Month: May 2015
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Episode 70: Susan James discusses Spinoza on the good embodied life
This month, we discuss Benedict de Spinoza’s work on the good embodied life with Susan James, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London. Click here to listen to our conversation. Spinoza (1632-1677) was born in what was then one of Europe’s most free Jewish communities, in Holland. Perhaps thanks to that, he developed ideas…
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New Blogger: Dominic Surya
Please join me in welcoming Dominic Surya, our new blogger! We are excited to have him with us. Matt Teichman
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Background Reading on Adam Smith
If you’d like to do more reading on the topic of our last epsiode, check out Christel Fricke’s paper, Adam Smith: The Sympathetic Process and The Origin and Function Of Conscience, in the Oxford Handbook of Adam Smith. Matt Teichman