LUNA's road trip in philosophy
Ol and Val, two Australian philosophers in Paris - and their lucky guests - get into a lively discussion about how to make modern philosophy work - how to get it to work to make sense out of life nowadays.
LUNA's road trip in philosophy
Latest Episodes
Episode 11 in which Ol & Val meet Professor Nature and her two teaching assistants, Pleasure and Pain
Descartes takes Luna back to nature and nature's teachings so as to secure the foundations of our knowledge of the properties of external material bodies - and of "light, sound and pain"!
Episode 10 in which Val complains of all the forks in Descartes's argument but still nothing solid to eat
LUNA ventures out into the material world, edging out along the argument from sense-perception, holding herself on a cliff edge over the ocean waves, asking herself where all these unwanted untidy sense-perceptions come from...
Episode 9 on Meditation 6 in which LUNA tentatively steps out onto a shaky bridge to the material world
LUNA explores the 1st section of Descartes' Meditation 6 on the powers of the imagination and its probable origin in the material world - can LUNA ever make it back to certain knowledge of her everyday reality, where she was perfectly happy bef...
Episode 8 Ol and Val prove the existence of God a second time, meditate on triangles, and ward off sweaty goats
LUNA continues her travels through Meditation 5 of Descartes' Meditations in which Descartes attempts to secure certain knowledge of material things and ends up happy talking to triangles.
