Philosophy Talk. Philosophy of Sleep

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Abstract: "Blessed are the sleepy ones," write Nietzsche, "for they shall soon drop off." Sleep is an extraordinarily, albeit profoundly odd, phenomenon, yet we seem to accept prolonged nightly blackouts without question. Still, sleep has played a major role in philosophical thought, with the likes of Aristotle, Locke, and Leibniz putting forth theories about just what exactly sleep and dreams are. So what is the purpose of sleeping and dreaming? How can we distinguish wakefulness from sleep, as Descartes wondered? Do we experience dreams consciously? And do we sleep to live, or live to sleep? Ken and guest co-host Jorah Danenberg stay up with Deirdre Barrett from the Harvard Medical School, co-author of The Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreams.

Type of resource	sound recording-nonmusical
Form	podcasts
Extent	1 audio file
Place	KALW (Radio station : San Francisco, Calif.)California
Date created	June 12, 2016
Language	English
Digital origin	born digital
Track configuration	Stereo

Speaker	Perry, John, 1943-
Speaker	Taylor, Kenneth Allen, 1954-2019

philosophytalk.org show page	Title Philosophy of Sleep
Location	Location https://purl.stanford.edu/rd555fp3732
Finding Aid	Title Philosophy Talk (SC1118)
Show#	409.0
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/gv696my9557
Location	SC1118
Repository	Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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