{"id":9264,"date":"2020-04-22T10:01:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T09:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=9264"},"modified":"2020-10-19T20:09:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T19:09:44","slug":"from-the-vaults-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/from-the-vaults-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"From the vaults: Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Alexander Douglas\/ Peter Millican\/ Kirsten Walsh<!--more--><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/media.rawvoice.com\/lse_europeaninstitute\/richmedia.lse.ac.uk\/europeaninstitute\/20180522_reason.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> or on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/--RLGY5ZcNU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Reason\u2019 and \u2018knowledge\u2019, and the relationship between them, were major themes in Enlightenment philosophy, and drew the attention of some of the most respected philosophers of the time, including Decartes, Leibniz, and Spinoza, often referred to as the rationalists, and Locke, Berkeley, and Hume, the so-called empiricists. Since then, the empiricists have tended to have the upper hand in intellectual life, if not always in philosophy. In this event, we discuss what was at stake in these debates, what we might say about these ideas today, and whether we\u2019ve been too quick to dismiss rationalism.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speakers<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.axdouglas.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alexander Douglas<\/a><br \/>\nLecturer in Philosophy, University of St. Andrews<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.millican.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peter Millican<\/a><br \/>\nGilbert Ryle Fellow and Professor of Philosophy, Hertford College, Oxford University<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirstenwalsh.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kirsten Walsh<\/a><br \/>\nAssistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Nottingham<\/p>\n<p>Chair<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/clare-moriarty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clare Moriarty<\/a><br \/>\nIRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Trinity College Dublin &amp; Fellow, Forum for Philosophy<\/p>\n<p>Recorded on 21 May 2018 at the LSE<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/ac\/ERKS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe to the podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Douglas\/ Peter Millican\/ Kirsten Walsh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":10399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109,165],"tags":[],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-9264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","category-from-the-vaults"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2020\/05\/2-MI-TH.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-2pq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9264"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10959,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9264\/revisions\/10959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9264"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}