Steve Patterson

Steve Patterson

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Steve Patterson is a renowned individual who holds multiple significant roles. He is the brain behind the establishment of the Natural Philosophy Institute and is also recognized for being the host of the Patterson in Pursuit podcast.

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Popular Youtube Videos

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How to Resolve the Liar's Paradox

How to Resolve the Liar's Paradox

Steve Patterson
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9 years ago
Ep. 95 - The Highest IQ in America | Christopher Langan

Ep. 95 - The Highest IQ in America | Christopher Langan

Steve Patterson
56,840
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6 years ago
The Logic Behind the Infinite Regress

The Logic Behind the Infinite Regress

Steve Patterson
36,805
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9 years ago
3 Steps for Changing a Paradigm

3 Steps for Changing a Paradigm

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
The Social Hierarchy

The Social Hierarchy

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
It Doesn't Take a Genius to Challenge Orthodoxy

It Doesn't Take a Genius to Challenge Orthodoxy

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Chairs Do Not Exist | Objects Are Concepts

Chairs Do Not Exist | Objects Are Concepts

Steve Patterson
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9 years ago
Our Present Dark Age

Our Present Dark Age

Steve Patterson
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4 years ago
Ep. 75 - Do We Perceive Reality? | Dr. Donald Hoffman

Ep. 75 - Do We Perceive Reality? | Dr. Donald Hoffman

Steve Patterson
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7 years ago
Ep. 23 - Postmodernism | Dr. Stephen Hicks

Ep. 23 - Postmodernism | Dr. Stephen Hicks

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Ep. 7 - Egoism, Religion, Ayn Rand | Michael Malice

Ep. 7 - Egoism, Religion, Ayn Rand | Michael Malice

Steve Patterson
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9 years ago
Ep. 88 - Watch Out for Bitcoin Cash | Ryan X. Charles

Ep. 88 - Watch Out for Bitcoin Cash | Ryan X. Charles

Steve Patterson
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7 years ago
Infinite Circle = Straight Line?

Infinite Circle = Straight Line?

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Ep. 78 - The Case for Idealism | Dr. Bernardo Kastrup

Ep. 78 - The Case for Idealism | Dr. Bernardo Kastrup

Steve Patterson
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7 years ago
Can The Mind Access Objective Truth?

Can The Mind Access Objective Truth?

Steve Patterson
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9 years ago
Mind-Body Dualism: Solving the Interaction Problem

Mind-Body Dualism: Solving the Interaction Problem

Steve Patterson
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5 years ago
Words, Concepts, and Referents

Words, Concepts, and Referents

Steve Patterson
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119
8 years ago
Understanding God as Nature or the Universe

Understanding God as Nature or the Universe

Steve Patterson
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5 years ago
Why Calculus Does Not Solve Zeno's Paradoxes

Why Calculus Does Not Solve Zeno's Paradoxes

Steve Patterson
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5 years ago
The Jason Brennan Meltdown

The Jason Brennan Meltdown

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Defending Zeno's Paradox

Defending Zeno's Paradox

Steve Patterson
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7 years ago
Ep. 16 - What is Logic? | Dr. Timothy Williamson

Ep. 16 - What is Logic? | Dr. Timothy Williamson

Steve Patterson
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9 years ago
The Historical Context for Modern Mathematics

The Historical Context for Modern Mathematics

Steve Patterson
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6 years ago
Coming Around to Platonism

Coming Around to Platonism

Steve Patterson
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5 years ago
What is Religiosity?

What is Religiosity?

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
The Solution to Racism

The Solution to Racism

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Jason Brennan's Review of Square One

Jason Brennan's Review of Square One

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Faith and Reason

Faith and Reason

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Why I Am Not a Physicalist

Why I Am Not a Physicalist

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Ep. 84 - When Logic Met Math | Dr. Graham Priest

Ep. 84 - When Logic Met Math | Dr. Graham Priest

Steve Patterson
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7 years ago
Ep. 104 - "No Longer a Christian" | Isaac Deitz

Ep. 104 - "No Longer a Christian" | Isaac Deitz

Steve Patterson
3,855
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3 years ago
Culture is More Important than Politics

Culture is More Important than Politics

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Gender, Sex, and Language

Gender, Sex, and Language

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Ep. 5 - American Pragmatism | Dr. John Stuhr

Ep. 5 - American Pragmatism | Dr. John Stuhr

Steve Patterson
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9 years ago
Puerto Rico Has Finally Gone Bankrupt

Puerto Rico Has Finally Gone Bankrupt

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Skepticism of Euclidean Geometry?

Skepticism of Euclidean Geometry?

Steve Patterson
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7 years ago
Ep. 103 - "Mad at Mathematicians" | Isaac Morehouse

Ep. 103 - "Mad at Mathematicians" | Isaac Morehouse

Steve Patterson
3,402
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4 years ago
Critical Thinking | Zooming In and Zooming Out

Critical Thinking | Zooming In and Zooming Out

Steve Patterson
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5 years ago
My Bachelor's Degree Means Nothing

My Bachelor's Degree Means Nothing

Steve Patterson
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9 years ago
From Conservative to Anarchist

From Conservative to Anarchist

Steve Patterson
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9 years ago
Why We Need to Replace Mathematics

Why We Need to Replace Mathematics

Steve Patterson
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4 months ago
How to Build a Geometric Theory?

How to Build a Geometric Theory?

Steve Patterson
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7 years ago
My Experience with Christian Evangelicalism

My Experience with Christian Evangelicalism

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Ep. 81 - The Ethics of Eating Meat | Dr. Mike Huemer

Ep. 81 - The Ethics of Eating Meat | Dr. Mike Huemer

Steve Patterson
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7 years ago
Ep. 61 - Ayn Rand's Objectivism | Dr. David Kelley

Ep. 61 - Ayn Rand's Objectivism | Dr. David Kelley

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Does Free Will Even Make Sense?

Does Free Will Even Make Sense?

Steve Patterson
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7 years ago
Dogmatic Rationalism and Empiricism

Dogmatic Rationalism and Empiricism

Steve Patterson
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7 years ago
There Are No Objective Definitions

There Are No Objective Definitions

Steve Patterson
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6 years ago
Tautologies Must Not Be Dismissed

Tautologies Must Not Be Dismissed

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Ep. 101 - Is a Ruling Class Inevitable? | Samo Burja

Ep. 101 - Is a Ruling Class Inevitable? | Samo Burja

Steve Patterson
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5 years ago
Ep. 50 - Argumentation Ethics | Stephan Kinsella

Ep. 50 - Argumentation Ethics | Stephan Kinsella

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Everything is Grounded in Logic

Everything is Grounded in Logic

Steve Patterson
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9 years ago
Do Geometric Points Actually Exist?

Do Geometric Points Actually Exist?

Steve Patterson
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7 years ago
Ep. 1 - Introduction | Patterson in Pursuit

Ep. 1 - Introduction | Patterson in Pursuit

Steve Patterson
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9 years ago
People Love Hierarchy

People Love Hierarchy

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Academia: the Modern Church

Academia: the Modern Church

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Ep. 106 - Living with the Robots | Dr. RollerGator

Ep. 106 - Living with the Robots | Dr. RollerGator

Steve Patterson
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2 years ago
Ep. 69 - Hegel and Paradox | Dr. Donald Verene

Ep. 69 - Hegel and Paradox | Dr. Donald Verene

Steve Patterson
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7 years ago
Can Drugs Lead to Truth? To God?

Can Drugs Lead to Truth? To God?

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Against "Doing the Right Thing"

Against "Doing the Right Thing"

Steve Patterson
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9 years ago
Reparations and the Intertemporal Justice Warriors

Reparations and the Intertemporal Justice Warriors

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Economic Reality Comes Before Social Justice

Economic Reality Comes Before Social Justice

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
The Objectivity of Structure Outside our Concepts

The Objectivity of Structure Outside our Concepts

Steve Patterson
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2 years ago
Ep. 26 - Why I'm Not in Academia

Ep. 26 - Why I'm Not in Academia

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
The Abuse of Apriorism in Economics

The Abuse of Apriorism in Economics

Steve Patterson
1,237
51
7 years ago
How the Rubik's Cube Solves Any Paradox

How the Rubik's Cube Solves Any Paradox

Steve Patterson
1,235
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7 years ago
What Does "Root" Really Mean?

What Does "Root" Really Mean?

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Experts and Incompetence: A Seed of Doubt

Experts and Incompetence: A Seed of Doubt

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
The Logic of Nothing

The Logic of Nothing

Steve Patterson
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9 years ago
The Fashionable Thinkers

The Fashionable Thinkers

Steve Patterson
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7 years ago
Is it Honorable to be in the Military?

Is it Honorable to be in the Military?

Steve Patterson
1,145
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8 years ago
The Death of Skepticism

The Death of Skepticism

Steve Patterson
1,130
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9 years ago
A Naive Political Theory

A Naive Political Theory

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Ep. 12 - Brexit!

Ep. 12 - Brexit!

Steve Patterson
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9 years ago
All is One: The Logical Case for Mysticism

All is One: The Logical Case for Mysticism

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Objects Are Not Physical

Objects Are Not Physical

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
The Metaphysics of Fiction

The Metaphysics of Fiction

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Ep. 40 - Race Relations | T.K. Coleman

Ep. 40 - Race Relations | T.K. Coleman

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
The Crucifixion: A Unification of Love and Hate

The Crucifixion: A Unification of Love and Hate

Steve Patterson
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7 years ago
Controlling Language to Control People

Controlling Language to Control People

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Ep. 34 - The Foundations of Knowledge

Ep. 34 - The Foundations of Knowledge

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Bitcoin Power Dynamics with Chris Pacia

Bitcoin Power Dynamics with Chris Pacia

Steve Patterson
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6 years ago
Gay Marriage and the Absurdity of Courts

Gay Marriage and the Absurdity of Courts

Steve Patterson
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7 years ago
There Are No Objective Definitions

There Are No Objective Definitions

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Is the World Blurry? | The Modernist Fallacy

Is the World Blurry? | The Modernist Fallacy

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Karma or Coincidence?

Karma or Coincidence?

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
A Requirement for True Love

A Requirement for True Love

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Challenging Empiricism with Poker

Challenging Empiricism with Poker

Steve Patterson
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7 years ago
You Live in Your Mind

You Live in Your Mind

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
When Clarity is Seen as Shallowness

When Clarity is Seen as Shallowness

Steve Patterson
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9 years ago
My Economic Predictions (A Crash is Coming)

My Economic Predictions (A Crash is Coming)

Steve Patterson
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9 years ago
The Case for Cultural Appropriation

The Case for Cultural Appropriation

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
An Objective Standard for Sanity

An Objective Standard for Sanity

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Ep. 38 - The Post-Truth Era | Dr. Robert Nola

Ep. 38 - The Post-Truth Era | Dr. Robert Nola

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Assume Everybody is Wrong

Assume Everybody is Wrong

Steve Patterson
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9 years ago
The Bittersweet Paradox | On Mutual Exclusivity

The Bittersweet Paradox | On Mutual Exclusivity

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Can You Judge Intelligence Based on Beliefs?

Can You Judge Intelligence Based on Beliefs?

Steve Patterson
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9 years ago
How Progressives Can "Fix" the Economy

How Progressives Can "Fix" the Economy

Steve Patterson
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7 years ago
Ep. 18 - Democracy, More or Less | Dr. Bruce Cain

Ep. 18 - Democracy, More or Less | Dr. Bruce Cain

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Ep. 77 - Why I Support Catalonia's Secession

Ep. 77 - Why I Support Catalonia's Secession

Steve Patterson
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7 years ago
Is Space Mental?

Is Space Mental?

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Ep. 27 - Intellectual Optimism | T.K. Coleman

Ep. 27 - Intellectual Optimism | T.K. Coleman

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Don't Fight for Objective Definitions

Don't Fight for Objective Definitions

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Time for Writing and Health

Time for Writing and Health

Steve Patterson
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7 years ago
The Puzzle of Awareness

The Puzzle of Awareness

Steve Patterson
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7 years ago
Ep. 35 - Legalizing All Drugs | Dr. Jeffrey Miron

Ep. 35 - Legalizing All Drugs | Dr. Jeffrey Miron

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Ep. 17 - Oxford Analysis | Interview Breakdown

Ep. 17 - Oxford Analysis | Interview Breakdown

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Philosophy Talk - Ask Me Anything (4/25/18)

Philosophy Talk - Ask Me Anything (4/25/18)

Steve Patterson
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7 years ago
Ep. 31 - Religious Experience | Isaac Morehouse

Ep. 31 - Religious Experience | Isaac Morehouse

Steve Patterson
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16
8 years ago
Ep. 56 – Zen Buddhism | Keiho Nishigaki

Ep. 56 – Zen Buddhism | Keiho Nishigaki

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Data versus Anecdotes: From Ghosts to Levaquin

Data versus Anecdotes: From Ghosts to Levaquin

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
The Sliding Scale of Certainty

The Sliding Scale of Certainty

Steve Patterson
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9 years ago
Thank Goodness for Price Gougers

Thank Goodness for Price Gougers

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Love, Insanity, and Austrian Economics

Love, Insanity, and Austrian Economics

Steve Patterson
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9 years ago
Unifying the Plural into the Simple

Unifying the Plural into the Simple

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Four Steps to the Immaterial

Four Steps to the Immaterial

Steve Patterson
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4 months ago
Update on the IndieGoGo Campaign + Predictions

Update on the IndieGoGo Campaign + Predictions

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Ep. 41 - Race Relations, Part II | T.K. Coleman

Ep. 41 - Race Relations, Part II | T.K. Coleman

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Charlie Hebdo as an Excuse to Take Selfies

Charlie Hebdo as an Excuse to Take Selfies

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Steve Patterson Q&A Livestream (2/4/17)

Steve Patterson Q&A Livestream (2/4/17)

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Your Conclusions Don't Matter

Your Conclusions Don't Matter

Steve Patterson
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9 years ago
Steve Patterson Q&A Livestream (5/6/17)

Steve Patterson Q&A Livestream (5/6/17)

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago
Some Sunday Chess

Some Sunday Chess

Steve Patterson
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2 years ago
Ep. 36 - Christmas Breakdown | Scrooge Edition

Ep. 36 - Christmas Breakdown | Scrooge Edition

Steve Patterson
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8 years ago

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