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Talk About It™ is the official podcast series of Phenomenology Club.
You can stay tuned with all these discussions via the Talk About It YouTube playlist
We are also on Spotify
For a full list of what podcasting services Phenomenology Club episodes are now available on, visit our Anchor page
Video Lectures
Moral Relativism & its Application to the Arts
Is Human Consciousness "Special"?
The Implicit Logical Bias of Language
Against Spirituality
Separating the Art from the Artist
To view as an ordered YouTube playlist, click here
Speed Reading
Speed Reading is Phenomenology Club's reading series, formerly known as Book Club! The purpose of this series is to engage with & discuss philosophical texts together.
Readings are short at 25 pages or less, and we meet only every two weeks, so that even the busiest of us has ample time to participate!
Every meeting we discuss a wholly independent text. That means you can jump in at any time, and we hope you do!
For those of you unable to attend or perhaps wish to listen alone to our audio recorded meetings, we encourage you to do so by checking out the embedded media player!
Enjoy!
SPEED READING ROUND 1: THE TRAJECTORY OF PHENOMENOLOGY
This curriculum for our first round of Speed Reading is designed to take us chronologically together through the trajectory of Western philosophy. All readings are chosen specifically for their relevance to p h e n o m e n o l o g i c a l concepts.
This series was designed specifically for readers who may have absolutely zero exposure to philosophy. We hope that this series will equip you with the confidence to pursue further interest in philosophy!
See you at a Speed Reading meeting!
SPEED READING PLAYLIST
Here is an ordered list of all of our Speed Reading materials.
To view on Youtube instead, click here for an ordered playlist
SPEED READING SYLLABUS
1. Socrates - Meno
Link to full text here
Reading: Meno (what is virtue?) (25 pages) - p. 898-923
Our club did a dramatic reading of this text as a group activity. Listen to it here
Discussion: Who was Socrates? Who was Plato? What is the Socratic Method? Discussion of Meno & Introduction to forms.
Meeting Date: Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Listen to that discussion here or in the embedded media player
2. Plato - Allegory of the Cave (Book VII of Republic, Socratic Dialogue)
Link to full text here
Reading: Book VII of the Republic (20 pages) p. 1392-1412
Discussion: Allegory of the Cave & Plato's Theory of Forms.
Meeting Date: Sunday, February 24, 2019
Listen to that discussion here or in the embedded media player
3. Aristotle - Refutation of Plato (Book VII of Metaphysics)
Link to full text here
Reading: Book VII of Metaphysics by Aristotle. Full reading in the linked text (no page numbers)
Our club did a group reading of the text. Listen to it here
Discussion: What is the nature of Aristotle's disagreement with Plato? What does Aristotle mean by Substance?
What does Aristotle mean when he separates Being from a predicate of Being?
Meeting Date: Wednesday, March 20, 2019, 9 pm EST
Listen to that discussion here or in the embedded media player
4. Descartes - Meditations on First Philosophy (full text [33 pages])
Link to full text here
Reading: Descartes - Meditations on First Philosophy (entire text)
This reading exceeds our usual maximum page number allotment by 8 pages but covers the entire text.
It takes on average under 2 hours to read in full! Do it.
Discussion: Why is Descartes certain he exists? Is this the matrix? Can anyone hear me? Hello?
Meeting Date: Wednesday, April 3, 2019, 9 pm ES
Listen to that discussion here or in the embedded media player
5. Leibniz & Spinoza - Selected Readings
There are three short separate readings this week. One by Leibniz & then two short letters by Spinoza. This discussion will be led by our club member Michael! Who also led our Aristotle discussion.
Reading:
1. The Monadology - Leibniz (13 pages)
Link to full text here
2. Letter to Oldenburg - Spinoza (~2 pages)
Link to full text here
3. Letter to Blyenbergh - Spinoza (~4 pages)
Link to full text here
Discussion: What is spinoza trying to describe about how bodies work? What is a monad?
How are these two thinkers opposed in how they interpret Descartes?
Meeting Date: Sunday, April 21, 2019, 9 pm EST
Listen to that discussion here or in the embedded media player
SPEED READING HALFTIME REVIEW
There is no reading assignment for this meeting.
New members are especially encouraged to attend/listen to this meeting, so you can get caught up on what we have done so far & join us for the second half of our first round of Speed Reading (AKA Book club)!
Discussion: How do the readings we have done so far tie into phenomenological concepts? Are we beginning to see a shape take form?
Meeting Date: Sunday, August 18, 2019, 9:30 pm EST
Listen to that discussion here or in the embedded media player
For a visual guide, please see the Halftime Review sheet in our Downloads section.
6. David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Link to full text here (pages 5-29)
Reading: David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (pages 5-29)
Buttress did a live audio reading of the text. Listen to it here
Discussion: How does life affect how you feel about philosophical ideas?
Meeting Date: Sunday, September 1, 2019, 9:30 pm EST
Listen to that discussion here or in the embedded media player
7. Immanuel Kant - A Critique of Pure Reason
Reading: Immanuel Kant - A Critique of Pure Reason - (Two Readings)
Link to full text here (pages 155-165, 193-200)
Reading 1: pages 155-165 (end where Elucidation section begins)
Reading 2: pages 193-200 (The Transcendental Logic)
Buttress did a live audio reading of the text. Listen to it here
Discussion: What in the godamn hell is this mans talking bout?
Meeting Date: Wednesday, January 8, 2020, 9:30 pm EST
Listen to that discussion here or in the embedded media player
8. Hegel - Phenomenology of Spirit
Reading: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Phenomenology of Spirit (Two Excerpts)
Link to full text here
(pages 49-79 in printed text or 96-126 in the PDF file)
Some people are having difficulty accessing that website. If you cannot access it feel free to download the PDF via this download link instead
Buttress did a live audio reading of the text. Listen to it here
Reading 1: The Phenomenology of Spirit - Introduction
p. 49-59 in printed text (p.96-106 in the PDF file)
Reading 2: The Phenomenology of Spirit - Section A "Consciousness" Part 1: "Sensuous-certainty; or the “This” and Meaning Something"
p. 60-68 in printed text (p.107-115 in the PDF file)
Meeting Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020, 9:30 pm EST
Listen to that discussion here or in the embedded media player
9. Friedrich Engels - Dialectics of Nature
Reading: Friedrich Engels - Dialectics of Nature: Pt. 1 Introduction & Pt. 2: Dialectics
Link to downloadable PDF: here
Link to html version (links to index): here
Discussion:How do we see Hegels dialectics manifest in Engels Dialectics of Nature, and what is the relevance to Marxism? How do we see some of Hegel's ideas, specifically his dialectic, influence Engel's philosophy of politics & human history?
Meeting Date: Sunday, March 22, 2020 (Time TBA)
Listen to that discussion here or in the embedded media player
10. Nietzsche - The Will to Power
Reading: Friedrich Nietzsche - The Will To Power (excerpts)
[pp. 290-315 of linked PDF/ pp. 261-286 in page print]
Sections:
I. The Will To Power as Knowledge
1. Method of Inquiry
2. The Epistemological Starting Point
3. Belief in the "Ego." The Subject
4. Biology of the Drive to Knowledge.
Perspectivism
5. Origin of Reason and Logic
6. Consciousness
Link to downloadable PDF (full): here
Link to downloadable PDF (reading only): here
Exernal link to PDF here
Buttress did a live audio reading of the text. Listen to it here
Discussion:What is Nietzsche's Perspectivism?
Meeting Date: Sunday, March 29, 2020 9:30 pm EST
Listen to that discussion here or in the embedded media player
11. Edmund Husserl - Critique of Psychologism (Logical Investigations)
Reading: Edmund Husserl - Critique of Psychologism (Excerpts from Logical Investigations)
Link to downloadable PDF (full): here
Alternate Dropbox link
Buttress did a live audio reading of the text. Listen to it here
Discussion questions: What, in your own words, is Husserl's definition of Psychologism, and why is he critical of it? If you read Nietzsche's Will to Power reading from last Book Club - would you say Nietzsche's philosophy of "the will to power" fits this definition of psychologism? Why or why not? What do you think Husserl is essentially calling for, in his critique of psychologism as it relates to forming comprehensive philosophies and phenomenology? Based on this reading, how do you think Husserlian phenomenology could reach its goal of being a "science of consciousness" without subscribing to psychologism?
Meeting Date: Sunday, May 24, 2020 9:30 pm EST
Listen to that discussion here or in the embedded media player
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PUBLIC RADIO
Phenomenology Club Radio is where we upload club music, interviews, highlights from our club audio sessions, & more! All uploads can be found on our Youtube page, or you can watch in the embedded player to the right!
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ORIGINAL COMPOSITION
As many of our many club members are musicians, we recruit them from time to time to create short original soundtracks for our various video lectures! These are avaiable as short releases linked below. Check it out!
If you are interested in submitting your own original music score, please message buttress on the club Patreon.
COMPILATION ALBUM
We are currently working as a group on a Phenomenology Club Compilation Album!
For any club member interested in contributing to this release, please contact buttress 2 ASAP on our Patreon or our club Discord, where we have a channel specifically set up for this purpose of collaborating on this work.
We have already begun so, if you are interested, don't hesitate to reach out!
RADIO PLAYLIST
Click any video listed below to view in the embedded frame. All videos are hosted on our Youtube page.
USER SUBMISSIONS
Would you like to submit your own music to be included in our Phenomenology Club programming?
Message buttress on the club Patreon!
Whether you'd like to submit existing songs, original soundtrack materials, or links to be included in our Artist table, any and all audio materials are welcome.
CLUB ARTISTS | ||
Bash Nova | free range beard keeper from Scotland | (Bandcamp 1)
(Bandcamp 2)
(Bandcamp 3) Visual Art |
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Buttress | hello from the gutters | (Soundcloud)
(YouTube) Visual Art |
Dazzlin' Dylan | Radio DJ Dazzlin' Dylan | (wmuh.org) |
Falterfigure | sounds from the jersey swamp | (Soundcloud) |
Cami-Oh | ethereal dance music from the septic sludge | (Soundcloud) (Bandcamp)
Visual Art |
Cumulus Frisbee | experimental beats | (Soundcloud) (Bandcamp)
Visual Art |
Dog Jetski | Donald Anderson | (Soundcloud)
Visual Art |
Hawk Heriot | Witch trap, partly from Wisconsin | (Soundcloud) |
Jawn Diego | perreo pseudo punk | (Soundcloud) |
Jxhn Crxw | opened his third eye, now he's blind | (Spotify)
(Soundcloud) Visual Art |
Lankatron | psychedelia & angst from behind the walls of a bloodstone | (Patreon) (Soundcloud) (Spotify) Visual Art |
Samuelx | underground popstar | (Spotify) (Soundcloud) |
Trendollas | podcast papi | (Soundcloud) (Spotify) |
THE UN1VERSE | psychedelic hip-hop | (Audiomack) (Spotify) |
Will Bamber | Novel-writer from the UK | (Blogspot) |
Zuffary | songs from a midwest basement | (Bandcamp) (Soundcloud) Visual Art |
Zero X Machina | Multidimensional Rap & Melodies, usually self produced | (Youtube) (Soundcloud) |
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is an interactive set of learning materials designed to pinpoint & harness your phenomenological abilities. You are a god.
Through our rigorous curriculum, we will teach you many methods with which you can more thoughtfully analyze the various processes by which you are at all times perceiving & translating back to yourself your conscious experiences of Being in the world...and in this way, lead a more meaningful existence.
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