I should admit, up front, that I am not a big philosophy fan. My experiences with philosophy have been technical diatribes that tend to absurdly extend arguments and then play the "defend that" game - a game that never seemed to get back to discussion of the initial issues.
However, I was pleasantly surprised to actually like "Science and Philosophy" of "The Great Courses" series. Aside from some (to me) asinine asides using "breen and grue" for the absurd example of logical structure of mixed "green" and "blue" that change under logical conditions, the remainder of the discussions were interesting.
It is interesting to look at the limits of science, how much can be proven, and a reminder that theories are always under-supported by data (there is always a chance that a better explanatory theory may explain all of the existing theory plus other now-unrelated phenomena). It was difficult at times on the audio-only version (as I was driving I didn't refer to the written guides which would have helped) to keep clear which philosopher we were discussing at any particular time, and given that current scientific thought has grown out of many of these roots, it was occasionally difficult to understand the "point", given that it has been adopted and should be in play. I did find the actual philosophical discussions to be interesting and clear, even if the original author(s) were lost in transition.
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