{"podcast":{"title":"ToKCast","slug":"tokcast-76992","podcast_index_feed_id":76992,"rss_url":"https://brettroberthall.podbean.com/feed.xml","website_url":"https://brettroberthall.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/3210771/TOKCAST_e8uwkp.png","author":"Brett Hall","episode_count":263,"summary":"This is a podcast primarily about the work of philosopher and physicist David Deutsch and related matters (such as Popperian epistemology). I read from and comment upon the books ”The Beginning of Infinity” & ”The Fabric of Reality” (both by Deutsch), ”The Science of Can & Can’t” (by Deutsch’s collegue Marletto) and ”Rationality” by Pinker (so far). In addition I make stand alone episodes about topics like resources, environmentalism, economics, science, philosophy, epistemology (especially explanations) and reason broadly.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-05T14:17:01.933436+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tokcast-76992"},"episode":{"title":"Ep 243: In praise of ignorance - the podcast. With Liberty Fitz-Claridge","slug":"ep-243-in-praise-of-ignorance-the-podcast-with-liberty-fitz-claridge","published_at":"2025-07-21T09:16:52+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tokcast-76992/ep-243-in-praise-of-ignorance-the-podcast-with-liberty-fitz-claridge","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tokcast-76992","url":"https://brettroberthall.podbean.com/e/ep-243-in-praise-of-ignorance-the-podcast-with-liberty-fitz-claridge/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/4jy6xjzuxpi4b6ud/Final_Liberty_Podcast85ve4.mp3","summary":"This episode is a reading of and reflection upon more writing by David Deutsch - an article you can find at https://takingchildrenseriously.com/in-praise-of-ignorance/ Joining me is philosopher and language educator Liberty Fitz-Claridge. Liberty holds Master Degrees in both Philosophy and Applied Linguistics and English Language teaching, as well as a Bachelors in The Philosophy of Science. As well as teaching, Liberty runs the Popper-Deutsch Reading Group which can be found at www.meetup.com/popper-deutsch-reading-group/ In this conversation Liberty refers to the following articles: 1. Ioup, Georgette, Elizabeth Boustagui, Manal El Tigi, and Martha Moselle. “Reexamining the Critical Period Hypothesis: A Case Study of Successful Adult SLA in a Naturalistic Environment.” Studies in Second Language Acquisition 16, no. 1 (1994): 73–98. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263100012596. 2. Alsulaimani, Adil. (1990). Reading problems in Arab learners of English (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). London University, UK. 3. Randall, Mick and Meara, Paul. (1988). “How Arabs read Roman letters.” Reading in a Foreign Language, 4 (2): 133-145.","meta_description":"This episode is a reading of and reflection upon more writing by David Deutsch - an article you can find at https://takingchildrenseriously.com/in-praise-…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5782,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/tokcast-76992/episodes/ep-243-in-praise-of-ignorance-the-podcast-with-liberty-fitz-claridge/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tokcast-76992/ep-243-in-praise-of-ignorance-the-podcast-with-liberty-fitz-claridge.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}