Philosophiraga: Episode Nine – Ace Attorney and Empiricism

“Wasn’t it you who told me “proof is everything”? Well, I was listening. And now I’ll show you the “proof” you like so much!”

– Phoenix Wright

Hey, friends!

Another episode of Philosophiraga is here: as ever, it’s a bite-sized look at video games and philosophy, and our topic for this episode is empiricism. Last time, we discussed rationalism – the idea that we can know some things innately – so this time is a compare and contrast with the view that all knowledge must in fact come from experience.

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Though he’s been known by many names across the vast and peculiar landscape of the Internet, every iteration of The Sometimes Vaguely Philosophical Mage has shared an urge to look far too closely at tiny details and extrapolate huge, important-seeming conclusions. He now hosts Philosophiraga, the video games and philosophy podcast, for The Well-Red Mage, and can be found rambling about it and his other creative endeavours on Twitter. Plus he wrote a novel, and if you bought it and then said you liked it then he might actually become the happiest human alive.

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