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T l suggested a book by mercier and spurber called the enigma of reason, which is their argumentative theory of reason. But they have a b b s article that they wrote before tha, which we lo at. I had a different one by t which is metaphor as we live by, by george lakoff and mark johnson. We've put that on the list before. It doesn't ye. That's the proy day didn't do that well the last time we put it on the list as all right, i'm going to probably get it another cos gani'll send you one. Cal and mitchell said, an episode on long termism,

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.