A composite list of episodes from the past 90 days of selected podcasts.
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 2021-Oct-23 • 82 minutesNick Palmisciano on the Crisis in Afghanistan and Serving the Common Good On today’s podcast Ryan talks to Nick Palmisciano about his recent trip to Afghanistan to help rescue American interpreters, the philosophical implications of practicing Brazilian jujitsu, his journey after leaving the military and becoming an entrepreneur, and more. Nick Palmisciano is the CEO of Diesel Jack Media, a full-service marketing agency. Nick is also the Vice President and one of four founding board members of Save Our Allies, an effort that rescued 12,000 refugees in the final 10 days of the Af... (@DailyStoic) |
 2021-Oct-23 • 39 minutesFriedrich Nietzsche‘s ”Beyond Good and Evil” (Part 2/2) In this episode, I present the second half of Friedrich Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil." If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphiloso... paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Twitter: @DavidGu... (@DavidGuignion) |
 2021-Oct-23 • 42 minutesThe Man of Many Worlds II What was David Lewis like as a person? The consensus is that he did not know how to converse. At Swarthmore, David Lewis discovers he has a knack for philosophy and none at all with women, leading to a lifelong examination of the norms for conversation. By the time he reaches Harvard, he is ready to meet the love of his life, but almost fails out of the program in the process. By the end of his Harvard days, an entire continent on the other side of the Earth is abuzz about a rising star. Guest voices includ... (@HiPhiNation) |
 2021-Oct-22 • 17 minutesMiguel De Unamuno, Tragic Sense Of Life - The Origins Of Philosophies This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher, novelist, playwright, and poet Miguel de Unamuno's book Tragic Sense of Life It focuses specifically on his discussion of the origin of philosophies in the vital needs, desires, and demands of human beings, according to Unamuno. Genuine philosophy is an activity of the entire person, not just of the intellect, To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can... (@philosopher70) |
 2021-Oct-22 • 69 minutes#538 Stephen Gaukroger - The Failures of Philosophy: A Historical Essay Dr. Stephen Gaukroger is Emeritus Professor of History of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Sydney. Dr. Gaukroger has completed a long-term project on the emergence and consolidation of a scientific culture in the West from 1210 to 1935: The Emergence of a Scientific Culture (Oxford, 2006),The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility(Oxford, 2010),The Natural and the Human (Oxford, 2016), Civilization and the Culture of Science (Oxford, 2020). His re-working of the history of p... (@TheDissenterYT) |
 2021-Oct-22 • 67 minutes23 | How Does a Democracy Keep its Character? Lessons from the Black Radical Tradition w/ Prof. Melvin Rogers In this episode, we welcome Professor Melvin Rogers of Brown University to discuss his forthcoming book The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought. We focus on the often elided importance of character in social struggle and transformation, the tension between optimism and pessimism in African American political thought, and the centrality of rhetoric and persuasion in this tradition. It is not to be missed!patreon.com/leftofphilosophy | @leftofphilReferen... (@leftofphil) |
 2021-Oct-22 • 60 minutesEp. 23 - Susan Wolf: On Moral Responsibility In this episode, I speak with Susan Wolf about her first two papers, "Asymmetrical Freedom" and "The Importance of Having Free Will." These papers have been influential to me and I was lucky enough to discuss them with Dr. Wolf. We discuss her views on moral responsibility, reactive attitudes, and her upcoming projects. (@Jordan_C_Myers) |
 2021-Oct-22Susan Stebbing | The Philosophers Michael Beaney, Siobhan Chapman, and Peter West discuss Stebbing, a pioneer of analytic philosophy who applied her technical expertise to pressing social issues (@forumphilosophy) |
 2021-Oct-22 • 75 minutes79 - Can You Be Anti-Abortion Without Being A Socialist Vegan? (Part 2) In this episode, we dive into the ethics of abortion. In particular, we ask: what positions on personhood, harm, and sacrifice does one have to hold in order to be anti-abortion WITHOUT also being committed to the moral (or legal) requirement of veganism or the mass redistribution of wealth. Turns out it's not so easy a question to answer.Toby Napoletano, Michael Hughes (@TheBadlandsPod) |
 2021-Oct-22 • 59 minutesSocrate est-il le premier théoricien du management ? durée : 00:58:47 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye, Adèle Van Reeth - Pourquoi faire une philosophie du management ? Aurait-il besoin d'une légitimité hors de lui-même ? L'origine du management serait-elle grecque ? Serait-il un "pharmakon" : un poison et un remède à la fois ? Pourrait-il prendre source dans le texte "L’Économique" de Xénophon, interprète de Socrate ? - invités : Ghislain Deslandes professeur à ESCP Business School et ancien directeur de programme au Collègue In... (@Philochemins) |
 2021-Oct-22 • 65 minutesEV - 214 Liberal Currents with Adam Gurri My guest this week is Adam Gurri, founder and editor in chief of liberal currents. We discuss why we still identify as liberals, his recent article on cancel culture narratives, and whether those narratives are an unavoidable part of liberal society. The Case Not Made: https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-case... Zizek Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcas... by GW Rodriguez Sibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.lib... (@ETVPod) |
| 2021-Oct-22 • 20 minutes Miguel De Unamuno, Tragic Sense Of Life - The Tragic Sense Of Life - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher, novelist, playwright, and poet Miguel de Unamuno's book Tragic Sense of Life It focuses specifically on discussions of what he means by that term itself, the "tragic sense of life" To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM You can find over 1500 philosophy videos ... (@philosopher70) |
 2021-Oct-21 • 9 minutes(how) creation brings your psyche into being And finding your magic in this existence… | The purpose of creation, destruction, and the flow state. | New Exclusive Feed: https://aphilosophersstone.substack.com/... | All the links you will need: https://link.snipfeed.co/thephilosophygu... | As always thank you for your support! (@philosophyguy2) |
 2021-Oct-21 • 65 minutesWhat Is Mental Health? | Danielle Carr Since the mid-twentieth century, there has been an ongoing quarrel over the definition of mental health: Are disorders like depression, OCD, or schizophrenia biologically determined or are they socially constructed?In this episode of “What Is X?,” Justin E. H. Smith talks to Danielle Carr about the history of psychiatry and the politics of madness, from 1930s asylums and the DSM to the antipsychiatry movement and Elon Musk’s newest hobby: neural implants. They discuss the big business of mental health in ou... (@jehsmith) |
| 2021-Oct-21 • 57 minutes #537 Christopher Kuzawa: Developmental Plasticity, Life History, and Epigenetics Dr. Christopher Kuzawa is Professor of Anthropology and Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. He uses principles from anthropology and evolutionary biology to gain insights into the biological and health impacts of human developmental plasticity. His primary field research is conducted in Cebu, the Philippines, where he works with a large birth cohort study that enrolled more than 3,000 pregnant women in 1983 and has since followed their offspring into adulthood (no... (@TheDissenterYT) |
 2021-Oct-21 • 48 minutes#264 — Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast) A Conversation with Anil Seth (@SamHarrisOrg) |
 2021-Oct-21 • 67 minutesSacred and Profane Love Episode 41: James Baldwin is Bringing the Fire with Dr. Cornel West I am pleased to share a very special episode of Sacred and Profane, our first episode recorded in front of a live audience, and with the amazing Dr. Cornel West! The context for this episode is that the Classic Learning Test (which has sponsored several episodes this season, and on whose board of academic advisors I happily serve) held its third annual higher education summit in beautiful Annapolis, Maryland, and invited me to record an episode for the educators who had gathered for three wonderful days to ... (@eudaimoniapod) |
 2021-Oct-21 • 62 minutes18. What is a philosophy of life, anyway? Rob and Massimo discuss the concept of a philosophy of life. What sort of activities count? Do we include religions? If one can engage in philosophy as a way of life, are there other ways of life that are non-philosophical? (@mpigliucci) |
 2021-Oct-21 • 54 minutesIris Murdoch Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author and philosopher Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999). In her lifetime she was most celebrated for her novels such as The Bell and The Black Prince, but these are now sharing the spotlight with her philosophy. Responding to the horrors of the Second World War, she argued that morality was not subjective or a matter of taste, as many of her contemporaries held, but was objective, and good was a fact we could recognize. To tell good from bad, though, we would need to see the... (@BBCInOurTime) |
| 2021-Oct-21 • 60 minutes Simone Weil, penser en travaillant durée : 00:59:42 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye, Adèle Van Reeth - Dans les années 30, à l’usine, la philosophe Simone Weil interroge le travail dans son organisation et cherche à trouver une méthode de travail, ce que serait un bon management, celui qui restaurerait l'humanité des ouvriers. Comment réconcilier besoins de production et épanouissement au travail ? - invités : Nadia Taïbi (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Oct-21 • 9 minutes Ask Yourself This Question About Every Thought | Heroes, Here And Now Ryan explains why you should always think through your impressions before you act on them, and reads The Daily Stoic’s entry of the day, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. List your product on AppSumo between September 15th - November 17th and the first 400 offers to go live will receive $1000, the next 2000 to list a product get $250. And everyone who lists gets entered to be one of 10 lucky winners of $10k! Go to https://appsumo.com/ryanholiday to list your product today and cash in on this amazing deal. S... (@DailyStoic) |
 2021-Oct-21 • 54 minutesHow much should we care about climate change? There is a growing evidence that people have accepted the reality of climate change and the need for action. But there is significant divergence in attitudes toward the salience of the problem — which is to say, how big a problem it is, how much it should matter to us, and where to rank climate change in a list of national priorities. (@RadioNational) |
| 2021-Oct-20 • 13 minutes Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art? - The Beautiful, The True, and The Good - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century philosopher and novelist Leo Tolstoy's book What Is Art? It focuses specifically on his discussion of the notions of the beautiful, true, and good, which were often conflated in his time, and which Tolstoy thought needed to be distinguished from and even opposed to each other. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyM... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Oct-20 • 15 minutes What is the Will to Power? | Friedrich Nietzsche | Keyword In this episode, I present Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of the Will to Power. *The Geneaology of Morals was released AFTER Beyond Good & Evil* If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphiloso... (@DavidGuignion) |
 2021-Oct-20 • 59 minutesAITA Cases Revisited In this forty-first episode of the Wisdom for Life radio show, hosts Dan Hayes and Greg Sadler go back to the types of real-life moral dilemmas set out in the Reddit AITA forum. They narrate, discuss, and analyse a number of selected cases, and give the... (@philosopher70) |
 2021-Oct-20 • 54 minutesStanley McChrystal on the Military, Leadership, and Risk Why it’s crucial to take a long view of history. (@tylercowen) |
 2021-Oct-20 • 12 minutesEpisode 20: "Disagreement in Metaphysics", Timothy WIlliamson Click here for the article.If you are enjoying Condensed Matter, please consider supporting the show on Patreon. In recognition of your support, you'll get the opportunity to suggest articles and guests for future episodes. I'm also thinking about what else I can offer Patreon supporters, so support the show and you'll be first to know!You can carry on the discussion on Twitter and there's even an Instagram page. Thanks for listening! Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/Conde... (@KimptonNye) |
 2021-Oct-20 • 60 minutesInterview: Jan Blits on Macbeth | The New Thinkery Ep. 65 This week the guys are joined once again by Jan Blits, professor emeritus in the University of Delaware School of Education. The group break down the play Macbeth, going through the plot and discussing the central role of virtue in the play that is not necessarily apparent at first glance. (@thenewthinkery) |
| 2021-Oct-20 • 58 minutes "Je te réponds ASAP après ma conf-call" : parlez-vous entreprise ? durée : 00:58:09 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye, Adèle Van Reeth - De quelle façon le management n'est-il pas seulement un ensemble de pratiques, mais aussi un ensemble de discours ? Comment ce discours utilisé en entreprise reflète-t-il et influence-t-il la manière dont le travail est organisé et conceptualisé ? Comment résister au langage managérial ? - invités : Luca Paltrinieri maître de conférences en philosophie politique, philosophie des sciences humaines et sociales à... (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Oct-20 • 68 minutes Steven Pinker on the Pursuit of Rationality | Never Wish Away A Minute of Your Life Ryan reads today’s daily meditation and talks to author Steven Pinker about his new book Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters, the importance of pursuing effective altruism, the responsibility of institutions to protect the common good, and more. Steven Pinker is an experimental cognitive psychologist and a popular writer on language, mind, and human nature. Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, and his academic specializations are visual cogn... (@DailyStoic) |
 2021-Oct-20 • 56 minutesLindsey Stewart, "The Politics of Black Joy: Zora Neale Hurston and Neo-Abolitionism" (Northwestern UP, 2021) What can southern Black joy teach us about agency? What role does refusal have in liberation? What more might there be to root work than resistance? In The Politics of Black Joy: Zora Neale Hurston and Neo-Abolitionism (Northwestern UP, 2021), Lindsey Stewart explores Hurston’s contributions to political theory and philosophy of race to develop a politics of joy that owes much to indifference, refusal, and tactical misrecognition. Contending with white supremacy and countering neo-abolitionist approaches th... (@NewBooksPhil) |
 2021-Oct-20 • 58 minutes0G163: Moon and Low-road Capitalism Hey friend, how you feeling? Want a juice box? You hit your head pretty hard. Why don't you just rest and listen to this podcast that in no way relates to your experience and think about how great it is that you don't live under a maximally... (@0gPhilosophy) |
 2021-Oct-20 • 21 minutesDemocratic Deliberation with Sheron Fraser-Burgess Deliberative democracy is a school of political thought in which conversation takes on a central role. It’s different from representative democracy, which involves voting and polling, because it focuses on discussion and understanding to move... | The post Democratic Deliberation with Sheron Fraser-Burgess appeared first on Examining Ethics. (@DePauwPrindle) |
 2021-Oct-20 • 28 minutesEpisode 147: Philosophy is Where You Find it! Part 6 This week join Mike and Danny as they attempt to build a scale model of Danny from bits of information gleaned by rummaging through his bins during the hours of darkness. Is it possible to create an accurate scale model of the world using nothing but words and statistics? Develop a new found respect for data analytics as we identify Danny’s perfect partner by noting his preference for whisky, Wittgenstein and women and concluding from this that he is ideally paired with a drunken Scottish lady who likes to ... (@PhilosophyWtf) |
 2021-Oct-19 • 69 minutesEp. 136 - Pseudo-Intellectuals and the Knowledge of God w/Dr. Owen Anderson In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined once again by Dr. Owen Anderson to discuss some more of his work. This time we talk about a paper he wrote on the phenomena of psuedo-intellectualism and how it relates to Christianity and our ability to demonstrate the existence of God. | If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $1, $3, or $5 a month. Any amount helps, and for $5 you get a Parker's Pensées sticker and instant access to all the episode as I record them instead of wa... (@trendsettercase) |
 2021-Oct-19 • 88 minutesEpisode 223: The Hopeless Dream of Being (Bergman's "Persona") David and Tamler dive into Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 masterpiece “Persona”, a film about two (?) women, Elisabet, a famous stage actress who has stopped speaking, and Alma the chatty young nurse assigned to care for her at an island cottage. What happens when the roles we play as parents, spouses, friends, and colleagues start to feel like dishonest performances, an endless series of desperate lies? Can we escape to an inner sanctum of truth and authenticity? Or is that putting on another mask, playing yet anot... (@verybadwizards) |
 2021-Oct-19Episode #21: Grace Lockrobin on Community Philosophy in a Time of Crisis Grace is a philosophy teacher, trainer, facilitator, scholar and advocate. Over the last fifteen years – through her many projects in the places people live, learn, work and play – she has enjoyed philosophical conversations with thousands of thinkers of all ages, backgrounds and levels of experience. Through her workshops, training, talks and writing, she has shared her thinking … Continue reading "Episode #21: Grace Lockrobin on Community Philosophy in a Time of Crisis" (@DavidEStorey) |
 2021-Oct-19 • 45 minutesWas Max Planck right about consciousness? | Patricia Churchland, Brian Greene, Amanda Gefter and Laura Mersini-Houghton Most of us, scientists included, see physics as an attempt to provide an objective description of the world independent of human subjectivity and consciousness. Yet, Max Planck, one of major scientific figures of the twentieth century and the founder of (@IAI_TV) |
| 2021-Oct-19 • 59 minutes Sommes-nous tous en burn-out ? durée : 00:58:38 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye, Adèle Van Reeth - Le management mise sur l'humanisation des méthodes de travail, pourtant, il en vient à déshumaniser les individus, les déprofessionnaliser. Comment est-ce possible ? Dans le monde du travail aujourd'hui individualisé, comment la souffrance au travail a-t-elle évolué ? Comment se manifeste-t-elle ? - invités : Danièle Linhart Sociologue, directrice de recherches émérite au CNRS (@Philochemins) |
 2021-Oct-19 • 74 minutesProblems in Philosophy with Dr. Gregory Sadler This week, we have Andrew's favorite online philosophy educator, Gregory Sadler, join us to talk about problems that come up with philosophy: misrepresentations in pop culture, how it's represented in schools, and of course, the ever present trolley problem! We're beyond excited and hope you are too! Please check out our website at opendoorphilosophy.com where you can find more information about the show and get access to our booklist. Also, feel free to email us any questions or any quotes you want us to r... (@opendoorphil) |
| 2021-Oct-18 • 59 minutes Truth, Society and The Marketplace of Ideas In this fortieth episode of the Wisdom for Life radio show, hosts Dan Hayes and Greg Sadler bring their discussion of the topic of truth to a close by focusing on the popular metaphor of the marketplace of ideas as a locus in which true opinions and view... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Oct-18 • 11 minutes (How) do you relate to the constant flow of the universe? The purpose of creation, destruction, and the flow state. | New Exclusive Feed: https://aphilosophersstone.substack.com/... | All the links you will need: https://link.snipfeed.co/thephilosophygu... | As always thank you for your support! (@philosophyguy2) |
| 2021-Oct-18 • 63 minutes #536 James Pennebaker: Language Use, Writing, Personality, and Stories Dr. James Pennebaker is the Regents Centennial Professor of Liberal Arts and Professor of Psychology. He and his students are exploring natural language use, group dynamics, and personality in both laboratory and real-world settings. His earlier work on expressive writing found that physical health and work performance can improve by simple writing and/or talking exercises. His cross-disciplinary research is related to linguistics, clinical and cognitive psychology, communications, medicine, and computer sc... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Oct-18 • 18 minutes #263 — The Paradox of Death In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris reflects on the subjective continuity of consciousness, the nature of identity, and the possibility that death isn’t the end of experience. SUBSCRIBE to listen to the rest of this episode and gain access to... (@SamHarrisOrg) |
 2021-Oct-18 • 84 minutes169 | C. Thi Nguyen on Games, Art, Values, and Agency I talk with C. Thi Nguyen about the philosophy of games, and how the clarity of value associated with gamification can lead us astray. (@seanmcarroll) |
 2021-Oct-18 • 10 minutesPREMIUM-Ep. 279: Aristotle's "Categories" of Being (Part Two) Continuing on the Categories, considering artifacts, social construction in cutting up the world, different kinds of properties, and more. If you're not hearing , sign up via one of the options described at . (@PartiallyExLife) |
 2021-Oct-18 • 46 minutesEpisode #27 Reflections on Nature ft. Martin Bunzl What really is ‘Nature’? Why should we care about preserving it? Jonah Woodward and Alexandros Constaninou are joined by Martin Bunzl, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and author of the new book ‘Thinking While Walking: Reflections on the Pacific Crest Trail’. They discuss how the human conception of the natural world has changed over time, the difficulties we face in attempting to tackle climate change and environmental destruction, as well as possible solutions to these problems. (@ThoughtsUofg) |
 2021-Oct-18 • 51 minutesEpisode 26: Willpower and Ego Depletion with Roy Baumeister In this episode, we talk with social psychologist Roy Baumeister about willpower and an effect that Roy calls “ego depletion”. We also ask Roy about his recent work developing a scientific theory of free will. Roy's website: https://roybaumeister.com/Roy's book on Willpower (cowritten with John Tierney): https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books... https://twitter.com/thefreewillshowInsta... https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillsho... https://www.facebook.com/The-Free-Will-S... (@thefreewillshow) |
| 2021-Oct-18 • 10 minutes This Is How To Become Wise | Make Honesty Your Only Policy Ryan explains how you should think about the process of learning, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. List your product on AppSumo between September 15th - November 17th and the first 400 offers to go live will receive $1000, the next 2000 to list a product get $250. And everyone who lists gets entered to be one of 10 lucky winners of $10k! Go to https://appsumo.com/ryanholiday to list your product today and cash in on this amazing deal. Sign up f... (@DailyStoic) |
 2021-Oct-18 • 67 minutesEpisode 120| Herbert Marcuse One Dimensional Man | Philosophy, The Search for Truth and the Privileging of the Intellectual Life In episode one hundred and twenty of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses chapter five of Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man.Feel free to send questions or comments to [email protected] episodes every Monday.Social media:Twitter: @iamarubbermanInstagram: dissectingphilosophywithdrmcdYoutube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTi_1Eb... the podcast:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Dissectingphilos... me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/dissectingphilosophyMa... than... (@dissectphilo) |
 2021-Oct-18 • 39 minutesE55. "The Perfect Daughter" - Should you betray your morals to give your child every legal advantage in life? Named “Top 20 Philosophy Podcast” for 2021!STORY SUMMARY: Jane goes to visit her parents over the Christmas holiday. She has recently learned that her parents, under a program that favors the rich and elite, had had her genetically modified before she was born to be the best possible version of herself. Jane is crushed at learning that her life success has nothing to do with her hard work and is angry at her parents for having genetically modified her. Her father argues the problem of evil; that it was in h... (@AfterDinnerCon) |
| 2021-Oct-18 • 54 minutes PEL Presents PMP#107: Cult Bands and Cultish Fans Mark Linsenmayer is joined by of Too Much Joy, , and to talk about what makes a cult band. We touch on artists like Tom Waits, Velvet Underground, Big Star, XTC, and The Cure. For more, visit . Hear bonus content for this episode at or by... (@PartiallyExLife) |
 2021-Oct-17 • 70 minutesRyan Stelzer: Profiting By Making More Humane Workplaces Using Think Talk Create | STM Podcast #106 On episode 106, we welcome back management consultant Ryan Stelzer to discuss the importance of the active inquiry process known as ‘Think, Talk, Create’; the perils of solely focusing on data and profit, or ‘the quantitative mindset’;... (@seize_podcast) |
| 2021-Oct-17 • 17 minutes Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art? - Tolstoy's Definition Of Art - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century philosopher and novelist Leo Tolstoy's book What Is Art? It focuses specifically on the definition of Art that he provides in the work, construing it as a means of communion between people. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM You can find over 1500 philosophy videos in m... (@philosopher70) |
 2021-Oct-17 • 53 minutesIs Nuclear War Ever Justified? | Eron Fasser Should certain weapons be banned from use in war? Are there limits on the amount of force countries should use to protect their citizens? Is it ever justified to kill innocent civilians to end a war? | ICJ Advisory Opinion: https://www.icj-cij.org/en/case/95 (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2021-Oct-17 • 18 minutes 12 (Stoic) Questions That Will Change Your Life On today’s episode of the podcast Ryan gives you 12 Questions that will change your life. Gathered from some of the wisest philosophers, most incisive thinkers, greatest leaders and most awesome badasses that ever lived. Watch the video: https://youtu.be/X5JwF5pwR34 Novo is the #1 Business Banking App - because it’s built from the ground up to be powerfully simple and free business banking that Money Magazine called the Best Business Checking Account of 2021. Novo makes banking easy and secure - you can ... (@DailyStoic) |
 2021-Oct-17 • 28 minutesWhat is dignity? Dignity is something we recognise and respect in others, and we feel it deeply when our own is threatened or attacked. But what exactly is it? This week we're exploring different kinds of dignity, and the ways in which they can get in the way of each other. We also look at how one person's appeal to dignity can be another person's moral violation. (@DavidPZone) |
 2021-Oct-17HAP 85 - Liam Kofi Bright on Du Bois‘ Philosophy of Science Guest Liam Kofi Bright discusses Du Bois' ideal of value-free science and the place of science within his wider thought. (@HistPhilosophy) |
 2021-Oct-17 • 44 minutesThe Columbus Letter (What the Conspiracy!) Josh tells M about the Columbus Letter! Well, about the three forged copies of the Columbus Letter! That we know of... — Josh is @monkeyfluids and M is @conspiracism on Twitter You can also contact us at: [email protected] Why not support The P... (@conspiracism) |
 2021-Oct-17 • 12 minutes417: John Dewey and the Ideal of Democracy More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/joh... Dewey is regarded by some as the American philosopher. In the first half of the 20th century, he stood as the most prominent public intellectual whose influence reached into intellectual movements in China, Japan, and India. Although we hear less of Dewey nowadays, his pragmatic political philosophy has influenced the likes of Richard Rorty and other political thinkers. What were the basic ideas in his philosophy of democracy? Does America have a public sp... (@philtalkradio) |
| 2021-Oct-16 • 19 minutes Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art? - Why Elite Art Is Not True Art - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century philosopher and novelist Leo Tolstoy's book What Is Art? It focuses specifically on his his contention that elite art is not true or genuine art, and the arguments he provides to support his case To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM You can find over 1500 philosophy vide... (@philosopher70) |
 2021-Oct-16Derek Matravers (Open University): “On Being Misled by Non-Fiction” Derek Matravers (Open University) presents “On Being Misled by Non-Fiction” at Senate House in London (13/10/2021, 16-18:00) for the London Aesthetics Forum. Please do not cite or reproduce without permission. (@aestheticsforum) |
| 2021-Oct-16 • 65 minutes David Rubenstein on Patriotic Philanthropy and the Value of History Ryan talks to American billionaire businessman David Rubenstein about his new book The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream, learning from past historical figures' successes and from their mistakes, his original concept of patriotic philanthropy and giving back after coming from a middle class family, his thoughts on finding enough and finding peace in success, and more. David Mark Rubenstein is an American billionaire businessman. Former government official and lawyer. A Co-Founder and Co-Chairman o... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Oct-16 • 46 minutes Friedrich Nietzsche‘s ”Beyond Good and Evil” (Part 1/2) In this episode, I present the first half of Friedrich Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil." If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphiloso... @DavidGuignio... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2021-Oct-16 • 45 minutes The Man of Many Worlds I David Lewis was one of the greatest minds of the 20th century, who few outside of academia know much about. By the time of his death in 2001, he was the greatest systematic thinker in metaphysics since the Enlightenment. In Part 1 of a four-part series, we follow his journey from sick little boy in Oberlin, Ohio to teenager learning about free will from Iris Murdoch. We accompany the story of his early life with his theory of time, time travel, and the self. Guest voices include R. Jay Wallace, Mark Schroed... (@HiPhiNation) |
| 2021-Oct-15 • 59 minutes The Topic of Truth Take Two In this thirty-ninth episode of the Wisdom for Life radio show, hosts Dan Hayes and Greg Sadler continue their discussion of the topic of truth. They review several of the insights and theories about truth from the previous session, including what the c... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Oct-15 • 61 minutes #535 Glenn Geher: Politics and Academic Values in Higher Education Dr. Glenn Geher is Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York at New Paltz where he has been awarded SUNY Chancellor Awards for Excellence for both Teaching and Research. His most recent book is Positive Evolutionary Psychology: Darwin's Guide to Living a Richer Life. | In this episode, we talk about a recent paper - Politics and Academic Values in Higher Education: Just How Much Does Political Orientation Drive the Values of the Ivory Tower? We first talk about academic values, parti... (@TheDissenterYT) |
 2021-Oct-15 • 64 minutesThe genetic lottery (Kathryn Paige Harden) Kathryn Paige Harden, author of “The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality” explains what scientists have learned about how our genes affect our educational success. Why is this research so controversial? And is it worth doing anyway? (@Rspodcast) |
| 2021-Oct-15 • 12 minutes Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art? - The Scope Of Art - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century philosopher and novelist Leo Tolstoy's book What Is Art? It focuses specifically on his discussion of the scope of what can be considered to be works of art. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM You can find over 1500 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.you... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Oct-15 • 65 minutes EV - 213 Warspeak with Michael Grenke My guest this week is Dr. Michael Grenke, a tutor at St John’s College and author of the introduction to the recently released Warspeak: Nietzsche’s victory over nihilism. We discuss Nietzsche's worldview, the risks and insights in that view, and how we wrestle with nihilism and meaning in the modern world. Warspeak: https://www.amazon.com/Warspeak-Nietzsch... Nietzsche Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcas... by GW Rodriguez Sib... (@ETVPod) |
| 2021-Oct-15 • 58 minutes Le BDSM, peut-on consentir à la soumission ? durée : 00:58:11 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye, Adèle Van Reeth - Connaissez-vous le BDSM : bondage et discipline, domination et soumission, sadomasochisme ? Pourquoi permet-il de comprendre philosophiquement ce qu'est le consentement, et ce qu'il signifie ? - invités : Manon Garcia philosophe, Junior Fellow à la Society of Fellows de l’université de Harvard (@Philochemins) |
 2021-Oct-15 • 20 minutes#22: Dealing with uncertainty Do you struggle to cope with uncertainty - about the effects of the pandemic, about your career, about your income, your relationship, and God knows what else? The Academic Imperfectionist is here to break it all down for you. You're going to learn:That it's completely normal to feel stressed and anxious in the face of uncertainty;That the reason uncertainty is stressful is due not only to the possibility of some nasty outcome that you fear, but also to how anticipating it makes you feel;That copi... (@AcademicImp) |
 2021-Oct-15 • 88 minutes48. Punch Drunk Love (w/ Sean Burke) Join us on the harmonium as we revisit Paul Thomas Anderson's (not-)musical tragicomedy Punch Drunk Love with Sean Burke (Founding Partner, Whistler Partners). We discuss how Adam Sandler embodies the awkwardness and anxiety of male adolescence, and how Anderson mixes color and sound to create an overwhelming kaleidoscope of social panic, rage and repression, and fear of public humiliation. Yet, underneath it all, we find a simple and pure love story -- perhaps one of the most hopeful in recent memory -- ye... (@cowspod) |
| 2021-Oct-14 • 107 minutes #534 Michael Huemer: Moral Realism, Ethical Intuitionism, and Veganism Dr. Michael Huemer is a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado. He is the author of more than seventy academic articles in epistemology, ethics, metaethics, metaphysics, and political philosophy, as well as several books, like Skepticism and the Veil of Perception, Ethical Intuitionism, The Problem of Political Authority, Approaching Infinity, Paradox Lost, and Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism. | In this episode, we talk about ethics and veganism. We start by discussing objectivity in ethic... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Oct-14 • 179 minutes AMA | October 2021 Ask Me Anything episode for October 2021. (@seanmcarroll) |
 2021-Oct-14 • 44 minutesWas Joe Biden wrong to pull out of Afghanistan? In this episode, Jake and Ant look at the ethics of the Western abandonment of Afghanistan after decades of support. | | We begin by chatting about some necessary context on the history of Afghanistan, both cold war era and post 9/11. Ultimately, we discuss the limits of one person's moral agency (can the president be personally blamed? Was there any winning decision to be made?), when it may be just to invade or 'nation-build' and the limits of respecting sovereignity and self-determination. Specifically,... (@MoralityofThe) |
| 2021-Oct-14 • 69 minutes 17. Don Robertson on how to think like a Roman Emperor Donald Robertson and Massimo Pigliucci talk about the Stoic approach to death; Marcus Aurelius, the emperor-philosopher; and the relationship between therapy and philosophy conceived as the art of life. [Episode extracted from a show formerly known as the Stoa Nova Conversations.] (@mpigliucci) |
| 2021-Oct-14 • 58 minutes Total Recall, comment réaliser ses rêves les plus tordus ? durée : 00:58:01 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye, Adèle Van Reeth - Quand Verhoeven adapte en 1990 le maître de la SF Philip K.Dick, cela donne "Total Recall". Comment comprendre ce décalage entre l'écriture maîtresse de K. Dick et ce film, grosse machine hollywoodienne incarnée par Arnold Schwarzenegger ? Une émission en compagnie du cinéaste Nicolas Pariser. - invités : Nicolas Pariser Réalisateur et scénariste (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Oct-14 • 11 minutes If You Can’t Stand The Heat… | Don’t Get Mad, Help Ryan explains why you can’t let the external world define your perspective, and reads The Daily Stoic’s entry of the day, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. LinkedIn Jobs is the best platform for finding the right candidate to join your business this fall. It’s the largest marketplace for job seekers in the world, and it has great search features so that you can find candidates with any hard or soft skills that you need. And now, you can post a job for free. Just visit linkedin.com/STOIC to post a job for fre... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Oct-14 • 54 minutes Persuasion — is it possible, or even desirable? Far too much debate today is more like a play of competing monologues, or forms of self-promotion designed to perform for one’s tribe. Should we give up on the fantasy of persuasion through argumentation and cascading theses, as some philosophers have, or do we need to rethink the conditions of persuasion altogether? (@RadioNational) |
 2021-Oct-13 • 118 minutesAnil Seth: Is Consciousness a Controlled Hallucination? Anil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex. In this episode we discuss his new book 'Being You: The New Science of Consciousness.' (@keithfrankish) |
| 2021-Oct-13 • 8 minutes What is the Male Gaze? | Laura Mulvey | Keyword In this episode, I present Laura Mulvey's notion of the Male Gaze. If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphiloso... paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Twitter: @DavidGuignion IG: @theory_and_philo... (@DavidGuignion) |
 2021-Oct-13 • 66 minutesThe Dark Side of Morality Is there something bad about being too good? Might belief in objective morality distort our moral behavior? Marcus Arvan joins Spencer Case to discuss. (@ADigressions) |
 2021-Oct-13 • 68 minutes78: "A whole new relationship with non human animals that will blow people’s minds!" - Jonina Turzi - Sentientist Conversation Jonina (@JoninaTurzi) is cofounder of Lancaster Farm Sanctuary, a volunteer district leader for HSUS, & a doctor of physical therapy & yoga educator. | In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “what matters?” | Sentientism is "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube. | | We discuss: | 0:00 Welcome | | 1:24 Jonina's Intro | - Lancaster Farm Sanctuary, physical therapy, yoga ... (@sentientism) |
| 2021-Oct-13 • 11 minutes Episode 19: "Realism Without Parochialism", Phillip Bricker Click here for the article.If you are enjoying Condensed Matter, please consider supporting the show on Patreon. In recognition of your support, you'll get the opportunity to suggest articles and guests for future episodes. You can carry on the discussion on Twitter and there's even an Instagram page. Thanks for listening! Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/CondensedMatter... (@KimptonNye) |
| 2021-Oct-13 • 64 minutes Mark Twain's Extracts from Adam's Diary | The New Thinkery Ep. 64 This week the guys convene to discuss a short, humorous work by Mark Twain, Extracts from Adam's Diary. Despite being so short and meant to be funny, hidden just below the surface are deep questions about existence. Thanks to ALI and ISI for sponsoring! (@thenewthinkery) |
| 2021-Oct-13 • 58 minutes Basic Instinct, briser la glace avec Sharon Stone durée : 00:58:18 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye, Adèle Van Reeth - Quand deux criminels se rencontrent, un flic à la gâchette facile et une écrivaine serial-killeuse, cela donne Basic Instinct, le 3ème film américain de Verhoeven. Comment le regard de l'écrivaine se meut-il dans celui du cinéaste et subvertit les clichés de l'écrivaine vue par le cinéma masculin ? - invités : Hélène Frappat écrivaine, traductrice et critique de cinéma (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Oct-13 • 71 minutes Robert Greene on the Power of Daily Practice | You Have To See Both Ryan reads today’s daily meditation and talks to bestselling author Robert Greene about his new book The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy, and Human Nature, the process of writing some of his bestselling books, how to have courage in the modern world, and more. Robert Greene is an American author known for his books on strategy, power, and seduction. He has written six international bestsellers: The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strategies of War, The 50t... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Oct-13 • 59 minutes 0G162: Three Body Problem and The Problem of Induction Pt2 Here comes the heel turn where we use the pod to get you to turn on humanity and embrace our new desiccated overlords. Once again we're joined by Matt Browne of Decoding the Gurus to help fine tune our guru messaging so everyone gets onboard. To... (@0gPhilosophy) |
| 2021-Oct-13 • 15 minutes Episode 146: Philosophy is Where You Find it! Part 5 This week, who knows what’s going on because we certainly don’t. Danny has been struck down by the virus (he’s fine and recovering so don’t pander to him, he’s just looking for attention) and Mike can’t recall what they talked about when this cast was recorded. All we can say with any certainty is that the whole thing will be its usual mixture of insight and delight - which is more than most of use deserve. I think we talk about a couple of films, oh yes, and a book … or was it a cat? No, I remember now, we... (@PhilosophyWtf) |
 2021-Oct-13The Calamari Ring of Gyges In this episode we discuss a variety of philosophical topics related to the Netflix series Squid Game. Along the way we complain about rich people and offer some interesting rankings and comparisons. "Attack of the Mole Men" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licens... Fat Cartoon Jazz https://www.purple-planet.com Cat and Mouse https://www.purple-planet.com (@ThereforeFan) |
| 2021-Oct-12 • 5 minutes Ursula K Leguin - Writing What You Know - Sadler's Shorts This is a short reflection on an insightful passage from Ursula K Leguin's essay "Telling The Truth", found in her book The Language of the Night. She discusses how writers draw upon experience, and how being open or closed to experience offers a richness or poverty to the person. She also discusses the adage "write what you know", and interprets it in terms of knowing key elements of fantasy You can get Leguin's The Language Of The Night here - https://amzn.to/3BvVMqy The faint music in the background i... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Oct-12 • 26 minutes Islands and the Anthropocene | David Chandler Whether it's the discussion on rising sea levels or nuclear waste, islands have gravitated to the epicentre of the geopolitical zeitgeist. But why are we more interested in islands than ever before? Professor at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, Dav (@IAI_TV) |
 2021-Oct-12 • 67 minutesEpisode 092 - The Plague of Athens, And The End of the Poem Welcome to Episode Ninety-Two of Lucretius Today. I am your host Cassius, and together with my panelists from the EpicureanFriends.com forum, we'll walk you through the six books of Lucretius' poem, and discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. We encourage you to study Epicurus for yourself, and we suggest the best place to start is the book, "Epicurus and His Philosophy" by Canadian professor Norman DeWitt. For anyone who is not familiar with our podcast, please visit EpicureanFriends.com w... (@NewEpicurean) |
 2021-Oct-12 • 64 minutesEp. 53: What is Phenomenology? (Part II) In this episode, Giuseppe and Anthony continue their conversation on the "sub-method" of philosophy known as phenomenology: What can descriptive analysis of basic experiences tell us about the fundamental structures of consciousness? What assumptions do we typically make but take for granted in everyday experience? Is phenomenology a kind of metaphysics, epistemology, both, or neither? What is the difference between "having an body" and "being embodied?" How is Heidegger's phenomenology of "Being" (wh... (@LoveofSophiaPOD) |
 2021-Oct-12 • 58 minutes36. Art as Commodity Today's art world is driven by multimillion-dollar auctions and fancy art fairs inaccessible to most Americans — Art Basel Miami, anyone? Those who do view art spend an average of just eight seconds per work, so it's not clear that we're even meaningfully experiencing those Monet water lilies. In this episode, Ellie and David explore the way capitalism has turned art into a commodity. From Basquiat to Banksy, even street art seems to have been devoured by capitalism’s endless hunger for monet... (@ellieanderphd) |
| 2021-Oct-12 • 58 minutes “Elle”, peut-on refuser d’être une victime ? durée : 00:58:22 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye, Adèle Van Reeth - Verhoeven dépeint les rapports entre hommes et femmes comme une guerre ouverte, avec la violence comme lien indéfectible. "Elle" dédramatise le viol, le déréalise, mais peut-on faire un tel film sans laisser la place au statut de victime ? Banalise-t-il le viol ou dénonce-t-il la culture du viol ? - invités : Murielle Joudet Critique de cinéma (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Oct-12 • 10 minutes 531: The Mysterious Timelessness of Math More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/mys... is a really useful subject—at least, that's what your parents and teachers told you. But math also leads to scenarios, like Zeno's paradoxes, that seem to inspire skepticism. So why do we believe in math and rely on it to build bridges and spaceships? How can anyone discover the secrets of the universe by simply scribbling numbers on a piece of paper? Is math some kind of magic, or does it have a more ordinary explanation? And could math be culturally rela... (@philtalkradio) |
| 2021-Oct-11 • 124 minutes Helen Yetter-Chappell: Is Reality Made up of Consciousness? Dr Helen Yetter-Chappell is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University of Miami. Idealism is the view that the fundamental nature of reality is made up of mentality or consciousness. Inspired by the 18th century idealist philosophy George Berkeley, Helen has developed a version of Berkeley's idealism which dispenses with his commitment to the existence of God. http://yetterchappell.net/Helen/ (@keithfrankish) |
| 2021-Oct-11 • 47 minutes #533 Alexander Rosenberg: Scientism, Nihilism, and Atheism Dr. Alexander Rosenberg is the R. Taylor Cole Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. He has held fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. In 1993, Dr. Rosenberg received the Lakatos Award in the philosophy of science. In 2006-2007 he held a fellowship at the National Humanities Center. He’s the author of both fictional and non-fictional literature, including The Atheist’s Guide to Reality, and Ho... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Oct-11 • 72 minutes Ep. 135 - What Is Self-Deception? w/Dr. Eric Funkhouser In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Eric Funkhouser to discuss his book Self-Deception, which is another in the Routledge series on New Problems of Philosophy. It's awesome! | Grab the book here: https://amzn.to/3EwuBgX | If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $1, $3, or $5 a month. Any amount helps, and for $5 you get a Parker's Pensées sticker and instant access to all the episode as I record them instead of waiting for their release date. Check it out h... (@trendsettercase) |
 2021-Oct-11 • 80 minutes“How do philosophers talk about sex, love, and desire?” Sarah LaChance Adams is Florida Blue Distinguished Professor; Director of the Florida Blue Center for Ethics at the University of North Florida; and the author of "New Philosophies of Sex and Love: Thinking Through Desire." She visits with host Jack Russell Weinstein, distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of North Dakota. (@whyradioshow) |
| 2021-Oct-11 • 85 minutes 168 | Anil Seth on Emergence, Information, and Consciousness I talk with neuroscientist Anil Seth about how higher-level descriptions emerge from lower ones, and what that has to do with consciousness. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2021-Oct-11 • 59 minutes RoboCop, humain après tout durée : 00:59:10 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye, Adèle Van Reeth - "RoboCop", sorti en 1988 dans les salles françaises, est le 8ème film de Paul Verhoeven et son premier film américain. Duplicité, premier degré, deuxième degré, troisième degré, ironie, critique politique... : ce film contient-il tout le cinéma de Verhoeven ? - invités : Axel Cadieux Journaliste, critique de cinéma, rédacteur en chef adjoint de la revue So Film (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Oct-11 • 8 minutes When the World Caves In… | Practice Love Ryan discusses the reliability of Stoicism during tough times, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Blinkist is the app that gets you fifteen-minute summaries of the best nonfiction books out there. Blinkist lets you get the topline information and the most important points from the most important nonfiction books out there, whether it’s Ryan’s own The Daily Stoic, Yuval Harari’s Sapiens, and more. Go to blinkist.com/stoic, try it free for 7 days, a... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Oct-11 • 60 minutes Helena de Bres, "Artful Truths: The Philosophy of Memoir" (U Chicago Press, 2021) What is a memoir? What makes a memoir both nonfictional and literary? What are the memoirist’s moral obligations to the people they write about besides themselves, and to their potential readers? And is the writing of a memoir just indulging in narcissism, or revenge? In Artful Truths: The Philosophy of Memoir (University of Chicago Press, 2021), Helena De Bres examines the philosophical issues that the memoir genre raises, given the doubts we may have about whether people can write the truth about themsel... (@NewBooksPhil) |
 2021-Oct-11 • 6 minutesCulture without Food (guest contribution) In this episode, guest contributor Will Hathaway and I discuss how culture would be different humans didn't have to eat - would culture have to centre around something different, and if so, what? Enjoy! | If you'd like to request an episode, or even do an episode yourself, please contact me on Instagram (@fiveminutephilosophy) or Twitter (@fiveminutephil1). (@fiveminutephil1) |
| 2021-Oct-11 • 51 minutes Episode 119| Herbert Marcuse One Dimensional Man | One Dimensional Language In episode one hundred and nineteen of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses chapter four of Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man.Feel free to send questions or comments to [email protected] episodes every Monday.Social media:Twitter: @iamarubbermanInstagram: dissectingphilosophywithdrmcdYoutube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTi_1Eb... the podcast:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Dissectingphilos... me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/dissectingphilosophyMa... th... (@dissectphilo) |
| 2021-Oct-11 • 54 minutes Ep. 279: Aristotle's "Categories" of Being (Part One) On the Categories (ca. 350 BCE), which purports to describe all the types of entities that exist. We mostly talk about substances, as A's presentation raises interesting questions about, e.g. the status of the species of substance, and the rest of the... (@PartiallyExLife) |
| 2021-Oct-10 Addiction Molly Mathieson, Alexander Mazonowicz, and Hanna Pickard explore the relationship between addiction, recovery, identity, and philosophy (@forumphilosophy) |
| 2021-Oct-10 • 62 minutes Emily Kircher-Morris: 2e Students, Neurodiversity, NYC Ending Gifted & Talented Program | STM Podcast #105 On episode 105, we welcome back Licensed Professional Counselor Emily-Kircher Morris to discuss teaching twice exceptional (2e) children, the neurodiversity movement and its contribution to helping us accept the neurological differences in one... (@seize_podcast) |
| 2021-Oct-10 • 50 minutes Plato’s problem with Democracy | Clif Mark Is Democracy the best political system? Plato thought not. But what is the best alternative? Clif Mark, from the podcast Good in Theory, joins us this week to discuss Plato’s Republic. | https://goodintheorypod.com/ (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2021-Oct-10 • 12 minutes How Stoicism Can Help You Persevere and Succeed On today’s podcast Ryan speaks to a group of entrepreneurs about one of the biggest threats they will face in pursuing their goals: themselves. Our egos can stunt us, alienate us, tarnish our successes and deepen our failures, which is why it is so maligned by the Stoics. Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOvvZBPc... Jordan Harbinger Show is one of the most interesting podcasts on the web, with guests like Kobe Bryant, Mark Manson, Eric Schmidt, and more. Listen to one of Ryan's episodes r... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Oct-10 • 28 minutes Yan Fu: China meets Western liberalism Yan Fu was a late 19th century naval officer and writer who was fascinated with Western philosophy. His translations of works by Thomas Huxley, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill and others were celebrated successes in China. But his books feature notes and interpretative gestures that make them something more than just straight translations – they’re works of philosophy in their own right. (@DavidPZone) |
 2021-Oct-10HoP 381 - More Lutheran than Luther - Philip Melanchthon Luther’s close ally Melanchthon uses his knowledge of ancient philosophy and rhetoric in the service of the Reformation. (@HistPhilosophy) |
 2021-Oct-09 • 26 minutesAgnes Callard on Complaint We all do it. But is there anything philosophically interesting about complaining? Agnes Callard thinks there is. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast she discusses complaint with Nigel Warburton. (@philosophybites) |
| 2021-Oct-09 • 72 minutes Major General Dan Caine on Becoming a Great Leader On today’s podcast, Ryan talks to Major General Dan Caine about the importance of defining success before you set out to try to solve a problem, the responsibility of leaders to be as prepared as possible, the ineffectiveness of holding others to the standards you hold yourself to, becoming a lifelong student of leadership, and more. Maj. Gen. J. Daniel Caine is the Director of Special Programs and the Department of Defense Special Access Program Central Office (DoD SAPCO), the Pentagon, Arlington, Virgini... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Oct-09 • 17 minutes Laura Mulvey‘s ”Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” In this episode, I present Laura Mulvey's short essay, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphiloso... paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Twitter: @Davi... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2021-Oct-08 • 69 minutes 22 | The Meaning of Disability (with Dr. Joel Michael Reynolds) In this episode we are joined by Joel Michael Reynolds for a wide-ranging discussion about disability theory. We dig into the relationship between disability and white supremacy, the idea of politics as differential capacitation, genomics and medicalization, justice as equity, and more. Naturally we put full-bore social constructivism on blast. Leftists gotta be materialists, you know?patreon.com/leftofphilosophy | @leftofphilReferences:Joel Michael Reynolds, “The Meaning of Ability and Disability.” Journal... (@leftofphil) |
| 2021-Oct-08 • 53 minutes #532 Robert Paarlberg - Resetting the Table: Straight Talk About the Food We Grow and Eat Dr. Robert Paarlberg is Betty Freyhof Johnson ’44 Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Wellesley College, and an Associate in the Sustainability Science Program at Harvard University. His research focuses on the international agricultural and environmental policy, regulation of modern technology, including biotechnology. He is the author of many books, including Resetting the Table: Straight Talk About the Food We Grow and Eat. | In this episode, we focus on Resetting the Table. We start by framing fo... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Oct-08 • 75 minutes 78 - Can You Be Anti-Abortion Without Being A Socialist Vegan? (Part 1) In this episode, we dive into the ethics of abortion. In particular, we ask: what positions on personhood, harm, and sacrifice does one have to hold in order to be anti-abortion WITHOUT also being committed to the moral (or legal) requirement of veganism or the mass redistribution of wealth. Turns out it's not so easy a question to answer.Toby Napoletano, Michael Hughes (@TheBadlandsPod) |
 2021-Oct-08 • 71 minutesRobots The HBS hosts discuss how robots and intelligent machines are upending our social, moral, legal, and philosophical categories.For this last episode of Season 2, the HBS hosts interview Dr. David Gunkel (author of Robot Rights and How To Survive A Robot Invasion) about his work on emergent technologies, intelligent machines, and robots. Following the recent announcement by Elson Musk that Tesla is developing a humanoid robot for home use, we ask: what is the real difference between a robot and a toaster?Do r... (@hotelbarpodcast) |
| 2021-Oct-08 • 58 minutes Le steak, qui est la viande ? durée : 00:58:08 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye, Adèle Van Reeth - Que mange-t-on quand on mange un steak ? Et à quoi pense-t-on ? À l'animal ? À la chair ? La viande est-elle désincarnée ? Quel est le processus de la chair animale à la viande ? Que reste-t-il de l'animal dans notre assiette ? Finalement, qui est la viande ? - invités : Olivier Assouly enseignant à l’Institut français de la mode à Paris, ainsi qu’à l’école des Beaux-Arts d’Angers, rattaché au laboratoire ACTE... (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Oct-08 • 74 minutes EV - 212 The Conspiracy Handbook with John Cook My guest this week is John Cook (@johnfocook), a research fellow at Monash Climate Change Committee Research Hub, author of the book Cranky Uncle Vs. Climate Change and coauthor of The conspiracy Handbook. We discuss the common features of conspiracies and the challenges of applying this analysis in the modern world. Conspiracy handbook: https://www.climatechangecommunication.o... Christopher Hitchens Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/... (@ETVPod) |
 2021-Oct-08 • 51 minutesAdriana Clavel-Vázquez & Killing James Bond Just as the new James Bond has hit the screen, the chatter about who is going to replace Daniel Craig has begun. Some are adamant that it should absolutely not be another white, straight, macho man - the times have moved on from all that. But would changing the character into a woman or a person of colour or with a different sexual orientation be doing violence to the very concept of who James Bond is? And why does it matter who James Bond, a fictional character, is portrayed by? Do the norms of the real wo... (@newsphilosophy) |
| 2021-Oct-07 • 61 minutes #531 Kyle Thomas: The Psychology of Common Knowledge Dr. Kyle Thomas recently received his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Harvard University, where he developed his research program on the psychology of common knowledge under his advisor, Steven Pinker. He is currently the Chief Scientist at MotiveMetrics, where they turn cutting-edge psychological science into software tools that can accurately reveal true motivations from publicly available data. In short, they help marketers understand why people buy—or don’t—at the click of a button. Software hasn’... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Oct-07 • 43 minutes PEL Presents Philosophy vs. Improv #14: Action Idealism! Are so-called "material objects" really just a scam? These two cut-ups (Bill and Mark) cut up the world in various ways, showing you how to teach, how to act, and how to haggle. Mark philosophizes at . Bill improvises (and teaches) at . . to get our... (@PartiallyExLife) |
 2021-Oct-07 • 54 minutes4/10/2021 – 114th PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Robert Stern asks ‘How is human freedom compatible with the authority of the Good?’ Murdoch on moral agency, freedom, and imagination As the first talk for the 2021-22 Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, this year’s Presidential Address marks the official inauguration of Professor Robert Stern (University of Sheffield) as the 114th President of the Aristotelian Society. The Society’s President is elected on the basis of lifelong, exemplary work in philosophy. | | The 114th Presidential Address was chaired by Bill Brewer (KCL), the 113th President of the Aristotelian Society. | | | Robert Stern is Professor of Philosophy at the Uni... (@Aristotweets) |
| 2021-Oct-07 • 58 minutes 16. Liz Gloyn on Seneca and the Family Rob and Massimo interview Liz Gloyn, author of The Ethics of the Family in Seneca. We talk about the radical approach of the Stoics to human relationships, the concepts of oikeiosis (appropriation of other people's concerns) and cosmopolitanism, and why Seneca was a far more innovative thinker than he is often given credit for. [Episode extracted from a show formerly known as the Stoa Nova Conversations.] (@mpigliucci) |
| 2021-Oct-07 • 49 minutes The Cat‘s Meow Josh and M discuss the conspiracy of silence around the fate of Thomas H. Ince! — Josh is @monkeyfluids and M is @conspiracism on Twitter You can also contact us at: [email protected] Why not support The Podcaster's Guide to the Conspiracy by d... (@conspiracism) |
| 2021-Oct-07 • 59 minutes Faut-il dire adieu aux armes ? durée : 00:58:30 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye, Adèle Van Reeth - Pourquoi une telle présence des thèmes de la guerre et de la paix dans la philosophie de Raymond Aron ? Etait-il le penseur d'une paix durable entre les nations ou au contraire celui d’un réalisme froid poussant les Etats à s’affronter sur l’échiquier international ? - invités : Jean-Vincent Holeindre professeur de science politique à l'Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas et directeur scientifique de l'IRSEM (In... (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Oct-07 • 8 minutes Make A’s in a few things | A Selfish Reason To Be Good Ryan discusses how you can get better at what you do by doing less, and reads The Daily Stoic’s entry of the day, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Cometeer partners with the best locally owned roasters in the world and through their breakthrough brewing technology, provides a delicious, high-quality, balanced cup of coffee for a fraction of the price. For a limited time, you can save 20 Dollars off your first order - that’s 10 free cups on your first order, and shipping is always free - but only when you vi... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Oct-07 • 54 minutes Has the pandemic shown the unassailability of utilitarianism — or its inherent limitations? As the philosopher Bernard Williams anticipated, utilitarianism has largely disappeared from public view, not because it is no longer adhered to, but because it has become the “operating system” that governs most of our public decision-making. What the COVID-19 pandemic has done is make that hidden calculus explicit. (@RadioNational) |
| 2021-Oct-06 • 58 minutes (sub)Text: Our Name is Subtext, Podcast of Podcasts. Hear our “Ozymandias” Discussion, Ye Listeners, and Despair! The land is not just ancient but “antique,” and while many of its artifacts end up as the possessions of distant museums, they may yet be capable of overpowering their audiences. Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias” is traditionally taken as... (@PartiallyExLife) |
| 2021-Oct-06 • 7 minutes What is Intersectionality? | Kimberlé Crenshaw | Keyword In this episode, I present Kimberlé Crenshaw's approach to Intersectionality. If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphiloso... @DavidGuignion IG: @theory... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2021-Oct-06 • 49 minutes Claudia Goldin on the Economics of Inequality How to model social progress. (@tylercowen) |
| 2021-Oct-06 • 14 minutes Episode 18: "Metaphysics After Carnap: the Ghost Who Walks?", Huw Price Click here for the article.If you are enjoying Condensed Matter, please consider supporting the show on Patreon. In recognition of your support, you'll get the opportunity to suggest articles and guests for future episodes. You can carry on the discussion on Twitter and there's even an Instagram page. Thanks for listening! Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/CondensedMatter... (@KimptonNye) |
| 2021-Oct-06 • 78 minutes Interview: Drs. Christopher Lynch and Nathan Tarcov on The Complete Tales and Poems of Niccolò Machiavelli | The New Thinkery Ep. 63 In this special edition of The New Thinkery, the guys are joined by Drs. Nathan Tarcov and Christopher Lynch. They give the guys a sneak peek at a forthcoming book on Machiavelli that you can't get anywhere else! Plus: what projects are they working on now? Shoutout to the Ancient Language Institute for sponsoring! (@thenewthinkery) |
| 2021-Oct-06 • 59 minutes Peut-on arrêter le progrès ? durée : 00:58:33 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye, Adèle Van Reeth - La pensée de Raymond Aron est-elle avant tout une philosophie de l'histoire ? Comment connaître l'histoire ? Comment et en quoi Aron pense-t-il qu’il peut y avoir un progrès dans celle-ci ? Et quel rôle y joue l'individu ? - invités : Perrine Simon-Nahum philosophe, directrice de recherches au CNRS, professeure attachée au département de philosophie de l’Ecole normale supérieure (ENS), directrice de collection... (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Oct-06 • 66 minutes Kate Bowler on Memento Mori and Falling in Love with Fate | This Decision—This Process—Will Change Your Life Ryan reads today’s meditation and talks to author and professor Kate Bowler about her recent book Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved, her battle after being unexpectedly diagnosed with Stage IV cancer, the similarities between hope and fear, the importance of stillness, how the prospect of death concentrates the mind, and more. Kate Bowler, PhD is a New York Times bestselling author, podcast host, and a professor at Duke University. She studies the cultural stories we tell ourselves... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Oct-06 • 56 minutes 0G161: Three Body Problem and Maoism Pt1 Turns out this whole podcast is just an elaborate interactive game to soften the ground for our philosophical overlords. Now that you've all accepted your inevitable lives in a box of some sort, we can pass the time till they arrive by discussing... (@0gPhilosophy) |
| 2021-Oct-06 • 29 minutes Policing and Ethics with Ekow Yankah Legal scholar Ekow Yankah discusses the ethics of policing on today's episode of Examining Ethics. | The post Policing and Ethics with Ekow Yankah appeared first on Examining Ethics. (@DePauwPrindle) |
| 2021-Oct-05 • 98 minutes Episode 222: Choosing Sartre for All Mankind David and Tamler don black turtlenecks and light up a couple of Gauloises to talk about Jean Paul Sartre's classic essay “Existentialism is a Humanism.” Why are choices so fundamental to our experience? What does Sartre mean when he says that “existence precedes essence”? Why does he try to shoehorn universalizability into a view that’s clearly hostile to it? And how do you pronounce Sartre without sounding like a douche? Plus, how much free time is good for you? Is that even the right question? (@verybadwizards) |
| 2021-Oct-05 • 33 minutes #262 — The Future of American Democracy A Conversation with Andrew Yang (@SamHarrisOrg) |
 2021-Oct-05 • 31 minutesEpisode #158 ... The Creation of Meaning - Nietzsche - The Ascetic Ideal Today we look at the creation of meaning through the work of Nietzsche. (@iamstephenwest) |
| 2021-Oct-05 • 89 minutes Sacred and Profane Love Episode 40: The Tragic Vision of Eugene O'Neill Sacred and Profane Love Episode 40: The Tragic Vision of Eugene O'Neill by Sacred and Profane Love (@eudaimoniapod) |
| 2021-Oct-05 • 49 minutes The story of reality | Sophie Fiennes, Betty Sue Flowers, Noel Carroll From fairy tales to Harry Potter, from Avatar to James Bond, we love fantasy and expect our books and films to take us there. Yet at the same time we want our poems and plays, novels and movies, to reflect life and reality. Should our narratives be seeki (@IAI_TV) |
| 2021-Oct-05 • 65 minutes 77: Rod Graham's "Being" - cross-post bonus episode on Sentientism This episode is a bonus cross-post from Rod Graham's Being series on YouTube where I talked to Rod about Sentientism. You can watch the video of our conversation on his channel here. | Check out and subscribe to Rod's channel and give him a follow on Twitter. | | I hope you enjoy our conversation! As ever, this is my personal perspective so many other Sentientists will disagree - while still agreeing on "evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings." | Sentientism: | sentientism.info | Sentienti... (@sentientism) |
| 2021-Oct-05 • 58 minutes Comment Tocqueville a libéré Aron durée : 00:58:28 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye, Adèle Van Reeth - Raymond Aron fut un lecteur tardif de Tocqueville, que lui a-t-il apporté ? Comment sa pensée a-t-elle aidé Aron à définir son libéralisme ? Quel enseignement tirer de leur conception de la liberté ? - invités : Françoise Mélonio Professeure de Littérature à la Sorbonne, chargée de cours à l'IEP (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Oct-05 • 55 minutes How To Be Happy In this fourth of a four episode series, Andrew and Mr. Parsons discuss Virtue Ethics as a way to determine proper ethical and moral action. Mr. Parsons recounts a recent, personal moral quandary. Andrew has terrible allergies. (@opendoorphil) |
| 2021-Oct-04 • 89 minutes Ep. 134 - Does Logic Prove God? w/Drs. Alex Malpass & James Anderson In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Alex Malpass and Dr. James Anderson to discuss the argument for God from the existence of the necessary propositions of logic like the law of noncontradiction. Anderson and Dr. Greg Welty have come up with a unique argument from logic for God and Dr. Malpass has recently published some criticism. In this episode we get into them! | If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $1, $3, or $5 a month. Any amount helps, and for... (@trendsettercase) |
| 2021-Oct-04 • 82 minutes #530 Jeremy DeSilva - A Most Interesting Problem; Darwin’s Descent of Man (150th anniversary) Dr. Jeremy DeSilva is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. He is the author of A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin’s Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about Human Evolution. | In this episode, we focus on A Most Interesting Problem, and Darwin’s Descend of Man. We first discuss the Descent of Man in its historical context, and compare it to the Origin of Species, and try to trace back the origins of some of its most prominent ideas. We talk about part 1 of the book, and the evol... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Oct-04 • 95 minutes 167 | Chiara Marletto on Constructor Theory, Physics, and Possibility I talk with physicist Chiara Marletto about constructor theory, a novel approach to fundamental physics. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2021-Oct-04 • 34 minutes Episode 25: Monkeys and Free Will with Adina Roskies In this episode we talk with neuroscientist and philosopher Adina Roskies about what we can learn about free will from monkey cognition. We also ask her about her take on the Libet experiment and whether neuroscience could, in principle, disprove free will.Adina's Website: https://faculty-directory.dartmouth.edu/... chapter "Monkey Decision-Making as a Model System for Human Decision-Making" can be found in the book Surrounding Free Will, edited by Al Mele: https://global.oup.com/academic/pro... (@thefreewillshow) |
| 2021-Oct-04 • 58 minutes L’anti Sartre durée : 00:58:17 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye, Adèle Van Reeth - Raymond Aron aurait souhaité être champion de tennis... pourtant, il est devenu sociologue, éditorialiste, et philosophe. Et toute sa vie, il emprunta une voie : celle de la modération. Mais peut-on être immodérément modéré, tout en étant engagé dans son temps ? - invités : Pierre Bouretz philosophe, directeur d’études à l’EHESS (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Oct-04 • 10 minutes This Is the Greatest Thing | Practice Silence Ryan discusses the vitality of stillness and reflection that philosophy demands of us, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Novo is the #1 Business Banking App - because it’s built from the ground up to be powerfully simple and free business banking that Money Magazine called the Best Business Checking Account of 2021. Novo makes banking easy and secure - you can manage your account in Novo’s customizable web, android, and iOS apps with built in pr... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Oct-04 • 11 minutes PREMIUM-Ep. 278: Derrick Bell on the Dynamics of Racism (Part Two) Continuing on Faces At the Bottom of the Well (1992), with guest Lawrence Ware. We discuss "The Racial Preference Licensing Act" (ch. 3). If you're not hearing , sign up via one of the options described at . (@PartiallyExLife) |
| 2021-Oct-04 • 67 minutes Episode 118| Herbert Marcuse One Dimensional Man l The Artist and Culture in PreIndustrial Society and in 1960s Society In episode one hundred and eighteen of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses chapter three of Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man.Feel free to send questions or comments to [email protected] episodes every Monday.Social media:Twitter: @iamarubbermanInstagram: dissectingphilosophywithdrmcdYoutube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTi_1Eb... the podcast:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Dissectingphilos... me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/dissectingphilosophyMa... t... (@dissectphilo) |
| 2021-Oct-04 • 44 minutes Episode 091 - More on Magnetism, and Introduction To Disease And Plagues Welcome to Episode Ninety-One of Lucretius Today. I am your host Cassius, and together with my panelists from the EpicureanFriends.com forum, we'll walk you through the six books of Lucretius' poem, and discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. We encourage you to study Epicurus for yourself, and we suggest the best place to start is the book, "Epicurus and His Philosophy" by Canadian professor Norman DeWitt. For anyone who is not familiar with our podcast, please visit EpicureanFriends.com w... (@NewEpicurean) |
| 2021-Oct-04 • 45 minutes E54. "The Freedom Machine" - What's wrong with getting a little AI advice? Named “Top 20 Philosophy Podcast” for 2021!STORY SUMMARY: Kiki has a problem, the computer program that continually whispers the best choices, the Infinity System, is broken. She has been using it for years and simply doing what it says. Following its advice has become second nature to her. She heads into the shop to get it looked at, and finds out it must be sent off for repairs. She will be making choices on her own for a few days. The friendly “Mastermind” service representative at the shop asks her out ... (@AfterDinnerCon) |
| 2021-Oct-03 • 6 minutes Epictetus - Considering What Things Involve - Sadler's Shorts This is a short reflection on an insightful passage from Epictetus' Enchiridion, chapter 29, in which he advises us, before starting on some complex or difficult matter, to consider what it requires and whether we are really up for doing it You can get Epictetus' Enchiridion here - https://amzn.to/3wvQSXn The faint music in the background is Mesmerize by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/... http://incompetech.com/music/royalt... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Oct-03 • 64 minutes Andy Norman: Dangerous Ideas, Collaborative Truth-Seeking, & Conspiracy Thinking | STM Podcast #104 On episode 104, we welcome back philosopher Andy Norman to discuss how we can protect ourselves from infectious ideas and mind parasites, the Socratic system of rational inquiry and why it’s the most effective truth detector, how people become... (@seize_podcast) |
| 2021-Oct-03 • 59 minutes Is it wrong to enjoy good films made by bad people? | Travis Timmerman Is the art separate from the artist? Can a moral defect in a film undermine its aesthetic quality? (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2021-Oct-03 • 11 minutes How Stoicism Can Help You Be Brave (7 Practical Tips) Ryan Holiday’s newest book Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors The Brave is out today! Check it out at https://dailystoic.com/courageiscalling ... a world in which fear runs rampant—when people would rather stand on the sidelines than speak out against injustice, go along with convention than bet on themselves, and turn a blind eye to the ugly realities of modern life—we need courage more than ever. We need the courage of whistleblowers and risk takers. We need the courage of activists and adventurers. We ne... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Oct-03 • 28 minutes The trouble with our moral evolution Morality is always evolving. But what if social evolution happened so fast and so radically that our moral evolution couldn’t quite keep pace? According to this week’s guest, that’s our current problem: we have a set of “moral emotions” in place that no longer help us deal effectively with the challenges of post-industrial society. (@DavidPZone) |
| 2021-Oct-03 HAP 84 - Live Long and Protest - W.E.B. Du Bois, 1920-1963 Du Bois moves to the left, and revisits and refines older positions during the latter half of his very long life. (@HistPhilosophy) |
| 2021-Oct-03 • 11 minutes 476: Immigration and Multiculturalism More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/imm... for economic reasons or to flee violence and persecution, immigration rates continue to climb globally. At the same time, opposition to immigration and intolerance of multiculturalism is also growing. Should cultural or ethnic identity ever be a factor in immigration policy? Do immigrants have an obligation to assimilate to the dominant culture? Or should we make cultural accommodations for immigrants who don’t share our values and traditions? Do the answe... (@philtalkradio) |
| 2021-Oct-02 • 5 minutes Seneca - On Buying Too Many Books - Sadler's Shorts This is a short reflection on an insightful passage from Seneca's On Tranquility of Mind, in which he suggests that we do not need too many books, but instead should get as much out of the books we do have. You can get Seneca's On Tranquility of Mind here - https://amzn.to/3zNU1mF The faint music in the background is Mesmerize by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/... http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-fre... http://incompete... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Oct-02 • 101 minutes Rabbi Mordecai Finley on the Value of Rationality On today’s podcast Ryan talks to Rabbi Mordecai Finley about what he learned from his encounter with an active shooter at the LAX airport in 1978, what our obligation to the common good looks like in the modern world, the Stoic’s obligation to remaining rational and responsible within society, and more. Rabbi Mordecai Finley is the rabbi and co-CEO of Ohr HaTorah Synagogue. He co-founded the synagogue with his wife Meirav Finley in 1993. Rabbi Finley integrates into his counseling practice insights from m... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Oct-02 • 45 minutes Karl Marx's "Capital" Vol. 1 (Part 4/4) In this episode, I conclude my presentation of Karl Marx's "Capital" Vol. 1. This episode covers parts 5, 6, 7, 8 and therefore chapters 16-33. If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilo..... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2021-Oct-02 • 79 minutes Conspiracy Theories and Stylized Facts (Conspiracy Theory Masterpiece Theatre) Josh and M review Kurtis Hagen's "Conspiracy Theories and Stylized Facts" from the Journal for Peace and Justice Studies, vol. 21 number 2, 2011. — Josh is @monkeyfluids and M is @conspiracism on Twitter You can also contact us at: [email protected] (@conspiracism) |
| 2021-Oct-01 • 54 minutes What Is Poetry? | Jeff Dolven Jeff Dolven and Justin E.H. Smith assay the hoard of poetry’s riches in this month’s episode: Is poetry a way of grasping at the treasures of language, past and present? Or might there be something that is particular to poetry, something unlike the pleasures and possibilities of other forms of literature? Countering Justin’s more extensive notion, Jeff offers that poetry is language that wants to happen “all at once.” Will Jeff and Justin be able to reach an agreement? Or will the goat bleat at the buzzer, ... (@jehsmith) |
| 2021-Oct-01 • 64 minutes #529 David Pietraszewski: Modularity of Mind, Coalitional Psychology, and Politics Dr. David Pietraszewski is Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. He is an experimental psychologist who applies evolutionary theorizing to Social, Cognitive, and Developmental questions. He is particularly interested in characterizing the psychology of multi-agent conflict and cooperation ("coalitional psychology"). | In this episode, we talk about modularity of mind and coalitional psychology. In terms of modularity of mind, we cover topics like: Fodorian modularity, modular... (@TheDissenterYT) |
 2021-Oct-01 • 62 minutesEpisode 6: Joseph Viteritti and the Search for the Soul of the City Can a city have a soul? And if so, is it something solid and fixed for as long as the city survives, putting its stamp on each new generation? Or is the soul of the city a much more ephemeral thing, a transient spirit of the moment, a metaphorical summation of the prevailing sentiments of its citizens? In this episode, Joseph P. Viteritti, the Thomas Hunter Professor of Public Policy and Chair of the Urban Policy and Planning Department at Hunter College takes me through his search for what he hopes is the ... (@PhionNewYork) |
| 2021-Oct-01 • 69 minutes Defending the Humanities The HBS hosts present their best defense of humanities-based education and, in doing so, try to justify their existences.As higher education has become more corporatized and STEM-focused, areas of study are often "pitched" to students on the basis of their future income-earning potential. However, college students now are entering a workforce where more than 30% of available jobs will be automated before those students reach middle age. Today's college students need more than vocational training to prepare ... (@hotelbarpodcast) |
| 2021-Oct-01 • 58 minutes La météo, sommes-nous déterminés par le temps qu'il fait ? durée : 00:58:22 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye, Adèle Van Reeth - Nous sommes ensemble sous le même ciel à regarder le temps qu'il fait, qu'il va faire. Sommes-nous tous météo-sensibles ? La météo révélerait-elle la part d'incertitude en l'homme ? - invités : Anouchka Vasak maître de conférence à l'Université de Poitiers (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Oct-01 • 10 minutes What is the Industrial Reserve Army? | Karl Marx | Keyword In this episode, I explain what Marx means by the Industrial Reserve Army. If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphiloso... @DavidGuignion IG: @theory_an... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2021-Oct-01 • 66 minutes Catarina Dutilh Novaes, "The Dialogical Roots of Deduction: Historical, Cognitive, and Philosophical Perspectives on Reasoning" (Cambridge UP, 2020) If all men are mortal, and Socrates is a man, then it must be that Socrates is mortal. What could be more obvious? Well, sometimes obviousness serves to conceal philosophical difficulties. There’s more going on in this simple deduction than we tend to recognize. For one thing, we are not being asked to assess whether all men are, indeed, mortal. Nor are we asking whether Socrates is indeed a man. Instead, we’re focusing on the logical relation that obtains between those two claims and the third. We claim th... (@NewBooksPhil) |
| 2021-Oct-01 • 11 minutes do you know oblivion? | a dance with your psyche conceptualizing oblivion and considering the important role it plays within our psyche, enjoy the dance. | New Exclusive Feed: https://aphilosophersstone.substack.com/... | All the links you will need: https://link.snipfeed.co/thephilosophygu... | As always thank you for your support! | Support Enter the Labyrinth with The Philosophy Guy | Philosophy, Psychology, Myth, Spirituality, and Existence (@philosophyguy2) |
| 2021-Oct-01 • 14 minutes #21: Let's talk about lists, plans, and goals Would you rather boil your head than start the day by making a task list? Does the idea of identifying your core values make you feel faint? Are you terrified to make plans because - what if you get them wrong? You're not alone. Your anxiety about writing down what you need to do and what's important to you is understandable, but misplaced. Join The Academic Imperfectionist for the low-down on all the things you have to gain from embracing imperfect planning.Find the 'Identify Your Core Value... (@AcademicImp) |
| 2021-Oct-01 • 91 minutes 47. In the Line of Fire (w/ Bilge Ebiri) Bilge Ebiri (New York Magazine / Vulture) returns to talk with us about this classic nineties Wolfgang Petersen conspiracy thriller that pits an aging Secret Service Agent (Clint Eastwood) against an anarchistic terrorist (John Malkovich) intent on assassinating the President. We reflect on how the movie reflects cautiously on Eastwood's broad career, regret and second chances, and consider the virtue of sacrificing oneself in defense of democratic institutions (flawed as they may be in practice). Along the... (@cowspod) |
| 2021-Sep-30 • 40 minutes #261 — Belief & Identity A Conversation with Jonas Kaplan (@SamHarrisOrg) |
| 2021-Sep-30 • 61 minutes Ep. 133 - After Humanity and The Abolition of Man w/Dr. Michael Ward In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by the legendary Michael Ward to discuss his fantastic new book, After Humanity, which is a guide to reading C.S. Lewis's book, The Abolition of Man. Find more of Dr. Ward's work here: https://michaelward.net/ | If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $1, $3, or $5 a month. Any amount helps, and for $5 you get a Parker's Pensées sticker and instant access to all the episode as I record them instead of waiting for their ... (@trendsettercase) |
| 2021-Sep-30 • 66 minutes #528 Rebecca Owens: Sex Differences in Mating Behavior, Male Psychology, and Body Modifications Dr. Rebecca Owens is Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Sunderland. She is also a Chartered member of the British Psychological Society and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her interests include mating behaviors, preferences, and strategies; male psychology; and body image/identity and wellbeing. | In this episode, we talk about sex differences in mating behavior, male psychology, and the psychology of body modifications. We first discuss sex differences in mating strategies and mat... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Sep-30 Old MacDonald Told a Joke In this episode we mourn the passing of comedian Norm MacDonald as we discuss the philosophy of comedy. Plato and Camus walk into a bar... Music in this episode: "Attack of the Mole Men" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licens... Fat Cartoon Jazz https://www.purple-planet.com Plucky Comedy https://www.purple-planet.com (@ThereforeFan) |
| 2021-Sep-30 • 62 minutes EV - 211 Applied Effective Altruism with Alex Arnett My guest this week is Alex Arnett, a longtime friend of the show who recently did some serious applied effective altruism. We discuss his experience. Live Kidney Donations: https://www.kidneyregistry.org/?gclid=Cj... William McCaskill Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcas... by GW Rodriguez Sibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/ Suppor... us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid If you enjoy the show, plea... (@ETVPod) |
 2021-Sep-30 • 23 minutesPodcast episode 18: Interview with H. Walter Schmitz on Victoria Lady Welby In this interview, we talk to H. Walter Schmitz about pioneer of semiotics Victoria Lady Welby. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 18 Primary Sources Hayakawa, Samuel Ichiyé (1939), Language in Thought and Action,…Read more › (@hiphilangsci) |
 2021-Sep-30 • 57 minutesAfricana Philosophy and its History: Interview with Chike Jeffers In this episode, Haley Brennan talks with Chike Jeffers, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Dalhousie University and Canada Research Chair in Africana Philosophy, about the history of Africana Philosophy. We talk about the work of, and what it is like ... (@olivbransc) |
| 2021-Sep-30 • 59 minutes 15. Chris Gill on Stoic ethics and environmentalism Chris Gill and Massimo Pigliucci talk about the basics of Stoic ethics and wonder how it may hold up to modern challenges, such as the one posed by a deteriorating environment (short answer: pretty well!). [Episode extracted from a show formerly known as the Stoa Nova Conversations.] (@mpigliucci) |
| 2021-Sep-30 • 59 minutes Métaphysique du poulpe durée : 00:58:30 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye, Adèle Van Reeth - Chez les Grecs anciens, on parlait déjà de l'intelligence du poulpe, le maître du camouflage. Et s'il pensait... quel type de philosophie ferait-il ? Une philosophie du mensonge ? - invités : Vinciane Despret Philosophe, professeure de philosophie à l’université de Liège. (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Sep-30 • 9 minutes Why Are We Still Talking About This? | You Can’t Touch Me Ryan why we must be continually reminded of our duty to the common good, and reads The Daily Stoic’s entry of the day, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Ryan Holiday’s new book Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors The Brave is out today! You can still get the preorder bonuses at https://dailystoic.com/preorder Ladder makes the process of getting life insurance quick and easy. To apply, you only need a phone or laptop and a few minutes of time. Ladder’s algorithms work quickly and you’ll find out almost immedi... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Sep-30 • 54 minutes Has democratic politics become too contemptuous of everyday life? In modern politics and moral philosophy, what is most meaningfully human is regularly ignored in the interests of solving “real problems”. While this is often understandable, it also points to a certain debility, a malaise at the heart of the way forms of both representative politics and moral philosophy are often practiced: an inattention to the “everyday”. (@RadioNational) |
 2021-Sep-30 • 56 minutesPostmodern Conservatism: What is it? ft. Matt McManus Here I am joined today by professor, author, and writer Matt McManus on his concept of Postmodern Conservatism. Enjoy! (@EpochPhilosophy) |
| 2021-Sep-29 • 11 minutes Episode 17: "Social kinds are essentially mind-dependent", Rebecca Mason Click here for the article.If you are enjoying Condensed Matter, please consider supporting the show on Patreon. In recognition of your support, you'll get the opportunity to suggest articles and guests for future episodes. You can carry on the discussion on Twitter and there's even an Instagram page. Thanks for listening! Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/CondensedMatter... (@KimptonNye) |
| 2021-Sep-29 • 93 minutes Interview: Dr. Wayne Ambler on Tacitus' Dialogue on Oratory | The New Thinkery Ep. 62 The guys are joined this week by Dr. Wayne Ambler, Associate Professor Emeritus at CU Boulder. The group dive into Tacitus' Dialogue on Oratory, covering a range of topics from the nature of oratory to how it looks in the United States today. Shoutout to the Ancient Language Institute for sponsoring! (@thenewthinkery) |
| 2021-Sep-29 • 58 minutes Des souris et des hommes… de science durée : 00:58:20 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye, Adèle Van Reeth - Pourquoi les souris sont-elles les animaux les plus utilisés dans l’expérimentation scientifique ? Comment s'articule, de façon éthique, le lien entre animal sensible et animal objet dans l'expérimentation animale ? Cette pratique est-elle légitime ? - invités : Georges Chapouthier Neurobiologiste et docteur en philosophie, membre de la Fondation Droit Animal Éthique et Sciences (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Sep-29 • 79 minutes Stephen Hanselman on Pursuing Virtue and Redefining Courage | How Are You Going To Be? Ryan reads today’s daily meditation and talks to his agent and writing partner Stephen Hanselman (The Daily Stoic, Lives of The Stoics) about how they both got introduced to Stoic philosophy, how his new book Courage Is Calling and the Stoic Virtues series came about, how true excellence cannot be achieved without the 4 virtues, and more. Stephen Hanselman has worked for over three decades in publishing as a bookseller, publisher and literary agent. He is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, where he rec... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Sep-29 • 59 minutes 0G160: Disney's Atlantis and Racist Pseudohistory Come on my rag tag crew! According to this old map I found, our journey down the rabbit hole of racist conspiracism is about to bring us to the place where it all started. Disney! I mean, Atlantis! An ancient civilization that seems super cool as long... (@0gPhilosophy) |
| 2021-Sep-29 • 17 minutes Episode 145: Philosophy Is Where You Find It! Part 4 This week join Mike and Danny as they get just what they deserve. Yes, who are you and what do you want? Is there an ontology behind consumerism? What do we need to own in order to be complete? Join us as we ride into town on the mule of philosophy and play what we deserve off against what we lack. Yes, it’s an anthropological showdown with everything to play for if we get caught. What are we being told about ourselves when the marketplace tells us what we need to be truly complete? If money can’t buy you h... (@PhilosophyWtf) |
| 2021-Sep-28 • 16 minutes What it means to be human | Raymond Tallis Humans are unlike anything else in the universe. We're the only part of existence that can observe and reflect on being itself, that can choose to destroy or repair our own habitat. Or so Raymond Tallis argues in this deep dive interview into what it mea (@IAI_TV) |
| 2021-Sep-28 • 55 minutes Ep. 52: What is Phenomenology? (Part I) In this episode, Giuseppe and Anthony discuss a number of questions pertaining to the "sub-method" of philosophy known as phenomenology: How is phenomenology distinct from other types of philosophy? What is the relationship between phenomenology and psychology? What assumptions run in the "background" of our everyday experience? How can we drop these assumptions and move into a more phenomenological attitude? What are the most basic structures of consciousness? Why is the climate of academic phenomenol... (@LoveofSophiaPOD) |
| 2021-Sep-28 • 60 minutes 35. Hooking Up Hooking up: sexual liberation or unethical exploitation? With the rise of dating apps, sexual gratification seems like a few taps (or swipes) away at any given moment. What implications does this have for sexual ethics around consent, fantasy, and using other people merely for pleasure? In this episode, Ellie and David dive into the history, theory, and criticisms of hookup culture. Is there a way to hook up ethically? Some argue that the power imbalances fundamental to hooking up prevent it from ever being... (@ellieanderphd) |
| 2021-Sep-28 • 59 minutes Les ânes chez La Fontaine, la revanche des humbles durée : 00:58:37 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye, Adèle Van Reeth - Pourquoi l’âne est-il un animal si hybride dans les Fables de La Fontaine, tantôt injustement persécuté et sage, tantôt idiot et imbu de lui-même ? - invités : Patrick Dandrey Professeur émérite de littérature française du XVIIe siècle à Sorbonne Université (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Sep-28 • 22 minutes Prepare Yourself To Answer The Call | Courage Is Calling: Preface & Introduction Ryan explains why you must be prepared when you are called upon, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Ryan Holiday’s new book Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors The Brave is out today! You can still get the preorder bonuses at https://dailystoic.com/courageiscalling ... up for the Daily Stoic email: https://DailyStoic.com/email Follow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, and Facebook See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my..... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Sep-27 • 105 minutes #527 Kim Hill: Human Sociality, Human Universals, and Protecting Isolated Societies Dr. Kim Hill is a professor in the Anthropology department at Arizona State University. | In this episode, we talk about hunter-gatherer tribes and human sociality. We walk through many of the societies Dr. Hill studied, including the Aché, the Hiwi, the Mashco-Piro, the Matsiguenga, the Yora, and the Sea Nomads, and aspects of their sociality. We get into like what anthropologists learn by studying traditional societies, how we can compare contemporary hunter-gatherers with the societies we evolved in, and... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Sep-27 • 74 minutes 166 | Betül Kaçar on Paleogenomics and Ancient Life With astrobiologist Betül Kaçar, I talk about how we can use modern genetic analysis to learn about ancient life on Earth. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2021-Sep-27 • 58 minutes Les chats détiennent-ils le secret de l’existence ? durée : 00:58:14 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye, Adèle Van Reeth - Le chat, ce “tigre de salon” comme le qualifiait Flaubert, partage nos vies depuis environ 10 mille ans, pourtant, il nous échappe... Qui est-il ? Que renvoie son regard ? Comment penser la singularité animale ? - invités : Florence Burgat philosophe, directrice de recherche à l’INRA et co-rédactrice en chef de la Revue Semestrielle de Droit Animalier (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Sep-27 • 10 minutes The World Wants To Know | Pain Is Self-Inflicted Harm Ryan explains how we should think about courage, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Ryan Holiday’s new book Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors The Brave is out now! - check it out at https://dailystoic.com/courageiscalling ... the best way to automate all of the busywork that comes with running a business, so you can boost your productivity, scale beyond your skillset, and focus on what matters most to you.AppSumois the leading digital marketplace... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Sep-27 • 47 minutes Ep. 278: Derrick Bell on the Dynamics of Racism (Part One) On Faces At the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism (1992), a foundational text in critical race theory that presents thought experiments in the philosophy of law, including "The Space Traders." With guest . Part two of this episode is only... (@PartiallyExLife) |
| 2021-Sep-27 • 38 minutes Episode 117| Herbert Marcuse One Dimensional Man l From Marx's Industrial Society to 1960s Society In episode one hundred and seventeen of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses chapter two of Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man.Feel free to send questions or comments to [email protected] episodes every Monday.Social media:Twitter: @iamarubbermanInstagram: dissectingphilosophywithdrmcdYoutube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTi_1Eb... the podcast:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Dissectingphilos... me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/dissectingphilosophyMa... th... (@dissectphilo) |
| 2021-Sep-27 • 67 minutes Episode 090 - Special Guest Panelist - Preparation for Discussion of Magnetism Welcome to Episode Ninety of Lucretius Today. I am your host Cassius, and together with my panelists from the EpicureanFriends.com forum, we'll walk you through the six books of Lucretius' poem, and discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. We encourage you to study Epicurus for yourself, and we suggest the best place to start is the book, "Epicurus and His Philosophy" by Canadian professor Norman DeWitt. For anyone who is not familiar with our podcast, please visit EpicureanFriends.com wher... (@NewEpicurean) |
| 2021-Sep-26 • 5 minutes Seneca - Voices From The Past - Sadler's Shorts This is a short reflection on an insightful passage from Seneca's On The Shortness of Life, in which he points out to us that by studying philosophy, we connect ourselves to some of the most intelligent and insightful people of the past. You can get Seneca's On The Shortness of Life here - https://amzn.to/3zNU1mF The faint music in the background is Mesmerize by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/... http://incompetech.com/musi... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Sep-26 • 58 minutes William Irwin: Turning Philosophy into Poetry and Making Wisdom Accessible | STM Podcast #103 On episode 103, we welcome back philosopher William Irwin to discuss poetry and philosophy, our reactions to William's new book ‘Both/And’, the battle between continental philosophy and analytic philosophy, why aphorisms and platitudes are... (@seize_podcast) |
| 2021-Sep-26 • 53 minutes The Power of Imagination | Amy Kind What would a world without imagination be like? Why do we feel sympathy, fear or excitement for fictional characters? And can imaginary actions be morally wrong? (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2021-Sep-26 • 6 minutes Self-Knowledge In this episode, we'll be talking about the three main approaches to the topic of self-knowledge: acquaintance theory, inner-sense theory and rationalist theory. Enjoy! | If you'd like to request an episode, or even do an episode yourself, please contact me on Instagram (@fiveminutephilosophy) or Twitter (@fiveminutephil1). (@fiveminutephil1) |
| 2021-Sep-26 • 8 minutes Exclusive Preview: Courage Is Calling | Don’t Be Deterred by Difficulties On today’s special episode of the podcast, Ryan reads a chapter from his newest book Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors The Brave which is available for pre-order now. If you pre-order the book before September 28, 2021 you can get exciting pre-order bonuses (you could even have dinner with Ryan at his bookstore in Bastrop, TX).BUY 1 COPY: TWO full bonus chapters that Ryan wanted to get into the book but couldn't fit, an extended bibliography of the books that went into the making of this book, and a Spotif... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Sep-26 • 28 minutes About time, part 4: The insect clock When a person dies under suspicious circumstances, it can be hard to determine exactly what happened and when. Enter the forensic entomologist, whose job it is to study the action of insects on the body and present their evidence to the court. Insects provide a “clock” that can help to piece together the puzzle of death – but in doing this, insects also raise a number of questions pertaining to the philosophy of science, law and time. (@DavidPZone) |
| 2021-Sep-26 HoP 380 - Take Your Choice - Erasmus vs Luther on Free Will Erasmus clashes with Martin Luther over the question whether our wills are free or enslaved to sin. (@HistPhilosophy) |
| 2021-Sep-26 • 11 minutes 177: Gandhi as a Philosopher More at http://philosophytalk.org/shows/gandhi-p... is famous as the leader of the movement for Indian independence, which he based on his philosophy of non-violence, an important influence on Martin Luther King Jr. Gandhi's ideas and the effects of his leadership continue to influence the world and its leaders. What was the philosophical basis these ideas? Is non-violence a strategy for a certain purpose, or the basis for a way of life? Ken and John welcome Akeel Bilgrami, Director of the Heyman Center ... (@philtalkradio) |
| 2021-Sep-25 • 46 minutes Episode 089 - Unusual Geological Phenomena - Springs That Change From Hot to Cold And Back Again Welcome to Episode Eighty-Nine of Lucretius Today. I am your host Cassius, and together with my panelists from the EpicureanFriends.com forum, we'll walk you through the six books of Lucretius' poem, and discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. We encourage you to study Epicurus for yourself, and we suggest the best place to start is the book, "Epicurus and His Philosophy" by Canadian professor Norman DeWitt. For anyone who is not familiar with our podcast, please visit EpicureanFriends.com... (@NewEpicurean) |
| 2021-Sep-25 • 75 minutes Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman on Having the Courage to Doing the Right Thing On today’s episode of the podcast Ryan speaks with Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman about his book Here, Right Matters, the difference between physical and moral courage, the importance of cultivating perspective and confidence, how one individual can change the course of history, and more. Alexander Semyon Vindman is a retired United States Army lieutenant colonel who was the Director for European Affairs for the United States National Security Council (NSC) until he was reassigned on February 7, 2020. Vindman ... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Sep-25 • 42 minutes Karl Marx's "Capital" Vol. 1 (Part 3/4) In this episode, I continue my presentation of Karl Marx's "Capital" Vol. 1. This episode covers part 4 and therefore chapters 12-15. If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphiloso... paypa... (@DavidGuignion) |
 2021-Sep-25 • 84 minutesE45: Dawdler Review - Triamonds, Episodic Synchronies, and NME Skeptics! Whoo boy! Ryan is back in the swing of things with his kids in school and sports and ballet and covid and everyone's FREAKIN OUT! Harland is on a journey through the red states lookin' for a poker game or two. Apparently, Austin is nice...and hot. But th... (@dawdlerspodcast) |
| 2021-Sep-24 • 64 minutes Ep. 132 - On Fiction and Fictionalism w/Dr. Mark Sainsbury In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined once again by Dr. Mark Sainsbury to discuss another one of his fantastic books. This time it's Fiction and Fictionalism, another book in the Routledge New Problems of Philosophy series. How can we talk about fictional objects if there is nothing there to actually refer to? Dr. Sainsbury helps me think it through. | Grab the book here: https://amzn.to/3teZfXi | If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $1, $3, or $5 a mon... (@trendsettercase) |
| 2021-Sep-24 • 17 minutes Absolutely Mental Season Two In this episode, Sam shares a clip from the second season of Absolutely Mental, his audio series with Ricky Gervais. All 10 episodes have been released today (Friday September 24th, 2021) and are available for purchase at . SUBSCRIBE to gain access to... (@SamHarrisOrg) |
| 2021-Sep-24 • 17 minutes John Stuart Mill, On Liberty - Cultivation Of Originality - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century Utilitarian philosopher John Stuart Mill's work, On Liberty It focuses specifically on his advocacy and argument running throughout chapter 3 for the development and cultivation of what he calls "individuality". To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM You can find over 1... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Sep-24 • 54 minutes #526 Jordan Moss: The Psychology of the Alt-right and the PC Authoritarians and Liberals Jordan Moss is a psychology graduate and medical student at the University of Sydney. He has research interests in individual differences, with particular interest in personality theory and moral psychology. | In this episode, we talk about the alt-right and the Politically Correct left. We start by characterizing the alt-right, and the move on to the political correctness authoritarians and liberals. We talk about the psychological differences and similarities between the al-right and the PC folks. W... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Sep-24 • 8 minutes Does living with uncertainty have importance? | My(our) dance with uncertainty My stuff: | New Exclusive Feed: https://aphilosophersstone.substack.com/... | All the links you will need: https://link.snipfeed.co/thephilosophygu... | As always thank you for your support! (@philosophyguy2) |
 2021-Sep-24 • 33 minutesTracking Hate Speech with Shannon Fyfe Shannon Fyfe (George Mason University) talks about her paper on hate speech and prosecuting incitement to genocide in international criminal law. (@wesbuc) |
| 2021-Sep-24 • 65 minutes Generations The HBS hosts discuss whether or not generational tags– “Boomer,” “GenX,” “Millennial,” and “Gen Z”– are useful descriptions or just gerrymandered groups.Are you Gen Z, a Boomer, Gen X? We don’t know either but in this episode Dr. Rick Lee leads a discussion to try to figure out whether these generational designations have any stable meaning. Do they make sense as organizational categories. Are they Objective Types, Natural Kind, or Gerrymandered Sets? Do generational markers say more than gender, racial, c... (@hotelbarpodcast) |
| 2021-Sep-24 • 59 minutes La greffe, comment devenir soi avec un autre corps ? durée : 00:58:54 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye, Adèle Van Reeth - Qu’est-ce qu’une greffe ? Restauration de la continuité d’une existence, de l’identité à l’éthique, du social au pathologique, la greffe permet de déployer la possibilité d’une philosophie clinique… - invités : Martin Dumont maître de conférences en philosophie à l'Université Paris Est Créteil et responsable de la Chaire de philosophie à l'Hôtel Dieu (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Sep-24 • 65 minutes EV - 210 Naturalness with Alan Levinovitz Pt2 My guest this week is Alan Levinovitz (@AlanLevinovitz), a professor of religion and science at James Madison University and the author of Natural: How Faith in Nature’s goodness leads to harmful fads, unjust laws, and flawed science. We discuss the role of naturalness in our political debates. Alan's Website: https://www.alanlevinovitz.com/ Convocat... John Burroughs Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcas... by GW Rodriguez Sibling ... (@ETVPod) |
| 2021-Sep-24 • 70 minutes Arif Ahmed & Free Speech on Campus Back in May, the UK government introduced a bill that according to its description would aim to strengthen the legal duties on higher education institutions to protect freedom of speech on campuses for students, academics and visiting speakers.This month, the Higher Education Committee has been hearing oral evidence by academics, activists and students on their views on the bill, before its put before the commons for a vote. So is this a bill trying to solve a real free speech problem on campuses around t... (@newsphilosophy) |
| 2021-Sep-23 • 14 minutes John Stuart Mill, On Liberty - Calvinism And Conformity - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century Utilitarian philosopher John Stuart Mill's work, On Liberty It focuses specifically on his discussion of what he calls the "Calvinist theory" about human nature, God's will, and individuality. He criticizes the repression of the development of human faculties and capacities To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeA... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Sep-23 • 89 minutes #525 Brian Leiter: Moral Psychology with Nietzsche Dr. Brian Leiter is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School and founder and Director of Chicago's Center for Law, Philosophy and Human Values. He is the author of books like Nietzsche on Morality, Naturalizing Jurisprudence, Why Tolerate Religion? and, more recently, Moral Psychology with Nietzsche. | In this episode, we talk about Moral Psychology with Nietzsche. First, Dr. Leiter tells us what got him interested in Nietzsche. We then ask if Nietzsche was a mora... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Sep-23 • 62 minutes The Plot to Make Aotearoa Non-Nuclear! (What the Conspiracy!) M tells Josh of a foreign plot in the 80s to turn Aotearoa New Zealand against nukes! — Josh is @monkeyfluids and M is @conspiracism on Twitter You can also contact us at: [email protected] Why not support The Podcaster's Guide to the Conspirac... (@conspiracism) |
| 2021-Sep-23 • 60 minutes 14. Tim LeBon on the effectiveness of Stoicism Hosts Massimo Pigliucci and Rob Colter chat with cognitive and compassion focused therapist Tim LeBon about his research on the effectiveness of Stoicism as a path to a serene and happy life. [Episode extracted from a show formerly known as the Stoa Nova Conversations.] (@mpigliucci) |
| 2021-Sep-23 • 58 minutes Le dernier mot d’un condamné durée : 00:58:03 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye, Adèle Van Reeth - "Criton, nous devons un coq à Esculape. Payez cette dette, ne soyez pas négligents" : que signifient les derniers mots de Socrate ? Comment sa mort, racontée par Platon dans le "Phédon", est-elle devenue un mythe ? - invités : Nicolas Zaks chargé de recherches en philosophie ancienne à l’Université Libre de Bruxelles (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Sep-23 • 9 minutes This is All You Need | The Most Secure Fortress Ryan explains why the desire to persevere and keep going is all that we need, and reads The Daily Stoic’s entry of the day, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Pre-orders are available for Ryan Holiday’s new book Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors The Brave - check it out at https://dailystoic.com/preorder LinkedI... Jobs is the best platform for finding the right candidate to join your business this fall. It’s the largest marketplace for job seekers in the world, and it has great search features so that you ... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Sep-23 • 117 minutes Discriminating for the greater good Stephen Kershnar joins Spencer Case to discuss the moral quandaries surrounding affirmative action and other forms of discrimination on the basis of race and gender. (@ADigressions) |
| 2021-Sep-23 • 54 minutes Should we avoid humiliating the unvaccinated? If levels of strident “vaccine hesitancy” in Australia are extremely low, and the push to help the population reach the necessary vaccination threshold is more logistical than it is ideological, should we continue publicly to use language and to employ punitive measures which effectively humiliate or ostracise the unvaccinated? (@RadioNational) |
| 2021-Sep-22 • 14 minutes John Stuart Mill, On Liberty - The Value Of Genius - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century Utilitarian philosopher John Stuart Mill's work, On Liberty It focuses specifically on his discussion of what value he thinks there are to people of "genius", which involves examining what genius actually consists in. He also advocates for more open and free societies in which genius can develop and flourish. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - ww... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Sep-22 • 66 minutes 76: Humanism will Evolve into Sentientism - Peter Tatchell - Sentientist Conversations Peter Tatchell (@PeterTatchell & petertatchell.net) has been an activist for human rights, democracy, LGBT+ freedom and global justice since 1967. Watch the Netflix documentary about his life, "Hating Peter Tatchell". He directs the Peter Tatchell foundation (petertatchellfoundation.org). | In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “what matters?” | Sentientism is "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our convers... (@sentientism) |
| 2021-Sep-22 • 65 minutes Amia Srinivasan on Utopian Feminism Does anyone have a right to sex? (@tylercowen) |
| 2021-Sep-22 • 11 minutes Episode 16: "Calculus and counterpossibles in science", Brian McLoone Click here for the article.If you are enjoying Condensed Matter, please consider supporting the show on Patreon. In recognition of your support, you'll get the opportunity to suggest articles and guests for future episodes. You can carry on the discussion on Twitter and there's even an Instagram page. Thanks for listening! Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/CondensedMatter... (@KimptonNye) |
| 2021-Sep-22 • 76 minutes Interview: Nick Buccola on Frederick Douglass | The New Thinkery Ep. 61 This week, the guys are joined by Dr. Nick Buccola, professor and Elizabeth & Morris Glickman Chair in Political Science at Linfield University to discuss the life and philosophy of Frederick Douglass. The group analyze several key writings of Douglass and how his view of government shifted as he aged. Plus: an overview of Douglass' experience as a public speaker. Shoutout to the Ancient Language Institute for sponsoring! (@thenewthinkery) |
| 2021-Sep-22 • 58 minutes Socrate contre les détracteurs de la raison durée : 00:58:18 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye, Adèle Van Reeth - Quel est le lien entre l'immortalité de l'âme et l'immatérialité de l'âme ? De quelle réalité fait-elle partie ? Si philosopher consiste à délier l'âme du corps pour mieux cerner la vérité, vers quelle vérité doit-on tendre, et comment l’atteindre ? - invités : Frédérique Ildefonse directrice de recherches au CNRS, au Centre Jean Pépin (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Sep-22 • 71 minutes Coach Bob Bowman on Balancing Stillness and Excellence | You Have To Earn That Trust Pre-orders are available for Ryan Holiday’s new book Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors The Brave - check it out at https://dailystoic.com/preorderR... reads today’s daily meditation and talks to Bob Bowman, who is best known as the coach of 23-time Olympic gold medalist American swimmer Michael Phelps, about how athletes can maintain stillness while still performing at a high level of excellence, the importance of preparation and how to lean on your training, finding the balance between the ... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Sep-22 • 59 minutes 0G159: The Empty Man and Tulpas There is no podcast. Even if there is a podcast, nothing can be known about it. Even if something can be known about the podcast, that knowledge could never be conveyed in show notes. Content: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5867314/ ... (@0gPhilosophy) |
| 2021-Sep-22 • 17 minutes Episode 144: Philosophy is Where You Find it! Part 3 This week join us as Mike and Danny bunk off school to hide behind the bike sheds and talk lifestyles. Yes, you heard right, we’re bucking the system and biting the very hand that feeds us. Listen in mute disbelief as your two cheeky chappies from the lower 6th sass their teachers and serve up shade to their betters. What do you mean you don’t want to take your place in the market? You can’t fly kites and feed birds all day! Stay after school and write 1000 times “I must not question the status quo and mist... (@PhilosophyWtf) |
| 2021-Sep-21 • 15 minutes John Stuart Mill, On Liberty - What Individuality Encompasses - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century Utilitarian philosopher John Stuart Mill's work, On Liberty It focuses specifically on his discussions in chapter 3 bearing upon what individuality extends to and encompasses, which turns out to be all of the faculties and capacities of a human being To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffe... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Sep-21 • 111 minutes Episode 221: Granite Cocks vs Robot Overlords David and Tamler wind their way through the long-requested “Meditations on Moloch” by Scott Alexander, a comprehensive account of the coordination problems (personified by Allan Ginsberg’s demon-entity Moloch) that lead to human misery and values tossed out the window. Does Alexander’s rationalist conception of human nature ignore the work of VBW favorites like Joe Henrich and Robert Frank? Is he a little too friendly to the neo-social Darwinism view of some guy named Nick Land? And oh no, why does he have ... (@verybadwizards) |
| 2021-Sep-21 • 22 minutes What is Value? | Smith, Ricardo, Marx | Keyword In this episode, I explain value through the work of Smith, Ricardo, and Marx. If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphiloso... @DavidGuignion IG: @theor... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2021-Sep-21 • 57 minutes Kant You Get Enough? (Duty Ethics) Do we have a duty to act a certain way? Do we have a duty to ourselves and others? Kant we do this? Learn the answer to all of these questions and puns in this episode! Please check out our website at opendoorphilosophy.com where you can find more information about the show and get access to our booklist. Also, feel free to email us any questions or any quotes you want us to review on the podcast by emailing [email protected] You can also find us on Twitter and Instagram @opendoorphilosophy If yo... (@opendoorphil) |
| 2021-Sep-21 • 58 minutes Âme will survive ? durée : 00:58:11 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye, Adèle Van Reeth - Le "Phédon" est-il une démonstration de l’immortalité de l’âme ? - invités : Monique Dixsaut Professeur émérite de philosophie antique à l'université Paris 1 (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Sep-20 • 57 minutes #524 Andrew Guess: Political Polarization, Misinformation, Fake News, and Digital Media Literacy Dr. Andrew Guess is an assistant professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University. His research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of political communication, public opinion, and political behavior. Via a combination of experimental methods, large datasets, machine learning, and innovative measurement, he studies how people choose, process, spread, and respond to information about politics. Recent work investigates the extent to which online Americans' news habits are polarized (... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Sep-20 • 28 minutes Ask Me Anything #18 Questions answered: Why won’t you discuss COVID vaccines and Ivermectin with Bret Weinstein on the podcast? What do you think about the recent prosecution of a 100-year-old Nazi in Germany? How can we understand voluntary behavior without free will?... (@SamHarrisOrg) |
| 2021-Sep-20 • 60 minutes Sacred and Profane Love Episode 39: Gabriel Marcel's Thirst Sacred and Profane Love Episode 39: Gabriel Marcel's Thirst by Sacred and Profane Love (@eudaimoniapod) |
| 2021-Sep-20 • 85 minutes 165 | Kathryn Paige Harden on Genetics, Luck, and Fairness I talk with psychologist Kathryn Paige Harden about how our genes affect who we become, and what that means for questions of fairness. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2021-Sep-20 • 56 minutes 77 - Texas' Anti-Abortion Law In today's episode, we discuss the recent anti-abortion law passed in the state of Texas, which effectively tries to eliminate most abortions that occur after six weeks of pregnancy. The law is a blatant attempt to get around Roe vs. Wade, and creates a dangerous precedent wherein states can, at least temporarily, pass laws which violate constitutional rights.Toby Napoletano, Michael Hughes (@TheBadlandsPod) |
| 2021-Sep-20 • 88 minutes REISSUE-Ep 36: Hegel on the Social Dimension of Self-Consciousness For our final 2021 installment on G.W.F. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, we give you a second episode originally posted in 2011, where Mark and Seth continue from with guest Tom McDonald to cover the rest of chapter 4, focusing on sections 178-230.... (@PartiallyExLife) |
| 2021-Sep-20 • 53 minutes Episode 24: The Neural Basis of Free Will with Peter Ulric Tse In this episode, we talk with neuroscientist Peter Ulric Tse about the neural basis of free will. We cover topics such as criterial causation, kinds of free will, and why he’s a libertarian about free will.Peter's website: https://sites.dartmouth.edu/peter/Peter&... book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/neural-ba... MOOC: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL... Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshowInsta... https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillsho... https://www.facebook.com/The-Free-Will-S...... (@thefreewillshow) |
| 2021-Sep-20 • 59 minutes “Ceux qui philosophent droitement s’exercent à mourir” durée : 00:58:35 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye, Adèle Van Reeth - Dans le "Phédon" de Platon, Socrate, condamné à mort, nous apprend à mourir, délier son âme de son corps... Mais au-delà de se préparer à mourir, Socrate ne désire-t-il pas plutôt nous enseigner à vivre autrement ? Le "Phédon" nous apprend-il à "vivre" en philosophe ? - invités : Dimitri El Murr philosophe, professeur en histoire de la philosophie ancienne et directeur du département de philosophie à l’ENS Par... (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Sep-20 • 11 minutes You Must Be Willing To Stand Alone | On Handling Haters Ryan explains why no matter the circumstances courage is always required, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Pre-orders are available for Ryan Holiday’s new book Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors The Brave - check it out at https://dailystoic.com/preorder Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: https://DailyStoic.com/email Follow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, and Facebook See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Pri... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Sep-20 • 71 minutes Stephen Phillips, "Jewel of Reflection on the Truth about Epistemology: A Complete and Annotated Translation of the Tattva-cintā-maṇi" (Bloomsbury, 2020) In the first complete English translation of a monumental 14th century Sanskrit philosophical text, the Jewel of Reflection on the Truth about Epistemology (Bloomsbury 2020), Stephen Phillips introduces modern readers to a classic of Indian philosophy. The author of the Jewel, Gaṅgeśa, is a comprehensive examination of epistemology and its interrelationship with metaphysics, taking up topics in philosophy of language and logic along the way. The translation itself includes a commentary by Phillips, explaini... (@NewBooksPhil) |
| 2021-Sep-20 • 43 minutes Episode 116| Herbert Marcuse One Dimensional Man l Totalitarianism and One Dimensional Thought In episode one hundred and sixteen of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses chapter one of Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man.Feel free to send questions or comments to [email protected] episodes every Monday.Social media:Twitter: @iamarubbermanInstagram: dissectingphilosophywithdrmcdYoutube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTi_1Eb... the podcast:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Dissectingphilos... me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/dissectingphilosophyMa... than... (@dissectphilo) |
| 2021-Sep-20 • 43 minutes E53. "Step Back" - Is our "natural" biology always the best choice? “Is our "natural" biology always the best choice?” We discuss the philosophy and ethics of having a natural term pregnancy when an incubation chamber can carry the better more safely in the short story, “Step Back" by Henry McFarland. (@AfterDinnerCon) |
| 2021-Sep-19 • 18 minutes John Stuart Mill, On Liberty - How Accepted Opinions Are Held This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century Utilitarian philosopher John Stuart Mill's work, On Liberty It focuses specifically on one of Mills' lines of argument about why opinions should not be silenced or suppressed. This one has to do with the ways in which accepted truths are held. Without some opposition or contrast, he claims, they will be held as mere prejudices. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, yo... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Sep-19 • 67 minutes David Livingstone Smith: How Monsters, Racists, and Nazis are Made | STM Podcast #102 On episode 102, we welcome philosopher David Livingstone Smith to discuss the psychosocial mechanisms of dehumanization, how humans can perceive other humans as both human and sub-human, what lynchings were actually like, how Nazis used psychotherapy... (@seize_podcast) |
| 2021-Sep-19 • 56 minutes Where is my mind? | Shaun Stanley Are human being merely sophisticated robots? Do we have mental states or can we be understood only through our behavior? (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2021-Sep-19 • 11 minutes How to Be More Courageous With Stoicism (7 Tips) Pre-orders are available for Ryan Holiday’s new book "Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors The Brave" at https://dailystoic.com/preorder Almost every religion, spiritual practice, philosophy and person grapples with fear. The most repeated phrase in the Bible is “Be not afraid.” The ancient Greeks spoke of phobos, panic and terror. It is natural to feel fear, the Stoics believed, but it cannot rule you. Courage, then, is the ability to rise above fear, to do what’s right, to do what’s needed, to do what is t... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Sep-19 • 28 minutes About time, part 3: Time and perception For something that we commonly consider to be as regular and predictable as clockwork, time sure can feel weird. Sometimes it drags, sometimes it rushes, sometimes it seems to stop altogether. We don't experience this skewed perception with other phenomena - with colours, for instance. The blue of the sky looks like the blue of the sky, no matter what we're doing or how we're feeling. So why is our experience of time so variable? Is it something that happens purely in the mind, or does it have something to ... (@DavidPZone) |
| 2021-Sep-19 HAP 83 - Songs of the People - Paul Robeson and the Negro Spiritual The career of the multi-talented activist and performer Paul Robeson, and the place of the Negro spiritual in the Harlem Renaissance. (@HistPhilosophy) |
| 2021-Sep-19 • 12 minutes 474: What Do We Owe Future Generations? More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/wha... talk about owing future generations a better world. We might also think that we should do things for future generations even if our actions might not benefit present-day people. But is it possible to have obligations to people who are not yet born? Can people who do not exist be said to have rights that we should respect? And if they do, what do we do if our rights and theirs conflict? Josh and Ken are obliged to welcome Rahul Kumar from Queen's University... (@philtalkradio) |
| 2021-Sep-18 • 57 minutes Episode 088 - The Waters of the Nile And The Sulfur Pits That Are Fatal To Birds Welcome to Episode Eighty-Eight of Lucretius Today. I am your host Cassius, and together with my panelists from the EpicureanFriends.com forum, we'll walk you through the six books of Lucretius' poem, and discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. We encourage you to study Epicurus for yourself, and we suggest the best place to start is the book, "Epicurus and His Philosophy" by Canadian professor Norman DeWitt. For anyone who is not familiar with our podcast, please visit EpicureanFriends.co... (@NewEpicurean) |
 2021-Sep-18 • 90 minutesMark Solms Live! Join me for a discussion with Mark Solms, Chair of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital (Departments of Psychology and Neurology), as we discuss themes from his work and his recent book the Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness Mark’s book: The Hidden Spring Mark’s wikipedia page (@onemorebrown) |
| 2021-Sep-18 • 77 minutes Professor Jo Lukito on the Rise of Misinformation On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan talks to Jo Lukito about her research on trading up the chain and the spread of misinformation, the difference between disinformation and misinformation and the importance of the distinction, the tragedy of the social media giant’s lack of response to helping resolve this issue, and more.Josephine ("Jo") Lukito is an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Journalism and Media (in the Moody College of Communication). Her ongoing work focus... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Sep-18 • 40 minutes Karl Marx's "Capital" Vol. 1 (Part 2/4) In this episode, I continue my presentation of Karl Marx's "Capital" Vol. 1. This episode covers parts 2 & 3 and therefore chapters 5-11. If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphiloso... (@DavidGuignion) |
 2021-Sep-17 • 57 minutesSchool Integrations and Equal Education: A Conversation with Larry Blum How should we understand efforts at school integration? And how are they related to the idea of equal education? Larry and I consider different historical understandings of integration and the problematic idea of integration as a vehicle for gaining soci... (@UMBEthics) |
| 2021-Sep-17 • 48 minutes #523 Roman Yampolskiy: AI, Security, Controllability, and the Singularity Dr. Roman V. Yampolskiy is a Tenured Associate Professor in the department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the Speed School of Engineering at the University of Louisville. He is the founding and current director of the Cyber Security Lab and an author of many books including Artificial Superintelligence: a Futuristic Approach. Dr. Yampolskiy is a Senior member of IEEE and AGI; Member of Kentucky Academy of Science, and Research Advisor for MIRI and Associate of GCRI. Dr. Yampolskiy’s main ar... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Sep-17 • 61 minutes EV - 209 Naturalness with Alan Levinovitz Pt1 My guest this week is Alan Levinovitz (@AlanLevinovitz), a professor of religion and science at James Madison University and the author of Natural: How Faith in Nature’s goodness leads to harmful fads, unjust laws, and flawed science. We discuss the concept of "natural", when it might be useful and how it can cause harm. Alan's Website: https://www.alanlevinovitz.com/ Convoca... Mark Edwards Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcas.... (@ETVPod) |
| 2021-Sep-17 • 55 minutes The Hustle The HBS hosts discuss scams, cons, gig work, and what drives us to live and work at full speed.In the immortal words of Clifford Joseph Harris, Jr. (aka, T.I.) "If you don't respect nothing else, you will respect the hustle." In this episode, Dr. Leigh M. Johnson takes the lead in an analysis of how "the hustle," in all senses of that term, define our lives today. We look at the HBO docuseries Generation Hustle-- which tracks the stories of 10 young scammers, con-artists, and/or sociopaths-- before trying t... (@hotelbarpodcast) |
| 2021-Sep-17 • 58 minutes La crocs, y a-t-il une essence du moche ? durée : 00:58:02 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye, Adèle Van Reeth - La crocs incarne le moche, pas le laid, mais bien le moche. Et ce sabot apparait aujourd'hui partout, comme si le moche s'était installé dans nos vies, surtout après le covid qui a requestionné et redéfini notre rapport à nos apparences. Alors le moche, nouvelle norme esthétique ? - invités : Alice Pfeiffer journaliste, spécialiste d'anthropologie de la mode et des gender studies (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Sep-17 • 18 minutes #20: Don't just write it - ferment it! So, you heard the last episode, and you're completely on board with not writing being an essential part of writing. But what sort of not-writing is best? Some not-writing activities allow our best ideas to ferment away in the background, growing in goodness like a good batch of sauerkraut. Other not-writing activities, however, grind the whole mental fermentation process to a halt. The bad news is that, at the moment we decide to take a break from writing, we're especially vulnerable to plumping f... (@AcademicImp) |
| 2021-Sep-17 • 6 minutes PRESENTS — This Much Is True Even in a scientifically enlightened, media-savvy age, conspiracy theories have proven strangely resilient. They just don’t seem to want to go away, and many people seemingly can’t get their fill. We’ve touched on the odd persistence of conspiracy theories on this show in the past, but now RN has devoted an entire series to what makes conspiracies attractive, how people find themselves swallowed up by them, and, perhaps most importantly, how people have found their way out. (@RadioNational) |
| 2021-Sep-17 • 58 minutes 46. The Mummy & The Mummy Returns The cows journey to Hamunaptra to find some ancient artifacts, and along the way revisit perhaps Brendan Fraser's most famous works. Laura confesses her love for Brendan Fraser and Justin confesses his love for Arnold Vosloo, and attempts to make the case that the Mummy is a misunderstood villain. The cows enjoy the dual parallel love stories and show appreciation for the depiction of a healthy, loving, relationship between characters Rick and Evelyn, and definitely do not discuss a certain questionable CGI... (@cowspod) |
 2021-Sep-16 • 119 minutesCOVID & IDEOLOGY With Magdi Semrau Magdi Semrau joins me to discuss the politics of covid. Are the many restrictions due to the pandemic philosophically justifiable? Why have the political left and political right interpreted the crisis so differently and what does this tell us about the nature of conservatism and the future of liberalism? (@PolPhilPod) |
| 2021-Sep-16 • 16 minutes John Stuart Mill, On Liberty - Limiting Intemperate Discussion - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century Utilitarian philosopher John Stuart Mill's work, On Liberty It focuses specifically on some claims that, while expression of opinion should not be limited or restricted, the ways or manners in which people express those opinions should remain within "temperate" or "civil" bounds. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at B... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Sep-16 • 75 minutes What is History? ft. Laborkyle Here I am joined with Laborkyle to discuss history, what is it, and the ideological bounds in which it exists and is practiced. Help this podcast survive, support here, and receive fun perks: https://www.patreon.com/epochphilosophy ... out our videos on our main channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC738SsV... (@EpochPhilosophy) |
| 2021-Sep-16 • 219 minutes AMA | September 2021 Ask Me Anything episode for September 2021. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2021-Sep-16 • 63 minutes #522 Jaimie Krems: Female Friendships, Stereotypes, and Religion and Monogamy Dr. Jaimie Krems is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Oklahoma State University. Dr. Krems is a social psychologist with interdisciplinary training. Her research draws on theoretical perspectives from social psychology, behavioral ecology, evolutionary biology and anthropology, as well as animal behavior to investigate how people use cues to strategically navigate their social worlds and meet their social goals. | In this episode, we talk about female friendships, stereotypes and prejudice, and religion ... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Sep-16 Episode #20: “Post-Progressive” Political Philosophy with Steve McIntosh (Part 2) Why is Jordan Peterson so popular? Steve McIntosh has an answer. (@DavidEStorey) |
| 2021-Sep-16 • 69 minutes Ep. 22 - John Martin Fischer: Moral Responsibility Semicompatibilism In this episode, I speak with John Martin Fischer about his semicompatibilism about moral responsibility. We use his 2012 paper, "Semicompatibilism and its Rivals" as a framework for the discussion. (@Jordan_C_Myers) |
| 2021-Sep-16 • 54 minutes 13. Stoicism in prisons Rob and Massimo have a conversation on the use of Stoic philosophy in prisons. Rob talks about his firsthand experiences with inmates and how they react to, and learn from, philosophy. (@mpigliucci) |
| 2021-Sep-16 • 58 minutes Les flammes de l’enfer de Jérôme Bosch durée : 00:58:26 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye, Adèle Van Reeth - Dans la peinture de Jérôme Bosch, le feu dévore les corps et les âmes, dans une représentation très novatrice. Pourquoi à la fin du 15ème siècle, à partir de son oeuvre, le feu est-il devenu dans la peinture un sujet en soi ? Comment Bosch représentait-il l'enfer, qu'il situait alors sur la Terre ? - invités : Michel Weemans historien de l’art et commissaire d’exposition, spécialiste de la peinture flamande et... (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Sep-16 • 8 minutes This is Why You're Upset | Anyone Can Get Lucky, Not Everyone Can Persevere Ryan explains why legacy is for everyone else not for you, and reads The Daily Stoic’s entry of the day, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Pre-orders are available for Ryan Holiday’s new book Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors The Brave - check it out at https://dailystoic.com/preorder DECKED truck bed tool boxes and cargo van storage systems revolutionize organization with a heavy-duty in-vehicle storage system featuring slide out toolboxes. DECKED makes organizing, accessing, protecting, and securing ever... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Sep-16 • 32 minutes Expertise from the Can! Due to timetabling issues, Josh and M reach into the can to fetch a pre-recorded, emergency broadcast on... Expertise and conspiracy theories! Funnily enough, it was recorded in a previous lockdown in Aotearoa! — Josh is @monkeyfluids and M is @conspirac... (@conspiracism) |
| 2021-Sep-16 • 54 minutes From Abu Ghraib to Nakhon Sawan — why does torture persist? The events of 9/11 are inseparable from the horrors of what was subsequently revealed about the use of torture against detainees in locations like Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay. What does the persistence of torture say about political communities that continue to countenance its use? (@RadioNational) |
| 2021-Sep-15 • 18 minutes John Stuart Mill, On Liberty - Overcoming One-Sidedness - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century Utilitarian philosopher John Stuart Mill's work, On Liberty It focuses specifically on his discussion of what he calls "one-sidedness" with respect to truth. In his view, because positions or perspectives rarely encompass the entire truth, it is useful from a utilitarian perspective to give opposed positions a hearing. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do s... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Sep-15 • 79 minutes James McCrae (Words are Vibrations) | Art, poetry, writing, power of myths, spiritual experiences, psychedelics, and making sense of this strange existence Check out the wonderful work by James: | instagram: Words are Vibrations (https://www.instagram.com/wordsarevibra... | His Book: here (https://shopcatalog.com/people/james-mc... | Podcast: Homesick Alien Club (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h... | My stuff: | New Exclusive Feed: https://aphilosophersstone.substack.com/... | All the links you will need: https://link.snipfeed.co/thephilosophygu... | As always thank you for your support! (@philosophyguy2) |
 2021-Sep-15 • 24 minutesAre some pranks just not okay? Have you ever pranked your brother or sister by freezing their bowl of cereal and milk the night before and then serving them a solid, icy breakfast? Or have you replaced salt in the saltshaker with sugar? Or put big, heavy rocks in a friend's school bag when they're not looking? Pranks can be can hilarious and entertaining, but can it sometimes be just plain wrong and mean to prank someone? Brains Trust – Lyneham Primary School: Oliver, Lanna, Toby, Riley, Elly (@matthewtbeard) |
| 2021-Sep-15 • 23 minutes Should you give money to homeless people? Have you ever been asked for money by a homeless person? What happened? And do you think we have any responsibility to help strangers when they are in need? (@matthewtbeard) |
| 2021-Sep-15 • 26 minutes Is Santa Claus a bad person? Imagine if you were being watched every second of the day to make sure you behaved well. And then you got rewarded or punished depending on how you acted? In this episode, we take a long hard look at Santa Claus, because news flash, we are told he's watching you day and night. (@matthewtbeard) |
| 2021-Sep-15 • 18 minutes Do athletes have to be role models too? We admire our favourite sportspeople for their physical skills but do they have to be good people as well? Should we expect sportspeople to be role models on and off the field? Join superstar athletes Molly and Carl at the World Ping Pong championships. (@matthewtbeard) |
| 2021-Sep-15 • 22 minutes Do horses want us to ride them? For centuries humans have ridden horses. We've ridden them long distances, into wars, in big races and just for fun. We've developed a close relationship with horses. But has anyone asked a horse what it thinks about all this? Would a horse want us to ride it and how would we even know? (@matthewtbeard) |
| 2021-Sep-15 • 12 minutes Episode 15: "The rationality of metaphysics", E.J. Lowe The focus of this episode is E.J. Lowe's "The rationality of metaphysics", published in Synthese in 2011.**I have a slip of the tongue in the recording and say that the paper was published in 2021! It was definitely published in 2011. Click here for the article.If you are enjoying Condensed Matter, please consider supporting the show on Patreon. In recognition of your support, you'll get the opportunity to suggest articles and guests for future episodes. You can carry on the discussion ... (@KimptonNye) |
| 2021-Sep-15 • 58 minutes Interview: Ben Kleinerman on the Federalist Papers | The New Thinkery Ep. 60 In this Constitution Day special edition of The New Thinkery, the guys are joined by Dr. Ben Kleinerman, the R.W. Morrison Chair of Political Science at Baylor University and board member of the Jack Miller Center. Together, the group discuss several of the Federalist Papers and what their respective authors thought the U.S. regime need be wary of as it progressed. (@thenewthinkery) |
| 2021-Sep-15 • 56 minutes Gaston Bachelard et l’art de dorer les gaufres durée : 00:56:24 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye, Adèle Van Reeth - Si Gaston Bachelard, philosophe des sciences, a appréhendé le feu dans sa chimie, il l'a aussi analysé dans toute sa poésie, de la flamme d'une chandelle au feu dans la cheminée qui fait croustiller la gaufre qu'il mange comme s'il mangeait le feu, et qui rend incandescents nos imaginaires. - invités : Jean-Philippe Pierron philosophe, enseignant à l’Université de Bourgogne (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Sep-15 • 78 minutes Author Adam Rubin on Creativity and Pursuing Your Passion | Did It Make You Better Ryan reads today’s daily meditation and talks to Adam Rubin about his newest book High Five, taking the leap from being a part time artist to being a full time artist, the magic that is being able to express yourself creatively, following your destiny and inspiring others to do the same, and more. Adam Rubin is a #1 New York Times best selling author of children's books. His books have sold over one million copies. Rubin graduated from Washington University in St. Louis where he studied advertising and wor... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Sep-15 • 58 minutes 0G158: Darmok and Archetypal Communication Thomas, his disbelief unsuspended, Aaron with the generous reading in hand. Darmok, using Archetypal psychology for communication. In winter. Content: Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: Support us at Patreon:... (@0gPhilosophy) |
| 2021-Sep-15 • 13 minutes Episode 143: Philosophy is Where You Find It! Part 2 This week, join Mike and Danny as they delve into the depths of the fridge, behind the the milk, cheese and other fresh dairy products to rummage amongst the fetid remains of dinners past. Yes, stand amazed, and slightly nauseated as your two ragged philosophical gastronauts engage in the thinking persons equivalent of coming home late from the pub and prodding at dangerously out of date pizza in the hope that it is just this side of toxic. Is the best philosophy conducted by poking around at things that we... (@PhilosophyWtf) |
| 2021-Sep-15 • 30 minutes Thinking While Walking with Martin Bunzl Nature has always fascinated the philosopher Martin Bunzl. For him, this spectacular setting proved to be fertile ground for reflecting on philosophical puzzles and questions about nature and ethics. | The post Thinking While Walking with Martin Bunzl appeared first on Examining Ethics. (@DePauwPrindle) |
| 2021-Sep-14 • 9 minutes What is Necropolitics? | Achille Mbembe | Keyword In this episode, I try to present Achille Mbembe notion of "Necropolitics." If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphiloso... paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Twitter: @DavidGuignion IG: @the... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2021-Sep-14 • 60 minutes 75: Should Stoics be vegan? - Philosopher Massimo Pigliucci - Sentientist Conversation Massimo (figsinwinter.blog & @mpigliucci) is Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. He co-hosted the Rationally Speaking Podcast & was the editor in chief for the magazine Scientia Salon. He is an outspoken critic of pseudoscience & creationism & an advocate for secularism, science education & Stoicism. | In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “what matters?” | Sentientism is "evidence, reason & compas... (@sentientism) |
| 2021-Sep-14 • 85 minutes Ep. 131 - Monarchical Trinitarianism w/Dr. Joshua Sijuwade In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Joshua Sijuwade to discuss his fascinating work on 'Monarchical' Trinitarianism, i.e., that the name 'God' refers to the Father alone while the Son and the Spirit are still divine persons. | If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $1, $3, or $5 a month. Any amount helps, and for $5 you get a Parker's Pensées sticker and instant access to all the episode as I record them instead of waiting for their release date. Check it out... (@trendsettercase) |
| 2021-Sep-14 • 44 minutes The case for virtuous virtue signalling | Kwame Anthony Appiah, Crystal Fleming, David Goodhart Most of us want to be good and be seen to be good. But aren't these goals contradictory? Isn't the desire to be seen to good a means of placing ourselves higher than others and wishing to gain status and position as a result? Should we conclude (@IAI_TV) |
| 2021-Sep-14 • 17 minutes John Stuart Mill, On Liberty - The Harm Principle - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century Utilitarian philosopher John Stuart Mill's work, On Liberty It focuses specifically on one of the central conceptions of the book, set out in chapter 1 - the Harm Principle. This ethical or moral principle asserts that the only reason coercive force may be legitimately brought to bear upon a person is to prevent harm to others. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Sep-14 • 58 minutes Ep. 51: What is Propaganda? ft. Claire Celi, M.A. (Part II) In this episode, Giuseppe, Anthony, and Claire continue their conversation on propaganda: Is the idea of a justice system intrinsically propagandistic? What propagandistic methods do social media companies use to push ideology? Is the techno-nihilism that characterizes our epoch the result of radical individualism, or its opposite? Is individualism different from id-ism? How do new systems of propaganda differ from the old systems of propaganda? (@LoveofSophiaPOD) |
| 2021-Sep-14 • 56 minutes 34. Paradox Ever want to have your cake and eat it too? Maybe you can! This episode, join Ellie and David (and the Olsen twins) in an investigation into paradox. Paradox refers to a self-contradictory statement that nonetheless rests on seemingly logically sound premises. From Meno to Zeno and his tortoises and arrows, from Christian theologians trying to uncover the nature of God and faith to Zen Buddhists exploring the origins of consciousness, paradox has a long history of keeping people stumped, but also of driving... (@ellieanderphd) |
| 2021-Sep-14 • 58 minutes Quand la forêt brûle durée : 00:58:12 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye, Adèle Van Reeth - Le feu a toujours coexisté avec la forêt, mais un nouveau phénomène a pris de l'ampleur depuis une dizaine d'années : le mégafeu. Qu'est-il ? Le feu est-il autonome ? Que peut la philosophie face à ces évènements ? - invités : Joëlle Zask Philosophe, enseignante à l'université Aix-Marseille, spécialiste de philosophie politique (@Philochemins) |
 2021-Sep-14 • 27 minutes012: Where Are We, Anyhow? In this episode, I take a bit of a broader look at ancient Greece in the 7th - 4th centuries BCE (Archaic and Classical Greece) and discuss some of the reasons why natural philosophy arose here at this time. (@histphilphyspod) |
| 2021-Sep-14 • 78 minutes How to reason about COVID, and other hard things (Kelsey Piper) Kelsey Piper (Vox) shares lessons from covering COVID: What has she been wrong about? How much can we trust the CDC? How good is the evidence for drugs like Fluvoxamine or Ivermectin? Should people try to evaluate evidence themselves - or defer to experts? (@Rspodcast) |
| 2021-Sep-14 Am I Losing Me? In this episode we discuss philosophical issues at the intersection of personal identity and death. As Billy Joel is want to say “Don’t go changing.”The papers we allude to in the episode can be found in Exploring the Philosophy of Death and Dying edited by Michael Cholbi and Travis Timmerman. Music in this episode: "Attack of the Mole Men" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licens... Fat Cartoon Jazz https://www.purple... (@ThereforeFan) |
| 2021-Sep-13 • 76 minutes “What is Machine Learning and Why is it Important to Philosophy?” UND philosophy professor Jack Russell Weinstein visits with Emily Sullivan, assistant professor of philosophy at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Her research explores the intersection between philosophy and data and computer science. (@whyradioshow) |
| 2021-Sep-13 • 73 minutes #521 Edward Watts - The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea Dr. Edward Watts is presently the Vassiliadis Professor of Byzantine Greek History at UC San Diego. His research interests center on the intellectual and religious history of the Roman Empire and the early Byzantine Empire. His new book is The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea. | In this episode, we focus on The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome. We walk through topics like: when did people start theorizing about the decline and fall of Rome; the actual factors that played a r... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Sep-13 • 45 minutes Is the death penalty ever justified? In this episode, Jake and Ant look at the ethics of murdering a murderer. | | We begin by chatting about the point of punishment - if we can't work out a justified aim of punishment, it's certainly hard to ever justify any punishment! We discuss the '5 theories of punishment' and their historical context (from Kant, to Bentham, to Michel Foucault). Following this, we discuss the particular issues around death (the sanctity of life and most importantly the irreversibility of death)! | | We also consider s... (@MoralityofThe) |
| 2021-Sep-13 • 77 minutes REISSUE-Ep 35: Hegel on Self-Consciousness (w/ New Intro) We re-introduce an episode from ten years ago that's long been behind our paywall on G.F.W. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, Ch. 4A, "Self-Consciousness," which features guest Tom McDonald. We've removed the "review" section of the old episode (the... (@PartiallyExLife) |
| 2021-Sep-13 • 90 minutes 164 | Herbert Gintis on Game Theory, Evolution, and Social Rationality I talk with economist and behavioral scientist Herbert Gintis about a unified theory of human behavior based on game theory and social rationality. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2021-Sep-13 • 27 minutes Foul Behavior with Victor Kumar Victor Kumar (Boston University) talks about his paper on disgust, and why sometimes at least, disgust is a fitting reaction to moral wrongs. (@wesbuc) |
| 2021-Sep-13 • 58 minutes Anaximandre, Héraclite et les autres : au commencement était le feu durée : 00:58:22 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye, Adèle Van Reeth - Les présocratiques, savants antiques qui se consacraient à l'exploration de la nature et du cosmos, ont fait du feu une force cosmique à l'origine du monde, de sa forme... mais pouvant aussi l'embraser ? Qu'est-ce que la physique du feu chez les présocratiques ? - invités : Arnaud Macé professeur de philosophie à l'Université de Franche-Comté (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Sep-13 • 11 minutes Just A Few Seconds Of Courage | A New Way To Pray Ryan explains how a few seconds can define so much of your life, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Pre-orders are available for Ryan Holiday’s new book Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors The Brave - check it out at https://dailystoic.com/preorder Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: https://DailyStoic.com/email Follow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, and Facebook See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Noti... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Sep-13 • 37 minutes Episode 115| Guy Debord Society of the Spectacle l Urbanism and Detournement In episode one hundred and fifteen of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses chapters seven and eight of Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle.Feel free to send questions or comments to [email protected] episodes every Monday.Social media:Twitter: @iamarubbermanInstagram: dissectingphilosophywithdrmcdYoutube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTi_1Eb... the podcast:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Dissectingphilos... me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/dissectingphiloso... (@dissectphilo) |
| 2021-Sep-12 • 57 minutes Should You Trust Experts? | Oliver Traldi There's a growing trend to distrust scientists. Sometimes they get the facts wrong, or align with a political party. What should we do in the face of conflicting expertise? Who should we trust? (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2021-Sep-12 • 6 minutes The History of Logic In this episode, we'll be running through a brief history of logic, focusing on the 3 major periods in the discipline: ancient, medieval and modern logic. Enjoy! | If you'd like to request an episode, or even do an episode yourself, please contact me on Instagram (@fiveminutephilosophy) or Twitter (@fiveminutephil1). (@fiveminutephil1) |
| 2021-Sep-12 • 10 minutes New Book Preview: Courage Is Calling | You Must Burn The White Flag On today’s special episode of the podcast, Ryan reads a chapter from his newest book Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors The Brave which is available for pre-order now. If you pre-order the book before September 28, 2021 you can get exciting pre-order bonuses (you could even have dinner with Ryan at his bookstore in Bastrop, TX).BUY 1 COPY: TWO full bonus chapters that Ryan wanted to get into the book but couldn't fit, an extended bibliography of the books that went into the making of this book, and a Spotif... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Sep-12 • 28 minutes About time, part 2: Time in fiction During the early 20th century, physicists and philosophers were discovering strange things about time. And these ideas were being picked up by novelists, who wove them into such masterpieces as Joyces Ulysses and Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway – texts that continue to challenge our notions of everyday temporality. (@DavidPZone) |
| 2021-Sep-12 HoP 379 - Lyndal Roper on Luther How radical was Luther? We find out from Lyndal Roper, who also discusses Luther and the Peasants' War, sexuality, anti-semitism, and the visual arts. (@HistPhilosophy) |
| 2021-Sep-12 • 11 minutes 478: Authority and Resistance More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/aut... can refer to people or institutions that have the political power to make decisions, give orders, and enforce rules. It can also refer to a certain kind of expertise or knowledge that we might defer to. Sometimes we respect authority, and sometimes we resist it or even revolt against it. But where exactly does authority come from, and when, if ever, ought we defer to it? How do we challenge authority? What makes an authority figure authoritarian? And can t... (@philtalkradio) |
| 2021-Sep-11 • 68 minutes Bobby Hall (Logic) on Turning Pain Into Prosperity On today’s podcast, Ryan talks to recording artist Bobby Hall (known professionally as Logic) about his new memoir This Bright Future, defining what enough is for yourself, the stigma of speaking out about mental health, dealing with pain and struggle in an expressive and creative way, and more. Bobby Hall, known professionally as Logic, is an American rapper and record producer. He has released six studio albums and received two Grammy Award nominations. Logic achieved mainstream popularity in 2017 with ... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Sep-11 • 42 minutes Karl Marx's "Capital" Vol. 1 (Part 1/4) In this episode, I begin my presentation of Karl Marx's "Capital" Vol. 1. This episode covers part 1 and therefore chapters 1-4. If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphiloso... paypal.me... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2021-Sep-11 • 19 minutes John Stuart Mill, On Liberty - Why Silencing Opinions Is Bad - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century Utilitarian philosopher John Stuart Mill's work, On Liberty It focuses specifically on his arguments for why silencing opinions in society is bad from a utilitarian perspective. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM You can find over 1500 philosophy videos in my main YouT... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Sep-10 • 110 minutes RADICALISM VS LIBERALISM With Thomas Prosser Is modern social justice activism a threat to free speech, or the project of liberal democracy more broadly? Thomas Prosser and I offer differing interpretations of this new ideological project. (@PolPhilPod) |
| 2021-Sep-10 • 58 minutes #520 Agustín Fuentes: Race, Gender, Monogamy, and Darwin's Descent of Man (150th anniversary) Dr. Agustín Fuentes is Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. He is the author of books like Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths about Human Nature, and Why We Believe: Evolution and the Human Way of Being. | This interview is part of the series on the 150thanniversary of Darwin’s Descent of Man. | In this episode, we talk about biological anthropology, and Darwin’s Descent of Man. We get a bit into the field of Biological Anthropology, and talk about the kinds of questio... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Sep-10 • 61 minutes Music The HBS hosts talk about music, mathematics, groove, and "altar calls."Dr. Charles Peterson takes the lead in this week's discussion of the power of music in our lives. After a quick run-down of each co-host's own musical likes and dislikes, the HBS gang jumps right into a consideration of the effect that music has on us both as individuals and collectively. Does music give us some singular insight into what it means to be human? What does music evoke within us? How does it seem to have the power to inspire... (@hotelbarpodcast) |
| 2021-Sep-10 • 58 minutes La licorne durée : 00:58:15 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye, Adèle Van Reeth - Figure de contradiction, d'illusion, de doute : pourquoi la licorne cristallise-t-elle autant de problèmes philosophiques, et autant de représentations ? Pourquoi est-elle si fascinante ? Quelle est son histoire ? Bien qu'irréelle, a-t-elle une existence ? - invités : Jocelyn Benoist professeur de philosophie contemporaine à l'Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.; Élisabeth Taburet-Delahaye Conservateur géné... (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Sep-10 • 69 minutes Collin Rice, "Leveraging Distortions: Explanation, Idealization, and Universality in Science" (MIT Press, 2021) Most of us agree that science aims to tell us what is true about the world. But how do we get at the truth by using theories and models that deliberately, pervasively, and ineliminably distort what they are about? How does a model that makes wholly unrealistic, even impossible, assumptions about reality help explain it and provide us with understanding? In Leveraging Distortions: Explanation, Idealization, and Universality in Science (MIT Press, 2021), Collin Rice tackles this puzzle by examining how ideali... (@NewBooksPhil) |
 2021-Sep-10 • 45 minutesEpisode 30: Trainspotting In this episode, we consider the 1996 cult classic 'Trainspotting', directed by Danny Boyle and starring Ewan McGregor. Our discussion consults the early writings of Emmanuel Levinas to offer an existential phenomenological analysis of addiction, before considering some of the more totalitarian aspects of the society depicted in the film with reference to Francis Fukuyama, Ayn Rand, and Herbert Marcuse. Greg also makes a surprising revelation that may threaten the very premise of our show! Follow us on twit... (@twophilpodcast) |
| 2021-Sep-10 • 72 minutes EV - 208 White Christian Nationalism with Philip Gorski My guest this week is Philip Gorski (@GorskiPhilip), a professor of sociology at Yale and co-author of the forthcoming book The Flag and the Cross. We discuss white christian nationalism, why the white part really matters, and what this growing problem means in American Politics? Philip's website: https://www.philipgorski.com/ Convocatio... The Empty Man Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcas... by GW Rodriguez Sibling Pod Philosophe... (@ETVPod) |
| 2021-Sep-10 • 56 minutes Quassim Cassam & Extremism This month marks the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the day two planes, hijacked by members of Al Qaeda, flew into the world trade centre in New York City, killing thousands. A third plane hijacked plane crashed into the Pentagon that day, the headquarters of the US military, while a fourth crashed in Pennsylvania, after its passengers managed to divert it from its original target. A 20-year war in Afghanistan was supposed to have eradicated Al Qaeda and Islamic terrorism, but last month, as the United States a... (@newsphilosophy) |
| 2021-Sep-09 Episode #19: “Post-Progressive” Political Philosophy with Steve McIntosh (Part 1) Steve McIntosh is the founder of the Institute for Cultural Evolution, a think tank devoted to solving the problem of political polarization. His recent book, Developmental Politics, draws on integral philosophy to drill down into the causes of the culture wars, and proposes a bold new vision for how America can become a better version … Continue reading "Episode #19: “Post-Progressive” Political Philosophy with Steve McIntosh (Part 1)" (@DavidEStorey) |
| 2021-Sep-09 • 16 minutes #260 — The Second Plane Reflections on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 (@SamHarrisOrg) |
| 2021-Sep-09 • 12 minutes John Stuart Mill, On Liberty - Why Free Discussion Is Useful - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century Utilitarian philosopher John Stuart Mill's work, On Liberty It focuses specifically his argument that permitting free discussion and expression of opinions can be understood in terms of overall utility rather than abstract principles of right. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Sep-09 • 88 minutes #519 Douglas Fry: The Origins and Causes of War, and Peace Social Systems and How to Maintain Them Dr. Douglas P. Fry is Professor and Chair in the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has written extensively on aggression, conflict, and conflict resolution in his own books and in journals such as Science and American Anthropologist. He’s the author or editor of books like The Human Potential for Peace; Beyond War; War, Peace, and Human Nature; and Nurturing Our Humanity. | This is our second interview on the anthropology of war. You can find the ... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Sep-09 • 60 minutes 12. Bill Irvine on The Stoic Challenge Bill Irvine, author of "The Stoic Challenge" joins Massimo for a conversation on how to turn adversity and setbacks into exercises in resilience. [Episode extracted from a show formerly known as the Stoa Nova Conversations.] (@mpigliucci) |
| 2021-Sep-09 • 44 minutes 20 Years of 9/11 Scholarship Josh and M talk about 9/11 and the impact it had on academic scholarship. — Josh is @monkeyfluids and M is @conspiracism on Twitter You can also contact us at: [email protected] Why not support The Podcaster's Guide to the Conspiracy by donatin... (@conspiracism) |
| 2021-Sep-09 • 59 minutes "Les mains sales" de Jean-Paul Sartre : tuer pour exister ? durée : 00:58:45 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Adèle Van Reeth, Géraldine Mosna-Savoye - En 1948, Jean-Paul Sartre signe une pièce de théâtre engagée, qui fait état des dilemmes moraux, existentiels, des personnages qui la traversent : dont un jeune bourgeois qui se fait communiste, et est chargé d'assassiner un membre du parti accusé de trahison. La violence peut-elle être légitime ? - invités : Nathalie Monnin agrégée de philosophie, autrice, directrice de collection aux éditions Apogée (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Sep-09 • 10 minutes You Are Not Seeing The Whole Picture | Nothing To Fear But Fear Itself Ryan explains why legacy is for everyone else not for you, and reads The Daily Stoic’s entry of the day, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Blinkist is the app that gets you fifteen-minute summaries of the best nonfiction books out there. Blinkist lets you get the topline information and the most important points from the most important nonfiction books out there, whether it’s Ryan’s own The Daily Stoic, Yuval Harari’s Sapiens, and more. Go to blinkist.com/stoic, try it free for 7 days, and save 25% off your ... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Sep-09 • 71 minutes Samantha and Tanner (Zelph on the Shelf) | Mormonism, Religion, Buddhism, Psychedelics, Spirituality and Bringing Our Understandings Into the World Check out their wonderful content: | Youtube (Zelp on the Shelf): here (https://www.youtube.com/c/ZelphOntheShe... | Samantha's Instagram: here (https://www.instagram.com/thesamspo/) | Tanner's Instagram: here (https://www.instagram.com/tannerg_art/) | New Exclusive Feed: https://aphilosophersstone.substack.com/... | All the links you will need: https://link.snipfeed.co/thephilosophygu... | As always thank you for your support! (@philosophyguy2) |
| 2021-Sep-09 • 54 minutes Australian politics – is the divide geographical, not ideological? In the face of the latest COVID-19 outbreaks, there is little that has differentiated the governing strategies of Liberal and Labor state governments — certainly not at the level of practice. Are we witnessing a more long-term scrambling of Australia’s already unclear political divisions? (@RadioNational) |
 2021-Sep-09Avatar Do you participate in virtual worlds such as Second Life? (@DavidEdmonds100) |
| 2021-Sep-08 • 12 minutes John Stuart Mill, On Liberty - Three Domains Of Liberty - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century Utilitarian philosopher John Stuart Mill's work, On Liberty It focuses specifically his discussion of the three domains or areas of personal liberty or freedom his argument applies to. These are one's inward consciousness, which extends to expression, including speech and publication; lifestyle; and combination with other individuals.. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contributi... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Sep-08 • 86 minutes Aristophanes' Assemblywomen | The New Thinkery Ep. 59 In this week's episode of The New Thinkery, the guys are overthrown and replaced by a distinguished, all-female panel of four guests: Lisa Leibowitz, Linda Rabieh, Carly Herold, and Anna Mansfield. The panel discuss Aristophanes' play where, fittingly for the situation the guys find themselves in this week, women are installed as rulers of Athens and start instituting major reforms. (@thenewthinkery) |
| 2021-Sep-08 • 79 minutes David Cutler and Ed Glaeser on the Health and Wealth of Cities Doing battle with the demons that come with density. (@tylercowen) |
| 2021-Sep-08 • 40 minutes Episode 14: "Where Do You Get Your Protein? Or: Biochemical Realization", Tuomas Tahko (deep dive featuring the author!) For this episode, I’m joined by Professor Tuomas Tahko to discuss his paper “Where Do You Get Your Protein? Or: Biochemical Realization", published in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science in 2020. Tuomas is Professor of Metaphysics of Science at the University of Bristol and principal investigator on the ERC funded MetaScience project. Link to the paper: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10... about Tuomas: https://www.ttahko.net/The MetaScience project: https://metascience.xyz/ If yo... (@KimptonNye) |
| 2021-Sep-08 • 61 minutes Qui sont les jihadistes ? durée : 01:00:54 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Adèle Van Reeth, Géraldine Mosna-Savoye - Quel est le projet des jihadistes ? Comment ce projet a-t-il évolué depuis les années 90 ? La prison française est-elle le lieu d'une diffusion de l'idéologie jihadiste ? - invités : Hugo Micheron chercheur au sein de la chaire d’excellence Moyen-Orient Méditerranée de l’Ecole normale supérieure, et enseignant à Sciences Po Paris (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Sep-08 • 89 minutes Author Tom Nichols on the Assault on Modern Thinking | The Story We Tell Is Powerful Ryan reads today’s daily meditation and talks to Tom Nichols about his new book Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy, how to bridge the gap between detailed knowledge and the public conversation, what it means to take your responsibilities as a citizen seriously, and more. Tom Nichols is Professor of National Security Affairs, US Naval War College, a columnist for USA Today, and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of The Death of Expertise and is also an inst... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Sep-08 • 54 minutes 0G157: Loki and Multiverse Authoritarianism We're just a couple of podcast variants, hanging out in this armageddon of a timeline to avoid getting pruned by some time fash. While we're hiding out, might as well discuss Loki and why multiverse authoritarianism is perhaps bad and also not really... (@0gPhilosophy) |
| 2021-Sep-08 • 18 minutes Episode 142: Philosophy is Where You Find It! Introduction This week join Mike and Danny as they scavenge through the philosophical skips and bins in search of discarded gold. Yes, we are up-cycling preowned and well used ideas that others have simply thrown out. I mean really, senseless waste. Look at this passing phrase from a 1940’s film - still plenty of good ontological wear in that. And here, see that? A sentence from Jane Austin that with a little invisible mending will continue to do solid epistemic service. It’s a disgrace what people chuck out these days,... (@PhilosophyWtf) |
| 2021-Sep-07 • 61 minutes Ep. 130 - The Philosophy of Creating Beautiful Aquariums w/Tanner Serpa (SerpaDesign) In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Tanner Serpa to discuss his journey into full time YouTubing as well as his thoughts on beauty and the meaning of life. I'm a huge fan of what he's up to! Check out his channels: https://www.youtube.com/user/Serpa... https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjZVhmS... | If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $1, $3, or $5 a month. Any amount helps, and for $5 you get a Parker's Pensées sticker and instant access to all the ... (@trendsettercase) |
| 2021-Sep-07 • 111 minutes Episode 220: On Your Marx In honor of Labor Day, David and Tamler dive into two works by Karl Marx - "The Communist Manifesto" and "Estranged Labor." What is Marx's theory of historical change? Why does capitalism produce an alienated workforce? What role does philosophy play in maintaining the status quo? Plus, fraudulent data in a famous study about dishonesty and former guest Dan Ariely is under investigation. (@verybadwizards) |
| 2021-Sep-07 • 52 minutes Calculate the Best Possible Decision with Utilitarianism Have you ever wondered how you can calculate the best possible decision? For the second episode on our four-episode arc, we take a deep dive into the ethical system, Utilitarianism. We'll talk about the philosophers of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart-Mill and their approach to how we should live the most ethical lives! Please check out our website at opendoorphilosophy.com where you can find more information about the show and get access to our booklist. Also, feel free to email us any questions or any quote... (@opendoorphil) |
| 2021-Sep-07 • 48 minutes Consciousness Beyond Time | Laura Mersini-Houghton, Paul Davies, Craig Callender, Hilary Lawson We imagine ourselves as existing within time and space. Yet, we only ever experience the present moment. It is all we have. And within the present moment there is no direct experience of past or future. Nor is the present moment located anywhere, since i (@IAI_TV) |
| 2021-Sep-07 • 58 minutes Habermas-Derrida : y a-t-il un concept de 11 septembre ? durée : 00:58:27 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Adèle Van Reeth, Géraldine Mosna-Savoye - Quelques semaines après les attentats du 11 septembre, deux philosophes européens, Jacques Derrida et Jürgen Habermas, questionnent cet évènement. Peut-on l'élever au rang de concept ? - invités : Pierre Bouretz philosophe, directeur d’études à l’EHESS (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Sep-06 • 76 minutes #518 Andrew Berry: The History of Evolutionary Biology (Pt. 2) - Genetics, and Speciation Dr. Andrew Berry is a lecturer in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. He is an evolutionary biologist with a particular interest in Alfred Russel Wallace. His research combined field and laboratory methods to detect positive Darwinian selection (i.e. adaptive evolution) at the molecular level in natural populations. He has published two books: Infinite tropics: an Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology, with a foreword written by Stephen Jay Gould, and DNA: The Secret of Life with James Watson. | This is the seco... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Sep-06 • 86 minutes 74: Author C Lou Hamilton - "I'm increasingly unsatisfied with anyone who has any degree of privilege who claims to be doing social justice work who has no time for veganism" - Sentientism C Lou / Carrie (@clouhamilton1 & veganismsexandpolitics.com & drcarriehamilton.com) is an author, editor & translator. She wrote the book "Veganism, Sex & Politics: Tales of Danger & Pleasure" about her vegan journey & how veganism relates to wider social justice issues including feminist, queer & anti-racist politics as well as environmentalism. | In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “what matters?” | Sentientism is "e... (@sentientism) |
| 2021-Sep-06 • 12 minutes PREMIUM-Ep. 277: Hegel on Our Understanding of Physics (Part Two) Continuing on The Phenomenology of Spirit, ch. 3, "Force and the Understanding." We start off by considering the players in force: the thing exerting the force and the thing receiving. By arguing that these are not so different, Hegel moves to arguing... (@PartiallyExLife) |
| 2021-Sep-06 • 69 minutes The Why Guy with Francis Brewer Can Philosophy help you become a better person? Yes! But, also, no...In this episode our hosts, Arianna Clark and Jonah Woodward talk to Francis Brewer about his path to Veganism, the power and limitations of philosophy, aliens, robots, the neural networks of plants, and how he used to think his mum was crazy. (@ThoughtsUofg) |
| 2021-Sep-06 • 92 minutes 163 | Nigel Goldenfeld on Phase Transitions, Criticality, and Biology I talk with physicist Nigel Goldenfeld about how we understand the complex things that occur in systems with many particles. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2021-Sep-06 • 30 minutes Alive Inside with Andrew Peterson Andrew Peterson (GMU) talks about his paper on the ethical concerns raised by new ways of using neuroimaging to assess brain‐injured patients. (@wesbuc) |
| 2021-Sep-06 • 58 minutes Episode 23: The Neurophilosophy of Free Will with Uri Maoz In this episode, we talk with brain scientist Uri Maoz about the neurophilosophy of free will. We ask about the role of neuroscience in the free will debate, how philosophers and neuroscientists can collaborate, and more.Uri's website: https://braininstitute.us/people/uri-mao... of Free Will project website: https://neurophil-freewill.org/Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshowInsta... https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillsho... https://www.facebook.com/The-Free-Will-S... (@thefreewillshow) |
| 2021-Sep-06 • 58 minutes Qu’est-ce que le terrorisme ? durée : 00:58:20 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye, Adèle Van Reeth - Cette question philosophique, ontologique, ni d’ordre psychologique, ni d'ordre géopolitique, produit une réflexion de théorie politique : qu’est-ce qui fonde nos communautés ? S’il paralyse, que produit le terrorisme ? Quel est l’objectif des terroristes ? Quelle différence entre terreur et peur ? - invités : Cyrille Bret maître de conférences à Sciences Po Paris et co-auteur du blog EurAsiaProspective.net. (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Sep-06 • 10 minutes Nothing Is Possible Without This | A Hard Winter Training Ryan explains why the virtue of courage is essential no matter what you do, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Pre-orders are available for Ryan Holiday’s new book Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors The Brave - check it out at https://dailystoic.com/preorder Blinkis... is the app that gets you fifteen-minute summaries of the best nonfiction books out there. Blinkist lets you get the topline information and the most important points from the most ... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Sep-06 • 39 minutes Episode 114| Guy Debord Society of the Spectacle l Time and the Spectacle In episode one hundred and fourteen of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses chapters five and six of Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle.Feel free to send questions or comments to [email protected] episodes every Monday.Social media:Twitter: @iamarubbermanInstagram: dissectingphilosophywithdrmcdYoutube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTi_1Eb... the podcast:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Dissectingphilos... me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/dissectingphilosoph... (@dissectphilo) |
| 2021-Sep-06 • 32 minutes E52. "Guilt-Edge Security" - How would you live your life, if you lived forever? Named “Top 20 Philosophy Podcast” for 2021!STORY SUMMARY: A traveling salesman sits at the bar after a long day drinking bourbon. He is approached and cleverly pitched a new product he has discovered on a distant rim planet, Life. The product stops the aging process. The first batch is free, and the salesman returns eight years later to get into the distribution business.DISCUSSION: There are really three things going on in the story. First, how would you live your life differently if you knew you were goin... (@AfterDinnerCon) |
| 2021-Sep-05 • 42 minutes Episode 087 - Earthquakes and The Water Cycle Welcome to Episode Eighty-Seven of Lucretius Today. I am your host Cassius, and together with my panelists from the EpicureanFriends.com forum, we'll walk you through the six books of Lucretius' poem, and discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. We encourage you to study Epicurus for yourself, and we suggest the best place to start is the book, "Epicurus and His Philosophy" by Canadian professor Norman DeWitt. For anyone who is not familiar with our podcast, please visit EpicureanFriends.com... (@NewEpicurean) |
| 2021-Sep-05 • 57 minutes How To End Global Poverty | Andy Kuper Andy Kuper, the founder and CEO of LeapFrog Investments, tells us how his PHD in philosophy led him to marry profit with purpose, by creating investment funds with deep impact on the lives of 200 million low-income people worldwide, while generating strong returns for its investors and the companies in which it invests. | https://leapfroginvest.com | Andy's Book Democracy Beyond Borders: https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Beyond-... | Contact us: Mark.Oppenheimer[at]gmail and Jwerbe[at]gmail (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2021-Sep-05 • 13 minutes Alasdair MacIntyre - Justice, Courage, And Honesty - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th and 21st century philosopher and moral theorist, Alasdair MacIntyre's work After Virtue It focuses upon chapter 14, specifically on his discussion of why three virtues in particular - justice, courage, and honesty - are needed for practices, and to stave off the corrupting influences of institutions upon practices. MacIntyre does not claim that these are the only virtues ever needed, but he explains why these three are. To support my ongoing work, go to my P... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Sep-05 • 33 minutes 50 (Short) Rules For Life From The Stoics Ryan Holiday defines 50 rules for life from the Stoics, gathered from their immense body of work across two thousand years. These rules functioned, then, as now, as guides to what the ancients called “the good life.” Hopefully some of them will illuminate your own path. Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWL3kHOY... the article: https://ryanholiday.net/50-short-rules-f... truck bed tool boxes and cargo van storage systems revolutionize organization with a heavy-duty in-vehicle storage system ... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Sep-05 • 28 minutes About time, part 1: Newton's exploding clock Most of us think of time as something that divides neatly into seconds, minutes and hours, in a way that’s as regular and predictable at the farthest reaches of the cosmos as it is in our kitchens. But scientists and philosophers have discovered that time has some weird tricks up its sleeve. This week we’re talking about twins who grow older at different rates, broken vases that jump off the floor to reassemble themselves on the bench, and why quantum physicists are learning to do without time altogether. (@DavidPZone) |
| 2021-Sep-05 HAP 82 - The Florida Project - Zora Neale Hurston Zora Neale Hurston’s interest in Africana folklore feeds into her great novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. (@HistPhilosophy) |
| 2021-Sep-05 • 16 minutes 526: (End of) Summer Reading List 2021 More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/sum... some parts of our lives return to some kind of normal, Josh and Ray ask authors and philosophers about what's been on their summer reading lists. • Cory Doctorow on "Making Hay," his short story in "Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future" • Helen De Cruz from Saint Louis University, co-editor of "Philosophy Through Science Fiction Stories: Exploring the Boundaries of the Possible" Plus Michaela Bronstein from the Stanford English deparment... (@philtalkradio) |
| 2021-Sep-04 • 41 minutes Episode 086 - Typhoons and Whirlwinds Welcome to Episode Eighty-Six of Lucretius Today. I am your host Cassius, and together with my panelists from the EpicureanFriends.com forum, we'll walk you through the six books of Lucretius' poem, and discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. We encourage you to study Epicurus for yourself, and we suggest the best place to start is the book, "Epicurus and His Philosophy" by Canadian professor Norman DeWitt. For anyone who is not familiar with our podcast, please visit EpicureanFriends.com ... (@NewEpicurean) |
| 2021-Sep-04 • 71 minutes Little Rock Nine Member Ernest Green on Creating an Atmosphere of Change On today’s podcast Ryan talks to Ernest Green about his experience as one of the first African-American students to integrate at Little Rock Central High School in 1957, why we should strive to disprove backwards thinking, how we must change as a country, and more. Ernest Green is one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Green was the first African-America... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Sep-04 • 28 minutes Achille Mbembe's "Necropolitics" In this episode, I present Achille Mbembe's "Necropolitics." If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphiloso... paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Twitter: @DavidGuignion IG: @theory_and_philosophy (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2021-Sep-03 • 68 minutes #517 James Costa: Darwin, Wallace, The Origin of Species, and The Descent of Man (150th anniversary) Dr. James Costa is Executive Director of the Highlands Biological Station and Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Western Carolina University. He has authored 7 books, including Darwin's Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory (W. W. Norton, 2017) — a finalist for the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru Prize — and the co-edited volume An Alfred Russel Wallace Companion (Chicago, 2019). | In this episode, we talk about Darwin, Wallace, On the Origin of Species, and The De... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Sep-03 • 86 minutes 76 - The Conservative Mind and the Liberal Mind pt. 2 In this episode, we continue our discussion of conservative and liberal psychology. Is one cognitive style more rational than the other? How does philosophical conservatism fit in? And what, if anything, does this research suggest about how to do politics better?Toby Napoletano, Michael Hughes (@TheBadlandsPod) |
| 2021-Sep-03 • 63 minutes Guns The HBS hosts try to figure out why there are 150 guns for every 100 Americans.In the midst of a pandemic, as COVID-related deaths creep closer towards 1 million, it's easy to forget the other public health epidemic plaguing the United States, namely, gun violence. Nearly 10,000 people had already been killed by gun violence by June of 2021, with no sign of slowing numbers. Schoolchildren regularly practice "active shooter" drills and, in states like Tennessee, gun-control laws have been relaxed so much tha... (@hotelbarpodcast) |
| 2021-Sep-03 • 56 minutes Nicolas Franck, psychiatre : "Une maladie mentale c'est quand on ne peut plus faire face à son quotidien" durée : 00:56:19 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Adèle Van Reeth - La santé mentale est au coeur des préoccupations, celle-ci ayant été particulièrement éprouvée avec la pandémie, et la société a grand besoin de la psychiatrie, qui se distingue radicalement de la psychanalyse. Mais qu'est-ce que le métier de psychiatre ? Comment définir une maladie mentale ? - invités : Nicolas Franck Professeur de psychiatrie au centre hospitalo-universitaire de Lyon. Chef du pôle Centre Rive Gauche au centre hosp... (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Sep-03 • 73 minutes EV - 207 Qanon After Q with Travis View My guest this week is Travis View (@travis_view), co-host of the Qanon Anonymous Podcast. We discuss conspiracism tracking, epistemic poverty tourism, and what comes next for Qanon Anonymous now that Q has gone silent. Qanon Anonymous: https://www.qanonanonymous.com/ Convocation: Luke 8.17 Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcas... by GW Rodriguez Sibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/ Support us at Patre... (@ETVPod) |
| 2021-Sep-03 • 18 minutes #19: Not writing is an essential part of writing Yeah, I know - you should be writing. Same here. Not writing enough is one of the worst sins a researcher can commit - and we're all committing it almost all of the time. But what if we've got 'not writing' all wrong? What if those procrastinating hours you spent trying to decide which font to use and what colour to paint your bedroom were actually important parts of your writing process? What if, without plenty of time spent not writing, you wouldn't be a writer at all - at least, ... (@AcademicImp) |
| 2021-Sep-03 • 58 minutes 45. George of the Jungle Have you ever seen two cows swing through the trees? We talk about Brendan Fraser's ultimate committed performance as George of the Jungle in this most silly and juvenile and heartfelt movie. We wonder about heroic fools, praise the film's strategy of giving the central arc to Ursula, and comment on the film's questionable presupposition of human language learning. Along the way, Justin reveals his ignorance about children's movies and Laura pens her love letter to Brendan Fraser. (@cowspod) |
| 2021-Sep-03 • 48 minutes Episode 331 - Susan Feldman‘s Counterfact Conspiracy Theories Josh and Me review "Counterfact Conspiracy Theories" by Susan Feldman, as published in the International Journal of Applied Philosophy in 2011. — Josh is @monkeyfluids and M is @conspiracism on Twitter You can also contact us at: [email protected] (@conspiracism) |
| 2021-Sep-02 • 61 minutes #516 Nichola Raihani - The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World Dr. Nichola Raihani is Professor of Evolution and Behavior at University College London. Her research considers the evolution of cooperation in nature. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology in 2019. Her first book is The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World. | In this episode, we focus on The Social Instinct. We first discuss the structure of the book, and why the focus is on cooperation. We talk about the mechanisms used to explain the evolution of cooperation – kin selection,... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Sep-02 • 84 minutes Andrew Murnane | The Self, Power of Beliefs, Fear, Social Media, Spirituality, and the Existential Dread of it All Today's guest is Andrew Murnane! He has gathered 548k Tiktok followers and he has a podcast, the Andrew Murnane Podcast. He is a dude, a 26 year old dude who films videos of himself sharing things that have helped with navigating through worry, fear, anxiety, and life. | And in this episode we talk about many of those things...how today's social media image influences the self, how our beliefs make us act a certain way in the world, how the self changes out of fear, and how religion plays a role in some of... (@philosophyguy2) |
| 2021-Sep-02 • 55 minutes 11. Eric Weiner and The Socrates Express Rob Colter and Massimo Pigliucci talk to Eric Weiner, the author of The Socrates Express. In the book, Eric examines various philosophers and philosophies, but our conversation focuses on Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and a number of philosophical traditions close to Stoicism. [Episode extracted from a show formerly known as the Stoa Nova Conversations.] (@mpigliucci) |
| 2021-Sep-02 • 58 minutes Jankélévitch, "Ne manquez pas votre unique matinée de printemps" durée : 00:58:12 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Adèle Van Reeth - Le printemps est la promesse du renouveau, mais chez Jankélévitch il est aussi ambivalent : il est un signe du destin de l'homme qui indique notre devenir irréversible. Le printemps serait-il alors la saison pour penser la mort ? L'image de l'aventure, celle de la projection dans le futur ? - invités : PIerre-Alban Gutkin-Guinfolleau maître de conférences à l’Institut Catholique de Paris (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Sep-02 • 8 minutes This Is Worse Than Death | The Philosopher’s School Is A Hospital Ryan explains why the Stoics have always given their lives for what they believe in, and reads The Daily Stoic’s entry of the day, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Blinkist is the app that gets you fifteen-minute summaries of the best nonfiction books out there. Blinkist lets you get the topline information and the most important points from the most important nonfiction books out there, whether it’s Ryan’s own The Daily Stoic, Yuval Harari’s Sapiens, and more. Go to blinkist.com/stoic, try it free for 7 da... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Sep-02 • 54 minutes Should journalists stay away from social media? Over the last year, there have been a number of high-profile cases where journalists have either landed themselves in legal trouble, or have sparked fierce backlash, due to their conduct on social media. This raises complex problems, not just for the public’s perception of journalists, their impartiality and credibility, but also of the news organisations to which they belong. (@RadioNational) |
| 2021-Sep-01 • 16 minutes Alasdair MacIntyre - Virtues And Institutions - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th and 21st century philosopher and moral theorist, Alasdair MacIntyre's work After Virtue It focuses upon chapter 14, specifically on his discussion of how virtues, practices, and institutions are interrelated. Virtues and practices require institutions which sustain them, but institutions are necessarily focused on external goods, and can have a corrupting influence upon practices. The virtues are needed in order to counteract this effect. To support my ong... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Sep-01 • 25 minutes Episode #157 ... The Creation of Meaning - Beauvoir Today we talk about the creation of meaning. (@iamstephenwest) |
| 2021-Sep-01 • 50 minutes Harvard‘s Galileo Project: A Conversation with Avi Loeb The New York Times 2017 front page story about UAP's (Unexplained Aerial Phenomena) spotted by Navy pilots, and the recent report to Congress by The Office of the Director of National Intelligence have generated tremendous public interest. I talk to Prof... (@UMBEthics) |
| 2021-Sep-01 • 11 minutes Announcing my First Book! - 'What Is Freedom?' with OUP A short promo episode for my first book- 'What is Freedom? conversations with Historians, Philosophers, & Activists' published with OUP, out November, and available to pre-order now. Featuring a foreword by Cecile Fabre and an introduction by me, the book includes contributions from Elizabeth Anderson, Mary Frances Berry, Ian Dunt, Michael Freeden, Nancy Hirschmann, Omar Khan, Dale Martin, Orlando Patterson, Phillip Pettit, John Skorupski, Peter Tatchell, and Zephyr Teachout. Pre-order on Amazon: https:... (@PolPhilPod) |
| 2021-Sep-01 • 62 minutes What Are Dreams? | Matthew Spellberg What kind of thinking do we do when we sleep? Is that what dreaming is? And how is it different from the thinking we do in waking life? In this episode of “What Is X?,” Justin E.H. Smith talks to Matthew Spellberg, a scholar working on a comparative history of dreaming, about one of the mysteries that has fascinated humankind from the ancients to Descartes and Freud and beyond: What are dreams, really? Why do we have them? Why do we share them? And what can they tell us? (@jehsmith) |
| 2021-Sep-01 • 9 minutes Episode 13: "Norms and Modality", Amie Thomasson The focus of this episode is Amie Thomasson’s article “Norms and Modality”, published in the Routledge Handbook of Modality in 2021. Link to the article: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/e... Thomasson: https://philpapers.org/s/Amie%20L.%20Tho... If you enjoyed the show, please rate and review it on your favourite app so more people can find it. You can carry on the discussion on Twitter and there's even an Instagram page. Thanks for listening! Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/Condense... (@KimptonNye) |
| 2021-Sep-01 • 75 minutes Interview: Dr. Laurence Cooper on Alcibiades' Speech | The New Thinkery Ep. 58 In this edition of The New Thinkery, the guys are joined by Dr. Laurence Cooper of Carleton College. Together, the group discuss Plato's Symposium in TNT's penultimate episode on the subject, this time focusing on Aristophanes' speech on Eros (and Socrates). Shoutout to Davenant Hall for sponsoring! (@thenewthinkery) |
| 2021-Sep-01 • 58 minutes Comment survivre à l’hiver avec Jean Giono durée : 00:58:22 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Adèle Van Reeth - Dans "Un roi sans divertissement", que Jean Giono écrit en 1946, il neige... Au coeur de l'hiver, rien n'est plus habitable, c'est l'anesthésie des sensations, l'ennui. S'inspirant de la pensée de Pascal, l'hiver est-il pour Giono le symbole de la condition humaine sans divertissement ? - invités : Sylvie Vignes Professeur de littérature française à l'université de Toulouse-Jean Jaurès (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Sep-01 • 78 minutes Brad Stulberg on the Practice of Groundedness | They Are Us And We Are Them Ryan reads today’s meditation and talks to author Brad Stulberg about his new book The Practice of Groundedness which you can pre-order at https://www.bradstulberg.com/tpogpreorde... how the path to peak performance is inevitably tied to compulsive behavior, practical steps to alleviate the anxiety that comes with the lifelong pursuit of greatness, and more. Brad Stulberg researches, writes, and coaches on human performance, sustainable success, and well-being. He is bestselling author of the books “Peak P... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Sep-01 • 62 minutes Alessandra Tanesini, "The Mismeasure of the Self: A Study in Vice Epistemology" (Oxford UP, 2021) Epistemology traditionally focuses on the analysis of central epistemological concepts, such as knowledge, justification, evidence, truth, and belief. But having knowledge is also a matter of acquiring knowledge. And this means that epistemology must also address questions of our conduct – how we should go about finding things out, what it means to be a good inquirer, and so on. This suggests that people can behave badly as epistemic agents. It falls to epistemologists to examine bad epistemic conduct as w... (@NewBooksPhil) |
| 2021-Sep-01 • 54 minutes 0G156: All Systems Red and Nonconforming Identities Time to bang out another show notes so I can get back to my stories. I mean, it's a unique joy every time and I definitely haven't slipped my patreon governing module. We're covering book one of the Murderbots series, All Systems Red, and discussing... (@0gPhilosophy) |
| 2021-Sep-01 • 18 minutes Episode 141: How to Build a Philosophy Part 7 This week join Mike and Danny simply because they tell you too. Yes, that’s right, you can trust us, we’re reliable, when have we ever steered you wrong? I mean, who else are you going to believe? After all, what do you really know? A handful of shabby first hand experiences mediated through highly questionable sense organs and the rest is all hearsay, am I right? So, who ya gonna trust? Wikipedia? The evening news? The government? Dave from down the pub (he seems to know everything). No, you stick with Dan... (@PhilosophyWtf) |
| 2021-Sep-01 • 30 minutes Just Immigration with Allison Wolf On this episode of Examining Ethics, the philosopher Allison Wolf explains how feminism, and its focus on oppression, sheds light on immigration injustice. | The post Just Immigration with Allison Wolf appeared first on Examining Ethics. (@DePauwPrindle) |
 2021-Sep-01 • 85 minutesThe Popperian Podcast #12 – Jonathan Rauch – ‘The Constitution of Knowledge’ This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Jonathan Rauch. They speak about Jonathan’s books Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought and The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of... (@JedLeaHenry) |
| 2021-Sep-01 • 73 minutes #259 — The Reckoning to Come A Conversation with Balaji Srinivasan (@SamHarrisOrg) |
| 2021-Aug-31 • 17 minutes Alasdair MacIntyre - Practices, Standards, Rules, And Goods This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th and 21st century philosopher and moral theorist, Alasdair MacIntyre's work After Virtue It focuses upon chapter 14, specifically on his discussion of the interconnections between what he calls "practices", standards for excellence, rules which need to be followed, and goods or ends of those practices. All of these are integral to the relationship between virtues and practices as well. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Aug-31 • 24 minutes Podcast episode 17: Philipp Wegener and the beginnings of functionalism In this episode, we take a step back to explore the earliest beginnings of functional linguistics as represented by the work of Philipp Wegener. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 17 Primary Sources Bréal,…Read more › (@hiphilangsci) |
| 2021-Aug-31 • 33 minutes Knowledge Before Belief with Jonathan Phillips Jonathan Phillips (Dartmouth) talks about his paper on knowledge attribution and how this capacity is actually more basic than belief representation is in theory of mind. (@wesbuc) |
| 2021-Aug-31 • 54 minutes 33. Synesthesia Have you ever tasted music or experienced numbers as having genders? If so, you might be a synesthete! Synesthesia refers to subjective experiences in which a stimulus associated with one sensory modality (e.g., vision) is experienced as having properties associated with an entirely different modality (e.g. sound, texture, or smell). This “mixing” of the senses raises fascinating questions about human experience and the life of the mind. In this episode, Ellie and David discuss the science and philosophy of... (@ellieanderphd) |
| 2021-Aug-31 • 28 minutes Can wireheading cause real pleasure | Anders Sandberg The practice of putting electrodes in the pleasure centres of the brain - otherwise known as 'wireheading' - has been a sci-fi dream for decades. Oxford professor and transhumanist Anders Sandberg, explores the history and modern impact of the idea. Ande (@IAI_TV) |
| 2021-Aug-31 • 67 minutes Ep. 50: Listener Q & A In this episode, Giuseppe and Anthony engage with questions asked by listeners. For questions or suggestions: [email protected] (@LoveofSophiaPOD) |
| 2021-Aug-31 • 36 minutes German Women Philosophers of the 18th and 19th Century: Interview with Dalia Nassar In this episode, Haley Brennan talks with Dalia Nassar, senior lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. We discuss the works of several German women philosophers in the late 18th and 19th centuries, including Germaine de Staë... (@olivbransc) |
| 2021-Aug-31 • 58 minutes Les tubes de l’automne de Paul Verlaine durée : 00:58:20 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Adèle Van Reeth - Verlaine est-il le poète absolu de l'automne ? Que nous dit cette saison de gouttes de pluie, de gouttes de larmes, au climat crépusculaire ? - invités : Jean-Michel Maulpoix Écrivain et poète (@Philochemins) |
 2021-Aug-31 • 66 minutesQuantum Computers: Building and Harnessing the Power of Quantum Machines with Prof. Andrea Morello Quantum computers store data and perform computations by utilizing properties of quantum physics. Quantum computations are performed by these machines by utilizing quantum state features such as superposition and entanglement. Traditional computers store data in binary “bits,” which can be either 0s or 1s. A quantum bit, or qubit, is the fundamental memory unit in a quantum computer. Quantum states such as the spin of an electron or the direction of a photon, are used to create qubits. This could be very us... (@BTG_ie) |
| 2021-Aug-31 • 73 minutes Religious and atheistic experience Many people claim to have experiences of God. Others have experiences that cause them to lose faith. What is the significance of these experiences? Chad McIntosh and Spencer Case discuss. (@ADigressions) |
| 2021-Aug-30 • 167 minutes Harm & Liberty In J S Mill Is J S Mill's liberty principle bad political philosophy because he fails to define harm? I try to give this 'conventional' read a fair shake while also giving you my own view that the principle is . . . good, actually. On Liberty by Aquarusa - https://aquarusa.wordpress.com/2021/08/0... - https://www.politicalphilosophypodcast.c... - (@PolPhilPod) |
| 2021-Aug-30 • 59 minutes #515 Sacha Altay: Social Media, Fake News, Science Communication, and the COVID-19 Pandemic Sacha Altay is doing his PhD in cognitive science at the Institut Jean Nicod of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Fascinated by apparently irrational beliefs and behaviors, he works with Hugo Mercier on the role of epistemic reputation in communication and the cognitive mechanisms underlying information transmission and evaluation. | In this episode, we talk about fake news, and scientific misinformation. We start with fake news, and discuss how widespread it really is, and the sort of cultural and soc... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Aug-30 • 74 minutes 162 | Leidy Klotz on Our Resistance to Subtractive Change I talk with engineer Leidy Klotz on how our brains prefer to fix problems by adding things rather than subtracting them. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2021-Aug-30 • 66 minutes The Philosophical Therapist with Dr Luis de Miranda Has Philosophy ever actually helped anyone? Yes, yes it has. This week our hosts, Arianna Clark and Alex Constantinou, talk to philosopher, novelist and therapist Dr Luis de Miranda - where he explains just how philosophy can help us, and how it helped him. | From dissecting reality to RuPaul’s Drag Race, we just about scratch the surface of the theoretical underpinnings of Luis’ work – and, like us, we are sure you’ll want to find out more. | So, if you want to find out more about Luis: | https://philosoph... (@ThoughtsUofg) |
| 2021-Aug-30 • 58 minutes L'invincible été d’Albert Camus durée : 00:58:12 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Adèle Van Reeth - Qu'y a-t-il derrière le paradis des sens qu'évoque l'été ? L'ennui, le silence ? Comment cette expérience de l'été a permis à Camus de tisser une oeuvre où la sensibilité se met au service de la raison, de la pensée d'un monde qu'il perçoit à travers sa violence et son injustice ? - invités : Vincent Duclert historien, chercheur titulaire à l'Ehess, inspecteur général de l'Education nationale, professeur associé à Sciences-Po. (@Philochemins) |
| 2021-Aug-30 • 13 minutes This Choice Is Everything | A Cure For Procrastination Ryan explains discusses the choice that will decide your fate, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Pre-orders are available for Ryan Holiday’s new book Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors The Brave - check it out at https://dailystoic.com/preorder AppSumo is the best way to automate all of the busywork that comes with running a business, so you can boost your productivity, scale beyond your skillset, and focus on what matters most to you. AppSumo i... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Aug-30 • 32 minutes Episode 113| Guy Debord Society of the Spectacle l A History of The Spectacle In episode one hundred and thirteen of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses chapter four of Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle.Feel free to send questions or comments to [email protected] episodes every Monday.Social media:Twitter: @iamarubbermanInstagram: dissectingphilosophywithdrmcdYoutube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTi_1Eb... the podcast:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Dissectingphilos... me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/dissectingphilosophyMa... th... (@dissectphilo) |
| 2021-Aug-30 • 57 minutes Ep. 277: Hegel on Our Understanding of Physics (Part One) On The Phenomenology of Spirit, ch. 3, "Force and the Understanding." What is "force" as physics describes it? And scientific law? Do these terms denote objects in the world, or models for how we describe the world? Part two of this episode is only... (@PartiallyExLife) |
| 2021-Aug-29 • 56 minutes Sacred and Profane Love Episode 38: The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins Sacred and Profane Love Episode 38: The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Sacred and Profane Love (@eudaimoniapod) |
| 2021-Aug-29 • 63 minutes Ep. 129 - Kant, Time, and Transcendental Arguments w/Dr. Adrian Bardon In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Adrian Bardon to discuss transcendental arguments in general, Kant's transcendental refutation of idealism, and whether or not there are any successful transcendental arguments out there. | If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $1, $3, or $5 a month. Any amount helps, and for $5 you get a Parker's Pensées sticker and instant access to all the episode as I record them instead of waiting for their release date. Check it out ... (@trendsettercase) |
| 2021-Aug-29 • 10 minutes 530: The Ethics of Awesomeness More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/eth... word “awesome” once meant inspiring extreme fear or dread. Nowadays it’s mostly used as a general purpose exclamation of approval. So when we describe a person as awesome, are we saying that they exemplify some general form of excellence? Or are awesome people those who break specific social norms to generate moments of creative expression and social connection? Would the world be a better place if we all aimed to be more awesome and less sucky? Josh and R... (@philtalkradio) |
| 2021-Aug-29 • 46 minutes Cryonics: who wants to live forever? | Francesca Minerva Is cryonics a viable route to immortality? Is immortality desirable, or would it present us with endless boredom and meaninglessness? (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2021-Aug-29 • 30 minutes PEL Special: Nightcap Early September 2021 A little political ranting precedes a consideration of what we might read in aesthetics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of sport. What do we remember about emotions? Finally, Seth's morbid interests and Devo. If you enjoy this kind of free-form... (@PartiallyExLife) |
| 2021-Aug-29 • 25 minutes Alasdair MacIntyre - What Is A Practice? - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th and 21st century philosopher and moral theorist, Alasdair MacIntyre's work After Virtue It focuses upon chapter 14, specifically on his discussion of what a practice is. His concept of practice is central to making sense out of what the virtues are and what they involve. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - ww... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Aug-29 • 13 minutes Time Management Strategies From the Stoics On today’s episode of the podcast Ryan talks about the different time management strategies that come to us from the Stoics. LMNT is the maker of electrolyte drink mixes that help you stay active at home, work, the gym, or anywhere else. Electrolytes are a key part of a happy, healthy body. As a listener of this show, you can receive a free LMNT Sample Pack for only $5 for shipping. To claim this exclusive deal you must go to drinkLMNT.com/dailystoic. If you don’t love it, they will refund your $5 no ques... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Aug-29 • 28 minutes The abominable heretic In July 1656, the young philosopher Baruch Spinoza was cast out of his Jewish community for "abominable heresies". We don't know what those crimes were, but we do know that Spinoza has remained a polarising figure within Judaism ever since. (@DavidPZone) |
| 2021-Aug-29 • 37 minutes Episode 085 - Thunder and Lightning Part 3 - Why Do The Gods Send Thunderbolts Onto Their Own Temples? I am your host Cassius, and together with my panelists from the EpicureanFriends.com forum, we'll walk you through the six books of Lucretius' poem, and discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. We encourage you to study Epicurus for yourself, and we suggest the best place to start is the book, "Epicurus and His Philosophy" by Canadian professor Norman DeWitt. For anyone who is not familiar with our podcast, please visit EpicureanFriends.com where you will find our goals and our ground rules.... (@NewEpicurean) |
| 2021-Aug-28 • 68 minutes 21 | What is Critical Theory Doing? w/ Dr. Prof. Robin Celikates In this episode we are joined by Professor Robin Celikates to discuss the big “method” question in critical theory: What is it doing, and why? Since Marx, this tradition has had a special connection to emancipatory struggles, so we talk about how that works (or doesn’t) in relation to contemporary debates about civil disobedience and migration. patreon.com/leftofphilosophy | @leftofphilReferences:Robin Celikates, 2019. “Constituent Power Beyond Exceptionalism: Irregular migration, disobedience, and (re-)co... (@leftofphil) |
 2021-Aug-28Philosophy of Medicine on COVID-19 During the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists and policymakers have responded with unprecedented solutions. The pandemic has also forced a rethinking of science, public health and their relationship to the public. How can philosophy of medicine help us respond to the fundamentally philosophical problems that this rethinking involves? In May of 2021, I hosted a panel discussion with experts in health science, public health and philosophy titled Philosophy of Medicine on COVID-19. We talked about normal science a... (@JonathanJFuller) |
| 2021-Aug-28 • 67 minutes Sharon Lebell on Epictetus and Rescuing Philosophy from the Philosophers On today’s episode of the podcast Ryan talks to Sharon Lebell about her translation of Epictetus – The Art Of Living, the im balance in the Stoic writings concerning gender roles, why we should take philosophy back from the philosophers, and more. GiveWell is the best site for figuring out how and where to donate your money to have the greatest impact. If you’ve never donated to GiveWell’s recommended charities before, you can have your donation matched up to $1,000 before the end of June or as long as m... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Aug-28 • 35 minutes Paul Gilroy's "The Black Atlantic" (Part 2/2) *Content Warning* Discussions of slavery and violence against Black folks. In this episode, I conclude my presentation of Paul Gilroy's "The Black Atlantic." If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2021-Aug-27 • 65 minutes 73: Artists of Data Science - cross-post bonus episode on the Philosophy of Sentientism This episode is a bonus cross-post from The Artists of Data Science podcast where I talk to Harpreet Sahota about Sentientism. We cover some of my personal perspectives too - so as ever, many other Sentientists will disagree. | Harpreet has hosted an eclectic range of guests in his 171 episodes so far. If it looks interesting, why not subscribe to TADS as well as Sentientism! (@sentientism) |
| 2021-Aug-27 • 60 minutes #514 Charles Murray - Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class Dr. Charles Murray holds the F. A. Hayek Emeritus Chair in Cultural Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. In 1994, “The Bell Curve” (Free Press), a New York Times bestseller he coauthored with the late Richard J. Herrnstein, sparked heated controversy for its analysis of the role of IQ in shaping America’s class structure. In 2012, in another the New York Times bestseller, “Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010” (Crown Forum), Dr. Murray described the nature and causes of the cultural ... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Aug-27 • 51 minutes 75 - The Conservative Mind and the Liberal Mind In today's episode, we begin discussing the psychological and cognitive research on the differences between the brains, minds, and personalities of liberals and conservatives. Toby Napoletano, Michael Hughes (@TheBadlandsPod) |
| 2021-Aug-27 • 60 minutes Specialization The HBS hosts discuss academic specializations and how to make the humanities more inclusive.Over the last several decades, there has been a long-overdue push for professors in the humanities to diversify their curricula to include more women, BIPOC, queer, disabled, and other under-represented thinkers and texts. Yet, the “add diversity and stir” model for syllabus design in many ways fails to address a lot of the problems that motivated this demand in the first place. It isn’t just syllabi in the humaniti... (@hotelbarpodcast) |
| 2021-Aug-27 • 59 minutes Episode 29: Calvary In this episode, we discuss the 2014 film 'Calvary', directed by John Michael McDonagh and starring Brendan Gleeson. Our discussion highlights, as central to this film, an examination of whether or not Christianity holds any relevance for today's society. Along these lines, we start by outlining the contemporary situation of nihilism that each of the characters seem to occupy in the film. We then explore the difference between Christianity, as a particular worldview with an accepted doctrine upheld by the c... (@twophilpodcast) |
| 2021-Aug-27 • 58 minutes 44. Encino Man The cows begin their Frassersance mini-series with this wonderful curio of the 90s, about a pair of high school dorks (Sean Astin and Pauly Shore) who find a frozen caveman (Brendan Fraser) in their backyard. We discuss the film as an adoption story, and explore what parents can learn from the innocence of their children. We also dig into Pauly Shore's character Stoney Brown, who embodies the atelic ideals of striving just to be, rather than to accomplish. Don't wheeze the jah-uiceeee! (@cowspod) |
| 2021-Aug-26 • 70 minutes #513 Benjamin Friedman: Religion and the Rise of Capitalism Dr. Benjamin M. Friedman is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy, and formerly Chairman of the Department of Economics, at Harvard University. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1972. Dr Friedman’s newest book is Religion and the Rise of Capitalism – a fundamental reassessment of the foundations of current-day economics, showing how religious thinking has shaped economic thinking ever since the beginnings of modern Western economics and how this influence continues to be relevant today espe... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Aug-26 • 16 minutes Alasdair MacIntyre - How MacIntyre's Account Is Aristotelian - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th and 21st century philosopher and moral theorist, Alasdair MacIntyre's work After Virtue It focuses upon chapter 14, specifically on his discussion about the extent and ways in which his account is an "Aristotelian" one. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM You can find over 1500... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Aug-26 • 50 minutes What the Conspiracy! - The Kidnapping of Shergar Josh tells M about one of the most notable horse kidnappings in Ireland in the 20th Century... — Josh is @monkeyfluids and M is @conspiracism on Twitter You can also contact us at: [email protected] Why not support The Podcaster's Guide to the ... (@conspiracism) |
| 2021-Aug-26 • 64 minutes 10. Greg Sadler on misconceptions of Stoicism Greg Sadler, editor of the Modern Stoicism blog, joins Massimo Pigliucci for a conversation on a number of common misconceptions of Stoic philosophy. [Episode extracted from a show formerly known as the Stoa Nova Conversations.] (@mpigliucci) |
| 2021-Aug-26 • 9 minutes Compete With Yourself And Root For Everybody Else | Seeking Out Shipwrecks Ryan explains how you turn the words and phrases you come across into actions, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Ladder makes the process of getting life insurance quick and easy. To apply, you only need a phone or laptop and a few minutes of time. Ladder’s algorithms work quickly and you’ll find out almost immediately if you’re approved. Go to ladderlife.com/stoic to see if you’re instantly approved today. Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: htt... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Aug-26 • 54 minutes Was US failure in Afghanistan inevitable? Does the swift collapse of the US-backed Afghan government suggest that places like Afghanistan are ungovernable by anything other than brute force and unimpeded corruption — or does it suggest that the ultimate folly of the post-9/11 wars was the conceit of “nation building” itself? (@RadioNational) |
| 2021-Aug-26 • 64 minutes Ep. 128 - The Philosophy of Tattoos and Eastern Orthodoxy w/Noodles the Tattoo Artist In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Noodles, my tattoo artist, for another conversation in the "life" category. We talk about Noodles journey into tats as well as his deconversion from and reconversion into Eastern Orthodox Christianity. | Check out Noodles's tattoos here: http://noodlestattoo.com/ | If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $1, $3, or $5 a month. Any amount helps, and for $5 you get a Parker's Pensées sticker and instant access to all ... (@trendsettercase) |
| 2021-Aug-26 • 47 minutes Hell is Other Rich People In this first episode of Season 8 we take a look at some of the more noteworthy philosophical themes found in a couple of recent television limited series: The White Lotus and Nine Perfect Strangers. This episode promises to be so intense that you will need two spa days and an afternoon on a yacht to recover. Music in this episode: "Attack of the Mole Men" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licens... Fat Cartoon Jazz ht... (@ThereforeFan) |
| 2021-Aug-26 • 15 minutes Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue - Differing Accounts Of The Virtues - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th and 21st century philosopher and moral theorist, Alasdair MacIntyre's work After Virtue It focuses upon chapter 14, specifically on his discussion of several differing representative accounts of the virtues, including those of Homer, Aristotle, the New Testament, Benjamin Franklin, and Jane Austin. Examining these he distinguishes between conceptions of virtues that are based on social roles, utility, and the telos for human being as such. To support my ong... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Aug-25 • 68 minutes 72: "Making Compassion Easier" - Tobias Leenaert - Author and meta-advocate - Sentientist Conversation Tobias (@TobiasLeenaert) is an author & a vegan advocacy consultant. He blogs at Veganstrategist.org & wrote "How to Create a Vegan World". He is the co-founder of ProVeg International. He is an Effective Altruist - thinking about the best ways to achieve a compassionate society. He also describes himself as a "Slow opinionist". | In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “what matters?” | Sentientism is "evidence, reason & compassion for a... (@sentientism) |
| 2021-Aug-25 • 66 minutes Zeynep Tufekci on the Sociology of The Moment (Live) The problems COVID-19 revealed in our institutions—and how to fix them. (@tylercowen) |
| 2021-Aug-25 • 54 minutes Episode 12: "What Everyone Should Say about Symmetries (and How Humeans Get to Say It)", Michael Townsen Hicks (deep dive featuring the author!) For this episode, I’m joined by Dr Michael Townsen Hicks to discuss his paper “What Everyone Should Say about Symmetries (and How Humeans Get to Say It)”, published in Philosophy of Science in 2019. Mike is a research fellow on the FramePhys project at the University of Birmingham. Link to the paper: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/ab... about Mike: https://www.townsenhicks.com/The FraMEPhys project: https://framephys.org/ If you enjoyed the show, please rate and review it on your favourite app so mor... (@KimptonNye) |
| 2021-Aug-25 • 58 minutes Interview: Professor Steven Smith on Oakeshott's "Political Education" | The New Thinkery Ep. 57 In this edition of The New Thinkery Alex and Greg visit the Jack Miller Center where they are joined by Professor Steven Smith. The group discuss Michael Oakeshott's famous work, "Political Education". Plus: don't miss out on the quickest response times we've seen yet on lightning round questions! Shoutout to Davenant Hall for sponsoring! (@thenewthinkery) |
| 2021-Aug-25 • 99 minutes MLB Pitcher Scott Oberg on Overcoming Adversity with Stoicism | Will You Answer the Call? Ryan reads today’s daily meditation and launches the pre-order for his new book Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors The Brave which you can check out at https://dailystoic.com/preorder Today’s interview with MLB relief pitcher Scott Oberg focuses on how an athletes career can be cut short in an instant, how Stoicism has helped Scott overcome physical and mental adversity, and why maintaining a positive outlook is important not only for yourself but for those around you. DECKED truck bed tool boxes and car... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Aug-25 • 15 minutes Episode 140: How to build a Philosophy Part 6 This week join Mike and Danny as they question your life style, yes YOURS! After all, who are you people to come in here with your uniqueness, strutting your difference around like it was no thing? I mean, it’s taken us ages to sort things out and to figure out the how and why of things and then in you people trot with your thinking and opinions and various sexualities and throw the whole delicate edifice into jeopardy. You people sicken me, why can’t you be like us? Why rock the boat with your … your… ways... (@PhilosophyWtf) |
| 2021-Aug-24 • 61 minutes Why Morality Matters What is morality and why is everyone so crazy about it? Are some decisions better than others? What's the difference between ethics and morality? Join us on the first episode of our four-episode arc about morality! Please check out our website at opendoorphilosophy.com where you can find more information about the show and get access to our booklist. Also, feel free to email us any questions or any quotes you want us to review on the podcast by emailing [email protected] You can also find us on T... (@opendoorphil) |
| 2021-Aug-24 • 46 minutes Why do we want to be good? | Ece Temelkuran, Alison Milbank, Peter Sjöstedt-H In our largely secular world, most think there is no afterlife, no reward or punishment in the hereafter. Yet most still wish to act morally and even ascetically, delaying or refusing gratification in favour of some higher ideal. Even though, without God (@IAI_TV) |
| 2021-Aug-24 • 46 minutes Darrel Moellendorf & Ending War Justly On August 15, following the swift withdrawal of US military forces in Afghanistan, the city of Kabul was taken over by the Taliban. 20 years since the start of the American offensive against the Taliban, as a response to the 9/11 attacks by Al Qaeda, Joe Biden did what his two predecessors had promised, but failed to follow through: he ended America’s military involvement in Afghanistan. But the immediate collapse of the Afghan government and military that the US had spent years supporting, and the ominous ... (@newsphilosophy) |
| 2021-Aug-23 • 29 minutes Dear Dawdler - E4: We Live in a Context (So I See) "Make a clear concise description of your podcast" they advise for this input. Umm... good luck with that. (@dawdlerspodcast) |
| 2021-Aug-23 • 90 minutes #512 Sander van der Linden: Social Media, Fake News, COVID, and Science Communication Dr. Sander van der Linden is Professor of Social Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab. His research interests center around the psychology of human judgment, communication, and decision-making, including social norms and networks, attitudes and polarization, reasoning about evidence, and the public understanding of risk and uncertainty. | In this episode, we talk about social media, fake news, and science communica... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Aug-23 • 21 minutes Arash Abizadeh on Thomas Hobbes' Ethics Thomas Hobbes is best known as author of Leviathan which is usually read today for its theory of political authority. Here Arash Abizadeh discusses Hobbes' ethics, the theory of what we are and what are obligations are to each. (@philosophybites) |
| 2021-Aug-23 • 96 minutes 161 | W. Brian Arthur on Complexity Economics I talk with economist Brian Arthur about how complex-systems theory provides new insights into economic behavior. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2021-Aug-23 • 53 minutes The Recovering Existentialist with Ben Van Loon If you’ve ever wondered what people actually do with philosophy, this is the episode for you. From miserable existentialism to ethics in the office - this week our host, Arianna Clark, talks to the resourceful writer and philosopher and communications expert, Ben Van Loon, about his life in Chicago and how he’s navigated it, using his philosophical training to carve a space in the world for him. | You can see Ben’s writing at | https://benvanloon.com/ | And more at: | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/be... (@ThoughtsUofg) |
| 2021-Aug-23 • 55 minutes Episode 22: The Libet Experiment with Tim Bayne In this episode, Tim Bayne explains a famous experiment by brain scientist Benjamin Libet— an experiment that Libet took to show that we have no free will. We discuss several critical responses to Libet, and Tim argues that, even if unsuccessful in his original aims, Libet has raised good questions for philosophers, physiologists, and neuroscientists to explore.Tim's website: https://www.mmcr.edu.au/our_people/tim-b... Libet's 1985 Behavioral and Brain Sciences paper, including peer commentary: h... (@thefreewillshow) |
| 2021-Aug-23 • 10 minutes Make Sure You Write Down Everything Interesting That You Find | Just Say No to Future Misery “When he was young, James Mattis hitchhiked to San Francisco to meet Eric Hoffer, the philosopher most famous for his book, The True Believer, and as Mattis said, “Eric was the one who told me, ‘Make sure you write down everything interesting you find,’ and I have ever since.” Ryan explains how you turn the words and phrases you come across into actions, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. GiveWell is the best site for figuring out how and where t... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Aug-23 • 41 minutes Episode 112| Guy Debord Society of the Spectacle l The Spectacle and Globalisation, Politics, Celebrities and Banality In episode one hundred and twelve of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses chapter three of Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle.Feel free to send questions or comments to [email protected] episodes every Monday.Social media:Twitter: @iamarubbermanInstagram: dissectingphilosophywithdrmcdYoutube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTi_1Eb... the podcast:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Dissectingphilos... me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/dissectingphilosophyMa... tha... (@dissectphilo) |
| 2021-Aug-23 • 11 minutes PREMIUM-Ep. 276: Hegel on Perception (Part Two) Focusing on The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), ch. 2 "Perception." Hegel's critique of the adequacy of perceptual knowledge has metaphysical aspects: The relation of substance to properties, properties to each other, and things to other things and to... (@PartiallyExLife) |
| 2021-Aug-23 • 27 minutes E51. "A Wolf On The Bus" - How do you know if you’ll protect others? Named “Top 20 Philosophy Podcast” for 2021!STORY SUMMARY: The narrator is simply going about her life riding the bus home from work. A few stops later, a wolf gets on the bus, pays the bus ticket, and has a seat. The woman has heard about wolves and is apprehensive. At the next stop a few teenagers get on the bus. They see the wolf and immediately begin teasing it. The wolf refuses to fight back until, eventually, the narrator stands up for the wolf. The teenagers get off and the woman speaks to the wolf. ... (@AfterDinnerCon) |
| 2021-Aug-23 • 47 minutes #258 — The Fall of Afghanistan A Conversation with Peter Bergen (@SamHarrisOrg) |
| 2021-Aug-22 You Would Say That Clare Moriarty on philosophical mud-slinging and ad hominem arguments (@forumphilosophy) |
| 2021-Aug-22 • 65 minutes Addiction | Daniel Hochman Is being addicted to love or chocolate the same as being addicted to cocaine? (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2021-Aug-22 • 47 minutes "Nano Comes to Life": DNA NanoTech, Medicine and the Future of Biology with Professor Sonia Contera Nanotechnology allows scientists to better understand, interact with, and manipulate biology by creating and manufacturing artificial structures and even machines at the nanoscale out of DNA, proteins, and other biological molecules. From nanoscale machines that can target individual cancer cells and deliver drugs more effectively to nanoantibiotics that can fight resistant bacteria, to the engineering of tissues and organs for research, drug discovery, and transplantation, nanotechnology is revolutionizing... (@BTG_ie) |
| 2021-Aug-22 • 19 minutes Ryan Holiday on America’s missing Statue of Responsibility “THE STATUE OF LIBERTY was a gift from France to America, commemorating the two nations’ friendship and shared love of freedom. Completed in 1886, it marked one of the world’s first, successful crowdfunding projects. The famous poem “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus, mounted in bronze inside the pedestal (“Give me your tired, your poor / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…”), was written for the campaign. Over $100,000 was raised from more than 120,000 donors, including schoolchildren who colle... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Aug-22 • 28 minutes How should we treat insects? Insect farming, we’re told by its proponents, is the next big thing in edible protein production, and it may just save the environment. But an insect “farm” is more like a manufacturing plant, where tiny organisms are frozen, boiled, baked, crushed or shredded alive in their billions. What is the moral status of these living things? Can we be sure they’re not sentient beings, capable of experiencing pain and suffering? (@DavidPZone) |
| 2021-Aug-22 • 52 minutes Episode 084 - Thunder and Lightning Part Two - Very Very Frightening Welcome to Episode Eighty-Four of Lucretius Today. I am your host Cassius, and together with my panelists from the EpicureanFriends.com forum, we'll walk you through the six books of Lucretius' poem, and discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. We encourage you to study Epicurus for yourself, and we suggest the best place to start is the book, "Epicurus and His Philosophy" by Canadian professor Norman DeWitt. For anyone who is not familiar with our podcast, please visit EpicureanFriends.com... (@NewEpicurean) |
| 2021-Aug-22 • 15 minutes Dear Dawdler - E3: We Live in a (Complex) Society Another letter. Another obsessive and compulsive repeating of oneself over and over again. Ryan replies to Harland's reply because he can't help but indulge in his thoughts and justifications. Maybe Ryan misses the point. Maybe he's on point. Tune in to ... (@dawdlerspodcast) |
| 2021-Aug-22 • 11 minutes 473: Envy – Vice or Virtue? More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/env... Russell said that envy was one of the most potent causes of unhappiness, and it's well known as one of the seven deadly sins. But is envy always a bad thing? Is it simply a petty emotion we should try to avoid, or could envy help us understand ourselves more? Is envy rooted in unhealthy comparison with others, or does it come from our own vision of excellence? Could envy even be used to improve ourselves? Josh and Ken consider whether to envy their guest, ... (@philtalkradio) |
| 2021-Aug-21 • 60 minutes Ep. 127 - Content Externalism and Putnam's Anti Brain-in-a-Vat Arg. w/Dr. Sanford Goldberg In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Sanford Goldberg to discuss his work on Hilary Putnam's reply to the brain-in-a-vat skeptical scenario. We discuss the idea that meaning just ain't in the head, i.e. content or semantic externalism, and much more. This was a really fascinating one and I hope to have many more conversations with Dr. Goldberg as he has thoughts on so many things! | If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $1, $3, or $5 a month. Any amount helps... (@trendsettercase) |
| 2021-Aug-21 • 86 minutes Megan Phelps-Roper on Radicalization and Redemption On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan talks to former Westboro Baptist Church member Megan Phelps-Roper about her experiences growing up in the church, the problem of radicalization in society and modern institutions, considering the individual perspectives of the people who we disagree with, and more. Megan Phelps-Roper is an American political activist who was formerly a member of, and spokesperson for, the Westboro Baptist Church. Phelps-Roper left the church in 2012 after she was unable to reconcile... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Aug-21 • 42 minutes Paul Gilroy's "The Black Atlantic" (Part 1/2) *Content Warning* Discussions of slavery and violence against Black folks. In this episode, I begin my presentation of Paul Gilroy's "The Black Atlantic." If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/th... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2021-Aug-20 • 54 minutes #511 Cécile Sarabian: The Evolution of Disgust and Hygiene, and Conservation Dr. Cécile Sarabian is a Postdoctoral researcher in Cognitive Ecology at Kyoto University. She investigates parasite avoidance behaviors and their effectiveness in non-human primates and other animals via field and lab experimentation/observations. She is generally interested in the origins of hygiene and disgust in humans and in the potential applications of disgust into the field of Conservation. | In this episode, we talk about disgust and conservation. We start by discussing disgust from an evolutionary... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Aug-20 • 72 minutes EV - 206 Longtermism with Tyler John My guest this week is Tyler John (@tyler_m_john), head of research at Longview Philanthropy. We discuss Effective Altruism and in particular Longtermism as an approach to ethics. Tyler's Website: https://tmjohn.wixsite.com/tylermjohn C... Fight Club Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcas... by GW Rodriguez Sibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/ Suppor... us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid If you enjoy... (@ETVPod) |
| 2021-Aug-20 • 63 minutes Superheroes The HBS hosts discuss the role of superheroes in culture and popular media. In American graphic fiction and contemporary film, the superhero stands at the center of many popular narratives. Superhero stories published by DC Comics and Marvel are a multi-million dollar per year industry and, in 2019 alone, superhero movies grossed 3.19 billion dollars in revenue. Although it may seem to the novice as if these publishing houses and film studios just recycle the same stories (and sequels) over and over, connoi... (@hotelbarpodcast) |
| 2021-Aug-20 • 64 minutes Andrea J. Pitts, "Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance" (SUNY Press, 2021) How can we think together multiplicity and agency? How can we resist oppression and build transformative political coalitions while attending to the ambivalences and incommensurabilities born of the collective conditions for action, meaning making, and self-understanding? In Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance (SUNY Press, 2021), Andrea J. Pitts engages the work of Gloria Anzaldúa and her many readers to give us a framework for consistently returning to these questions as ce... (@NewBooksPhil) |
| 2021-Aug-20 • 17 minutes #18: There is no such thing as self-sabotage Do you have a battle going on inside every time you try to achieve something important - a battle between the part of you that's trying to do well and your inner saboteur, who is determined to mess things up for you? Have you ever wondered why you work against yourself in this way? I mean, it's exhausting, right?The answer, my imperfect friends, is that your inner saboteur isn't a saboteur at all - at least, not intentionally. She wants you to do well. It's just that she's afraid of... (@AcademicImp) |
| 2021-Aug-19 • 66 minutes #510 David Buss - When Men Behave Badly; Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault (Part 2) Dr. David Buss is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He’s one of the founders of the field of evolutionary psychology. His primary research focus is on strategies of human mating. He’s the author of many books, including The Evolution of Desire, and the first textbook in Evolutionary Psychology, Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind. His most recent book is When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault. | This episode is part... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Aug-19 • 64 minutes Episode 5: The Fixer is In: A conversation with Bradley Tusk Political strategist Bradley Tusk joins the podcast to discuss his philosophy of the city, why he's opening a bookstore and funding the Gotham Book Prize, why he backed Andrew Yang for mayor, what makes for good and bad business regulations, and what he thinks is wrong with our politics and how he proposes to fix it. (@PhionNewYork) |
| 2021-Aug-19 • 13 minutes Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae - Why No Created Good Is Human Happiness This lecture discusses key ideas from the Medieval philosopher, theologian, and Dominican friar, Thomas Aquinas, and focuses on his Summa Theologiae, Prima Secundae Partis, q. 2. It focuses upon his examination in article 8, inquiring into whether any created good could really be human happiness. Aquinas argues that only God can provide human happiness in its full sense but that the human soul plays a role in this, since we enjoy happiness through the soul. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon s... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Aug-19 • 49 minutes Covert Infiltration Josh and M discuss how someone infiltrated and then reported back on six months undercover with Action Zealandia - Aotearoa New Zealand's "premiere" white nationalist/supremacist group. — Josh is @monkeyfluids and M is @conspiracism on Twitter You can al... (@conspiracism) |
| 2021-Aug-19 • 56 minutes 9. Robin Waterfield on translating Marcus Aurelius Rob and Massimo talk to translator Robin Waterfield, author of Meditations: The Annotated Edition. We explore how a translator works, what challenges he encounters, and how the book affects him. (@mpigliucci) |
| 2021-Aug-19 • 8 minutes It's Not Unfair, It Just Is | Corralling The Unnecessary “It’s amazing how often we find ourselves using these words. Words like “unfair,” “unlucky,” “frustrating,” “unfortunate,” “annoying,” “inconvenient” Ryan explains the fundamental Stoic practice of recognizing events as indifferent, not just talk about it, and reads The Daily Stoic’s entry of the day, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Blinkist is the app that gets you fifteen-minute summaries of the best nonfiction books out there. Blinkist lets you get the topline information and the most important points ... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Aug-19 • 54 minutes The ethics of dobbing Snitching, ratting, dobbing, grassing — these are all words for behaviour that we are taught, at a very young age, to find reprehensible. Is our reticence to “dob” an expression of a worrying disposition toward non-intervention, or is it an expression, even if a perverse one, of a deeper moral principle? (@RadioNational) |
| 2021-Aug-19 • 52 minutes "Price gouging" in emergencies Every time there’s an emergency, the prices of certain goods skyrocket -- like masks and hand sanitizer during COVID -- and the public gets angry about price gouging. In this episode, two economists (Raymond Niles and Amihai Glazer) make the... (@Rspodcast) |
| 2021-Aug-18 • 12 minutes Episode 11: “Nomothetic Explanation and Humeanism about Laws of Nature”, Harjit Bhogal The focus of this episode is Harjit Bhogal’s article “Nomothetic Explanation and Humeanism about Laws of Nature”, published in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics in 2020. Link to the paper: https://philarchive.org/rec/BHONEA If you enjoyed the show, please rate and review it on your favourite app so more people can find it. You can carry on the discussion on Twitter and there's even an Instagram page. Thanks for listening! Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/CondensedMatter... (@KimptonNye) |
| 2021-Aug-18 • 69 minutes The Death of Ivan Ilyich | The New Thinkery Ep. 56 In this week's edition of The New Thinkery, the guys analyze a frequent read of David's: The Death of Ivan Ilyich. A tome by one of the great Russian authors, Leo Tolstoy, the crew have much to discuss as they reflect on the key theme of the book, mortality. (@thenewthinkery) |
| 2021-Aug-18 • 74 minutes Dr. William Stixrud and Ned Johnson on Building Resilience and Communicating Effectively | It's About What You Make of It Ryan reads today’s meditation and has another conversation with Dr. William Stixrud and Ned Johnson about their new book What Do You Say?: How to Talk with Kids to Build Motivation, Stress Tolerance, and a Happy Home, experiencing adversity and developing resilience, why we should look at the last year as a gift that can improve our lives rather than a burden, how to teach kids to find purpose and control in their own lives, and more. Ned Johnson is the president and founder of PrepMatters. A 1993 graduat... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Aug-18 • 58 minutes 0G155: Never Ricking Morty and Metamedia So what level of meta do I write these show notes at? Reference past meta episode show notes? Deconstruct the very idea of show notes? Feel guilty that this meta meta meta level is a bit meh? Try to push on through to the next level of meta in the... (@0gPhilosophy) |
| 2021-Aug-18 • 16 minutes Episode 139: How to Build a Philosophy Part 5 This week; being here, being there, being neither one thing or another, being in, being out, being real, being fake. To be, or not to be and bebop a Lula, she's my baby. Yes, it's ontology week at WTF mansions where Mike and Danny are being themselves and loving it. Existence is very much as you find it and we find it everywhere but what is it? Do things exist because we perceive them and stop when we aren't looking. Do trees ever really fall in the forest? Questions like this, and others, must be left for ... (@PhilosophyWtf) |
| 2021-Aug-17 • 105 minutes Episode 219: Multiplied by Mirrors It’s a Borges bonanza! David and Tamler dive into two stories: “Emma Zunz” and “Borges and I.” The first seems like a straightforward daughter revenge story (Tamler’s favorite genre), but Borges being Borges there are layers of doubt and fuzziness about what exactly is going on. “Borges and I” may be less than a page, but it has us questioning our identity, the relationship between private and public selves, and what happens to when you release a work out into the world. Plus, back to social psychology. A... (@verybadwizards) |
| 2021-Aug-17 • 16 minutes Love, Identity, and Romance This week’s theme is about romance, love, and the creation of the self through relationships. | New Exclusive Feed: https://aphilosophersstone.substack.com/... | All the links you will need: https://link.snipfeed.co/thephilosophygu... | As always thank you for your support! | Email: [email protected] (@philosophyguy2) |
| 2021-Aug-17 • 14 minutes Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae - Goods Of Body Or Soul And Human Happiness This lecture discusses key ideas from the Medieval philosopher, theologian, and Dominican friar, Thomas Aquinas, and focuses on his Summa Theologiae, Prima Secundae Partis, q. 2. It focuses upon his examination in articles 5 and 7, which consider the question whether human happiness can consist in any good of the human body or soul. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at Bu... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Aug-17 • 31 minutes How the universe learns | Rupert Sheldrake Are the laws of nature nothing more than habits that natural systems have learned to repeat over time? While it might sound impossible, Rupert Sheldrake will be explaining the phenomenon in this episode. Rupert Sheldrake is a scientist, author, and parap (@IAI_TV) |
| 2021-Aug-17 • 58 minutes 32. Astrology Astrology. Dangerous pseudoscience? Comforting salve in a cold capitalist world? Subjugated knowledge? It's all fun and games when you're looking up your Co-Star horoscope, but according to philosopher Theodor Adorno, even a playful belief in astrology encourages submission to the status quo--and promotes fascist thinking. In this can't-miss episode, Ellie and David discuss the psychological appeal of astrology, which is experiencing a huge resurgence today. They also dive deep into the histo... (@ellieanderphd) |
| 2021-Aug-17 • 47 minutes Ep. 49: What is Propaganda? ft. Claire Celi, M.A. (Part I) *DISCLAIMER: There are a number of audio issues with this episode. It is wholly listenable (and it was a fun one too), but expect to hear some trippy audio echoes throughout. In this episode, Giuseppe and Anthony are joined by Claire Celi to discuss questions pertaining to propaganda: What is the difference between propaganda and non-propaganda? Does propaganda always have to be political in nature? And what is the relationship between propaganda and ideology? (@LoveofSophiaPOD) |
| 2021-Aug-16 • 62 minutes Ep. 126 - Tackling the Boredom Objection to the Afterlife w/Dr. Paul Gould In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Paul Gould for a third time. This time we cover some of his work on the boredom objection to eternal or everlasting life. This argument has become more and more popular lately and can be summarized as "I don't want to live forever because you would get so bored" and is closely related to the thought that it is the scarcity and finitude of life that makes it worth living. Paul absolutely demolishes these arguments. | Check out mo... (@trendsettercase) |
| 2021-Aug-16 Out of the Vat: Lucy Campbell In this episode, we talk to Lucy about self-knowledge, sheepdogs, and pinhole photography… (@forumphilosophy) |
| 2021-Aug-16 • 66 minutes #509 Christian Hoffmann: Social Media, Fake News, and Political Polarization Dr. Christian Pieter Hoffmann is Professor of Communication Management and Political Communication at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies at the University of Leipzig, Germany. In addition, he is responsible for teaching in the field of political communication in cooperation with the Institute for Political Science. His research interests include strategic communication management, financial communication and political communication – with a particular focus on the challenges and opportunities ... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Aug-16 • 41 minutes Bonus Episode: Matthew Mehan on Children's Literature Bonus Episode: Matthew Mehan on Children's Literature by Sacred and Profane Love (@eudaimoniapod) |
| 2021-Aug-16 • 84 minutes 160 | Edward Slingerland on Confucianism, Daoism, and Wu Wei I talk with Edward Slingerland about the major ideas of ancient Chinese philosophy, and how they relate to ideas from modern science. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2021-Aug-16 • 10 minutes Notice The Reminders | Always Ask Yourself This Question “Everytime you cut your hair. Every time you trim your nails. Every time you have to replace an old shirt or a worn out pair of running shoes, take note. Take note of what they symbolize.” Ryan explains why you should embrace the reality of your mortality, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Blinkist is the app that gets you fifteen-minute summaries of the best nonfiction books out there. Blinkist lets you get the topline information and the most ... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Aug-16 • 37 minutes Episode 111| Guy Debord Society of the Spectacle l Commodities as a Spectacle In episode one hundred and eleven of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses chapter two of Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle.Feel free to send questions or comments to [email protected] episodes every Monday.Social media:Twitter: @iamarubbermanInstagram: dissectingphilosophywithdrmcdYoutube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTi_1Eb... the podcast:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Dissectingphilos... me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/dissectingphilosophyMa... thank... (@dissectphilo) |
 2021-Aug-16 • 16 minutesM14 - Soul Sleep Helen De Cruz reads us a story (@media_inverted) |
| 2021-Aug-16 • 64 minutes Ep. 276: Hegel on Perception (Part One) On The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), ch. 1 "Sense Certainty" and ch. 2 "Perception." We walk through the first step in considering Hegel's dialectical analysis of theories of knowledge. Sense-certainty claims that we have direct access to sensory... (@PartiallyExLife) |
| 2021-Aug-15 • 159 minutes Matthias Michel: Is a Science of Consciousness Possible? Matthias Michel is a philosopher whose work focuses on the science of consciousness. In a recent paper he outlines how scientists working on consciousness have been having the same debates for 150 years without reaching consensus. In this episode, we will explore why the science of consciousness is more challenging than other scientific endeavours and examine possible ways forward. (@keithfrankish) |
| 2021-Aug-15 • 11 minutes 529: Microaggressions More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/mic... are small comments or questions that may be insulting or hurtful to another person because of their race, gender, sexuality, and so on. Some people consider microaggressions to be a phantom symptom of political correctness and a further sign that society has become “soft,” while others see them as a problematic way of normalizing bigotry. So how do microagressions compare to other types of moral harms? Do they add up to structural oppression, and if so, ho... (@philtalkradio) |
| 2021-Aug-15 • 57 minutes Death | Travis Timmerman Would it be better to live forever than to die? Is the goodness or badness of death dependent on the future quality of our lives? Is death so bad that it would be better never to have been born? | Travis' Book: Exploring the Philosophy of Death and Dying https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Philoso... | Contact us: Mark.Oppenheimer[at]gmail and Jwerbe[at]gmail (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2021-Aug-15 • 39 minutes PEL Presents Philosophy vs. Improv #7: Meritocracy Now! Does it make sense to try to have everyone get what they "deserve"? Your hosts Mark Linsenmayer and Bill Arnett () act out the desert machine but yet get no predictable cake. . to get bonus stuff and good karma! (@PartiallyExLife) |
| 2021-Aug-15 • 14 minutes Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae - Pleasure And Human Happiness This lecture discusses key ideas from the Medieval philosopher, theologian, and Dominican friar, Thomas Aquinas, and focuses on his Summa Theologiae, Prima Secundae Partis, q. 2. It focuses upon his examination in article 6, about whether pleasure can constitute human happiness or not To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM You ... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Aug-15 • 29 minutes Shorts - E32: Putting Thumbs on a Penguin No one needed this. Few people wanted it. But here it is, world. Basically, we're standing near an on-ramp to the infosphere holding a black markered cardboard sign which reads, "Will podcast for beer - God jest you". (@dawdlerspodcast) |
| 2021-Aug-15 • 71 minutes The Lancer Brigade’s Leadership Experience - Ryan Holiday in Conversation with Col. Jonathan Chung Today’s episode of the podcast is a conversation with Lancer Brigade’s Col. Jonathan Chung and Ryan Holiday which originally aired on The Leadership Experience Podcast. They talk about the Stoic concept of alive time vs. dead time that was originally introduced to Ryan from his mentor Robert Greene, what it means to see obstacles as opportunities, why things shouldn't go “back to normal” when the threat of COVID-19 has dissapted, and more. DECKED truck bed tool boxes and cargo van storage systems revoluti... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Aug-15 • 28 minutes Was the market economy inevitable? Today, market capitalism is so deeply woven into the fabric of everyday existence that it seems as natural and inevitable as the movement of the planets. But in fact, there was a moment in the early 20th century when an alternative economic philosophy gave the free market model a run for its money. What happened, and how might things have been different? (@DavidPZone) |
| 2021-Aug-14 • 48 minutes Episode 083 - Meteorology: Thunder and Lightning Part One Welcome to Episode Eighty-Three of Lucretius Today. I am your host Cassius, and together with my panelists from the EpicureanFriends.com forum, we'll walk you through the six books of Lucretius' poem, and discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. We encourage you to study Epicurus for yourself, and we suggest the best place to start is the book, "Epicurus and His Philosophy" by Canadian professor Norman DeWitt. For anyone who is not familiar with our podcast, please visit EpicureanFriends.com... (@NewEpicurean) |
| 2021-Aug-14 • 68 minutes NASCAR Champion Brad Keselowski on Reaching Your Maximum Potential On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan talks to NASCAR driver Brad Keselowski about the intricacies of stock car racing, how to build endurance and become great at whatever you do, how to lead and build a team that consistently produces results, and more. Bradley Aaron Keselowski is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 2 Ford Mustang GT for Team Penske. Keselowski, who began his NASCAR career in 2004, is the second of only six dr... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Aug-14 • 11 minutes Paul Virilio's "The Last Vehicle" This week, I cover Paul Virilio's "The Last Vehicle." If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphiloso... paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Twitter: @DavidGuignion IG: @theory_and_philosophy (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2021-Aug-13 • 61 minutes #257 — The State of the World A Conversation with Dambisa Moyo (@SamHarrisOrg) |
| 2021-Aug-13 • 66 minutes Ep. 125 - The Science of Building Ecosystems w/Ed the Pond Professor In this episode of the Parker's Pensées, I'm joined by one of my favorite YouTubers, Ed the Pond Professor of Aquascape to discuss the science of water movement, micro ecosystems, and limnology (the study of the biological, chemical, and physical features of lakes and other bodies of fresh water.) I learned more in an hour with Ed than in my entire bachelors of science degree! We went on to do a tour of the whole Aquascape Aqualand which will be on my other channel soon, so stay tuned for that!!... (@trendsettercase) |
| 2021-Aug-13 • 58 minutes 20 | David Walker and the Politics of Judgment For this episode we discuss David Walker’s 1830 radical anti-slavery tract An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World and Melvin Rogers’s 2015 article “David Walker and the Political Power of the Appeal.” We explore Walker’s political philosophy of judgment and its relationship to normativity, solidarity, and reconstructing civic society. Walker offers an insightful critique of the insidious pathologies race introduces into Western political formations. We cover questions of universalism, the contentiou... (@leftofphil) |
| 2021-Aug-13 • 51 minutes #508 Scott Small - Forgetting: The Benefits of Not Remembering Dr. Scott A. Small is the Director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at Columbia University, where he is the Boris and Rose Katz Professor of Neurology. He is appointed in the Departments of Neurology, Radiology, and Psychiatry. With an expertise in Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive aging, Dr. Small’s research focuses on the hippocampus, a circuit in the brain targeted by these and other disorders, notably schizophrenia. He has pioneered the development and application of high-resolution functional... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Aug-13 • 12 minutes Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae - Honors, Fame, Power, And Human Happiness - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the Medieval philosopher, theologian, and Dominican friar, Thomas Aquinas, and focuses on his Summa Theologiae, Prima Secundae Partis, q. 2. It focuses upon his examination in articles 2-4, about whether external goods such as honor, fame/glory, or power can be what human happiness consists in. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at B... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Aug-13 • 52 minutes Episode 28: Interstellar In this episode, we consider the 2014 film 'Interstellar', directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Matthew McConaughey with Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain. Our discussion critiques the manner in which the film appears to support a notion of scientific progress that falls in line with the political projects of imperialist expansion and extractive capitalism. Following an historical exploration of these themes, we consult Karl Popper to help us properly understand the scientific method in order to dete... (@twophilpodcast) |
| 2021-Aug-13 • 58 minutes White Working Class The HBS hosts take a critical look at the white working class and their grievances.Leading up to the 2016 election of President Donald Trump, and even more so afterwards, the U.S. found itself inundated with analyses of the allegedly “overlooked” grievances of the white working class. Were those legitimate grievances that should have been affirmed and addressed? Who belongs to the WWC in America, anyway? Do they share a “class consciousness” in the traditional Marxian sense, or are they primarily identifiab... (@hotelbarpodcast) |
| 2021-Aug-13 • 58 minutes 71: "Boom! - the entire world changed - everyone was questioning everything" - Mariann Sullivan - Podcast Host and Activist Lawyer/Lecturer - Sentientist Conversation Mariann (@marisul) is Co-host with previous guest Jasmin Singer of the Our Hen House podcast and host of the Animal Law Podcast. She is a lawyer, lecturer, teacher and animal rights activist. | In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “what matters?” | Sentientism is "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on the Sentientism YouTube. | We discuss: | 0:00 Welcome | | 1:40 Mariann's Intro. An A... (@sentientism) |
| 2021-Aug-13 • 59 minutes Lee Basham's conspiracy theories and rationality Josh and M review Lee Basham's chapter in "Beyond Rationality," "Conspiracy Theories and Rationality." — Josh is @monkeyfluids and M is @conspiracism on Twitter You can also contact us at: [email protected] Why not support The Podcaster's Guide... (@conspiracism) |
| 2021-Aug-13 • 68 minutes EV - 205 Pseudoscience Conspiracism with Melanie Trecek-King My guest this week is Melanie Trecek-King (@Thinkingpowers), a teacher at a community college who teaches a course on distinguishing between science, non-science, bad science, and pseudoscience. She also developed a website devoted to same issues called Thinking is Power. We discuss the challenges of pedagogy in the post truth world and how to help students learn how to think vs. what to think. Melanie's website: https://thinkingispower.com/ Convocation... Void Original Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her am... (@ETVPod) |
| 2021-Aug-13 • 95 minutes 43. Office Space (w/ Robert and Sheryl Khoo) We are joined this week by special guests Robert and Sheryl Khoo (parents of a co-host of this very podcast) to talk about Mike Judge's TPS-ridden middle-class satire, Office Space! We talk about our experiences working within soul-crushing bureaucracies, and also the surprising upsides of meetings. We consider the case for Lumbergh and the plight of the middle manager, and wonder whether it is possible to earn a living within a capitalist economy without losing yourself in the process. And we evaluate the ... (@cowspod) |
 2021-Aug-12 • 89 minutesEp 3 -- LP -- Corrupting The Youth (Philosophy For Children with Daniel McCrea) Well... Let's not quite call it corrupting. Let's call it teaching. And, in this episode, we are delighted to welcome Daniel McCrea as our special guest, who takes us on an exciting journey through the world of teaching philosophy to children.Main Talking PointsWhy children should care about philosophyHow philosophy helps children developGetting philosophy into the education cycle in Ireland and bringing it to a younger audienceHow philosophy can transform how teachers engage with their studentsTh... (@philosophistpod) |
| 2021-Aug-12 • 62 minutes #507 Jessica Thompson: Human Evolution, and Our Impact on the Environment Dr. Jessica Thompson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. Dr. Thompson specializes in human evolution, and especially those aspects that can be revealed through the analysis of ancient animal bones found at archaeological sites (zooarchaeology). She leads the Malawi Ancient Lifeways and Peoples Project in Malawi, central Africa, where she has maintained a field site since 2009. This multidisciplinary work combines archaeological science, evolutionary theory, and hunter-gatherer ethnogr... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Aug-12 • 191 minutes AMA | August 2021 Ask Me Anything episode for August 2021. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2021-Aug-12 • 58 minutes 8. Stoicism and politics Rob and Massimo discuss the relationship between Stoicism and politics. The ancient Stoics were definitely involved in politics, and so should the modern ones. But how? [Episode extracted from a show formerly known as the Stoa Nova Conversations.] (@mpigliucci) |
| 2021-Aug-12 • 8 minutes What Are You Doing? | Make The Words Your Own “We find ourselves baffled by our politicians. By our bosses. By our leaders. Why don’t they do something? Why can’t they just do the right thing? Why are they always putting profits over people? Why do they always hedge their bets?” Ryan explains why you must practice this philosophy, not just talk about it, and reads The Daily Stoic’s entry of the day, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Athletic Greens is a custom formulation of 75 vitamins, minerals, and other whole-food sourced ingredients that make it e... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Aug-12 • 54 minutes How much dissent is permissible in a public health emergency? The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in a wave of “emergency politics”, in which the normal processes of democratic deliberation and public accountability have been suspended. In a public health crisis, is democratic dissent a problem to be solved, or a resource for a more sustainable, mutually beneficial outcome? (@RadioNational) |
| 2021-Aug-11 • 12 minutes Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae - Wealth And Human Happiness - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the Medieval philosopher, theologian, and Dominican friar, Thomas Aquinas, and focuses on his Summa Theologiae, Prima Secundae Partis, q. 2. It focuses upon his examination in article 1 whether wealth can be happiness, and discusses why that cannot be the case, according to Thomas To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - w... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Aug-11 • 33 minutes M13 - More about Personal Identity Andrew talks with Rev. Ben Colahan about themes from s02e04 Who Are You? If you haven't already, listen to that episode before this one. Here's a link: https://shows.acast.com/reductio/s02e04-... Link for Sharing:https://shows.acast.com/reductio... on Patreon:Patreon | Reductio is creating A Podcast about Ideas, Philosophy, and Understanding | PatreonRate and Review us Please!Reductio: Adventures in Ideas on Apple PodcastsReductio on Spotify See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. (@media_inverted) |
| 2021-Aug-11 • 60 minutes Ep. 124 - Divine Illumination in Augustine, Barth, and Beyond w/Dr. Ike Miller In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Ike Miller to discuss his book, Seeing By the Light: Illumination in Augustine and Barth's reading of John. We discuss various aspects of the doctrine of divine illumination and then get into Augustine and Barth's individual treatments of the doctrine and then get into Ike's unique addition to the field of study. Grab his book here to support the podcast: https://amzn.to/3zZFaWW | If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon fo... (@trendsettercase) |
| 2021-Aug-11 • 55 minutes Andrew Sullivan on Braving New Intellectual Journeys Why are so few intellectuals comfortable with life out on a limb? (@tylercowen) |
| 2021-Aug-11 • 15 minutes Episode 10: "Realism and the Absence of Value", Shamik Dasgupta The focus of this episode is Shamik Dasgupta's article "Realism and the Absence of Value", published in The Philosophical Review in 2018.Link to the article: https://read.dukeupress.edu/the-philosop... http://shamik.net/papers/dasgupta%20real... you enjoyed the show, please rate and review it on your favourite app so more people can find it. You can carry on the discussion on Twitter and there's even an Instagram page. Thanks for listening! Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/Conde... (@KimptonNye) |
| 2021-Aug-11 • 85 minutes Interview: Dr. Arlene Saxonhouse on Women in Plato's Republic | The New Thinkery Ep. 55 In this week's installment of The New Thinkery, the guys are joined by Dr. Arlene Saxonhouse, Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies and a former chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. The group discuss how Plato and Socrates thought of women and their role in greater society. Plus: a brief discussion of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Shoutout to the Ancient Language Institute for supporting the show! (@thenewthinkery) |
| 2021-Aug-11 • 76 minutes Venture Capitalist Brad Feld on How Nietzsche Empowers the Entrepreneur | This Must Be Done Daily Ryan reads today’s daily meditation and talks to Venture Capitalist and Author Brad Feld about his new book The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors, the common misinterpretation of Nietzsche’s philosophy and life, why entrepreneurs have to focus attention inward toward self-improvement, and more. Brad Feld is an American entrepreneur, author, blogger, and venture capitalist at Foundry Group in Boulder, Colorado, a firm he started with partners Seth Levine, Ryan McIntyre, and Jason Mende... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Aug-11 • 16 minutes Episode 138: How to Build a Philosophy Part 4 This week join Mike and Danny as they dare to tug at the knicker elastic that alone holds up the ... (@PhilosophyWtf) |
| 2021-Aug-10 • 60 minutes Pragmatism and William James with Guest Jeffrey Howard Do you make judgements about how to live from our personal experiences? Well, Pragmatism might be for you. For our first episode about an American philosopher, we invited Jeffrey Howard, the editor-in-chief at Erraticus, and podcast host at Damn the Absolute! to learn more about this field of philosophy. Please check out our website at opendoorphilosophy.com where you can find more information about the show and get access to our booklist. Also, feel free to email us any questions or any quotes you want us ... (@opendoorphil) |
 2021-Aug-10 • 37 minutesOut of the Vat #9 – Lucy Campbell Lucy Campbell is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, specialising in epistemology and philosophy of mind. In this episode, we talk to Lucy about self-knowledge, sheepdogs,... | | Philosophers’ work and philosophers’ lives, both inside and outside of philosophy. Brought to you by the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, LSE, and the Forum for Philosophy. (@LSEPhilosophy) |
| 2021-Aug-10 • 47 minutes Necessary lies | Michael Shermer, Hilary Lawson & Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen Many still remain convinced that their own views and opinions are not just culturally relative but are true and accurate accounts of the way things are. Should we conclude that all forms of relativism are a mistake and insist on the importance and need t (@IAI_TV) |
 2021-Aug-10 • 17 minutesEp. 7 - Do Unreflective Intentions Undermine Free Will? On this episode of Upon Reflection, I read my 2021 paper in Logoi titled, "On Second Thought, Libet-style Unreflective Intentions May Be Compatible With Free Will". Imagine if I could predict your behavior before you even became of your conscious of yo... (@byrd_nick) |
| 2021-Aug-10 • 68 minutes Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, "When Maps Become the World" (U Chicago Press, 2020) There are maps of the Earth’s landmasses, the universe, the ocean floors, human migration, the human brain: maps are so integral to how we interact with the world that we sometimes forget that they are not the world. In When Maps Become the World (University of Chicago Press), Rasmus Grunfeldt Winther considers how maps get made, used, and abused, and how processes and problems from cartography can be found in the ways we create and use scientific theories. Winther, who is professor of humanities at the Uni... (@NewBooksPhil) |
| 2021-Aug-10 • 29 minutes Episode #156 ... Emil Cioran part 2 - Failure and Suicide Today we continue talking about Cioran. (@iamstephenwest) |
| 2021-Aug-09 • 44 minutes #506 Crystal Lee: Data Visualizations, Online Misinformation, and the Covid-19 Pandemic Crystal Lee is a PhD candidate at the History / Anthropology / Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS) program at MIT, a researcher at the Visualization Group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), and a Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Her research focuses on how people interpret and make data visualizations. She also thinks a lot about the relationship between technology and disability, and she loves talking about mixed methods research t... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Aug-09 • 9 minutes Why Are You Surprised? | What Little Wins Can You Find “In June of 2001, Paul Wolfowitz, then U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, addressed the cadets at West Point. While the speech he gave was not itself a historical moment, one remark in it would go down in history. Because it was one of those quotes that history would, in retrospect, make particularly poignant, if not outright ironic.” Ryan explains why you should never be caught unprepared, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Sign up for the Daily ... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Aug-09 • 110 minutes 159 | Mari Ruti on Lack, Love, and Psychoanalysis I talk with critical theorist Mari Ruti about psychoanalysis, existentialism, and human life. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2021-Aug-09 • 60 minutes Episode 21: Introduction to Free Will and Science with Robyn Repko Waller This episode is the first in a new season on free will and science. Over the course of the season, we’ll have episodes covering topics in neuroscience, psychology, and physics. To kick things off with a general introduction to free will and science, we are joined by Robyn Repko Waller. Robyn's website: https://sites.google.com/site/robynrepko... John Templeton Foundation White Paper, "Recent Work on Agency, Freedom, and Responsibility: A Review": https://www.templeton.org/wp-content/upl... Ro... (@thefreewillshow) |
| 2021-Aug-09 • 32 minutes Episode 110| Guy Debord Society of the Spectacle l The Spectacle In episode one hundred and ten of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses chapter one of Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle. Feel free to send questions or comments to [email protected] episodes every Monday.Social media:Twitter: @iamarubbermanInstagram: dissectingphilosophywithdrmcdYoutube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTi_1Eb... the podcast:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Dissectingphilos... me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/dissectingphilosophyMa... thanks ... (@dissectphilo) |
| 2021-Aug-09 • 12 minutes PREMIUM-Ep. 275: Hegel's Project in the "Phenomenology of Spirit" (Part Two) Continuing on the Introduction, we get into more detail on Hegel's goal and his tricky terminology. If you're not hearing , sign up via one of the options described at . (@PartiallyExLife) |
| 2021-Aug-09 • 52 minutes E50. "Prey" - How do you break the cycle of living? Named “Top 20 Philosophy Podcast” for 2021!STORY SUMMARY: Jared has decided to enter a government program that, after 15 hours of counseling, will allow him to legally take his own life. Doctor Ansley is the top government therapist with 199 “saves” for the year. After several sessions it becomes clear that Jared has serious conviction about dying, but he also has a secret reason for his choice. Only after Doctor Ansley tricks him by giving him a fake test does he divulge his true reason for wanting to di... (@AfterDinnerCon) |
| 2021-Aug-08 • 76 minutes “The Argument for Peace and Non-Violence” Host Jack Russell Weinstein visits with peace activist Kathy Kelly (@whyradioshow) |
| 2021-Aug-08 • 15 minutes Dear Dawdler - E2: We Are All in the Same Boat Here I am, never-minding my own business when I stub my toe on a liter litter bottle full of semantics. Well how's about that?! It's from my old buddy old pal Sci-Guy Ry-- what a nice surprise! I should really not Dawdle too long and get back to him, ... (@dawdlerspodcast) |
| 2021-Aug-08 • 16 minutes John Sellars, What Is Philosophy As A Way Of Life - Scientific Vs Humanistic Philosophy This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th-21st century philosopher John Sellars' recent article "What Is Philosophy As A Way Of Life" (Parrhesia, vol. 28) It discusses the distinction he develops early on in the article, between two different manners of understanding and engaging in philosophy. Philosophy as a Way of Life would be more closely associated with humanistically conceived philosophy. It focuses specifically on the understanding of human freedom as a fundamental value for ethics, centerin... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Aug-08 • 64 minutes When should you forgive? | Brandon Warmke What is forgiveness, and when is it appropriate? What does it mean to apologize to a group of people, and for that group to forgive? Is forgiveness ever obligatory, or is forgiveness irrational or even immoral? (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2021-Aug-08 • 24 minutes Ask Me Anything #17 In this episode of the podcast, Sam takes your questions. He begins by addressing the blowback that followed his previous podcast on “vaccine hesitancy” with Eric Topol. And then he answers the following questions: How can I inoculate my biracial... (@SamHarrisOrg) |
| 2021-Aug-08 • 15 minutes John Sellars, What Is Philosophy As A Way Of Life - Philosophy As A Way Of Life As A Third Way This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th-21st century philosopher John Sellars' recent article "What Is Philosophy As A Way Of Life" (Parrhesia, vol. 28) It discusses specifically the three main views on Philosophy As A Way Of Life that he discusses - as humanistic philosophy; as a "third way" between analytic and continental philosophy; and philosophy as therapy. It focuses specifically on the understanding of human freedom as a fundamental value for ethics, centering on her phrase "willing oneself... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Aug-08 • 15 minutes John Sellars, What Is Philosophy As A Way Of Life - Three Views On Philosophy As A Way Of Life This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th-21st century philosopher John Sellars' recent article "What Is Philosophy As A Way Of Life" (Parrhesia, vol. 28) It discusses specifically the three main views on Philosophy As A Way Of Life that he discusses - as humanistic philosophy; as a "third way" between analytic and continental philosophy; and philosophy as therapy. It focuses specifically on the understanding of human freedom as a fundamental value for ethics, centering on her phrase "willing oneself... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Aug-08 • 60 minutes Ep. 123 - Van Til's Doctrines of Common Grace and Creation w/Dr. David Owen Filson In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined once more by Dr. David Owen Filson to discuss his dissertation on the theology and apologetic of Cornelius Van Til. This is somewhat of a part 2 of our discussion from last time which you can find in episode 39. | If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $1, $3, or $5 a month. Any amount helps, and for $5 you get a Parker's Pensées sticker and instant access to all the episode as I record them instead of waiting for their release da... (@trendsettercase) |
| 2021-Aug-08 • 29 minutes Seneca on Being Today’s episode is an excerpt from The Tao Of Seneca produced by Tim Ferriss’ Audio. In this letter Seneca writes about the ethereal nature of human existence, how time is constantly moving life forward, why we should take advantage of the time that we have here, and more. Go to tim.blog/seneca to get the PDF for free. The Jordan Harbinger Show is one of the most interesting podcasts on the web, with guests like Kobe Bryant, Mark Manson, Eric Schmidt, and more. Listen to one of Ryan's episodes right now (1... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Aug-08 • 28 minutes Structural injustice and individual responsibility Who is responsible for structural injustice? The answer is “practically everybody” - but that can be just another way of saying “effectively nobody”. So what responsibility do individuals bear for structural injustice? And how can this responsibility be acted upon, without falling into practices of blaming and shaming? (@DavidPZone) |
| 2021-Aug-08 • 10 minutes 469: The Creative Life More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/cre... and students alike often think that a college major defines possible career options. Yet what distinguishes today's work world from bygone times is that it's quite common for adults to have a variety of different careers in a single lifetime. So what can students do now to ensure happiness and fulfillment in all possible future careers? Are there some majors that cultivate greater creativity in our career choices? And what unique life skills can an educati... (@philtalkradio) |
| 2021-Aug-07 • 70 minutes Journalist Oliver Burkeman on Making the Most of the Time That We Have On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan talks to journalist and author Oliver Burkeman about his new book Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals which releases August 10th, practicing the Stoic concept of memento mori, facing the harsh state of the reality that surrounds us, and more. Oliver Burkeman is a British journalist (principally for the British newspaper The Guardian) and writer. Between 2006 and 2020 Burkeman wrote a popular weekly column on psychology, This Column Will Change Your Life... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Aug-07 • 11 minutes Jean Baudrillard's "Why Theory" This week, I take on Jean Baudrillard's "Why Theory" which can be found in "The Ecstasy of Communication" but it deserves its own episode. If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphiloso... p... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2021-Aug-06 • 50 minutes Episode 082 - Opening of Book Six - Restatement of Goal of Poem Welcome to Episode Eighty-Two of Lucretius Today. I am your host Cassius, and together with my panelists from the EpicureanFriends.com forum, we'll walk you through the six books of Lucretius' poem, and discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. We encourage you to study Epicurus for yourself, and we suggest the best place to start is the book, "Epicurus and His Philosophy" by Canadian professor Norman DeWitt. For anyone who is not familiar with our podcast, please visit EpicureanFriends.com w... (@NewEpicurean) |
| 2021-Aug-06 • 70 minutes EV - 204 The Immoral Non-Believer Stereotype with Will Gervais My guest this week is Will Gervais, (@wgervais), an assistant professor of social psychology and senior lecturer at the center for culture and evolution at Brunel University London. We discuss his work studying the persistent stereotype that non-believers are less morally reliable and how this stereotype plays a role in the continued marginalization of non-believers. Will Gervais: http://willgervais.com/ Convocation: Mehmet Murat ildan Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musica... (@ETVPod) |
| 2021-Aug-06 • 34 minutes #505 Michelle Montague: Mind, Phenomenology, Cognition, Perception, Consciousness, and Metaphysics Dr. Michelle Montague is Professor of Philosophy at The University of Texas at Austin. She is interested in philosophy of mind and metaphysics. Dr. Montague is the editor of Non-Propositional Intentionality, Cognitive Phenomenology, and Philosophical Writings by P.F. Strawson (co-edited with Galen Strawson). She is the author of The Given: experience and its content. | In this episode, we talk about philosophy of mind, with a focus on The Given. We go through several different concepts, like mental content,... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Aug-06 • 59 minutes Conspiracy Theories The HBS hosts discuss conspiracy theories and what motivates people to believe in them. The word "conspiracy" derives from the Latin con- ("with" or "together") and spirare ("to breathe"), and it seems like more and more people are breathing in the thin air of dubious explanations and bonding together over them. From Q-Anon to flat earthers to anti-vaxxers to climate change deniers to people convinced that a pedophilic, blood-drinking, sex-trafficking, deep state cabal is orchestrating our lives, conspirac... (@hotelbarpodcast) |
| 2021-Aug-06 • 16 minutes #17: The importance of wasting your time That productivity you care so much about: what's it for? For too many of us, it's not for anything. It's the ultimate end. Unless we're being productive, we feel like we're wasting our time, like we're being lazy, selfish, immoral, a loser. We can only bear to take a break because we think that not taking a break might harm our productivity.That's not what we tell ourselves, of course. We tell ourselves that being productive is a means to attaining our goals: finishing a t... (@AcademicImp) |
| 2021-Aug-05 • 23 minutes Simone De Beauvoir, Ethics Of Ambiguity - Willing Oneself Free - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century existentialist and feminist philosopher, novelist, essayist, and playwright Simone de Beauvoir's book, The Ethics of Ambiguity It focuses specifically on the understanding of human freedom as a fundamental value for ethics, centering on her phrase "willing oneself free" To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffe... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Aug-05 • 14 minutes Dear Dawdler - E1: We Are All Mutineers We Dawdlers are as advertised. But we're back. Don't get all excited. In this new kind of episode Ryan Writes Harland a "letter." Will Harland write back? (@dawdlerspodcast) |
| 2021-Aug-05 • 54 minutes #504 Ewa Dabrowska: Linguistics, and Native and Second Language Attainment Dr. Ewa Dabrowska is Professor at Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen, and in the Department of English Language and Linguistics at Birmingham University. Her research interests include cognitive linguistics, language acquisition, the mental status of rules, and individual differences in linguistic knowledge. She has published monographs on the semantics of case and the relationship between linguistics and other disciplines studying language, and numerous articles. She is the editor of Cognitive Lingui... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Aug-05 • 39 minutes Should you give money directly to homeless people? In this episode, Jake and Ant look at the ethics of giving cold hard cash to street beggars (who we typically assume are homeless). | | We begin by exploring a bit around how people end up in the situation of begging for cash and the difference between giving people cash vs giving them goods and services. We go on to examine the tradeoffs between your own satisfaction and the actual consequences of your giving cash to someone who's potentially unstable; what are the limits of your moral agency for the acti... (@MoralityofThe) |
| 2021-Aug-05 • 53 minutes The Tartarian Empire In this episode of "What the conspiracy!" M introduces Josh to the history of the Tartarian Empire! — Josh is @monkeyfluids and M is @conspiracism on Twitter You can also contact us at: [email protected] Why not support The Podcaster's Guide to... (@conspiracism) |
| 2021-Aug-05 • 56 minutes 7. Gretchen Reydams-Schils on Musonius Rufus Rob and Massimo talk to Gretchen Reydams-Schils, a Classics scholar and the author of the introduction to "That One Should Disdain Hardships," a collection of the writings of the Roman Stoic Musonius Rufus. (@mpigliucci) |
| 2021-Aug-05 • 8 minutes You Need To Police Your Side of the Street | Silence Is Strength “There’s no question that there are extremists on both sides of any meaningful divide. That there are liars and frauds on both sides. That there are abuses on both sides. That both sides are preposterously wrong about things that are glaringly obvious to you, and frustratingly right about things that are not. This is true wherever you live, whatever issues you’re talking about. ” Ryan explains why you should worry about your own problems before you worry about others, and reads The Daily Stoic’s entry of t... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Aug-05 • 54 minutes Can national shame lead to political change? Could the full acknowledgement of the extent of our complicity in the injustices of the past, constitute a galvanising principle, the basis upon which a new political community is formed? Is shame really inimical to national pride, or is it rather one of its expressions? (@RadioNational) |
| 2021-Aug-04 • 12 minutes Simone De Beauvoir, Ethics Of Ambiguity - The Passionate Person - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century existentialist and feminist philosopher, novelist, essayist, and playwright Simone de Beauvoir's book, The Ethics of Ambiguity It focuses specifically on the type of person living an inauthentic existence associated with pursuing passions To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdW... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Aug-04 • 27 minutes Episode 9: "Megarian Variable Actualism", Toby Friend (deep dive featuring the author!) In this episode, Dr Toby Friend and I take a deep dive into his article "Megarian Variable Actualism", published in Synthese in 2021. Link to the paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.100... on Toby Friend: https://sites.google.com/view/tobyfriend... the show (https://www.patreon.com/CondensedMatter... (@KimptonNye) |
| 2021-Aug-04 • 88 minutes Interview: Dr. Michael Grenke on Warspeak | The New Thinkery Ep. 54 In this edition of The New Thinkery, the guys are joined by Dr. Michael Grenke, a tutor (professor) at St. John's College to discuss Warspeak: Nietzsche's Victory Over Nihilism, a book by Lise Van Boxel. The group analyze key points of Nietzsche's philosophy, the characteristics of a philosopher in Nietzsche's eyes, and the dangers of nihilism. Special thanks to the Ancient Language Institute for supporting the show! (@thenewthinkery) |
| 2021-Aug-04 • 88 minutes Los Angeles Rams GM Les Snead on Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing | Think About This Ryan reads today’s daily meditation and talks to Los Angeles Rams GM Les Snead about the cultural pillars of the Rams organization, making tough decisions under intense pressure, ignoring the short term incentives and the noise that comes along with his profession, and more. Les Snead is an American football executive who is the general manager of the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League. Snead played tight end for Auburn from 1992-93 and was part of the Tigers’ perfect 11-0 team in 1993. He al... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Aug-04 • 59 minutes 0G154: Ready Player One and Value Capture [Reference] verb [reference]. [Reference] [Reference] [Reference] flip kick [Reference]. This week we cover the movie Ready Player One and several topics related to value, including intrinsic vs. extrinsic value, value capture and gamification, and... (@0gPhilosophy) |
| 2021-Aug-04 • 17 minutes Episode 137: How to Build a Philosophy Part 3 This week, join Mike and Danny as they examine the very foundations of reality because it looks like there are some nasty cracks appearing in your plaster work. What’s it all built on, eh? What sort of cowboy builders did you get in to do the original work? Listen in as your two philosophical construction workers don their hard hats and high vis vest and go at it with pneumatic drills to see what lies beneath the surface. When your philosophical pipes burst who ya gonna call? When your very ontology begins ... (@PhilosophyWtf) |
| 2021-Aug-03 • 119 minutes Episode 218: ...But You Can't Hide (Michael Haneke's "Caché") David and Tamler go deep on Michael Haneke’s unnerving psychological thriller Caché. An upper middle class French intellectual couple receives mysterious videotapes of the exterior of their house, forcing them to confront their past and present. Can we run from our history? Or will it always find a way to break through? And who’s sending the tapes? Plus, VBW does conceptual analysis - what does it mean to be “corny”? (@verybadwizards) |
| 2021-Aug-03 • 58 minutes Ep. 48: What is Beauty? (Part II) In this episode, Giuseppe and Anthony continue their conversation on the concept of beauty. (@LoveofSophiaPOD) |
| 2021-Aug-03 • 13 minutes Philosophy for emergencies | Santiago Zabala In this interview, philosopher Santiago Zabala details why the greatest emergency is the absence of emergency itself, the problem with freedom and our perception of postmodernism, and why we need to take warnings of emergencies far more seriously. There (@IAI_TV) |
| 2021-Aug-03 • 58 minutes 31. Genomics (feat. Joel Michael Reynolds) From 23andMe to prenatal testing, genetic testing is everywhere these days! The use of these tests raises important concerns about "velvet eugenics" and the value of human life. In this episode, Ellie and David address the ethics and politics of genomics. They talk with ethicist Dr. Joel Michael Reynolds, an expert on disability studies and genomics, about why your zip code is a much better indicator of health outcomes than your genome. Plus, Joel unpacks why genetic sequencing can cause anxiety ... (@ellieanderphd) |
 2021-Aug-03 • 19 minutesKit Fine I ask the philosopher Kit Fine five questions about himself. | | Kit Fine is Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at NYU. He is the author of several books, including “Reasoning with Arbitrary Objects” (1985), “The Limits of Abstraction” (2002), and “Semantic Relationism” (2007). (@KieranSetiya) |
| 2021-Aug-02 • 58 minutes Sacred and Profane Love Episode 37: Boethius and John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces Sacred and Profane Love Episode 37: Boethius and John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces by Sacred and Profane Love (@eudaimoniapod) |
| 2021-Aug-02 • 64 minutes #503 Luke Russell - Being Evil: A Philosophical Perspective Dr. Luke Russell is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. His research explores moral philosophy and he has written about evil, forgiveness, virtue and vice. Dr. Russell teaches ethics, moral psychology, and critical thinking, as well as running the University's high school philosophy course, Mind and Morality. His new book is Being Evil: A Philosophical Perspective. | In this episode, we focus on Being Evil. We ask what evil is, and go through several different cr... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Aug-02 • 60 minutes 70: "Social progress is ultimately inevitable" - @Soytheist Aditya Prakash - Sentientist Conversation Aditya (https://www.soytheist.com/ & https://www.youtube.com/c/Soytheist) is an animal rights advocate from Assam in India. His @Soytheist YouTube channel focuses on taking a straightforward & rational approach to animal rights, identity politics & occasionally religion & atheism. | In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “what matters?” | Sentientism is "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our con... (@sentientism) |
| 2021-Aug-02 • 108 minutes 158 | David Wallace on the Arrow of Time I talk with philosopher/physicist David Wallace about entropy, the arrow of time, and quantum mechanics. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2021-Aug-02 • 38 minutes Ep. 122 - The Business of Creating a Pond Empire | w/Greg Wittstock: the Pond Guy In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Greg Wittstock: the Pond Guy, to talk about his journey in building the pond empire know as Aquascape Construction. Greg is one of the world's foremost pond builders and pond suppliers with many patents and lots and lots of beautiful pond builds under his belt. I really like this dude and look forward to working with him on some ponds of my own in the future! | Check out his channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/ThePondGu... (@trendsettercase) |
| 2021-Aug-02 • 62 minutes Ep. 275: Hegel's Project in the "Phenomenology of Spirit" (Part One) On G.W.F. Hegel's 1807 opus: A series of treatments of various theories in epistemology (among other things), seeing how they're internally incoherent, which then moves us to more sophisticated theories. Part two of this episode is only going to be... (@PartiallyExLife) |
| 2021-Aug-02 • 7 minutes Important Things Are Simple | A Week Without Complaining “It’s hard to be an academic who specializes in Stoicism. Because the philosophy is so complex? On the contrary. Stoicism is a difficult choice for tenure because it’s so simple. The Stoics say what they mean and they say it clearly.” Ryan discusses the beauty of simplicity, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/signup Follow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, and Facebook See Privacy ... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Aug-02 • 70 minutes Lani Watson, "The Right to Know: Epistemic Rights and Why We Need Them" (Routledge, 2021) We often talk as if individuals have entitlements to certain kinds of information: medical test results, political representatives’ voting records, crime statistics, and the like. We also talk as if these entitlements entail duties on the part of others to provide the relevant information. Moreover, we talk as if the individual’s entitlement to information also entails a range of protections against misinformation, deception, and the like. Despite the fact that these ideas are common, there is surprisingly ... (@NewBooksPhil) |
| 2021-Aug-02 • 27 minutes Special Episode 18| Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy| Socrates' Removal of the Dionysian In the eighteenth special episode of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses Socrates' removal of the Dionysian from the Apollonian and Dionysian dynamic.Feel free to send questions or comments to [email protected] episodes every Monday.Social media:Twitter: @iamarubbermanInstagram: dissectingphilosophywithdrmcdYoutube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTi_1Eb... the podcast:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Dissectingphilos... me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/dissecti... (@dissectphilo) |
| 2021-Aug-02 • 13 minutes Simone De Beauvoir, Ethics Of Ambiguity - The Adventurer - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century existentialist and feminist philosopher, novelist, essayist, and playwright Simone de Beauvoir's book, The Ethics of Ambiguity It focuses specifically on the type of person living an inauthentic existence, which she calls the "adventurer". To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYd... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Aug-02 • 19 minutes Simone De Beauvoir, Ethics Of Ambiguity - The Nihilist - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century existentialist and feminist philosopher, novelist, essayist, and playwright Simone de Beauvoir's book, The Ethics of Ambiguity It focuses specifically on the type of person making an inauthentic use of their human freedom that she terms the "nihilist". To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoff... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Aug-01 • 57 minutes John Rawls: Justice as Fairness | Paul Weithman John Rawls is widely regarded as the greatest modern liberal philosopher. Does his theory of justice lead to a fair society? | Contact us: Mark.Oppenheimer[at]gmail and Jwerbe[at]gmail (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2021-Aug-01 • 59 minutes Brad Johnson: Super Bowl XXXVII, Mindsets For Success, Overcoming Tough Moments | STM Podcast #101 On episode 101, we welcome Quarterback Brad Johnson to discuss the 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers championship run, why the Joe Jurevicius 71 yard catch in the NFC championship game was the greatest play in Buc history, overcoming adversity on the field... (@seize_podcast) |
| 2021-Aug-01 • 11 minutes 7 Life Changing Stoic Ideas That You Can Practice Daily Stoicism is a practical philosophy, which means it is made to be PRACTICED. In this podcast, Ryan discusses 7 key ideas of Stoicism that will help you develop a daily practice and respond to challenging situations in your life. Stoicism provides exercises to help manage stress, excessive thought, anger, depression, worry, and other destructive mindstates. Stoic practices can help develop a sense of inner peace and calmWatch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0lmSRCS... up for the Daily Stoic ... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Aug-01 • 28 minutes Women, the alt-right and the liberal centre Why do women join white nationalist and other far-right movements? Misogyny is rampant on the alt-right, along with the notion that women's primary role is to be wives and child-bearers. But the liberal centre can be an ambivalent place for women too. (@DavidPZone) |
| 2021-Aug-01 HoP 378 - Faith, No More - Martin Luther How Luther’s doctrine of justification by faith alone and his attack on the Church relate to the history of philosophy. (@HistPhilosophy) |
| 2021-Aug-01 • 72 minutes 19 | Machiavelli: Cunning, Fortune, and Republican Virtue In this episode we talk through the work of one of the most infamous figures in the history of political thought, Niccolò Machiavelli. Looking both at the Prince and some passages from the Discourses, we ask ourselves what the Florentine can teach us about strategy, the need for vision and flexibility, and the virtues of leaders and citizens in a world of duplicity and chance. Is he a ruthless lover of cruelty, a clear-eyed political scientist, or a partisan defender of freedom as non-domination? patreon.co... (@leftofphil) |
| 2021-Aug-01 • 17 minutes 521: The 2021 Dionysus Awards More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/202... a year in which "entertainment" took on a whole new meaning, what were the movies that challenged our assumptions and made us think about things in new ways? Josh and guest co-host Jeremy Sabol talk to philosophers and listeners as they present our eighth annual Dionysus Awards for the most thoughtful films of the past year, including: • Best Film Painting a World Without Men • Best Picture That Packs All of American History Into One Room • Trippiest Inve... (@philtalkradio) |
| 2021-Jul-31 • 20 minutes Simone De Beauvoir, Ethics Of Ambiguity - The Serious Person - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century existentialist and feminist philosopher, novelist, essayist, and playwright Simone de Beauvoir's book, The Ethics of Ambiguity It focuses specifically on the type of person who makes an inauthentic use of their human freedom by buying into values received from others or their culture, and treating them as absolutes, not taking responsibility for their own choice in giving those values that status. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - w... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Jul-31 • 55 minutes Episode 081 - Development of the Arts And The End of Book Five In this Episode 81 we will start at approximately Latin line 1350. We'll go through the end of Book Five and we'll discuss additional aspects of the development of civilization. Now let's join Martin reading today's text.Browne 1743[1350] Their garments were skins of beasts, pinned together with thorns, before they had learned to weave. The art of weaving came in after the discovery of iron, for their tools were made of that metal; nor could the smooth treadles, the spindles, the shittles, and the ratting... (@NewEpicurean) |
| 2021-Jul-31 • 41 minutes Medieval Women and the Contemplative Tradition: Interview with Christina Van Dyke In this episode, Olivia Branscum talks with Christina Van Dyke, professor emerita of philosophy at Calvin University, about women philosophers in the medieval Latin west. We discuss the contemplative and mystical traditions of philosophy in the middle ag... (@olivbransc) |
| 2021-Jul-31 • 63 minutes What Is Philosophy? | Agnes Callard What does it mean to be a philosopher? After all, it's an odd job title. In this episode, Justin E.H. Smith asks philosopher and Point columnist Agnes Callard, What even is philosophy? What does philosophy do, and what does it take to do it? Along the way, they consider whether philosophy is meant to reveal actual truths about the world, answering abstract questions like "What is reality?" or more everyday ones like "How should I be happy?" Or could philosophy actually be a form of ... (@jehsmith) |
| 2021-Jul-31 • 88 minutes Author Clint Smith and the History We Decide to See On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan talks to author and poet Clint Smith about his new book How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery, the struggle to remove confederate monuments throughout the Southern United States, how to make sense of the absurd lies that have been generationally passed down since slavery was abolished, and more. Clint Smith III is an American writer, poet and scholar. He is the author of Counting Descent, a 2017 poetry collection, and How the Word Is Passed ... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Jul-31 • 15 minutes Sunera Thobani's "White Innocence, Western Supremacy" This week, I present Sunera Thobani's "White Innocence, Western Supremacy." If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphiloso... paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Twitter: @DavidGuignion IG: @theo... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2021-Jul-30 • 91 minutes #502 Marco Neves: História do Português Desde o Big Bang THIS INTERVIEW IS IN PORTUGUESE. | Marco Neves é professor de tradução na Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, tradutor e diretor do escritório de Lisboa da Eurologos e colunista no Sapo 24. O seu novo livro é “História do Português Desde o Big Bang”. | Neste episódio, focamo-nos no “História do Português Desde o Big Bang”. Seguimos mais ou menos o esquema do livro, e começamos por falar do porquê de ir até ao Big Bang, e também de alguns aspetos da nossa história evolutiv... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Jul-30 • 14 minutes Simone De Beauvoir, Ethics Of Ambiguity - The Sub-Human Person - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century existentialist and feminist philosopher, novelist, essayist, and playwright Simone de Beauvoir's book, The Ethics of Ambiguity It focuses specifically on the type of person whose of their freedom involves a rejection of their freedom, of responsibility, and their human capacities, rendering them a "sub-human" To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - ww... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Jul-30 • 72 minutes Simulation Theory: Disaster and Marxian Futures, ft. Nightmare Masterclass Here I am joined by Dave from Nightmare Masterclass to discuss Simulation Theory and his specific video over it. We go into Nick Bostrom's small paper "ARE YOU LIVING IN A COMPUTER SIMULATION?", the idea of disaster before computational growth, and an inlook into Marxian futures. Help this podcast survive, support here, and receive fun perks: https://www.patreon.com/epochphilosophy (@EpochPhilosophy) |
| 2021-Jul-30 • 73 minutes EV - 203 Denialism with Mark Hoofnagel My guest this week is Mark Hoofnagel, (@MarkHoofnagle), a surgeon and assistant professor of surgery at Wash U, as well as a skeptic activist. We discuss his work on the problem of denialism and how we're seeing that problem run rampant in our political and media landscapes. Mark's Website: https://surgery.wustl.edu/people/mark-ho... Shunya Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcas... by GW Rodriguez Sibling Pod Philosophers in Space... (@ETVPod) |
| 2021-Jul-30 • 76 minutes 69: Pineal Podcast - cross-post bonus episode about Sentientism This episode is a bonus cross-post from the Pineal Podcast (https://www.pinealpodcast.com/) where I talked to Josh Smith (https://twitter.com/Pinealpodcast) about Sentientism. | We cover some of my personal perspectives too - so as ever, other Sentientists will disagree. | In his own words, Josh created the Pineal podcast to help awaken his spirit. He talks to people about their own journeys to explore the ways they think, how they acquired their views on life and seek to discover areas where commonality ca... (@sentientism) |
| 2021-Jul-30 • 101 minutes 74 - Michael Sandel's The Tyranny of Merit pt. 2 On today's episode, we continue our discussion on meritocracy and Michael Sandel's recent book The Tyranny of Merit, which argues that meritocracy is "a hollow political project that reflects an impoverished conception of citizenship and freedom...". Meritocracy poisons our civic culture by dividing society into winners and losers, and breeds hubris and resentment which undermines the civic good.Toby Napoletano, Michael Hughes (@TheBadlandsPod) |
| 2021-Jul-30 • 55 minutes Vulgarity The HBS hosts lower themselves into the muck in this NSFW episode.Dr. Charles F. Peterson is in the hot seat for this episode’s discussion of vulgarity. What is the difference between obscenity, profanity, and vulgarity? Who determines what is “appropriate”? Is the very concept of vulgarity elitist?Full episode notes available at this link. (@hotelbarpodcast) |
| 2021-Jul-30 • 39 minutes Episode 27: The Farewell In this episode, we discuss the 2019 film 'The Farewell', directed by Lulu Wang and starring Awkwafina. Our conversation ponders the ethics of lying, the link between the awareness of one's own death and personal identity, the clash of Western and Eastern cultures in the film, as well as the idea that all communities and traditions are founded upon, what Plato called, a noble lie. These reflections are accompanied by some beers from Bryghuset Braustein and Wicklow Wolf Brewing Company. Follow us on twitter.... (@twophilpodcast) |
| 2021-Jul-30 • 93 minutes 42. Rounders (w/ Anders Schoubye) We sit down at the poker table with Anders Schoubye to discuss perhaps the greatest poker movie ever, confronting our true calling, and what the movie gets right, and wrong, about poker and gambling. Who is team Damon and who is team Teddy KGB? Tune in to find out! (@cowspod) |
| 2021-Jul-30 • 53 minutes Morgellons! Josh and M attempt to discuss Morgellons Disease, although the dodgy internet connection at one of their ends keeps getting in the way... — Josh is @monkeyfluids and M is @conspiracism on Twitter You can also contact us at: [email protected] Wh... (@conspiracism) |
| 2021-Jul-29 • 47 minutes #501 Ethan Porter: The Consumer Citizen Dr. Ethan Porter is an assistant professor at the George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in Political Communication, Journal of Politics, Political Behavior, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Politics, Groups and Identities and Journal of Experimental Political Science. He has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post and other popular publications. His research interests include public opinion, politica... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Jul-29 • 20 minutes Simone De Beauvoir, Ethics Of Ambiguity - Existentialism, Marxism, And Freedom - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century existentialist and feminist philosopher, novelist, essayist, and playwright Simone de Beauvoir's book, The Ethics of Ambiguity It focuses specifically on her comparison and contrast of Existentialism and Marxism on the understanding of human freedom, action, and ethics. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffe... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Jul-29 • 60 minutes 6. John Sellars on the art of living Jon Sellars, author of "Stoicism" and "The Art of Living," joins Massimo for a conversation on Stoicism as practical philosophy. [Episode extracted from a show formerly known as the Stoa Nova Conversations.] (@mpigliucci) |
| 2021-Jul-29 • 8 minutes Now Is The Time To Be Kind | A Cure For The Self “The thing about stress and stuggle is that it hardens us. It makes us turn inward. With more than expected on our plate we have less time, less patience, less sympathy for others.” Ryan explains that the highest goal is not to be perfect but just to improve, and reads The Daily Stoic’s entry of the day, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. The Daily Stoic Leadership Challenge is a masterclass in leadership with the cadence and rigor of a boot camp. It is also a live course, which means all participants will j... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Jul-29 • 54 minutes The ethics of space tourism A new “space race” is underway – except this time, it’s not between the United States and Russia, or even China and India. Instead, billionaires Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Richard Branson are spearheading the lucrative “space tourism” industry. Should this be seen as a source of hope, or simply one more expression of capitalism’s dogma of infinite growth. (@RadioNational) |
| 2021-Jul-28 • 15 minutes Simone De Beauvoir, Ethics Of Ambiguity - Childhood, Adolescence, Moral Choice This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century existentialist and feminist philosopher, novelist, essayist, and playwright Simone de Beauvoir's book, The Ethics of Ambiguity It focuses specifically on how human beings develop from a situation of childhood either into a mature adulthood in which they have to take responsibility for their own freedom, or in which they remain an infantilized condition and irresponsibility. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler I... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Jul-28 • 64 minutes Episode 4: Michael Menser and the Changing Logic of the City Michael Menser (Brooklyn College, CUNY) joins the podcast to discuss how the logic of the city's model of development, use of space, circulation of goods and people, and over-burdened ecology are changing what it means to live in New York and how a more participatory conception of democratic engagement can help us to navigate the challenges to come. (@PhionNewYork) |
| 2021-Jul-28 • 54 minutes Niall Ferguson on Why We Study History We don’t study the past for its own sake. (@tylercowen) |
| 2021-Jul-28 • 66 minutes The Popperian Podcast #11 – David Edmonds – ‘Wittgenstein's Poker’ This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with David Edmonds. They speak about David’s book Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers. Blurb: “On October... (@JedLeaHenry) |
| 2021-Jul-28 • 9 minutes Episode 8: "Sideways music", Ned Markosian The focus of this episode is Ned Markosian's paper "Sideways music, published in Analysis in 2019.Link to the paper: https://academic.oup.com/analysis/articl... the show (https://www.patreon.com/CondensedMatter... (@KimptonNye) |
| 2021-Jul-28 • 79 minutes 68: Are Panpsychism, Veganism and Sentientism Compatible? - Luke Roelofs, Philosopher of Mind - Sentientist Conversation Luke (lukeroelofs.com & Majestic Equality) is a philosopher of mind at the Centre for Mind, Brain & Consciousness at New York University. Although Luke works primarily on philosophy of mind & metaphysics, their areas of interest include ethics, social & political philosophy, early modern philosophy and philosophy of gender & sexuality. Their book, "Reason, Empathy, and the Minds of Others" is under contract with Oxford University Press. | In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the tw... (@sentientism) |
| 2021-Jul-28 • 76 minutes Aristophanes' The Clouds | The New Thinkery Ep. 53 The New Thinkery is officially a year old! To celebrate a year of podcasting, the guys analyze the comic play from which TNT gets its name: Aristophanes' The Clouds. Topics discussed include the value of comedy vs. philosophy, the nature of comedy, and more. Plus: a thought-provoking series of mailbag questions. Shoutout to the Ancient Language Institute for supporting us! (@thenewthinkery) |
| 2021-Jul-28 • 64 minutes Chris Bosh on the Pursuit of Greatness | Do You Make Others Better? Ryan reads today’s meditation and talks to Chris Bosh about his new book Letters To A Young Athlete, how you never really “make it” in life, the importance of putting everything into what you do even when it’s tough, and more. This episode was originally recorded for a Barnes and Noble Virtual Event. Chris Bosh fell in love with basketball at an early age and earned the prestigious “Mr. Basketball” title while still at Lincoln High School in Dallas, Texas. A McDonald’s All-American, Bosh was selected fourt... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Jul-28 • 72 minutes Listener Qs 24 Survived another crossing of the streams. Back into the multiverse we go! Keep chanting and we'll see you again. Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: Support us at Patreon: Follow us... (@0gPhilosophy) |
| 2021-Jul-28 • 34 minutes Naomi Zack: Government Should Be Boring The subject of identity politics is part of a constellation of heated issues in the United States. Politics in general has been fraught with conflict in the last decade or so. Naomi Zack, professor of... | The post Naomi Zack: Government Should Be Boring appeared first on Examining Ethics. (@DePauwPrindle) |
| 2021-Jul-28 • 15 minutes Episode 136: How to Build a Philosophy Part 2 This week join Mike and Danny, back in the lab again, as they tentatively extract dangerous metaphysic from the safety of its lead lined container. Have they instituted all necessary safety protocols or are they being recklessly cavalier with this most dangerous of philosophical substances? Catch your breath as Danny dons a protective suit and attempts to hold the highly volatile raw metaphysic stable using nothing but a pair of bbq tongs as Mike seeks to guide it into the Philoso-genorator (TM). Surely the... (@PhilosophyWtf) |
| 2021-Jul-27 • 20 minutes Simone De Beauvoir, Ethics Of Ambiguity - Existentialism As A Philosophy of Ambiguity This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century existentialist and feminist philosopher, novelist, essayist, and playwright Simone de Beauvoir's book, The Ethics of Ambiguity It focuses specifically on what she means in asserting that Existentialism is a philosophy of ambiguity. It also discusses why in her view ambiguity is integral to the human condition, and how some modes of philosophy go wrong in attempting to simply resolve that ambiguity. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - ... (@philosopher70) |
| 2021-Jul-27 • 55 minutes Kierkegaard - The Father of Existentialism Take a "leap of faith" with us on this week's episode where we discuss Derek's trip to Copenhagen, where he visited the father of Existentialism, Soren Kierkegaard. We discuss ideas such as subjective truth, God, and, of course, the famous expression "Leap of Faith". After this episode, we promise you won't be either in fear or trembling (bad joke), unless that's your truth! Please check out our website at opendoorphilosophy.com where you can find more information about the show and get access to our bookl... (@opendoorphil) |
| 2021-Jul-27 • 37 minutes The infidelity of beliefs | Graham Harman, Hilary Lawson, Anandi Hattiangadi In our post truth age it seems that we can collect beliefs on a whim or a tribal fashion. And many are happy to hold contradictory views to suit their temporary desires. Is this a dangerous approach that threatens not only the coherence of our own outloo (@IAI_TV) |
| 2021-Jul-27 • 10 minutes 528: Referring to the World — Ken's Final Work More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/ref... December 2, 2019, Ken Taylor announced that he finally had “an almost complete draft” of a book he had been writing for years. “I think I'll pour a glass of wine to mark the occasion, before plunging back into the work that is still to be done,” he wrote. Tragically and unexpectedly, he died later that same day. Thanks to the hard work and dedication of some colleagues, his book, "Referring to the World: An Opinionated Introduction to the Theory of Referen... (@philtalkradio) |
| 2021-Jul-27 • 35 minutes Miranda Fricker I ask the philosopher Miranda Fricker five questions about herself. | | Miranda Fricker is Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate Center and the author of “Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing” (2007). | | Rachel Whiteread, “Untitled (Stacks)” | Doris Salcedo, “Fragmentos” (@KieranSetiya) |
| 2021-Jul-27 • 26 minutes 011: Mix and Mingle Like Nothing is Single This episode is about Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, the final Presocratic I'm planning on covering! He thought there was a little bit of everything in everything and that mind set the universe in motion. He also did some observational science and is credited as the first to correctly explain the cause of eclipses. (@histphilphyspod) |
| 2021-Jul-27 • 52 minutes Stephen Mumford & Watching the Olympics The 2020 Tokyo Olympic games are finally going ahead. But increasing concerns over the games turning into super-spreader event, means that the athletes will be competing and performing without a live audience. The stadiums will be empty. But even without live spectators, the Olympic games will be watched by millions of people around the world. So what is it that gives many of us such a pleasure to watch athletes perform at the peak of their game? Is the pointlessness of sport, the absence of any life or de... (@newsphilosophy) |
| 2021-Jul-26 • 50 minutes #500 Elly Vintiadis - Philosophy by Women: 22 Philosophers Reflect on Philosophy and Its Value Dr. Elly Vintiadis is a philosopher of mind and psychiatry at Deree, the American College of Greece. Her work focuses on the mind, its products and disorders, and the nature of their dependence on the social environment. She is mainly interested in what mental disorders can tell us about the nature of the mind, and in emergence and explanation, but her research also extends to epistemology, metaphilosophy and animal ethics. She is the author of three books, including Philosophy by Women: 22 Philosophers ref... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2021-Jul-26 • 63 minutes Ep. 121 - The Philosophy of Loki w/Drs. Matt Flummer and Taylor Cyr In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined once more by the hosts of the Free Will Show, Drs. Taylor Cyr and Matthew Flummer to discuss the philosophy at play in the Disney+ show, Loki. We discuss free will, foreknowledge, personal identity, theories of mind, and other philosophical concepts which pop up in the show. | Check out there show here: https://thefreewillshow.com/ | If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $1, $3, or $5 a month. Any amount helps, and f... (@trendsettercase) |
| 2021-Jul-26 • 78 minutes 157 | Elizabeth Strychalski on Synthetic Cells and the Rules of Biology I talk with synthetic biologist Elizabeth Strychalski about the minimal genetic requirements to make a functioning cell. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2021-Jul-26 • 9 minutes PREMIUM-Ep. 274: Schelling on Self-Consciousness (Part Two) Concluding on Schelling’s System of Transcendental Idealism (1800), Parts 1 and 2. What sort of self is created in the act of self-consciousness that according to Schelling grounds all knowledge? We further consider this primordial act. To hear the... (@PartiallyExLife) |
| 2021-Jul-26 • 12 minutes Leaders Are Made Not Born | Keeping “The News” In Check “Marcus Aurelius did not come out of the womb a leader. Nor was he an emperor ‘by blood.’ In fact, when first told he was to be king, he wept--thinking of all the bad and failed kings of history.” Ryan explains how becoming a great leader is a process, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. If you want to become a better leader, sign up for our new 9-week live course The Daily Stoic Leadership Challenge today! This is a masterclass in leadership with... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Jul-26 • 38 minutes Special Episode 17| Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy| Apollonian and Dionysian Art In the seventeenth special episode of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses Nietzsche's concepts the Apollonian and Dionysian.Feel free to send questions or comments to [email protected] episodes every Monday.Social media:Twitter: @iamarubbermanInstagram: dissectingphilosophywithdrmcdYoutube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTi_1Eb... the podcast:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Dissectingphilos... me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/dissectingphilosophyMa... thanks t... (@dissectphilo) |
| 2021-Jul-26 • 43 minutes E49. "Take-em!" - When is a request from a loved one emotional manipulation? Named “Top 20 Philosophy Podcast” for 2021!STORY SUMMARY: The narrator is invited by his father to go duck hunting as part of their bonding time. The narrator wants to spend time with his father, but expresses ethical concerns about hunting ducks. The father asserts hunting is a natural part of human evolution. The debate continues as the narrator decides to go on the hunt, but is undecided if he will pull the trigger. The story ends with father and son in the blind just at the moment before the narrator ... (@AfterDinnerCon) |
| 2021-Jul-25 • 43 minutes "Free Will" Through the Lenses of Philosophy and Neuroscience with Dr Alfred Mele The debate over whether or not free will exists is not new. The main points of contention in this discussion are whether or not we have control over our actions, and if so, what kind of control we have and to what extent. On the one hand, we have a strong sense of liberty, which causes us to trust in our own free will. An intuitive and instinctive sense of free will, on the other hand, could be misinterpreted. In this episode of Bridging the Gaps, I speak with Dr Aflred Mele and we discuss the concept of “F... (@BTG_ie) |
| 2021-Jul-25 • 80 minutes Do the ends justify the means? | Alastair Norcross Should you sacrifice one innocent person to save many? Can you justify killing one annoying politician to save millions of people from suffering a minor headache? And is morality a matter of degree rather than a clear distinction between right and wrong? (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2021-Jul-25 • 5 minutes Mariology In this episode, I'll be talking about Mariology - the theological study of the Virgin Mary. This includes her role as the Mother of God, the immaculate conception and issues surrounding the notion of her 'perpetual virginity'. Enjoy! | If you'd like to request an episode, or even do an episode yourself, please contact me on Instagram (@fiveminutephilosophy) or Twitter (@fiveminutephil1). (@fiveminutephil1) |
| 2021-Jul-25 • 74 minutes Finding Calm – Chapter 3 from Nancy Sherman’s “Stoic Wisdom” Today’s episode of the podcast features an excerpt from Nancy Sherman’s Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience. Stoic Wisdom presents a compelling, modern Stoicism that teaches grit, resilience, and the importance of close relationships in addressing life's biggest and smallest challenges. A renowned expert in ancient and modern ethics, Sherman relates how Stoic methods of examining beliefs and perceptions can help us correct distortions in what we believe, see, and feel. LMNT is the maker of... (@DailyStoic) |
| 2021-Jul-25 • 28 minutes Nietzsche and transfiguration Friedrich Nietzsche engaged closely with Christian themes and concepts, re-casting them for a secular age. One of these was transfiguration, the strange alchemical process by which human brokenness and misfortune can be turned into a kind of redemption. For Nietzsche, this was an aesthetic process, and it made an art form of philosophy. (@DavidPZone) |
 2021-Jul-25 • 6 minutesEpisode X, The Cave We’ll see you back here on November 7th, 2021. (@ThePanpsycast) |
| 2021-Jul-25 HAP 81 - Making History - Carter G. Woodson Pioneering historian Carter G. Woodson argues for a new approach to education and economic uplift. (@HistPhilosophy) |