Interpreting Meaning: Signals, Perception, and Social Constructs

Dr. Jason Storm is a philosopher, historian, and the Francis Christopher Oakley Third Century

Professor of Religion at Williams College. Dr. Storm is the author of several books including Metamodernism: The Future of Theory.

In this episode, Jason and I talk about the history of modernism and postmodernism in philosophy and the arts, the concept of paradigm shifts in science and the humanities, and the most recent paradigm shift from postmodernism to metamodernism. We discuss Jason’s book Metamodernism, its central themes and refutations of postmodernist claims, grounding theories about human language and subjectivity in evolutionary biology and computational neuroscience, and more. Lastly, we discuss the philosophy of religion in relation to evolutionary psychology, memetic and cultural evolution, and neuropsychoanalysis.