EPISODE 39 - Sean Sirks on Math, Metaphysics, and King Lear

Episode 39 June 01, 2025 00:27:12
EPISODE 39 - Sean Sirks on Math, Metaphysics, and King Lear
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EPISODE 39 - Sean Sirks on Math, Metaphysics, and King Lear

Jun 01 2025 | 00:27:12

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Show Notes

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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