Robinson's Podcast
Robinson's Podcast
Robinson Erhardt
59 - Tamar Schapiro: Inclination, Will, and The Animal Self
1 hour 31 minutes Posted Mar 6, 2023 at 4:00 pm.
Introduction
Tamar’s Interest in Ethics
Teaching Ethics at MIT
On Inclination and Will
Distinguishing Inclination and Will
The Moment of Drama
Rationalism and Intellectualism
Tamar’s Theory
Kant and the Animal Self
Freud and Analytic Philosophy
A Normative Component to Tamar’s Theory
Kant’s Kingdom of Ends
Kant on Free Will
Rationalism and Sentimentalism
Hobbes on Moral Obligation
On Richard Price
Jeremy Benthem on Utilitarianism
Cognitivism and Non-Cognitivism
The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
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Show notes
Tamar Schapiro is Professor of Philosophy at MIT. Her work centers on value theory, the history of ethics, and how this relates to human agency and reasoning. Robinson and Tamar’s discussion center around her latest book, Feeling Like It: A Theory of Inclination and Will, which explores the relationship between the two in a Kantian framework. They also talk about her experience teaching ethics at STEM-focused schools (Tamar taught at Stanford for fifteen years before moving to the east coast), Kant’s thoughts on free will, topics in the history of ethics, and why she teaches Ayn Rand’s philosophy to undergraduates. You can keep up with Tamar and her work through her PhilPeople page, at https://philpeople.org/profiles/tamar-schapiro.
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Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations with philosophers, scientists, weightlifters, artists, and everyone in-between.