How Many Suggestions Are There?

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We asked our patriot supporters, our beloved patrion supporters, to suggest episodes topics for us. And you no think we've been struggling lately, so this is always a good thing to and we got like hundreds, a hundred, ad 30, a 100, 30 suggestions. Our task in this segment is to narrow them down to like five or six. That's what we've done for the finalists. After that, our five dollar enough per episode subscribers will get to vote, and we do the topic that they vote on. I tried to follow at least one rule out of sheer, just sort of for the sake of my sanity, which was, mostly, if the recommendation was an

David and Tamler take their first real look at pragmatism via Richard Rorty’s “Solidarity or Objectivity.” Can we discover facts about the world as it “really is,” independent of our own culturally influenced methods of inquiry? If not, does that make us relativists? Is David right about pragamatism being an ass-backward approach to scientific truth, or is he just a pragmatist who’s not ready to admit that to himself? Plus, does "The Little Mermaid" have to be white? What about Clark Kent? And we select the topic finalists for our Patreon listener selected episode.