Episode 007
Dr. James "Doc" Fisher
2026-07-10
Dr. James E. "Doc" Fisher returns to the show. Doc is a former Marine, lifelong educator, and analytical philosopher affiliated with ERA USA — first appeared on the pod in Episode 004, and this one picks up where that conversation left off.
We go deeper on Doc's Marine Corps years (Camp Pendleton, 81mm mortar platoon, "playing war" post-Korea), the ethical questions AI is now forcing into military decision-making, race as a category and how he first ran into racism as a kid in rural Kansas, the John Dewey pragmatism he returns to over and over, and the analytical distinction between the psyche, the mind, and the physical body he's still working out at 93.
Chapters, links & more
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 Intro & Welcome 1:07 Marine Corps Experience 3:00 Boot Camp And Personal Development 5:52 Military Secrecy And Warfare 7:38 AI Ethics In Warfare 9:27 Interracial Relationships And Racism 12:01 Defining Race And Evolution 18:00 Racism Origins And Teaching 25:41 House Arson And Explicit Racism 31:24 Emotional Response To Racism 39:23 John Dewey And Pragmatism 46:39 Thought Formation And Language 56:40 Dewey's Core Philosophy 1:00:12 Closing Remarks And Practice ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GUEST LINKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Dr. James E. "Doc" Fisher / ERA USA Episode 004 (first appearance): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZKwGrp4uis [Rob: fill any additional website / socials Doc wants linked] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ANYTHING & NOTHING PODCAST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 anythingandnothingpodcast.com 📘 facebook.com/AnythingAndNothingPodcast 📷 instagram.com/AnythingAndNothingPodcast Want to be a guest? www.anythingandnothingpodcast.com/be-a-guest Subscribe for new episodes weekly. #AnythingAndNothingPodcast #DocFisher #AnalyticalPhilosophy #JohnDewey #Pragmatism #PhilosophyOfMind #MarineCorps #AIEthics #Racism #Kansas #ColumbiaSC
