanderbilt University that has taught logic, ancient philosophy, American pragmatism, and epistemology. He the author of such titles as Why We Argue (And How We Should) (2013) and Political Argument in a Polarized Age (2020), as well as many writings on Pragmatism alongside his colleague Prof. Robert B. Talisse, whom I have interviewed previously. Aikin and I have a sprawling conversation where he helps me through various thoughts I have been struggling with and shares his perspective on niche internet political cultures, the state of democracy in the digital era, misconceptions about stoicism and of course, pragmatism. This conversation is from about six weeks ago, and I'm finding that it has been very influential on me. I hope you find it useful in some way too. Scott is a really good man. There is a random technical error in the middle from which we recovered quickly, and it ends a little abruptly as our call got cut off while we were trailing off about YouTube as a business and institutionalized philosophy. But I feel like this isn't the last we'll see of him on this channel.