Philosophy & What Matters. Ep. 9: Philosophical Progress with Daniel Stoljar (ANU)
Channel: Jeremiah Joven Joaquin
Date: 2020-09-07

"Philosophy & What Matters" deals with questions that matter to us from a philosophical point of view. 

Are minds brains? Do we have free will? Is happiness just a state of mind? These are just some of the questions that philosophers have asked since there were philosophers. But has any progress been made on these philosophical topics? Have philosophers today more or less answered the questions that philosophers in the past have raised? And why does progress in philosophy matter in the first place?

To share his thoughts on these questions, we have Daniel Stoljar, Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University and the author of Philosophical Progress: In Defence of a Reasonable Optimism.

The "Philosophy & What Matters" website can be found here: https://sites.google.com/site/jeremiahjovenjoaquin/philosophy-what-matters.