In this episode, Megan and Frank discuss the philosophical dimensions of prehistory. What and when is the “prehistoric”? How was prehistory "discovered", and what explains our fascination with it? Is ancient archeology safe from our biases? And how did archaic man’s meaning-making differ from our own? Thinkers discussed include: Colin Renfrew, Hegel, Charles Taylor, Mircea Eliade, and Wittgenstein.
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Hosts' Websites:
Email: philosophyonthefringes@gmail.com
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Bibliography:
Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind - Colin Renfrew
Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of History
Cave of Forgotten Dreams - Official Trailer | HD | IFC Films
Bewitched by an Elf Dart: Fairy Archaeology, Folk Magic and Traditional Medicine in Ireland - Dowd
A Secular Age — Harvard University Press
Theory and Observation in Science (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
From things to thinking: Cognitive archaeology - Currie & Killin
Cognitive Archaeology and the Minimum Necessary Competence Problem - Killin & Pain
An Ape's View of the Oldowan - Wynn & McGrew
Neuroscience, evolution and the sapient paradox - Colin Renfrew
Sapient paradox: Why humans got stuck in prehistory -Gossip Trap- Big Think
The Myth of the Eternal Return | Princeton University Press
Eliade_Mircea_The_Sacred_and_The_profane_1963
Wittgenstein - Notebooks, 1914 - 1916, 2nd Edition | Wiley
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Cover Artwork by Logan Fritts
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