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Philosophy Podcasts (Ranked)

A list of episodes from the trailing year of selected podcast series with associated Twitter feeds.

#	Episode details
1.	Katherine Hawley on Trustworthiness Is it always good to be trustworthy? Can trustworthiness come into conflict with other values, such as generosity? Katherine Hawley discusses these and other questions about trustworthiness with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. We are grateful for support from the Marc Sanders Foundation and from our Patreon subscribers for this episode. (@philosophybites, 2018-Oct-07)
2.	HoP 310 - Purple Prose - Byzantine Political Philosophy Byzantine political thought from the time of Justinian down to the Palaiologos dynasty wrestles with the nature and scope of imperial power. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Oct-21)
3.	HAP 13 - Renewing the Faith - the Sokoto Caliphate Uthman Dan Fodio and his family were scholars, poets, and warriors whose jihad in 19th century Nigeria created the Sokoto Caliphate. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Oct-14)
4.	Ep79 - BC13 - One-Sheet - Clutter This 79th episode of Philosophy Bakes Bread is a short breadcrumb episode serving simply as a reading of SOPHIA's "One-Sheet" on "Clutter," by Dr. John Lachs, and with questions by Caroline A. Buchanan, Derek Daskalakes, Erik Jarvis, James William Lincoln, and Eric Thomas Weber. The Lexington SOPHIA Chapter got together to talk about this one-sheet on September 18 of 2018. SOPHIA "One-Sheet" docu... (@PhilosophyBB, 2018-Oct-20)
5.	398: The Ethics of Debt More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/ethics-debt. According to a report from the Jubilee Debt Campaign, there are currently 24 countries facing a full-blown debt crisis, with 14 more on the verge. Globally, there is about $200 trillion of debt on the books. Although the poor and disenfranchised of the world play no role in negotiating these loans, in debt crises they usually end up pa... (@philtalkradio, 2018-Oct-15)
6.	Teresa Bejan on Civility Civility is a conversational virtue that governs how people talk to each other. How important is it in political life? In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Teresa Bejan discusses this manner of speaking and writing and its history. We are grateful for sponsorship for this episode from the Marc Sanders Foundation and from our Patreon patrons. (@philosophybites, 2018-Aug-20)
7.	Intellectual Arrogance Are we becoming incapable of respecting other people's opinions? (@DavidEdmonds100, 2018-Oct-15)
8.	HoP 309 - Hooked on Classics - Italos and the Debate over Pagan Learning The trial of John Italos and other signs of Byzantine disquiet with the pagan philosophical tradition. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Oct-07)
9.	Episode 49, Corey Mohler: Behind Existential Comics (Part I) Corey Mohler is a software engineer from Portland, Oregon, USA. With no formal education in philosophy, it might come as a surprise that Corey is the author of the incredibly popular philosophy webcomic, Existential Comics. Founded in December 2013, Existential Comics describes itself as “a philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also jokes.�... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Oct-21)
10.	#032 Bonus Episode: Well-Placed Travels with Jessica Parker In this Happier After Hours Bonus Episode you’ll learn about travel through the lens of the destination with travel public relations consultant Jessica Parker. How does a place become a “brand” and how does one get to the essence of a destination? This is a follow up episode to #031 with travel writer David Farley about travel and transformation and the lessons of philosopher George Santayan... (@MissMMcCarthy, 2018-Oct-21)
11.	alt-Nietzsche Few serious Nietzsche scholars today regard him as having been any sort of proto-Nazi. But that hasn’t stopped alt-right extremists today from "rediscovering" Nietzsche and claiming him as a philosophical ally. (@RadioNational, 2018-Oct-21)
12.	COMEDY AND PROPAGANDA A Conversation With Existential Comics' Corey Mohler In this episode, I talk with Corey Mohler, author of the popular philosophy webcomic existential comics. We discuss the role of jokes in philosophy and politics, why he hates George Carlin, the state of the Democratic party in the US, and more. (@PolPhilPod, 2018-Oct-20)
13.	397: White Privilege and Racial Injustice More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/white-privilege-and-racial-injustice. “White privilege” has become a buzzword in discussions about racial inequality and racial justice. The call to “check your privilege” appeals to those privileged to acknowledge the various ways they receive special treatment that others don’t. But when white people explicitly acknowledge their privile... (@philtalkradio, 2018-Oct-08)
14.	Episode 200: Kant/Mendelssohn/Foucault on Enlightenment (Part Two) Continuing on "What Is Enlightenment" by Immanuel Kant (1784), "On Enlightening the Mind" by Moses Mendelssohn (1784), and "What Is Enlightenment" by Michael Foucault (1984). We finish up Kant (the courage to know!) and lay out the Mendelssohn (cultivation vs. enlightenment) and Foucault (ironically heroize the present!). Will this conversation enlighten you? Who knows? Listen to part one first or... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Oct-15)
15.	Philosophy of Mission Impossible Fallout In today's episode, we examine the philosophy of Tom Cruise's latest installment in the Mission Impossible series, Fallout. Should we kill one person to save many? Support the Podcast and Gain Full Access: https://www.patreon.com/thephilosophyguy Twitter: @brendenweber_ Amazon Banner link: https://amzn.to/2C6nnCT Email: [email protected] Venmo tip jar: @brenden-weber (@philosophyguy2, 2018-Oct-19)
16.	Robert A. Wilson, “The Eugenic Mind Project” (MIT Press, 2017) For most of us, eugenics — the “science of improving the human stock” — is a thing of the past, commonly associated with Nazi Germany and government efforts to promote a pure Aryan race. This view is incorrect: even in California, for example, sterilization of those deemed mentally defective was... (@NewBooksPhil, 2018-Oct-15)
17.	#031 The Road Less Travelled With Santayana and David Farley This episode kicks of The Happier Hour Season 2 as well as our conversations on DISCOVERY. You’ll learn how travel writer David Farley and the philosopher George Santayana can help us find more meaning in our lives by looking at how and why we travel. You’ll also hear unconventional advice about travel writing and the ways in which travel has the ability to transform us. #thehappierhour Show n... (@MissMMcCarthy, 2018-Oct-17)
18.	Episode 48 - Ann-Sophie Barwich On Episode 48, Nick chats with Ann-Sophie Barwich, Visiting Professor in the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University Bloomington, about growing up studying literature in East Germany, finding her voice as a researcher, and the importance of thinking about the sense of smell as a model for neuroscience and the senses.FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPTTimestamps: 0:15 Hello and welcome / 2:07 Ann ... (@SciPhiPod, 2018-Oct-17)
19.	0G27: Galaxy Quest and Toxic Fandom, Part 2 Never give up your fandom! Never surrender shipping! Today we're fanning out over the amazing Galaxy Quest, a gem that just keeps getting better with age. We talk about how it was a roadmap for the kinds of fandom that have since gone from fringe to mainstream. Then we discuss some of the textbook features of toxic fandom and practices fans can engage in to enjoy their art without it becoming harm... (@0gPhilosophy, 2018-Oct-17)
20.	BONUS: More on the Uninformed President We bring you an unusual, first of its kind, bonus episode. It is kinda like a behind the scenes look. In the last episode, Justin and Zach explored the consequences of having an uninformed president—or rather, a president who takes no interest in learning, isn’t concerned with having beliefs that are responsive to reality, and whose interaction with the world is only in terms of what is best f... (@thevimblog, 2018-Oct-15)
21.	HAP 12 - From Here to Timbuktu - Subsaharan Islamic Philosophy The spread of Islamic scholarship in subsaharan Africa, focusing on intellectuals of the Songhay empire around the Niger River in the 15th-17th centuries. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Sep-30)
22.	Rationally Speaking #219 - Jason Collins on "A skeptical take on behavioral economics" In this episode, economist Jason Collins discusses some of the problems with behavioral economics. (@Rspodcast, 2018-Oct-15)
23.	Episode 48, Rebecca Goldstein: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away (Part II) Welcome to 'Episode 48 (Part I)', where we'll be talking to Rebecca Newberger Goldstein about the nature and purpose of philosophy. Professor Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is one of the most influential thinkers in the world of public philosophy. Amongst many other philosophical texts, Goldstein is the author of The Mind-Body Problem, Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity, 36 Arg... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Oct-14)
24.	Hospital ethics What happens when doctors and ethicists get together – particularly when the patient under discussion is a young child? And how can philosophy help? (@RadioNational, 2018-Oct-14)
25.	UNIVERSAL MORALITY A Crossover with The Elucidations Podcast In this episode, I talk with Matt Teichman, host of the elucidations podcast. We debate if there is such a thing as a universal morality that's common to all cultures, and what we learn from the diversity of moral and political thought in history. (@PolPhilPod, 2018-Oct-13)
26.	Episode 109: Bonus Episode with Matt Teichman and Toby Buckle Bonus episode! In this joint edition of Elucidations and the Political Philosophy Podcast, Matt Teichman and Toby Buckle sit down and have a freeform conversation about why we do podcasts, the nature of moral disagreement, and the existence of political divides. (@ElucidationsPod, 2018-Oct-13)
27.	466: The New Golden Age of Television More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/new-golden-age-television. They called it a “vast wasteland” in the 1960s, but TV is very different today. Freedom from the broadcast schedule means TV makers can create longer, more complex, more philosophical stories, while binge-watching and on-demand viewing have changed the way we see those stories. Josh and Ken talk to philosophers and ot... (@philtalkradio, 2018-Oct-01)
28.	Ep75 - All Philosophy's a Stage In this 75th episode of Philosophy Bakes Bread Eric Thomas Weber and Anthony Cashio interview Monica McCarthy, host of the Happier Hour podcast, on the theme "All Philosophy's a Stage." Monica is a thespian, a playwright, the founder of Cheshire Parlour, and the creator and host of “The Happier Hour” podcast. Monica has acted on Broadway and in television programs, film, advertisements, inclu... (@PhilosophyBB, 2018-Oct-06)
29.	Episode 200: Kant/Mendelssohn/Foucault on Enlightenment (Part One) On "What Is Enlightenment" by Immanuel Kant (1784), "On Enlightening the Mind" by Moses Mendelssohn (1784), and "What Is Enlightenment" by Michael Foucault (1984). At the end of the historical period known as The Enlightenment, a Berlin newspaper asked what exactly that is, and Kant and Mendelssohn responded. Both were concerned with whether too much enlightenment among the public can cause social... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Oct-08)
30.	Bonus: (sub)Text#4: Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia" (Part One) Wes Alwan is joined by Tracy Morgan and Louis Scuderi to discuss Freud's classic 1917 essay. Note: Part two will NOT be appearing on this feed. Become a PEL Citizen to get the full discussion. Visit partiallyexaminedlife.com/support to learn how. Listen to more (sub)Text. (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Oct-08)
31.	0G26: Pickle Rick and Toxic Fandom, Part 1 Wub a lub a dub dub and other overused catchphrases! What up my squanches? This week we dive into the beating heart of Rick and Morty fandom. We're talking Pickle Rick, arguably the best episode in the best season of one of the best shows in any possible universe. We talk about the whole arc of the show and why some fans who identify strongly with Rick have trouble keeping up with the character's ... (@0gPhilosophy, 2018-Oct-10)
32.	The Uninformed President Justin and Zach sit down to talk about what it means to have a fundamentally uninformed president. There are more philosophical issues here than you might think. What does it mean to be informed? How informed should we expect a president to be? Is there nonpartisan agreement over the value of educating oneself on issues? Zach argues that Trump basic disinterest in information makes us ... (@thevimblog, 2018-Oct-08)
33.	HoP 308 - Dominic O'Meara on Michael Psellos Dominic O'Meara speaks to Peter about Michael Psellos, focusing especially on his political philosophy. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Sep-23)
34.	Philosophy of The Good Place In today's episode, we analyze the philosophy of the NBC hit comedy The Good Place! Can we learn to be moral? How do we learn to be moral? Discussing the metaethics of The Good Place! Support the Podcast and Gain Full Access: https://www.patreon.com/thephilosophyguy Twitter: @brendenweber_ Amazon Banner link: https://amzn.to/2C6nnCT Email: [email protected] Venmo tip ja... (@philosophyguy2, 2018-Oct-09)
35.	#030 Lessons Learned: On Podcasting & Philosophy In this series finale of The Happier Hour: Season 1, creator and host Monica McCarthy shares some of the lessons she’s learned so far about podcasting and about philosophy. If you’ve ever thought about creating a show, or wondered how philosophy can help in today’s world, you’ll want to listen to this episode. #thehappierhour (@MissMMcCarthy, 2018-Oct-08)
36.	Episode 48, Rebecca Goldstein: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away (Part I) Welcome to 'Episode 48 (Part I)', where we'll be talking to Rebecca Newberger Goldstein about the nature and purpose of philosophy. Professor Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is one of the most influential thinkers in the world of public philosophy. Amongst many other philosophical texts, Goldstein is the author of The Mind-Body Problem, Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity, 36 Arg... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Oct-07)
37.	African philosophy and the West How do you articulate African philosophy in a Western academic environment? And what gets lost in the project of “translating” the former into the categories of the latter? (@RadioNational, 2018-Oct-07)
38.	THE CASE FOR REPARATIONS A Conversation With Colleen Murphy (2) We continue our discussion of transitional justice with Colleen Murphy, comparing the end of apartheid in South Africa with the civil rights movement in the US. From this contrast, we explore the idea of reparations for lynching and redlining in the form of truth and reconciliation commissions and financial payments. Website: https://www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com Patreon: https://w... (@PolPhilPod, 2018-Oct-06)
39.	396: Jean-Paul Sartre More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/sartre. Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the first global public intellectuals, famous for his popular existentialist philosophy, his works of fiction, and his rivalry with Albert Camus. His existentialism was also adopted by Simone de Beauvoir, who used it as a foundation for modern theoretical feminism. So what exactly is existentialism? How is man co... (@philtalkradio, 2018-Sep-24)
40.	Ep74 - Outdoor Education This 74th episode of Philosophy Bakes Bread was recorded on Apeiron Expeditions' Philosophy Bakes Bread canoe trip, which ran from July 29th to August 1st of 2018, and in it Eric Thomas Weber and Anthony Cashio interview Ben Vockley, Seth Walton, and Dr. Alejandro Strong about "Outdoor Education." Ben is an instructor with Outward Bound. Seth is a high school teacher and a registered Maine guide.... (@PhilosophyBB, 2018-Sep-29)
41.	Episode 199: Elizabeth Anderson on Equality (Part Three: Discussion) Mark, Wes, Seth, and Dylan continue to discuss “What Is the Point of Equality?” (1999) and how it lays foundations for Private Government (2017). What is democratic equality, and can a Rawlsian/liberal/neutral-with-regard-to-defining-the-good state consistently advocate for this ideal? Our interview starts in Part One. You can get all three parts together, and more with a PEL Citizenship or $5... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Oct-01)
42.	Episode 149: Death, Immortality, and Porn (Intuition) Pumps Is living forever a good thing? Could we maintain our values and personal attachments throughout eternity? Would we be motivated to accomplish anything? Can we make sense of a human life that doesn't have a fixed endpoint? We try to alleviate David's paralyzing fear of death by examining two articles - one on how immortality is worse than we think, and the other providing evidence that dying might... (@verybadwizards, 2018-Oct-02)
43.	#029 CREATIVITY Q&A: On Art, Madness, and the Middle East In this final episode of our series on Creativity, you’ll hear from all three guests: Amber Baldet, Gwena-lin Grewal, and Adam Valen Levinson as they answer audience questions. From how to define creativity, to the relationship to art and madness, to authentic culture around the world. #thehappierhour (@MissMMcCarthy, 2018-Oct-04)
44.	Episode 47 - Angela Potochnik On Episode 47, Nick chats with Angela Potochnik, Associate Professor of Philosophy and the Director of the Center for Public Engagement with Science at the University of Cincinnati, about her time studying in Vienna and how she came to love the history of logical empiricism, her co-written work, “Recipes for Science” on scientific methods and reasoning from a philosophical perspectiv... (@SciPhiPod, 2018-Oct-04)
45.	Philosophy of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind A philosophical analysis of the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind! Is their relationship healthy? Should you get your memories zapped to forget pain? Is there relationship predetermined? How does the Experience Machine relate to the film? What's the utilitarian perspective for the film? Under what circumstance, if any, would be justified in erasing our memories? If they had... (@philosophyguy2, 2018-Oct-04)
46.	Candice Delmas, “A Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should Be Uncivil” (Oxford UP, 2018) According to a long tradition in political philosophy, there are certain conditions under which citizens may rightly disobey a law enacted by a legitimate political authority. That is, it is common for political philosophers to recognize the permissibility of civil disobedience, even under broadly just political conditions. There are, of... (@NewBooksPhil, 2018-Oct-01)
47.	0G25: Minority Report and Time Paradoxes As sometimes happens, we've generated a minority report to last episode's majority report. The differences between the short story and the movie are substantial, including a reversal in the outcome. While we have much debate over whether this minority report reflects a flaw in the system or a feature, we're putting it forward in the spirit of transparency and to avoid space fascism. By listening t... (@0gPhilosophy, 2018-Oct-03)
48.	Robert B. Talisse on Overdoing Democracy You can overdo most things, but can you overdo democracy? Political philosopher Robert B. Talisse thinks you can. He explains why in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. We are very grateful for sponsorship from the Marc Sanders Foundation for this episode. (@philosophybites, 2018-Jul-23)
49.	HAP 11 - Teodros Kiros on Ethiopian Philosophy Teodros Kiros discusses the history of Ethiopian thought and how it has influenced his own work in political philosophy. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Sep-16)
50.	#028 Facing Our Fears With Montaigne and Adam Valen Levinson In this episode in our series on CREATIVITY with the writer Adam Valen Levinson you’ll learn how overcoming our fears can lead to a more creative life. You’ll also learn what Levinson and the French philosopher Michel de Montaigne have in common and why humor can help us creatively connect with humanity. #thehappierhour (@MissMMcCarthy, 2018-Oct-02)
51.	Rationally Speaking #218 - Chris Auld on "Good and bad critiques of economics" In this episode, economist Chris Auld describes some common criticisms of his field and why they're wrong. Julia and Chris also discuss whether there are any good critiques of the field. (@Rspodcast, 2018-Oct-01)
52.	Episode 47, Hedda Hassel Mørch: Consciousness and Integrated Information Theory (Part II) Hedda Hassel Mørch is a philosopher and post-doc at the University of Oslo, previously at The Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at New York University. Dr Mørch’s research focuses on panpsychism, neutral monism and liberal conceptions of physicalism. More specifically, how such views can respond to problems in philosophy of mind and metaphysics, such as the hard problem of consciousnes... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Sep-30)
53.	Evolution is evolving For 160 years now, Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection has been baffling and blowing minds - and it’s not done yet. Evolution is still evolving, carrying us into an age of post-intelligent design – which brings danger as well as opportunity. (@RadioNational, 2018-Sep-30)
54.	TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE A Conversation With Colleen Murphy In this episode professor Colleen Murphy discusses justice in countries attempting to transition to democracy following conflict or repression. Professor Murphy argues that the demands of transitional justice are distinct from other forms of justice such as retributive, corrective, or distributive. (@PolPhilPod, 2018-Sep-29)
55.	465: The Psychology of Cruelty Mora at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/psychology-cruelty. Throughout history, people have committed all kinds of cruel, degrading, and evil acts toward other people. Many believe that for evil acts like genocide to be even possible, the victims must first be dehumanized by the perpetrators, starting with dehumanizing language or propaganda. But is this lack of empathy always at the hea... (@philtalkradio, 2018-Sep-17)
56.	Episode 46 - Francesco Guala On Episode 46, Nick chats with Francesco Guala, Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Milan, about how he came to study the philosophy of experimental economics, how philosophers of science can open the door to successful collaborations with scientists (hint: don’t preach), his latest book, “Understanding Institutions: The Science and Philosophy of... (@SciPhiPod, 2018-Sep-29)
57.	Episode 199: Guest Elizabeth Anderson on Private Government (Part Two) Continuing on Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (2017) and “What Is the Point of Equality?” (1999). Should the amount of respect that a worker gets be proportional to his or her market value? Our guest tells us more about how all citizens have the right to have their interests considered and what this means for how the relationship between employers and employees might change. W... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Sep-24)
58.	Ep73 - The Character Gap In this 73rd episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, Eric Thomas Weber and Anthony Cashio interview Christian Miller on "The Character Gap," the title of his recent book. Christian is the A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University, where he has been the recipient of grant support from the John Templeton Foundation and the Templeton World Charity Foundation ... (@PhilosophyBB, 2018-Sep-20)
59.	#027 Reflections In Wonderland with Gwenda-lin Grewal In this episode you’ll learn about creativity as a way of revealing and reflecting our true selves. The guest, Dr. Gwenda-lin Grewal, is a professor of philosophy, a writer, and a fashion designer who specializes in ancient Greek philosophy. By the end of this episode you’ll discover what philosophy, fashion, and “Alice and Wonderland” can teach us about creativity in our everyday lives. #... (@MissMMcCarthy, 2018-Sep-27)
60.	0G24: Minority Report and Prescient Utilitarianism This episode will serve as our majority report on the movie Minority Report. We cover the movie's relationship to Utilitarianism and the common objection that we can't predict the future. Next week we will present our minority report on the short story Minority Report, where we'll cover how the story addresses prescience and determinism. The major difference is that this episodes content is beefed... (@0gPhilosophy, 2018-Sep-26)
61.	HoP 307 - Consul of the Philosophers - Michael Psellos Michael Psellos and his attitude towards pagan philosophy and the political life. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Sep-09)
62.	#026 The Third Way With Émilie Du Châtelet and Amber Baldet What does it mean to be creative? In this episode you’ll hear what Blockchain expert Amber Baldet can teach us about authenticity, corporations, and challenging assumptions. You’ll also learn what Amber has in common with the 18th century French philosopher Émilie du Châtelet and why most of us are thinking about creativity wrong. #thehappierhour (@MissMMcCarthy, 2018-Sep-25)
63.	Episode #122 ... Michel Foucault pt. 2 - The Order of Things Today we talk about the work of Michel Foucault. (@iamstephenwest, 2018-Sep-24)
64.	Episode #123 ... Michel Foucault pt. 3 - Power Today we talk about the work of Michel Foucault. (@iamstephenwest, 2018-Sep-24)
65.	Episode 47, Hedda Hassel Mørch: Consciousness and Integrated Information Theory (Part I) Hedda Hassel Mørch is a philosopher and post-doc at the University of Oslo, previously at The Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at New York University. Dr Mørch’s research focuses on panpsychism, neutral monism and liberal conceptions of physicalism. More specifically, how such views can respond to problems in philosophy of mind and metaphysics, such as the hard problem of consciousnes... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Sep-23)
66.	Forgiveness “To err is human, to forgive divine” – a popular notion, but what are we really doing when we forgive? Operating at the highest level of human sensibility? Or denying the wrongdoer an opportunity for valuable self-reflection? This week we’re picking at one of the less-interrogated areas of ethics. (@RadioNational, 2018-Sep-23)
67.	#025 And The Tree Was Happy: A Story of Generosity In this bonus episode you’ll learn how the worldview of generosity has changed over the years and how you can support the future of The Happier Hour. Also, you’ll hear Monica cry when she described one of her favorite children’s books, but not to worry because all’s well the ends well! #thehappierhour (@MissMMcCarthy, 2018-Sep-23)
68.	391: Your Lying Eyes - Perception, Memory, and justice More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/your-lying-eyes. The criminal justice system often relies on the testimony of eyewitnesses to get convictions. Yet more and more, psychological science demonstrates how unreliable eyewitness reports can be. Moreover, jurors have all kinds of cognitive biases and unconscious influences, and they rely on dubious folk psychological theories when asses... (@philtalkradio, 2018-Sep-10)
69.	CIVIL RIGHTS FROM NIXON TO OBAMA A Conversation With Mary Frances Berry CIVIL RIGHTS FROM NIXON TO OBAMA A Conversation With Mary Frances Berry by Toby Buckle (@PolPhilPod, 2018-Sep-22)
70.	Episode 148: Am I Wrong? Tamler wades into a Twitter controversy about Serena Williams - could this be his fast-track pass into the IDW? And since we're talking about that, why not throw in a discussion of Louis CK's surprise set at the Comedy Cellar? In the second segment, we step outside of last week's social media culture wars to discuss "But I Could Be Wrong," a paper by philosopher George Sher from Rice University. W... (@verybadwizards, 2018-Sep-19)
71.	Episode 199: Guest Elizabeth Anderson on Private Government (Part One) The U. of Michigan prof joins us to discuss Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It) (2017) and “What Is the Point of Equality?” (1999). What is a government? Liz argues that this includes companies, and that we should thus apply political science concepts in evaluating their power. Her egalitarianism involves everyone retaining a minimum level of inali... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Sep-17)
72.	#024 Money Q&A: The Value of Currency In this audience Q&A episode, you’ll hear from all three guests in the series on MONEY about a shocking statistics regarding money and civic responsibility, followed by a question about meaning in work, and concluding with a question about universal basic income. #thehappierhour Facebook: @thehappierhour (@MissMMcCarthy, 2018-Sep-20)
73.	Anjan Chakravartty, “Scientific Ontology: Integrating Naturalized Metaphysics and Voluntarist Epistemology” (Oxford UP, 2017) A scientific ontology is a view about what a scientific theory says exists. Longstanding philosophical debate on this issue divides into two broad camps: anti-realists, who think scientific theories are committed to the existence only of those things that can be observed, and realists, who hold that these theories are... (@NewBooksPhil, 2018-Sep-17)
74.	HAP 10 - Think for Yourself - Walda Heywat Walda Heywat’s reaction to the thought of his teacher Zera Yacob, and the dispute over the authenticity of these two Ethiopian philosophers. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Sep-02)
75.	0G23: Harrison Bergeron and Equality of Outcome Throw off your shackles, sheeple! This is the podcast the gubment doesn't want you to hear. We're discussing the famous short story Harrison Bergeron and why it seems like people so often interpret it in problematic ways. Paper arguing for revising our interpretation of Harrison Bergeron: http://coffmanenglish1.wikispaces.com/file/view/HB+Criticism.pdf Article on reclaiming Harrison Bergeron: http... (@0gPhilosophy, 2018-Sep-19)
76.	NEM#82: Byron Isaacs Emerges From Bassland Byron is an in-demand session/touring bassist whose main band since 2004 has been NYC's Ollabelle. We talk about "Losing You" and "Gypsy Wind" from his debut solo album, Disappearing Man (2018), plus "Gone Today” by Ollabelle from Riverside Battle Songs (2007), and finish with"Horizontal Man" by Lost Leaders from their 2014 eponymous album. Intro: “Heaven’s Pearls” by Levon Helm from Elect... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Sep-14)
77.	#023 Making Money Work With Voltaire And Jill Schlesinger In this episode with financial expert Jill Schlesinger you’ll learn how most of us are making mistakes when it comes to our finances, and what you can do to empower your financial prowess. You’ll also learn why you shouldn’t leave your fortune to fate and instead, in the words of the philosopher Voltaire, “cultivate your garden.” #thehappierhour (@MissMMcCarthy, 2018-Sep-18)
78.	Ep72 - A Multicultural Manifesto In this 72nd episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, Eric Thomas Weber and Anthony Cashio interview Bryan Van Norden on "A Multicultural Manifesto," the subtitle of his recent book Taking Back Philosophy. Bryan is currently Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Professor at Yale-NUS College. A recipient of Fulbright, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Mellon fellowships, he ... (@PhilosophyBB, 2018-Sep-09)
79.	Episode 46, Peter Adamson and the History of Women in Philosophy (Part II) Peter Adamson is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and the host of the History of Philosophy without and gaps podcast. The range of Peter’s expertise is phenomenal. The depth and breadth of his podcast History of Philosophy without any gaps is simply unrivalled, and the success of Peter’s projects has led him to publish a range of bo... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Sep-16)
80.	439: A World Without Work More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/world-without-work. Work: a lot lot of people do it, and a lot of people don’t seem to like it very much. But as computers and artificial intelligence get increasingly sophisticated, more and more of our workers will lose their jobs to technology. Should we view this inevitability with hope or with despair? Without the order and purpose that mean... (@philtalkradio, 2018-Sep-03)
81.	Dignity and enhancement Human dignity is one of those ideas that seem to have been around for as long as humans themselves, and few people would take issue with it. But like most ideas, human dignity has a philosophical pedigree, and there are in fact those who say we should abandon the notion—or at least modify its invocation. (@RadioNational, 2018-Sep-16)
82.	#022 Act II: Existential Angst and Career Change What happens when your dream career is no longer the dream? How much of what we do is who we are? In this bonus episode, Monica shares the secrets for successful career change that she learned from interviewing actors who left acting behind, and successfully pivoted into completely different careers. Whatever change you might be considering, this episode is for the existential crisis in all of us.... (@MissMMcCarthy, 2018-Sep-16)
83.	Rationally Speaking #217 - Aviv Ovadya on "The problem of false, biased, and artificial news" Aviv Ovadya, an expert on misinformation, talks with Julia about the multiple phenomena that get lumped together as "fake news." For example, articles that are straightforwardly false, misleading, or artificially created. (@Rspodcast, 2018-Sep-16)
84.	ROME, CHRIST, AND THE WESTERN MIND A Conversation With Orlando Patterson (3) ROME, CHRIST, AND THE WESTERN MIND A Conversation With Orlando Patterson (3) by Toby Buckle (@PolPhilPod, 2018-Sep-15)
85.	Episode 108: Mariam Thalos discusses freedom What do you think of yourself as? A musician? A mother? A political organizer? In this episode, our guest argues that your ability to act and reason freely is premised on your ability to shape and sometimes even invent the labels you apply to yourself. (@ElucidationsPod, 2018-Sep-15)
86.	Episode 198: Plato's Forms in the "Parmenides" (Part Two) We get down to the specific questions considered this perplexing Platonic dialogue: Are there forms for all adjectives? Does the form of a property itself have that property? How do Forms connect with particulars? How can we mortals have any connection to heavenly Forms anyway? Listen to part one first or get the full, ad-free Citizen Edition along with the follow-up episode. Please support PEL! E... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Sep-10)
87.	Philosophy of Handmaid's Tale: Is it Anti-Religion? Today's episode dives in the philosophy of the Hulu show Handmaid's Tale. This episode focuses on raising the question, is Handmaid's Tale anti-religion? Would society be better off without religion? Would lack of religion make these events less likely? Could something like this actually happen? What is the religion? Do the positives outweigh the negatives of religion? Patreon Support Page, p... (@philosophyguy2, 2018-Sep-14)
88.	Objections to Open Relationships. And Replies Justin, Alex, and Zach return to respond to all of your objections—well, 10 of them. If you are skeptical of the idea that you should reject monogamy and be in an open relationship, the vimmers follow up to assuage your doubts. See the article (https://thevimblog.com/2018/08/26/open-relationships/) for written responses to the objections. Listen with an open mind. Some transparency- ... (@thevimblog, 2018-Sep-12)
89.	Shelley Tremain, “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability” (U Michigan Press, 2017) How should we understand disability? In Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability (University of Michigan Press, 2017), Dr. Shelley Tremain explores this complex question from the perspective of feminist philosophy, using the work of Michel Foucault. The book is a fascinating critique of much contemporary philosophy and policy, providing a detailed, but easy... (@NewBooksPhil, 2018-Sep-11)
90.	#021 Moral Money With Adam Smith and Jennifer Morton Does morality have a role to play in economics? In this episode you’ll learn what philosophy professor Dr. Jennifer Morton has to say about the ethical costs of upward mobility, and how Adam Smith changed the way we think about economic distribution and decision making today. #thehappierhour Twitter/IG: MissMMcCarthy Facebook: @thehappierhour (@MissMMcCarthy, 2018-Sep-13)
91.	Episode 45 - Anna Alexandrova On Episode 45, Nick chats with Anna Alexandrova, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Science at Cambridge, about coming of age in Russia during the collapse of the USSR, succeeding in philosophy when she had “no other options,” and her book, “A Philosophy for the Science of Well-being.”Timestamps:0:15 Hello and welcome / 1:50 Anna fills us in on her summer aka the Cambridge “research t... (@SciPhiPod, 2018-Sep-13)
92.	0G22: Gattaca and Genetic Determinism Our first ever patron selected episode topic, and suspiciously Thomas's favorite. I'm sure that has nothing to do with it winning the tie vote over Aaron's choice, Minority Report. Kidding! We love all our topics equally. This is a really fun one and we cover several important ethical and philosophical issues relating to genetic programming. Also, we're happy to announce the winners of our book ra... (@0gPhilosophy, 2018-Sep-12)
93.	Should You Reject Monogamy? Justin and Alex join Zach to discuss his claim that open relationships are for everybody. They define some terms—like amatonormativity, dyadic, monogamy, and open relationships—and then set out some arguments for why we should reject monogamy. But if we do, where does that leave us? What would our relationships look like outside of the institution of monogamy? The vimmers do some philoso... (@thevimblog, 2018-Sep-10)
94.	#020 Do The (Side) Hustle With Epicurus and Chris Guillebeau This episode of The Happier Hour kicks off a two-week series on MONEY. Hear what Epicurus (the non-conformist philosopher) has in common with Chris Guillebeau (the non-conformist author, entrepreneur, and world traveller) and how both fellas can help you rethink the way you value, earn, and spend your hundred (or one) dollar bills, y’all. #thehappierhour Show notes: thehappierhour.org Twitter/IG... (@MissMMcCarthy, 2018-Sep-11)
95.	464: The Athlete as Philosopher More as https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/athlete-philosopher. For the ancient Greeks, sport was an integral part of education. Athletic programs remain in schools today, but there is a growing gap between the modern sports experience and enduring educational values such as self-discovery, responsibility, respect, and citizenship. Is there a way to bridge this gap? Can sports be a means to... (@philtalkradio, 2018-Aug-27)
96.	Episode 46, Peter Adamson and the History of Women in Philosophy (Part I) Peter Adamson is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and the host of the History of Philosophy without any gaps podcast. Peter’s main publications focus on Classical Philosophy, Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds, and Philosophy in the Islamic World, but the range of Peter’s expertise is phenomenal. The depth and breadth of... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Sep-09)
97.	#019 The Write Life With Jenny Blake In this bonus episode you'll hear how author, podcast host, and coach, Jenny Blake deals with writers block, organizes her writing projects, and overcomes her inner critic. You'll also learn how her outlook correlates with principles in Buddhism. Whether you're writing a book or writing emails, this episode is full of actionable advice for allowing more ease and fun into your writing practice (and... (@MissMMcCarthy, 2018-Sep-09)
98.	Proof and beauty Mathematicians routinely refer to complex proofs in aesthetic terms, citing their 'elegance' or 'beauty'. This has partly to do with the social aspect of such proofs—far from being a hermetic or exclusively cerebral practice, mathematics has never strayed too far from its roots in dialogue and debate. (@RadioNational, 2018-Sep-09)
99.	THE UNIQUENESS OF ATHENS A Conversation With Orlando Patterson (2) In the second part of the series Orlando Patterson to discuss the emergence of the value of freedom in Ancient Greece and its relation to slave society. We argue that Athens was unique in developing this value and western history was forever shaped by this, however uncomfortable we are with the seeming triumphalism of this narrative. (@PolPhilPod, 2018-Sep-08)
100.	Ep71 - The Not So Golden Rule In this 71st episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, Eric Thomas Weber and Anthony Cashio interview Dan Flores on "The Not So Golden Rule," the title of an essay that Dan published in Philosophy Now magazine. Dan is a Professor of Philosophy and also the Director of the Northwest Honors College at Houston community college. His interests are within the realm of metaphysics an... (@PhilosophyBB, 2018-Sep-01)
101.	Episode 198: Plato's Forms in the "Parmenides" (Part One) On the most peculiar Platonic dialogue, from ca. 350 BCE. Are properties real things in the world, or just in the mind? Plato is known for claiming that these "Forms" are real, though otherworldly. Here, though, using Parmenides as a character talking to a young Socrates, Plato seems to provide objections here to his own theory. What's the deal? Don't wait for part two! Get the full, ad-free Citiz... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Sep-03)
102.	Episode 147: Effective Altruism and Moral Uncertainty (with The One True Scotsman, Will MacAskill) Oxford philosophy professor Will MacAskill joins us to talk about effective altruism, moral uncertainty, and why you shouldn’t eat your grandmother (even if consequentialism is true). How should we act when we’re not sure which moral theory is the right one? Can we formulate a guide for behavior, modeled on decision theory, that maximizes expected moral value? How do we assign credences to eth... (@verybadwizards, 2018-Sep-04)
103.	Bonus: (sub)Text #3: Spielberg's "AI: Artificial Intelligence": What Is It to Be Human? (Part One) Wes discusses the film by Steven Spielberg with philosophy professor David Kyle Johnson. What is there to fear in artificial intelligence? How does this shed light on what it means to be fully human? Note: Part two will NOT be appearing on this feed. Become a PEL Citizen to get the full discussion. Visit partiallyexaminedlife.com/support to learn how. (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Sep-02)
104.	#018 Rebellion Q&A: I’ll Have What She’s Having In this audience Q&A episode of The Happier Hour, you’ll hear from all four guests on the latest topic of REBELLION as they answer questions ranging from racism to menstruation to incarceration. This wraps up two weeks of rebel-rousing conversations with the reminder that wherever there is oppression, there is an opportunity to rebel. #thehappierhour (@MissMMcCarthy, 2018-Sep-06)
105.	OG21: DS9 Dax and Queer Personhood I have seized the means of pod production and installed Callie Wright as our new leader. Long live Callie Wright! Thomas had a thing this week, so Callie and I recorded on the Deep Space Nine episode "Dax" (ep1.7 or 1.8 depending on service). We talk about queer theory and Star Trek, as well as persistence of personhood after radical changes in personality. And there should actually be new intro q... (@0gPhilosophy, 2018-Sep-05)
106.	#017 Making A Racket with Hypatia and Simone de Beauvoir How can changing the narrative of shame around women's bodies change the way society impact the identities of all people? In this episode we'll hear from the founders of Racket, as well as what the philosophers Hypatia and Simone de Beauvoir can teach us about non-conformity. #thehappierhour Show notes: thehappierhour.org Facebook: @thehappierhour Twitter/IG: @MissMMcCarthy (@MissMMcCarthy, 2018-Sep-04)
107.	Listener Qs 4 Back again for part two of answering your questions and speaking your unspeakable names. Hope you enjoy! Next week we're back to our regular schedule with another top requested movie: Ex Machina! Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebo... (@0gPhilosophy, 2018-Sep-04)
108.	Rationally Speaking #216 - Diana Fleischman on "Being a transhumanist evolutionary psychologist" On this episode of Rationally Speaking, professor Diana Fleischman makes the case for transhumanist evolutionary psychology: understanding our evolved drives, so that we can better overcome them.. (@Rspodcast, 2018-Sep-03)
109.	460: Summer Reading List More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/summer-reading-list-2018. Summer is here – what philosophers, philosophies, or philosophical issues do you want to read up on? Heidegger's Being and Time may not be the obvious choice to take on vacation, but there are lots of readable, beach-friendly classics and non-classics to add philosophical depth to your summer reading. Host emeritus John ... (@philtalkradio, 2018-Aug-20)
110.	Brian O’Connor, “Idleness: A Philosophical Essay” (Princeton UP, 2018) Culturally, idleness is widely derided as laziness, uselessness, and sloth. Even within philosophy, the idle are criticized for being wasteful, selfish, and free-loading. Indeed, throughout the history of moral and political philosophy, it is frequently asserted (though not often argued) that humans must be perpetually active, busy, and, in a... (@NewBooksPhil, 2018-Aug-31)
111.	Episode 45, Christianity, Gender and Society (Part II) Out now! Our audiobook ‘Developments in Christian Thought’ is free to download on all major podcast apps and at our website www.thepanpsycast.com/audiobook. For more information, take a little peak in the iTunes description (or at the bottom of this page). The audiobook is made up of 24-chapters, equally divided into 2-parts, which have been imaginatively named Part I and Part II. Part I conta... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Sep-02)
112.	Keeping them out Most people agree that nation states don’t have any moral right to control the movement of citizens within their borders, or to prevent citizens from travelling beyond those borders. If states do see a need to exclude entry to refugees and immigrants, the reasons often appeal to a need to 'preserve' national values. But those arguments may not be so robust. (@RadioNational, 2018-Sep-02)
113.	#016 Labor Of Truth: Ain't I A Woman In this Labor Day weekend bonus episode, you'll learn how the how the courage of former slave Sojourner Truth helped shape the rights of African Americans and the rights of all women. You'll also hear about ten current organizations led by women who are changing the lives of women and society in contemporary America, inspiring each of us to do something for the greater good. #thehappierhour Show n... (@MissMMcCarthy, 2018-Sep-02)
114.	SLAVERY AND FREEDOM A Conversation With Orlando Patterson (1) The first part of a three part series: I'm joined by the great historical sociologist Orlando Patterson to discuss the nature and history of slavery and how this lead to the creation of the "strange and un-innocent" value of freedom. In the first part we discuss Professor Patterson's background, his account of slavery and the history of slavery in the earliest peoples. (@PolPhilPod, 2018-Sep-01)
115.	Ep70 - Human Rights and Political Philosophy In this 70th episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, Eric Thomas Weber and Anthony Cashio talk with Toby Buckle about "Human Rights and Political Philosophy." Toby works for Amnesty International, but in this episode he is representing only his own point of view. Toby is also the founder and host of the Political Philosophy Podcast, which, according to his Web site, is "a wee... (@PhilosophyBB, 2018-Aug-25)
116.	Episode 197: Parmenides on What There Is (Part Two) Continuing with guest Peter Adamson with "On Nature" (475 BCE). We finally get to fragment 8, which describes why Being must be singular and eternal, given that the notion of Non-Being is nonsense. But how could we as individuals be asking these questions then? Does his "Way of Seeming" work to explain the appearances, as opposed to reality? Listen to part one first, or get the unbroken, ad-free C... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Aug-27)
117.	#015 Sinners and Saint Teresa of Avila with Dr. Christia Mercer What can a Catholic Saint teach us about contemplation and grace? What is the correlation between illiteracy and crime? Will women ever get the credit they deserve? All this and more in today's episode with Dr. Christia Mercer of Columbia University and the work of St Teresa of Avila. Show notes: TheHappierHour.org Twitter/IG; @MissMMcCarthy Facebook: @TheHappierHour #thehappierhour (@MissMMcCarthy, 2018-Aug-30)
118.	Bonus Episode - Glenn Adamson on Material Intelligence Peter's twin brother Glenn Adamson discusses the philosophical implications of craft. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Aug-11)
119.	Listener Qs 3 We're taking two episodes to say thanks to all the people making this show possible and to answer their excellent questions. This episode is special too. Aaron drops the most radioactive take he has ever dropped on record. Definitely make sure you're on the Facebook group, as the fallout is likely to be Chernobleque. Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://... (@0gPhilosophy, 2018-Aug-29)
120.	0G20: Black Mirror, Hang the DJ, Part 2: Predicting Compatibility Hang the DJ continues. Again and again and again, probably about 1000 times, depending on which number you're fixated on. There is a way you can tell it's a new version, though, cause we got all new intro quotes! Thanks so much for sending those in, such a great selection to choose from, and if you didn't hear yours, don't worry it is in the hopper for future rounds. A breakdown of Newcomb's Parad... (@0gPhilosophy, 2018-Aug-29)
121.	#014 Radical Resistance With Hannah Arendt and Genesis Be This episode kicks off two weeks on the topic of REBELLION. What does it mean to participate in civic engagement? Why are public discussions of opposing views so important? Hear what the rapper/activist Genesis Be has to say about conceptual resistance and why Hannah Arendt's political philosophy is still relevant today. #thehappierhour Show notes: TheHappierHour.org Twitter/IG @MissMMcCarthy Face... (@MissMMcCarthy, 2018-Aug-28)
122.	463: The Ethics of Algorithms More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/morality-algorithms. Recent years have seen the rise of machine learning algorithms surrounding us in our homes and back pockets. They're increasingly used in everything from recommending movies to guiding sentencing in criminal courts, thanks to their being perceived as unbiased and fair. But can algorithms really be objective when they are create... (@philtalkradio, 2018-Aug-13)
123.	Episode 45, Christianity, Gender and Society (Part I) We've been working tirelessly on our upcoming audiobook, Developments in Christian Thought, which is due to be released, free of charge, on August 28th 2018. If you're listening to this past August 28th, you can find a link to the audiobook in the iTunes description (or at the bottom of this page). We can't wait to share it with you. So we decided to release one of our favourite chapters early. Wh... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Aug-26)
124.	Ep68 - BC 12 - The Best of the Best or a Nice Variety of People at the Table? This 68th episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast is a short, breadcrumb, in which Eric Thomas Weber and Anthony Cashio invited Grace Joy Cebrero back on the show to talk about a listener’s voicemail. Grace was our guest in Episode 56 of the show, on “Inclusion and Philosophy.” At the end of that episode, Grace asked our listeners the following question: “Is it more i... (@PhilosophyBB, 2018-Aug-18)
125.	Women, autonomy and social justice in China Women in China have better access to education and job opportunities than ever before—yet a woman’s identity and value is still strongly linked with her role in the family, as wife and mother. (@RadioNational, 2018-Aug-26)
126.	#013 Embracing The Amateur In this bonus episode you'll hear why Monica believes we should embrace our inner amateur. You'll also hear about examples of amateurs throughout history; from the fields of sports to science to art, who greatly changed their field of study or work. Speaking of work, by the end of this episode you'll understand why Monica hates the popular notion that doing things we love isn't hard work. Show not... (@MissMMcCarthy, 2018-Aug-26)
127.	THE POINT OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY A Conversation With Tamler Sommers (2) THE POINT OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY A Conversation With Tamler Sommers (2) by Toby Buckle (@PolPhilPod, 2018-Aug-25)
128.	Bonus: (sub)Text #2: Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five": Is There Such a Thing as a War Story? (Part One) Episode 2 of Wes's new podcasting endeavor, featuring Mary from the Phi Fic podcast, who's also the managing editor of the PEL blog. Note: Part two will NOT be appearing on this feed. Become a PEL Citizen to get the full discussion. Visit partiallyexaminedlife.com/support to learn how. (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Aug-20)
129.	Episode 197: Parmenides on What There Is (Part One) On the fragments referred to as "On Nature" from ca. 475 BCE, featuring guest Peter Adamson from the History of Philosophy without Any Gaps podcast. Parmenides gives "the Way of Truth," which is that there is only Being, and talking of Non-Being is nonsense. So everything you experience is wrong! Don't wait for part two! Get the unbroken, ad-free Citizen Edition. Please support PEL! Sponsors: Expl... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Aug-20)
130.	Episode 146: Sore Losers (Does Sports Make Us Unhappy?) Is being a sports fan irrational? Does it lead to more suffering than happiness? David and Tamler discuss a recent study that suggests the answer is "yes." But does the study really capture the benefits of being fans? More generally, does science have the tools to truly measure the costs and benefits of rooting for your favorite teams? Plus, we talk about The Nation apologizing for publishing a po... (@verybadwizards, 2018-Aug-21)
131.	NEM#80: Rod Picott: Literary Workin' Man Nashville singer/songwriter/fiction-writer Rod laid sheet rock for years before releasing his first album in 2001; he has now released ten albums of vivid Americana. We focus on his new double album Out Past the Wires, discussing "Take Home Pay" and "Date of Grace" (with intro/outro from "Be My Bonnie"), then look back to "Rust Belt Fields" from Welding Burns (2011) and finally listen to “You're... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Aug-19)
132.	#012 LOVE Q&A: Love, Loss, and Loving More What can impermanence teach us about love? Can breakups lead to break throughs? In this episode, our previous guests on the topic of LOVE respond to a question asked by a member of the audience: "When it comes to love, what has been your biggest blessing in disguise?" TheHappierHour.org Twitter/IG: @MissMMcCarthy Facebook: @TheHappierHour #TheHappierHour (@MissMMcCarthy, 2018-Aug-23)
133.	0G19: Black Mirror, Hang the DJ, Part 1: Newcomb's Paradox We've returned to Black Mirror to talk about one of the episodes that started this all, Hand the DJ. Or maybe we're just yet another simulation of that in a test by a marketing brand to see if this show would work. Hard to say, really. Speaking of endless cycles, we're due for a new set of intro quotes so if you're a $5+ patron make sure you head over to the patreon site to submit suggestions and ... (@0gPhilosophy, 2018-Aug-22)
134.	#011 Commit To A Character with Aristotle and William Beteet In this episode we’ll explore how Aristotle and improvisation can help us navigate dating in the Age of the App; or at least how to stay sane in the process. Stand-up comic and men's dating coach William Beetet shares what he's learned about committing to a character and acting "as if" in order to improve his love life, and life in general. TheHappierHour.org Twitter/IG: @MissMMcCarthy Facebook:... (@MissMMcCarthy, 2018-Aug-21)
135.	390: Will Innovation Kill Us? More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/will-innovation-kill-us. Innovation, be it social, economic, or technological, is often hailed as the panacea for all our troubles. Our obsession with innovation leads us to constantly want new things and to want them now. But past innovations are arguably the main reason for many of our current predicaments, which in turn creates a further need to... (@philtalkradio, 2018-Aug-06)
136.	Rationally Speaking #215 - Anders Sandberg on "Thinking about the long-term future of humanity" This episode features Anders Sandberg, a researcher at Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, explaining several reasons why it's valuable to think about humanity's long-term future. (@Rspodcast, 2018-Aug-20)
137.	Episode 44, The Steven Pinker Interview As Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, Steven Pinker’s list of accomplishments is incredible; he has been named Humanist of the Year, a top “100 Global Thinker” by Foreign Policy and included in Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World Today.” Steven has also been awarded eight honorary doctorates and his research on language, vision and social relations has... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Aug-19)
138.	#010 Getting To The Good Place In this Happier Ever After Hours Bonus Episode, you'll hear why the creator of the popular television show The Good Place developed specific rules for the writers for each episode, and how defining our own rules can help us clarify our personal values. You'll also hear the rules Monica created for The Happier Hour and why she believes we must "curate to make space to create." Show notes: TheHappie... (@MissMMcCarthy, 2018-Aug-19)
139.	Ethics and absolutes in the classroom The trouble with morality is that reasonable people keep disagreeing on what’s right and wrong. The science, as they say, isn’t settled. So that being the case, how can we argue for fixed moral standards to which everyone should sign up? And how should we introduce kids to this vexed field of inquiry? (@RadioNational, 2018-Aug-19)
140.	COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT A conversation with Tamler Sommers COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT A conversation with Tamler Sommers by Toby Buckle (@PolPhilPod, 2018-Aug-18)
141.	Episode 196: Guest Simon Blackburn on Truth (Part Two) Continuing with Simon on his book On Truth (2018). We move to part two of the book, where we get down to the procedures used to obtain truth in art, ethics, and science. Yes, truth is objective, but it's not best described as correspondence, and in fact this elaboration of how truth is actually obtained is more enlightening than any abstract definition meant to cover all the different types of tru... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Aug-13)
142.	Keya Maitra, “Philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita: A Contemporary Introduction” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018) The Bhagavad Gita is one of the foundational texts of Hinduism and probably the one most familiar and popular in the West. The moral problem that motivates the text – is it right to kill members of one’s extended family if they are on the other side in a war?... (@NewBooksPhil, 2018-Aug-15)
143.	HoP 306 - Collectors’ Items - Photius and Byzantine Compilations Photius, “the inventor of the book review,” and other Byzantine scholars who preserved ancient learning. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Jul-29)
144.	#009 Soulmates, Sartre, and Beauvoir with Skye Cleary In this episode we explore how the Existentialists view the concepts of soul mates and marriage. Our guest, philosopher and author of Existentialism and Love, Dr. Skye Cleary shares her insights about Sartre, de Beauvoir, and whether or not we should really promise, "till death do us part." Show notes: TheHappierHour.org Twitter/IG: @MissMMcCarthy Facebook: @TheHappierHour Sharing: #TheHappierhour... (@MissMMcCarthy, 2018-Aug-16)
145.	John Kaag on Henry David Thoreau and Walden Pond On July 4th 1845, David Henry Thoreau went to live in a small cabin near the shore of Walden Pond, in Massachussetts. He stayed there alone for two years, and wrote about his experiences in the book that became Walden. John Kaag, an expert on American Philosophy, author of American Philosophy: A Love Story, discusses Thoreau and Walden with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Sites p... (@philosophybites, 2018-May-20)
146.	Episode #121 ... Michel Foucault pt. 1 Today we begin talking about the work of Michel Foucault. (@iamstephenwest, 2018-Aug-15)
147.	0G18: Dune Part Three, The Cycle of Politics For the last (or is it?) part of our Dune saga, we look at the political aspects of the universe and dive into the theory that all societies go through cycles of government none of which are stable. Primary Text: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyklos Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make su... (@0gPhilosophy, 2018-Aug-15)
148.	#008 Your Love Blueprint and Sigmund Freud with Terri Cole In this episode of The Happier Hour we'll hear from psychotherapist Terri Cole about how Sigmund Freud and the unconscious mind can help us navigate the murky feelings of LOVE. Whether calming the monkey mind with meditation, unearthing our unconscious mind with psychotherapy, or trying to not go out our minds with dating in in the age of the app, this episode is sure to help that crazy little thi... (@MissMMcCarthy, 2018-Aug-14)
149.	450: The 2018 Dionysus Awards more at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/dionysus-2018. Josh and Ken talk to philosophers, film critics, and listeners in presenting their fifth (mostly) annual Dionysus Awards for the most philosophically compelling movies of the past year. Categories include: • Most Searing Depiction of Humankind's Propensity to Dehumanize the Other • Most Philosophically Absurdist and Cinema... (@philtalkradio, 2018-Jul-30)
150.	How neo-liberalism has twisted liberalism Does neo-liberalism continue the values of classical liberalism? (@DavidEdmonds100, 2018-Aug-02)
151.	Episode 43, The Galen Strawson Interview (Part II) Galen Strawson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. Amongst countless papers in metaphysics and philosophy of mind, Galen is the author of Freedom and Belief, The Subject of Experience, Consciousness and Its Place in Nature and most recently, Things That Bother Me: Death, Freedom, the Self, Etc. The widespread impact of these works cannot be understated. In the words o... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Aug-12)
152.	CIVILITY AND TONE POLICING A Conversation With Teresa Bejan CIVILITY AND TONE POLICING A Conversation With Teresa Bejan by Toby Buckle (@PolPhilPod, 2018-Aug-11)
153.	The Pragmatists Should philosophy be the attempt to articulate truth? If you’re a pragmatist, the answer is No. William James wrote of truth as a subset of expediency, and of truth’s 'cash value'. Richard Rorty saw truth—philosophical, moral, even scientific—in terms of contingent 'vocabularies'. At a time when The Washington Post reports that the leader of the free world has made over 3,000 false claims ... (@RadioNational, 2018-Aug-12)
154.	#007 Ancient Wisdom For Modern Anxiety with Jules Evans How can philosophy help us navigate social anxiety? In this interview with Jules Evans, you’ll learn about Stoicism, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, the problem of “peak experience addicts," and Evans’ current research into “ecstatic experiences” and “spiritual emergencies.” This off-the-cuff Happier Ever After Hours bonus episode is part of a weekly series highlighting how philosophy... (@MissMMcCarthy, 2018-Aug-12)
155.	Episode 196: Guest Simon Blackburn on Truth (Part One) The Cambridge/etc. prof joins Mark, Wes, and Dylan to discuss his book On Truth (2018). What is truth? Simon's view synthesizes deflationism and pragmatism to avoid relativism by fixing on the domain-specific procedures we actually engage in to establish the truth of a claim, whether in ethics, science, art, or whatever. A gift of clarity after two episodes threshing through the jungles of analyti... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Aug-06)
156.	Episode 145: Lost in Borges' Garden David and Tamler go deep into Borges’ labyrinth to discuss the fascinating, multi-dimensional story “The Garden of Forking Paths.” What is the underlying reality of this story? What demands does Borges make of his readers? What is Borges telling us about time, freedom, war, and art? Is the story itself a maze for readers to wander and lose their way? We don’t have all the answers, but it w... (@verybadwizards, 2018-Aug-07)
157.	HAP 09 - In You I Take Shelter - Zera Yacob The 17th century Ethiopian rationalist Zera Yacob, hailed as the first modern Africana philosopher. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Jul-22)
158.	Bonus Episode Preview Westworld: From William to the Man in Black This is a Patreon bonus feed preview, enjoy! In this episode, I analyze the Man in Black's meaning of life or outlook on life. How he changed from young William to the Man in Black. What made him put down the white hat and put on the black? Is he living in bad faith? Is he trying to free the host because of justice or the new world of possibilities their freedom can open for HIM? What would Jean... (@philosophyguy2, 2018-Aug-09)
159.	#006 Resolutions Q&A: Plato, Seneca and Camus Walk Into A Bar In this episode you'll hear what the Stoics and Existentialists have in common, the difference between belief and truth, and why having a word of the year can help us focus on our goals. This audience Q&A episode wraps up two weeks of exploring philosophy and Resolutions. Resources: TheHappierHour.org Sharing: Twitter/IG: @MissMMcCarthy Facebook: @TheHappierHour #thehappierhour (@MissMMcCarthy, 2018-Aug-09)
160.	Steven Gimbel, “Isn’t That Clever: A Philosophical Account of Humor and Comedy” (Routledge, 2018) Humor and its varied manifestations—jesting joking around, goofing, lampooning, and so on—pervade the human experience and are plausibly regarded as necessary features of interpersonal interactions. As one would expect, these pervasive phenomena occasion philosophical questions. What renders some item or event humorous? Are funny jokes objectively so? As humor is... (@NewBooksPhil, 2018-Aug-06)
161.	OG17: Dune Part Two, Kwisatz Haderach and Self-Perfection The time for exposition is over! The one who can be in many places at once has finally arrived, metaphorically. Learn all about Aaron's crackpot theory for how to be the Kwisatz Haderach that you want to see in the world. More useful material on Virtue Theory: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-ethics/#VirDefConInc Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter:... (@0gPhilosophy, 2018-Aug-08)
162.	462: Does Science Over-reach? More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/does-science-over-reach. We've all heard the phrase, "You can't argue with science." Appealing to scientific fact as a way to settle a question makes sense given the amazing advancements science has brought us in understanding how the world works. But should we take the accomplishments of science as evidence for scientism—the view that science is... (@philtalkradio, 2018-Jul-23)
163.	#005 Just Your Imagination with Albert Camus and Rita J King How can we find meaning in a meaningless world? In this episode on Albert Camus with futurist Rita J King, we explore the idea of absurdity and how the imagination can be our greatest resource for accomplishing our goals and resolutions. #TheHappierHour Show notes: TheHappierHour.org Twitter/Instagram: @MissMMcCarthy Facebook: @TheHappierHour (@MissMMcCarthy, 2018-Aug-07)
164.	Robert Wright on Why Buddhism is True Robert Wright believes that there are a number of key tenets of Buddhism which are both compatible with present day evolutionary theory, and accurate about our relationship with the world and with our own minds. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast he discusses Buddhism, reality, and the mind, with interviewer Nigel Warburton. We are very grateful for support for this episode from the... (@philosophybites, 2018-May-07)
165.	Rationally Speaking #214 - Anthony Aguirre on "Predicting the future of science and tech, with Metaculus" This episode features physicist Anthony Aguirre discussing Metaculus, the site he created to crowd-source accurate predictions about science and technology. For example, will SpaceX land on Mars by 2030? (@Rspodcast, 2018-Aug-06)
166.	Episode 43, The Galen Strawson Interview (Part I) Galen Strawson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. Amongst countless papers in metaphysics and philosophy of mind, Galen is the author of Freedom and Belief, The Subject of Experience, Consciousness and Its Place in Nature and most recently, Things That Bother Me: Death, Freedom, the Self, Etc. The widespread impact of these works cannot be understated. In the words o... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Aug-05)
167.	EARLY AMERICAN RELIGION A conversation with Teresa Bejan EARLY AMERICAN RELIGION A conversation with Teresa Bejan by Toby Buckle (@PolPhilPod, 2018-Aug-04)
168.	Telling the story Philosophy is usually thought of as the province of ideas and abstract thought. But this week’s guest is taking philosophy in a slightly different direction, yet makes perfect sense. US academic Barry Lam is the creator and host of Hi-Phi Nation, a podcast that bringing together philosophy and storytelling—the results are rather wonderful. (@RadioNational, 2018-Aug-05)
169.	Episode 195: Truth-The Austin/Strawson Debate (Part Two) Continuing on "Truth" by J.L. Austin and "Truth" by P.F. Strawson both from 1950. We proceed to the Strawson article, which critiques the notion of a "fact" as explaining why a sentence might be true. A "fact" is not a thing in the world! So what do we add when we change "The cat is on the mat" to "'The cat is on the mat' is true?" Listen to Part One first, or get the unbroken, ad-free Citizen Edi... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Jul-30)
170.	HoP 305 - Andrew Louth on John of Damascus Peter is joined by Andrew Louth for a discussion of John of Damascus and his theological use of philosophy. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Jul-15)
171.	Episode 107: Linda Martín Alcoff discusses identity and history In this episode, Linda Martín Alcoff discusses the subtle ways that things like your race, gender, sexual orientation, and class can influence your life. She argues that the best way to understand that kind of influence is by looking to the history of the relevant social group. (@ElucidationsPod, 2018-Aug-03)
172.	Facebook Should End The Californians return to talk about the ethics of Facebook. Zach follows up on his article, “Facebook Should Shut Itself Down,” and tries to convince Dylan and Adam of his radical claim. In the episode they discuss potential objections to the idea—for example, that Facebook isn’t all that special, that the idea is too radical, that Facebook has surely done plenty of good, and whether, pr... (@thevimblog, 2018-Jul-31)
173.	#002 Beginnings with Plato and Dorie Clark What can Plato teach us about making resolutions? Dorie Clark, our inagural guest, shares her tips for setting goals that set us up for success, and why Plato is totally not overrated. The Happier Hour explores a different topic every two weeks. This week: Resolutions Share: #TheHappier Hour Notes: TheHappierHour.org Facebook: @TheHappierHour Twitter/IG: @MissMMcCarthy (@MissMMcCarthy, 2018-Aug-02)
174.	#003 Keep Calm And Carry On with Seneca and Massimo Pigliucci What can Seneca and the Stoics teach us about sticking to our resolutions? Professor Massimo Pigliucci explains why Stoicism is on the rise today, the relationship with CBT, and how all of us can improve ourselves everyday. The Happier Hour explores a different topic every two weeks. This week: Resolutions Resources: TheHappierHour.org Share: #TheHappierHour Twitter/IG: @MissMMcCarthy Facebook: @T... (@MissMMcCarthy, 2018-Aug-02)
175.	#004 How A Dinner Party Can Change Your Life Once upon a time, Monica hosted a philosophy dinner party that started a new chapter in her life and led to The Happier Hour. In this bonus episode we'll hear why she believes in philosophy as conversations and not just as ideas, and her tips for how to have better conversations in your own life. Happier Ever After Hours are bonus episodes from real life that highlight how philosophy can help us b... (@MissMMcCarthy, 2018-Aug-02)
176.	OG16: Dune Part One, the Expositioning For many episodes our people have waited for the poda al Gaib, the pod from the outer world. Finally, the prophecy is fulfilled. Yet many questions remain unanswered. Can we successfully explain the plot of Dune, and thereby avoid the podcast jihad? How many side characters with weird makeup choices do we have to cover before we can actually get to the philosophy? What philosophy are we even going... (@0gPhilosophy, 2018-Aug-01)
177.	461: Radical Markets - Solutions for a Gilded Age? More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/radical-markets. Many people think that growing inequality, the rise of populism and nativism, and the decay of democratic institutions all have the same cause—the overreach of markets. The solution, they believe, is to limit the market through regulation. But what if rather than shrinking the market, the answer lies in expanding the market? Is i... (@philtalkradio, 2018-Jul-16)
178.	Episode 44 - Kareem Khalifa On Episode 44, Nick chats with Kareem Khalifa, Professor at Middlebury College in Vermont (USA), about what it's like to teach and do philosophy of science at a liberal arts college, transitioning from applied mathematics to hermeneutics to philosophy of science, his impressive musical career as a bass guitarist, his new book, 'Understanding, Explanation, and Scientific Knowledge," his current wor... (@SciPhiPod, 2018-Jul-31)
179.	Ep67 - Jane Addams and Democratic Activism In this 67th episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, Eric Thomas Weber and Anthony Cashio talk with Dr. Marilyn Fischer about “Jane Addams and Democratic Activism.” Dr. Fischer is a Professor Emerita at the University of Dayton where she specializes in political philosophy and American Pragmatism. She focuses especially on Jane Addams’s philosophy. Marilyn has a strong... (@PhilosophyBB, 2018-Jul-21)
180.	Episode 42, The Nature or Attributes of God (Part IV - Further Analysis and Discussion) For religious believers, considering the questions that surround the nature or attributes of God, is important in their attempt to form a coherent understanding of their creator. In the Summa Theologica, shortly after arguing for the existence of God, Saint Thomas Aquinas writes the following: “Having recognised that a certain thing exists, we have still to investigate the way in which it exists... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Jul-29)
181.	CONTAINMENT AND DETERRENCE A conversation with Gregg Caruso (2) CONTAINMENT AND DETERRENCE A conversation with Gregg Caruso (2) by Toby Buckle (@PolPhilPod, 2018-Jul-28)
182.	Remembering Stanley Cavell Stanley Cavell, who died on June 19, was one of the world’s foremost contemporary thinkers, yet he always considered himself something of a philosophical outsider. His work ranged across the philosophy of language, aesthetics, ethics and epistemology—but also literature, cinema, and music. And his 'ordinary language' style and interest in questions of quality and value could be about to experi... (@RadioNational, 2018-Jul-29)
183.	HAP 08 - Solomon, Socrates, and Other Sages - Early Ethiopian Philosophy Philosophy in Ethiopia, with translations of religious and philosophical texts into Ge’ez and a national epic called the Kebra Nagast. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Jul-08)
184.	Episode 195: Truth-The Austin/Strawson Debate (Part One) On two articles in the "ordinary language" tradition of philosophy called "Truth" from 1950 by J.L. Austin and P.F. Strawson. Is truth a property of particular speech acts, or of the propositions expressed through speech acts? Does truth mean correspondence with the facts, or does the word "fact" make this definition totally uninformative? Does saying "is true" add any information content to a sen... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Jul-23)
185.	Episode 144: Borges' Babylon David and Tamler try to wrap their heads around Jorge Luis Borges' “The Library of Babel” – a short story about a universe/library that contains every possible book with every possible combination of characters. How many books would this library contain? Would some of the books justify our lives (if we could find them)? Can we know whether a book is deeply meaningful or deeply misleading? W... (@verybadwizards, 2018-Jul-24)
186.	Episode #120 ... Logical Positivism Today we talk about Logical Positivism. (@iamstephenwest, 2018-Jul-27)
187.	Philosophy of Westworld: Ford's View of Consciousness In this episode, we dive deeper into Westworld's understanding of consciousness. Particularly focussing on Robert Ford's views on consciousness. Does Ford think consciousness exists? Is the self an illusion? Which philosophers share a similar perspective as Ford? All of this discussed, tune in! As I mentioned in the show please reach out to me by email to enter the book giveaway..which will be ... (@philosophyguy2, 2018-Jul-27)
188.	Bonus: (sub)Text #1: Shakespeare's "The Tempest": Poesis as Revenge Forsaken (Part One) Wes Alwan and Bill Youmans discuss the 1611 play about revenge, forgiveness, and authorship. Or maybe it's about exploitation, or how we react to changes in status, or perhaps how a liberal education can give you magical powers! Note: Part two will NOT be appearing on this feed. Become a PEL Citizen to get the full discussion. Visit partiallyexaminedlife.com/support to learn how. (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Jul-21)
189.	Chamber of Facts Do people of opposing political parties believe in different facts? The mantra at the moment is that they do, because of media echo chambers, motivated reasoning, and ideological blindspots. But a more careful look reveals a different answer, with perhaps even more startling consequences. This week we follow two conservative Republicans who consumed a liberal newsfeed for two weeks, and we look at... (@HiPhiNation, 2018-Jul-23)
190.	OG15: Orville and the Prime Directive Prepare to have your destiny as a listener reshaped by paternalistic influences! We have on a wonderful guest, David Kyle Johnson of the Great Courses series to talk about the Season 1 Finale of The Orville (available on Hulu) and the ethics of the prime directive, a classic of the Star Trek Universe. Also, does anyone get a Brigadoon vibe from the planet in this episode? Didn't get to bring that ... (@0gPhilosophy, 2018-Jul-25)
191.	389: Spinoza More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/spinoza. Baruch Spinoza was a 17th century Dutch philosopher who laid the foundations for the Enlightenment. He made the controversial claim that there is only one substance in the universe, which led him to the pantheistic belief in an abstract, impersonal God. What effect did Spinoza have on Enlightenment thinkers? What are the philosophical – ... (@philtalkradio, 2018-Jul-09)
192.	#001 It's About Time To Get Happier Welcome! This is the teaser to entice you to hit SUBSCRIBE and join the fun. Equal parts philosophy and self-help, with a dash of humor thrown in for taste, The Happier Hour aims to make philosophy useful for the rest of us. Each episode will focus on a modern-day dilemma and calls on the greatest philosophers of all time for help. Like the joy that comes from a strong drink at half the price, thi... (@MissMMcCarthy, 2018-Jul-24)
193.	Episode 42, The Nature or Attributes of God (Part III - Omnibenevolence) For religious believers, considering the questions that surround the nature or attributes of God, is important in their attempt to form a coherent understanding of their creator. In the Summa Theologica, shortly after arguing for the existence of God, Saint Thomas Aquinas writes the following: “Having recognised that a certain thing exists, we have still to investigate the way in which it exists... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Jul-22)
194.	HoP 304 - Behind Enemy Lines - John of Damascus John of Damascus helps to shape the Byzantine understanding of humankind and the veneration of images, despite living in Islamic territory. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Jul-01)
195.	THE ILLUSION OF FREE WILL A conversation with Gregg Caruso THE ILLUSION OF FREE WILL A conversation with Gregg Caruso by Toby Buckle (@PolPhilPod, 2018-Jul-21)
196.	Rationally Speaking #213 - Dean Simonton on "The causes of scientific and artistic genius" This episode features Professor Dean Simonton, who has spent his life quantitatively studying geniuses, from Einstein to Mozart. (@Rspodcast, 2018-Jul-22)
197.	When work stops working Why do we work? According to Judaeo-Christian tradition, work is the result of a divine curse—and for many people in today’s labour market that comes as no surprise. And as more and more jobs become automated, fewer and fewer people will have them. An ideal future is a 'post-work' world where everybody has access to a universal basic income—but maybe there's an even better way. (@RadioNational, 2018-Jul-22)
198.	Episode 194: Alfred Tarski on Truth (Part Two) Continuing on Tarski's “The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics" (1944), Hartry Field's “Tarski's Theory of Truth” (1972), and Donald Davidson's “The Folly of Trying to Define Truth” (1977). What was Tarski really doing? What are the implications of his project? Does it even make sense to define "truth," and what should a definition look like? Listen to part one... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Jul-16)
199.	The Decision On July 16, 2018, the Massachusetts Supreme Court issued its decision in the case of Commonwealth versus Julie Eldred. I called lead counsel on the case, Lisa Newman-Polk, to get her reaction to the ruling and talk about its implications. This mini-episode is a follow-up to Episode 8: Willful Acts.  (@HiPhiNation, 2018-Jul-17)
200.	Eric Winsberg, “Philosophy and Climate Science” (Cambridge UP, 2018) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports that there is a warming trend in the global climate that is attributable to human activity, with an expected increase in global temperature (given current trends) of 1.5- 4.5 degrees Celsius (2.7-7.2 degrees Fahrenheit). But how do climate scientists reach these conclusions?... (@NewBooksPhil, 2018-Jul-16)
201.	Listener Qs 2 We take another week to answer your questions, as sponsored by the super fun game of torturing Aaron by making him say names out loud. Thank you all so so much for supporting the show and we will continue to periodically do these Q and A's, with plenty of heads up so you can all change your patreon names like the monsters that you are. Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us o... (@0gPhilosophy, 2018-Jul-18)
202.	HAP 07 - Richard Parkinson on Egyptian Poetry Egyptioogist Richard Parkinson joins us to talk about the context and meaning of the Eloquent Peasant and other literary works of ancient Egypt. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Jun-24)
203.	Episode 42, The Nature or Attributes of God (Part II - Omniscience) In the Summa Theologica, shortly after arguing for the existence of God, Saint Thomas Aquinas writes the following: “Having recognised that a certain thing exists, we have still to investigate the way in which it exists, that we may come to understand what it is that exists.” This seems like a peculiar thing to state. I know that there exists something, but I have no idea as to what this thing... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Jul-15)
204.	S2 Ep 1 THE FIRST PHILOSOPHERS A conversation with Peter Adamson S2 Ep 1 THE FIRST PHILOSOPHERS A conversation with Peter Adamson by Toby Buckle (@PolPhilPod, 2018-Jul-14)
205.	On Evil 'Evil is one of those words that seem to convey moral clarity—we all feel we know evil when we see it. But there was once a time when 'evil' simply referred to mundane mischance or wrongdoing; its transformation into something almost metaphysical is a relatively recent turn. (@RadioNational, 2018-Jul-15)
206.	Episode 194: Alfred Tarski on Truth (Part One) On Tarski's “The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics" (1944), Hartry Field's “Tarski's Theory of Truth” (1972), and Donald Davidson's “The Folly of Trying to Define Truth” (1977). What is truth? Tarski gives a technical, metaphysically neutral definition for truth within a particular, well-defined language. So how does that apply to real languages? He thought he... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Jul-09)
207.	Larry Temkin on Obligations to the Needy How can we best help other people? Peter Singer has argued that we should give aid. Despite a lifetime spent believing this, Larry Temkin has started to question whether the effects of aid are beneficial. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast he discusses some qualms about Peter Singer's arguments. (@philosophybites, 2018-Apr-02)
208.	Episode 143: The Psychology of Personality David and Tamler tackle the topic selected by their Patreon supporters - the psychology of personality. What are the different dimensions of personality that distinguish one person from another? How many dimensions are there - do the Big Five capture all of them? Do we share some of these differences with other species? Why don't personality psychologists include moral character traits? Plus - are... (@verybadwizards, 2018-Jul-10)
209.	PREVIEWS-Eps 192-193 Allan Bloom & Liberal Education Follow-Ups Hear highlights from two supporter-only discussions: Allan Bloom on Nietzsche/Freud/etc. and Leo Strauss vs. Richard Rorty on liberal education and democracy. (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Jul-07)
210.	388: Living On Through Others https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/living-through-others. Imagine that the world will end in thirty days. Would your life have meaning anymore? Would anyone’s? It seems that there would no longer be any point to making technological or medical advances, developing new forms of art, or even taking good care of ourselves. Imagining the doomsday scenario shows that there is something particu... (@philtalkradio, 2018-Jun-25)
211.	0G14: The Good Place and Justice vs. Mercy Welcome! Everything is fine. You're listening to the good podcast now. You're extremely lucky. Only a tiny portion of the population with high podcasting scores ever get to hear this show. You're here because you earned it. Congrats! Today we'll be discussing the overall concept of the show "The Good Place" (no spoilers) and how it relates to Justice and Mercy. Forking Awesome! Primary source mate... (@0gPhilosophy, 2018-Jul-11)
212.	#30 Microaggressions and Trans Identity with Sam Sumpter In this episode Dustyn and Whitney are joined by Sam Sumpter (University of Washington) to discuss the ethical considerations of 'microaggressions' and their relationship to trans identity. For our sources, visit NoNarrowThing.com (@NoNarrowThing, 2018-Jul-11)
213.	Bianca Bosker on Cork Dork Some books can change the way you experience the world. Bianca Bosker's Cork Dork is one of these. It tells how she trained her senses of smell and taste to become a sommelier, starting from a position of almost complete ignorance about wine. But more than that it is a book about experiencing the world more fully. For more episodes of Thinking Books, go to www.thinkingbooks.co (@philosophybites, 2018-Mar-25)
214.	HoP 303 - Don’t Picture This - Iconoclasm Is it idolatry to venerate an icon of a saint, or of Christ? The dispute leads the Byzantines to ponder the relation between an image and its object. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Jun-17)
215.	Rationally Speaking #212 - Ed Boyden on "How to invent game-changing technologies" This episode features neuroscientist Ed Boyden discussing two inventions of his that have revolutionized neuroscience: optogenetics and expansion microscopy. (@Rspodcast, 2018-Jul-09)
216.	Episode 42, The Nature or Attributes of God (Part I - Omnipotence) For religious believers, considering the questions that surround the nature or attributes of God, is important in their attempt to form a coherent understanding of their creator. In the Summa Theologica, shortly after arguing for the existence of God, Saint Thomas Aquinas writes the following: “Having recognised that a certain thing exists, we have still to investigate the way in which it exists... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Jul-08)
217.	How Hypocrisy Works pt. 2: Why our Accusations are Never Effective In the stunning conclusion, Dylan and Zach discuss 3 more fundamental and inescapable insights into the concept of hypocrisy. They focus on the question of why accusations of hypocrisy are ineffective, especially in politics. And yet, sometimes (not in politics) they are. When you're called a hypocrite, a part of you is embarrassed. How does all this work? In the final point, Zach proposes a disti... (@thevimblog, 2018-Jul-06)
218.	S1 Ep 19 Review and Recap S1 Ep 19 Review and Recap by Toby Buckle (@PolPhilPod, 2018-Jul-07)
219.	No laughing matter Philosophers tend not to be funny—Nietzsche is a notable exception, and Plato had his moments—but philosophy can have a humorous side. (@RadioNational, 2018-Jul-08)
220.	Episode 193: The Theory and Practice of Liberal Education (Part Two) Continuing with Pano Kanelos on articles on liberal education by Jacob Klein, Sidney Hook, and Martha Nussbaum. What's the practical application of a liberal education? Is it really liberating or indoctrinating? We continue discussion of the Great Books model. Listen to part 1 first or get the ad-free Citizen Edition along with the follow-up discussion. Please support PEL! End song: "Preservation ... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Jul-02)
221.	Ep66 - Disability and Popular Culture In this 66th episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, Eric Thomas Weber and Anthony Cashio had the pleasure to talk with self-taught philosopher John Altmann (a.k.a. Adrian Alba), who has been engaging in independent philosophical scholarship since 2010. We talking with John about “Disability and Popular Culture.” John is a regular contributor to the Popular Culture and Ph... (@PhilosophyBB, 2018-Jun-26)
222.	386: The Logic of Regret More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/logic-regret. A teenager decides, on a whim, to conceive a child. Even though we might say that this decision was irrational, she cannot regret it later, because raising the child eventually becomes the most important part of her life. Cases like this show how complicated regret is: that an action was irrational or wrong doesn’t necessarily imply... (@philtalkradio, 2018-Jun-18)
223.	0G13: Westworld and Virtue Theory, Part 2 - with Eli Bosnick! Do these violent delights really have violent ends? Does the park show you who you really are, or does it shape who you become? Is there any way we can use artificial entities to help humans be better, or is it doomed to make us worse? We'll fail to answer these questions and more in our thrilling conclusion to our Westworld two parter. Primary source material: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics book ... (@0gPhilosophy, 2018-Jul-04)
224.	HAP 06 - Heated Exchanges - Philosophy in Egyptian Narratives and Dialogues Demands for ma’at (justice or truth) and a confrontation with the soul, in the Tale of the Eloquent Peasant and Dispute Between a Man and his Ba. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Jun-10)
225.	Elizabeth F. Cohen, “The Political Value of Time: Citizenship, Duration, and Democratic Justice” (Cambridge UP, 2018) We’re all familiar with some of the ways that time figures into our political environment. Things such as term limits, waiting periods, deadlines, and criminal sentences readily come to mind. But there are also protocols, accords, mandates, and contracts, and these frequently invoke temporal bounds of various kinds. In fact,... (@NewBooksPhil, 2018-Jun-29)
226.	Episode 41, Christian B. Miller and 'The Character Gap' (Part II) Bringing together contemporary psychology and moral philosophy, the work of Christian B. Miller in character education has been tremendously influential. Christian Miller is the A.C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University and the Director of the Character Project funded by the John Templeton Foundation and the Templeton World Charity Foundation. As well as publishing over 75 papers... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Jul-01)
227.	How Hypocrisy Works pt. 1: What is Hypocrisy? It is the glorious return of Dylan! He joins Zach to dig into the concept of hypocrisy. They focus on two questions: 1) What is hypocrisy? 2) Why are accusations of hypocrisy so appealing? Like typical philosophers, they find the concept to be more nuanced and rich than you might expect. The episode gives 9 insights/discoveries about hypocrisy (3 more are coming in the second part). With them you ... (@thevimblog, 2018-Jun-29)
228.	THE LIBERTY PRINCIPLE A conversation with professor John Skorupski THE LIBERTY PRINCIPLE A conversation with professor John Skorupski by Toby Buckle (@PolPhilPod, 2018-Jun-30)
229.	Episode 193: The Theory and Practice of Liberal Education (Part One) Pano Kanelos, the president of St. John's College, Annapolis joins us to discuss Jacob Klein's “The Idea of a Liberal Education” (1960) and “On Liberal Education” (1965), plus Sidney Hook’s “A Critical Appraisal of the St. John’s College Curriculum” (1946) and Martha Nussbaum’s “Undemocratic Vistas” (1987). What constitutes a liberal education? Should we all read the Western ... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Jun-25)
230.	Backyard ethics: defending the NIMBY Suppose a new hospital or drug rehabilitation centre needs to be built. If you’re a NIMBY, then you’ll be fine with the project—as long as it doesn’t negatively affect your property value. NIMBYism is often touted as the scourge of suburbia, but maybe there’s more to it than meets the eye. (@RadioNational, 2018-Jul-01)
231.	Philosophy of Westworld: Consciousness and Personhood P1 In this episode, we cover the question of consciousness in Westworld. Do host have a different level of consciousness than humans? Do the host have to prove their consciousness or do humans have to prove the host don't? What are the moral implications of the host having consciousness? How does this relate back to the broader question of personhood? All of this discussed! As I mentioned in the sh... (@philosophyguy2, 2018-Jul-01)
232.	Episode 142: Suicide (with Matthew Nock) In what has to be the most somber VBW to date, David and Tamler welcome Harvard psychologist Matthew Nock to the podcast to talk about suicide and other forms of self-harm. Matt tells us what we know – and what we don’t know - about the causes of suicide and the ways to prevent it. In the first segment we talk about the recent exposé of Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment. Were the guard... (@verybadwizards, 2018-Jun-26)
233.	459: The Value of Care - Feminism and Ethics More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/value-care. We sometimes think of the domains of ethics and morality as divorced from feeling and emotion. You keep your promises because it maximizes good. But what if care were thought of as the bedrock of morality? While we know that more care work is performed by women, would a care-based approach to ethics be feminist, or merely feminine? What... (@philtalkradio, 2018-Jun-11)
234.	0G12: Westworld and Morality Simulators, Part 1 - with Eli Bosnick! Within our podcasts exists a maze. It is a maze built for you, to help you achieve your philosophical becoming. Each step in the maze is essential, though it may not always be clear why at the time. At this step in the maze, we discuss the rapey origins of Westworld and why they could never get the park insured. Primary source material: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics book 2 http://www.perseus.tuft... (@0gPhilosophy, 2018-Jun-27)
235.	#29 Take Five: Flat Earth, BS Jobs, and Performative Cruelty Dustyn and Whitney examine 5 topics, rapid-fire. Topics include: "bs" jobs, political soccer players, the performative cruelty of separating families, Daria's return, and flat earth theory. For our sources and more, visit NoNarrowThing.com (@NoNarrowThing, 2018-Jun-27)
236.	HoP 302 - On the Eastern Front - Philosophy in Syriac and Armenian Eastern Christian philosophy outside of Constantinople, focusing on translation and exegesis in the languages of Syriac and Armenian. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Jun-03)
237.	Rationally Speaking #211 - Sabine Hossenfelder on "The case against beauty in physics" This episode features physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, author of Lost in Math, arguing that fundamental physics is too enamored of "beauty" as a criterion for evaluating theories of how the universe works. (@Rspodcast, 2018-Jun-25)
238.	Episode #119 ... Derrida and Words Today we begin our discussion on the work of Jacques Derrida. (@iamstephenwest, 2018-Jun-25)
239.	Episode 41, Christian B. Miller and 'The Character Gap' (Part I) Bringing together contemporary psychology and moral philosophy, the work of Christian B. Miller in character education has been tremendously influential. Christian Miller is the A.C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University and the Director of the Character Project funded by the John Templeton Foundation and the Templeton World Charity Foundation. As well as publishing over 75 papers... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Jun-24)
240.	BLACK ATHEISM A conversation with Mandisa Thomas BLACK ATHEISM A conversation with Mandisa Thomas by Toby Buckle (@PolPhilPod, 2018-Jun-23)
241.	Episode 192: "The Closing of the American Mind": Allan Bloom on Education (Part Two) Continuing on Allan Bloom's 1987 book critiquing the current fragmented structure of the university that promotes technical and professional education over the ability to think philosophically. Does Bloom's vision require aristocracy, or can a Great Books education be available for all? Listen to part 1 first, or get the unbroken, ad-free Citizen Edition. Your Citizenship will also get you access ... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Jun-18)
242.	Guilty or not guilty Second in a two-part series on Indian philosophy. Buddhism teaches that the self is an illusion—so what do we do with self-conscious emotions like guilt and shame, which can put useful brakes on ethical misconduct? If there’s no self to be ashamed of, how should we understand the emotion? The answer lies in an ancient series of Indian Buddhist texts: the Abhidharma. (@RadioNational, 2018-Jun-24)
243.	Episode 106: R. A. Briggs discusses gender In this episode, R. A. Briggs discusses some complexities underlying our use of the terms 'man' and 'woman.' (@ElucidationsPod, 2018-Jun-22)
244.	Cheating, Polyamory, and Open Relationships Lila, Zach, and Justin discuss 'amatonormativity', the notion that monogamy is normal for all humans and a universally shared goal. They give philosophical treatment to concepts like cheating, polyamory, and open relationships. (There is also a discussion of cheating with a sexy PhD dissertation.) Justin introduces his claims through J. Cole's video for "Kevin's Hart" (https://www.yout... (@thevimblog, 2018-Jun-20)
245.	Ep69 - Loving Life We are releasing this 69th episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast a little early, as there are a few spots left to join a philosophical canoe trip that Eric Thomas Weber and Anthony Cashio will be holding with Alejandro Strong of Apeiron Expeditions. We’ll be talking about John Lachs’s 1998 book, In Love with Life, so we invited John back on the show to talk about his boo... (@PhilosophyBB, 2018-Jun-12)
246.	A Night of Philosophy Hi-Phi Nation stays overnight at the Brooklyn Public Library during the 2018 Night of Philosophy. From 7pm to 7am on a Saturday night, thousands of New Yorkers swarmed the central library for acrobats, musicians, and philosophy. Meanwhile, we present philosophy shorts about the definition of life, the nature of good and the morality of revenge, and moral relativism. At the event, producer Sandra B... (@HiPhiNation, 2018-Jun-19)
247.	458: Repugnant Markets – Should Everything Be For Sale? More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/repugnant-markets. We might ban buying or selling horse meat in the US not for the protection of horses, but because we find it morally repugnant. Yet this moral repugnance is clearly not universal, and on some level may even be arbitrary, given France's attitude towad horse meat. What role, if any, should moral repugnance play in determining the r... (@philtalkradio, 2018-Jun-04)
248.	Episode 43 - Janet Stemwedel On Episode 43, Nick chats with Janet Stemwedel, Professor and Chair in Philosophy at San Jose State University, about how within two weeks of defending her dissertation in physical chemistry at Stanford she realized that the questions that really kept her up at night were philosophical questions about science rather than scientific questions, why scientific knowledge-building needs ethics, th... (@SciPhiPod, 2018-Jun-21)
249.	HAP 05 - Father Knows Best - Moral and Political Philosophy in the Instructions Ethical reflection in ancient Egyptian grave inscriptions and in works of instruction, such as the Maxims of Ptahhotep and the Instructions named for Amenemope, Ani, and Merikare. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-May-27)
250.	Philosophy of Westworld Introduction In this episode I discuss the philosophical ideas, questions, and topics that will be covered in the upcoming series. Also some background on the process for choosing some of those topics. As I mentioned in the show, at the end of the Westworld series I'll be giving away a few books! To enter, just send me an email with proof that you're subscribed to my podcast, plus you can recieve a second en... (@philosophyguy2, 2018-Jun-20)
251.	Sarah Fine on the Right to Exclude Do states have a moral right to exclude people from their territory? It might seem obvious that states do have such a right, but Sarah Fine questions this in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. This episode of Philosophy Bites was sponsored by the Examining Ethics podcast from the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University. You can subscribe to Examining Ethics on iTunes o... (@philosophybites, 2018-Feb-14)
252.	Edouard Machery, “Philosophy Within Proper Bounds” (Oxford UP, 2017) There are five people on the track and a runaway trolley that will hit them, and you are on a footbridge over the track with a large person whose body can stop the trolley in its tracks. Should you push the large person to his death to save the five... (@NewBooksPhil, 2018-Jun-15)
253.	Episode 40, 'Offensive Language' with Rebecca Roache Rebecca Roache is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London. Dr Roache specialises in practical ethics, logic, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychiatry and early modern philosophy, but in this episode, we’ll be speaking to Rebecca specifically about the philosophy of language and swearing. In the words of Rebecca Roache: "With a little imagination, we can find ... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Jun-17)
254.	Episode 192: "The Closing of the American Mind": Allan Bloom on Education (Part One) On Allan Bloom's 1987 best-selleing polemic. What is the role of the university in our democracy? Bloom thinks that today's students are conformist, relativistic, and nihilistic, and that great books and thinking for thinking's sake are the cure. Continued on part 2, or get the unbroken, ad-free Citizen Edition plus an exclusive follow-up discussion. Please support PEL! Sponsor: Visit thegreatcour... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Jun-11)
255.	POSTMODERN CHRISTIANITY A conversation with Dale Martin (3) POSTMODERN CHRISTIANITY A conversation with Dale Martin (3) by Toby Buckle (@PolPhilPod, 2018-Jun-16)
256.	Episode 42 - Sabina Leonelli On Episode 42, Nick chats with Sabina Leonelli, Professor of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Exeter, about how her desire not to choose between her various research interests led her to study philosophy of science, her early career projects "Understanding Scientific Understanding" and "How well do 'facts' travel?", the epistemic, social, and ethical dimensions of data-i... (@SciPhiPod, 2018-Jun-17)
257.	The oblivion of India Indian philosophy has thousands of years of history behind it, yet Western philosophers have largely ignored it—and their assumptions about Indian philosophy may have influenced the Western philosophical canon. (@RadioNational, 2018-Jun-17)
258.	383: The Ethics of Drone Warfare More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/ethics-drone-warfare. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, aka ‘drone,’ is increasingly the weapon of choice in America's military operations. Many laud its ability to maintain our global power while reducing human and financial costs. By the same token, however, this safe and secretive weapon may in turn cause civilians to disengage ever more from the... (@philtalkradio, 2018-May-28)
259.	Philosophy of Trailer Hello and welcome back to the podcast! This is an announment trailer for my new project. I've been away for awhile now but I'm excited to announce the new version of the podcast. The trailer will explain how I'll be using movies, tv shows, and books to dive deeper into those philosophical ideas presented in the interesting entertainment(ex, Rick and Morty and Westworld) all around us. Intr... (@philosophyguy2, 2018-Jun-15)
260.	HoP 301 - The Empire Strikes Back - Introduction to Byzantine Philosophy We begin to look at the third tradition of medieval philosophy, in which the heritage of classical antiquity is preserved and debated by the Byzantines. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-May-20)
261.	Montesquieu Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689-1755) whose works on liberty, monarchism, despotism, republicanism and the separation of powers were devoured by intellectuals across Europe and New England in the eighteenth century, transforming political philosophy and influencing the American Constitution. He argued that an indivi... (@BBCInOurTime, 2018-Jun-14)
262.	#28 The Experience Machine Dustyn and Whitney explore the classic thought experiment, the Experience Machine! For our sources, visit NoNarrowThing.com (@NoNarrowThing, 2018-Jun-13)
263.	0G11: Full Metal Alchemist and Death The first rule of podcasting is the law of equivalent awesome. To obtain an awesome podcast, something of equal awesomeness must be lost: One paper on the philosophy of death: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/death/#ImmMis One article on the myths of immortality: http://www.senescence.info/physical_immortality_myths.html One pop culture survey of reasons not to bring people back from the dead.... (@0gPhilosophy, 2018-Jun-13)
264.	Rationally Speaking #210 - Stuart Ritchie on "Conceptual objections to IQ testing" This episode features Stuart Ritchie, intelligence researcher and author of the book "Intelligence: All That Matters." Stuart responds to some of the most common conceptual objections to the science of IQ testing. (@Rspodcast, 2018-Jun-11)
265.	Ep65 - The Stories of Our Day 2: Westworld In this 65th episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, Eric Thomas Weber and Anthony Cashio had the pleasure to talk with Dr. James South and Dr. Kimberly Engels about Westworld. We discuss topics including artificial intelligence and storytelling as well as the ethical and political questions that Westworld raises for us. Kimberly and James are the editors of Westworld and Phi... (@PhilosophyBB, 2018-May-31)
266.	Episode 191: Conceptual Schemes: Donald Davidson & Rudolf Carnap (Part Two) Finishing Davidson's "On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme" (1974) and moving on to Carnap's "Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology" (1950). Carnap claims that we talk about mathematical objects or subatomic particles or whatever, we're not really (contra Quine) making metaphysical claims. Ontological questions like "Are there really numbers?" are just pretentious nonsense. With guest Dusty Dallm... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Jun-04)
267.	Episode 39, 'The Philosophy of Perception' with Bence Nanay Bence Nanay is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Antwerp and Research Associate in philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Nanay is also the principal investigator of the European Research Council project, Seeing Things You Don’t See: Unifying the Philosophy, Psychology and Neuroscience of Multimodal Mental Imagery. As well as publishing more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, Nanay... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Jun-10)
268.	FROM CHRIST TO CONSTANTINE A conversation with Dale Martin (2) FROM CHRIST TO CONSTANTINE A conversation with Dale Martin (2) by Toby Buckle (@PolPhilPod, 2018-Jun-09)
269.	Episode 141: Implicit Bias David and Tamler tackle the topic of implicit bias and the controversy surrounding the implicit association test (IAT). What is implicit bias anyway? Does it have to be linked to behavior in order to truly count as a "bias"? Has the IAT been overhyped as a reflection of individual or group prejudice? And why is the debate on this topic so depressing? Plus, some deep thoughts on the intellectual d... (@verybadwizards, 2018-Jun-05)
270.	Knud Loegstrup and The Ethical Demand Danish philosopher Knud Loegstrup was a contemporary of Sartre, Arendt and Levinas—but his influence outside the world of Nordic philosophy has been limited. Scott Stephens speaks with Loegstrup’s two English translators about his masterwork The Ethical Demand, and about some unexpected resonances with English moral philosopher Iris Murdoch. (@RadioNational, 2018-Jun-10)
271.	Pro-Choice Arguments for Pro-Life People Sarah and Zach talk to single issue abortion voters. Sarah puts forward an argument that being pro-life doesn't imply that one should always vote for pro-life candidates. The discussion covers all sorts of important questions along the way. - What should we make of the difference between 'immoral' and 'illegal'? - What does it mean to live in a secular democracy? - Why was the abortion is... (@thevimblog, 2018-Jun-07)
272.	Should we pay reparations for wrongs committed in the past? Are African Americans owed reparations for the enslavement of their ancestors? (@DavidEdmonds100, 2018-May-25)
273.	HAP 04 - Pyramid Schemes - Philosophy in Ancient Egypt Ancient Egyptian figures and writings including the Pyramid Texts, Imhotep, and the "first monotheist" Akhenaten reflect on the nature of things and questions of morality. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-May-13)
274.	380: Neuroscience and Free Will More at philosophytalk.org/shows/neuroscience-and-free-will. We like to think of ourselves as rational agents who exercise conscious control over most of our actions and decisions. Yet in recent years, neuroscientists have claimed to prove that free will is simply an illusion, that our brains decide for us before our conscious minds even become aware. But what kind of evidence do these scient... (@philtalkradio, 2018-May-18)
275.	William A. Edmundson, “John Rawls: Reticent Socialist” (Cambridge UP, 2017) John Rawls is easily the most celebrated and influential political philosopher of the 20th Century, and his impact remains remarkably strong today. The central concepts with which his theory of justice begins are now components of the philosophical vernacular: The Original Position, Veil of Ignorance, Primary Goods, and his Two... (@NewBooksPhil, 2018-Jun-01)
276.	Eric Schwitzgebel on Scepticism How do I know I'm not dreaming? This sort of question has puzzled philosophers for thousands of years. Eric Schwitzgebel discusses scepticism and its history with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. This episode of Philosophy Bites was sponsored by the Examining Ethics podcast from the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University. You can subscribe to Examin... (@philosophybites, 2018-Jan-11)
277.	Ep64 - Philosophy as Play In this 64th episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, Eric Thomas Weber and Anthony Cashio had the pleasure to talk with three guests at the 2018 conference of the Public Philosophy Network in Boulder, CO, all hailing from Pacific Lutheran University: Matthew Salzano, Dr. Michael Rings, and Dr. Sergia Hay. We talked about “Philosophy as Play” with the three philosophers wh... (@PhilosophyBB, 2018-May-24)
278.	Episode 191: Conceptual Schemes: Donald Davidson & Rudolf Carnap (Part One) On Davidson's "On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme" (1974) and Carnap's "Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology" (1950). What does it mean to say that we grasp the world through a conceptual scheme? Are schemes different between cultures or even individuals, such that we can't really understand each other? Davidson thinks that this doesn't make sense. We'll get to Carnap in part 2, but you needn't... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-May-28)
279.	Episode 38, ‘Philosophy in Everyday Life’ with Philosophy Now's Rick Lewis (Part II) Rick Lewis took his first degree in physics and philosophy of science at the University of Manchester, and later an MA in philosophy at the University of York. Making philosophy accessible and encouraging the person on the street to engage in philosophy in their everyday life was, and is, hugely important to Rick. That’s why in 1991 Rick founded the magazine Philosophy Now, of which, he has bee... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Jun-03)
280.	PAUL AND THE RESURRECTION A conversation with Professor Dale B Martin PAUL AND THE RESURRECTION A conversation with Professor Dale B Martin by Toby Buckle (@PolPhilPod, 2018-Jun-02)
281.	Making differences We're all keen on diversity these days—as long as it stays within proper boundaries. When it comes to moral values though, diverse perspectives can make us uncomfortable—so how do we manage it, and how can we do better? (@RadioNational, 2018-Jun-03)
282.	387: In Praise of Love – Plato's Symposium Meets Bernstein's Serenade More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/praise-love-platos-symposium-meets-bernsteins-serenade. Plato’s Symposium is arguably the most memorable philosophical work ever written on the subject of love. It is also the inspiration for Leonard Bernstein’s gorgeous violin concerto, the Serenade. What would Plato think of Bernstein’s Serenade, especially given his criticism of art and po... (@philtalkradio, 2018-May-14)
283.	Willful Acts Army veteran Jim McKelvey applied for his VA benefits and was denied for willful misconduct. Thirty years later, Julie Eldred was sent to prison for a willful violation of probation. Both challenged, both got to a Supreme Court with the promise to change the law of the land. The disease model of addiction has been litigated a handful of times in the history of American law. Every time the same iss... (@HiPhiNation, 2018-May-30)
284.	PREVIEWS-Ep 189: Authorial Intent (Part Three) Plus Identity Politics Listen here to a few highlights from two recent discussions between Mark and Wes: We chase down some issues from ep. 189, relating authorial intent to philosophy of language more generally, then we have some preliminary discussion about the possibility of a future identity politics episode. Get the full discussions by becoming a PEL Citizen or $5/month Patreon supporter. (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-May-26)
285.	HoP 300b - The Relevance of Medieval Philosophy Today Peter King, Catarina Dutilh Novaes, and Russ Friedman discuss their approaches to medieval philosophy, and its contemporary relevance. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-May-06)
286.	Episode 41: Michael Strevens On Episode 41, Nick chats with Michael Strevens, professor in the Philosophy Department at New York University, about growing up in Auckland, New Zealand during the 1970s, how his mutual interests in computer science and how thought works lead to undergraduate work in formal logic and graduate study at Rutgers, how he transitioned after being denied tenure at Stanford, philosophy of probabilities ... (@SciPhiPod, 2018-May-31)
287.	The Politics of Public Philosophy Zach, Lila, and Adam get self-reflective and talk about public philosophy. What is it? What should it be? And what should we make of the attitude many ‘private’ philosophers take towards it? This episode digs into the political dimensions of public philosophy. Listen to the two previous episodes in the series. The episode is loosely based on this article by Zach: https://thevimblog... (@thevimblog, 2018-May-28)
288.	#27 Enlightenment Now with David Prestin David Prestin (nextcallings.com) joins Dustyn and Whitney to dive into Steven Pinker's new book Enlightenment Now - The Case for Reason, Science, and Progress. Is the world in a better state than it seems? If so, why does it feel so bad? For our sources, visit NoNarrowThing.com (@NoNarrowThing, 2018-May-30)
289.	0G10: Brave New world and Genetic Engineering, Part 2 Podcast genome editing complete. Newly synthesized entity contains: Beta level paper on Genetic Determinism: https://peh-med.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1747-5341-1-9 Beta Plus level paper on Genetic Engineering and Virtue Theory: http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.desklight-c188f72b-ddd2-4f3e-ae0b-552fb8e64aee/c/6_kraj.pdf Alpha Plus level reminder to offer up intro qu... (@0gPhilosophy, 2018-May-30)
290.	Episode 190: Film Analysis: "mother!" On Darren Aronofsky's philosophical 2017 film about humanity's relationship to nature. We discuss the philosophical content of the film (Gnosticism, anyone?) and explore the relation between meaning and the sensuous aspects of an artwork. Can a work be both allegorical and yet have fully fleshed out characters and the other elements that make a film feel real? This was a very polarizing film; how ... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-May-21)
291.	Rationally Speaking #209 - Christopher Chabris on "Collective intelligence & the ethics of A/B tests" This episode features cognitive psychologist Christopher Chabris discussing his research on "collective intelligence" and why people get so upset at companies like Facebook and OKCupid for doing experiments on their users, and whether that's fair. (@Rspodcast, 2018-May-28)
292.	Episode 38, ‘Philosophy in Everyday Life’ with Philosophy Now's Rick Lewis (Part I) Rick Lewis took his first degree in physics and philosophy of science at the University of Manchester, and later an MA in philosophy at the University of York. Making philosophy accessible and encouraging the person on the street to engage in philosophy in their everyday life was, and is, hugely important to Rick. That’s why in 1991 Rick founded the magazine Philosophy Now, of which, he has bee... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-May-27)
293.	457: Faith and Humiity More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/faith-and-humility. Some would argue that faith requires that one blindly—rather than rationally— believe. Faith in one ‘true’ religion often entails rejection of all others. Given this, can there ever be humility when it comes to religious faith? How unwavering should the faithful be when it comes to their religious convictions, attitudes,... (@philtalkradio, 2018-May-07)
294.	ASK ME ANYTHING Q&A with the host ASK ME ANYTHING Q&A with the host by Toby Buckle (@PolPhilPod, 2018-May-26)
295.	Episode 140: Milgram's Mice Honor shmonor, David and Tamler return to their repugnant roots for this one. First, we pay an overdue homage to the great anonymous blogger and twitter-redeemer Neuroskeptic. We pick a few of our favorite pithy tweets and crazy science article links from his @neuro_skeptic twitter account. Topics include: How much would you pay for porn? Should we be stereotyping zoophiles? Animal or fist - how t... (@verybadwizards, 2018-May-22)
296.	Morals and the market Neoliberalism and human rights are often portrayed as standing in opposition to each other, with the fat cats at the big end of town pulling the economic levers. But neoliberalism and the discourse of modern human rights can actually be seen as close philosophical cousins. (@RadioNational, 2018-May-27)
297.	HAP 03 - Fertile Ground - Philosophy in Ancient Mesopotamia Do the cuneiform writings of Babylonian culture show that it had its own philosophy? (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Apr-29)
298.	Philip Pettit on Robustly Demanding Goods What is a robustly demanding good, and what has that got to do with friendship and love? Find out in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast in which Nigel Warburton interviews Princeton Professor Philip Pettit about this topic. (@philosophybites, 2017-Dec-10)
299.	Episode 189: Authorial Intent (Barthes, Foucault, Beardsley, et al) (Part Two) Continuing on "The Death of the Author" by Roland Barthes (1967) and "What Is an Author?" by Michel Foucault (1969), and finally getting to “Against Theory” by Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels (1982). What could it mean to say that a text, once written, speaks itself? We get into Foucault's critique of the cult of the author and the reader-centric types of analysis he proposes in its plac... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-May-14)
300.	456: Are We Alone? More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/are-we-alone. News that life might exist or have existed on Mars or somewhere else in our universe excites many. But should we really be happy to hear that news? What are the philosophical implications of the possibility of extraterrestrial life? If life can blossom in our own cosmic backyard, then that means that the universe is most likely satura... (@philtalkradio, 2018-Apr-30)
301.	Katalin Farkas on Knowing a Person Philosophers talk about 'knowing how' and 'knowing what'. But what is involved in knowing a person? Katalin Farkas discusses this question with David Edmonds in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. This episode was sponsored by the Examining Ethics podcast from the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University. (@philosophybites, 2017-Nov-06)
302.	Episode #118 ... A Basic Look At Post-Modernism Today we begin a lengthy conversation on the critiques of Post-modernism. (@iamstephenwest, 2018-May-21)
303.	Episode 37, Religious Language (Part IV – Further Analysis and Discussion) Get 20% How The Light Gets In Festival 2018 using the discount code “PANPSYCAST20” at the final checkout page! Visit: https://hay.htlgi.iai.tv/?utmsource=panpsycast. Our Patreon page: www.patreon.com/panpsycast. Everything you could need can be found at www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. Broadly speaking, the term 'religious language' refers ... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-May-20)
304.	MORAL UNCERTAINTY A conversation with Professor Will MacAskill MORAL UNCERTAINTY A conversation with Professor Will MacAskill by Toby Buckle (@PolPhilPod, 2018-May-19)
305.	HoP 300a - The Relevance of Ancient Philosophy Today Rachel Barney, Christof Rapp, and Mark Kalderon join Peter to discuss the importance of ancient philosophy for today's philosophers. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Apr-22)
306.	Rewilding Most of us feel the itch of the primitive from time to time—to run without shoes, try a paleo diet, or just ditch the smartphone. The primitivist ideal exerts a seductive pull in tech-obsessed contemporary western society, but is the ideal based on a highly questionable set of philosophical assumptions? (@RadioNational, 2018-May-20)
307.	Episode: 034 Andrea Pitts on Indigenous Resistance to Neoliberalism Myisha Cherry chats with philosopher Andrea Pitts about neoliberalism, how it uniquely affects indigenous communities, projects of resistance, Latinx philosophy, and so much more. (@myishacherry, 2018-May-14)
308.	Ruth G. Millikan, “Beyond Concepts: Unicepts, Language, and Natural Information” (Oxford UP, 2018) Kant famously asked the question, how is knowledge possible? In her new book, Beyond Concepts: Unicepts, Language, and Natural Information (Oxford University Press, 2018), Ruth Garrett Millikan responds to this question from a naturalistic, and specifically evolutionary, perspective. Millikan, who is distinguished professor emerita at the University of Connecticut, has... (@NewBooksPhil, 2018-May-15)
309.	Episode 139: Honor, Identity, and Headbutts It took two tries (the first one led to a big non-productive fight), but David and Tamler end up with a good discussion of honor and its connection to identity, pride, and personal relationships. Why have we rejected honor in favor of dignity? What are the costs and benefits of doing that? How do people "find themselves" in an industrialized anonymous society? What should you do when someone insul... (@verybadwizards, 2018-May-12)
310.	0G9: Brave New World and Utilitarianism, Part 1 Oh Brave New Podcast, that has such accessible philosophies in it! Solid Animated Synopsis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raqVySPrDUE Hilariously bad live action version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek5vse2_Aq0 There are more things in Heaven and Earth Horatio than are dreamed of in your Utilitarianism. Whether tis nobler to be a pig satisfied or a Socrates dissatisfied. Aye, there's the r... (@0gPhilosophy, 2018-May-16)
311.	#26 #NewsMatters Accurate, timely, localized and international - knowledge and facts are important, and ideally brought to us via journalistic entities and institutions. Given the value of journalism and news media to our lives and our society, is there an ethical obligation that falls on us to support them in return? For our sources, visit NoNarrowThing.com (@NoNarrowThing, 2018-May-16)
312.	378: Heidegger More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/heidegger. Best known for his work "Being and Time," Martin Heidegger has been hailed by many as the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century. He has also been criticized for being both nearly unreadable and a Nazi. Yet there is no disputing his seminal place in the history of Western thought. So what did Heidegger mean when he wrote about wor... (@philtalkradio, 2018-Apr-23)
313.	Episode 189: Authorial Intent (Barthes, Foucault, Beardsley, et al) (Part One) On four essays about how to interpret artworks: “The Intentional Fallacy” by W. K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley (1946), "The Death of the Author" by Roland Barthes (1967), "What is an Author?" by Michel Foucault (1969), and “Against Theory” by Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels (1982). When you're trying to figure out what, say, a poem means, isn't the best way to do that to just ask th... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-May-07)
314.	HAP 02 - It’s Only Human - Philosophy in Prehistoric Africa Might philosophy be as old as humankind as we know it? We investigate the implications of findings concerning the origins of humankind in Africa. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Apr-15)
315.	Episode 37, Religious Language (Part III - The Verification and Falsification Principles) Get 20% How The Light Gets In Festival 2018 using the discount code “PANPSYCAST20” at the final checkout page! Visit: https://hay.htlgi.iai.tv/?utmsource=panpsycast. Our Patreon page: www.patreon.com/panpsycast. Everything you could need can be found at www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. Broadly speaking, the term 'religious language' refers ... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-May-13)
316.	GAY LIBERATION A conversation with Peter Tatchell GAY LIBERATION A conversation with Peter Tatchell by Toby Buckle (@PolPhilPod, 2018-May-12)
317.	The freedom of the City May 1968 was a watershed moment in political philosophy, and its ripple effect continues. We follow the long trajectory of May '68—from the universities and streets of Paris fifty years ago, via the work of pioneering feminist Luce Irigaray, all the way to the 'New Municipalism' that’s transforming the political and social landscapes of cities around the world today. (@RadioNational, 2018-May-13)
318.	Rationally Speaking #208 - Annie Duke on "Thinking in bets" This episode features Annie Duke, former pro poker player and author of the book Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts. Julia and Annie debate why people tend to ignore the role of luck in their decisions. (@Rspodcast, 2018-May-13)
319.	Episode 40: Michael Weisberg On Episode 40, Nick chats with Michael Weisberg, Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, about how a Creationism incident in his own backyard led to the development of the Laboratory for Understanding Science, "finding your thing" in graduate school, his book "Simulation and Similarity: Using Models to Understand the World," debates surrounding 19th century physic... (@SciPhiPod, 2018-May-11)
320.	Ep63 - Democracy and Public Exposure In this 63rd episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, Eric Thomas Weber and Anthony Cashio interview Dr. Mark Sanders on “Democracy and Public Exposure.” We ask Mark about democracy and public philosophical engagement, including some of the special projects that he runs in Charlotte, North Carolina. Mark specializes in American Pragmatism and social and political philosoph... (@PhilosophyBB, 2018-Apr-28)
321.	455: Trolling, Bullying, and Flame Wars - Humility and Online Discourse More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/trolling-bullying-and-flame-wars. Open up any online comments section and you’ll find them: internet trolls, from the mildly inflammatory to the viciously bullying. It seems that the ease of posting online leads many to abandon any semblance of intellectual humility. So can we have intellectual humility on an anonymous forum with little oversight... (@philtalkradio, 2018-Apr-16)
322.	HoP 299 - Robert Pasnau on Substance in Scholasticism Bob Pasnau joins Peter to discuss ideas about substance from Aquinas down to the time of Locke, Leibniz and Descartes. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Apr-08)
323.	Episode 188: Discussing "Lysistrata" and Politics with Lucy and Emily (Part Two) Concluding our discussion of Aristophanes's play with Lucy Lawless and Emily Perkins. We focus on trying to connect its lessons to the here and now: Is Lysistrata's victory properly described as the ascension of some kind of "feminine spirit" over warlike values, and how does that actually relate to women's struggles now to attain positions of power? Listen to our performance and then part one of ... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Apr-30)
324.	Africana Philosophy Announcement New paperbacks and a new series! (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Apr-06)
325.	Episode 37, Religious Language (Part II – Thomas Aquinas and Ludwig Wittgenstein) Get 20% How The Light Gets In Festival 2018 using the discount code “PANPSYCAST20” at the final checkout page! Visit: https://hay.htlgi.iai.tv/?utmsource=panpsycast. Our Patreon page: www.patreon.com/panpsycast. Everything you could need can be found at www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. Broadly speaking, the term 'religious language' refers ... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-May-06)
326.	NEO-REPUBLICANISM A conversation with Philip Pettit NEO-REPUBLICANISM A conversation with Philip Pettit by Toby Buckle (@PolPhilPod, 2018-May-05)
327.	The fate of the Common Good The idea of the common good drove some of the most important social developments of the 20th century. Today, nations seem to be losing faith in the idea. (@RadioNational, 2018-May-06)
328.	Christian B. Miller, “The Character Gap: How Good Are We?” (Oxford UP, 2018) My guest today is Christian Miller. Christian is A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University. He is a moral philosopher specializing on character, with special interest in the empirical study of the virtues and vices. He currently directs The Beacon Project, which studies morally exemplars; and he... (@NewBooksPhil, 2018-May-01)
329.	Creed and Credences Dave has been hunting for the one decisive piece of scientific evidence that will settle one of Christianity's most challenging questions. On this episode we look at two stories of people trying to reconcile their religious and empirical beliefs about the world, and hear from a philosopher whose theory says that their attempts may be futile. Guest voices include Dave Woetzel, Laura Jean Truman, an... (@HiPhiNation, 2018-May-01)
330.	Is Life Without Meaning? Do you ever get the feeling that life is meaningless? (@DavidEdmonds100, 2018-Apr-17)
331.	Ep62 - Is the Church Killing God? In this 62nd episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, Eric Thomas Weber and Anthony Cashio interview philosopher and Pentecostal Christian Dr. J. Aaron Simmons on his question: “Is the Church Killing God?” Aaron is associate professor of Philosophy at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. He works primarily in philosophy of religion and 19th and 20th Century Eur... (@PhilosophyBB, 2018-Apr-21)
332.	HAP 01 - Something Old, Something New - Introducing Africana Philosophy Chike Jeffers and Peter Adamson kick off the new series by explaining the scope and meaning of "Africana philosophy". (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Apr-01)
333.	454: Monstrous Technologies? More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/monstrous-technologies. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein raises powerful questions about the responsibilities of scientists to consider the impact of their inventions on the world. Are these questions as relevant now as they were 200 years ago? What insights, if any, should today’s technologists and disrupters glean from Shelley's story? What does i... (@philtalkradio, 2018-Apr-09)
334.	0G8: Autofac and Self-Replicating Systems Podcast Delivery Contents: 1 mediocre Philip K. Dick adaptation by Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Philip-K-Dicks-Electric-Dreams/dp/B075NTXMN9 1 Brilliant Philip K. Dick short story that you need to read: https://archive.org/stream/galaxymagazine-1955-11/Galaxy_1955_11#page/n71/mode/2up 2 Philosophical readings on the risks of AI: https://nickbostrom.com/ethics/ai.html https://hackernoon.com... (@0gPhilosophy, 2018-May-02)
335.	#25 Factory Farms: A Confluence of Oppression with Christine Ball-Blakely Most people know that factory farms are unpleasant places. However, many don't realize the impact of factory farms on the people who live near them, including the degradation of the water, air, and even property values in nearby communities. Christine Ball-Blakely, lawyer and animal rights advocate, joins Dustyn and Whitney to talk about factory farms and their disproportionate impact on communiti... (@NoNarrowThing, 2018-May-02)
336.	Episode 188: Discussing "Lysistrata" and Politics with Lucy and Emily (Part One) We are rejoined by actresses Lucy Lawless and Emily Perkins to discuss Aristophanes's bawdy play. Listen to us perform it first. Supplementary readings included Jeffery Henderson's introduction to his 1988 translation of the play; "Sexual Humor and Harmony in Lysistrata" by Jay M. Semel (1981); and "The 'Female Intruder' Reconsidered: Women in Aristophanes' Lysistrata and Ecclesiazusae" by Helene ... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Apr-23)
337.	Episode 138: Memory, Pain, and Relationships (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) Award-winning screenwriter and medieval philosophy scholar Yoel Inbar joins us for a deep dive on the Charlie Kaufman/Michel GondREY masterpiece Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. When relationships go bad is it better to believe they never happened? What is the nature of memory, how is it constructed, and is it possible to zap them out existence with an Apple IIe? Will Tamler have a more opti... (@verybadwizards, 2018-Apr-24)
338.	Rationally Speaking #207 - Alison Gopnik on "The wrong way to think about parenting, plus the downsides of modernity" Developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik explains why modern parenting is too goal-oriented. Alison and Julia discuss whether anything parents do matters, whether kids should go to school, and how kids learn discipline if you don't force them to do things. (@Rspodcast, 2018-Apr-30)
339.	Episode 37, Religious Language (Part I – The Via Negativa) Get 20% How The Light Gets In Festival 2018 using the discount code “PANPSYCAST20” at the final checkout page! Visit: https://hay.htlgi.iai.tv/?utmsource=panpsycast. Our Patreon page: www.patreon.com/panpsycast. Everything you could need can be found at www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. Broadly speaking, the term 'religious language' refers ... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Apr-29)
340.	ATHEIST HYPOCRISY ON FEMINISM A conversation with Aron Ra ATHEIST HYPOCRISY ON FEMINISM A conversation with Aron Ra by Toby Buckle (@PolPhilPod, 2018-Apr-28)
341.	Who are you? The question of exactly what constitutes identity is an old and much-contested one. Is personhood located in a community? A culture? A race? Or is it something singular and immanent, located somewhere in the deepest recesses of the individual? (@RadioNational, 2018-Apr-29)
342.	Episode 39 - Rachel Ankeny On Episode 39, Nick chats with Rachel Ankeny, Professor at the University of Adelaide in South Australia, about her experience with the Great Books Program at St. John's College in Santa Fe, the formation of the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP), the roles of models and cased-based reasoning in science, the importance of studying non-model organisms, her integrate... (@SciPhiPod, 2018-Apr-27)
343.	HoP 298 - Renaissance Men - Ramon Llull and Petrarch The Renaissance ideals of humanism and universal science flourish already in the medieval period, in the works of Petrarch and Ramon Llull. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Mar-25)
344.	379: The Ethics of Whistleblowing with Edward Snowden More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/snowden. You might think we each have a moral duty to expose any serious misconduct, dishonesty, or illegal activity we discover in an organization, especially when such conduct directly threatens the public interest. However, increasingly we are seeing whistleblowers punished more harshly than the alleged wrongdoers, who often seem to get off scot-free.... (@philtalkradio, 2018-Apr-02)
345.	"Lysistrata" w/ Lucy Lawless, Emily Perkins, Erica Spyres, Bill Youmans & Aaron Gleason The PEL Players return to perform a "cold read" of Aristophanes's play about using a sex strike to end war, first performed in 411 BCE. Jeffrey Henderson's translation makes this very accessible, and it's still really damn funny. Your hosts are joined by five real actors from TV, film, and Broadway. We will be following this up in ep. 188 with a full discussion of the play and the issues it raises... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Apr-16)
346.	Episode 36, The Daniel Dennett Interview (Part II - Philosophy of Mind) Our Patreon page: www.patreon.com/panpsycast. Everything you could need, including links to all of Daniel C. Dennett’s work, can be found at www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. In the words of A. C. Grayling, Professor "Daniel C. Dennett is perhaps the most distinguished philosopher in the world". In a 2013 study by Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Apr-22)
347.	A GUARANTEED JOB A conversation with Richard D Winfield A GUARANTEED JOB A conversation with Richard D Winfield by Toby Buckle (@PolPhilPod, 2018-Apr-21)
348.	PREVIEW-Episode 187: The Limits of Free Speech (Part Three) Three substantial chunks of a follow-up conversation to our free speech episode. Mark and Wes discuss Jordan Peterson on speech, organizations' promoting certain speech (as opposed to restricting), insults vs. arguments, offense vs. harm, "incoherence" arguments like Fish's, fundamental principles in ethics, and more. Get the full discussion by becoming a PEL Citizen or Patreon supporter. (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Apr-14)
349.	The beauty imperative What does it mean when beauty moves from aesthetic choice to ethical ideal? The age-old belief that true beauty lies within is ever harder to sustain today. It was once sidelined as a 'women’s issue' but beauty is now taking its place as a subject for serious philosophical scrutiny. (@RadioNational, 2018-Apr-22)
350.	Episode 38 - Alison Wylie On Episode 38, Nick chats with Alison Wylie, Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia and future President of the Philosophy of Science Association, about her formative experiences working as an advocationalist archaeologist throughout Saskatchewan, Canada, her turn toward exploring the philosophical issues being hotly debated in archaeology, when and how contextual facto... (@SciPhiPod, 2018-Apr-22)
351.	HPI 62 - Kit Patrick on Philosophy and Indian History The host of the History of India podcast joins us for the final episode on India. Coming next: Africana philosophy! (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Mar-18)
352.	Alexus McLeod, “Philosophy of the Ancient Maya: Lords of Time” (Lexington Books, 2018) The ancient Maya are popularly known for their calendar, but their concept of time and the metaphysics surrounding that conception are not. In Philosophy of the Ancient Maya: Lords of Time (Lexington Books, 2018), Alexus McLeod reconstructs an ancient Mayan metaphysical system based on key texts and other artifacts plus... (@NewBooksPhil, 2018-Apr-16)
353.	Episode 105: R. A. Briggs discusses epistemic decision theory How do we tell what the best strategies for changing our beliefs on the basis of new evidence might be? (@ElucidationsPod, 2018-Apr-20)
354.	453: Adorno and the Culture Industry More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/culture-industry. What's your favorite movie? Did you watch that season finale last night? No spoilers! Popular cultures pervades modern life. But what if pop culture was actually more pernicious than we ordinarily think? Could it be systematically deceiving us—eroding our ability to think for ourselves and fight for change? That's what the 20th ... (@philtalkradio, 2018-Mar-26)
355.	Ep61 - The Future of Community College Education In this sixty-first episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, the second that aired in 2018, co-hosts Eric Thomas Weber and Anthony Cashio interview Dr. Cliff Harbour on “The Future of Community College Education,” the theme of his 2015 book, John Dewey and the Future of Community College Education. Dr. Harbour is Professor of Counseling and Higher Education at the Universi... (@PhilosophyBB, 2018-Apr-05)
356.	#24 Take Five: Aliens, Ted Nugent, and Celeb Politicians Dustyn and Whitney examine five topics from the internet, some of which are hot takes...hence Take Five. It's a bad name and they know it. Topics include: aliens, Ted Nugent, and celebrities-as-politicians. For our sources, visit NoNarrowThing.com (@NoNarrowThing, 2018-Apr-18)
357.	0G7: Altered Carbon and the Mind/Body Problem This week we're spinning up our stacks for some endless psychological torture. That's right, it's episode one of Altered Carbon and the Mind/Body problem. Weekly reading: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dualism/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to joi... (@0gPhilosophy, 2018-Apr-18)
358.	Episode 187: The Limits of Free Speech (Part Two) Continuing our free form discussion, trying to make sense of Stanley Fish's “There’s No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It’s a Good Thing, Too” (1994) and other potential rationales for prohibiting hate speech. How might the same sentence or idea be used in different speech acts, some of which might be legitimately censured but others not? Listen to part one first, or get the Citizen Editio... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Apr-09)
359.	Episode 137: Are Buddhists Afraid to Die? (with Shaun Nichols) Why are we always attracted to people who mock us, resist our advances, and play hard to get? Maybe because it’s extra satisfying when you finally get them to… appear on your podcast. In our first live episode (recorded in San Antonio), the philosopher Shaun Nichols joins us to discuss his recent article “Death and the Self”. You might think that Buddhist conceptions of the self as illusor... (@verybadwizards, 2018-Apr-10)
360.	Episode 36, The Daniel Dennett Interview (Part I - Philosophy of Religion) Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/panpsycast. Everything you could need, including links to all of Daniel C. Dennett’s work, can be found at www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. In the words of A. C. Grayling, Professor "Daniel C. Dennett is perhaps the most distinguished philosopher in the world". In a 2013 study by Gottlieb Duttweiler Inst... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Apr-15)
361.	UTILITARIANISM A conversation with Roger Crisp UTILITARIANISM A conversation with Roger Crisp by Toby Buckle (@PolPhilPod, 2018-Apr-14)
362.	HoP 297 - The Prague Spring - Scholasticism Across Europe New ideas and and new universities in Italy and greater Germany including Vienna and Prague, where Jan Hus carries on the radical ideas of Wyclif. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Mar-11)
363.	Rationally Speaking #206 - Kal Turnbull on "Change My View" Julia and Kal Turnbull discuss the culture of the subreddit Change My View, what makes it such an oasis for reasonable discussion on the Internet, and what we've learned about what motivates people to change their minds or not. (@Rspodcast, 2018-Apr-15)
364.	Martin Luther King: political philosopher We don’t routinely think of political figures as philosophers, but when but comes to Martin Luther King maybe we should. King was a deep thinker with a remarkably coherent vision of the moral life and a bracing take on some of the fundamental questions of political philosophy. (@RadioNational, 2018-Apr-15)
365.	Episode 37 - Quayshawn Spencer On Episode 37, Nick chats with Quayshawn Spencer, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, about growing up with the unspoken norms of social segregation in Nashville, Tennessee, the philosophical question that compelled a change in his career ambitions from biochemist to philosopher of biology, how he set out to write a book on the non-biological reality of race b... (@SciPhiPod, 2018-Apr-12)
366.	HPI 61 - What Happened Next - Indian Philosophy After Dignaga A whirlwind tour of developments in Indian philosophy after Dignāga and a few words about the contemporary relevance of the tradition. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Mar-04)
367.	Thinking Out Loud Thinking Out Loud: The Sydney Lectures in Philosophy and Society aims to bring a leading international thinker to Western Sydney University annually to present a series of public lectures. This year Rosi Braidotti will present The Human in the Age of Technology and Climate Change. The idea of ‘human’ is undergoing rapid change. Some have termed this the age of the ‘post-human’, and it migh... (@RadioNational, 2018-Apr-09)
368.	Episode 35, Sexual Ethics (Part IV - Further Analysis and Discussion) Our Patreon page: www.patreon.com/panpsycast. Email RecoverMe: [email protected] Everything else you could need is on www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. Sexual ethics is the study of human sexuality and sexual behaviour. In a word, it seeks to understand and evaluate the moral conduct of relationships and sexual activities from a philosop... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Apr-08)
369.	EXECUTION, TORTURE, AND WAR A conversation with Cecile Fabre EXECUTION, TORTURE, AND WAR A conversation with Cecile Fabre by Toby Buckle (@PolPhilPod, 2018-Apr-07)
370.	452: How to Humbly Disagree More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/how-humbly-disagree. People like to argue, especially Philosophy Talk listeners! But no matter how hard we try to resolve disputes through rational discourse, sometimes we may still disagree about important issues. One response to this predicament is simply to agree to disagree. But should the mere fact of disagreement lower our confidence in our v... (@philtalkradio, 2018-Mar-12)
371.	The shadow of eugenics Eugenics is a science that seems to belong back in the darkest days of the 20th century. But today, 'newgenics' has people worried, as reproductive technologies make it increasingly possible to filter out certain genetic disorders. How does this colour our notion of what constitutes a 'desirable' or 'undesirable' human subject? (@RadioNational, 2018-Apr-08)
372.	V.2 CORRUPTION AND CITIZENSHIP A conversation with Zephyr Teachout (Better audio) V.2 CORRUPTION AND CITIZENSHIP A conversation with Zephyr Teachout (Better audio) by Toby Buckle (@PolPhilPod, 2018-Apr-06)
373.	Episode 187: The Limits of Free Speech (Part One) A free-form discussion drawing on Stanley Fish's “There’s No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It’s a Good Thing, Too” (1994), Joel Feinberg’s “Limits to the Free Expression of Opinion” (1975), and other sources. What are the legitimate limits on free speech? Feinberg delves into the harm and offense principles. Fish argues that every claim to free speech has ideological assumptions act... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Mar-29)
374.	Gloria Origgi, “Reputation: What it is and Why it Matters” (Princeton UP, 2018) We all put a great deal of care into protecting, managing, and monitoring our reputation. But the precise nature of a reputation is obscure. In one sense, reputation is merely hearsay, a popular perception that may or may not have any basis in fact. Yet we rely heavily on reputations... (@NewBooksPhil, 2018-Apr-02)
375.	Episode 186: J.L. Austin on Doing Things with Words (Part Two) Continuing on How to Do Things with Words (lectures from 1955), covering lectures 5-9. Austin tries and fails to come up with a way to grammatically distinguish performatives from other utterances, and so turns to his more complicated system of aspects of a single act: locutionary, illocutionary, perlocutionary. In doing so, he perlocutionarily blows our minds. Listen to part one first, or get the... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Mar-26)
376.	HoP 296 - Morning Star of the Reformation - John Wyclif John Wyclif refutes nominalism and inspires the Lollard movement, which anticipated Reformation thought with its critique of the church. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Feb-25)
377.	#23 A Tech Utopia? Will technology, and our tech leaders, bring about utopia? Or are their promises just another marketing gimmick? Can we trust the richest of the rich to look out for the rest of us? For our sources, visit NoNarrowThing.com (@NoNarrowThing, 2018-Apr-04)
378.	0G6: Arrival and Sapir-Whorf Incoming Alien Language Translation: (Event-Podcast-Source Material-Arrival Film) (Idea-Topic-Sapir/Whorf-Language-Experience) (After Dark-Free Will-Sexy Timelessness) End of Translation. (This would have been much easier if Thomas would have just let me teach y'all Heptapod B) Weekly reading: http://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/whorf.scienceandlinguistics.pdf Supplemental readings: https://www.smith... (@0gPhilosophy, 2018-Apr-04)
379.	Episode 136: The Good Life (with Laurie Santos) From Very Bad Wizards to Megyn Kelly Today back to Very Bad Wizards, Laurie Santos has traveled the typical trajectory of the celebrity academic. Laurie joins us to talk about her cult status after creating the most popular course in Yale University history: Psychology and the Good Life. Why are we so bad at predicting what will make us happy? What makes it so hard to do the things we know are goo... (@verybadwizards, 2018-Mar-27)
380.	Are we becoming too preoccupied with beauty? Society expects us to conform to standards of beauty more than ever - says Heather Widdows. (@DavidEdmonds100, 2018-Mar-13)
381.	Rationally Speaking #205 - Michael Webb on "Are ideas getting harder to find?" This episode features economist Michael Webb, who recently co-authored a paper titled "Are ideas getting harder to find?" It demonstrates that the number of researchers it takes to produce a technological innovation has gone up dramatically over time. (@Rspodcast, 2018-Apr-02)
382.	WITTGENSTEIN VS. RAWLS A conversation with Dr. Rupert Read WITTGENSTEIN VS. RAWLS A conversation with Dr. Rupert Read by Toby Buckle (@PolPhilPod, 2018-Mar-31)
383.	Episode 35, Sexual Ethics (Part III - Homosexuality) Our Patreon page: www.patreon.com/panpsycast. Email RecoverMe: [email protected] Everything else you could need is on www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. Sexual ethics is the study of human sexuality and sexual behaviour. In a word, it seeks to understand and evaluate the moral conduct of relationships and sexual activities from a philosop... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Apr-01)
384.	Oh, the Humanities We often hear that the academic Humanities and social sciences are in crisis—underfunded, out of touch with the job market, hamstrung by political correctness and moral relativism. So why study philosophy? And could a good dose of scientific method help to solve the problem—if indeed there is one? (@RadioNational, 2018-Apr-01)
385.	The Self and Survival In ordinary life, it is usually not hard to know who you are and who you used to be. For a small group of children around the world, their knowledge seems to conflict with what modern science believes is possible. On this episode, we tell stories of unusual childhood memories to examine the nature of the self, and what needs to survive in order for a person to survive. We delve into the strange ph... (@HiPhiNation, 2018-Mar-27)
386.	HPI 60 - The Buddha and I - Indian Influence on Islamic and European Thought The impact of ancient Indian thought upon the Muslim scholar al-Bīrūnī and upon European thinkers like Hume, Hegel, and Schopenhauer. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Feb-18)
387.	Episode 186: J.L. Austin on Doing Things with Words (Part One) On How to Do Things with Words (lectures from 1955). What's the relationship between language and the world? Austin says it's not all about descriptive true-or-false statements, but also includes "performatives" like "I promise…" and "I do" (spoken in a wedding) that are actions unto themselves. They can't be true or false, but they can be "unhappy" if social conventions aren't fulfilled (e.g., ... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Mar-19)
388.	Listener Qs #1 We wanted to say thank you for the overwhelming support, and to do that we've mixed in two things we think you will enjoy. Hearing us thank you each personally alternating with answering your in depth patron questions on episodes 1-5. For those we didn't get to yet, we will definitely do more of these so please keep posting your questions and help us find more patrons so we can do more bonus conte... (@0gPhilosophy, 2018-Mar-28)
389.	#22 A Moral Document "Budgets are moral documents," policymakers say. What does this mean? Should we evaluate our governmental, and personal, budgets ethically? Does the way we spend money reveal our true ethical commitments? For our sources, visit NoNarrowThing.com (@NoNarrowThing, 2018-Mar-28)
390.	451: Misogyny and Gender Inequality More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/misogyny. With the recent #MeToo viral campaign, along with the wave of prominent male figures toppled for being serial sexual harassers or worse, the topic of misogyny has come into sharp focus. But what exactly is misogyny? And how does it differ from sexism? What set of beliefs or attitudes makes someone a misogynist? And why does misogyny persi... (@philtalkradio, 2018-Feb-26)
391.	Ep60 - Existentialism and Romantic Love In this sixtieth episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, the first that aired in 2018, we interview Dr. Skye Cleary on “Existentialism and Romantic Love,” the theme and title of her 2015 book. Dr. Cleary not only has her PhD in philosophy, but also a Master’s degree in Business Administration. She teaches at Columbia University, Barnard College, and The City College of ... (@PhilosophyBB, 2018-Mar-10)
392.	SOCIAL JUSTICE WITHOUT CALLOUT CULTURE. A conversation with Kalaya'an Mendoza SOCIAL JUSTICE WITHOUT CALLOUT CULTURE. A conversation with Kalaya'an Mendoza by Toby Buckle (@PolPhilPod, 2018-Mar-24)
393.	Episode 35, Sexual Ethics (Part II - Extramarital Sex) Our Patreon page: www.patreon.com/panpsycast. Email RecoverMe: [email protected] Everything else you could need is on www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. Sexual ethics is the study of human sexuality and sexual behaviour. In a word, it seeks to understand and evaluate the moral conduct of relationships and sexual activities from a philosop... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Mar-25)
394.	Thinking small Understanding the human condition has been the province of many disciplines, but you wouldn’t necessarily expect microbiology to be among them. Think again! (@RadioNational, 2018-Mar-25)
395.	HoP 295 - The Most Christian Doctor - Jean Gerson Jean Gerson’s role in the political disputes of his day, the spread of lay devotion and affective mysticism, and the debate over the Romance of the Rose initiated by Christine de Pizan. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Feb-11)
396.	Episode 185: Ethics in Homer's "Odyssey" Feat. Translator Emily Wilson (Part Two) Continuing with Emily Wilson on her translation of the Greek epic poem. We discuss the "oikos" or estate, built on violence, and its connection to "xenia," or hospitality, which serves to forge military alliances. Also: status distinctions and the role of the gods in the text. Listen to part one first, or get the ad-free, unbroken Citizen Edition. Please support PEL! End song: "Tiny Broken Boats" ... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Mar-12)
397.	Tocqueville: Democracy in America Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) and his examination of the American democratic system. He wrote De La Démocratie en Amérique in two parts, published in 1835 and 1840, when France was ruled by the July Monarchy of Louis-Philippe. Tocqueville was interested in how aspects of American democracy, in the age of President Andrew Jackson, could be applied to Europe as ... (@BBCInOurTime, 2018-Mar-22)
398.	002 – Why Does Science Work? Elena and Ian take a look at why science works, before getting embroiled in a boxing/wrestling match between realists and instrumentalists. Typical. (@wondercupboard, 2018-Mar-22)
399.	#21 Wolverine Gets Old: "Logan," Aging, and Heroism What's it like when someone with superpowers begins to age? What does it say about our own views on aging and mortality? We explore these questions, as well as the connection between heroism and the body. For our sources, visit NoNarrowThing.com (@NoNarrowThing, 2018-Mar-21)
400.	0G5: Twilight Zone and the Chinese Room Imagine a premise so implausible, it makes you question the very nature of personhood. Now imagine a thought experiment so implausible, it makes you question your own mind. The Twilight Zone ep1.7 The Lonely and the Chinese Room, they go together like Rob'ts and consciousness. Weekly reading: cogprints.org/7150/1/10.1.1.83.5248.pdf Weekly video: https://vimeo.com/141205172 Support us at Patreo... (@0gPhilosophy, 2018-Mar-21)
401.	Episode 135: Utilitarianism and Moral Identity David and Tamler take a break from complaining about psychological studies that measure utilitarianism to complain about the moral theory itself. We talk about one of the most famous critiques of utilitarian theories from Bernard Williams. Does utilitarianism annihilate our integrity--our unity--as people? Would trying to maximize well-being fracture our identities, and swallow up our projects, mo... (@verybadwizards, 2018-Mar-13)
402.	Menachem Fisch, “Creatively Undecided: Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency” (U Chicago Press, 2017 ) Thomas Kuhn upset both scientists and philosophers of science when he argued that transitions from one scientific framework (or “paradigm”) to another were irrational: the change was like a religious conversion experience rather than a reasoned shift from one theory to another based on the best evidence. But even if... (@NewBooksPhil, 2018-Mar-15)
403.	Episode 033: Adrienne Martin on Hope Myisha Cherry chats with philosopher Adrienne Martin about the nature of hope, why we should hope in humanity, differences and connections between hope, faith, and motivation, and much more. (@myishacherry, 2018-Mar-12)
404.	HPI 59 - Looking East - Indian Influence on Greek Thought Did Indian ideas play a role in shaping ancient Greek philosophy? (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Feb-04)
405.	THOUGHT, IDEOLOGY, AND SILENCE A conversation with Michael Freeden THOUGHT, IDEOLOGY, AND SILENCE A conversation with Michael Freeden by Toby Buckle (@PolPhilPod, 2018-Mar-17)
406.	Rationally Speaking #204 - Simine Vazire on "Reforming psychology, and self-awareness" Simine Vazire is a professor of psychology, the author of the blog, "Sometimes I'm Wrong," and a major advocate for improving the field of psychology. (@Rspodcast, 2018-Mar-19)
407.	001 – Galileo Elena and Ian don their gowns, before rebelliously taking them off again, in order to discuss the life and times of Galileo Galilei: scientist, lover, and all-round renaissance man (literally). (@wondercupboard, 2018-Mar-19)
408.	Episode 35, Sexual Ethics (Part I - Premarital Sex) Our Patreon page: www.patreon.com/panpsycast. Email RecoverMe: [email protected] Everything else you could need is on www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. Sexual ethics is the study of human sexuality and sexual behaviour. In a word, it seeks to understand and evaluate the moral conduct of relationships and sexual activities from a philosop... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Mar-18)
409.	Philosophy for children: the why and the how Children are natural philosophers — so why don’t we routinely teach them how to do philosophy? Some issues around that debate were aired at a recent public panel hosted by the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia. (@RadioNational, 2018-Mar-18)
410.	Episode #116 ... Structuralism and Mythology pt. 1 Today we begin talking about the initial projects of Structuralism. (@iamstephenwest, 2018-Mar-18)
411.	Episode #117 ... Structuralism and Mythology pt. 2 Today we continue to talk about the projects of Structuralism. (@iamstephenwest, 2018-Mar-18)
412.	449: James Baldwin and Social Justice More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/james-baldwin. Sometimes, we struggle to tell the truth -- especially when it's the truth about ourselves. Why did James Baldwin, a prominent Civil Rights-era intellectual and novelist, believe that telling the truth about ourselves is not only difficult but can also be dangerous? How can truth deeply unsettle our assumptions about ourselves and ou... (@philtalkradio, 2018-Feb-12)
413.	Episode 185: Ethics in Homer's "Odyssey" Feat. Translator Emily Wilson (Part One) On the classic Greek epic poem, written ca. 750 BC and translated by our guest Emily Wilson in 2018. Does this story of "heroes" have anything to teach us about ethics? Wilson wrote an 80-page introduction to her new translation laying out the issues, including "hospitality" as a political tool, the value for status and identity of one's home (including your family and slaves), and the tension bet... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Mar-05)
414.	HoP 294 - Isabel Davis on Sexuality and Marriage in Chaucer Peter is joined by Isabel Davis to discuss marriage, sex and chastity in Chaucer, focusing on the Wife of Bath's speech. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Jan-28)
415.	Augustine's Confessions Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Augustine of Hippo's account of his conversion to Christianity and his life up to that point. Written c397AD, it has many elements of autobiography with his scrutiny of his earlier life, his long relationship with a concubine, his theft of pears as a child, his work as an orator and his embrace of other philosophies and Manichaeism. Significantly for the developm... (@BBCInOurTime, 2018-Mar-15)
416.	#20 "The Push," Manipulation, and Murder Netflix's new addition, "The Push" forces a difficult question: can you push an otherwise normal person to the point of killing someone? Dustyn and Whitney explore the philosophical questions around complying to authority, resisting the crowd, and how well we know ourselves. Fair warning: spoilers abound! For our sources, visit NoNarrowThing.com (@NoNarrowThing, 2018-Mar-14)
417.	CORRUPTION AND CITIZENSHIP A conversation with Zephyr Teachout CORRUPTION AND CITIZENSHIP A conversation with Zephyr Teachout by Toby Buckle (@PolPhilPod, 2018-Mar-10)
418.	Episode 34, The Peter Singer Interview (Part II) Please visit our Patreon page and show your support! That’s www.patreon.com/panpsycast. Everything you could need is on www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. Peter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. Professor Singer is currently the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values a... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Mar-11)
419.	Steve Fuller on post-truth For many of us, 'post-truth' means a culture where appeals to prejudice and emotion trump rational policy discussion. But for Steve Fuller, post-truth is just a by-product of the institutionalisation of knowledge—including scientific knowledge. (@RadioNational, 2018-Mar-11)
420.	HPI 58 - Amber Carpenter on Animals in Indian Philosophy An interview with Amber Carpenter about the status of nonhuman animals in ancient Indian philosophy and literature. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Jan-21)
421.	Are there benefits to Psychedelic Drugs? An intellectual trip with Ole Martin Moen. (@DavidEdmonds100, 2018-Feb-13)
422.	Episode 36 - Armin Schulz On Episode 36, Nick chats with Armin Schulz, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas and Visiting Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, about leaving Germany at fifteen to study abroad in the United States Pacific Northwest, studying (and returning to teach) at the London School of Economics, how helping behavior is ada... (@SciPhiPod, 2018-Mar-09)
423.	Episode 184: Pascal on Human Nature (Part Two) Continuing on Pascal's Pensées. More on our human desire and how God is supposed to address that, plus Pascal's views on political philosophy, the relation between faith, reason, and custom... and finally the wager! Why not just be a skeptic? Is Pascal right that people suck? Listen to part 1 first or get the unbroken, ad-free, Citizen Edition now. Please support PEL! End song: "44 Days" by Dutch... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Feb-25)
424.	Episode 134: Digital Outrage (with Molly Crockett) It's been 5 years since Molly Crockett has been guest on VBW. During that time she's completed a post-doc at University College, London and become a professor at Yale University. And we're...well, we're still doing the podcast. Today Molly joins us to talk about moral outrage in the age of social media. Has the outrage changed now that we express so much of it online? Does it contribute to polariz... (@verybadwizards, 2018-Feb-27)
425.	Ep59 - Finding Peace In this fifty-ninth episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, we interview Dr. Annie Davis Weber yet again, this time on the subject of "Finding Peace" with Buddhism. This episode is different and special, as the very first wholly live episode, recorded while on the air live on WRFL Lexington, 88.1 FM in Lexington, Kentucky. The episode aired and was recorded on December 18th, ... (@PhilosophyBB, 2018-Feb-16)
426.	0G4: Star Trek: TNG and AI Personhood Philosopher's log, showdate 02272018. We've encountered Season 2, Episode 9 of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and are currently studying it for clues to the nature of artificial personhood. Attempts to address the subject have failed, so we've turned to a thought experiment from 20th century earth; the Turing Test. Weekly reading: https://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/471/papers/turing.pdfhttps://e... (@0gPhilosophy, 2018-Mar-07)
427.	#19 Bigfoot (The Philosophy of) Bigfoot. Sasquatch. Yeti. Skunk Ape. Is it rational to believe in our friend of the forest? We break down the evidence. For our sources, visit NoNarrowThing.com (@NoNarrowThing, 2018-Mar-07)
428.	448: Frantz Fanon and the Violence of Colonialism More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/frantz-fanon. Frantz Fanon is a thinker who has inspired radical liberation movements in places ranging from Palestine to South Africa to the United States. Most famous for his work "The Wretched of the Earth," Fanon is often understood as a proponent of revolutionary violence. But is this a fair characterization of Fanon, or is it an oversimplific... (@philtalkradio, 2018-Jan-29)
429.	HoP 293 - The Good Wife - Gender and Sexuality in the Middle Ages Medieval attitudes towards homosexuality, sex and chastity, and the status of women. Authors discussed include Aquinas, Catherine of Siena, and Chaucer. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Jan-14)
430.	Cover Me Softly When Lori Lieberman was 19 years old, she went to a concert of a singer she didn't know, and ended up writing a poem that would become one of the greatest cover songs of all time. This week we are going to look at the art of covering in popular music, and how that art marked the conversion from a classical model of musical aesthetics to a contemporary one. Popular music in the modern era is metaph... (@HiPhiNation, 2018-Feb-28)
431.	The Politics of Anti-intellectualism In the second installment of the What Philosophy Owes Society series, Zach and Justin discuss a putative American epidemic, anti-intellectualism. But what is anti-intellectualism? Why is it brought up so often? Why is it as prevalent as it is? Could it be that it’s a hopelessly vague concept, deployed mainly to reinforce politico-epistemic (!) power dynamics, all with the effect of obscuring the... (@thevimblog, 2018-Mar-01)
432.	Episode 35 - Steven French On Episode 35, Nick chats with Steven French, Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds, about  his early interests in "geeky" hobbies, new music, and a motorcycle sport called "Speedway," his intense graduate school days under Heinz Post that ended at 4am in a pitch-black room debating Popper, taking his first permanent academic job at the University of Campinas... (@SciPhiPod, 2018-Mar-05)
433.	Rationally Speaking #203 - Stephen Webb on "Where is Everybody? Solutions to the Fermi Paradox." The universe has been around for billions of years, so why haven't we seen any signs of alien civilizations? This episode features physicist Stephen Webb, who describes some of the potential solutions to the puzzle. (@Rspodcast, 2018-Mar-05)
434.	Episode 34, The Peter Singer Interview (Part I) Please visit our Patreon page and show your support! That’s www.patreon.com/panpsycast. Everything you could need is on www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. Peter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. Professor Singer is currently the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values a... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Mar-04)
435.	Episode 104: Seth Yalcin discusses the question-sensitivity of belief In this episode, Seth Yalcin argues that every belief we have is implicitly framed as the answer to a question, and that at different times we're considering different questions. (@ElucidationsPod, 2018-Mar-04)
436.	1. SEX WORK, ORGAN SALES, AND INTUITION A conversation with Cecile Fabre 1. SEX WORK, ORGAN SALES, AND INTUITION A conversation with Cecile Fabre by Toby Buckle (@PolPhilPod, 2018-Mar-02)
437.	Extended minds, predictive processes, and Andy Clark Andy Clark is a big name in what’s known as embodied and extended cognition. The theory positions the mind beyond the brain. If accurate, his ideas will have radical practical consequences well beyond the philosophy of mind. (@RadioNational, 2018-Mar-04)
438.	Episode 184: Pascal on Human Nature (Part One) On Blaise Pascal's Pensées (1670). Is it rational to have religious faith? You're likely familiar with "Pascal's Wager," but our wretchedness is such that we can't simply choose to believe and won't be argued into it. Pascal thinks Christianity is the only religion to accurately describe the human condition. (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Feb-19)
439.	HPI 57 - Learn by Doing - Tantra Philosophy is put into practice in Kashmir Śaivite Tantra and Buddhist Tantra. (@HistPhilosophy, 2018-Jan-07)
440.	447: Fractured Identities More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/fractured-identities. Despite tremendous strides made towards civil and political rights in the United States, discrimination and exclusion based on race, class, gender, and sexuality are still pervasive. As a result, individuals seen as "the other" often experience a painful inner fracturing W.E.B. Du Bois called "double consciousness." So, how do... (@philtalkradio, 2018-Jan-22)
441.	Sun Tzu and The Art of War Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas attributed to Sun Tzu (544-496BC, according to tradition), a legendary figure from the beginning of the Iron Age in China, around the time of Confucius. He may have been the historical figure Sun Wu, a military adviser at the court of King Helu of Wu (who reigned between about 514 and 496 BC), one of the kings in power in the Warring States period of Chine... (@BBCInOurTime, 2018-Mar-01)
442.	Episode 34 - Jackie Sullivan On Episode 34, Nick chats with Jackie Sullivan, Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, a member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, and an associate member of the Brain and Mind Institute at the University of Western Ontario, about how a challenging early home life pushed her to study existentialism and philosophy, finding a supportive environment in the History and Philosophy of ... (@SciPhiPod, 2018-Feb-28)
443.	#18 Sweating the Small Stuff Philosophers talk a lot about big ethical transgressions: murder, cheating, trolley problems, etc. What about the real-life choices you actually have to make every day? Dustyn and Whitney explore the small ethical transgressions people commit all the time. How bad is it to steal from the self check-out line? Can you lie to kids to make them behave? What about googling someone before a first date? ... (@NoNarrowThing, 2018-Feb-28)
444.	0G3: Futurama and Mereology Good news, everyone! On this weeks episode we're diving into Futurama and into Fry himself. We're breaking down ep3.4 Parasites Lost and discussing the classic philosophical problem, the Ship of Theseus. After Dark, we rally sympathy for symbiote rights. #AllWormsMatter Weekly reading: https://io9.gizmodo.com/humans-with-amplified-intelligence-could-be-more-powerf-509309984 https://en.wikipedia.or... (@0gPhilosophy, 2018-Feb-28)
445.	Ep58 - Posthumanism and the Media In this fifty-eighth episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, we interview J. J. Sylvia of Fitchburg State University about “Post-Humanism and the Media.” J.J. is an assistant professor in Communications Media at Fitchburg State University. Since 2014, he's been a HASTAC Scholar and in 2015 he received North Carolina State University's Award for Excellence in Classroom Tea... (@PhilosophyBB, 2018-Feb-07)
446.	What Does Philosophy Owe Society? From Breaking Bad to Ken Burns, good things come in series. Accordingly, the Vim is here with not just one, but four articles and hence four episodes on "What Philosophy Owes Society". These episodes are Zach Biondi's j'accuse against the aloof philosophical establishment. In this first part, Zach is joined by Lila, Adam, and Justin to discuss the 'O' in 'WPOS'—that is, "owe". What is the duty o... (@thevimblog, 2018-Feb-22)
447.	Episode 33, Yujin Nagasawa and 'The Problem of Evil for Atheists' (Part II) Please visit our Patreon page and show your support - www.patreon.com/panpsycast! Everything you could need is on www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. For more Information on Yujin Nagasawa, please visit: www.yujinnagasawa.co.uk. Yujin’s latest book: Yujin Nagasawa, Miracles: A Very Short Introduction - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Miracles-Very-Shor... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Feb-25)
448.	HoP 292 - Say it With Poetry - Chaucer and Langland Philosophical themes in Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” and “Troilus and Criseyde,” as well as Langland’s “Piers Plowman.” (@HistPhilosophy, 2017-Dec-31)
449.	The philosophy of parenting—part 4 An authentic life will risk heartbreak for the highs—sounds like parenting. Matt Beard presents his final foray into the bewildering modern world of children, parents and families. (@RadioNational, 2018-Feb-25)
450.	Episode 183: Mill on Liberty (Part Two) Continuing on John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. We discuss "partial truths," whether "truth will out," whether we can discard some "experiments in living" as established failures, how Mill compares to Nietzsche, education, "barbarians," and more. Listen to part 1 first, or get the unbroken, ad-free Citizen Edition. End song: "Flavor" by Tori Amos with strings by John Philip Shenale, interviewed on Na... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Feb-12)
451.	371: The Art of Non-Violence More at philosophytalk.org/shows/art-non-violence We all hope for peace. Yet in the face of violence, it often seems the only recourse is more violence. Advocates of non-violence claim it’s not necessary to respond to war in kind, and that responding violently, even in self-defense, just perpetuates the cycle of violence. So how can we practice non-violence under the direct threat of violen... (@philtalkradio, 2018-Jan-15)
452.	Karen Neander, “A Mark of the Mental: In Defense of Informational Teleosemantics” (MIT Press, 2017) The two biggest problems of understanding the mind are consciousness and intentionality. The first doesn’t require introduction. The latter is the problem of how we can have thoughts and perceptions that about other things for example, a thought about a tree, or a perception of a tree. How can mental... (@NewBooksPhil, 2018-Feb-15)
453.	HPI 56 - Who’s Pulling Your Strings? - Buddhaghosa Buddhaghosa, a major figure in the history of Buddhism in Sri Lanka, argues against the need for a self to control and coordinate mental activities. (@HistPhilosophy, 2017-Dec-24)
454.	#17 The Opioid Crisis and Harm Reduction with Leo Beletsky Professor of Law and Health Sciences, Leo Beletsky joins Dustyn and Whitney to talk about the opioid crisis and the philosophy of harm reduction: a controversial strategy aimed at saving lives. For sources relevant to our discussion, visit NoNarrowThing.com (@NoNarrowThing, 2018-Feb-21)
455.	Philosophy of Taxes In the long-awaited follow up to the Vim's previous episode on taxes, Justin and Zach go back to first principles and discuss the philosophy of taxation. This seemingly innocent topic spreads is tendrils from Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan and the justification of government itself to riveting economic ideas such as how decreasing marginal utility might justify progressive taxation. Listen and be enlig... (@thevimblog, 2018-Feb-16)
456.	446: Philosophy of Retirement More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/philosophy-retirement. Many of us look forward to retirement, that time in life when we stop working for a living. But what exactly is retirement and why do we retire? Does retirement always mean an end to work, or can it sometimes just mean a shift to a different kind of work? Ought we retire for purely selfish reasons, such as to give ourselves m... (@philtalkradio, 2018-Jan-08)
457.	Episode 33, Yujin Nagasawa and 'The Problem of Evil for Atheists' (Part I) Please visit our Patreon page and show your support - www.patreon.com/panpsycast! Everything you could need is on www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. For more Information on Yujin Nagasawa, please visit: www.yujinnagasawa.co.uk. Yujin’s latest book: Yujin Nagasawa, Miracles: A Very Short Introduction - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Miracles-Very-Shor... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Feb-18)
458.	Rationally Speaking #202 - Bryan Caplan on "The Case Against Education" In this episode, economist Bryan Caplan argues that the main reason getting a college degree is valuable is because of signaling, and not because college teaches you useful knowledge or skills. (@Rspodcast, 2018-Feb-19)
459.	HoP 291 - Alle Maner of Thyng Shall be Welle - English Mysticism Julian of Norwich’s Shewings and the Cloud of Unknowing lay out challenging paths to knowledge of, and union with, God. (@HistPhilosophy, 2017-Dec-17)
460.	The philosophy of parenting—part 3 Every parent knows the guilt that comes from being a ‘bad parent’—after you’ve lost your temper, given in to a tantrum and spoiled your precious little angel! It might affect how the child grows up, but how to work that out? (@RadioNational, 2018-Feb-18)
461.	Ep57 - Philosophy Outdoors In this fifty-seventh episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, Anthony and Eric talk with Dr. Alejandro Strong, about “Philosophy Outdoors,” especially about the company he started, Apeiron Expeditions. Alex’s philosophical work specializes especially in environmental philosophy. He founded an “L3C” company, Apeiron Expeditions. According to the company Web site, “... (@PhilosophyBB, 2018-Jan-26)
462.	Episode 183: Mill on Liberty (Part One) Discussing John Stewart Mill's On Liberty (1859). If we disapprove of certain behaviors, when is it okay to prohibit them legally? What about just shaming people? Mill's "harm principle" says that we should permit anything (legally and socially) unless it harms other people. But what constitutes "harm"? And how can we discourage someone from, e.g., just being drunk all the time? Mark, Wes, and Dyl... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Feb-04)
463.	TEASER-Episode 182: Reflections on PEL 2017 (Part Two) The PEL guys get personal and political and tell you in brief about things like Planet of the Apes, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and Vine Deloria Jr. in the second half of our year-in-review discussion. Here you get a taste. You can only hear the meat with the full, ad-free episode, posted for PEL Citizens (see partiallyexaminedlife.com/support!) or at patreon.com/partiallyexaminedlife. (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Feb-04)
464.	Robot Love Can robots fall in love? (@DavidEdmonds100, 2018-Jan-16)
465.	Episode 133: Death and Dreams David and Tamler talk about the nature of death. Is being dead a bad thing? If so, what makes it bad? How can anything be bad for a subject that no longer exists? We didn't have a problem with oblivion for the thirteen billion years before we were born, why fear it now? Plus, a discussion about the "it was all a dream" trope in TV and film. Why is it so infuriating in some works but not others? (@verybadwizards, 2018-Feb-06)
466.	Episode 032: Kyle Whyte on Indigenous Resilience and Environmental Change Myisha Cherry chats with philosopher Kyle Whyte about climate injustice, settler colonialism, anthropogenic environmental change, Indigenous resilience, and much more. (@myishacherry, 2018-Feb-05)
467.	HPI 55 - Doors of Perception - Dignaga on Consciousness Dignāga argues that all perception is accompanied by self-awareness. (@HistPhilosophy, 2017-Dec-10)
468.	0G2: Rick and Morty and Possible Worlds Source material: Rick and Morty season 1 episode 8 Rixty Minutes Ooooweeee, this week we’re breaking down some Rick and Morty and how the multiverse is really the ravings of a lunatic. Plus, after hours we convince all you versers to believe in god. Oh geez. Weekly Readings: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/possible-worlds/ (especially section 2.1) https://philosophy.stackexchange.com... (@0gPhilosophy, 2018-Feb-14)
469.	#16 Hitler's Art, "Literally," and the Next Generation Multiple topics! Rapid fire! It's very exciting. Also, there's some odd interference on Dustyn's mic, but it's brief and intermittent. Sorry! For our sources, visit NoNarrowThing.com (@NoNarrowThing, 2018-Feb-14)
470.	0G1: Black Mirror and The Experience Machine Source material: Black Mirror Season 4 Episode 1: USS Callister We break down one of the most popular episodes of Black Mirror and consider our first great thought experiment, Nozick’s experience machine. Then, after hours, Thomas breaks out the wet blankets for everyone. Weekly Readings: http://rintintin.colorado.edu/~vancecd/phil3160/Nozick1.pdf Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.... (@0gPhilosophy, 2018-Feb-14)
471.	HoP 290 - Martin Pickavé on Emotions in Medieval Philosophy Martin Pickavé returns to the podcast to talk about theories of the emotions in Aquinas, Scotus and Wodeham. (@HistPhilosophy, 2017-Dec-03)
472.	445: The Examined Year - 2017 More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/examined-year-2017. What ideas and events took shape over the past twelve months that challenged our assumptions and made us think about things in new ways? Join Ken and Josh as they celebrate the examined year with a philosophical look back at the year that was 2017, featuring a roundtable discussion with host emeritus John Perry, as well as... (@philtalkradio, 2017-Dec-27)
473.	Ep56 - Inclusion and Philosophy In this fifty-sixth episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, Anthony and Eric talk with Grace Cebrero, a rising star in philosophy, a graduate of Mount Saint Mary’s University, and an alumna of the Philosophy in an Inclusive Key Summer Institute. We talk with Grace about “Inclusion and Philosophy.” Grace has worked as a research intern for a professor at MSMU and has bee... (@PhilosophyBB, 2018-Jan-19)
474.	Episode 32, Meta-Ethics (Part IV - Further Analysis and Discussion) Please visit our Patreon page and show your support! (www.patreon.com/panpsycast) This episode is proudly sponsored by The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast. For information, please visit www.partiallyexaminedlife.com. Everything you could need is on www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. Meta-ethics is the attempt to understand the metaphys... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Feb-11)
475.	Episode 182: Reflections on PEL 2017 (Part One) To what extent has our podcast changed in reaction to current politics? Mark, Seth, Wes, and Dylan reflect back on our year, discuss how we select texts, and give some thumbnail sketches of potential topics. Also, does authorial intent matter, and how to talk philosophically about works that aren't philosophical texts. Attention: Only the first 45 min of this discussion will be posted on the blog ... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Jan-29)
476.	363: What's Next? Death and the Afterlife More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/whats-next-death-and-afterlife. The question of what happens to us after we die remains as mysterious now as it always was. Some think that death amounts to total annihilation of the self; others adhere to certain religious traditions, which teach that the immaterial soul (and, in some traditions, the resurrected body) can ultimately survive death.... (@philtalkradio, 2017-Dec-25)
477.	The philosophy of parenting—part 2 Brothers, sisters, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, those weird second cousins you never talk to… how might we define family—and why it matters. (@RadioNational, 2018-Feb-11)
478.	HPI 54 - Graham Priest on Logic and Buddhism Graham Priest joins Peter to discuss non-classical logic and its connections with Buddhist patterns of reasoning. (@HistPhilosophy, 2017-Nov-26)
479.	Bart Streumer, “Unbelievable Errors: An Error Theory about All Normative Judgments” (Oxford UP, 2017) It’s intuitive to think that statements of the form “lying is wrong” ascribe a property—that of wrongness—to acts of the type lying. In this way, one might think that statements of this kind are much like statements of the form “Bill is left-handed,” which also seems to attribute a property—left-handedness... (@NewBooksPhil, 2018-Feb-01)
480.	HoP 289 - A Wing and a Prayer - Angels in Medieval Philosophy Be surprised by how many philosophical problems arise in connection with angels (how many can dance on the head of a pin is not one of them). (@HistPhilosophy, 2017-Nov-19)
481.	#15 The Self-Improvement Machine with Chris Partridge Why are there so many books, apps, and systems devoted to self-optimization? Are they helping us improvement where it matters? If we're getting better, why does it feel so bad? Chris Partridge joins Dustyn and Whitney to discuss the motivations and pains behind endless self-improvement. For our sources, visit NoNarrowThing.com (@NoNarrowThing, 2018-Feb-07)
482.	HPI 53 - Follow the Evidence - Dignaga's Logic Dignāga’s trairūpya theory, which sets out the three conditions required for making reliable inferences. (@HistPhilosophy, 2017-Nov-12)
483.	Episode 181: Hannah Arendt on the Banality of Evil (Part Two) Continuing on Eichmann in Jerusalem, on how ordinary people can do--or acquiesce to--horrific things. How do people rationalize this? What can we apply from this to ourselves? Also, how was genocide a new type of crime, and what's the best rationale for punishing it? We talk justice, revenge, and ways that we too might be morally mass-confused. Listen to part one first or get the unbroken, ad-free... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Jan-22)
484.	HoP 288 - Men in Black - The German Dominicans Dietrich of Freiberg, Berthold of Moosburg, John Tauler and Henry Suso explore Neoplatonism and mysticism. (@HistPhilosophy, 2017-Nov-05)
485.	Episode 32, Meta-Ethics (Part III - Emotivism) Please visit our Patreon page and show your support! (www.patreon.com/panpsycast) This episode is proudly sponsored by The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast. For information, please visit www.partiallyexaminedlife.com. Everything you could need is on www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. Meta-ethics is the attempt to understand the metaphys... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Feb-04)
486.	Rationally Speaking #201 - Ben Buchanan on "The Cybersecurity Dilemma" In this episode, Ben Buchanan (postdoctoral fellow at Harvard studying cybersecurity and statecraft) explores how the escalation dilemma plays out in the realm of cybersecurity. (@Rspodcast, 2018-Feb-05)
487.	HPI 52 - Under Construction - Dignaga on Perception and Language The great Buddhist thinker Dignāga argues that general concepts and language are mere constructions superimposed on perception. (@HistPhilosophy, 2017-Oct-29)
488.	HoP 287 - Down to the Ground - Meister Eckhart The scholastic and mystic Meister Eckhart sets out his daring speculations about God and humankind in both Latin and German. (@HistPhilosophy, 2017-Oct-22)
489.	The philosophy of parenting—part 1 Should you have kids? Don’t look for sage advice—part 1 of a 4-part series. (@RadioNational, 2018-Feb-04)
490.	444: Can Speech Kill? More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/can-speech-kill. Free speech is one of the core tenets of our democracy. We’re inclined to think that more speech is always better. Although the Supreme Court has outlined some minor restrictions to our right to free speech, the most courts are willing to admit is that speech can lead to violence—it cannot itself do violence. But is it possible... (@philtalkradio, 2017-Dec-11)
491.	Episode 132: Emotional Willpower (with David DeSteno) What's the best way to build self-control, patience, productivity, and delayed marshmallow eating? For decades psychologists and economists have told us to develop traits like willpower and grit. But psychologist David DeSteno describes a better, easier, and more effective path--the emotions. We talk to David about his new (not-self-help) book "Emotional Success," which argues that the emotions of... (@verybadwizards, 2018-Jan-23)
492.	443: Midlife and Meaning More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/midlife-and-meaning. At some point or another, the midlife crisis comes for us all. But what is it really about? Is it a sense of our mortality, the fear of not achieving what we hoped to, or the sinking feeling that we’ve been spending our whole adult lives chasing our tails? And what is the solution: a new car, a new life goal, or the choice to... (@philtalkradio, 2017-Dec-04)
493.	Episode 181: Hannah Arendt on the Banality of Evil (Part One) On Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963). Are we still morally culpable if our entire society is corrupt? Arendt definitely thinks so, but has a number of criticisms of the handling of the 1961 trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. The Israelis were committed to the view that Eichmann was a monster, when the reality, says Arendt, is more frightening. (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Jan-15)
494.	#14 Black Mirror: "White Christmas" and Cruelty Dustyn and Whitney use the Black Mirror episode, "White Christmas," to ask the questions: what's so creepy about pick up artistry? Can an AI be a person? Can you enslave yourself? Would it be ethical to "block" someone in real life like we do on social media? Check out our sources at NoNarrowThing.com (@NoNarrowThing, 2018-Jan-31)
495.	Freedom and Hostile Design Some acts of expression are awesome, while others suck, and one philosopher has a new theory about the difference. Using this theory as a guide, we look at some of the suckiest things that ever sucked in urban design, and the street artists and compassionate vandals who are trying to fight them. We use these stories to investigate how public spaces are becoming less free and more coercive. Guest v... (@HiPhiNation, 2018-Jan-23)
496.	Episode 32, Meta-Ethics (Part II - Intuitionism) Please visit our Patreon page and show your support! (www.patreon.com/panpsycast) This episode is proudly sponsored by The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast. For information, please visit www.partiallyexaminedlife.com. Everything you could need is on www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. Meta-ethics is the attempt to understand the metaphys... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Jan-28)
497.	The value of thought experiments Drop those test tubes, take off your lab coat, pull up a comfy chair and think your way to scientific truth. (@RadioNational, 2018-Jan-28)
498.	Episode #115 ... Structuralism and Context Today we talk about the origins of Structuralism. (@iamstephenwest, 2018-Jan-28)
499.	Episode 33 - Zoe Drayson On Episode 33, Nick chats with Zoe Drayson, Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of California, Davis, about leaving high school at seventeen to work full-time as a horoscope writer at a teenage magazine, returning to study under Tim Williamson at the University of Edinburgh, spending several years in academic publishing at Routledge on the philosophy list, going from fearing her so... (@SciPhiPod, 2018-Jan-27)
500.	368: Diseases of the Mind - Philosophy of Psychiatry More https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/diseases-mind-philosophy-psychiatry. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual is the primary reference catalog for mental health illnesses. But whereas a medical textbook will show you the picture of a broken bone or a tumor, leaf through the DSM and you will find just one thing: lists of symptoms. Who creates these lists, and based on what criteria? Do ... (@philtalkradio, 2017-Nov-20)
501.	Episode 180: More James's Psychology: Self and Will (Part Two) Concluding on William James's Psychology, the Briefer Course (1892). We briefly cover emotions and spend the bulk of our time on will. James’s introspective method allows us to distinguish reflex or coerced actions from voluntary, free-seeming ones, and gives us the vocabulary to attribute moral virtue to those who have enough willpower to keep those inconvenient truths in mind (if you eat this,... (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Jan-08)
502.	Cicero Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas developed by Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC) to support and reinvigorate the Roman Republic when, as it transpired, it was in its final years, threatened by civil wars, the rule of Julius Caesar and the triumvirates that followed. As Consul he had suppressed a revolt by Catiline, putting the conspirators to death summarily as he believed the Republic was ... (@BBCInOurTime, 2018-Jan-25)
503.	Evolution and Cooperation Why do some animals behave in altruistic ways? With Jonathan Birch. (@DavidEdmonds100, 2017-Dec-12)
504.	369: Democracy in Crisis More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/democracy-crisis. Democratic systems of government are supposed to reflect the interests of ordinary citizens, and not some shadowy political elite. But more and more, we see the influence of big money and special interest groups in so-called democratic politics, while income inequality and voter suppression grow. With millions convinced that polit... (@philtalkradio, 2017-Nov-13)
505.	Sam Cowling, “Abstract Entities” (Routledge, 2017) Here’s a true sentence: The number seven is odd. What’s philosophically odd about the sentence is that it seems to imply that there must be numbers, including the number seven just as the truth of The Statue of Liberty is in New York implies that there is such a statue.... (@NewBooksPhil, 2018-Jan-15)
506.	#13 Black Mirror: "Nosedive" and Yelp for People Dustyn and Whitney talk about the Black Mirror episode "Nosedive" and get into what makes Yelp-for-People so horrifying. Whitney recommends the book Halsey Street by Naima Coster and the album If All I Was Was Black by Mavis Staples. Dustyn recommends the film A Ghost Story. Find links to these recommendations and our sources at NoNarrowThing.com (@NoNarrowThing, 2018-Jan-24)
507.	442: Philosophy of Trash More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/philosophy-trash. "One man's trash is another man's treasure," or so the saying goes. But what makes something trash to begin with? The word can be used to describe disposable objects, pieces of culture, or even people. Underlying each of these uses, however, are feelings of indifference, disdain, or disgust. How do the things that we call trash re... (@philtalkradio, 2017-Nov-06)
508.	441: Race Matters More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/race-matters. Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful campaign demanding redress for the mistreatment of African-Americans by law enforcement in the United States. But it has also inspired deep antipathy from those who claim it overemphasizes racia... (@philtalkradio, 2017-Oct-30)
509.	Episode 32, Meta-Ethics (Part I - Naturalism) Please visit our Patreon page and show your support! (www.patreon.com/panpsycast) This episode is proudly sponsored by The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast. For information, please visit www.partiallyexaminedlife.com. Everything you could need is on www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. Meta-ethics is the attempt to understand the metaphys... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Jan-21)
510.	Episode 131: I Have No Genitals and I Must Scream David and Tamler break down two episodes (with full spoilers) from the new season of Charlie Brooker's bleaker-than-bleak Netflix series Black Mirror. First up, "The USS Callister," a Star Trek parody that becomes a meditation on fandom, humiliation, and cowardly revenge. Next we talk about "Black Museum" - could it be the final episode of Black Mirror? Should it be? After four seasons of indicti... (@verybadwizards, 2018-Jan-09)
511.	Ep55 - Evaluating Public Philosophy In this fifty-fifth episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, Anthony and Eric talk about “Evaluating Public Philosophy,” in an episode based upon their recently co-authored paper, titled “Lessons Learned Baking Bread.” In this episode and in our paper, Anthony and Eric propose four criteria by which public philosophy can be evaluated: substance, accessibility, inviting... (@PhilosophyBB, 2017-Dec-21)
512.	Rationally Speaking #200 - Timothy Lee on "How much should tech companies moderate speech?" This episode features tech and policy journalist Timothy Lee, discussing a question that's increasingly in the spotlight: How much should tech companies be actively moderating their users' speech? (@Rspodcast, 2018-Jan-22)
513.	Fuelling free will Alfred Mele has four years and four million dollars trying to get to the bottom of free will. He learnt that it was like petrol. (@RadioNational, 2018-Jan-21)
514.	Episode 180: More James's Psychology: Self and Will (Part One) On Psychology, the Briefer Course (1892), chapters on "The Self," "Will," and "Emotions." Continuing from ep. 179, we talk about the "Me" (the part of me that I know) vs. the "I" (the part of me that knows), including personal identity. James thinks that emotions are just our experience of our own physiology. Finally, we tackle will, veering into ethics, free will, and more. (@PartiallyExLife, 2018-Jan-01)
515.	Ep53 - Kneeling and Civil Protest In this fifty-third episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, we interview Dr. Arnold Farr about “Kneeling and Civil Protest,” concerning the conflicts that have arisen in the last few months about football star Colin Kaepernick and many others who followed his example. Arnold is a professor of philosophy at The University of Kentucky. He authored Critical Theory and Democr... (@PhilosophyBB, 2017-Dec-14)
516.	#12 The City: History vs Development Whitney and Dustyn explore the tension between historical preservation and development. Then they focus on the classic question: would you accept a duel on the moon? For our sources, visit NoNarrowThing.com (@NoNarrowThing, 2018-Jan-17)
517.	Episode 31, Ludwig Wittgenstein with Prof. Richard Gaskin (Part II - Philosophical Investigations) This episode is proudly supported by the New College of the Humanities. To find out more about the college and their philosophy programmes, please visit www.nchlondon.ac.uk/panpsycast. Everything you could need is on www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. Ludwig Wittgenstein was an Austrian-British philosopher whose work focused on the philosophy of ... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Jan-14)
518.	Sacred Places and Traditions What is so sacred that it deserves special protection? (@DavidEdmonds100, 2017-Nov-20)
519.	Ep52 - Against the Common Core In this fifty-second episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, we interview Dr. Nicholas Tampio, author of Common Core: National Education Standards and the Threat to Democracy. Nicholas is Associate Professor of Political Science at Fordham University. In addition to his forthcoming book, he has also authored a book titled Kantian Courage, and another titled Deleuze's Politic... (@PhilosophyBB, 2017-Dec-09)
520.	Episode 179: William James's Psychology (Part Two) Continuing on Psychology, the Briefer Course (1892), completing "The Stream of Thought" and covering the chapter on "Habit." James thinks that psychologists focus too much on those parts of consciousness that get picked out by substantive words. He describes habit as part of a general natural pattern that things that happen once tend to create pathways for themselves in surrounding material to all... (@PartiallyExLife, 2017-Dec-25)
521.	Carlo Rovelli and his quantum problem Carlo Rovelli on the desperate need for some conceptual engineering to dig quantum thinking out of a deep black hole. (@RadioNational, 2018-Jan-14)
522.	Kieran Setiya, “Midlife: A Philosophical Guide” (Princeton UP, 2017) Middle-agedness is a curious phenomenon. In many ways, one is at one’s peak and also at the early stages of decline. There is much to do, but also dozens of paths irretrievably untaken. Successes, but also regrets. It’s no wonder that the idea of a midlife crisis is so familiar.... (@NewBooksPhil, 2018-Jan-01)
523.	Episode 130: Dehumanization and Disintegration (with Paul Bloom) In this Very Special Boxing Day edition of the podcast, Tamler and David welcome back honorary Third Wizard Paul Bloom to discuss his latest article in the New Yorker about dehumanization and cruelty. Is it really the case that we dehumanize in order to harm others? Or does most violence actually require us to view others as fundamentally human, agentic, and capable of true suffering? But first, w... (@verybadwizards, 2017-Dec-26)
524.	Episode 103: Brian Leiter explains why we should think about Marx In this episode, we talk to Brian Leiter about why the writings of Karl Marx are helpful for understanding the current situation of the working and middle class in America, the 2016 Presidential election, and related topics! (@ElucidationsPod, 2018-Jan-09)
525.	#11 Blue Ruin: The Ethics of Vengeance with Chris Partridge Comedy writer Chris Partridge (@narc_twain) joins Dustyn and Whitney to explore the ethical questions at the heart of the film, Blue Ruin: must we avenge the ones we love? Does pursuing vengeance make your a life a blue ruin? Is violence outside of self-defense ever justified? To see more from Chris, check out cpartridge.com or follow him on Twitter: @narc_twain For our sources, visit NoNarrowTh... (@NoNarrowThing, 2018-Jan-10)
526.	Ep51 - What Philosophers Owe Society In this fifty-first episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, we interview UCLA philosophy graduate student and co-founder of the Vim Blog Zach Biondi about "What Philosophers Owe Society," the subject of a set of essays that he wrote for the Vim. Zach caught our attention with three essays that he wrote for the Vim Blog, which were released in part in the effort to define wha... (@PhilosophyBB, 2017-Nov-29)
527.	Episode 179: William James's Introspective Psychology (Part One) On The Principles of Psychology (1890) chapters 1 & 7, and Psychology, the Briefer Course (1892), the chapters on "The Stream of Thought," "Habit," and some of "The Self." Can we talk about the mind in a way that is both scientific and also does justice to our everyday experiences? James thought his method, which involved both introspection and physiology, yielded more accurate descriptions of the... (@PartiallyExLife, 2017-Dec-18)
528.	Episode 31, Ludwig Wittgenstein with Prof. Richard Gaskin (Part I - Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus) This episode is proudly supported by the New College of the Humanities. To find out more about the college and their philosophy programmes, please visit www.nchlondon.ac.uk/panpsycast. Everything you could need is on www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. Ludwig Wittgenstein was an Austrian-British philosopher whose work focused on the philosophy of ... (@ThePanpsycast, 2018-Jan-07)
529.	Rationally Speaking #199 - Jessica Flanigan on "Why people should have the right to self-medicate" This episode features Jessica Flanigan, professor of normative and applied ethics, making the case that patients should have the right to take pharmaceutical drugs without needing to get a prescription from a doctor. (@Rspodcast, 2018-Jan-08)
530.	Episode 031: Serene Khader on Cross-Border Feminist Solidarity Myisha Cherry chats with philosopher Serene Khader about transnational feminism, solidarity, neoliberalism and women in the global south, writng advice, and so much more. (@myishacherry, 2017-Dec-21)
531.	Stones rolling and the joy of ordinary objects The structure of the universe is written in stone—maybe. Dana Goswick talks metaphysics. (@RadioNational, 2018-Jan-07)
532.	Ep50 - Transitional Justice In this fiftieth episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, we interview Dr. Colleen Murphy of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign about her recent book on "Transitional Justice." Colleen's recent book is titled The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice. This project is an extension of her work from a prior book, A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation. Co... (@PhilosophyBB, 2017-Nov-18)
533.	Episode 32 - Tim Maudlin On Episode 32, Nick chats with Tim Maudlin, Professor of Philosophy at New York University, about being advised by his Yale undergraduate professor, "not even if you were Immanuel Kant would I suggest you go to graduate school in philosophy," how he "accidentally" wrote several books including Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity, Truth and Paradox, The Metaphysic Within Physics, and... (@SciPhiPod, 2018-Jan-04)
534.	Episode 178: Nietzsche as Social Critic: Twilight of the Idols (Part Two) Continuing on Nietzsche's 1888 book. Is there any ground from which we could judge life as a whole to be good or bad? Is N. more about saying "yes" to life or saying "no" to all the numerous things that piss him off? We also talk Becoming, whether producing great art is more important than being nice to everyone, and whether Nietzsche is ultimately someone we'd want to hang around. End song: "Obli... (@PartiallyExLife, 2017-Dec-10)
535.	#10 Philosophy for Children with Jana Mohr Lone Jana Mohr Lone, director and founder of University of Washington's Center for Philosophy for Children and president of the Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization (PLATO) joins Dustyn and Whitney to discuss philosophy for children: what does philosophical education for children look like? How does it change students? What would a world be like where everyone was a little more philosophical? ... (@NoNarrowThing, 2018-Jan-03)
536.	Ep54 - BC11 - Super Cute PBB Promo This fifty-fourth episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast is our eleventh "breadcrumb” so far, this time featuring only a humorous radio spot that we recorded for the station, WRFL, to play throughout the week to promote the show. We had a lot of fun making this little promo, which features Weber's 3-year-old son Sam. If you'd enjoy a chuckle, give this, our shortest breadcr... (@PhilosophyBB, 2017-Nov-08)
537.	Episode 30, Friedrich Nietzsche with Mark Linsenmayer and Gregory Sadler (Part II) This episode is proudly supported by New College of the Humanities. To find out more about the college and their philosophy programmes, please visit www.nchlondon.ac.uk/panpsycast. Everything you could need is on www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. The Partially Examined Life: www.partiallyexaminedlife.com. Gregory B. Sadler on YouTube: www.youtub... (@ThePanpsycast, 2017-Dec-31)
538.	Ep49 - Public Philosophy and Polarization In this forty-ninth episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, we interview Matt Yglesias on the subject of "Public Philosophy and Polarization." Before starting his career as a pundit, writer, and philosophical blogger, Matt majored in Philosophy in his undergraduate studies. Matt is a Senior Correspondent and a co-founder of Vox.com, which he started with Ezra Klein and Meliss... (@PhilosophyBB, 2017-Nov-03)
539.	Ep48 - BC10 - How to Read Philosophy? The Answer Might Surprise You This forty-eighth episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast is our tenth “breadcrumb” episode so far, this time with Dr. Nancy McHugh, who was our featured guest in Episode 47. For this breadcrumb, Nancy said that she had a funny tidbit about how to read philosophy, and that the answer to the question might surprise us. We had to hear it! In addition to being chair of the Ph... (@PhilosophyBB, 2017-Oct-29)
540.	Ep47 - Philosophy and Social Change In this forty-seventh episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, we interview Dr. Nancy McHugh on the topic of "Philosophy and Social Change." After the "Know Thyself!" segment, we talk about her recent book, The Limits of Knowledge, inspired by her experiences in Vietnam witnessing continuing victims of Agent Orange. Then, in the next segment, we ask her about her experience te... (@PhilosophyBB, 2017-Oct-26)
541.	Ep46 - Philosophy at Home In this forty-sixth episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, we interview Amy Leask of Red T Media and Enable Education on the subject of "Philosophy at Home: Re-envisioning Philosophy’s Reach Beyond the Academy." Red T Media is a publisher and Web and mobile application provider for parents who want to introduce their kids to Philosophy. Among Red T Media’s most successfu... (@PhilosophyBB, 2017-Oct-21)
542.	Awesome ethics and the art of mushroom blading Forget the meaning of life; an ethical definition of awesome is far more important. (@RadioNational, 2017-Dec-31)
543.	Drowned at Sea In the process of preparing to testify in a divorce case, Brian had to study one of the strangest books he had ever come across, where religion, mathematics, and the apocalypse intersect. This week, we look at how a religious cult of number worshipers on the Italian coast gave rise to modern science, mathematics, philosophy, and music. In the interim 2500 years, as we have increased our knowledge ... (@HiPhiNation, 2017-Dec-19)
544.	Episode 129: Dystopias David and Tamler assert their autonomy as individuals by discussing their favorite dystopian works of art. Rebelling against a repressive regime, they refuse to sacrifice their privacy, uniqueness, and reproductive freedom. Through sheer force of will - the human spirit - they triumph over the pressures to ... wait what? You want me to take that pill? Okay, can't hurt. Aaahhhhh. So happy... So co... (@verybadwizards, 2017-Dec-12)
545.	Episode 178: Nietzsche as Social Critic: "Twilight of the Idols" (Part One) On Friedrich Nieztsche's 1888 book summarizing his thought and critiquing the founding myths of his society. He defends "spiritualized" instinct and frenzied creativity, but also Napoleon and war. We try to figure out what kind of social critic he'd be today. Would we actually like him? (@PartiallyExLife, 2017-Dec-04)
546.	Episode 030: Winston Thompson on Educational Justice Myisha Cherry chats with philosopher Winston Thompson about justice and education, potential and formation, charter schools, decolonizing the curriculm, and more. (@myishacherry, 2017-Dec-08)
547.	Owen Flanagan, “The Geography of Morals: Varieties of Moral Possibility” (Oxford UP, 2017) What is it to be moral, to lead an ethically good life? From a naturalistic perspective, any answer to this question begins from an understanding of what humans are like that is deeply informed by psychology, anthropology, and other human-directed perspectives as these are constrained by evolution. In The Geography... (@NewBooksPhil, 2017-Dec-15)
548.	#9 The Good Art of Bad People (Guest: Lane Eagles) In light of the prominence of sexual assault allegations against artists, art historian Lane Eagles joins Dustyn and Whitney as they navigate the difficult question: how does our relationship to art change when we know its creator did bad things? Are we allowed to enjoy the works? Are we allowed to purchase them? Visit NoNarrowThing.com for our sources. (@NoNarrowThing, 2017-Dec-27)
549.	Episode 177: Guest Russ Roberts on Adam Smith and Libertarian Economics (Part Two) Continuing with the Econtalk host on the moral aspects of economics, focused by Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Theory of Moral Sentiments. Should we sacrifice ourselves to the machine of the economy? How does Smith's idea of virtue and talk of the "impartial spectator" line up with economic growth? Listen to part 1 first or get the unbroken, ad-free Citizen Edition. Please support PEL! Lea... (@PartiallyExLife, 2017-Nov-27)
550.	Episode 30, Friedrich Nietzsche with Mark Linsenmayer and Gregory Sadler (Part I) This episode is proudly supported by New College of the Humanities. To find out more about the college and their philosophy programmes, please visit www.nchlondon.ac.uk/panpsycast. Everything you could need is on www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. The Partially Examined Life: www.partiallyexaminedlife.com. Gregory B. Sadler on YouTube: www.youtub... (@ThePanpsycast, 2017-Dec-24)
551.	Enid Blyton—the moral of the story She might not be in vogue these days, but for one Cambridge philosopher Enid Blyton is serious moral business. (@RadioNational, 2017-Dec-24)
552.	Episode 177: Guest Russ Roberts on Adam Smith and Libertarian Economics (Part One) The host of Econtalk provides his take on our ep. 174 on The Wealth of Nations, and explores with us the idea of emergent economic order. Is the economy more like a machine or a garden or what? Don't wait for part two! Get the full, ad-free, unbroken Citizen Edition now! Please support PEL! Visit lovepop.com/pel for 3D pop-up cards; simplecontacts.com/pel, promo code PEL; MUBI.com/PEL for curated ... (@PartiallyExLife, 2017-Nov-20)
553.	Episode #114 ... The Frankfurt School pt. 7 - The Great Refusal Today we talk about Herbert Marcuse's concepts of The Great Refusal and The New Sensibility. (@iamstephenwest, 2017-Dec-23)
554.	Episode 128: Fragmented Values and Sex Panics (with Christina Hoff Sommers) David and Tamler keep their Nagel streak alive, discussing the essay "The Fragmention of Value" from his collection "Mortal Questions." How should we address our fragmented moral landscape, with multiple sources of value that can't be reduced or systematically ordered? Does this make all of our moral decisions arbitrary? Plus, we talk about Louis CK and in a Thanksgiving tradition special guest Ch... (@verybadwizards, 2017-Nov-28)
555.	Episode 176: Situationism in Psych: Milgram & Stanford Prison Experiments (Part Two) Continuing with Dave Pizarro on articles by Stanley Milgram, Philip Zimbardo, and John Doris about situationism, which entails that people's level of morality will vary by situation, as opposed to virtue ethics, which posits that how people will act in a novel situation will be determined by the quality of their character. Listen to part 1 first or get the ad-free Citizen Edition. Please support P... (@PartiallyExLife, 2017-Nov-13)
556.	#8 Taylor Swift: Awkward, Strategic, or Villainous? What makes Taylor Swift so interesting? Is she, actually, interesting? How does she relate to Guy Fieri, America, and...ourselves? Dustyn and Whitney try to figure out the elusive, enigmatic T. Swift. Dustyn and Whitney recommend the TV show Terriers, the book Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees by Lawrence Weschler, and the movie Blue Ruin in the final segment. Note: Dustyn and Wh... (@NoNarrowThing, 2017-Dec-20)
557.	Episode 29, Stephen Law and 'The Evil-God Challenge' (Part II) This episode is proudly supported by New College of the Humanities. To find out more about the college and their philosophy programmes, please visit www.nchlondon.ac.uk/panpsycast. Everything you could need is on www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. Dr Stephen Law is a Reader in philosophy at Heythrop College, University of London, and editor of th... (@ThePanpsycast, 2017-Dec-17)
558.	Daniel R. DeNicola, “Understanding Ignorance: The Surprising Impact of What We Don’t Know” (The MIT Press, 2017) Epistemology is the area of philosophy that examines the phenomena of and related to knowledge. Traditional core questions include: How is knowledge different from lucky guessing? Can knowledge be innate? Is skepticism a threat, and if so, how should it be countered? And: Is it possible to know something simply... (@NewBooksPhil, 2017-Dec-01)
559.	TEASER-Episode 175: Blade Runner (Part Two) Do you want the WHOLE discussion on the new Blade Runner 2049, the original 1982 film, and the idea packed Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1967) by Philip K. Dick? If you do, show your love to the podcast by signing up to be a supporter at the $1-or-higher level at patreon.com/partiallyexaminedlife, or better yet become a PEL Citizen and get every podcast we've ever recorded plus bonus discu... (@PartiallyExLife, 2017-Nov-06)
560.	Episode 176: Situationism in Psych: Milgram & Stanford Prison Experiments (Very Bad Wizards Crossover) (Part One) On Stanley Milgram's "Behavioral Study of Obedience" (1963), Philip Zimbardo’s "Interpersonal Dynamics in a Simulated Prison" (1973), and John Doris’s "Persons, Situations, and Virtue Ethics" (1998). Do difficult situations make good people act badly? Are there really "good" and "bad" people, or are we all about the same, but put in different situations? With guest David Pizarro from the Very ... (@PartiallyExLife, 2017-Nov-06)
561.	Robot dogs dream of consciousness What makes the human mind so distinctive? Perhaps the answer is in your dreams. (@RadioNational, 2017-Dec-17)
562.	Episode 175: Blade Runner: Androids and Humanity (Part One) On Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1967) and the films Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and Blade Runner (1982). What makes us human? Dick's story about androids emphasized their lack of empathy, while the movie adaptations portrayed the "replicants" as plenty capable of emotion, but unjustly treated as servants or targets. Attention: This second half of this special bonus episode i... (@PartiallyExLife, 2017-Oct-30)
563.	Episode 174: Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" (Part Two) Continuing on the foundational text of economics. We talk "invisible hand," "greed is good," tariffs, unproductive labor, city vs. country, and the education racket. Listen to part 1 first or get the ad-free Citizen Edition. Please support PEL! End song: "With My Looks and Your Brains" by The Mr. T Experience. Hear about the singer/songwriter on Nakedly Examined Music #56. Try blinkist.com/pel for... (@PartiallyExLife, 2017-Oct-22)
564.	Graduate Students Talking about the GOP Tax Bill In this emergency (!) episode, three graduate students and two impartial panelists discuss the new corporate-tax cutting, graduate student-hating GOP tax plan. Trump is lying at his rallies and the GOP is back-stabbing their base. Or are they? We discuss the economics, the politics, and the back-room dealings involved in this deal. www.thevimblog.com ▽ www.facebook.com/thevimblog www... (@thevimblog, 2017-Dec-03)
565.	The Ethics Bowl High school students from around the country converge on the University of North Carolina for a weekend of moral dilemmas. We follow twenty-four of the nation's top ethics teams competing in the 2017 National High School Ethics Bowl, and take a whirlwind tour of moral philosophy in the process. Guest voices include Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Geoff Sayre-McCord, Jeff Sebo, and students from high sch... (@HiPhiNation, 2017-Nov-28)
566.	Episode 127: Moral Luck David and Tamler dip back into the Thomas Nagel well, and discuss the problem of "moral luck." Why do we blame drunk drivers who hit someone more than drunk drivers who make it home OK? Why do we judge people for things that are beyond their control (when we have strong intuitions that uncontrollable acts don't deserve blame)? Does moral luck ultimately swallow all of our behavior? Can we truly e... (@verybadwizards, 2017-Nov-14)
567.	#7 Guy Fieri and Authenticity Is Guy Fieri authentic? Is authenticity admirable, even if someone is authentically unappealing? What does Guy Fieri’s character and celebrity say about America? In the final segment, Dustyn and Whitney talk about crime and punishment (not the book). Check out our sources on NoNarrowThing.com (@NoNarrowThing, 2017-Dec-13)
568.	Episode 29, Stephen Law and 'The Evil-God Challenge' (Part I) This episode is proudly supported by New College of the Humanities. To find out more about the college and their philosophy programmes, please visit www.nchlondon.ac.uk/panpsycast. Everything you could need is on www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. Dr Stephen Law is a Reader in philosophy at Heythrop College, University of London, and editor of th... (@ThePanpsycast, 2017-Dec-10)
569.	Rationally Speaking #198 - Timur Kuran on "Private Truths and Public Lies" In this episode, economist Timur Kuran explains the ubiquitous phenomenon of "preference falsification" -- in which people claim to support something publicly even though they don't support it privately -- and describes its harmful effects on society. (@Rspodcast, 2017-Dec-11)
570.	Parental guidance recommended The nature of Family could be more than a Christmas puzzle. (@RadioNational, 2017-Dec-10)
571.	Episode 126: The Absurd Is life meaningless? Are humans just glorified dung beetles, pushing around our piles of poop with no greater purpose? What would it take for life to actually be meaningful? In this episode, Tamler and David discuss Thomas Nagel’s essay on the sense of meaninglessness and absurdity that can so easily creep into human existence (with a special emphasis on the work of Camus and the philosophy of R... (@verybadwizards, 2017-Oct-24)
572.	Susanna Siegel, “The Rationality of Perception” (Oxford UP, 2017) Seeing is often a good reason for believing—when things go well. But suppose we have a case like this: Jill believes that Jack is angry, although she has no good grounds for this belief. Nevertheless, when she sees him, she sees his face as angry even though it is neutral.... (@NewBooksPhil, 2017-Nov-15)
573.	How to Read (about) Hannah Arendt Who is Hannah Arendt and why should we care? In this episode, Zach and Kevin introduce her work and discuss why there was a season of Arendt popularity in the "media elite." How would Arendt feel about being the subject of partisan think pieces? Should we read her work—the Origins of Totalitarianism or Eichmann in Jerusalem—to get a better handle on the age of Trump? Or are we doomed to misint... (@thevimblog, 2017-Nov-22)
574.	Episode 28, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (Part IV) Everything you could need is on www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. The Nicomachean Ethics is Aristotle’s (384 – 322 BC) best-known work on ethics. The work consists of ten books and is understood to be based on Aristotle’s lecture notes. These notes were never intended for publication. Sometimes his notes are merely cues to talk more genera... (@ThePanpsycast, 2017-Dec-03)
575.	#6 Gossip II - Mean Girls and the Culture of Censure What’s the philosophical significance of Mean Girls? How can gossip change a culture? What is a “culture of censure?” Dustyn asks Whitney what sci-fi/fantasy world would be the best to live in. See the sources for our discussion at NoNarrowThing.com (@NoNarrowThing, 2017-Dec-06)
576.	Episode 31 - Robyn Bluhm On Episode 31, Nick chats with Robyn Bluhm, Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Lyman Briggs College at Michigan State University, about her transition from doing a Bachelors in Translation, to studying behavioral neuroscience, to gradate work in the philosophy of science, spending three years doing functional neuroimaging in psychiatry, becoming a leading expert in the ph... (@SciPhiPod, 2017-Dec-04)
577.	Episode 102: Josh Knobe discusses the true self In this episode, Josh Knobe discusses a series of experiments that try to tease out what we implicitly assume about who a person really is, deep down. (@ElucidationsPod, 2017-Dec-01)
578.	Jean Kazez, “The Philosophical Parent: Asking the Hard Questions about Having and Raising Children” (Oxford UP, 2017) We all recognize that parenting involves a seemingly endless succession of choices, beginning perhaps with the choice to become a parent, through a sequence of decisions concerning the care, upbringing, acculturation, and education of a child. And we all recognize that many of these decisions are impactful. More specifically, we... (@NewBooksPhil, 2017-Nov-01)
579.	Envy has its reasons When and why might it be ok to hate your colleague’s promotion? (@RadioNational, 2017-Dec-03)
580.	Episode #113 ... The Frankfurt School pt. 6 - Art As A Tool For Liberation Today we talk about the revolutionary potential of Art through the eyes of Herbert Marcuse. (@iamstephenwest, 2017-Dec-02)
581.	The Bottom of the Curve At the beginning of their adult lives, millennials are trying to find out what it means to be happy in their 20s, not knowing that they have no where to go but down. Meanwhile, three highly successful people find themselves at the bottom of life's happiness curve, and try to find their way back up. The show today is about a demographic inevitability, the midlife crisis, and how we seek happiness i... (@HiPhiNation, 2017-Oct-31)
582.	Episode 28, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (Part III) Everything you could need is on www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. The Nicomachean Ethics is Aristotle’s (384 – 322 BC) best-known work on ethics. The work consists of ten books and is understood to be based on Aristotle’s lecture notes. These notes were never intended for publication. Sometimes his notes are merely cues to talk more genera... (@ThePanpsycast, 2017-Nov-26)
583.	#5 Gossip I - The Ethics of Gossip Is gossip good after all? What does gossip get for us and what's the moral cost? Whitney takes a stand against Twitter’s new character limit. See the sources for our discussion at NoNarrowThing.com (@NoNarrowThing, 2017-Nov-29)
584.	The Vim Watches Fox News - Hannity on Collusion In this very special explosive episode of The Vimcast, Zach and Justin sit down to watch and analyze a Sean Hannity monologue. Whatever you thought about Mueller's first round of indictments, prepare to have your mind changed. Or not. What is Hannity's style? Does he present arguments, or is it all on-screen graphics, rapid-fire non-sequiturs and facial expressions? How convincing is t... (@thevimblog, 2017-Nov-05)
585.	A tale of two universes Philosophy and modern physics: a case of the irrelevant versus the impractical? (@RadioNational, 2017-Nov-26)
586.	Episode 28, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (Part II) Everything you could need is on www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. The Nicomachean Ethics is Aristotle’s (384 – 322 BC) best-known work on ethics. The work consists of ten books and is understood to be based on Aristotle’s lecture notes. These notes were never intended for publication. Sometimes his notes are merely cues to talk more genera... (@ThePanpsycast, 2017-Nov-19)
587.	#4 Ghosts II - Poltergeists and Cannibals What counts as good evidence for ghosts? Is it a matter of faith? How do we approach the uncertain? Dustyn and Whitney discuss the Case of the Speluncean Explorers. See the sources for our discussion at NoNarrowThing.com. (@NoNarrowThing, 2017-Nov-22)
588.	Autonomy, self, and substances Substance abuse lets you say ‘it wasn’t me’. Then who was it? (@RadioNational, 2017-Nov-19)
589.	Episode 28, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (Part I) Everything you could need is on www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. The Nicomachean Ethics is Aristotle’s (384 – 322 BC) best-known work on ethics. The work consists of ten books and is understood to be based on Aristotle’s lecture notes. These notes were never intended for publication. Sometimes his notes are merely cues to talk more genera... (@ThePanpsycast, 2017-Nov-12)
590.	#1 Democracy I - The Paradox of Voting Welcome to No Narrow Thing! Dustyn and Whitney ask if there is a duty to vote. The two discuss if humans are even capable of voting responsibly, and if voting for a candidate who does something wrong makes you complicit in their actions. We also learn a Random Fact from History! See the sources for our discussion at NoNarrowThing.com. (@NoNarrowThing, 2017-Nov-15)
591.	#3 Ghosts I - Ghosts are Fun Do ghosts exist? Should a person believe in them? Whitney makes the case for ghosts; Dustyn is skeptical. The two go down the Rabbit Hole of Amazon’s HQ2. See the sources for our discussion at NoNarrowThing.com. (@NoNarrowThing, 2017-Nov-15)
592.	#2 Democracy II - Compromised Politics Is political compromise different from other kinds of compromise? When values and ethics are involved, is any compromise morally permissible? Is centrism pragmatic or lacking in principles? See the sources for our discussion at NoNarrowThing.com. (@NoNarrowThing, 2017-Nov-15)
593.	Rationally Speaking #197 - Doug Hubbard on "Why people think some things can’t be quantified (and why they’re wrong)" In this episode Julia talks with Doug Hubbard, author of How to Measure Anything, about why people so often believe things are impossible to quantify like "innovation" or "quality of life." (@Rspodcast, 2017-Nov-13)
594.	Episode 27, Conscience (Part IV) Everything you could need is on www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. Most people understand conscience as something which tells us right from wrong. The conscience is that little voice in your head that tells you to do your homework, go to bed on time and eat 5 a day. In fact, the Oxford Dictionary defines conscience as: “A person's moral sense o... (@ThePanpsycast, 2017-Nov-05)
595.	Getting stuck: The midlife mess Your midlife crisis: it’s more than you think. (@RadioNational, 2017-Nov-12)
596.	Episode 30 - Elisabeth Lloyd On Episode 30, Nick chats with Elisabeth Lloyd, the Arnold and Maxine Tanis Chair of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University, about developing resilience from growing up in adverse circumstances, returning to college after spending a year in a hippie commune to write her own major on Science and Political Theory, getting through a difficult and discouraging environment as a fe... (@SciPhiPod, 2017-Nov-11)
597.	Episode 27, Conscience (Part III - Sigmund Freud) Everything you could need is on www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. Most people understand conscience as something which tells us right from wrong. The conscience is that little voice in your head that tells you to do your homework, go to bed on time and eat 5 a day. In fact, the Oxford Dictionary defines conscience as: “A person's moral sense o... (@ThePanpsycast, 2017-Oct-29)
598.	Episode 27, Conscience (Part II - Saint Thomas Aquinas) Everything you could need is on www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. Most people understand conscience as something which tells us right from wrong. The conscience is that little voice in your head that tells you to do your homework, go to bed on time and eat 5 a day. In fact, the Oxford Dictionary defines conscience as: “A person's moral sense o... (@ThePanpsycast, 2017-Oct-22)
599.	Episode 101: Miranda Fricker discusses blame and forgiveness In this episode, Miranda Fricker argues that the purpose of blaming someone is to communicate to them your sense of why what they did was wrong. (@ElucidationsPod, 2017-Oct-21)
600.	#0 Trailer No Narrow Thing is the podcast that gets philosophical about everything. It drops on November 15th! Visit NoNarrowThing.com for more information! (@NoNarrowThing, 2017-Nov-06)
601.	Episode #112 ... The Frankfurt School pt. 5 - Civilization Today we continue our discussion of Marcuse's work Eros and Civilization. (@iamstephenwest, 2017-Nov-06)
602.	Rationally Speaking #196 - Eric Schwitzgebel on "Weird ideas and opaque minds" Philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel returns to the show to explore several related questions: His taxonomy of the three different styles of thinker -- "Truth," "Dare," and "Wonder" -- and whether one of them is better than the others. (@Rspodcast, 2017-Oct-30)
603.	Episode 29 - Eric Winsberg On Episode 29, Nick chats with Eric Winsberg, Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida, about the "unbelievably permissive" schooling he had growing up in Montreal in the 70's, transitioning from Physics to History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Chicago, exploring the quirky, non-traditional menu of philosophy of science at Indiana University, the relation between... (@SciPhiPod, 2017-Oct-26)

Questions in Podcast Episode Descriptions

Is it always good to be trustworthy?
... Can trustworthiness come into conflict with other values, such as generosity?
How important is it in political life?
Are we becoming incapable of respecting other people's opinions?
How does a place become a “brand” and how does one get to the essence of a destination?
Will this conversation enlighten you?
... Who knows?
Should we kill one person to save many?
What happens when doctors and ethicists get together – particularly when the patient under discussion is a young child?
... And how can philosophy help?
What up my squanches?
What does it mean to be informed?
... How informed should we expect a president to be?
... Is there nonpartisan agreement over the value of educating oneself on issues?
Can we learn to be moral?
... How do we learn to be moral?
How do you articulate African philosophy in a Western academic environment?
... And what gets lost in the project of “translating” the former into the categories of the latter?
So what exactly is existentialism?
What is democratic equality, and can a Rawlsian/liberal/neutral-with-regard-to-defining-the-good state consistently advocate for this ideal?
Is living forever a good thing?
... Could we maintain our values and personal attachments throughout eternity?
... Would we be motivated to accomplish anything?
... Can we make sense of a human life that doesn't have a fixed endpoint?
Is their relationship healthy?
... Should you get your memories zapped to forget pain?
... Is there relationship predetermined?
... How does the Experience Machine relate to the film?
... What's the utilitarian perspective for the film?
... Under what circumstance, if any, would be justified in erasing our memories?
You can overdo most things, but can you overdo democracy?
Should the amount of respect that a worker gets be proportional to his or her market value?
What does it mean to be creative?
“To err is human, to forgive divine” – a popular notion, but what are we really doing when we forgive?
... Operating at the highest level of human sensibility?
... Or denying the wrongdoer an opportunity for valuable self-reflection?
Tamler wades into a Twitter controversy about Serena Williams - could this be his fast-track pass into the IDW?
... And since we're talking about that, why not throw in a discussion of Louis CK's surprise set at the Comedy Cellar?
What is a government?
Should we view this inevitability with hope or with despair?
What happens when your dream career is no longer the dream?
... How much of what we do is who we are?
What do you think of yourself as?
... A musician?
... A mother?
... A political organizer?
Are there forms for all adjectives?
... Does the form of a property itself have that property?
... How do Forms connect with particulars?
... How can we mortals have any connection to heavenly Forms anyway?
This episode focuses on raising the question, is Handmaid's Tale anti-religion?
... Would society be better off without religion?
... Would lack of religion make these events less likely?
... Could something like this actually happen?
... What is the religion?
... Do the positives outweigh the negatives of religion?
How should we understand disability?
Does morality have a role to play in economics?
But if we do, where does that leave us?
... What would our relationships look like outside of the institution of monogamy?
Is there a way to bridge this gap?
Are properties real things in the world, or just in the mind?
... What's the deal?
How should we act when we’re not sure which moral theory is the right one?
... Can we formulate a guide for behavior, modeled on decision theory, that maximizes expected moral value?
What is there to fear in artificial intelligence?
... How does this shed light on what it means to be fully human?
How can changing the narrative of shame around women's bodies change the way society impact the identities of all people?
Summer is here – what philosophers, philosophies, or philosophical issues do you want to read up on?
But how could we as individuals be asking these questions then?
... Does his "Way of Seeming" work to explain the appearances, as opposed to reality?
What can a Catholic Saint teach us about contemplation and grace?
... What is the correlation between illiteracy and crime?
... Will women ever get the credit they deserve?
What does it mean to participate in civic engagement?
... Why are public discussions of opposing views so important?
Is being a sports fan irrational?
... Does it lead to more suffering than happiness?
... But does the study really capture the benefits of being fans?
... More generally, does science have the tools to truly measure the costs and benefits of rooting for your favorite teams?
What can impermanence teach us about love?
... Can breakups lead to break throughs?
So that being the case, how can we argue for fixed moral standards to which everyone should sign up?
... And how should we introduce kids to this vexed field of inquiry?
Does neo-liberalism continue the values of classical liberalism?
Should philosophy be the attempt to articulate truth?
How can philosophy help us navigate social anxiety?
What is truth?
David and Tamler go deep into Borges’ labyrinth to discuss the fascinating, multi-dimensional story “The Garden of Forking Paths.” What is the underlying reality of this story?
... What demands does Borges make of his readers?
... What is Borges telling us about time, freedom, war, and art?
... Is the story itself a maze for readers to wander and lose their way?
What made him put down the white hat and put on the black?
... Is he living in bad faith?
... Is he trying to free the host because of justice or the new world of possibilities their freedom can open for HIM?
What renders some item or event humorous?
... Are funny jokes objectively so?
How can we find meaning in a meaningless world?
For example, will SpaceX land on Mars by 2030?
What can Plato teach us about making resolutions?
What can Seneca and the Stoics teach us about sticking to our resolutions?
Can we successfully explain the plot of Dune, and thereby avoid the podcast jihad?
... How many side characters with weird makeup choices do we have to cover before we can actually get to the philosophy?
But what if rather than shrinking the market, the answer lies in expanding the market?
Is truth a property of particular speech acts, or of the propositions expressed through speech acts?
... Does truth mean correspondence with the facts, or does the word "fact" make this definition totally uninformative?
How many books would this library contain?
... Would some of the books justify our lives (if we could find them)?
... Can we know whether a book is deeply meaningful or deeply misleading?
Does Ford think consciousness exists?
... Is the self an illusion?
... Which philosophers share a similar perspective as Ford?
Do people of opposing political parties believe in different facts?
Also, does anyone get a Brigadoon vibe from the planet in this episode?
What effect did Spinoza have on Enlightenment thinkers?
Why do we work?
What was Tarski really doing?
... What are the implications of his project?
... Does it even make sense to define "truth," and what should a definition look like?
What is truth?
... So how does that apply to real languages?
How can we best help other people?
What are the different dimensions of personality that distinguish one person from another?
... How many dimensions are there - do the Big Five capture all of them?
... Do we share some of these differences with other species?
... Why don't personality psychologists include moral character traits?
Would your life have meaning anymore?
... Would anyone’s?
Is it idolatry to venerate an icon of a saint, or of Christ?
How does all this work?
What's the practical application of a liberal education?
... Is it really liberating or indoctrinating?
Do these violent delights really have violent ends?
... Does the park show you who you really are, or does it shape who you become?
... Is there any way we can use artificial entities to help humans be better, or is it doomed to make us worse?
1) What is hypocrisy?
... 2) Why are accusations of hypocrisy so appealing?
What constitutes a liberal education?
Do host have a different level of consciousness than humans?
... Do the host have to prove their consciousness or do humans have to prove the host don't?
... What are the moral implications of the host having consciousness?
... How does this relate back to the broader question of personhood?
But what if care were thought of as the bedrock of morality?
... While we know that more care work is performed by women, would a care-based approach to ethics be feminist, or merely feminine?
Does Bloom's vision require aristocracy, or can a Great Books education be available for all?
Buddhism teaches that the self is an illusion—so what do we do with self-conscious emotions like guilt and shame, which can put useful brakes on ethical misconduct?
... If there’s no self to be ashamed of, how should we understand the emotion?
Do states have a moral right to exclude people from their territory?
What is the role of the university in our democracy?
What is implicit bias anyway?
... Does it have to be linked to behavior in order to truly count as a "bias"?
... Has the IAT been overhyped as a reflection of individual or group prejudice?
... And why is the debate on this topic so depressing?
- What should we make of the difference between 'immoral' and 'illegal'?
... - What does it mean to live in a secular democracy?
Are African Americans owed reparations for the enslavement of their ancestors?
How do I know I'm not dreaming?
What does it mean to say that we grasp the world through a conceptual scheme?
... Are schemes different between cultures or even individuals, such that we can't really understand each other?
When it comes to moral values though, diverse perspectives can make us uncomfortable—so how do we manage it, and how can we do better?
What is it?
... What should it be?
... And what should we make of the attitude many ‘private’ philosophers take towards it?
Is the world in a better state than it seems?
... If so, why does it feel so bad?
Can a work be both allegorical and yet have fully fleshed out characters and the other elements that make a film feel real?
Given this, can there ever be humility when it comes to religious faith?
How much would you pay for porn?
... Should we be stereotyping zoophiles?
Do the cuneiform writings of Babylonian culture show that it had its own philosophy?
What is a robustly demanding good, and what has that got to do with friendship and love?
What could it mean to say that a text, once written, speaks itself?
But should we really be happy to hear that news?
... What are the philosophical implications of the possibility of extraterrestrial life?
But what is involved in knowing a person?
The primitivist ideal exerts a seductive pull in tech-obsessed contemporary western society, but is the ideal based on a highly questionable set of philosophical assumptions?
Kant famously asked the question, how is knowledge possible?
Why have we rejected honor in favor of dignity?
... What are the costs and benefits of doing that?
... How do people "find themselves" in an industrialized anonymous society?
Given the value of journalism and news media to our lives and our society, is there an ethical obligation that falls on us to support them in return?
Might philosophy be as old as humankind as we know it?
Is Lysistrata's victory properly described as the ascension of some kind of "feminine spirit" over warlike values, and how does that actually relate to women's struggles now to attain positions of power?
Do you ever get the feeling that life is meaningless?
Are these questions as relevant now as they were 200 years ago?
... What insights, if any, should today’s technologists and disrupters glean from Shelley's story?
When relationships go bad is it better to believe they never happened?
... What is the nature of memory, how is it constructed, and is it possible to zap them out existence with an Apple IIe?
Is personhood located in a community?
... A culture?
... A race?
... Or is it something singular and immanent, located somewhere in the deepest recesses of the individual?
What does it mean when beauty moves from aesthetic choice to ethical ideal?
How do we tell what the best strategies for changing our beliefs on the basis of new evidence might be?
What's your favorite movie?
... Did you watch that season finale last night?
... But what if pop culture was actually more pernicious than we ordinarily think?
... Could it be systematically deceiving us—eroding our ability to think for ourselves and fight for change?
How might the same sentence or idea be used in different speech acts, some of which might be legitimately censured but others not?
Why are we always attracted to people who mock us, resist our advances, and play hard to get?
How does this colour our notion of what constitutes a 'desirable' or 'undesirable' human subject?
What are the legitimate limits on free speech?
Will technology, and our tech leaders, bring about utopia?
... Or are their promises just another marketing gimmick?
... Can we trust the richest of the rich to look out for the rest of us?
Why are we so bad at predicting what will make us happy?
So why study philosophy?
... And could a good dose of scientific method help to solve the problem—if indeed there is one?
What's the relationship between language and the world?
What does this mean?
... Should we evaluate our governmental, and personal, budgets ethically?
... Does the way we spend money reveal our true ethical commitments?
But what exactly is misogyny?
... And how does it differ from sexism?
... What set of beliefs or attitudes makes someone a misogynist?
What's it like when someone with superpowers begins to age?
... What does it say about our own views on aging and mortality?
We talk about one of the most famous critiques of utilitarian theories from Bernard Williams. Does utilitarianism annihilate our integrity--our unity--as people?
Did Indian ideas play a role in shaping ancient Greek philosophy?
Children are natural philosophers — so why don’t we routinely teach them how to do philosophy?
Why did James Baldwin, a prominent Civil Rights-era intellectual and novelist, believe that telling the truth about ourselves is not only difficult but can also be dangerous?
Does this story of "heroes" have anything to teach us about ethics?
can you push an otherwise normal person to the point of killing someone?
Why not just be a skeptic?
... Is Pascal right that people suck?
Has the outrage changed now that we express so much of it online?
Is it rational to believe in our friend of the forest?
But what is anti-intellectualism?
... Why is it brought up so often?
... Why is it as prevalent as it is?
The universe has been around for billions of years, so why haven't we seen any signs of alien civilizations?
Is it rational to have religious faith?
What about the real-life choices you actually have to make every day?
... How bad is it to steal from the self check-out line?
... Can you lie to kids to make them behave?
... What about googling someone before a first date?
But what exactly is retirement and why do we retire?
... Does retirement always mean an end to work, or can it sometimes just mean a shift to a different kind of work?
It might affect how the child grows up, but how to work that out?
If we disapprove of certain behaviors, when is it okay to prohibit them legally?
... What about just shaming people?
... But what constitutes "harm"?
... And how can we discourage someone from, e.g., just being drunk all the time?
Can robots fall in love?
Is being dead a bad thing?
... If so, what makes it bad?
... How can anything be bad for a subject that no longer exists?
... We didn't have a problem with oblivion for the thirteen billion years before we were born, why fear it now?
... Why is it so infuriating in some works but not others?
What ideas and events took shape over the past twelve months that challenged our assumptions and made us think about things in new ways?
To what extent has our podcast changed in reaction to current politics?
Why are there so many books, apps, and systems devoted to self-optimization?
... Are they helping us improvement where it matters?
... If we're getting better, why does it feel so bad?
How do people rationalize this?
... What can we apply from this to ourselves?
... Also, how was genocide a new type of crime, and what's the best rationale for punishing it?
Should you have kids?
What's the best way to build self-control, patience, productivity, and delayed marshmallow eating?
But what is it really about?
... Is it a sense of our mortality, the fear of not achieving what we hoped to, or the sinking feeling that we’ve been spending our whole adult lives chasing our tails?
Are we still morally culpable if our entire society is corrupt?
what's so creepy about pick up artistry?
... Can an AI be a person?
... Can you enslave yourself?
... Would it be ethical to "block" someone in real life like we do on social media?
lists of symptoms. Who creates these lists, and based on what criteria?
Why do some animals behave in altruistic ways?
But what makes something trash to begin with?
Next we talk about "Black Museum" - could it be the final episode of Black Mirror?
... Should it be?
How much should tech companies be actively moderating their users' speech?
would you accept a duel on the moon?
What is so sacred that it deserves special protection?
Is it really the case that we dehumanize in order to harm others?
... Or does most violence actually require us to view others as fundamentally human, agentic, and capable of true suffering?
must we avenge the ones we love?
... Does pursuing vengeance make your a life a blue ruin?
... Is violence outside of self-defense ever justified?
Can we talk about the mind in a way that is both scientific and also does justice to our everyday experiences?
Is there any ground from which we could judge life as a whole to be good or bad?
... more about saying "yes" to life or saying "no" to all the numerous things that piss him off?
what does philosophical education for children look like?
... How does it change students?
... What would a world be like where everyone was a little more philosophical?
wait what?
... You want me to take that pill?
Would we actually like him?
What is it to be moral, to lead an ethically good life?
how does our relationship to art change when we know its creator did bad things?
... Are we allowed to enjoy the works?
... Are we allowed to purchase them?
Should we sacrifice ourselves to the machine of the economy?
... How does Smith's idea of virtue and talk of the "impartial spectator" line up with economic growth?
Is the economy more like a machine or a garden or what?
How should we address our fragmented moral landscape, with multiple sources of value that can't be reduced or systematically ordered?
... Does this make all of our moral decisions arbitrary?
What makes Taylor Swift so interesting?
... Is she, actually, interesting?
... How does she relate to Guy Fieri, America, and...ourselves?
How is knowledge different from lucky guessing?
... Can knowledge be innate?
... Is skepticism a threat, and if so, how should it be countered?
Do you want the WHOLE discussion on the new Blade Runner 2049, the original 1982 film, and the idea packed Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
... Dick?
Do difficult situations make good people act badly?
... Are there really "good" and "bad" people, or are we all about the same, but put in different situations?
What makes the human mind so distinctive?
Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
... What makes us human?
Or are they?
Why do we blame drunk drivers who hit someone more than drunk drivers who make it home OK?
... Why do we judge people for things that are beyond their control (when we have strong intuitions that uncontrollable acts don't deserve blame)?
... Does moral luck ultimately swallow all of our behavior?
Is Guy Fieri authentic?
... Is authenticity admirable, even if someone is authentically unappealing?
... What does Guy Fieri’s character and celebrity say about America?
Is life meaningless?
... Are humans just glorified dung beetles, pushing around our piles of poop with no greater purpose?
... What would it take for life to actually be meaningful?
Who is Hannah Arendt and why should we care?
... How would Arendt feel about being the subject of partisan think pieces?
... Should we read her work—the Origins of Totalitarianism or Eichmann in Jerusalem—to get a better handle on the age of Trump?
What’s the philosophical significance of Mean Girls?
... How can gossip change a culture?
When and why might it be ok to hate your colleague’s promotion?
Is gossip good after all?
... What does gossip get for us and what's the moral cost?
What is Hannity's style?
... Does he present arguments, or is it all on-screen graphics, rapid-fire non-sequiturs and facial expressions?
a case of the irrelevant versus the impractical?
What counts as good evidence for ghosts?
... Is it a matter of faith?
... How do we approach the uncertain?
Then who was it?
Do ghosts exist?
... Should a person believe in them?
Is political compromise different from other kinds of compromise?
... When values and ethics are involved, is any compromise morally permissible?
... Is centrism pragmatic or lacking in principles?