Philosophy on the Fringes
Hosted by Frank J Cabrera and Megan J Fritts · Megan Fritts & Frank Cabrera
4.9from 42 ratings
- 34
- Episodes
- 3
- Transcribed
- 42
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
About Philosophy on the Fringes
A couple of philosophy professors, Megan Fritts and Frank Cabrera, try to prove that you can do philosophy about almost anything. Join them as they explore the philosophical dimensions of topics on the outskirts of the academy. From Bigfoot to birthday parties, they take a Socratic approach to phenomena strange and mundane, asking listeners the question: What if we did philosophy on the fringes?
- Publisher
- Megan Fritts & Frank Cabrera
- Category
- society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 9 Feb 2023
- Latest episode
- 30 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
3 of 34 episodes have a transcript.
30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Esotericism
28 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
MKUltra
29 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
Why We Should (Not?) Think About Weird Things
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Esotericism
Published 30 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] We also have some letters from Plato, the epistles, which, well, we'll get back to them, with the aim of concealing his true meaning from the many. Why would we think that? Why did most people think that until probably the reading of Schleiermacher, the very influential reading of Schleiermacher at the end of the 18th century, early 19th century, which kind of tried to analytic philosophize Plato. And you guys are in a philosophy department, so you're familiar with the analytic reading of Plato, right? Where you just take bits of his dialogues, extract the arguments, try to put them into something more approaching and logical propositions and then see if they are sound that kind of approach right yeah absolutely um which is not how anyone read plato ever until the 20th century essentially in 19th 20th century um why would you think that plato is uh an esoteric writer there are lots of reasons So first of all, everyone thought that, and people continue to think that. […]
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Frank J Cabrera and Megan J Fritts host the show. Published by Megan Fritts & Frank Cabrera.
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