This episode continues a series interviewing our first ever cohort of conference fellows. Here, Josh talks with Sean Sirks, a graduate student at Virginia Tech and one of this year’s Nisbet Fellows. We discuss the philosophy of mathematics, numbers, metaphysics, and Shakespeare’s King Lear.
Visit our website to learn more about our conference fellowship program, and come back in Fall 2025 to learn how to apply for our 2026 cohort of conference fellows. (https://ciceroniansociety.org/conference/conference-fellowships/)
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0:00 Introduction
2:36 Philosophy of Math
7:51 The One and the Many
11:00 Cosmology
14:32 King Lear
17:25 Nominalism vs Realism
25:51 Reflections on the Conference
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