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Aug 2021
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Ep. 275: Hegel's Project in the "Phenome...

Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey
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On G.W.F. Hegel's 1807 opus: A series of treatments of various theories in epistemology (among other things), seeing how they're internally incoherent, which then moves us to more sophisticated theories.

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