

Brian Epstein, “The Social World, Reexamined” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Dec 6, 2021
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Introduction
00:00 • 2min
How Did Philosophy of Language Affect Your Life?
01:51 • 3min
The Idea of the Mind
04:33 • 2min
I've Moved Almost Completely Away From Thinking About Language
06:11 • 2min
What's the Real Dark Side of Modernism?
07:58 • 2min
Was It a Reification That Struck a Spark?
10:07 • 2min
Aoxford Isolating?
11:43 • 2min
Social Science - What I Learned in Law School
13:33 • 3min
The Impact of the Internet on Telecoms
16:20 • 2min
Ighriht and Philosophy of Language
17:51 • 4min
The Difference Between Natural Science and the Social Sciences
21:49 • 6min
The Copernican Revolution
27:21 • 5min
The Ontology of the Social World
31:54 • 2min
The Building Blocks of Society
33:59 • 1min
The Hierarchy of Building Blocks
35:20 • 2min
What Are the Building Blocks of the Supreme Court?
37:26 • 2min
What Are the Building Blocks of the Social World?
39:03 • 5min
Is the Social World Really Real?
44:15 • 2min
Anchoring the Social World
45:49 • 5min
How Do We Go Forwards From Here?
50:57 • 3min
Is It a Bad Thing to Be Doing?
54:03 • 5min
Computer Models of the Social World
58:52 • 2min
Is Your Ontology Wrong?
01:01:01 • 5min
How Do I Build Collaborations With Philosophers?
01:05:43 • 3min
The Ontology of Bureaucratic Corruption
01:08:26 • 3min
The Choices of the Bureaucracy
01:11:00 • 3min
The Structure of the System Is Such That They Are All the Same
01:14:06 • 5min
Social Ontology
01:18:47 • 3min
Is There a Hierarchy in Receptivity?
01:21:44 • 2min
I'm Not Trying to Do a Zero Out of Ten Thing, Right?
01:23:51 • 3min
Is There a Better Job That We Could or Should Be Doing in Education?
01:27:08 • 1min
I Think the Decline of the Humanities Is a Bad Thing
01:28:35 • 4min
The Next Disruption in the Social Sciences
01:32:20 • 4min
The Role of Society Education in the Economic Crisis
01:35:59 • 6min
Is This a Standard Flag Bearer?
01:41:50 • 4min