Philosophy & What Matters. Ep. 16: Talking Philosophy with John Perry (Stanford)
Channel: Jeremiah Joven Joaquin
Date: 2020-10-19

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

Our guest today is one of the leading philosophers of this generation. Many of us know him as the co-creator (with the late Ken Taylor) of Philosophy Talk. A pioneering philosophy podcasting program, which questions everything except your intelligence. I reckon that many people -- myself included -- were introduced to the fun and beauty of philosophical thinking through this program. He’s also known for his book, The Art of Procrastination, which offers a more positive, more structured way of putting off things you have to do in order to do other more productive things. 

The philosophically-initiated among us may know him through his contributions in various areas of philosophy. His ideas on situation semantics (developed with Jon Barwise) introduces an alternative formal account of explaining how meaning and information-processing work. His defence of Hume’s “Wretched Subterfuge”, a broadly compatibilist view of free will and determinism, has gained some traction as well. Arguably, his lasting legacy is his Frege-influenced views on self-knowledge, which demystified the notion of the self.

To talk about his views on things that matter, we have the philosopher extraordinaire, John Perry, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy in both UC Riverside and Stanford University.

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