A composite list of episodes from the past 90 days of philosophy podcasts.
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 2024-Apr-19 • 33 minutesStyle wars pt 1: Postwar France and a new philosophical mode In the aftermath of the Second World War, France was in a state of creative ferment that affected politics, culture - and philosophy. A new mode of philosophical writing emerged in the form of the review, and it was being done in an idiom that we've since come to recognise as typical of modern French theory: dense, experimental, multivocal, open-ended, very much the opposite of traditional analytic philosophical style. It grabbed scholarly attention then, and is still controversial today. (@DavidPZone) |
 2024-Apr-19 • 20 minutes#84: The under-appreciated value of waiting for success Where did we all get this idea that if we want to succeed, we need to go faster? And that if we haven't succeeded yet, that must mean that we're probably not good enough? Sometimes, the reason we haven't succeeded isn't that we're not good enough, but that we haven't waited long enough. And that means that doing better doesn't necessarily require being better - it means holding on for longer. Swallow your impatience, friends, and gather round to hear about a key to success... (@AcademicImp • @rebecca_roache) |
 2024-Apr-19 • 85 minutes113. Dogville (w/ Agnes Callard) Today we explore the dark recesses of the human soul with Agnes Callard (Chicago). We discuss von Trier's minimalist staging, the movie's parable, the duality of human nature, the lies we tell ourselves and others, the film's political angle, and the role of anger in response to true evil. | | Cows on Twitter! (@cowspod • @juskhoo) |
 2024-Apr-19 • 45 minutes#334 - Recognizing Others: A Dialogue with Michèle Lamont In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Michèle Lamont about recognition and interpersonal dynamics. They define recognition and worth, the three avenues of building recognition and ordinary universalism, and what blocks change. They talk about inequality, individualism/collectivism, and challenges of the American dream. They also discuss using media, role of institutions, how we can recognize others, and many more topics. Michèle Lamont is Professor of Sociology and of African and African Ameri... (@xavierbonilla87) |
 2024-Apr-18 • 72 minutesNEM#214: Head vs. Gut Songwriting w/ Roger Joseph Manning Jr., David Christian, Rachel Taylor Brown It's a new, discussion-only format, just for this episode (and perhaps some rare ones in the future)! When we write, how much is planned vs. improvised? How much is inspirational vs. double-or-triple checked? How does this factor weigh into how much... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2024-Apr-18 • 73 minutes PMP-NEM Crossover: Head vs. Gut Songwriting w/ Roger Joseph Manning Jr., David Christian, Rachel Taylor Brown When we write, how much is planned vs. improvised? How much is inspirational vs. double-or-triple checked? How does this factor weigh into how much music we release, how eclectic our sound is, and how well we improvise with others? This discussion... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
 2024-Apr-18 • 153 minutes#185 – Lewis Bollard on the 7 most promising ways to end factory farming, and whether AI is going to be good or bad for animals "The constraint right now on factory farming is how far can you push the biology of these animals? But AI could remove that constraint. It could say, 'Actually, we can push them further in these ways and these ways, and they still stay alive. And we’ve modelled out every possibility and we’ve found that it works.' I think another possibility, which I don’t understand as well, is that AI could lock in current moral values. And I think in particular there’s a risk that if AI is learning from what we do as hum... (@80000Hours) |
 2024-Apr-18 • 56 minutes#929 Emily Qureshi-Hurst: God, Salvation, and the Problem of Spacetime Dr. Emily Qureshi-Hurst is Stipendiary Lecturer in Philosophy at Oriel College and a Junior Research Fellowship at Pembroke College, University of Oxford. She completed a D.Phil at the University of Oxford in Science and Religion (2021). Her thesis examined the theoretical support for a B-theory of time provided by special and general relativity, and re-interpreted Paul Tillich's doctrine of salvation in light of this metaphysical temporal model. She is the author of God, Salvation, and the Problem of Space... (@TheDissenterYT) |
 2024-Apr-18 • 23 minutesS3 Ep 7 - Sophie Ritson on 'Large Scale Research Collaborations in Physics' Today's episode features one of our favourite philosophers of physics, Dr Sophie Ritson. Sophie's research focuses on the way contemporary physicists – of both the experimental and theoretical kind – work together to develop reliable knowledge and find creative ways to expand our fundamental understanding of the universe.Sophie is unafraid to dig in where others fear to tread. She began her career examining the string theory controversy and, more recently, has studied first-hand the high stakes e... (@TheHPSPodcast) |
 2024-Apr-18 • 54 minutesThe "Reconciliation" Generation: Indigenous Youth and the Future for Indigenous People Indigenous activist Riley Yesno addresses the hopes, disappointments, accomplishments and misuses of ‘reconciliation’ in post-TRC Canada. The Anishnaabe scholar says Indigenous youth who came of age at this time are "meant to be responsible for seeing it through to its next stage." (@NahlahAyed) |
 2024-Apr-18 • 57 minutesMladen Dolar Part 2 - The Ljubljana School This week, the second half of our conversation with Mladen Dolar. We talk about the early days of the Ljubljana school, the structuralist revolution, the choice to read Hegel through Lacan, and the Frankfurt school. Mladen was there for it all. | Thank you to all our Patrons! | Up next we have our interview with Slavoj Žižek from our time with him in New York. | | Listen to the first interview we had with Mladen here! (@zizekand) |
 2024-Apr-18 • 54 minutesWhat’s fueling the tension between the courts and the media? There has been an odd confluence of events over the past couple weeks that has managed to intensify the sense of a conflict between two of our most important democratic institutions: the law and the media. (@RadioNational) |
 2024-Apr-17 • 14 minutesImmanuel Kant, Prolegomena - The Mathematical Antinomies - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Third Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How is metaphysics in general possible? Specifically this bears upon the two "mathematical" antinomies Kant examines in the section on the Cosmological Ideas. These are: First Antinomy. Thesis: The world has a temporal and spatial beginning or limit. Antithesis: The world does not have... (@philosopher70) |
 2024-Apr-17 • 61 minutesCultural evolution (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard) Minds Almost Meeting: Season 8, Episode 9. | View the transcript for this episode here: https://mindsalmostmeetin... | Imagine two smart curious friendly and basically truth-seeking people, but from very different intellectual traditions. Traditions with different tools, priorities, and ground rules. What would they discuss? Would they talk past each other? Make any progress? Would anyone want to hear them? Economist Robin Hanson and philosopher Agnes Callard decided to find out. | Visit the ... (@AgnesCallard • @robinhanson) |
 2024-Apr-17 • 16 minutesEmbracing solidarity in our secular age | Interview with Rowan Williams Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams discusses his professional and theological journey and reflects on what he's learned along the way, from climate activism to inter-faith leadership. (@IAI_TV) |
 2024-Apr-17 • 75 minutesPeter Thiel on Political Theology Unveiling the dangers of just trying to muddle through (@tylercowen) |
 2024-Apr-17 • 66 minutesWhy Bigfoot Matters Paul and Stephen chinwag with actor Jesse Eisenberg (@TreefortMedia) |
 2024-Apr-17 • 89 minutesEpisode 167: The Hand of Ithell, with Amy Hale Independent scholar Amy Hale joins Phil and JF to discuss the life and work of esoteric artist Ithell Colquhoun. (@weirdstudies • @JF_Martel) |
 2024-Apr-17 • 59 minutesPlato's Hipparchus Join us for a deep dive into the world of Plato as we explore Plato's Hipparchus. The guys unpack this lesser-known dialogue, delving into its themes of justice, leadership, and the ideal state. Discover how Plato's insights from over two millennia... (@thenewthinkery • @alexpriou • @GregMcBrayer3 • @Tempest1610) |
| 2024-Apr-17 • 54 minutes The history of bombing civilians — and why it’s still a military tactic The bombing of civilians has been called one of the "great scandals" of modern warfare. So why, despite nearly a century of drafting laws and signing conventions protecting the sanctity of human life, does bombing civilians remain a widespread military tactic? (@NahlahAyed) |
 2024-Apr-17 • 27 minutesEastern Traditions: What is World? What is Reality? How do Buddhism, Chinese traditions, Hinduism and Shintoism addresscausality, consciousness, energies, God, ultimate reality? What is non-dualism? How is the world interconnected? How are metaphysics andmorality related? Featuring interviews with V... (@CloserToTruth • @RobertLawrKuhn) |
 2024-Apr-17 • 75 minutes87 | The Politics of Left-Wing Climate Realism w/ Dr. Ajay Singh Chaudhary In this episode, we are joined by Ajay Chaudhary to discuss his book The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World and the political, economic, and affective sites of exhaustion reproduced through climate degradation. We examine the expanding colonial relations of what Chaudhary calls the “extractive circuit” between the both the Global South and Global North as well as widening segments of the working classes in the Global North. We dispel fantasies of both the hope that climate change will autom... (@leftofphil • @whitherutopia • @oglynwil • @classreductress) |
 2024-Apr-17 • 22 minutesEpisode 212: Free Will and Determinism Part 4 Free Will and Determinism Part 4 (@PhilosophyWtf) |
| 2024-Apr-17 • 75 minutes #333 - The Genius of Ibn Sina and Biruni: A Dialogue with S. Frederick Starr In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with S. Frederick Starr about the lives and work of Ibn Sina and Biruni. They discuss who were Ibn Sina and Biruni, their time and context, and the correspondence between Ibn Sina and Biruni. They discuss their interactions in the Muslim world, Ibn Sina as vizier, the canon of Ibn Sina and the canon of Biruni. They also discuss work post-canon, how their works were preserved, legacy of both thinkers, and many more topics.S. Frederick Starr is the founding chair... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Apr-16 • 18 minutes Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Cosmological Ideas And Antinomies - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Third Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How is metaphysics in general possible? Specifically this bears upon his discussion of the cosmological ideas, which Kant frames in terms of antinomies of pure reason. Two of these are "mathematical" and concern limits of space and time, and simplicity or composition of things. Two of ... (@philosopher70) |
 2024-Apr-16 • 85 minutesEpisode 282: Fearful Symmetry (Borges' "Death and the Compass") A Rabbi is found dead in a hotel room, stabbed in the chest. The room is filled with Kabbalah texts and a single page in an typewriter that reads “The first letter of the name has been written.” The celebrated detective and... (@verybadwizards • @peez • @tamler) |
 2024-Apr-16 • 57 minutesEpisode 223 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 29 - Are Epicureans Undergoing The Exertions Of Life For Nothing More Than A Drop Of Honey? Welcome to Episode 223 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the most complete presentation of Epicurean philosophy left to us from the ancient world. Each week we walk you through the Epicurean texts, and we discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. If you find the Epicurean worldview attractive, we invite you to join us in the study of Epicurus at EpicureanFriends.com, where you will find a discussion thread for each of o... (@NewEpicurean) |
| 2024-Apr-16 • 54 minutes Humboldt's Ghost, Pt 2: The meaning of education IDEAS continues to explore Wilhelm von Humboldt’s public education system with guests, including acclaimed author Gabor Maté, who is a former English teacher. Is this 200-year-old system equipped to meet the challenging demands of the 21st century? And does it still reflect Humboldt’s ideals, especially at the university level? *This is part two of a two-part series. (@NahlahAyed) |
 2024-Apr-16 • 68 minutesEp. 81 Religious Experience, Part 1 In the book of Exodus, God appears to the biblical patriarch Moses in the form of a burning bush, and tells him he is to lead the Isrealites, enslaved by the Egyptians, to freedom. In the Bhagavad Gita, the source of all things, lord Krisha, appears to prince Arjuna as his charioteer and helps him understand his identity and potential on the eve of a major battle. These appearances by gods, however, are not reserved just for the spiritual heroes of old. Millions of people around the world report having simi... (@opendoorphil • @d_parsonage) |
 2024-Apr-15 • 106 minutesIs Veganic the Future of Farming? "We grow plants using plants" - Jimmy Videle - Sentientism Ep:192 Jimmy Videle is a farmer, naturalist & researcher. He is author of The Veganic Grower’s Handbook and co-founder of NAVCS-Certified Veganic. His writing has appeared in many publications including CounterPunch, Countercurrents & LA Progressive. | In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “who matters?” | Sentientism is "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is ... (@sentientism • @JamieWoodhouse) |
 2024-Apr-15 • 52 minutes#363 — Knowledge Work Sam Harris speaks with Cal Newport about our use of information technology and the cult of productivity. They discuss the state of social media, the "academic-in-exile effect," free speech and moderation, the effect of the pandemic on knowledge work,... (@) |
| 2024-Apr-15 • 113 minutes #928 Charles Roseman: The Evolution of Complex Traits, Hereditarianism, and Understanding Sex Dr. Charles Roseman is an Associate Professor of evolution, ecology and behavior at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He studies the evolution of complex traits. | | In this episode, we first talk about complex traits and how we study their evolution, and we talk about adaptations, by-products, phenotypic plasticity, and genetic drift. We discuss the limitations of adaptationism. We talk about the example of the evolution of the cranium in hominins, and hybridization in human evolution. We t... (@TheDissenterYT) |
 2024-Apr-15 • 65 minutes203 - Vijay Prashad: Colonialism, Israel-Palestine, Marxism, and European Anti-Semitism Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 | | Vijay Prashad is a historian and journalist. He obtained his PhD in history at the University of Chicago and was most recently the George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Vijay is a Marxist, and much of his work and writing has been devoted to critiques of capitalism and colonialism, and this notably includes research on Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East. In this episode, Robinson and Vijay discuss the Isra... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2024-Apr-15 • 46 minutes Ep. 339: Brian Ellis on the Metaphysics of Science (Part Two) Continuing on The Philosophy of Nature: A Guide to the New Essentialism (2002) with guest Chris Heath. We get further into the text about metaphysical realism, criteria for a natural kind, properties vs. predicates, and much more. Get more at . Visit ... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
 2024-Apr-15 • 68 minutes272 | Leslie Valiant on Learning and Educability in Computers and People I talk with computer scientist Leslie Valiant about learning and educability in computers and people. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2024-Apr-15 • 23 minutes Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - The Psychological Ideas - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Third Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How is metaphysics in general possible? Specifically this bears upon what Kant terms the "psychological idea" or "ideas" of pure reason, which have to do primarily with the consciousness or soul of a human being, and the idea that it is a substance that has permanency. This is an idea of... (@philosopher70) |
 2024-Apr-15 • 48 minutesEpisode #199 ... A conservative communist's take on global capitalism and desire. (Zizek, Marx, Lacan) Today we talk about the distinction between left and right. Lacan's thoughts on desire. How Capitalism captures desire and identity. I would prefer not to. Moderately conservative communism. Hope you enjoy it! :) | | Sponsors: | Exclusive NordVPN Deal: https://nordvpn.com/philothis Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! | Better Help: https://www.BetterHelp.com/PHILTHIS | | Get more: | Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ | Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis | | ... (@iamstephenwest) |
| 2024-Apr-15 • 97 minutes #332 - Nostalgia: A Dialogue with Clay Routledge In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Clay Routledge about nostalgia. They define nostalgia, nostalgia being forward thinking, nostalgia with positive and negative memories, and the downsides of nostalgia in pop culture. They discuss nostalgia with self-concept, self-continuity, and self-esteem, nostaglia for understanding existential anxiety and death, best ways to use nostalgia, and many more topics. Clay Routledge is an existential psychologist, writer, and consultant. He is Vice President ... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Apr-15 • 54 minutes Humboldt's Ghost, Pt 1: Origins of our 200 year-old public education system Two hundred years ago, Wilhelm von Humboldt created the public education system as we know it today. At the heart of his philosophy of education was the concept of Bildung — reaching one's inner potential. Yet over the years, as his public education system was adopted, Bildung may well have been the critical piece left out. *This is part one of a two-part series. (@NahlahAyed) |
 2024-Apr-15 • 7 minutesThe Free Will Show Book Trailer Cohosts Taylor Cyr and Matt Flummer describe their new book How Free Are We? Conversations from the Free Will Show.Preorder the book from Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/... available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/How-Free-Are-We-F... https://twitter.com/thefreewillshowInsta... https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillsho... https://www.facebook.com/The-Free-Will-S... (@thefreewillshow • @taylorwcyr • @MatthewFlummer) |
 2024-Apr-14 • 68 minutesS3 E16: Your Mind on Inequality & Social Change with Dr. Riana Brown Are all inequalities perceived the same? Dr. Riana Brown joins us to discuss how different inequalities — health, economic, and belonging — differentially motivate support for collective action and social change. Dr. Brown also shares research on when and why some people might opt to tackle the root causes of inequality, such as advocating for policy changes, versus addressing its immediate consequences, like volunteering at a soup kitchen. Beth and Ava reflect on their personal experiences of participating... (@bethfisher_1 • @avamadesousa) |
 2024-Apr-14 • 11 minutes587: Shakespeare's Outsiders More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/sha... 400 years after his death, Shakespeare is still widely regarded as the greatest dramatist of all time. His many plays tackle questions about power, influence, identity, and moral and social status. His characters—be they villains or heroes—are often disdained because of their race, religion, class, disability, or gender. So what do Shakespeare’s plays reveal about identity and status in his time? How might they shed light on who we include and who we exclu... (@philtalkradio) |
 2024-Apr-14 • 30 minutes081 - The Fermi Paradox - Are We Alone in the Universe? Can Rationality Ever be Alone? It is estimated that over 2 billion stars in our own Milky Way galaxy have planets orbiting them that could sustain life. Are we on planet Earth a lottery winner, a one in 2 billion chance for establishing life and intelligent beings? The odds suggest life exists elsewhere. However, although it took billions of years to life on Earth to evolve to where we are today, there are stars are much older that our own sun. Several billion years older in fact. Why no evidence of extraterrestrial life? No radio... (@CunningofGeist) |
 2024-Apr-14 • 42 minutesEpisode 149: Lainie Ross and Christos Lazaridis talk about defining death Do you have the right to choose the criterion doctors will use to determine whether you have died? (@ElucidationsPod) |
 2024-Apr-14 • 73 minutes“Police and the Ethics of Lying” Host Jack Russell Weinstein visits with Luke William Hunt. Hunt is a former FBI agent, and currently an associate professor at University of Alabama, Department of Philosophy. His most recent book is "Police Deception and Dishonesty – The Logic of Lying." (@whyradioshow) |
 2024-Apr-14 • 59 minutesOperation: Operations! Has there ever been a good Operation? Based on the various Operations and Projects we look at in this episode, any time you see something gets called an Operation, it's a work of pure malice that produces nothing but hardship and heartache. Even Operation Dumbo Drop. ESPECIALLY Operation Dumbo Drop. (@PodGuideCon • @monkeyfluids) |
 2024-Apr-14 • 65 minutesPeter Singer on Animal Liberation Now Peter Singer delves into difficult ethical | questions regarding animal rights, the morality of factory farming, and | difficult human-related ethical dilemmas. | Singer discusses his views as a | consequentialist, examining the impact of our choices on animal suffering, the | ethical considerations around organ donation from anencephalic children, and | the broader implications of such decisions. | What are the moral implications of eating | meat from factory farms versus ethically raised animals, and cann... (@JasonWerbeloff) |
 2024-Apr-14 • 22 minutesHoP 443 - Marketplace of Letters - Iberian Humanism Fray Luis de Leon, Antonio Nebrija, Beatriz Galindo and other scholars bring the Renaissance to Spain. (@HistPhilosophy) |
 2024-Apr-13 • 87 minutesSeminar 11 Ryan and Todd unpack Jacques Lacan's most well-known seminar--Seminar XI: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis. In doing so, they focus on Lacan's own exclusion as a starting point and then delve into two concepts that Lacan does not list among the fundamental ones--subjectivity and the objet a. (@UVMcas) |
| 2024-Apr-13 • 66 minutes PEL Presents PvI#74: A Psychedelic Embrace with David Peña-Guzmán (Overthink) David is co-host of the excellent, popular among the young people today, and so we have him monologue to children as an anti (?) drug speaker. How can drugs change us, our sense of self, and the ways we see the world? Can some drugs be considered... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
 2024-Apr-13 • 58 minutesEdward Said's "The Question of Palestine" (Part 3 of 3) In this episode, I conclude Edward Said's "The Question of Palestine" by covering chapters 3 and 4. Please consider donating to one of the following organizations: Palestinian Children's Relief Fund: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gene... (@DavidGuignion) |
 2024-Apr-12 • 44 minutesEpisode 67: Poetry, Art, and Truth with Carl Phillips In this episode, I am joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Phillips to discuss poetry, classic texts, art, and truth. I hope you enjoy our conversation! (@eudaimoniapod • @jennfrey) |
| 2024-Apr-12 • 17 minutes Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - The System Of The Categories - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Second Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How Is Pure Natural Science Possible? Specifically this bears upon his "Appendix to pure natural science. On the system of the categories." Kant contrasts his own systematic deduction of the table of the categories of the understanding against the unsystematic "rhapsody" of Aristotle'... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Apr-12 • 71 minutes #927 Paul Thagard - Falsehoods Fly: Why Misinformation Spreads and How to Stop It Dr. Paul Thagard is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Cognitive Science Society, and the Association for Psychological Science. The Canada Council awarded him a Molson Prize (2007) and a Killam Prize (2013). He is a philosopher, cognitive scientist, and author of many interdisciplinary books, the latest one being Falsehoods Fly: Why | Misinformation Spreads and How to Stop It. | | In this episode, we focus on False... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Apr-12 • 83 minutes #331 - Making Sense of Our Delusions: A Dialogue with Lisa Bortolotti In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Lisa Bortolotti about delusions. They talk about why we should think about delusions, delusions as emotional and rational beliefs, defining delusions, clinical and non-clinical delusions, and why we believe delusions. They talk about when delusions cause harm, can people change their delusional beliefs, and many more topics. Lisa Bortolotti is a philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham. She is Editor in Chief of Philosophical... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Apr-12 • 23 minutes Bonus-wag: The Ghost in the Theatre 🎭👻👯♂️ The origin story of Paul and Justin Theroux’s friendship, formed 30 years ago while messing around backstage and onstage in a depressing Chekhov play. Justin’s memory is razor sharp and deep, and he shares the moment Paul first experienced fame after his breakout appearance as Pig Vomit in Howard Stern’s Private Parts. Also, theaters are spooky places and Justin reminds Paul of the eerie ghost (with a woman’s enormous bloody head!) that may or may not have found a home in that Chekhov theater. Pau... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2024-Apr-12 • 54 minutes The 2000 CBC Massey Lectures: The Rights Revolution by Michael Ignatieff In his 2000 Massey Lectures on The Rights Revolution, Michael Ignatieff confronted the conflicted rise of human rights language in Canadian and global politics. "Has the rights revolution brought us closer together as a nation, or driven us further apart?" he asks in his final Massey lecture. We revisit this talk, as part of our series marking the 60th anniversary of Massey College. (@NahlahAyed) |
 2024-Apr-12 • 56 minutesCompanion Animals The HBS hosts celebrate the paw-some impact of furry companions on our lives.Companion species, like dogs and cats, have been a part of human history for thousands of years. The first domesticated dog was over thirty thousand years ago, and the first cat over ten thousand years ago. So, much of what we call human civilization has always been a multispecies endeavor. In recent years, however, cats and dogs have seemed to have taken on increased significance, both in terms of what they offer us and in our ded... (@hotelbarpodcast • @DrLeighMJohnson • @c_fpeterson • @rickleephilos) |
| 2024-Apr-11 • 211 minutes #184 – Zvi Mowshowitz on sleeping on sleeper agents, and the biggest AI updates since ChatGPT Many of you will have heard of Zvi Mowshowitz as a superhuman information-absorbing-and-processing machine — which he definitely is. As the author of the Substack Don’t Worry About the Vase, Zvi has spent as much time as literally anyone in the world over the last two years tracking in detail how the explosion of AI has been playing out — and he has strong opinions about almost every aspect of it. Links to learn more, summary, and full transcript.In today’s episode, host Rob Wiblin asks Zvi for his takes on... (@80000Hours) |
| 2024-Apr-11 • 45 minutes #926 Michael Frank: Child Development and Language Acquisition Dr. Michael Frank is David and Lucile Packard Professor of Human Biology and Director of the Symbolic Systems Program at Stanford University. He studies children's language learning and how it interacts with their developing understanding of the social world. He uses behavioral experiments, computational tools, and novel measurement methods like large-scale web-based studies, eye-tracking, and head-mounted cameras. He is the founder of the ManyBabies Consortium, a collaborative replication network for infan... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Apr-11 • 64 minutes 3 Body Problem (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson, with Arnold Brooks) Minds Almost Meeting: Season 8, Episode 8. | View the transcript for this episode here: https://mindsalmostmeeting... | Imagine two smart curious friendly and basically truth-seeking people, but from very different intellectual traditions. Traditions with different tools, priorities, and ground rules. What would they discuss? Would they talk past each other? Make any progress? Would anyone want to hear them? Economist Robin Hanson and philosopher Agnes Callard decided to find out. | Visit the ... (@AgnesCallard • @robinhanson) |
| 2024-Apr-11 • 95 minutes Half-Earth Socialism - Troy Vettese - Sentientism Ep:191 Troy Vettese is an environmental historian who specializes in environmental economics, animal studies, and energy history. In 2019 he completed his doctorate in history at New York University. From 2019 to 2021, he worked at Harvard University as a William Lyon Mackenzie King postdoctoral research fellow. He has collaborated with Drew Pendergrass, an environmental engineer, on numerous projects including their book Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics... (@sentientism • @JamieWoodhouse) |
 2024-Apr-11 • 29 minutesCan Information Escape a Black Hole? Nothing escapes a black hole … or does it? In the 1970s, the physicist Stephen Hawking described a subtle process by which black holes can “evaporate,” with some particles evading gravitational oblivion. That phenomenon, now dubbed Hawking radiation, seems at odds with general relativity, and it raises an even weirder question: If particles can escape, do they preserve any information about the matter that was obliterated? | Leonard Susskind, a physicist at Stanford University, found himself at odds with Ha... (@QuantaMagazine • @stevenstrogatz) |
| 2024-Apr-11 • 28 minutes The predicament of existence Pain is part of life, and none of us can escape it. And yet most of us feel that the deal is worth it, that the pleasure of life outweighs the suffering. Anti-natalist philosophy takes a different view. (@DavidPZone) |
| 2024-Apr-11 • 54 minutes Massey at 60: Michael Ignatieff on how human rights language has shaped Canadian politics Twenty-four years ago, Massey lecturer Michael Ignatieff delivered five talks that explored the powerful rise of the language of 'rights' in Canada and other industrialized nations. Michael Ignatieff speaks with former IDEAS host Paul Kennedy to reflect on his talks — and how the rights revolution continues to shape politics today, often in unexpected ways. *This episode is part of an ongoing series of episodes marking the 60th anniversary of Massey College, a partner in the Massey Lectures. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Apr-11 • 27 minutes S3 Ep 6 - Kirsten Walsh on 'Rethinking Isaac Newton through his Archive' Today's guest is Dr Kirsten Walsh, a philosophy lecturer at the University of Exeter.Kirsten’s research primarily focuses on Isaac Newton and his methodology, but she is careful to consider philosophical issues alongside a sensitivity and consideration for historical contexts.In today’s episode Kirsten gives us a sense of how our historical understanding of Newton has changed over time, and the role various archival practices have played in what knowledge is developed. Kirsten’s lively discussion gives... (@TheHPSPodcast) |
| 2024-Apr-11 • 53 minutes What would the moral obligation to avoid civilian deaths look like in Gaza? Does the failure on the part of Israel to enable the provision of humanitarian aid or to do everything in its power to prevent civilian casualties suggest “a blameworthy indifference to Palestinian lives”? (@RadioNational) |
 2024-Apr-10 • 80 minutesEpisode 44 - World-Changing Organisms with Stephen Porder Stephen Porder is the Associate Provost for Sustainability and Acacia Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology and Environment and Society at Brown University in the United States. His research publications explore tropical rainfores... (@lifeplatoscave • @MarioVeen) |
 2024-Apr-10 • 21 minutesDavid Edmonds on the Life and Philosophy of Derek Parfit David Edmonds discusses the life and work of Derek Parfit who died in 2017 in this episode of the Bio Bites strand of Philosophy. David is the author of a recent biography of Parfit. (@philosophybites • @DavidEdmonds100) |
| 2024-Apr-10 • 31 minutes Yascha Mounk on the Identity Trap Yascha Mounk discusses some of the ways in which focussing on gender, racial, and sexual identities can distort political argument and be counterproductive for oppressed minorities. (@philosophybites • @DavidEdmonds100) |
 2024-Apr-10 • 47 minutesWhat is Rhetoric? Gwendolyn Dolske and Rudy Salo welcome Professor Robin Reames to discuss her book The Ancient Art of Thinking For Yourself. What is rhetoric? How can understanding rhetoric help us in our everyday lives? What is the origin of rhetoric?... (@InTheDetailsPod • @GDolske • @SaloRudy) |
| 2024-Apr-10 • 16 minutes Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Experience And Pure Ideas Of Reason - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Third Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How is metaphysics in general possible? Specifically this bears upon his discussion about how the ideas of reason involve and aim at a completeness to experience that can never be found in experience itself. He discusses what use these ideas of reason are, and also clarifies the term "n... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Apr-10 • 46 minutes Bonus | 2024 Massey lecturer Ian Williams on courageous conversations and taking risks We've dropped this bonus podcast into the feed to announce that Canadian writer Ian Williams is this year’s Massey lecturer. He spoke with Q host Tom Power to tell us why he’s chosen the topic of 'conversations' for his lecture series, how listening can be a courageous act, and why he believes it’s important to have difficult conversations, even at the risk of offending people. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Apr-10 • 68 minutes Justin Theroux Hits Peak Chinwag 🧘🏻♂️🧘🏻♂️🧘🏻♂️ Paul and Stephen are joined by Paul’s old friend, perpetually youthful actor and screenwriter Justin Theroux. Learn all you ever wanted to know about the Oakwoods temporary housing in LA from former inhabitants Paul and Justin. Then rattlesnakes in Runyon Canyon, coyotes in Central Park, and how the Lindbergh kidnapping made pitbulls popular and led to Petey the dog on The Little Rascals. Stephen and Justin reveal a few delicacies they’ve enjoyed overseas, like coffee made from civet cat ... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2024-Apr-10 • 71 minutes Laurence Berns on Francis Bacon with Martin Yaffe and Nathan Dinneen Join Alex and Greg for an enlightening discussion on Francis Bacon with esteemed guests Martin Yaffe and Nathan Dinneen, editors of . Delve into Bacon's philosophical contributions and their impact on modern thought. Explore his views on knowledge,... (@thenewthinkery • @alexpriou • @GregMcBrayer3 • @Tempest1610) |
| 2024-Apr-10 • 54 minutes How the outdoors has inspired women to become trailblazers Harvard historian Tiya Miles believes the more girls and women are outdoors, the more fulfilling their lives will be. In her book, Wild Girls, Miles shows how girls who found self-understanding in the natural world became women who changed America. (@NahlahAyed) |
 2024-Apr-10 • 62 minutesEric Schwitzgebel, "The Weirdness of the World" (Princeton UP, 2024) An interview with Eric Schwitzgebel (@NewBooksPhil) |
| 2024-Apr-10 • 72 minutes Nick Bostrom on Superintelligence and the Future of AI Philosopher Nick Bostrom discusses his new book, Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World, where he asks: In the face of incredible technological advances, what is the point of human existence? Will AI make our life and labor obsolete? In a "s... (@CloserToTruth • @RobertLawrKuhn) |
| 2024-Apr-10 • 54 minutes #330 - Deceiving Ourselves: A Dialogue with Ajit Varki In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Ajit Varki about the evolutionary origins of denial and self-deception. They discuss the evolutionary perspective of human origins, self-awareness in humans, theory of mind, and how false beliefs and denial evolved. They also discuss lying, self-deception, religion, positive uses of deception, climate change, future of Mind Over Reality theory, and many more topics. Ajit Varki received training in physiology, medicine, biology, and biochemistry at the Chri... (@xavierbonilla87) |
 2024-Apr-09 • 44 minutes#22 - Cognitive Enhancement and the Threat of Inequality What is the ethical status of cognitive enhancers? | Today's article is accessible here: | | Veit, W. (2018). Cognitive Enhancement and the Threat of Inequality. Journal of Cognitive Enhancement, 2, 404–410. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41465-018-0108-... [Download] | | | PODCAST INFO: | Podcast website: https://walterveit.com/podcast/ | Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/24OwJWeaWy... | Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wa... | RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/ed331d30/podcast/rss | YouTub... (@wrwveit) |
| 2024-Apr-09 • 15 minutes Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Syllogisms And Pure Ideas Of Reason - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Third Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How is metaphysics in general possible? Specifically this bears upon Kant's discussion of the ideas or pure concept of reason, derived from his consideration of three main types of syllogisms (Verstandschlüsse): categorical, hypothetical, and disjunctive. These correspond to the psycholo... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Apr-09 • 37 minutes On humans and animals | Peter Singer, Mary Midgley Two of the most influential thinkers of our time, Peter Singer, Australian philosopher, Princeton professor and author of Animal Liberation, and the late Mary Midgley, described by the Guardian as "UK's foremost scourge of scientific pretention" go head to head on the future of bio-ethics. Roger Bolton hosts. (@IAI_TV) |
| 2024-Apr-09 • 54 minutes #362 — Six Months of War Sam Harris and Josh Szeps (episode co-host) speak with Douglas Murray about the ongoing war in Gaza. They discuss public opinion about the war, the prospect of a widening conflict with Hezbollah and Iran, whether the Iron Dome was a mistake, the... (@) |
| 2024-Apr-09 • 54 minutes Authoritarian study makes a comeback to understand lure of far-right movements A groundbreaking study conducted in the wake of the Second World War by a group of scholars rocked the academic world when it was published in 1950 — but fell out of favour. Now a new generation of scholars is reviving the lessons of The Authoritarian Personality to understand the politics of our time. *This episode originally aired on April 4, 2022. (@NahlahAyed) |
 2024-Apr-09 • 57 minutesAI Safety with Shazeda Ahmed Welcome your robot overlords! In episode 101 of Overthink, Ellie and David speak with Dr. Shazeda Ahmed, specialist in AI Safety, to dive into the philosophy guiding artificial intelligence. With the rise of LLMs like ChatGPT, the lofty utilitarian principles of Effective Altruism have taken the tech-world spotlight by storm. Many who work on AI safety and ethics worry about the dangers of AI, from how automation might put entire categories of workers out of a job to how future forms of AI might pose a cata... (@overthink_pod • @ellieanderphd • @DrPenaGuzman1) |
 2024-Apr-08 • 95 minutesThe Pod Generation and Naturalness Dear listeners, there are few joys as wonderful as providing y'all with unknown little gems filled with quirky body horror and a deep commitment to the bit. This movie made my transhumanist orifices quiver with joy. Enjoy our discussion of the... (@0gPhilosophy) |
| 2024-Apr-08 • 112 minutes #925 Amanda Podany: The History and Legacy of Mesopotamia Dr. Amanda Podany is Professor Emeritus of History at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She specializes in the study of Syria and Mesopotamia in the Middle and Late Bronze Age. She is the author of books like The Land of Hana: Kings, Chronology, and Scribal Tradition, The Ancient Near Eastern World, Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East, The Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction, and the most recent one, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New Histor... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Apr-08 • 15 minutes Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - The Peculiarity Of Metaphysics - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Third Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How is metaphysics in general possible? Specifically this bears upon what is distinctive, specific, or peculiar to metaphysics by contrast to pure mathematics and pure natural science. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a di... (@philosopher70) |
 2024-Apr-08 • 105 minutesThe Palestine Collection - The Collapse of Zionism and Forgiveness Jay discusses Palestine with historian and author Ilan Pappe. Together they ponder if we are seeing the end of Zionism and what might that collapse might look like. | | Jay then reads an essay on the topic of forgiveness and redemption and how the psychology of cognitive dissonance prevents us from having evidence change our mind. (@DilemmaPodcast • @jay_shapiro • @coldxman) |
| 2024-Apr-08 • 194 minutes AMA | April 2024 Ask Me Anything episode for April 2024. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2024-Apr-08 • 54 minutes The Value of Group Therapy Is group therapy underused in treating mental health? Psychiatrist Molyn Leszcz calls it an “incredibly powerful” approach, where patients heal each other and themselves through support and, sometimes, challenge. Scholar Jess Cotton agrees, tracing the radical roots of an idea that she thinks could hold a greater place today. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Apr-08 • 53 minutes Ep. 339: Brian Ellis on the Metaphysics of Science (Part One) On The Philosophy of Nature: A Guide to the New Essentialism (2002). What kind of metaphysics underlies chemistry and physics? Ellis argues that items such as chemical elements and physical particles have essences, and that these essential properties... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2024-Apr-08 • 74 minutes #329 - Fighting for Women's Rights Around the World: A Dialogue with Sima Samar In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Sima Samar about her life and work for women’s rights. They discuss her reasoning for writing her memoirs, history of modern Afghanistan, impact of Islam, and the rule of the Taliban. They talk about her work in medicine and human rights advocacy, women’s rights in Afghanistan, becoming Vice President and Minister of Women’s Affairs of Afghanistan. They also discuss her work on the human rights commission, being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009,... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Apr-08 • 45 minutes Episode 77: Ambivalence with Justin Coates In this episode we talk with Justin Coates about the nature of ambivalence and arguments for and against it.Justin's website: https://djustincoates.com/index.htmlJust... book, In Praise of Ambivalence: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/... https://twitter.com/thefreewillshowInsta... https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillsho... https://www.facebook.com/The-Free-Will-S... (@thefreewillshow • @taylorwcyr • @MatthewFlummer) |
| 2024-Apr-08 • 61 minutes Episode 222 - Revisiting the Relationship Between Happiness and Pleasure Welcome to Episode 222 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the most complete presentation of Epicurean philosophy left to us from the ancient world. Each week we walk you through the Epicurean texts, and we discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. If you find the Epicurean worldview attractive, we invite you to join us in the study of Epicurus at EpicureanFriends.com, where you will find a discussion thread for each of o... (@NewEpicurean) |
| 2024-Apr-07 • 52 minutes We Should Want Immortality | John Martin Fischer John Martin Fischer argues that life | constantly offers new experiences and perspectives that prevent it from | becoming monotonous. | He delves into the idea of living a | significantly extended life without aging and the implications it has on | personal identity and society at large. Fischer distinguishes between true | immortality and radical life extension, favoring the latter for its exit | strategy options. | The conversation covers the value of life | experiences, the philosophical questions around... (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2024-Apr-07 • 50 minutes 202 - Jeffrey Sachs: JFK, Conspiracy Theories, Israel-Palestine, and Ending the War in Gaza Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 | | Jeffrey Sachs is University Professor at Columbia University, where he serves as the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development. Before that, he taught at Harvard University for twenty years. Jeff is the author of numerous books, including three New York Times bestsellers. His latest is The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions (Columbia, 2020). In addition to his work as an economist on the cutting edge of sustainable development—includi... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
 2024-Apr-07 • 33 minutesEpisode 128, ‘Domestic Labour’ with Paulina Sliwa & Tom McClelland (Part II - Further Analysis and Discussion) Welcome to ‘Episode 128 (Part II of II)’, where we’ll be analysing the role and relevance of gendered affordance perception. (@ThePanpsycast • @_JackSymes • @MrMarleyTeach) |
 2024-Apr-07 • 36 minutesHPC 03. Karyn Lai on Classical Chinese Philosophy Co-host Karyn introduces herself to the listeners and talks about the challenges of tackling classical Chinese philosophical texts. (@HistPhilosophy • @ChikeJeffers) |
| 2024-Apr-07 • 9 minutes 538: Could Robots Be Persons? More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/cou... we approach the advent of autonomous robots, we must decide how we will determine culpability for their actions. Some propose creating a new legal category of “electronic personhood” for any sufficiently advanced robot that can learn and make decisions by itself. But do we really want to assign artificial intelligence legal—or moral—rights and responsibilities? Would it be ethical to produce and sell something with the status of a person in the first place... (@philtalkradio) |
| 2024-Apr-06 • 57 minutes Pretty Much Pop #171: The Traitors - A Multi-National Reality Game Show Phenom Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn, and Al discuss the American version, and to a lesser extent the British and Australian versions, of this reality game show that originated in 2021 in the Netherlands, based on the party game Mafia (aka Werewolf), plus... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2024-Apr-06 • 59 minutes Edward Said's "The Question of Palestine" (Part 2 of 3) In this episode, I cover chapters 1 and 2 of "The Question of Palestine." Please consider donating to one of the following organizations: Palestinian Children's Relief Fund: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gene... Nations Relief and Work... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2024-Apr-05 • 101 minutes #924 Stephanie Hare - Technology Is Not Neutral: A Short Guide to Technology Ethics Dr. Stephanie Hare is a researcher, broadcaster and author focused on technology, politics and history. Selected for the BBC Expert Women programme and the Foreign Policy Interrupted fellowship, she | contributes frequently to radio and television and has published in the | Financial Times, The Washington Post, the Guardian/Observer, the Harvard Business Review, and WIRED. Previously she worked at Accenture, Palantir, and Oxford Analytica and held the Alistair Horne Visiting Fellowship at St Antony’s Colleg... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Apr-05 • 14 minutes Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Phenomena And Noumena - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Second Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How Is Pure Natural Science Possible? Specifically this bears upon the distinction between phenomena and noumena, that is things of sense or appearances, and beings of the understanding. Kant argues that we cannot have any determinate knowledge of the noumena, but we also can know that... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Apr-05 • 56 minutes Enjoy Your Obscenity w/ Russ Sbriglia This week we're joined by Russ Sbriglia to discuss Zizek's upcoming events in the tristate area. Slavoj will be at Seaton Hall University in New Jersey on Monday April 8th! Zizek will also be in New York City, at NYU and the New School (sign up online for those events!) After technical updates we discuss Russ' recent essay, "Enjoy Your Trump". We talk politics of enjoyment, the upcoming election, and yes he's back again, Trump. To support the podcast and gain access to many more episodes, join our Patre... (@zizekand) |
| 2024-Apr-05 • 16 minutes Bonus-wag: Errol Morris and The Interrotron 👓🎥🐦 On this Bonus-Wag, Paul and Stephen ask Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris about his ground-breaking invention of the Interrotron camera and how it takes the viewer closer to a documentary subject. Also, what John le Carré says in Errol Morris’s film The Pigeon Tunnel that makes Stephen wonder if being a spy is similar to being an actor. And what separates a good actor from a bad one? All this and the Errol Morris STFU school of directing!? Enjoy this week’s Bonus-Wag! Paul Giamatti is a Go... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2024-Apr-05 • 28 minutes Mary Midgley, public philosophy and plumbing British thinker Mary Midgley (1919-2018) believed that philosophy should be a public undertaking, concerned with issues that have their genesis out in the world rather than within the academy. But what is the proper relationship between public and academic philosophy? And why are we talking about plumbing this week? (@DavidPZone) |
| 2024-Apr-05 • 54 minutes Montreal's hidden Confederate history Montreal was a hotbed of spies and conspirators during the U.S. Civil War. IDEAS host Nahlah Ayed and investigative journalist Julian Sher, author of The North Star: Canada and the Civil War Plots Against Lincoln, tour Montreal’s past and present, tracing the city’s hidden Confederate past. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Apr-05 • 61 minutes Psychoanalysis (with Benedetta Todaro) The HBS hosts take a break from the bar and lie down on the couch.Almost from the beginning of its theoretical elaboration and clinical practice, Psychoanalysis has had a profound impact on culture, particularly in the west. We all laugh at the idea that “sometimes a cigar is just a cigar!” And we speak freely of “Freudian slips.” And many are at least passingly familiar with the main concepts: Ego, Id, repression, sublimation, etc. Philosophy, in particular, has been in a fairly constant dialogue with Freu... (@hotelbarpodcast • @DrLeighMJohnson • @c_fpeterson • @rickleephilos) |
| 2024-Apr-05 • 23 minutes #83: How to be happy No, not like that. I'm not talking about how to achieve the ultimate happiness, eudaimonia, or enlightenment. I'm simply talking about how to enjoy your down-time without feeling like you're doing it wrong. If you've ever looked forward to a well-deserved day off and then settled down for some serious relaxation only to find yourself consumed by anxiety about whether you're enjoying yourself enough, this episode is for you.References:Diener, E., Sandvik, E., and Pavot, W. 2009: &apo... (@AcademicImp • @rebecca_roache) |
| 2024-Apr-05 • 85 minutes #21 - Eric Helms: Is Bodybuilding a Sport? Today I'm talking to Eric Helms, professional bodybuilder, exercise scientist at the Auckland University of Technology, influential science communicator, and co-host of the iron culture podcast. | | Kind, Adrian, and Eric R. Helms. "Is bodybuilding a sport?." Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 50.2 (2023): 281-299. | https://doi.org/10.1080/00948705.2023.22... | | https://academics.aut.ac.nz/eric.helms | https://www.youtube.com/c/ironculturepod... | | PODCAST INFO: | Podcast website: https://wa... (@wrwveit) |
| 2024-Apr-05 • 81 minutes 112. Red Dawn (w/ Nat Hansen) John Milius's 1984 film Red Dawn has a reputation as being a jingoistic conservative fever dream, but we talk with Nat Hansen, who argues that its political outlook is more complex and more interesting. Along the way, we also discuss the film's portrayal of masculinity, the toll of war, the film's many references, from The Battle of Algiers to Alexander Nevsky. | | Follow us on Twitter: @cowspod | Buy a t-shirt or mug: cowspod.threadless.com (@cowspod • @juskhoo) |
| 2024-Apr-05 • 60 minutes #328 - Listening to Prozac: A Dialogue with Peter Kramer In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Peter Kramer about Prozac. They talk about the 30th anniversary of Listening To Prozac and antidepressants, origins of antidepressants, classes of antidepressants, selfhood, criticisms of SSRIs and the serotonin hypothesis, risk of suicide with Prozac, future of SSRIs, and more more topics. Peter Kramer is a psychiatrist who practiced and taught psychiatry for over 40 years. He is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University. He ... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Apr-04 • 64 minutes S3: E15 Your Mind on Great Ape Social Cognition with Dr. Laura Lewis What do the social lives of chimps and bonobos reveal about human cognition? Join us as biological anthropologist & comparative psychologist Dr. Laura Lewis tells us about the social structures of our closest living relatives & shares her research on how chimps and bonobos remember friends and foes and manage their social attention. Beth and Ava discuss how to think about the similarities and differences between humans and other great apes. (@bethfisher_1 • @avamadesousa) |
| 2024-Apr-04 • 122 minutes #923 Nicholas Brown: How to Spot Bad Science Dr. Nicholas Brown is a Researcher at Linnaeus University, Sweden. He works on developing new research methods in psychology and on applying meta-scientific perspectives on psychology as a science. | | In this episode, we start by discussing conceptual and methodological issues with positive psychology and the study of well-being, and go through critiques of Lyubomirsky’s “happiness pie”, and happiness surveys. We also address methodological flaws with studies on the link between genetics and well-being, ... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Apr-04 • 54 minutes Living in legal limbo: How states create 'ghost citizens' What do ghost stories capture about the experience of being stateless? IDEAS host Nahlah Ayed speaks with lawyer and scholar Jamie Chai Yun Liew on how states create “ghost citizens” — and how the long aftermath of colonialism still shapes definitions of citizenship today. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Apr-04 • 29 minutes Throwback Thursday - Greg Radick on 'Counterfactual History of Science' This week the team at The HPS Podcast are taking a mid-semester break!To celebrate we are reposting one of our favourite episodes from Season 1 featuring Professor Greg Radick, a leading historian of biology at the University of Leeds.In the podcast Greg discusses the use of counterfactuals in history of science - the term we use for asking ‘What if?’ questions about history - and their potential to subvert our conventional thinking. In Greg’s research, a central counterfactual question is: “What might biol... (@TheHPSPodcast) |
| 2024-Apr-04 • 54 minutes Ramadan — the rediscovery of society It is important to remember that Thoreau’s motivation for withdrawing was neither escapism nor apolitical quietism. The fact that he departed on 4 July signals an invitation to discover a different way of living together. (@RadioNational) |
| 2024-Apr-03 • 63 minutes Corpses (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard) Minds Almost Meeting: Season 8, Episode 7. | View the transcript for this episode here: https://mindsalmostmeeting... | Imagine two smart curious friendly and basically truth-seeking people, but from very different intellectual traditions. Traditions with different tools, priorities, and ground rules. What would they discuss? Would they talk past each other? Make any progress? Would anyone want to hear them? Economist Robin Hanson and philosopher Agnes Callard decided to find out. | Visit the ... (@AgnesCallard • @robinhanson) |
| 2024-Apr-03 • 14 minutes Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Removing Hume's Doubt About Causality - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Second Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How Is Pure Natural Science Possible? Specifically this bears upon Kant's situating himself in relation to his predecessor David Hume, who argues that we have no experience of causality as such, and that we can and should have doubts about the relationship between what we think to be c... (@philosopher70) |
 2024-Apr-03Women's Land Australia - Chris Sitka Women's Land Australia - Chris Sitka describes the political conception, daily life and historical legacy of a women only communal land established 50 years ago during the heydays of the Women's Liberation Movement. (@radphilosophy) |
| 2024-Apr-03 • 112 minutes #327 - The Invention of Prehistory: A Dialogue with Stefanos Geroulanos In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Stefanos Geroulanos about the history of prehistory. They talk about why studying history is important and why it is not final, the emphasis on the nature of man, why Rousseau and Hobbes’ ideas still persist, human nature and equality, and the impact of Darwin. They also talk about the impact of Marx, Neanderthals, thin veneer, and the instincts, Freud’s contribution, Nazi party, how we continue to understand history, and many more topics.Stefanos Geroulan... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Apr-03 • 60 minutes Jonathan Haidt on Adjusting to Smartphones and Social Media Are we in for a decades-long dip in teen mental health? (@tylercowen) |
| 2024-Apr-03 • 62 minutes A Heartwarming Tale with Errol Morris 📽️📽️📽️ Paul and Stephen are excited to meet Academy Award-winning Director and avid book collector Errol Morris. Stephen’s funky blue lighting and Paul’s floatation tank-talk mark the start of this Chinwag and in just a few short turns, the conversation goes from the idea of the bodhisattva in Buddhism to the weirdness of Florida, in particular Vernon, FL (aka “Nub City”). In typical Waggy fashion, they’re on to a shared reverence for American novelist Harry Crews and a fascination with notorious serial k... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2024-Apr-03 • 73 minutes Episode 166: Make Believe: On the Power of Pretentiousness JF and Phil discuss pretentiousness as both an occupational hazard and a virtue of creative work. (@weirdstudies • @JF_Martel) |
| 2024-Apr-03 • 73 minutes Raúl Rodríguez on Strauss' View of Tocqueville and Nietzsche This week, Alex and Greg join a live panel hosted by Michigan State University to explore the perspective of Leo Strauss on two towering figures of philosophy and political thought: Friedrich Nietzsche and Alexis de Tocqueville. The guys are joined by... (@thenewthinkery • @alexpriou • @GregMcBrayer3 • @Tempest1610) |
| 2024-Apr-03 • 54 minutes Betrayal of Faith: The Story of Pastedechouan Pastedechouan was an Innu boy taken to France by Catholic clergymen in 1620. What happened to him 400 years ago may well be the template that would later become the residential school system. IDEAS retraces the story of Pastedechouan, revealing that history has an extremely long reach. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Apr-03 • 72 minutes Paul Thagard on AI, Animal Consciousness, and Human Intelligence How do animals and smart machines measure up to human intelligence? Can fish feel pain and do dogs get jealous? Paul Thagard—a philosopher and cognitive scientist—explores hotly debated issues about animal and artificial intelligence to conclude that... (@CloserToTruth • @RobertLawrKuhn) |
| 2024-Apr-03 • 26 minutes Episode 211: Freewill and Determinism Part 3 Are you really free to eat anything you like for breakfast? Even turkey? Maybe, How about wear any clothes you want? Even slippers outside? Could be. But what about having children and keeping them? Is there really an option not to procreate and not to keep a child you produce? Is evolutionary biology controlling us to maintain the human species above your immediate desires? Tune in to find out! (@PhilosophyWtf) |
| 2024-Apr-02 • 60 minutes Does energy really exist? | Priyamvada Natarajan, Avshalom Elitzur, and Bernard Carr on the enigma of energy Leading physicists Priyamvada Natarajan, Avshalom Elitzur, and Bernard Carr question the existence of 'energy' as a concept in physics and muse on the mysticism science can bring to. (@IAI_TV) |
| 2024-Apr-02 • 17 minutes Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Principles Of Possible Experience - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Second Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How Is Pure Natural Science Possible? Specifically this bears upon what Kant calls "principles of possible experience". Principles (Grundsatze) are rules that are not determined by other rules, and these correspond to pure concepts of the understanding. Taken as a totality, they compr... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Apr-02 • 10 minutes Utilitarianism | John Stuart Mill | Keyword In this episode, I explain John Stuart Mill's approach to "Utilitarianism" If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphiloso... Twitter: @DavidGuignion IG: @theo... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2024-Apr-02 • 54 minutes Ross Gay on the Necessity of Joy and Delight For award-winning poet and bestselling author Ross Gay, joy and delight aren’t frivolous or a privilege. He argues they’re absolutely essential to a meaningful life — especially in the face of grief, sadness and suffering. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Apr-02 • 59 minutes 86 | Right-Wing Political Thought w/ Dr. Matt McManus In this episode, we are joined by Matt McManus to discuss his research into the history and philosophy of right-wing politics in his book The Political Right and Equality. We discuss the nature of conservatism as an irrationalist reaction to modernist ideas about human egalitarianism, the rhetorical strategies of the right, and the historical conditions under which moderate conservatism turns over into extremist fascist reaction. We pay special attention to Edmund Burke’s aestheticization of politics and Jo... (@leftofphil • @whitherutopia • @oglynwil • @classreductress) |
| 2024-Apr-02 • 75 minutes Ep. 80 Philosophers on God with Guest Jack Symes What’s the most important question in philosophy? Our guest Jack Symes believes it to be the question of God’s existence, no matter where you fall on the belief spectrum. In this episode, Jack discusses with us his latest book, Philosophers on God: Talking about Existence which directly address this question. What is the origin of the universe? What are the most powerful arguments for and against the existence of God? What do thinkers outside of the Abrahamic faiths have to say about such questions? And wh... (@opendoorphil • @d_parsonage) |
 2024-Apr-01 • 113 minutesEp. 257 - The Philosophy of Science Fiction w/ Christopher Ruocchio (Author of Sun Eater) In episode 257 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Christopher Ruoccio, author of the Sun Eater series. Christopher is an encyclopedia of science fiction, fantasy, and Roman Empire information. He is the man. A really thoughtful guy and a brilliant writer. | | Check out more from Christopher Ruocchio here: https://www.youtube.com/@SunEaterBooks | | Grab the books here to support my channel: | Empire of Silence: https://amzn.to/3voU9gD | Howling Dark: https://amzn.to/4ag4WbS | Demon In White: ... (@trendsettercase) |
| 2024-Apr-01 • 134 minutes #922 Stephen Grossberg - Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain: How Each Brain Makes a Mind Dr. Stephen Grossberg is Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics & Statistics, Psychological & Brain Sciences, and Biomedical Engineering, Founding Chairman of the Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, and Founder and Director of the Center for Adaptive Systems at Boston University. He is the author of several books, the latest one being Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain: How Each Brain Makes a Mind. | | In this episode, we focus on Conscious Mind, Reso... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Apr-01 • 85 minutes #361 — Sam Bankman-Fried & Effective Altruism Sam Harris speaks with William MacAskill about the implosion of FTX and the effect that it has had on the Effective Altruism movement. They discuss the logic of “earning to give,” the mind of SBF, his philanthropy, the character of the EA... (@) |
| 2024-Apr-01 • 14 minutes Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Pure Concepts Of The Understanding - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Second Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How Is Pure Natural Science Possible? Specifically this bears upon his exposition of what he identifies as pure concepts of the understanding (Verstandsbegriffe), which, as he tells us, make possible for us universal, objectively valid judgements. These correspond to the logical table ... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Apr-01 • 43 minutes Ep. 338: Aristotle on Potential vs. Actual and the Unmoved Mover (Part Two) To conclude our discussion of Aristotle's Metaphysics, we finish discussing potency by talking about the potential to learn (the Meno problem), the metaphysical priority of the actual over the merely potential, and how the Unmoved Mover motivates all... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2024-Apr-01 • 82 minutes 271 | Claudia de Rham on Modifying General Relativity I talk with physicist Claudia de Rham about cosmologically interesting ways to modify Einstein's theory of general relativity. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2024-Apr-01 • 54 minutes What Good Is Philosophy? "What is good?" is at the heart of philosophy. Asking the question helps us move toward answers about inclusivity, equality, and who gets a voice at the table. Last year, The Munk School at the University of Toronto hosted philosophers and writers and put philosophy to the test. When it comes to the good, they asked, what good is philosophy? *This episode originally aired on Sept. 8, 2023. (@NahlahAyed) |
 2024-Apr-01 • 23 minutesS2E11 - David Domínguez on the Zetetic Turn and Philosophy in Spain David Domínguez is a PhD candidate at the Complutense University of Madrid. We'll be talking about David's experiences as a schoolteacher in philosophy as well as his doctoral research on the Zetetic turn in epistemology. If you'd like to get in touch with David, you can reach him via email at [email protected] and you can also read his publications linked on his PhilPapers profile. | Music credit: @progressivaudio (@KOosterum • @99lewiswilliams) |
| 2024-Apr-01 • 152 minutes #326 - Puerto Rico: A Natural History: A Dialogue with Jorell Meléndez Badillo In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Jorell Meléndez Badillo about the history of Puerto Rico. They talk about the origins of the island of Puerto Rico, Taino peoples, reasons for Columbus coming to Puerto Rico, and indigenous peoples fighting back. They talk about enslaved peoples in the mid 16th century, origins of the term “Puertorriqueños,” impact of race and colorism, and hardship in Puerto Rico in the 19th century. They discuss the Lares revolution, coming to New York, Spanish-American ... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Mar-31 • 50 minutes Episode 221 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 28 -Cicero Alleges Pleasures Of The Mind Cannot Offset Pain In Epicurean Philosophy Welcome to Episode 221 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the most complete presentation of Epicurean philosophy left to us from the ancient world. Each week we walk you through the Epicurean texts, and we discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. If you find the Epicurean worldview attractive, we invite you to join us in the study of Epicurus at EpicureanFriends.com, where you will find a discussion thread for each of o... (@NewEpicurean) |
| 2024-Mar-31 • 9 minutes 586: Mind Sharing More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/min... reading might sound like the stuff of science fiction. But in philosophy and psychology, mind reading is something that human beings do whenever we try to guess what another person is thinking. Could it be that people are also natural born mind sharers, unconsciously shaping our behavior to be understood by others? How do we change or exaggerate our actions when others are present? And how can we use these insights to communicate better with our loved ones... (@philtalkradio) |
 2024-Mar-31 • 42 minutes“Evolutionary Intelligence: How Technology Will Make Us Smarter” with Professor W. Russell Neuman Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as one of the most remarkable advancements of our time. It is a powerful evolving technology that has transformed the way we interact with machines and perceive the capabilities of computer systems. However, with this newfound power comes a natural apprehension. There is a noticeable fear surrounding the unintentional consequences and unintended implications of Artificial Intelligence. As this technology becomes increasingly integrated into our daily lives, the quest... (@BTG_ie) |
| 2024-Mar-31 • 56 minutes Against Immortality | Stephen Cave Stephen Cave unpacks the ethical and practical problems of living forever. He highlights ongoing research in anti-aging and the potential societal and ecological catastrophes that could follow if humans were to achieve immortality. | Stephen weighs the individual’s desire for immortality against social implications, and the potential exacerbation of social injustices. The discussion also addresses technological possibilities like consciousness uploading and the philosophical implications of personal identit... (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2024-Mar-31 • 66 minutes 201 - Benny Morris: Israel-Palestine, Genocide, Apartheid, Hamas, Muscular Judaism, and the Nakba Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 | | Benny Morris is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Middle East Studies at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. He is among the most respected and influential historians on Israel and Palestine. Benny is perhaps best known for his work on the 1947-1948 civil war in Palestine and the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and for his book The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1948 (Cambridge, 1989). In this episode, Robinson and Benny discuss the Israel-Pale... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
 2024-Mar-31 • 24 minutesPodcast episode 38: Interview with Dan Everett on C.S. Peirce and Peircean linguistics In this interview, we talk to Dan Everett about the life and work of the American pragmatist philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce and Everett’s application of Peirce’s ideas to create a Peircean linguistics. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google…Read more › (@hiphilangsci • @TeapotLinguist) |
| 2024-Mar-31 • 43 minutes HoP 442 - Scott Williams on Disability and the New World In this interview we learn about the main issues in modern-day philosophy of disability, and the relevance of this topic for the European encounter with the Americas. (@HistPhilosophy) |
 2024-Mar-30 • 96 minutesDebating Israel/Palestine This episode tackles one of the most controversial topics of the day (really, most days over the last several decades): Israel/Palestine. Craig White, a former diplomat and the author of Iraq: The Moral Reckoning, and Mark Oppenheimer of Brain in a Vat podcast fame join Spencer to discuss the issue. (@ADigressions • @SpencerJayCase) |
| 2024-Mar-30 • 14 minutes Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Judgements Of Perception And Experience - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Second Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How Is Pure Natural Science Possible? Specifically this bears upon the distinction Kant makes between two kinds of judgements, those of perception (Wahrnehmungsurteile) and those of experience (Erfarhungsurteille). The latter involve the addition of pure concepts of the understanding, ... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Mar-30 • 66 minutes PEL Presents NEM#213: Paul Chastain (Velvet Crush): Flavors of Brightness Illinois singer/bassist Paul had his first release in 1985 and joined with drummer Ric Menck to form a band eventually called Velvet Crush, which released six albums from 1991-2004. He has since played in Matthew Sweet's band and has released two... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2024-Mar-30 • 15 minutes #20 - Drawing the boundaries of animal sentience Link to the paper: | Veit, W. & Huebner, B. (2020). Drawing the boundaries of animal sentience. Animal Sentience 29(13). http://doi.org/10.51291/2377-7478.1595 [Download] | | | PODCAST INFO: | Podcast website: https://walterveit.com/podcast/ | Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/24OwJWeaWy... | Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wa... | RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/ed331d30/podcast/rss | YouTube Full Episodes: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV0j8... | YouTube Clips: https://www.y... (@wrwveit) |
| 2024-Mar-30 • 57 minutes Episode 220 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 27 -Cicero Attacks Epicurus' End-Of-Life Decisionmaking Welcome to Episode 220 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the most complete presentation of Epicurean philosophy left to us from the ancient world. Each week we walk you through the Epicurean texts, and we discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. If you find the Epicurean worldview attractive, we invite you to join us in the study of Epicurus at EpicureanFriends.com, where you will find a discussion thread for each of o... (@NewEpicurean) |
 2024-Mar-30 • 17 minutesRLP Replay: What's So Good About Good Friday? As we continue recovering from being under the weather, we bring you one of our Easter favorites. On this holiday episode of Red Letter Philosophy we ask the question, what’s so good about Good Friday? We also discuss the frame or... (@RedLetterPhil) |
| 2024-Mar-30 • 60 minutes Edward Said's "The Question of Palestine" (Part 1 of 3) In this episode, I present a (brief) history of Zionism and cover Edward Said's preface and Introduction of "The Question of Palestine." Please consider donating to one of the following organizations: Palestinian Children's Relief Fund: https://pcr... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2024-Mar-30 • 88 minutes Seminar 7 Ryan and Todd analyze the complexity of Jacques Lacan's Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis. They discuss the various notions that appear there--from das Ding to sublimation to death drive to the ethics of desire. (@UVMcas) |
| 2024-Mar-29 • 16 minutes Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Nature And Pure Natural Science - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Second Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How Is Pure Natural Science Possible? Specifically this bears upon what 'nature" means, what the extent and scope of pure natural science is, and an explanation of how pure natural science is possible. Kant argues that pure natural science cannot be cognition of things as they are in ... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Mar-29 • 78 minutes #921 Alva Noë - The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are Dr. Alva Noë is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a philosopher of mind whose research and teaching focus is perception and consciousness, and the philosophy of art. He is the author of Action in Perception; Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness; Varieties of Presence; Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature and, most recently, The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are. | | In this ep... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Mar-29 • 85 minutes #325 - Health Problems: A Dialogue with Elizabeth Barnes In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Elizabeth Barnes about the ideas surrounding health. They discuss why we care about health and how we define health, social impact of health, and discussing health publicly. They also talk about shame and stigma with health, disability and health differences, ameliorative skepticism, and many more topics. Elizabeth Barnes is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. Her research interests are divided between metaphysics, political philosophy, ... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Mar-29 • 13 minutes Bonus-wag: Actually, You’re NOT Part Viking ⚔️🇳🇴🦈 Paul and Stephen talk about Stephen’s trip to Norway and his readings from an 8th Century book of spells found in the floorboards of an old church. Is Iceland or Norway known for delicacies like rotten shark? They’re not sure, but still not fans (of the shark meals). And listeners out there, do you want to hear Paul and Stephen explore Berserkers? Let us know! Also, if your genetic analysis says you’re part Viking, you’re actually not. Also not part Berserker, but neither here nor there. Stephen exp... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2024-Mar-29 • 54 minutes Nine Minutes that Changed the World In 1876, the poet Stéphane Mallarmé published a poem entitled "The Afternoon of a Faun." He doubted anyone could set it to music successfully. But composer Claude Debussy did exactly that. The music runs only about nine minutes long, but it helped give birth to the modern era as we know it. *This episode originally aired on May 30, 2017. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Mar-29 • 53 minutes Whose Anthropocene? The HBS hosts look for the cause of the Golden Spike.The term “Anthropocene” was coined in the 1980’s, although it wasn't until 2000 that Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer suggested that we are living in a new geological epoch marked by the impact of humans on the Earth and its inhabitants. Geological epochs are determined by profound and measurable changes in the rock layers and changes in the fossil record. For example, the end of the last ice age marks the beginning of the Holocene, in which we find an ex... (@hotelbarpodcast • @DrLeighMJohnson • @c_fpeterson • @rickleephilos) |
| 2024-Mar-28 • 51 minutes AI governance and policy (Article) Today’s release is a reading of our career review of AI governance and policy, written and narrated by Cody Fenwick.Advanced AI systems could have massive impacts on humanity and potentially pose global catastrophic risks, and there are opportunities in the broad field of AI governance to positively shape how society responds to and prepares for the challenges posed by the technology.Given the high stakes, pursuing this career path could be many people’s highest-impact option. But they should be very carefu... (@80000Hours) |
| 2024-Mar-28 • 77 minutes #920 Jean-Manuel Roubineau: The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic Dr. Jean-Manuel Roubineau is a Professor of Ancient History at Université Rennes 2. He is a classics scholar who specializes in Greek antiquity, the historical anthropology of sport, and the history of social inequalities. He is the author of The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic. | | In this episode, we focus on The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic. We start by talking about the Mediterranean world of the 4th century BCE, and the life of Diogenes. We then go through his philoso... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Mar-28 • 40 minutes How Is Flocking Like Computing? Birds flock. Locusts swarm. Fish school. Within assemblies of organisms that seem as though they could get chaotic, order somehow emerges. The collective behaviors of animals differ in their details from one species to another, but they largely adhere to principles of collective motion that physicists have worked out over centuries. Now, using technologies that only recently became available, researchers have been able to study these patterns of behavior more closely than ever before. | In this episode, the... (@QuantaMagazine • @stevenstrogatz) |
 2024-Mar-28 • 22 minutesShould you listen to good music made by a bad person? Molly is a superfan of the singer Jackfruit Jones (don't try Googling him, we made him up). But she's in for a shock when Carl tells her what Jackfruit is like in real life. Jackfruit Jones has done some bad stuff! So should she keep listening to his music? And can you dislike the artist and still love the art?Brains Trust – Westmead Public School, Sydney: Swetha, Reyansh, Anirudh, Reya, Kushagra, Ashvita (@matthewtbeard) |
| 2024-Mar-28 • 22 minutes Should you leave all your money to a cat? We all know Carl loves cats. But did you know that Carl is actually a super-rich millionaire who loves cats so much that when he dies, he wants his vast fortune to be spent on trying to teach cats to read? Which might actually be impossible! Should people get to decide what happens with their money after they are gone? Even if what they want is ridiculous?Brains Trust – Westmead Public School, Sydney: Swetha, Reyansh, Anirudh, Reya, Kushagra, Ashvita (@matthewtbeard) |
| 2024-Mar-28 • 22 minutes What if you can’t invite all your friends to your birthday party? Is it okay to not invite all your friends to your birthday party? Molly has an exciting plan for her next birthday party and she can't wait to invite her best and closest friends. The only trouble is she has five close friends but she can only invite four people. What should she do? And what should you say to people who aren't invited?Brains Trust – Westmead Public School, Sydney: Sarah, Mariam, Adhit, Kenny, Panayiotis, Alaina and Ryan (@matthewtbeard) |
| 2024-Mar-28 • 24 minutes Who should get the magical gemstone? A tale of elves, fairies and justice There's a small village of elves who have a magical gemstone that brings them great prosperity. But one day a group of fairies turn up claiming the stone originally belonged to them. Hundreds of years ago, the elves' ancestors stole it from them, and now they want it back. So what's the right thing to do? Who should get to keep the gem?Brains Trust – Westmead Public School, Sydney: Swetha, Reyansh, Anirudh, Reya, Kushagra, Ashvita (@matthewtbeard) |
| 2024-Mar-28 • 21 minutes Is it okay to jump the queue at a waterslide park? Queuing up for HOURS to go on a 30-second water slide is so annoying! But what if you could pay money to go straight to the front of the queue? Going on a water slide can be so much fun, but not when you're standing in a massive queue in wet swimmers waiting for just 30 seconds of squealing excitement. Many water slide parks allow you to pay extra money for an express pass that lets you jump in front of everyone else waiting in line.Brains Trust – Westmead Public School, Sydney: Sarah, Mariam, Adhit, Kenny,... (@matthewtbeard) |
| 2024-Mar-28 • 73 minutes The Sherminator 3: Rise of Genisys Salvation Josh and M review the final part (part 3) of Michael Shermer's 2022 book, "Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational." It's nota lot of sound and fury, and it signifies... Well, you will have to listen and find out! (@PodGuideCon • @monkeyfluids) |
 2024-Mar-28 • 38 minutesThe Vagueness of Demandingness Objections A St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, recorded at St Cross College, Oxford in February 2024. Demandingness objections have become a stock argument in ethics claiming that single moral demands or entire moral theories must be given up or altered if they ask too much of agents. But can we clearly distinguish an acceptable level of demandingness from one that is too high? I argue that demandingness objections inevitably fail to make that distinction without borderline cases because they are sorites-susceptible. F... (@ethicsinthenews) |
| 2024-Mar-28 • 28 minutes Intellectual humility Humility is the capacity for acknowledging that your own wisdom may be flawed, and that your epistemic commitments may be misplaced - but how can that acknowledgement honestly take place if you believe that the things you know are true? (@DavidPZone) |
| 2024-Mar-28 • 54 minutes Putin Critic Garry Kasparov: Winter is Here Nearly a decade after Russia annexed Crimea, Russia’s war on Ukraine is entering its third year. As Putin is starting yet another term — Russian opposition activist Gary Kasparov’s warnings from his book, Winter is Coming, are playing out in real time. Nahlah Ayed speaks with Garry Kasparov. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Mar-28 • 28 minutes S3 Ep 4 - Dan Hicks on 'Public Scientific Controversies' In today’s episode we have assistant professor and philosopher of science, Dan Hicks, taking us through better understanding public scientific controversies.‘Public scientific controversies’ is a term Dan uses to capture a broad variety of controversies that involve both science and the public. This would include controversies around vaccines, genetically modified foods, medical research and climate change.In studying why controversies like these arise and persist, Dan has found our common explanations are ... (@TheHPSPodcast) |
| 2024-Mar-28 • 53 minutes Ramadan — the importance of friendship If Thoreau regards withdrawal and solitude as means by which we learn to escape self-deception, then they may well be little more than preparation for the moral demands friends make of one another. (@RadioNational) |
| 2024-Mar-27 • 44 minutes To Envy is Human Gwendolyn and Rudy welcome Philosophy Professor and author of The Philosophy of Envy, Dr. Sara Protasi. What does it mean to have envy? How can Philosophy help us understand the different ways envy presents itself? Is envy all bad?... (@InTheDetailsPod • @GDolske • @SaloRudy) |
| 2024-Mar-27 • 39 minutes #360 — We Really Don’t Have Free Will? Sam Harris speaks with Robert Sapolsky about the widespread belief in free will. They discuss the limits of intuition, the views of Dan Dennett, complexity and emergence, downward causation, abstraction, epigenetics, predictability, fatalism, Benjamin... (@) |
 2024-Mar-27 • 109 minutesStreet Epistemology with Anthony Magnabosco My guest this week is Anthony Magnabosco, co-founder of Street Epistemology International. Street Epistemology is an approach to difficult dialogue aimed at helping individuals better understand why they believe what they believe. Anthony and co recently released a website called Navigating Beliefs, an easy way to learn how to do Street Epistemology. We discuss the evidence for the effectiveness of Street Epistemology, ongoing research on its effects, and concerns with the approach. Street Epistemology Int... (@ETVPod) |
| 2024-Mar-27 • 62 minutes Nostalgia (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson) Minds Almost Meeting: Season 8, Episode 6. | View the transcript for this episode here: https://mindsalmostmeeting.... | Imagine two smart curious friendly and basically truth-seeking people, but from very different intellectual traditions. Traditions with different tools, priorities, and ground rules. What would they discuss? Would they talk past each other? Make any progress? Would anyone want to hear them? Economist Robin Hanson and philosopher Agnes Callard decided to find out. | Visit the ... (@AgnesCallard • @robinhanson) |
| 2024-Mar-27 • 6 minutes PREVIEW Mladen Dolar Part 2 - The Ljubljana School This week, the second half of our conversation with Mladen Dolar. We talk about the early days of the Ljubljana school, the structuralist revolution, the choice to read Hegel through Lacan, and the Frankfurt school. Mladen was there for it all. | For access our full conversation and to support the show, join our Patreon! | Thank you to all our Patrons! More to come soon. Make sure you book your spot in the upcoming Zizek events in New York in early April! (@zizekand) |
| 2024-Mar-27 • 14 minutes Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Avoiding Non-Critical Idealism - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on Kant's defense of his own transcendental or critical idealism from accusations that he turns the spatio-temporal world of sense-experience into mere "illusion" (Schein). Kant explains how illusions do arise out of other philosophical positions and their key assumptions. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If y... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Mar-27 • 58 minutes Helen De Cruz on What Makes Life Worth Living Philosopher Helen De Cruz discusses her new book, Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think. De Cruz explores the transformative role of wonder and awe in an uncertain world and reveals how they are catalysts that can help us reclaim wh... (@CloserToTruth • @RobertLawrKuhn) |
| 2024-Mar-27 • 67 minutes Fareed Zakaria on the Age of Revolutions, the Power of Ideas, and the Rewards of Intellectual Curiosity For Fareed Zakaria, his books—and not his columns or CNN show—are most important avenue for introducing new ideas to the world. (@tylercowen) |
| 2024-Mar-27 • 54 minutes ASK THE PHILOSOPHER! PT 1 👔👔👔 Paul puts Stephen in the hot seat for Part 1 of this rigorous round of “Ask the Philosopher!” This is not just your basic Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. You’ll learn the importance of Pythagoras, besides that theorem you learned in grade school (with an obligatory mention of passing gas). Then, hear about the mindf*ck of Zeno’s paradox, famed thinker and nudist Diogenes, all about cynics, roots of empirical thinking, Roman stoicism and Marcus Aurelius, and why prisoners of war like Senator John McCain... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2024-Mar-27 • 55 minutes Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act V This week, the guys close out Shakespeare's Hamlet by focusing on Act V. The play reaches its dramatic climax as the threads of betrayal, revenge, and madness culminate in a blood-drenched conclusion. The guys dissect the pivotal act, exploring... (@thenewthinkery • @alexpriou • @GregMcBrayer3 • @Tempest1610) |
| 2024-Mar-27 • 54 minutes Conflicted: a Ukrainian journalist covers her nation at war “We face a continual tension between holding the government to account, and not wanting the enemy to undermine us by exploiting bad news," says Ukrainian journalist Veronika Melkozerova. She delivered this year's Peter Stursberg Foreign Correspondents Lecture, focusing her talk on what Ukrainian journalists confront daily: patriotism versus journalism. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Mar-27 • 66 minutes #324 - Paying Attention In A Distracted World: A Dialogue with Christian Madsbjerg In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Christian Madsbjerg about perception in the world. They discuss why perception and observation are important, the work of Merleau-Ponty, perception being reality, and intersubjectivity. They discuss the role of the body in phenomenology, phenomenology of space, the “other,” practical ways of paying attention in the world, and many more topics. Christian Madsbjerg is an author, entrepreneur, and academic who focuses on the practical and commercial applicati... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Mar-26 • 83 minutes Episode 281: Choose Your Fighter We dig into the biggest rivalry in Tamler’s profession, analytic vs. continental philosophy. Are analytic philosophers truly the rigorous, precise, clear thinkers they take themselves to be? And is continental philosophy really just a... (@verybadwizards • @peez • @tamler) |
| 2024-Mar-26 • 16 minutes Why we should question everything | Michael Della Rocca on radical philosophy Philosopher Michael Della Rocca challenges conventional philosophy's reliance on common sense, interpreting the world instead as a unified whole. (@IAI_TV) |
| 2024-Mar-26 • 13 minutes The Social Contract | Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau | Keyword In this episode, I explain Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau's views of the social contract. If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphiloso... @DavidGuignio... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2024-Mar-26 • 54 minutes Kate Beaton: What's lost when working-class voices are not heard Kate Beaton and her family have deep roots in hard-working, rural Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. In her 2024 Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture, the popular cartoonist points out what is lost when working-class voices are shut out of opportunities in the worlds of arts, culture, and media. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Mar-26 • 60 minutes Overthinking Overthink goes meta! In the 100th episode Ellie and David reflect on the podcast’s journey and the origins of its (flawless!) title. They take up the question, “What is overthinking?” Is it a kind of fixation on details or an unwanted split in the normal flow of ideas? Then, they turn to psychology to make sense of overthinking’s highs and lows, as the distracting voice inside your head and a welcome relief from traumatic memories. Through the philosophies of John Dewey and the Frankfurt School, they look a... (@overthink_pod • @ellieanderphd • @DrPenaGuzman1) |
| 2024-Mar-25 • 122 minutes #919 Isabella Sarto-Jackson: How Social Interactions Shape the Human Mind Dr. Isabella Sarto-Jackson is Lecturer in Cognitive Science at the University of Vienna, Guest Lecturer in Cognitive Biology at the University of Bratislava, executive manager of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, and president of the Austrian Neuroscience Association (ANA). She is the author of The Making and Breaking of Minds: How social interactions shape the human mind. | | In this episode, we focus on The Making and Breaking of Minds. We go through topics in human psycho... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Mar-25 • 129 minutes 270 | Solo: The Coming Transition in How Humanity Lives I think through some of the ways that technology is changing the world, exploring the possibility of an upcoming singularity marking the shift to a new equilibrium of human existence. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2024-Mar-25 • 16 minutes Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - How Illusions Arise - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on Kant's defense of his own transcendental or critical idealism from accusations that he turns the spatio-temporal world of sense-experience into mere "illusion" (Schein). Kant explains how illusions do arise out of other philosophical positions and their key assumptions. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If y... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Mar-25 • 48 minutes Ep. 338: Aristotle on Potential vs. Actual and the Unmoved Mover (Part One) We read portions of books 9 (Theta) and 12 (Lambda) of Aristotle's Metaphysics, first on "being-at-work" (actuality) vs. mere potency, then on Aristotle's famous argument for the existence of God. Get more at . Visit to get ad-free episodes and tons... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2024-Mar-25 • 109 minutes "Your Neighbour Kills Puppies" - Tom Harris - Activist, Artist & Author - Sentientism Ep:190 Tom is an internationally acclaimed artist, published author, and social justice activist. He is an expert and consultant on animal liberation history and strategy, and the global animal rights movement. His first book, Your Neighbour Kills Puppies was released in March 2024. The book is the previously untold story of one of the world’s most powerful social justice campaigns, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC). Tom became involved in the animal liberation movement at the age of fifteen when he attended h... (@sentientism • @JamieWoodhouse) |
| 2024-Mar-25 • 54 minutes CBC Massey Lectures: Audience Q&A with Astra Taylor Insecurity has become a "defining feature of our time," says 2023 CBC Massey lecturer Astra Taylor. She explores how rising inequality, declining mental health, and the threat of authoritarianism, originate from a social order built on insecurity. In this episode, Astra Taylor answers audience questions from the cross-Canada tour. *This episode originally aired on Nov. 27, 2023. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Mar-25 • 39 minutes Episode 76: The Standing to Punish with Tommie Shelby In this episode, we talk with Tommie Shelby about whether and when states lack the standing to punish. We also discuss Tommie's book on prison abolitionism, which makes the case for prison reform without accepting that incarceration is illegitimate.Tommie's website: https://www.tommieshelby.com/Tommie&apos... book, The Idea of Prison Abolition: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... https://twitter.com/thefreewillshowInsta... https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillsho... https://www.facebook.co... (@thefreewillshow • @taylorwcyr • @MatthewFlummer) |
| 2024-Mar-25 • 72 minutes #323 - Wonderstruck: A Dialogue with Helen De Cruz In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Helen De Cruz about wonder and awe. They define awe and wonder as distinct emotions, awe in other animals, social and cultural aspects of awe, and philosophy being born in wonder. They discuss the history of awe and wonder from ancient Greece to the Enlightenment, theories of emotions, magic and wonder, religion and wonder, Merleau-Ponty and habits, spiritual naturalism, and many more topics. Helen De Cruz holds the Danforth Chair in the Humanities at Sain... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Mar-24 • 68 minutes Immigration and Borders | Stephen Kershnar Featuring Stephen Kershnar, we discuss the complexities of immigration ethics, the rights to immigrate, and the morality of borders, keeping in mind debates around wealth, exclusion, and property rights. | Stephen considers consequentialist and deontological perspectives in immigration policies, the notion of collective versus individual rights, and the philosophical implications on national identity and personal liberty. | | 00:00 Introduction and Guest Welcome | 00:16 Discussion on Immigration | 01:05 ... (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2024-Mar-24 • 120 minutes 200 - Sean Carroll, Daniel Dennett, & Steven Pinker: AI, Parapsychology, Panpsychism, & Physics Violations Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 | | Sean Carroll is Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. He is also host of Sean Carroll’s Mindscape, a terrific show (that influenced the birth of Robinson’s Podcast) about science, society, philosophy, culture, arts, and ideas. Daniel Dennett is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Tufts University, where he was co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor ... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
 2024-Mar-24 • 66 minutesMark Tuitert - From Olympic Champion to Stoic Philosopher: The Stoic Mindset | STM Podcast #211 On episode 211, we welcome Mark Tuitert to discuss stoic philosophy, Mark winning the Olympic gold medal in speed skating in 2010, our cultural obsession with winning, why success doesn’t lead to long-term happiness, the stoic focus on character in... (@seize_podcast • @EgoEndsNow • @leonscafe31) |
| 2024-Mar-24 • 32 minutes Episode 128, ‘Domestic Labour’ with Paulina Sliwa & Tom McClelland (Part I - Affordance Perception) Welcome to ‘Episode 128 (Part I of II)’, where we’ll be discussing philosophy of mind and domestic labour. (@ThePanpsycast • @_JackSymes • @MrMarleyTeach) |
| 2024-Mar-24 • 26 minutes HPC 02. The Only Constant: Change and the "Yi Jing" Early Chinese philosophers were deeply aware of a world that is constantly changing: we look at how Confucians, Legalists, and Daoists responded to this challenge. (@HistPhilosophy • @ChikeJeffers) |
 2024-Mar-24 • 122 minutesPhilosophy In Film - 079 - Oppenheimer Episode 79: Oppenheimer This week on Philosophy in Film, the gang takes on Christopher Nolan’s explosive biographical thriller, Oppenheimer. With an all-star cast including Cillian Murphy, Florence Pugh, Robert Downey Jr., and many others, this film... (@PhilInFilm) |
| 2024-Mar-24 • 41 minutes Episode #198 ... The truth is in the process. - Zizek pt. 3 (ideology, dialectics) Today we go into a deeper explanation of ideology and dialectics. Liberal democratic capitalism is featured as a special guest. Hope you enjoy it! :) Sponsors: Nord VPN: https://www.NordVPN.com/philothis Better Help: https://www.BetterHelp.com/PHILTHIS LMNT... https://www.DrinkLMNT.com/philo Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreo... https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p... (@iamstephenwest) |
| 2024-Mar-23 • 75 minutes Episode 43 - Intergenerational Trauma with Inez Schelfhout My book about Plato's allegory of the cave is now available for pre-order: https://noordboek.nl/boek/hoe-plato-je-u... Inez Schelfhout is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist who specializes in the impact of war on next ge... (@lifeplatoscave • @MarioVeen) |
| 2024-Mar-23 • 52 minutes PEL Presents PMP#170: Poor Things and Other Yorgos We discuss the 4-Oscar-winning film Poor Things as well as the other creations of writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos, including most notably The Lobster, Dogtooth, and The Killing of a Sacred Deer. These films mix high concepts, purposively stilted... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2024-Mar-23 • 16 minutes Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Sensibility, Representations, And Geometry - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion of geometry in particular, in the course of which he briefly examines geometric proofs resting on congruence and objects that may be the same in some respects but are not congruent, such as spherical triangles, mirror images of hands, and helixes. Kant argues that geometry, based on the pure intuition of space as a form of sensible int... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Mar-23 • 49 minutes Episode 219 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 26 -Cicero Continues His Attack On Epicurus' Position On Pain Welcome to Episode 219 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the most complete presentation of Epicurean philosophy left to us from the ancient world. Each week we walk you through the Epicurean texts, and we discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. If you find the Epicurean worldview attractive, we invite you to join us in the study of Epicurus at EpicureanFriends.com, where you will find a discussion thread for each of o... (@NewEpicurean) |
| 2024-Mar-23 • 57 minutes John Stuart Mill's "Utilitarianism" In this episode, I cover John Stuart Mill's "Utilitarianism." If you want to support me, you can do so with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphiloso... @theoryphilosophy Insta: @theory_and_phil... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2024-Mar-22 • 47 minutes Episode 66: Ovid's "The Art of Love" with Julia Hejduk In this episode, I speak with the classicist Juli… (@eudaimoniapod • @jennfrey) |
| 2024-Mar-22 • 71 minutes #918 Antoine Marie: The Biases of People with Strong Political and Moral Convictions Dr. Antoine Marie is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is an evolutionary political psychologist with a background in philosophy, sociology, political science, and social psychology. He conducts cross-cultural psychology experiments and develops evolutionary theory to better understand, and if possible, mitigate, the cognitive biases that arise from people having strong moral convictions on controversial topics, typically in contexts of percei... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Mar-22 • 10 minutes PREMIUM-PEL Nightcap w/ Chris Sunami (March 2024) Mark, Seth, and Dylan are joined by the editor of our new book (see ) to talk a bit about his background, meeting celebrities (or being met qua celebrity) and more generally how a writer or performer's real personality relates to their work, various... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2024-Mar-22 • 103 minutes Monolith and Viral Memetics Listeners, have we got a story for you. Two Lovecraftian podcasters so far up their own allegorical asses they do a podcast about a movie about a podcaster doing a Lovecraft. It's meta all the way down folks, so naturally we're talking memetics and... (@0gPhilosophy) |
 2024-Mar-22 • 64 minutesEp. 53 Natural Kinds ft. Tuomas Tahko Tune in this week as Alex and Adam talk with Tuomas Takho from Bristol University about how science categorizes things in nature. Join as they discuss the concept of "natural kinds" and why it's not always straightforward. | | (@ThoughtsUofg) |
| 2024-Mar-22 • 22 minutes Bonus-wag: Octopus Dreams 🐙💭🪸 Paul and Stephen have a few more questions for resident Octopus expert, author, philosopher and biologist, Professor Peter Godfrey-Smith. When does consciousness emerge in the evolutionary process and does it exist in every bit of matter - even a grain of sand? Then, do Octopuses have language and what is its function? And controversial questions abound on whether animals dream, the role of memory, and what commonality of sleep phases suggests about our shared evolutionary origins. Dream on Chinwagger... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2024-Mar-22 • 55 minutes Academic Freedom The HBS hosts consider a case study testing the limits of academic freedom.Nathan Cofnas, holder of an Early Career Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust, is being threatened with losing his position because he is a “race realist” and, in particular, has stated that there is a difference in natural intelligence in people of different races. What is more, he has argued that race realism, if widely adopted, would be the end of what he has called “wokism.” He unsurprisingly argues that he has the right, because... (@hotelbarpodcast • @DrLeighMJohnson • @c_fpeterson • @rickleephilos) |
| 2024-Mar-22 • 20 minutes #82: Stop policing yourself How well do you know yourself? Are there feelings that you have, or things that you care about, that you're in complete denial about? Trust me, there probably are - you just haven't noticed. And it's a problem, because until you can acknowledge the things that make you happy (or unhappy) and the things you care about, you can't even begin to build the life you want. Get the kettle on and join your Imperfectionist chum for some self-policing troubleshooting. (@AcademicImp • @rebecca_roache) |
| 2024-Mar-22 • 112 minutes 111. Dune Part Two (w/ John DeVore) We go BACK to Arrakis, desert planet, homeworld of the spice and the Fremen and keeper of Shai Hulud. We're joined again for the journey by major spice-head John DeVore to discuss Villeneuve's two films in relation to Lynch's 1984 version and Frank Herbert's book. Along the way, we consider the worm Uber, the possibility of bad trips with the Water of Life, the lack of St. Alia of the Knife, the deliberate backgrounding of the more mystical elements of the novel, and the film's magnificent score. Repeat aft... (@cowspod • @juskhoo) |
| 2024-Mar-22 • 84 minutes #322 - Democracy Birthed in Darkness: A Dialogue with Katlyn Carter In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Katlyn Carter about the origins of the United States during the revolutionary period. They discuss the concern about secrecy and transparency in government, representative government and representative democracy, pros and cons of democracy, and how democracy is different from 1776. They also talk about shifting from colonies to states, reasons for secrecy in the founding, comparisons with France, Madison’s speed bumps for democracy, how we see transparency... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Mar-21 • 69 minutes #917 Dale Greenwalt - Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils Dr. Dale Greenwalt is Research Associate in the laboratory of Dr. Conrad Labandeira, curator of fossil arthropods, in the Paleobiology Department at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. His work centers on description of the insect fauna of the Coal Creek Member of the Middle Eocene Kishenehn Formation in northwestern Montana. He is also interested in defining the biological and geological processes that resulted in the preservation of these insects and the original biomolecular components ... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Mar-21 • 40 minutes Freedom or liberty? "Freedom" has become a familiar catchcry in Western democracies, as individuals and protest groups increasingly push back against government restrictions of any and all kinds. The problems this poses for communal life and social cohesion are obvious - so how should freedom be properly understood? (@DavidPZone) |
| 2024-Mar-21 • 28 minutes S3 Ep 3 - Anna Alexandrova on 'Philosophy of Well-Being Science' Today's episode features Professor Anna Alexandrova from the University of Cambridge discussing a field she has pioneered - the Philosophy of Well-Being Science.As Anna points out, well-being and happiness are now established phenomena for scientific research, particularly in the disciplines of psychology and economics. But does current scientific research produce knowledge that is properly about well-being? What kind of well-being? Should the goal be a single concept and single theory of well-being?An... (@TheHPSPodcast) |
| 2024-Mar-21 • 53 minutes Ramadan — the discipline of solitude Solitude is neither alone-ness nor idleness. It is strenuous and takes practice. Solitude does not simply happen in the way that isolation or loneliness does — it must be inhabited. (@RadioNational) |
| 2024-Mar-20 • 11 minutes 585: Margaret Cavendish More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/mar... Cavendish was a writer of poetry, philosophy, polemics, histories, plays, and utopian fiction. She employed many different genres as a way to overcome access barriers for women and build an audience for her subversive philosophical ideas. So, what was so radical about Cavendish's views? Why did she think all matter, even rocks, was at least partially rational? And how did she anticipate the term "epistemic injustice" 400 years before it was coined? Josh an... (@philtalkradio) |
| 2024-Mar-20 • 60 minutes Resentment (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard) Minds Almost Meeting: Season 8, Episode 5. | View the transcript for this episode here: https://mindsalmostmeeting.... | Imagine two smart curious friendly and basically truth-seeking people, but from very different intellectual traditions. Traditions with different tools, priorities, and ground rules. What would they discuss? Would they talk past each other? Make any progress? Would anyone want to hear them? Economist Robin Hanson and philosopher Agnes Callard decided to find out. | Visit the ... (@AgnesCallard • @robinhanson) |
| 2024-Mar-20 • 79 minutes Ep. 256 - Artificial General Intelligence Be and Humanity w/Dr. Ben Goertzel In episode 256 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined once again by Dr. Ben Goertzel to talk about Artificial General Intelligence. Last time we talked about the philosophy of AGI, this time we discuss the state of the art of AGI and just a bit about machine consciousness. Check the time stamps for a full topic list. | | Join this channel to get access to perks: | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYbTRur... | | →Sponsors/Discounts | Check out https://murdycreative.co/PARKERNOTES and use promo code ... (@trendsettercase) |
| 2024-Mar-20 • 59 minutes Mladen Dolar - A Voice and Nothing More This week, we present the third episode in our series of interviews with the Troika — after Slavoj Žižek, and Alenka Zupančič . We’re speaking with Mladen Dolar, Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, at the University of Ljubljana. | | Dolar is the co-founder of what has become known as ‘the Ljubljana School’. His principal areas of research are psychoanalysis, modern French philosophy, German Idealism, and art theory. He has lectured extensively at universities in the US an... (@zizekand) |
| 2024-Mar-20 • 49 minutes Marilynne Robinson on Biblical Interpretation, Calvinist Thought, and Religion in America For famed writer Marilynne Robinson, Genesis is the book that never stops giving. (@tylercowen) |
| 2024-Mar-20 • 67 minutes Consciousness & The Octopus 🐙🐙🐙 The Octopus is fascinating and mysterious, and as Paul and Stephen discover, a cephalopod that offers incredible lessons in consciousness, intelligence, awareness and being. The octopus might also be the closest we have to studying the alien mind. Peter Godfrey-Smith is an author, Professor of Biology, philosopher of science and skilled scuba diver who’s looked right into the eyes of many an octopus, and they’ve observed him back. Listen as Professor Godfrey-Smith explains how the octopus’s unique bra... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2024-Mar-20 • 87 minutes Episode 165: Tatters of the King: On Robert Chambers' 'The King in Yellow' Phil and JF discuss four stories from Robert W. Chambers' pioneering work of weird fiction. (@weirdstudies • @JF_Martel) |
| 2024-Mar-20 • 39 minutes Christopher Kelly on Rousseau's Rousseau, Judge of Jean-Jacques, Part II Continuing on Part I from last week, Greg and Alex again replace David with renowned Rousseau scholar Dr. Christopher Kelly, professor of political science at Boston College. The group analyze Rousseau, Judge of Jean-Jacques, this time touching... (@thenewthinkery • @alexpriou • @GregMcBrayer3 • @Tempest1610) |
| 2024-Mar-20 • 64 minutes Stephen Phillips, "The Metaphysics of Meditation: Sri Aurobindo and Adi-Sakara on the Isa Upanisad" (Bloombury, 2024) In The Metaphysics of Meditation: Sri Aurobindo and Ādi Śaṅkara on the Īśā Upaniṣad (Bloomsbury 2024), Stephen Phillips argues that the two titular Vedānta philosophers are not as opposed as commonly thought. His book is structured as a series of essays on Aurobindo and Śaṅkara’s analysis of the early, important, and brief Īśā Upaniṣad, also including a new English translation of the text along with a translation of Śaṅkara’s commentary thereupon. Philosophically, the book investigates questions about what ... (@NewBooksPhil) |
| 2024-Mar-20 • 28 minutes Why Philosophy of Biology? Get 20% off tickets to this year's HowtheLightGetsIn Hay Festival with code CTT24 at checkout. Philosophy of biology has two sides: the process of science and the content of biology. We address key questions. What is the nature of life? How does ev... (@CloserToTruth • @RobertLawrKuhn) |
| 2024-Mar-20 • 24 minutes Episode 210: Freewill and Determinism Part 2 See, we knew you would be back! This time Danny and Dr. Mike consider whether or not they are truly 'good' people or perhaps 'bad' without knowing it? If morality changes as time moves on, can you be 'good' one moment and 'bad' the next because the world has changed its mind on what is moral? You should tune in this time as our moral, upright podcasters honestly give their take on ethical thought because next time they could considered nasty pieces of work! (@PhilosophyWtf) |
| 2024-Mar-20 • 87 minutes #321 - Homer and His Iliad: A Dialogue with Robin Lane Fox In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Robin Lane Fox about Homer and his Iliad. They discuss how to best read the Iliad, structure of the poem, and the use of speeches, language, and movement. They talk about the location of Troy, Homer’s authorship, Homer’s description of the Trojan war, Homer’s illiteracy, Iliad’s transcription, genius of Homer, and many more topics. Robin Lane Fox is a historian and Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford, and taught Ancient History at Oxford University from... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Mar-19 • 31 minutes #359 — Getting Used to It Sam Harris speaks with Cass Sunstein about habituation and its consequences. They discuss habituation to positive and negative experiences, marriage, happiness, meaning, variety, doing good vs feeling good, midlife crises, kids, wealth and happiness,... (@) |
 2024-Mar-19 • 12 minutesFree will, determinism, and consciousness (ft. Sam Harris, Deleuze, and Nietzsche) There’s this clip of Sam Harris discussing consciousness and free will that went a bit viral on Twitter. I wanted to comment on it… so here it is. I hope you enjoy it. Stay curious. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit brendenslabyrinth.substack.com/subscribe (@philosophyguy2 • @brendenslab) |
| 2024-Mar-19 • 52 minutes The enlightenment and its alternatives | John Mearsheimer, Steven Pinker Two of the most influential thinkers of our time, John Mearsheimer, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, and Steven Pinker, Professor of Psychology at Harvard University debate the Enlightenment and its alternative. Sophie Scott-Brown hosts. (@IAI_TV) |
| 2024-Mar-19 • 71 minutes #320 - The Art of Public Conversation: A Crossover Episode with Where We Go Next In this episode, Xavier Bonilla and Michael Callahan have a discussion about their respective podcasts. They discuss why they decided to do this crossover episode, how Converging Dialogues started, how Where We Go Next started, and how they treat guests. They discuss their process for asking questions, motivations for interviews, importance of active listening, their process for each episode, legacy of the podcast, and many more topics. Where We Go Next is a podcast focused on in-depth conversations with th... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Mar-19 • 9 minutes 85 TEASER | Giving an Account of Oneself: Judith Butler's Ethics of Opacity In this episode we delve into Judith Butler’s Giving an Account of Oneself, an illuminating book from 2005 that examines subject-formation and the relationship between the self, other people, and the normative social order. We reconstruct Butler’s efforts to ground a philosophical ethics with positive claims in the insights of three theoretical traditions that have generally been understood to frustrate moral philosophy: post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, and critical theory. Our core focus is the question... (@leftofphil • @whitherutopia • @oglynwil • @classreductress) |
| 2024-Mar-19 • 55 minutes Ep. 79 From Wollstonecraft to Wolf: Women Who Shaped Philosophy, Part 3 Included in this episode are feminist icons Mary Wollstonecraft and Simone de Beauvoir, champions of new ethics Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, and Elizabeth Anscombe, and contemporary powerhouse on love and other moral stances Susan Wolf. It's a lot packed into one hour! Join us for this final installment of the series: Women Who Shaped Philosophy!Sign up for our newsletter here! Open Door Philosophy NewsletterContact us via email at [email protected] Open Door Philosophy on In... (@opendoorphil • @d_parsonage) |
| 2024-Mar-18 • 62 minutes #916 Christian Hart - The Psychology of Lying, and How You Can Avoid Being Duped Dr. Christian Hart is a Professor of Psychology at Texas Woman’s University, where he is the Director of the Psychological Science program as well as the Director of the Human Deception Laboratory. His research explores the behavioral cues of deception, pathological lying, lying within relationships, lying and morality, and the factors that influence decisions to be honest or deceptive. He is the author of Pathological Lying: Theory, Research, and Practice, and Big Liars: What Psychological Science Tells Us... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Mar-18 • 46 minutes Ep. 337: Aristotle on Primary Being (Part Two) Continuing on Aristotle's Metaphysics, Book 7 (Zeta), on essences and what sorts of things have them. Contrasting with Plato, Aristotle believes that some changing, visible things have forms. How do they get them? Well, they're received from some... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2024-Mar-18 • 71 minutes 269 | Sahar Heydari Fard on Complexity, Justice, and Social Dynamics I talk with Sahar Heydari Fard about viewing social change through the lens of complex-systems theory. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2024-Mar-18 • 62 minutes CBC Massey Lectures | #5: Escaping the Burrow Human beings will never be totally secure, especially not on a planet that has been destabilized. In Astra Taylor's final Massey Lecture, she offers some hope and solutions. Taylor suggests cultivating an ethic of insecurity — one that embraces our existential insecurity. The experience of insecurity, she says, can offer us a path to wisdom — a wisdom that can guide not only our personal lives but also our collective endeavours. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Mar-18 • 60 minutes CBC Massey Lectures | #1: Cura’s Gift Insecurity has become a "defining feature of our time," says CBC Massey lecturer Astra Taylor. The Winnipeg-born writer and filmmaker explores how rising inequality, declining mental health, the climate crisis, and the threat of authoritarianism originate from a social order built on insecurity. In her first lecture, she explores the existential insecurity we can’t escape — and the manufactured insecurity imposed on us from above. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Mar-18 • 59 minutes CBC Massey Lectures | #2: Barons or Commoners? In Astra Taylor's second Massey Lecture, she argues our social order runs on insecurity. But we’re also guaranteed the right to “security of the person.” The wealthy barons of the past and present have defined what security means for themselves — but the rest of us, ordinary commoners, have fought for something else instead. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Mar-18 • 64 minutes CBC Massey Lectures | #3: Consumed by Curiosity It’s a paradox — we live in the most prosperous era in human history, but it’s also an era of profound insecurity. Massey lecturer Astra Taylor suggests that history shows that increased material security helps people be more open-minded, tolerant, and curious. But rising insecurity does the reverse — it drives us apart. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Mar-18 • 64 minutes CBC Massey Lectures | #4: Beyond Human Security The burning of fossil fuels causes the past, present and future to collide in destructive ways. In her fourth CBC Massey Lecture, Astra Taylor tells us that as the climate alters, evolved biological clocks erratically speed up or slow down, causing plants and animals to fall out of sync. In a world this out of joint, how could we possibly feel secure? But there is a path forward. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Mar-17 • 53 minutes S3: E14 Your Mind on Learning & Memory with Dr. Oded Bein How do we store information in the brain? How do we know when one memory should end and another begin? We speak to Dr. Oded Bein who explains how we use schemas to organise information. Dr. Bein discusses how we segment our experiences to store as our memories and how these processes might be different for people with anxiety. We also give some tips to improve memory and Ava and Beth reflect on how schemas might influences their perspectives. (@bethfisher_1 • @avamadesousa) |
| 2024-Mar-17 • 14 minutes RLP Replay: The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde This St. Patrick’s Day finds us under the weather. Rather than miss the day, we offer/bring one of our St Patrick’s Day favorites. Is St. Patrick’s Day a celebration of the Irish; Irish history, Irish storytelling, Ireland herself,... (@RedLetterPhil) |
| 2024-Mar-17 • 13 minutes Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Intuitions, Space, And Time - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussions of the a priori intuitions that are the basis for pure mathematics, namely space and time. These are the forms of empirical intuitions, preceding them logically, and they also provide geometry, arithmetic, and pure mechanics their bases. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Mar-17 • 55 minutes Cascading Catastrophic Risks | Trond Undheim Trond Undheim delves into catastrophic risks facing humanity, including climate change, governance breakdown, and technological threats. | | Through discussions of risk perception, effective planning versus worry, and the complexities of managing existential threats, Trond emphasizes the importance of preparing and adapting for uncertain futures. | | How should we think about potential future crises, the role of technology in exacerbating or mitigating risks, and the moral obligations of contemporary so... (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2024-Mar-17 • 59 minutes Sabrina B. Little - Running Toward Virtue: Guide to Ethical Athletics | STM Podcast #210 On episode 210, we welcome Sabrina Little to discuss the virtues of ultramarathon running, the importance of desire in being good, the deification of American sports, if excellence in performance and good character are mutually exclusive, using envy... (@seize_podcast • @EgoEndsNow • @leonscafe31) |
| 2024-Mar-17 • 84 minutes 199 - Lawrence Krauss: God, String Theory, and the State of Physics Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 | | Lawrence Krauss is a theoretical physicist who has taught at Yale, Arizona State University, and Case Western, and is the founder of ASU’s Origins Project. He is a prominent public intellectual and best-selling author, and has written about the origins of the universe, atheism, and many other topics. He is also the host of the Origins Podcast. In this episode, Robinson and Lawrence have a wide-ranging conversation about the current state of physics—and whether or not the... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2024-Mar-17 • 115 minutes Sherminator 2: Judgement Day In the sequel to last week's episode, we look at Part II of Michael Shermer's book "Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational". This part is all about determining which conspiracies are real - judging them, if you will. So the title works - it's not just a gratuitous pop culture reference! Not that there's anything wrong with a gratuitous pop culture reference. (@PodGuideCon • @monkeyfluids) |
| 2024-Mar-17 • 21 minutes HoP 441 - Lambs to the Slaughter - Debating the New World Bartholomé De las Casas argues against opponents, like Sepúlveda, who believed that Europeans had a legal and moral right to rule over and exploit the indigenous peoples of the Americas. (@HistPhilosophy) |
| 2024-Mar-17 • 10 minutes 536: What Can Virtual Reality (Actually) Do? More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/wha... transports users into all kinds of different realities, some modeled on the real world, others completely invented. Though still in its infancy, the technology has become so sophisticated, it can trick the brain into treating the virtual experience as real and unmediated. So what is the most prudent way to employ this cutting edge technology going forward? Could VR help solve real world problems, like implicit bias or the climate crisis? And as the technol... (@philtalkradio) |
| 2024-Mar-16 • 79 minutes Critique Of Pure Reason -- Introduction Ryan and Todd continue their exploration of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason with the Introduction. They discuss the importance of his critique of dogmatic metaphysics and the incredible discovery of the synthetic a priori judgment. Ryan's sports article: https://link.springer.com/journal/41282/... (@UVMcas) |
| 2024-Mar-16 What's Left of Meritocracy with Gil Morejón My guest this week is Gil Morejón, a historian of ideas currently teaching at Grenell college, one of the 4 amazing hosts of the What’s Left of Philosophy? Podcast. We discuss leftist takes on meritocracy, possible alternatives, and the differences between doing politics and ethics. Enjoy! What's Left of Philosophy: https://www.leftofphilosophy.com/ Gil's Website: https://gilmorejon.wordpress.com/about/ ... by GW Rodriguez Sibling Pods: Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/ Suppor... ... (@ETVPod) |
| 2024-Mar-16 • 40 minutes John Locke's "Second Treatise of Government" (Part 2/2) In this episode, I cover the second half of John Locke's "Second Treatise of Government." If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphiloso... paypal.me/theoryphilosophy TikTok: @theoryphil... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2024-Mar-15 • 61 minutes #915 Bernard Reginster - The Will to Nothingness: An Essay on Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality Dr. Bernard Reginster is Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. Dr. Reginster's research has focused mostly on issues in ethics, metaethics, and moral psychology in 19th-century German philosophy. His new research interests include the topics of identity and intersubjectivity, | for which he considers ideas from psychoanalytic theory, 20th century | Continental philosophy, and contemporary Anglo-Saxon philosophy. He is the author of The Will to Nothingness: An Essay on Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of ... (@TheDissenterYT) |
 2024-Mar-15 • 60 minutes2023 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics: Knowledge and Achievement as Public Policy Goals (3 of 3) A recording of the third and final of Professor Hurka's rescheduled lectures, series title Knowledge and Achievement: Their Value, Nature, and Public Policy Role We were honoured to welcome Professor Thomas Hurka to Oxford to deliver the 2023 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-n... (@ethicsinthenews) |
| 2024-Mar-15 • 62 minutes 2023 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics: Degrees of Value in Knowledge and Achievement (2 of 3) A recording of the second of Professor Hurka's rescheduled lectures, series title "Knowledge and Achievement: Their Value, Nature, and Public Policy Role" We were honoured to welcome Professor Thomas Hurka to Oxford to deliver the 2023 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-n... (@ethicsinthenews) |
| 2024-Mar-15 • 67 minutes 2023 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics: Knowledge and Achievement as Organic Goods (1 of 3) A recording of the first of Professor Hurka's rescheduled lectures, series title "Knowledge and Achievement: Their Value, Nature, and Public Policy Role" We were honoured to welcome Professor Thomas Hurka to Oxford to deliver the 2023 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-n... (@ethicsinthenews) |
| 2024-Mar-15 • 16 minutes Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - A Priori Intuitions - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion of the possibility of a priori intuition (Anschauung), which makes pure mathematics possible. Time and Space are such a priori intuitions, namely the forms of sensibility, the condition. for having empirical intuitions of objects. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direc... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Mar-15 • 44 minutes Episode 218 Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 25 - Can The Epicurean Not Distinguish Between Greater and Lesser Pleasures and Pains? Welcome to Episode 218 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the most complete presentation of Epicurean philosophy left to us from the ancient world. Each week we walk you through the Epicurean texts, and we discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. If you find the Epicurean worldview attractive, we invite you to join us in the study of Epicurus at EpicureanFriends.com, where you will find a discussion thread for each of o... (@NewEpicurean) |
| 2024-Mar-15 • 21 minutes Chinwag Mailbag: The Drake Equation 📊🔢🧮📐 Paul and Stephen dig into our Chinwag mailbag for this SETI-inspired question (that’s Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence to any novice listeners). The Drake Equation is explained and let’s just say there’s A LOT of math involved. It’s been 60+ years since last estimates were made on the odds of finding intelligent life in the Milky Way, and Chinwag listener Rick B. wants to know, how long could a civilization broadcast its presence through technology, and what current factors might affect a civ... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2024-Mar-15 • 28 minutes Philosophy, angst and hope How does a woman philosopher deal with the challenges posed by conservative, masculinist culture within her own academic discipline? Our guest this week turns to the work of Immanuel Kant, the 18th century German thinker who formulated a fine-grained philosophy of hope. (@DavidPZone) |
| 2024-Mar-15 • 58 minutes Immediacy (with Anna Kornbluh) The HBS hosts discuss the style of "too late" capitalism with Anna Kornbluh. Immediacy would seem to be the defining cultural style of our moment. From video to social media and from autofiction to autotheory, the tendency is towards direct intensity of experience and away from the mediations of form, genre, and representation. What drives this turn to the immediate in art, culture, and even politics? What do we lose in this turn to immediacy? Anna Kornbluh, author of Immediacy: Or, the Style of Too Late Ca... (@hotelbarpodcast • @DrLeighMJohnson • @c_fpeterson • @rickleephilos) |
| 2024-Mar-15 • 35 minutes #319 - Somebody's Gotta Win the 2024 US Presidential Election: A Dialogue with Tara Palmeri In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Tara Palmeri about the 2024 US Presidential election. They discuss why there is rematch of the 2020 US Presidential election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, Biden’s challengers, Biden’s age, and the Democrats “bench.” They talk about feelings mattering more than policy, immigration, predictions, and many more topics. Tara Palmeri is a Senior political correspondent at Puck and host of the Ringer’s election podcast, “Somebody’s Gotta Win.” Previously, s... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Mar-15 • 54 minutes Astra Taylor: The Hidden Truth of the World In conversation with IDEAS host Nahlah Ayed, the 2023 Massey lecturer Astra Taylor explains how her early years in the unschooling movement shaped her worldview and how Occupy Wall Street taught her that 'thinking' and 'doing' go hand in hand. *This episode originally aired on Sept. 7, 2023.* (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Mar-14 • 53 minutes #914 Eduardo Fernandez-Duque: Mating Systems, Biparental Care, and Cooperative Breeding in Primates Dr. Eduardo Fernandez-Duque is Professor of Anthropology at the School of the Environment at Yale University. He is a biological anthropologist with a general interest in understanding the evolution and maintenance of social systems. His main research interest is to examine the mechanisms that maintain pair-living, sexual monogamy and biparental care and the role that sexual selection may have had in the evolution of them. He is also motivated to study living primates as an approach to understanding the evo... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Mar-14 • 157 minutes #183 – Spencer Greenberg on causation without correlation, money and happiness, lightgassing, hype vs value, and more "When a friend comes to me with a decision, and they want my thoughts on it, very rarely am I trying to give them a really specific answer, like, 'I solved your problem.' What I’m trying to do often is give them other ways of thinking about what they’re doing, or giving different framings. A classic example of this would be someone who’s been working on a project for a long time and they feel really trapped by it. And someone says, 'Let’s suppose you currently weren’t working on the project, but you could j... (@80000Hours) |
| 2024-Mar-14 • 23 minutes Mark Rowe on J.L.Austin J.L.Austin was the best known exponent of what came to be known as Ordinary Language Philosophy. He was also a war hero. In this episode of the Bio Bites strand of the Philosophy Bites podcast David Edmonds discusses Austin's life and work with his biographer Mark Rowe. (@philosophybites • @DavidEdmonds100) |
 2024-Mar-14 • 45 minutesOnline Public Shaming and the Case for Regulating Social Media Platforms Online public shaming—the practice of using the Internet to criticise perceived moral transgressions and transgressors—is commonplace. And much of it is wrongful. Its targets often suffer disproportionate harms and face abuse, doxing, and other forms of impermissible treatment. One question this raises is what should be done in response to the prevalence of wrongful public shaming online. This paper offers one part of an answer to this question. It argues that there is a compelling case for social media pla... (@CambridgePhilos) |
| 2024-Mar-14 • 35 minutes Defining Social Power Power is central to the social sciences, the humanities, and to understanding the political sphere. However, despite its significance, it has not been considered a central concept in analytic philosophy. To overcome this shortcoming, I turn to contemporary social ontology, where the concept of social power is gaining attention. I identify and define two types of social power: deontic and telic. Deontic powers are our institutional rights (positive deontic powers) and obligations (negative deontic powers), a... (@CambridgePhilos) |
| 2024-Mar-14 • 55 minutes The Best Game in Town: The Re-Emergence of the Language of Thought Hypothesis Across the Cognitive Sciences What is the structure of thought? Many philosophers and cognitive scientists think we've moved past the language of thought (LoT). They believe that instead of symbolic, logical, abstract cognition, we can simply posit deep neural nets, associative models, sensory representations, embodied/extended/etc. cognition, or some other more fashionable approach. However, experimental evidence from the study of perception, infant and animal reasoning, automatic cognition in adults, and computational modeling tells a... (@CambridgePhilos) |
| 2024-Mar-14 • 60 minutes The Zetetic Puzzle Imagine a situation in which a subject has some good reasons for believing that p is true, but the subject also knows that she could obtain conclusive reasons as to whether p is the case if she investigated a little further. It seems that in this kind of situation, the subject in question must suspend judgement and acquire the additional reasons. As some authors have pointed out, this is an intuition that classical evidentialism has difficulty accounting for. In my paper, I attempt to account for this intui... (@CambridgePhilos) |
| 2024-Mar-14 • 66 minutes Social miracles (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson) Minds Almost Meeting: Season 8, Episode 4. | View the transcript for this episode here: https://mindsalmostmeeting.c... | Imagine two smart curious friendly and basically truth-seeking people, but from very different intellectual traditions. Traditions with different tools, priorities, and ground rules. What would they discuss? Would they talk past each other? Make any progress? Would anyone want to hear them? Economist Robin Hanson and philosopher Agnes Callard decided to find out. | Visit the ... (@AgnesCallard • @robinhanson) |
| 2024-Mar-14 • 30 minutes What Is Quantum Teleportation? Quantum teleportation isn’t just science fiction; it’s entirely real and happening in laboratories today. But teleporting quantum particles and information is a far cry from beaming people through space. In some ways, it’s even more astonishing. | John Preskill, a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology, is one of the leading theoreticians of quantum computing and information. In this episode, co-host Janna Levin interviews him about entanglement, teleporting bits from coast to coast... (@QuantaMagazine • @stevenstrogatz) |
 2024-Mar-14 • 87 minutesEp. 71 - Martha Nussbaum on Anger and Forgiveness (Part 2) Part two of Martha Nussbaum's book, Anger and Forgiveness. (@Jordan_C_Myers) |
| 2024-Mar-14 • 24 minutes S3 Ep 2 - Kate Lynch on 'Causal Explanation in Science' Today's guest is Dr Kate Lynch, who will discuss the topic of 'causal explanation in science'. Kate is a philosopher of biology and a lecturer in HPS at the University of Melbourne. In this episode Kate introduces us to the difference between 'causation' and 'causal explanation', as well as difficulties involved in assessing what makes a good causal explanation. Some of Kate's research looks at medical explanations of death, including the complications that can be inv... (@TheHPSPodcast) |
| 2024-Mar-14 • 54 minutes Ramadan — the necessity of withdrawing Are periodic bouts of withdrawal from life’s urgent demands and heated debates necessary to regain a sense of our shared humanity, and to renew the commitments that sustain the moral life? (@RadioNational) |
| 2024-Mar-14 • 54 minutes Massey at 60: Randy Boyagoda on Jean Bethke Elshtain Philosopher Jean Bethke Elshtain brought up an important question during the 1993 CBC Massey Lectures: is democracy as we know it in danger? Author and critic Randy Boyagoda and IDEAS producer Sean Foley revisit Elshtain's lectures. This episode is part of a series of conversations with — and about — former Massey Lecturers to mark the 60th anniversary of Massey College, a partner in the CBC Massey Lectures. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Mar-13 • 47 minutes "A new world of animal justice" - Sabine Brels of World Animal Justice - Sentientism 189 Dr Sabine Brels is a lawyer dedicated to advancing animal protection law worldwide. She teaches international and comparative animal law and published books on animal related-issues in French and English. In the last 15 years, she directed Global Animal Law (GAL) project and worked as legal advisor for the World Federation for Animals, the Eurogroup for Animals, and Compassion in World Farming. Besides her consulting work, she is currently leading the World Animal Justice NGO that she founded in 2023. | In ... (@sentientism • @JamieWoodhouse) |
| 2024-Mar-13 • 14 minutes Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Dogmatism, Skepticism, Metaphysics - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Preamble on the peculiarities of all metaphysical knowledge, bearing upon how and why his transcendental or critical philosophy takes metaphysics beyond two other sets of positions, those of dogmatism and skepticism To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contri... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Mar-13 • 28 minutes Marc Andreessen on AI and Dynamism Might the kids be alright? (@tylercowen) |
| 2024-Mar-13 • 36 minutes THE KRAKEN OF THE BRINY DEEP 🦑🦑🦑 The sea is deep, but it’s no match for Paul and Stephen’s boundless appetite for aquatic mysteries. Follow them as they dip into the strange world of three famed squids: The Giant Squid, the Colossal Squid, and the Bigfin Squid (a BigFoot squid, really??). Then, other Unidentified Submerged Objects (USOs) like humboldt squids, giant albino crabs, boat-attacking-squids (!), megamouth sharks, whale sharks, and the myth of a Japanese moon maiden. And of course, the theory that UFOs originate from the de... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2024-Mar-13 • 65 minutes #19 - Matti Wilks: On the Psychology of Moral Motivations and Effective Altruism In today's episode, I interview Matti Wilks who is a Lecturer (Assistant Prof) in psychology at the University of Edinburgh. She is researching how our moral circles expand, why we devalue distant beings, and why some people are more altruistic than others. | | You can visit her website here: https://www.mattiwilks.com/home | | | | PODCAST INFO: | Podcast website: https://walterveit.com/podcast/ | Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/24OwJWeaWy... | Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas... (@wrwveit) |
| 2024-Mar-13 • 47 minutes Christopher Kelly on Rousseau's Rousseau, Judge of Jean-Jacques, Part I This week, Greg and Alex replace David with renowned Rousseau scholar Dr. Christopher Kelly, professor of political science at Boston College. The group focus on how to situate Rousseau, Judge of Jean-Jacques with Rousseau's other writings, how... (@thenewthinkery • @alexpriou • @GregMcBrayer3 • @Tempest1610) |
| 2024-Mar-13 • 74 minutes Marcelo Gleiser on Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience Theoretical physicist and astronomer Marcelo Glesier offers compelling argument for including the human perspective within science, and for how human experience makes science possible. He discusses his new book, The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ign... (@CloserToTruth • @RobertLawrKuhn) |
| 2024-Mar-13 • 64 minutes #318 - Virtues and the Founding Fathers: A Dialogue with Jeffrey Rosen In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Jeffrey Rosen about the impact of Classical Writers on the founding fathers. They discuss why studying the influences of the founding fathers is important, pursuit of happiness, Franklin and the impact of Pythagoras, Adams on humility, and Jefferson as a complicated figure. They discuss Washington’s self-mastery, Hamilton and Madison on moderation, and many more topics.Jeffrey Rosen is President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, where he hosts W... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Mar-13 • 54 minutes The Hague: City of Peace and Justice In a world where peace and justice can be hard to come by, The Hague in The Netherlands projects something special: the city is a base for several world courts, as well as non-governmental organizations, charities and non-profits. It's even earned itself the title of the "City of Peace and Justice." In The Fire Within Us, IDEAS takes a look at why some organizations call The Hague home. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Mar-12 • 100 minutes Episode 280: Mad Masque (with Phil Ford and J.F. Martel) Phil Ford and J.F. Martel from the great "Weird Studies" podcast join us for a whirling discussion of Edgar Allan Poe’s mesmerizing tale of decadence and disease “The Masque of the Red Death." We also talk about weird fiction more generally, why... (@verybadwizards • @peez • @tamler) |
| 2024-Mar-12 • 27 minutes Mind-body dualism and being transgender | Sophie Grace Chappell Philosopher Sophie Grace Chappell reflects on being transgender in the light of persistent philosophical questions, from Plato to John Stuart Mill. (@IAI_TV) |
| 2024-Mar-12 • 60 minutes Zombies Who’s afraid of zombification? Apparently not analytic philosophers. In episode 99 of Overthink, Ellie and David talk all about zombies and their unfortunate legacy in the thought experiments of academic philosophy. Their portrait as brain-eating and consciousness-lacking mobs is a far cry from their origins in the syncretic sorcery at the margins of Haitian Voodoo. This distance means that the uncanny zombie raises provocative questions about the problematic ways philosophy integrates and appropriates nonw... (@overthink_pod • @ellieanderphd • @DrPenaGuzman1) |
| 2024-Mar-12 • 54 minutes The Poetry of Why: Chimwemwe Undi A conversation with Winnipeg Poet Laureate Chimwemwe Undi about home, belonging, racism, living downtown, and about poetry as a vehicle for life’s big questions — as her first collection of poetry, Scientific Marvel, is set to be published. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Mar-11 • 56 minutes #911 Caleb Everett - A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think Dr. Caleb Everett is a Senior Associate Dean in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Miami and a Professor in the Anthropology Department, with a secondary appointment in Psychology. He is a member of the inaugural class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows. His work explores language, cognition and behavior across the world's cultures. His latest book is A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think. | | In this episode, we focus on A Myriad of Tongues. We discuss how so... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Mar-11 • 11 minutes Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - How Are Synthetic A Priori Cognitions Possible? - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Preamble on the peculiarities of all metaphysical knowledge, bearing upon what he takes to be a central problem that must be resolved if there is to be any genuine well-founded metaphysics, namely how it is that synthetic a priori cognitions (or judgements or propositions) are possible. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patr... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Mar-11 • 36 minutes #358 — The War in Ukraine Sam Harris speaks with Yaroslav Trofimov about the War in Ukraine. They discuss the widespread false assumptions that Russia would win a swift victory, Ukrainian attitudes toward Russia, the transformation of the Ukrainian military, Russian... (@) |
| 2024-Mar-11 • 236 minutes AMA | March 2024 Ask Me Anything episode for March 2024. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2024-Mar-11 • 47 minutes Ep. 337: Aristotle on Primary Being (Part One) Continuing for our third session on Aristotle's Metaphysics, now covering Book 7 (Zeta). What exactly is the type of being that is the chief reason why we call anything being? Aristotle says its the substantial form present in an individual animal or... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2024-Mar-11 • 28 minutes S2E10 - Cindy Friedman on Humanoid Robots and Ubuntu Ethics Today we’re joined by Cindy Friedman, a PhD candidate at the Utrecht University. We’ll be talking about Cindy's work on the ethics of humanoid robots and ubuntu ethics. If you'd like to get in touch with Cindy, you can reach her at [email protected] or on LinkedIn and ResearchGate. | Music credit: @progressivaudio (@KOosterum • @99lewiswilliams) |
| 2024-Mar-11 • 83 minutes #317 - The Five-Year Presidency: A Dialogue with Christopher Liddell In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Christopher Liddell about the five-year presidency. They discuss what is year zero and why presidential transitions are important, filling the government, and design, plan, and execution phases of year zero. They discuss the Romney transition, Trump transition, and Biden transition, standardization and flexibility with different presidents, Office of POTUS, first 200 days, the 2024 Presidential election, and many more topics. Christopher Liddell has held s... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Mar-11 • 51 minutes Episode 75: Group Responsibility and Historicism with Stephanie Collins and Niels de Haan In this episode, we talk with Stephanie Collins and Niels de Haan about whether structuralism or historicism best accounts for group responsibility.Stephanie's website: https://stephaniecollins.xyz/Niels'... website: https://sites.google.com/view/niels-de-h... paper, "Group Responsibility and Historicism": https://academic.oup.com/pq/advance-arti... https://twitter.com/thefreewillshowInsta... https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillsho... https://www.facebook.com/The-Free-Will-S... (@thefreewillshow • @taylorwcyr • @MatthewFlummer) |
| 2024-Mar-11 • 54 minutes Ian Williams: The Endless Procession of Days Giller Prize-winning novelist and poet Ian Williams (Reproduction) explores the relationship between the past and future, inspired by the Crow's Theatre's production of Anton Chekhov's classic drama, Uncle Vanya. This episode is part of a public lecture series called IDEAS at Crow's Theatre. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Mar-10 • 57 minutes The Ethics of Political Commemoration | Hans Gutbrod In this episode of 'Brain In A Vat', Hans Gutbrod addresses the gap in philosophy in understanding the ethics around statues, street names, and museums.By drawing parallels to just war theory, Gutbrod proposes a framework to navigate the complexities of commemorating historical figures and events. The discussion also touches upon the potential for altering commemorative symbols to preserve memory while adapting their messages.This episode probes the moral and aesthetic considerations of how societies rememb... (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2024-Mar-10 • 90 minutes 198 - Michael Hudson: Marxism, Economic Parasites, and Debt Cancellation Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 | | Michael Hudson is Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and President of the Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends. He researches domestic and international finance, the history of economics, and the role of debt in shaping class stratification, among many other topics. Michael was also a guest on episode 180, where he and Robinson discussed neoliberalism, industrial capitalism, and the rentier economy. In... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2024-Mar-10 • 18 minutes Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Analytic And Synthetic Judgements - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Preamble on the peculiarities of all metaphysical knowledge, bearing upon the distinction he makes between analytic and synthetic judgements. Analytic judgements do not add anything to our knowledge or understanding, though they can help us to clarify concepts. Synthetic judgements do add something new to our cognitions, because... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Mar-10 • 72 minutes Robin Reames - From Aristotle to Twitter: The Timeless Tactics of Rhetoric | STM Podcast #209 On episode 209, we welcome Robin Reames to discuss how the art of rhetoric is used to spread misinformation, how the concept of truth evolved from Ancient Greece to us, confronting fact-resistant individuals, the spectrum of misinformation and how... (@seize_podcast • @EgoEndsNow • @leonscafe31) |
| 2024-Mar-10 • 66 minutes “How Does Luck Determine Our Lives?” Jack visits with Mark Robert Rank, author of the forthcoming book, The Random Factor: How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World Around Us."What shapes our economic fortunes? Perhaps what immediately comes to mind are attributes such as education, skills or labour-market experience. Demographics such as age and your parents’ socioeconomic status might also be considered."Yet surprisingly, according to a wide range of social scientists, these factors are only able to explain about 35 per ce... (@whyradioshow) |
| 2024-Mar-10 • 60 minutes Jon Robson, "Aesthetic Testimony: An Optimistic Approach" (Oxford UP, 2022) A lot of what we claim to know we learn from other people's testimony: they tell us, and in many ordinary contexts that is enough to gain knowledge. But for many philosophers, aesthetics is different. Such pessimists about aesthetic testimony hold that facts about aesthetic properties – such as Shakespeare's Hamlet being a tragedy, or Picasso's Guernica being anti-war – can't be transmitted by testimony, and can only be learned through first-person experience. In Aesthetic Testimony: An Optimistic Approach... (@NewBooksPhil) |
| 2024-Mar-10 • 42 minutes Episode #197 ... New Atheists and cosmic purpose without God - (Zizek, Goff, Nagel) As we regularly do on this program-- we engage in a metamodernist steelmanning of different philosophical positions. Hopefully the process brings people some joy. Today we go from ideology, to New Atheism vs Creationism, to Aristotle, to Thomas Nagel, to Phillip Goff's new book called Why? The Purpose of the Universe. Sponsors: Better Help: https://www.BetterHelp.com/PHILTHIS EXCL... NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/philothis Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! Thank you so much fo... (@iamstephenwest) |
| 2024-Mar-10 • 35 minutes Episode 127, ‘The Pursuit of Happiness’ with Jeffrey Rosen (Part II - Further Analysis and Discussion) Welcome to ‘Episode 127 (Part II of II)’, where we’ll be analysing the role of virtue and the lives of the Founding Fathers. (@ThePanpsycast • @_JackSymes • @MrMarleyTeach) |
| 2024-Mar-10 • 61 minutes PEL Presents PMP#169: Doctor Who? (When?) Do you Who? Did you Who back in the day, or just from the point of the 2005 revival? Did you Who through Tennant, Smith, Capaldi... Were you still on board for Whittaker, and now as Disney+ and revival creator Russell T. Davies attempt to make this... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2024-Mar-10 • 20 minutes HPC 01. Journey of a Thousand Li: Introduction to Chinese Philosophy Introducing Chinese philosophy through the concept of "dao," a fundamental word in classical Chinese philosophy, with a range of meanings across its different traditions. (@HistPhilosophy • @ChikeJeffers) |
| 2024-Mar-09 • 56 minutes Who Are You Becoming? Existentialism and Living Well Gwendolyn Dolske and Rudy Salo welcome Philosopher J. Aaron Simmons to discuss his book Camping With Kierkegaard. What does Existentialism teach us about habits? Goals? Living in the present? Get Camping With Kierkegaard: Get 50%... (@InTheDetailsPod • @GDolske • @SaloRudy) |
| 2024-Mar-09 • 48 minutes John Locke's "Second Treatise of Government" (Part 1/2) In this episode, I cover the first half of John Locke's "Second Treatise of Government." If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphiloso... @theoryphilo... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2024-Mar-08 • 94 minutes Sense8 and TERFs We're keeping the theme going from Barbie with some weird mind connection gender stuff! We discuss the first two episodes of Sense8 and what they show us about the philosophy of TERFs, how that might be different from gender critical, and what the... (@0gPhilosophy) |
| 2024-Mar-08 • 142 minutes #182 – Bob Fischer on comparing the welfare of humans, chickens, pigs, octopuses, bees, and more "[One] thing is just to spend time thinking about the kinds of things animals can do and what their lives are like. Just how hard a chicken will work to get to a nest box before she lays an egg, the amount of labour she’s willing to go through to do that, to think about how important that is to her. And to realise that we can quantify that, and see how much they care, or to see that they get stressed out when fellow chickens are threatened and that they seem to have some sympathy for conspecifics."Those kin... (@80000Hours) |
| 2024-Mar-08 • 79 minutes #910 Daniel Simons - Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do about It Dr. Daniel Simons is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois, where he directs the Visual Cognition Laboratory. Dr. Simons studies visual cognition, perception, attention, and memory. Most of his recent research has focused on the cognitive underpinnings of our experience of a stable and continuous visual world. He is the author of The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us, and more recently, Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do about ... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Mar-08 • 11 minutes Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Metaphysical Judgements As Synthetic - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Preamble on the peculiarities of all metaphysical knowledge, bearing upon the nature of properly metaphysical judgements, cognitions, or propositions, namely that they are all synthetic a priori. This is what allows there to be any genuine advance in knowledge through metaphysics To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon si... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Mar-08 • 65 minutes The Leverhulme Series #1. Stoicism ft. Christopher Gill The Leverhulme Series is an exciting new project, where we'll interview philosophers and interdisciplinary thinkers, who are pushing the boundaries of original work through funding from the Leverhulme Trust. | | In the first episode, Isabel and Constantinos explore Stoicism with Dr. Christopher Gill. They unpack what Stoicism is, dispelling myths in 'self-help' circles and delving into Stoicism's interesting take on our relationship with nature. | | For more information on the Leverhulme Trust, visit: ht... (@ThoughtsUofg) |
| 2024-Mar-08 • 16 minutes Bonus-wag: A Fan's Recurring Dream (About Paul!) 📫💭📆 We love our loyal Chinwag listeners and we love your letters! Keep ‘em coming and we may respond to them on the air! Miss B Havin wrote to Paul and Stephen and shared a message she received in a recurring dream about Paul. Does Paul understand the message therein? What does water represent in a dream, and what’s the least lucky month of the year? Put your ears on this Bonus-Wag and find out! Paul Giamatti is an award-winning actor and producer. Stephen Asma is a professor and author specializing in t... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2024-Mar-08 • 70 minutes Talking to Humanists about Sentientism - Cross-post bonus from Podcast for Inquiry - Sentientism 188 This episode is a bonus cross-post of my discussion with Leslie Rosenblood, host of Podcast For Inquiry. Podcast For Inquiry is produced by the Center For Inquiry Canada. Leslie describes it as a podcast for scientific, skeptical, secular, rational and humanistic (and maybe now sentientst) inquiry. Make sure you go and subscribe there too. | I also wanted to extend a warm welcome to everyone who has recently joined one of our online Sentientism communities. More people join us there every day - whether they... (@sentientism • @JamieWoodhouse) |
| 2024-Mar-08 • 54 minutes Alanis Obomsawin: The Art of Listening Indigenous filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin has witnessed nearly a century of change. At 91 years old she continues to produce documentaries featuring Indigenous stories and voices. The Abenaki artist delivered the 2023 Beatty Lecture at McGill University. *This episode originally aired on Nov. 7, 2023. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Mar-08 • 123 minutes 110. The 2024 Blobscars! (w/Sean Burns) Join us and critic Sean Burns to give out silly meaningless awards to our favorite films of 2023! Who will take home the top prize? Who will win best lisp? Tune in to find out! (@cowspod • @juskhoo) |
| 2024-Mar-08 • 53 minutes Boredom The HBS hosts discuss the many paradoxes of ennui. Most of our podcast episodes are about “big” issues, “interesting” topics, “provocative” conversations, or “important” matters… but the truth is that the overwhelming majority of our day-to-day lives is dominated by ennui. Boredom. Tedium. Lethargy. Lassitude. Or, in more common parlance, “the blahs.”Voltaire famously claimed (in The Prodigal Son) “all genres are allowed, except the boring genre." It’s easy to see why this is the case for artistic works of ... (@hotelbarpodcast • @DrLeighMJohnson • @c_fpeterson • @rickleephilos) |
| 2024-Mar-08 • 19 minutes #81: Are you trying to live a final draft life? Are you hesitant to make certain changes in your life, like changing careers or ending a relationship, because you don't want the time and energy you've invested in your life so far to be wasted? If so, you're not alone - but you're wrong. Recognising that aspects of your life aren't working for you doesn't mean your efforts have been wasted. Your life isn't an essay draft, where bad choices and wrong turns get cut from the final draft. You're holding yourself back, a... (@AcademicImp • @rebecca_roache) |
| 2024-Mar-08 • 109 minutes #316 - The Brain From the Inside-Out: A Dialogue with György Buzsáki In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with György Buzsaki about the inside out framework of the brain. They discuss the outside-in vs. inside-out framework for understanding the brain, causation as problematic for self-organizing systems, and perception and action on thought. They mention the Bayesian brain model, reinforcement and reward, brain systems and neural syntax, space and time within the hippocampus, the future of using the inside-out framework, and many more topics. György Buzsáki is a n... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Mar-07 • 89 minutes Episode 42 - The Soul's Task on Earth with Dorita Sleur Dorita Sleur has been a spiritual teacher and guide for more than 20 years. She works with people tot become aware of the influence of Light in their lives. In her work, the Light creates balance in every area. If we learn to live from the light, t... (@lifeplatoscave • @MarioVeen) |
| 2024-Mar-07 • 91 minutes #909 Paul Halpern: The Allure of the Multiverse Dr. Paul Halpern is Professor of Physics at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. Dr. Halpern's areas of expertise include the history of physics, cultural aspects of physics, and theoretical astrophysics & cosmology. He is the author of numerous books, the most recent one being The Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and Parallel Universes. | | In this episode, we focus on The Allure of the Multiverse. We start by talking about how old the ideas of the multiverse is, and th... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Mar-07 • 59 minutes Consumerism (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard) Minds Almost Meeting: Season 8, Episode 3. | View the transcript for this episode here: https://mindsalmostmeeting.com... | Imagine two smart curious friendly and basically truth-seeking people, but from very different intellectual traditions. Traditions with different tools, priorities, and ground rules. What would they discuss? Would they talk past each other? Make any progress? Would anyone want to hear them? Economist Robin Hanson and philosopher Agnes Callard decided to find out. | Visit the ... (@AgnesCallard • @robinhanson) |
| 2024-Mar-07 • 14 minutes Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Mathematical Judgements As Synthetic - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Preamble on the peculiarities of all metaphysical knowledge, bearing upon the nature of mathematical judgements, properly speaking. Kant argues, against previous thinkers, that properly mathematical judgements are not analytic but synthetic a priori. There is still scope for analytic judgements within mathematics that help to ... (@philosopher70) |
 2024-Mar-07 • 56 minutesThe morality of forgiveness Live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. (@BBCRadio4) |
| 2024-Mar-07 • 22 minutes Michel Foucault & The Age of Consent In this episode, I unpack the infamous 1977 letter signed by many French intellectuals including Simone de Beauvoir, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Félix Guattari, Jean-Francois Lyotard, and others critiquing France's consent laws. If you want to s... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2024-Mar-07 • 43 minutes Music, taste and AI When you think about the music you like (or don't like), what does it tell you about your taste? Do you think you have good taste? And if you do, why? What is it about music that determines good or bad taste, and is it possible to cultivate the former? (@DavidPZone) |
| 2024-Mar-07 • 54 minutes Swinging and Singing: The Violin For musician and radio producer, David Schulman, the violin can swing and sing like nothing else. Schulman recently travelled to the north of Italy to try and discover the original trees from which Antonio Stradivari made his masterpieces. It’s a journey of surprise and delight. *This episode originally aired on Nov. 28, 2023. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Mar-07 • 109 minutes Ep. 70 - Martha Nussbaum's Anger and Forgiveness (Part 1) In the second episode of our series on anger, we dive into the first chapters of Martha Nussbaum's recent book, Anger and Forgiveness. The first two chapters focus on the myth of payback's value. (@Jordan_C_Myers) |
| 2024-Mar-07 • 31 minutes S3 Ep 1 - Lorraine Daston & Peter Harrison on 'Scientists and History' Today's episode is dedicated to the often complex, sometimes fraught relationship between practicing scientists and the history of science. To discuss this topic, we are joined by two of the most distinguished scholars in the history of science, Lorraine Daston and Peter Harrison, who recently co authored an article for Aeon, urging for a fresh dialogue between scientists and historians. In the interview we cover the history of these tensions, tracing them back to the science wars of the 1990s, as well... (@TheHPSPodcast) |
| 2024-Mar-07 • 67 minutes 84 | Sex in Philosophy w/ Dr. Manon Garcia In this episode, we talk with Manon Garcia about the problem of women’s submissiveness in feminist philosophy. Then we discuss longstanding feminist criticisms of the concept of consent, what we want from consent in the first place, and what it could mean in the future. And we wonder if the reason it’s so hard to talk about sex in philosophy is that we don’t really think about it philosophically enough, which is too bad, since as it turns out, good sex is an integral part of the good life. leftofphilosophy... (@leftofphil • @whitherutopia • @oglynwil • @classreductress) |
| 2024-Mar-07 • 20 minutes S3 - Samara & Carmelina on 'Seeing Science Differently' Welcome to Season 3 of the HPS podcast!It's so great to be back.Kicking off our third season, we have a new addition to the team, Carmelina Contarino.Carmelina is an Honours student in HPS at the University of Melbourne and will be joining Samara in producing the podcast, as well as hosting several of the episodes.In today's episode, Samara and Carmelina dive into what has become a bit of a theme of the podcast, 'Seeing Science Differently'. Science isn't always as neat or as steri... (@TheHPSPodcast) |
| 2024-Mar-07 • 53 minutes Q+A on “the wisdom of crowds” Waleed Aly, Scott Stephens and philosopher Stephanie Collins field questions from a live studio audience on crowd-behaviour, conformity and the importance of dissent. (@RadioNational) |
| 2024-Mar-06 • 50 minutes Episode 217 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 24 - Does Luck Control Whether An Epicurean Is Happy? Welcome to Episode 217 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the most complete presentation of Epicurean philosophy left to us from the ancient world. Each week we walk you through the Epicurean texts, and we discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. If you find the Epicurean worldview attractive, we invite you to join us in the study of Epicurus at EpicureanFriends.com, where you will find a discussion thread for each of o... (@NewEpicurean) |
| 2024-Mar-06 • 86 minutes UNLOCKED - Immediacy w/ Anna Kornbluh This week, the fellas are back with Anna Kornbluh. When we spoke with Alenka Zupančič recently, she told us we should interview Anna about her new book Immediacy Or, The style of Too Late Capitalism. So we did! | We’re talking mediation, the negative, Van Gogh immersive experiences, Sartre, Žižek’s early work on film, and the end of futurity. | Enjoy! | (@zizekand) |
| 2024-Mar-06 • 56 minutes Marc Rowan on Financial Market Evolution and University Governance Why new blueprints are needed from asset management to academic excellence. (@tylercowen) |
| 2024-Mar-06 Wonderfeel - Kathryn Williams Wonderfeel - Kathryn Williams discusses Wonderfeel, founded by Peter Siahna Wadham, including the differences in welcoming our full range of feeling and the deep richness this choice generally brings to our lives. (@radphilosophy) |
| 2024-Mar-06 • 62 minutes ATLANTIS & THE DEVIL'S TRIANGLE 🔱🔱🔱 Paul and Stephen wade through the deep waters and history of such aquatic mysteries as Atlantis and The Bermuda Triangle. Listen in as Stephen details Plato’s telling of Atlantis, with all its craven needs, imperialist ambitions and loss of virtue. The weird link between Atlantis and UFO/paranormal activity is legend, but did you know of the lasers in Atlantis and its connection to The Bermuda Triangle? It’s also a thing! Then Paul introduces Charles Berlitz (yes that Berlitz) who popularized The Ber... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2024-Mar-06 • 59 minutes Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped ft. Tom Cleveland & James Guess This week, Alex and Greg replace David with not one, but two guests! Tom Cleveland rejoins the show with a new title as the Executive Director of the American Political Tradition Project at the Jack Miller Center, and James Guess, with a PhD from the... (@thenewthinkery • @alexpriou • @GregMcBrayer3 • @Tempest1610) |
| 2024-Mar-06 • 89 minutes Episode 164: Towards a Weird Materialism: On Expressionism in Cinema JF and Phil discuss the expressionist sensibility in the history of film. (@weirdstudies • @JF_Martel) |
| 2024-Mar-06 • 54 minutes Massey at 60: Tanya Talaga 2018 Massey Lecturer Tanya Talaga reflects on the legacy of cultural genocide, and on how the stories of Indigenous peoples offer lessons for Canada today. This episode is part of a series of conversations with — and about — former Massey Lecturers to mark the 60th anniversary of Massey College, a partner in the CBC Massey Lectures. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Mar-06 • 27 minutes Does Consciousness Require a Radical Explanation? Does consciousness require a radical explanation? What causes consciousness? Our inner sense of awareness is at once most mundane and most bizarre. No explanation makes sense. Here are three novel candidates for explaining consciousness. Featuring ... (@CloserToTruth • @RobertLawrKuhn) |
| 2024-Mar-06 • 18 minutes Episode 209: Freewill and Determinism Part 1 You were always going to end up here, why fight it? Come and join Danny and Dr, Mike from yo... (@PhilosophyWtf) |
| 2024-Mar-06 • 103 minutes #315 - Regulating AI Systems: A Dialogue with Robert Trager In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Robert Trager about international governance of AI systems. They discuss why questions of AI are important, defining intelligence and machine learning, and provide an overview of the current landscape of AI systems. They talked about the ethics and governance for AI systems, how other governance models have been used, controlling the creativity of AI, civilian AI, military AI, and enforcement rules with military AI. They also mention the alignment problem,... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Mar-06 • 61 minutes “Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered” with Professor Don Norman Has human behaviour pushed our world to the edge, especially the mistaken belief that the earth’s resources are infinite? And can a shift in human behaviour rescue us? The challenges we face, from collapsing social structures to the climate crisis, have been centuries in the making. It is immensely critical that we take immediate and decisive actions; we must transform ourselves to improve our circumstances. In his new book “Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered” Don Norman ... (@BTG_ie) |
| 2024-Mar-05 • 48 minutes S3: E13 Your Mind on Emotion Regulation & Conflict with Dr. Rachel Low When something's bothering you, do you tend to suppress those emotions or sit with them? Dr. Rachel Low joins us to discuss her research on emotion regulation in individuals, relationships, and families. Learn about how parents' emotion regulation styles might spill over to their children, and how just one person suppressing their emotions in a romantic relationship can undermine relationship satisfaction. Beth and Ava talk about their own patterns of emotion regulation. (@bethfisher_1 • @avamadesousa) |
| 2024-Mar-05 • 16 minutes 584: The 2024 Dionysus Awards More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/202... movies of the past year challenged your assumptions and made you think about things in new ways? Josh and guest co-host Jeremy Sabol present our annual Dionysus Awards for the most thought-provoking movies of 2023, including: • Best Film about Social Justice that Wonders What Makes a Good Film about Social Justice • Most Disturbing Exploration of a Female Criminal Who Thinks She May Be Innocent • Most Moving Film (or TV show!) about Difficult Choices (@philtalkradio) |
| 2024-Mar-05 • 14 minutes Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Differentiating Metaphysics As A Science - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Preamble on the peculiarities of all metaphysical knowledge, bearing upon how Metaphysics is to be differentiated as a science from other sciences. Kant tells us that there are three main differentiating factors, namely the object, the sources of cognition, and the kind of cognition. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreo... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Mar-05 • 44 minutes Dostoevsky vs Nietzsche | Kathleen Higgins, Janne Teller, Oliver Ready Kathleen Higgins is a leading continental philosopher at the University of Texas, Austin. Her research interests are broad and include the philosophy of aesthetics, emotions and music. Oliver Ready is a celebrated translator and literary scholar. His translation of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment has received critical acclaim. Janne Teller is a critically acclaimed writer whose novels include Odin's Island, and Come, an existential novel about ethics in art and modern life. Niki Seth-Smith hosts. (@IAI_TV) |
 2024-Mar-05 • 59 minutesEp. 113: What is Postmodernism? (Part II) In this episode, Giuseppe and Anthony continue their conversation on postmodernism -- this time focusing on potential critiques and social-political consequences. (@LoveofSophiaPOD) |
| 2024-Mar-05 • 68 minutes Charlotte Witt, "Social Goodness: The Ontology of Social Norms" (Oxford UP, 2023) In our day-to-day lives, we are subject to normative requirements, obligations, and expectations that originate in the social roles we occupy. For example, professors ought to pursue the truth, while parents ought to be supportive of their children. What’s interesting is that these role-specific requirements seem to befall us. We do not choose them. This raises the puzzle of what accounts for their normativity. In Social Goodness: The Ontology of Social Norms (Oxford University Press 2023), Charlotte Witt p... (@NewBooksPhil) |
| 2024-Mar-05 • 54 minutes Papyrus: Exploring the Invention of the Book The book may well be the greatest invention since the wheel, according to author Irene Vallejo. She traces the history of this miraculous invention with a book of her own, Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Mar-05 • 39 minutes Ep. 78 Ban Zhao and Christine de Piaza: Women Who Shaped Philosophy, Part 2 Throughout the history of philosophy, women have been active, yet markedly absent from much of the scholarship. If you go into a book store or do a google search for the greatest philosophers, you would most likely see one or two women, at most on any given list. How can those two things coexist together? In Han Dynasty China, a female scholar was employed by the Emporer to write on the role of women. Plagued by the looming accusations of withcery and devil worship, a woman in the Medieval France wrote a tr... (@opendoorphil • @d_parsonage) |
| 2024-Mar-04 • 32 minutes #357 — America & World Order Sam Harris speaks with Bret Stephens about America’s place in the world. They discuss the waning Pax Americana, American isolationism, Republican fondness for Putin, Tucker Carlson, why America should support Ukraine, the significance of Alexei... (@) |
| 2024-Mar-04 • 14 minutes Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - The Prolegomena And The First Critique - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Preface that outlines the relationship between the Prolegomena and his earlier published Critique of Pure Reason. The Prolegomena as a work addresses some of the obscurity that Kant admits is present in the Critique, and is structured in an analytic rather than synthetic style of presentation To support my ongoing work, go to m... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Mar-04 • 103 minutes #908 Joanna Malinowska: Race and Ethnicity in Science and Medicine, and Human-Robot Interactions Dr. Joanna Malinowska is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. The subject of her research is a broadly understood philosophy of science, with particular emphasis on philosophy of medicine, philosophy of neurosciences and philosophy of psychology. She explores connections between these areas and questions in bioethics, epistemology, ontology, and methodology. Her current focus is on the conceptualization and use of ethnoracial categories in medicine. | | In thi... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Mar-04 • 90 minutes 268 | Matt Strassler on Relativity, Fields, and the Language of Reality I talk with physicist Matt Strassler about fundamental physics and the ways that we often talk about it. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2024-Mar-04 • 54 minutes The Way of the Trucker An Ontario trucking union predicts a shortage of 30,000 truckers in Canada as old hands retire faster than new ones take on the job. IDEAS producer Tom Howell visits a trucking school in northern Ontario, where recruits consider their options, and the road ahead. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Mar-04 • 53 minutes Ep. 336: Aristotle on Being and Non-Contradiction (Part Two) Continuing on Book 4 (Gamma) of the Metaphysics. We discuss further the relations between the logical and metaphysical versions of the principle of non-contradiction and how Aristotle characterizes relativists like Protagoras who he claims violate... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2024-Mar-04 • 109 minutes #314 - A Central American Exodus and the Reshaping of America: A Dialogue with Jonathan Blitzer In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Jonathan Blitzer about Central American immigrants coming to the United States and the evolving relationship in the region. They talk about the emphasis on Central America and, more specifically, El Salvador, when discussing immigration. They discuss the many narrative accounts of immigrants from El Salvador and some of the background information on El Salvador. They provide some of the history of El Salvador and the many brutal aspects of the 12+ years ci... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Mar-03 • 79 minutes Blue Velvet Ryan and Todd interpret David Lynch's Blue Velvet by paying special attention to the Kantian dimension of the film. They consider the film in terms of the thing-in-itself and the sublime. (@UVMcas) |
| 2024-Mar-03 • 15 minutes #18 - Improving Invertebrate Welfare You can find the paper here: | Browning, H. & Veit, W. (2020). Improving invertebrate welfare. Animal Sentience 29(4). http://doi.org/10.51291/2377-7478.1585 [Download] | | PODCAST INFO: | Podcast website: https://walterveit.com/podcast/ | Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/24OwJWeaWy... | Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wa... | RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/ed331d30/podcast/rss | YouTube Full Episodes: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV0j8... | YouTube Clips: https://www.youtub... (@wrwveit) |
| 2024-Mar-03 • 76 minutes Louis King - Aim4theheart: How 2Pac & Emotional Literacy Inspire My Mission | STM Podcast #208 On episode 208, we welcome Louis King to discuss Aim4theheart, working with Leila Steinberg, how 2Pac inspired Louis and Leon, emotional literacy and learning how to access and understand feelings, meeting Edi Mean of the Outlawz, Louis’ musical... (@seize_podcast • @EgoEndsNow • @leonscafe31) |
| 2024-Mar-03 • 17 minutes Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - David Hume's Spur To Kants Thinking - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Preface bearing upon how David Hume's critical examination of causality - the necessary connection between causes and effects - broke Kant's "dogmatic slumber" and spurred him to examine the possibility of metaphysics in a radical manner. This would lead to the work contained in the Critique of Pure Reason To support my ongoin... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Mar-03 • 61 minutes Facial Distortions and Prosopometamorphopsia | Brad Duchaine In this special episode of Brain in a Vat, Brad Duchaine from the Psychological and Brain Sciences Department at Dartmouth discusses prosopometamorphopsia (PMO) – a condition where individuals see distorted faces. | The episode explores various manifestations of PMO, including seeing demonic features, dragons, or entirely different faces, and distinguishes it from prosopagnosia (face blindness). It delves into the neurological basis of PMO, touching upon structural and functional differences in the brains o... (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2024-Mar-03 • 87 minutes 197 - Martha Nussbaum: Justice for Animals Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 | | Martha Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, with appointments in the Department of Philosophy and the Law School. Martha is among the most recognized philosophers today. Over the course of her career, she has made numerous major contributions to ancient philosophy, ethics, political philosophy, the philosophy of law, and other areas. Martha’s most recent book is Justice for Animals: Our Collective Re... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2024-Mar-03 • 18 minutes HoP 440 - Longitudinal Studies - Exploration and Science Iberian expeditions to the Americas inspire scientists, and Matteo Ricci’s religious mission to Asia becomes an encounter between European and Chinese philosophy. (@HistPhilosophy) |
| 2024-Mar-03 • 10 minutes 535: Should All Ages Be Equal? More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/sho... determines a lot about your position in society—what activities you can do, what benefits you can access, and what rights and responsibilities you have. While it seems appropriate to treat people at different stages of life differently, we also consider certain kinds of unequal treatment unjust. So when should we treat people of different ages differently? And when does it become ageism or age discrimination? When does a disadvantage for an age group turn ... (@philtalkradio) |
| 2024-Mar-02 • 89 minutes PEL Presents NEM#212: Graham Parker's Hard Graft Graham has released 25+ studio albums of soul-infused British singer-songwriter goodness since 1976, first with the Rumour, but often in the second half of his career playing live entirely solo. We discuss "Lost Track of Time" by Graham Parker and the... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2024-Mar-02 • 11 minutes Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Problems With Metaphysics As A Science - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it on his discussion in the Preface, in which he raises several problems with metaphysics of his time as a science. These include the lack of universal agreement or consensus, the advances of all the other sciences, and the lack of any settled criteria for the discipline. in Kant's view, it is time to ask the question whether metaphysics as a science is even possi... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Mar-02 • 30 minutes John Locke's "First Treatise of Government" In this episode, I cover John Locke's "First Treatise of Government." Tune in next week for the much-more-important Second Treatise. If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphiloso... pay... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2024-Mar-01 • 48 minutes Episode 65: Boris Dralyuk on Nabokov’s Pnin In this episode, I speak with my colleague at TU,… (@eudaimoniapod • @jennfrey) |
| 2024-Mar-01 • 97 minutes #181 – Laura Deming on the science that could keep us healthy in our 80s and beyond "The question I care about is: What do I want to do? Like, when I'm 80, how strong do I want to be? OK, and then if I want to be that strong, how well do my muscles have to work? OK, and then if that's true, what would they have to look like at the cellular level for that to be true? Then what do we have to do to make that happen? In my head, it's much more about agency and what choice do I have over my health. And even if I live the same number of years, can I live as an 80-year-old running every day happi... (@80000Hours) |
| 2024-Mar-01 • 52 minutes #907 Katarina Kovačević: Epistemic Responsibility and Strategic Ignorance ------------------Support the channel------------ | Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter | PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter | PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy | PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l | PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz | PayPal Subscription 10 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y9r3fc9m | PayPal Subscription 20 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y95uvkao | | ------------------Follow me on--------------------- | Facebook: ... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Mar-01 • 15 minutes Bonus-wag: A Happy Medium 👐🏼✝️👐🏼 Paul and Stephen have a few more questions for the "Long Island Medium," Theresa Caputo. Listen in to hear how she learned to interpret the messages she receives from departed souls and spirits? How Catholics respond to her abilities, and do demons and negativity in the spirit world get her down? And does she fear losing her gifts? T his bonus is Medium-well! Get it? Dig in Waggers! Paul Giamatti is an award-winning actor and producer. Stephen Asma is a professor and author specializing in the phi... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2024-Mar-01 • 12 minutes World In My Eyes In this episode we contemplate the problems of silence and unbelief through the eyes of Jean Paul Sartre and Frederick Nietzsche. Do these two great atheist philosophers agree, fundamentally, with the great Christian philosophers? Take up... (@RedLetterPhil) |
| 2024-Mar-01 • 28 minutes The philosophy of twins This week we're exploring our enduring cultural fascination with identical twins, asking what drives it, and what philosophical questions around selfhood and identity are raised by twinship. (@DavidPZone) |
| 2024-Mar-01 • 54 minutes Herodotus: The Power and Peril of Story Herodotus was committed to understanding the human causes of conflict and war. He gathered stories — some believable, others not — to show how different cultures understand themselves. Readings for this documentary by writer Michael Ondaatje. *This episode originally aired on Oct. 16, 2023. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Mar-01 • 70 minutes Breaking Things at Work (with Gavin Mueller) The HBS hosts discuss how the Luddites were right about why we hate our jobs. The term “luddite” generally functions as an insult these days. It is something people are accused of, and a term that no one would claim for themselves. To adopt and adapt to new technologies is part of what it means to be progressive and modern, not to mention hip. However, the history of actually existing technologies paints a different picture, technologies from the laptop to the cellphone have been used to extend the working ... (@hotelbarpodcast • @DrLeighMJohnson • @c_fpeterson • @rickleephilos) |
| 2024-Mar-01 • 90 minutes #313 - The Mongol Storm: A Dialogue with Nicholas Morton In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Nicholas Morton about the Mongol empire. They discuss the background overview of Seljuck Turks, Karwazman Empire, and how the Mongols conquered and governed administratively. They talk about the environmental scope of the Mongols, religious tolerance, centralized hierarchy, the fifth crusade, how the Mongols splintered, and many more topics. Nicholas Morton is Associate Professor of History at Nottingham Trent University. He is a member of the Centre for t... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Feb-29 • 44 minutes #906 Suthan Krishnarajan: Regime Instability and Support for Democracy and Autocracy Dr. Suthan Krishnarajan is Associate Professor in Political Science at Aarhus University. His research agenda seeks to understand and explain political regime instability. Broadly speaking, a political regime is the rules that determine who can access power, and how, in a given country. In democracies, leaders are chosen in competitive, free, and fair elections; in autocracies, leaders access power through alternative means. In his research, he examines why such regimes sometimes endure and at other times b... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Feb-29 • 22 minutes Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Rachel Rosen, Nexus-6 Android This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the character Rachel Rosen, who is a rather unusual Nexus-6 Android owned directly by the Rosen Corporation. She interacts with Rick Deckard in a number of ways, with her motivations eventually becoming clear late in the novel. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Feb-29 • 77 minutes Debating Moral Realism with Chris Kavanagh My guest this week is Chris Kavanagh, cohost of Decoding the Gurus and a cognitive anthropologist working at the psychology department at Rikkyo university in Japan. I have him on to discuss a recent episode of theirs about metaethics and debate the case for moral realism. Plus we talk about their recent free will episode in the VIP segment. Enjoy! Decoding the Gurus: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/... by GW Rodriguez Sibling Pods: Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/ Suppor.... (@ETVPod) |
| 2024-Feb-29 • 27 minutes Podcast episode 37: Interview with Michael Lynch on conversation analysis and ethnomethodology In this interview, we talk to Michael Lynch about the history of conversation analysis and its connections to ethnomethodology. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 37 Button, Graham, Michael Lynch and Wes Sharrock (2022) Ethnomethodology,…Read more › (@hiphilangsci • @TeapotLinguist) |
| 2024-Feb-29 • 9 minutes PREVIEW: Immediacy w/ Anna Kornbluh This week, the fellas are back with Anna Kornbluh. When we spoke with Alenka Zupančič recently, she told us we should interview Anna about her new book Immediacy, or The style of Too Late Capitalism. So we did! | | We’re talking mediation, the negative, Van Gogh immersive experiences, Sartre, Žižek’s early work on film, and the end of futurity. | | This is a PATREON preview of our 90 minute interview, for the full episode and to SUPPORT the podcast LISTEN HERE! | | Our next interview is with MLADEN DOL... (@zizekand) |
| 2024-Feb-29 • 31 minutes What Is the Nature of Time? Time seems linear to us: We remember the past, experience the present and predict the future, moving consecutively from one moment to the next. But why is it that way, and could time ultimately be a kind of illusion? In this episode, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek speaks with host Steven Strogatz about the many “arrows” of time and why most of them seem irreversible, the essence of what a clock is, how Einstein changed our definition of time, and the unexpected connection between time and o... (@QuantaMagazine • @stevenstrogatz) |
| 2024-Feb-29 • 54 minutes Christina Sharpe on Ordinary Notes — Blackness in Canada Christina Sharpe's award-winning book, Ordinary Notes, explores the complexity of Black life — blending memoir, history, cultural and political critique. She argues that the experience of Black people is misunderstood — but can be contested, and healed, by Black creativity, and community. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Feb-29 • 90 minutes The Sherminator Josh and M review part 1 (of 3) of Michael Shermer's 2022 book, "Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational." (@PodGuideCon • @monkeyfluids) |
| 2024-Feb-29 • 53 minutes How much credence should we give to “the wisdom of crowds”? Ever since Plato, “crowds” have been associated with irrationality, emotivism, conformism, short-term thinking, and herd-like behaviour. But what if it turns out that crowds are collectively more intelligent than their individual members? (@RadioNational) |
| 2024-Feb-28 • 67 minutes Disagreement and alienation (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson, with Berislav Marušić) Minds Almost Meeting: Season 8, Episode 2. | View the transcript for this episode here: https://mindsalmostmeeting.com/epi... | Imagine two smart curious friendly and basically truth-seeking people, but from very different intellectual traditions. Traditions with different tools, priorities, and ground rules. What would they discuss? Would they talk past each other? Make any progress? Would anyone want to hear them? Economist Robin Hanson and philosopher Agnes Callard decided to find out. | Visit the ... (@AgnesCallard • @robinhanson) |
| 2024-Feb-28 • 22 minutes Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Mercerism As Swindle And Truth This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the expose by Buster Friendly of Mercer as a fraud and Mercerism as a "swindle", as well as how and why "nothing changes" as a result of this revelation. 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/R... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Feb-28 • 29 minutes #356 — Islam & Freedom Sam Harris and Rory Stewart debate whether Islam poses a unique threat to open societies. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at . Learning how to train your mind is... (@) |
| 2024-Feb-28 • 35 minutes Tales of Weird NJ: Bovine, Bigfoot & Frogs 🐄🐄🐄 Recorded live from the (possibly haunted) Marines’ Memorial Theatre in San Francisco at Sketchfest 2024 with special guest, comedian, writer, and host of the Beautiful/Anonymous podcast, Chris Gethard. Chris heard about a lot of brushes with the paranormal during his time at Weird NJ, and he relays one of the spookiest stories imaginable about a band of silent, menacing cows leading the way to a flannel-clad BigFoot lying supine on a mattress. Was there LSD involved? And what’s more terrifying, encoun... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2024-Feb-28 • 76 minutes Douglas Kries on Augustine City of God This week Douglas Kries, a distinguished scholar from Gonzaga University, joins the guys as they delve into the profound insights of Augustine's monumental work, The City of God. Explore timeless philosophical questions and the enduring relevance of... (@thenewthinkery • @alexpriou • @GregMcBrayer3 • @Tempest1610) |
| 2024-Feb-28 • 57 minutes The morality of work Live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. (@BBCRadio4) |
| 2024-Feb-28 • 54 minutes A Life-giving Chord: The Power of Gospel Music A century after the founding of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music, the sounds of Black gospel — which from its very beginnings has been steeped in the idea of community — echo at last, from its classrooms. Documentary producer Alisa Siegel takes us into that room where Black gospel is helping to transform the way that students learn, create, and perform music. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Feb-28 • 27 minutes What Does the “Unreasonable Effectiveness” of Mathematics Mean? The astonishing effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences, especially in physics, borders on the mysterious—and there seems no rational explanation. Our bafflement stimulates novel thinking. How to assess the meaning of math’s “unreasonabl... (@CloserToTruth • @RobertLawrKuhn) |
| 2024-Feb-28 • 128 minutes #312 - Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and Late Ottoman State: A Dialogue with Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky about North Caucasian Muslims in the late Ottoman period. They discuss the landscape of the Caucasus, the Ottoman Empire, and the Russian Empire in the late 19th century. They talk about the diversity of ethnic groups in the Caucasus, the Ottoman Empire as a land of refugees, and why Russian troops perpetrated an ethnic cleansing. They discuss the term muhajir, four major migrations from the Caucasus, the Ottoman Empire as a refuge... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Feb-27 • 47 minutes Daredevil, Ethics, and Romance Gwendolyn and Rudy welcome back Philosophy Professor Mark D. White to discuss his book Daredevil From the Beginning to Born Again. What moral lessons do we learn from the story of Daredevil? How do we understand ability and disability... (@InTheDetailsPod • @GDolske • @SaloRudy) |
| 2024-Feb-27 • 18 minutes Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - The Mission Street Hall Of Justice This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the fake, "android-infested" Hall of Justice located not on Lombard Street but on Mission Street, where Deckard is taken after he attempts to use the Voight-Kampff empathy test on Luba Luft. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contributi... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Feb-27 • 52 minutes The Palestine Collection - Zionism and a Speech For the Future In the final part of this series, Jay dissects the definition of the words Zionism, Israel, and Judaism and delivers a Speech he wishes a future Prime Minister of Israel would give. | | The entire collection and all resources can be found here: whatjaythinks.com (@DilemmaPodcast • @jay_shapiro • @coldxman) |
| 2024-Feb-27 • 31 minutes The God desire| David Baddiel David Baddiel and Chine McDonald discuss what humanity's deep-seated longing for God's existence may mean, and why it is okay. (@IAI_TV) |
| 2024-Feb-27 • 70 minutes Episode 279: The Greenhouses We Burned Along the Way (Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" Pt. 2) David and Tamler conclude their discussion of Lee Chang-dong’s "Burning" – we talk about the hunger dance at twilight, Ben’s greenhouse burning habit, Shin Hae-mi’s mysterious disappearance, Lee Jong-su’s clumsy and doomed quest to... (@verybadwizards • @peez • @tamler) |
| 2024-Feb-27 • 54 minutes Healing the Land, Part Two: From Eden Ecology to Indigenous Ecology More than two years after a devastating fire, IDEAS visited St'át'imc territory around Lillooet, B.C. to learn how 21st-century wildfires are reshaping the landscape. This two-part series follows the work of the northern St'át'imc Nations, land guardians, and scientists from the Indigenous Ecology Lab at UBC as they seek to document the effects of wildfires and chart a new future. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Feb-27 • 60 minutes Reputation They say this one is the real deal. In Episode 98 of Overthink, Ellie and David untangle the philosophy behind the way we compare, judge, and defend our reputations. From Machiavelli’s advice to despots looking to stay popular, to disgruntled students venting on their professors online, reputation can glide you to victory or trigger your fall from grace. Exploring concepts like the Matthew effect, the homo comparativus, and informational asymmetry, your hosts ask: Why do both Joan Jett and Jean-Jacques Rous... (@overthink_pod • @ellieanderphd • @DrPenaGuzman1) |
| 2024-Feb-27 • 52 minutes Episode 216 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 23 - Why Does Epicurus Say Length Of Time Does Not Contribute To Pleasure? Welcome to Episode 216 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the most complete presentation of Epicurean philosophy left to us from the ancient world. Each week we walk you through... (@NewEpicurean) |
| 2024-Feb-26 • 102 minutes #905 David Pinsof: The Alliance Theory of Political Belief Systems, Meaning of Life, and Morality Dr. David Pinsof is a research scientist who received his PhD in Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2018. David’s research focuses on evolutionary psychology, political psychology, public opinion, and sexual behavior. His empirical work explores individual differences in mating psychology and their relation to political attitudes, mathematical models of alliance formation, and the origins of political belief systems. | | In this episode, we start by talking about the alliance the... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Feb-26 • 86 minutes "What if we saw ourselves as species diplomats?" - David Peña-Guzmán of Overthink and SFSU - Sentientism 187 David specializes in European philosophy, the history and philosophy of science and the philosophy of animal minds. He is interested in the problem of consciousness, the study of lived experience and the value of the humanities. David lives in San Francisco, California. He is Associate Professor of Humanities at San Francisco State University. He has previously worked at Johns Hopkins University, Laurentian University, Dillard University, and Emory University (where he received his Ph.D. in 2015). He is the... (@sentientism • @JamieWoodhouse) |
| 2024-Feb-26 • 20 minutes Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Empathy And Antipathy Towards Androids This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the emotional attitudes and responses that various characters in the novel have or develop towards androids. Androids lack the capacity for empathy and therefore do not exhibit it towards each other. Rick Decker find himself feeling empathy towards at least some androids. To support my ongoing work, go to my P... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Feb-26 • 65 minutes The Palestine Collection - Zionist to Palestinian Activist - Miko Peled A conversation with Miko Peled on his journey from unquestioned Zionism to becoming an active Palestinian Activist. | | In this episode we discuss: | | Jacob Israel de Haan | Where are the Palestinian Nelson Mandelas? | How Miko changed his mind | When the only thing left is violence | Why Zionism is flawed from the beginning | What the future might hold for Israel | Zionism vs Judaism | | and more... | (@DilemmaPodcast • @jay_shapiro • @coldxman) |
| 2024-Feb-26 • 113 minutes 196 - Stephen Wolfram: The Fundamental Theory of the Universe Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 | | Stephen Wolfram is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, and the creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha, and the Wolfram Language. He received his PhD in theoretical physics from Caltech when he was twenty years old. In addition to his work at the helm of Wolfram Research, he writes and researches widely across computer science, physics, mathematics, and more. This is Stephen’s second appearance on the show. In episode 102, he and Robinson discussed artificial intellig... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2024-Feb-26 • 56 minutes The morality of immigration Michael Buerk with live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's stories (@BBCRadio4) |
| 2024-Feb-26 • 73 minutes 267 | Benjamin Breen on Margaret Mead, Psychedelics, and Utopia I talk with historian Benjamin Breen about Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and their involvement with psychedelics. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2024-Feb-26 • 52 minutes Ep. 336: Aristotle on Being and Non-Contradiction (Part One) On Aristotle's Metaphysics, book 4 (aka Gamma) (ca. 340 BCE). What does studying "being" entail? It involves claiming that all beings are distinct individuals, as opposed to, for instance, an undifferentiated flux. They're thus subject to the law of... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2024-Feb-26 • 56 minutes The morality of marriage Live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. (@BBCRadio4) |
| 2024-Feb-26 • 57 minutes The moral case for veganism Michael Buerk examines the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. (@BBCRadio4) |
| 2024-Feb-26 • 54 minutes Healing the Land, Part One: After the Fire More than two years after a devastating fire, IDEAS visited St'át'imc territory around Lillooet, B.C. to learn how 21st-century wildfires are reshaping the landscape. This two-part series follows the work of the northern St'át'imc Nations, land guardians, and scientists from the Indigenous Ecology Lab at UBC as they seek to document the effects of wildfires and chart a new future. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Feb-26 • 37 minutes Episode 74: Omissions and Moral Luck with Joseph Metz In this episode, we talk with Joseph Metz about moral luck and responsibility for omissions.Joe's website: https://www.joseph-metz.com/homeJoe&apos... paper, “Omissions, Moral Luck, and Minding the (Epistemic) Gap”: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/... https://twitter.com/thefreewillshowInsta... https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillsho... https://www.facebook.com/The-Free-Will-S... (@thefreewillshow • @taylorwcyr • @MatthewFlummer) |
| 2024-Feb-26 • 133 minutes #311 - Shifting Grounds: Territory, Society, and Conflict: A Dialogue with Burak Kadercan In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Burak Kadercan about territory and nation states. They define territory and nation states, discuss empire, healthy nationalism, and ethnic groups in territories. They also define borders and discuss Westphalia, mosaic and monolithic order, Ottoman empire, war and conflict, Russia and Ukraine conflict, and many more topics. Burak Kadercan is Associate Professor of Strategy and Policy at the United States Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. He has hi... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Feb-25 • 88 minutes Constantine Sandis - From Thought to Action to Ethics | STM Podcast #207 On episode 207, we welcome Constantine Sandis to discuss free will and determinism, the Libet experiments and criticisms of them, weakness of will and whether belief in it stems from a lack of understanding decisions, the difficulty in separating... (@seize_podcast • @EgoEndsNow • @leonscafe31) |
| 2024-Feb-25 • 73 minutes Pornography and Free Speech | Nadine Strossen and Holly Lawford-Smith We welcome back Nadine Strossen for a comprehensive discussion about pornography and free speech. She highlights points from her re-released book 'Defending Pornography', explaining why she supports the freedom of sexual expression. Her thought experiment is about a respected academic who makes adult videos, raising questions about personal freedom, professional reputability, and potential harm to his university. She also explores the complex relationship between pornography, liberty, and equality, emphasiz... (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2024-Feb-25 • 23 minutes 080 - Is There a God? - Creation, Becoming, and the Fate of the Universe "Creation ex nihlilo (creation out of nothing) or "Ex nihilo nihil fit" (from nothing comes from nothing)?The notion of a creator God is fundamental to Western religions. But is it true? The opening of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible, studied so long and hard by the Kabbalists suggests so, and the Big Bang theory gave reason for many to believe the cosmological argument for God (everything that began to exist has a cause). But the newest scientific data suggests something preceded the Big Bang.... (@CunningofGeist) |
| 2024-Feb-25 • 20 minutes Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Mercerism And The Empathy Box This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the religion and life philosophy of Mercerisim, centered around the figure of Wilbur Mercer, the practice of using empathy boxes, and the experience of fusion with Mercer and other minds while one uses the empathy box. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Feb-25 • 37 minutes Episode 127, ‘The Pursuit of Happiness’ with Jeffrey Rosen (Part I - The Founding Fathers) Welcome to ‘Episode 127 (Part I of II)’, where we’ll be discussing the lives and philosophies of Founding Fathers. (@ThePanpsycast • @_JackSymes • @MrMarleyTeach) |
| 2024-Feb-25 • 51 minutes HAP 142 - Final Chat with Chike Jeffers How Africana philosophy looked to a young Chike Jeffers, coming into the field in the early 21st century. (@HistPhilosophy • @ChikeJeffers) |
| 2024-Feb-24 • 38 minutes Episode #196 ... The improbable Slavoj Zizek - Part 1 Today we give an introduction to the thinking of Slavoj Zizek-- at least as much as is possible in ~35 mins. The goal is for this to be a primer for the rest of the series. Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Sponsors: AG1: https://www.DrinkAg1.com/philo Better Help: https://www.BetterHelp.com/PHILTHIS LMNT... https://www.DrinkLMNT.com/philo Website... https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreo... https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www... (@iamstephenwest) |
| 2024-Feb-24 • 50 minutes Episode 215 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 22 - The Epicurean View Of Happiness Welcome to Episode 215 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the most complete presentation of Epicurean philosophy left to us from the ancient world. Each week we walk you through the Epicurean texts, and we discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. If you find the Epicurean worldview attractive, we invite you to join us in the study of Epicurus at EpicureanFriends.com, where you will find a discussion thread for each of o... (@NewEpicurean) |
| 2024-Feb-24 • 87 minutes The Palestine Collection - Resistance or Terror? - Richard English A conversation with Richard English who dares ask the question "Does Terrorism Work?" | | In this episode we discuss: | | The IRA | The Troubles | Hamas | Al Qaeda | Jewish Terrorists | Whether Israel is an example of successful Terrorism | The motivations of terrorists | How to evaluate the success of terrorists | Deciphering the intent of terrorists | How terrorist motivations change when they take power | and more... | 1948 Einstein and Arendt letter to the NY Times | | More information and... (@DilemmaPodcast • @jay_shapiro • @coldxman) |
| 2024-Feb-24 • 39 minutes Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (Part 5/5) In this episode, I cover chapters 32-47 of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan." Episode 1: Ch. 1-9 Episode 2: Ch. 10-16 Episode 3: Ch. 17-23 Episode 4: Ch. 24-31 Episode 5: Ch. 32-47 If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https:... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2024-Feb-24 • 75 minutes Is it Ok to Own a Gun? Ryan W. Davis, a philosophy professor at Brigham Young University, joins Spencer Case to discuss the ethics and politics of gun ownership in the US. Check out his new book, Why it's OK to Own a Gun (Routledge, 2024). (@ADigressions • @SpencerJayCase) |
| 2024-Feb-23 • 73 minutes #904 Liuba Papeo: Social Perception, and Processing Social Information Dr. Liuba Papeo is a tenured researcher at the Institut des Sciences Cognitives "Marc Jeannerod" of Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), and Principal Investigator of the research program “THEMPO” funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant. She is a Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience, with a M.Sc. Psychology. After her Ph.D. (2010, SISSA Trieste), she joined the Department of Psychology at Harvard University as a Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellow (2011-2013). She completed the... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Feb-23 • 95 minutes Barbie Is Barbie really a Barbie girl? And in what way is this really a Barbie world? How do we assess whether life in plastic really is fantastic, not to mention the questionable principles of consent inherent in the idea that you can undress her... (@0gPhilosophy) |
| 2024-Feb-23 • 23 minutes Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - The Voight-Kampff Test - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the Voight-Kampff Empathy Test used by bounty-hunters to distinguish between androids and humans. We cover how the test works, whether or not it is or remains a valid instrument, representative questions from the test, and who the test is given to in the course of the novel. To support my ongoing work, go to ... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Feb-23 • 72 minutes #310 - Comparative Cognition: A Dialogue with Nicola Clayton In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Nicola Clayton about cognition across many animals. They define cognition in humans and in animals, intelligence, using magic to understand cognition in animals, embodied mind in animals, and comparative cognition as a type of convergent evolution. They discuss difficulties in using human measures for evaluating animal cognition, New Caledonian crows and their intelligence, consciousness, the future of comparative cognition research, and many more topics.N... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Feb-23 • 57 minutes #51. Non-Ideal Epistemology This week, Adam and Calum are joined by Professor Robert McKenna from the University of Liverpool. Tune in as they delve into the depths of non-ideal epistemology, explore unconventional knowledge structures, the impact of biases, and more! | | (@ThoughtsUofg) |
| 2024-Feb-23 • 26 minutes Bonus-wag: Pizzagate and Psychic Goldfish 🙋🏻♂️🍕🖋️ Paul, Stephen, and comedian Christ Gethard answer the weirdly awesome questions from our live audience at Sketchfest 2024. Have you noticed conspiracy theories have gone from “fun” to “crazy”? You have? Perfect segue to Chris’s rumored involvement with Pizzagate and the real reason behind that fake (but really creepy!) satanic ritual on The Chris Gethard Show with Will Ferrell (uh, ratings!?). Paul fields a doozy of an audience question and sidesteps it masterfully. More Norcal weirdness, Mount ... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2024-Feb-23 • 62 minutes The Palestine Collection - '48 Never Ended - Gideon Levy A conversation with Haaretz journalist Gideon Levy where we take the pulse of Israel and discuss how he came to question the Zionist project and where we might go from here. | | In this episode he discusses: | | Two State Solutions | What Israelis know | How America ruined Israel | Why journalists censor themselves | The power of American Jews to change things | If there is any hope | Does Israel have a plan? | | More information and recommendations at whatjaythinks.com | | (@DilemmaPodcast • @jay_shapiro • @coldxman) |
| 2024-Feb-23 • 29 minutes Philosophy, disability and the gut Digestive disorders are a common source of distress and social anxiety - which might seem to be an odd topic for philosophy, until you start to think about why we attach such stigma, shame and silence to issues of the gut. What does the gut tell us about our own experience of embodiment - and how can disability theory be used to shape healthier attitudes to the gut issues that plague so many of us? (@DavidPZone) |
| 2024-Feb-23 • 54 minutes How to Flourish in a Broken World The world is full of problems — our broken healthcare, out-of-reach housing, a democracy in shambles and a dying planet. Is it actually possible to fix this mess? IDEAS hears from people working to fix our most intractable problems at a time when it can feel easier to just give up. *This episode originally aired on Sept. 21, 2023. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Feb-23 • 111 minutes Ep. 69 - Anger: Seneca & Stoicism Episode 1 of a new series on the philosophy of emotion--specifically, anger. We discuss some introductory questions and Seneca's 'On Anger.' (@Jordan_C_Myers) |
| 2024-Feb-23 • 54 minutes Lying The HBS hosts parse the difference between mistakes, half-truths, embellishments, and outright lies. George Costanza (from the TV series Seinfeld) once insisted: “It’s not a lie if you believe it.” This seems both true and false. It's certainly wrong to claim that someone lied accidentally, so intention, and therefore knowing what you are saying is not true, appears to be a necessary part of what it is to lie. Yet, the “if you believe it” part often operates like a “get out of jail free" card, and none of u... (@hotelbarpodcast • @DrLeighMJohnson • @c_fpeterson • @rickleephilos) |
| 2024-Feb-23 • 16 minutes #80: What are you so afraid of? When you're procrastinating, reluctant to knuckle down and get on with your work, taking way too long to do what ought to be a straightforward task, do you respond with self-compassion and non-judgmental curiosity as you try to work out what the problem is? Thought not. Instead, you tell yourself that you're lazy and disorganised and shouldn't even have been allowed to graduate from primary school, don't you? There's a problem with that, though. You might think you're holding y... (@AcademicImp • @rebecca_roache) |
| 2024-Feb-22 • 91 minutes #903 Luis Favela - The Ecological Brain: Unifying the Sciences of Brain, Body, and Environment Dr. Luis Favela is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences (tenured) at the University of Central Florida. He is concurrently a Fellow in the Research Corporation for Science Advancement's Molecular Basis of Cognition Scialog program. His research attempts to understand mind (i.e., behavior, cognition, and consciousness) from a naturalistic and interdisciplinary perspective. He is the author of The Ecological Brain: Unifying the Sciences of Brain, Body, and Environment. | | In this epi... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Feb-22 • 51 minutes The Palestine Collection - The Problem of History Jay Shapiro breaks down arguments being presented by popular thinkers such as Sam Harris and from Zionists who defend Israel. He walks through the complications of deciphering the popularity of Islamism and Jihadism and Hamas and he outlines the mentality of "tribal essentialism".He teases a trilogy of upcoming episodes with Gideon Levy, Richard English, and Miko Peled. | | In this episode he discusses: | Deciphering IDF intentions | Settler expansion | Roman Abramovich | Birthright | Zionism as ... (@DilemmaPodcast • @jay_shapiro • @coldxman) |
 2024-Feb-22 • 54 minutesPanpsychism Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that fundamental particles have consciousness. (@BBCInOurTime) |
| 2024-Feb-22 • 56 minutes #17 - Alex Rosenberg: On Science, Philosophy, and Meaning In today's episode I talk to Alex Rosenberg - the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. https://alexrosenbergbooks.com/ | | | PODCAST INFO: | Podcast website: https://walterveit.com/podcast/ | Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/24OwJWeaWy... | Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wa... | RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/ed331d30/podcast/rss | YouTube Full Episodes: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV0j8... | YouTube Clips: https://www.youtube.com/@DrWalterVeit/sh... | S... (@wrwveit) |
| 2024-Feb-22 • 54 minutes Singing in Dark Times | Sandeep Banerjee "In the dark times, will there also be singing?" Bertolt Brecht once asked. World literature scholar Sandeep Banerjee explores the power of art in times of war — and how ghost stories can help us imagine another world. This talk kicks off a new public lecture series called IDEAS at Crow’s Theatre. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Feb-22 • 54 minutes When is it right to call some act – or someone – “evil”? What are we trying to convey when we reach for a word like “evil”? Is it something about a person’s actions or character? Is it what they do or the manner in which they do it? (@RadioNational) |
| 2024-Feb-22 • 13 minutes John Locke vs. Thomas Hobbes In this episode, I recount the differences between John Locke's Second Treatise of Government and Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan. If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphiloso... paypal.me/th... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2024-Feb-21 • 157 minutes #180 – Hugo Mercier on why gullibility and misinformation are overrated The World Economic Forum’s global risks survey of 1,400 experts, policymakers, and industry leaders ranked misinformation and disinformation as the number one global risk over the next two years — ranking it ahead of war, environmental problems, and other threats from AI.And the discussion around misinformation and disinformation has shifted to focus on how generative AI or a future super-persuasive AI might change the game and make it extremely hard to figure out what was going on in the world — or alterna... (@80000Hours) |
| 2024-Feb-21 • 10 minutes 583: Im Yunjidang More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/im-... Korean philosopher Im Yunjidang was the first Confucian to argue for women’s equality in matters of morality and to claim that women, just like men, can be sages. She also argued that it isn't just what you do that matters morally—it's also how you decide. So what does it mean to be a sage and how does someone become one? How did Im Yunjidang use traditional Confucian texts to argue for women's spiritual equality? And what did she think was important when ... (@philtalkradio) |
| 2024-Feb-21 • 63 minutes Evidence order bias (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard) Minds Almost Meeting: Season 8, Episode 1. | View the transcript for this episode here: https://mindsalmostmeeting.com/epi... | Imagine two smart curious friendly and basically truth-seeking people, but from very different intellectual traditions. Traditions with different tools, priorities, and ground rules. What would they discuss? Would they talk past each other? Make any progress? Would anyone want to hear them? Economist Robin Hanson and philosopher Agnes Callard decided to find out. | Visit the ... (@AgnesCallard • @robinhanson) |
| 2024-Feb-21 • 66 minutes Camp Omni with Megan Pike My guest this week is Megan Pike, director of Camp Omni, formerly Camp West. Megan is a lifetime educator and camp participant. We discuss Camp Omni's developing focus and how the camping world in general is adapting, as well as some pedagogical nerdery. Enjoy! Camp Omni: https://www.campomni.org/ Music by GW Rodriguez The Paradox of Secularism: https://nyupress.org/9781479809523/the-s... Pods: Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/ Suppor... us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid If you en... (@ETVPod) |
| 2024-Feb-21 • 17 minutes Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep - Kipple, Form-Destroying, And The Tomb-World This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the various ways in which entropy and breakdown get articulated, experienced, and feared in the book. 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.... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Feb-21 • 49 minutes #355 — A Falling World Sam Harris speaks with Peter Zeihan about the unraveling world order. They discuss the Bretton Woods system, America’s role in securing the global supply chain, the coming end of American security guarantees, the shrinking of the US Navy, Houthi... (@) |
| 2024-Feb-21 • 57 minutes Masaaki Suzuki on Interpreting Bach Might Suzuki occupy more space in Tyler's CD collection than any other musician? (@tylercowen) |
| 2024-Feb-21 • 60 minutes Elon Musk Ruined My Sex Life This week, the fellas scroll through Zizek's new substack. Tying together three articles, we move from 'tech talk' (Elon Musk, Apple Vision, the profound suffering of microchimpanzees), to a Zizekian theory of sexuality, and finally to the fine art of smoking (and other surplus enjoyments). | | To stay up to date and access many more episodes, join our Patreon (we'll be speaking to Anna Kornbluh and Mladen Dolar very soon!) | | Zizek's Substack articles: | ELON MUSK RUINED MY SEX LIFE | NOTES TOWARDS A ... (@zizekand) |
| 2024-Feb-21 • 37 minutes Let's Get Weird, California 🗑️🗑️🗑️ Recorded live from the (possibly haunted) Marines’ Memorial Theatre in San Francisco at Sketchfest 2024 with special guest, comedian, writer, and host of the Beautiful/Anonymous podcast, Chris Gethard. Is it possible someone doesn’t find Paul charming? Hear the real story behind how Paul ended up in a dumpster on Chris’s public access series, The Chris Gethard Show. Explore more folklore from Virginia (Bunny Man!) and Ohio (yes there are Melonheads in Ohio too!) and the many legends of Northern Cal... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2024-Feb-21 • 51 minutes Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act IV Join the guys as they delve into the heart of Shakespeare's masterpiece, Hamlet. Act IV revolves around a pivotal moment in the play where the intricate web of deceit and ambition begins to unravel. From the haunting soliloquies to the dramatic... (@thenewthinkery • @alexpriou • @GregMcBrayer3 • @Tempest1610) |
| 2024-Feb-21 • 71 minutes Episode 163: The Source of All Abysses: On the Devil Card in the Tarot Phil and JF continue their occasional series on the major trumps of the tarot with a discussion on the fifteenth Arcanum, the Devil. (@weirdstudies • @JF_Martel) |
| 2024-Feb-21 • 48 minutes Why we seek spirituality | John Vervaeke, Sophie-Grace Chappell, Michael Shermer See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my... (@IAI_TV) |
| 2024-Feb-21 • 54 minutes Marriage and the Modern Woman Marriage is on the decline in Canada. And in heterosexual unions, it’s women who more often initiate divorce, and wait longer to remarry. Why is marriage not working for women? (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Feb-21 • 77 minutes Carlo Rovelli on White Holes Theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli discusses his book, White Holes, which traces the ongoing adventure of his own cutting-edge research and outlines some of the most astounding ideas in astrophysics and cosmology. Rovelli investigates whether all bl... (@CloserToTruth • @RobertLawrKuhn) |
| 2024-Feb-21 • 79 minutes #309 - Sex, Evolution, and the Female Animal: A Dialogue with Lucy Cooke In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Lucy Cooke about the female animals across many species. They discuss why the female species were neglected in Darwin’s studies, binary model of sex, female choice in sexual selection and the social and sexual monogamy in birds and sexual coercion with ducks. They talk about hierarchies with males and females, female dominance in lemurs, menopause, female bonding, and many more topics. Lucy Cooke is a Zoologist, broadcaster, filmmaker, and author. She has ... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Feb-20 • 61 minutes Ep. 112: What is Postmodernism? (Part I) In this episode, Giuseppe and Anthony discuss a topic that everyone seems to be talking about these days -- "postmodernism." What even is this thing? Why has it become a hot topic these past few years? What are its origins? What are its metaphysics and epistemology? Its ethics and politics? (@LoveofSophiaPOD) |
| 2024-Feb-20 • 66 minutes Could animal farming be good for the animals? The Logic of the Larder - with Nick Pendergrast - Cross-post bonus episode from 3CR's Freedom of Species radio show and podcast - Sentientism 186 This episode is a bonus cross post of my conversation with Nick Pendergrast on the 3CR Freedom of Species radio show and podcast he co-hosts. In this, my third time as their guest (thank you!), we talk about the "Logic of the Larder" - an argument that animal farming could potentially be good for animals. | You can subscribe to 3CR's Freedom of Species wherever you listen. 3CR is a community radio station based in Melbourne, Australia. Nick and the other co-hosts have a fascinati... (@sentientism • @JamieWoodhouse) |
| 2024-Feb-20 • 61 minutes Rebecca Roache, "For F*ck's Sake: Why Swearing Is Shocking, Rude, and Fun" (Oxford UP, 2023) Swearing can be a powerful communicative act, for good or ill. The same word can incite violence or increase intimacy. How is swearing so multivalent in its power? Is it just all those harsh “c” and “k” sounds? Does swearing take its power from taboo meaning? Why is swearing sometimes so funny? In For F*ck’s Sake: Why Swearing Is Shocking, Rude, and Fun (Oxford University Press, 2023), Rebecca Roache, host of the podcast The Academic Imperfectionist, offers us rich insights into the complex importance of sw... (@NewBooksPhil) |
| 2024-Feb-20 • 54 minutes From Page to Stage: Exploring sex and gender in Shakespeare's work In the thorny thickets of love and desire, how do Shakespeare’s characters talk to each other? And what’s changed in 400 years? From the Stratford Festival, IDEAS explores the challenges around issues of sex and gender in staging Shakespeare’s plays. (@NahlahAyed) |
 2024-Feb-20 • 95 minutes"What’s Up With Old Men? On Gerontocracy" - OaD Ep. 186 On Gerontocracy (@owls_at_dawn • @austin_hayden • @axwielderofdeth) |
| 2024-Feb-20 • 39 minutes Ep. 77 Diotima and Hypatia: Women Who Shaped Philosophy, Part 1 Throughout the history of philosophy, women have been active, yet markedly absent from much of the scholarship. If you go into a book store or do a google search for the greates philosohers, you would most likely see one or two women, at most on any given list. How can those two things coexist together? In Ancient Greece and Rome, a few women were revered as philosophical teachers. Plato occasionally included women in his famous dialogues. In Alexandria, Egypt, daughters of scholars were educated, and one r... (@opendoorphil • @d_parsonage) |
| 2024-Feb-19 • 89 minutes #902 Joshua Knobe: How Morality Influences People's Philosophical and Scientific Intuitions Dr. Joshua Knobe is Professor of Philosophy, Linguistics and Psychology at Yale University. A lot of his recent research has been concerned with the impact of people’s moral judgments on their intuitions about questions that might initially appear to be entirely independent of morality (questions about intention, causation, etc.). | | In this episode, we talk about topics in experimental philosophy. We discuss how experimental philosophy relates to science. We talk about the relationship between belief an... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Feb-19 • 20 minutes Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - John R. Isidore, Special - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the character John R Isidore, who has been recently classified as a "special". He is ineligible for emigration to the colonies, lives by himself in an apartment building in the suburbs, and holds a job as a driver for a false/electric animal hospital. A number of the chapters of the novel focus on Isidore, par... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Feb-19 • 44 minutes Ep. 335: Aristotle on Fundamental Explanations (Part Two) Continuing on Aristotle's Metaphysics, book 1. We get seriously into Aristotle's four types of causation and how previous philosophers in leaving out one or most of these made a mistake. This includes a critique of Platonic forms, which as eternal,... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2024-Feb-19 • 100 minutes 195 - Brian Keating: Cosmological Inflation and the Universe’s First Light Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 | Brian Keating is the Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics at the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences at UC San Diego, host of the Into the Impossible Podcast, an expert on the cosmic microwave background, and the author of a number of books. Robinson and Brian discuss the expansion and inflation of the universe, the relationship between theory and experiment in cosmology, gravitational waves, Brian’s brainchild the BICEP experiment, and a lot more. Bria... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2024-Feb-19 • 80 minutes 266 | Christoph Adami on How Information Makes Sense of Biology I talk with physicist/biologist Chris Adami about how to use information theory to understand biology. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2024-Feb-19 • 21 minutes James Klagge on Wittgenstein In this episode James Klagge discusses the life and times of Ludwig Wittgenstein with David Edmonds. This is part of our mini series on the biographies of philosophers, Bio Bites. (@philosophybites • @DavidEdmonds100) |
| 2024-Feb-19 • 54 minutes What’s Up with The Birds? Fears of technological overreach, environmental decline, and the violent rise of the irrational: our 21st-century anxieties were anticipated in an unlikely 20th-century horror metaphor. “The Birds” – a haunting 1953 short story by Daphne duMaurier, and the truly bizarre 1963 Alfred Hitchcock movie that it inspired. *This episode originally aired on Sept. 6, 2023. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Feb-19 • 24 minutes S2E9 - Asia Sakchatchawan on Tennis and Authenticity Asia Sakchatchawan is a PhD candidate at the University of Oxford. We’ll be talking about Asia’s background in professional tennis and her research on authenticity. If you'd like to get in touch with Asia, you can email her at [email protected] or on Twitter(X) at @AsiaLeeSak | Music credit: @progressivaudio (@KOosterum • @99lewiswilliams) |
| 2024-Feb-19 • 56 minutes 83 | What is Aesthetics? Part III: Ernst Bloch: In Search of the Red Sublime In this episode, we return to the work of Ernst Bloch and his theory concerning “aesthetic genius” and the possibility of the red sublime. Bloch attempts to construct a Marxist account of art that can explain how it is possible for aesthetic objects to provoke experiences of beauty and sublimity long after the historical conditions of their genesis have passed. Bloch thinks certain artworks contain a utopian surplus that beckons for a not-yet existing classless society. In other words, Bloch thinks we can i... (@leftofphil • @whitherutopia • @oglynwil • @classreductress) |
| 2024-Feb-19 • 101 minutes #308 - The Five Million Year History of Humans: A Dialogue with Peter Bellwood In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Peter Bellwood about the five million year history of humans. They discuss the genera and species of humans and the different types of humans that lived together at the same time, genes from early human species, and the four acts of human history. They talk about Hominins arising out of the Miocene, distinct features of Australopithecus, humans in the Pleistocene, Homo Erectus walking out of Africa, Homo Floresiensis, and Neanderthals. They discuss domesti... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Feb-18 • 83 minutes Mark D. White - Dissecting Antitrust: Balancing Rights and Welfare | STM Podcast #206 On episode 206, we welcome Mark White to discuss the drawbacks of antitrust laws, what rights consumers actually have, if trusts are unfair and unjust, the utilitarian argument against those laws, the flawed healthcare insurance system in the US and... (@seize_podcast • @EgoEndsNow • @leonscafe31) |
| 2024-Feb-18 • 60 minutes Unravelling “White Privilege” | Spencer Case Can the definition of privilege be nuanced enough to address the broad range of individual experiences and historical contexts? Does recognizing and discussing privilege lead to meaningful social change? Or does talk of privilege oversimplify complex issues? | | --- | | Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/... (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2024-Feb-18 • 80 minutes Critique Of Pure Reason -- Preface Ryan and Todd begin their analysis of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason by working through the prefaces to the first and second edition of the work. They focus on the radicality of Kant's breakthrough and the role that the limit plays in his philosophy. (@UVMcas) |
| 2024-Feb-18 • 24 minutes HoP 439 - Cancel Culture - The Inquisition How religious persecution and censorship shaped the context of philosophy in Catholic Europe in the sixteenth century. (@HistPhilosophy) |
| 2024-Feb-18 • 11 minutes 534: The Social Lives of Robots More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/soc... might surpass humans in terms of computational intelligence, but when it comes to social intelligence, they’re not very sophisticated. They have difficulty reading subtle cues—like body language, eye gaze, or facial expression—that we pick up on automatically. As robots integrate more and more into human life, how will they figure out the codes for appropriate behavior in different contexts? Can social intelligence be learned via an algorithm? And how do w... (@philtalkradio) |
| 2024-Feb-17 • 20 minutes Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Deckard's Six Android Bounties This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the plot of the novel, namely that bounty hunter Rick Deckard has to track down and kill six dangerous androids masquerading as human beings, and likely to try to kill him. These are: Polokov, Garland, Luft, Stratton, and the two Batys To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Feb-17 • 42 minutes Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (Part 4 of 5) In this episode, I cover chapters 24-31 of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan." Episode 1: Ch. 1-9 Episode 2: Ch. 10-16 ... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2024-Feb-16 • 41 minutes To Catch a Spy! We're back and in the same physical location for ONE WEEK ONLY, so the only sensible thing to do is talk about a spy book from the 1980s. What was "Spycatcher"? What secrets did it contain? How did it manage to leave Margaret Thatcher "shattered"? Was that a typo and she meant "sharted"? Sorry, we didn't get enough juvenile humour into the episode and it has to go somewhere. (@PodGuideCon • @monkeyfluids) |
| 2024-Feb-16 • 59 minutes Episode 64: Patrick Deneen on DeLillo's White Noise In this episode, I speak with the political theor… (@eudaimoniapod • @jennfrey) |
| 2024-Feb-16 • 118 minutes #901 Victoria Dougherty: Creating a Story, Character Development, and the Limits of Art ------------------Support the channel------------ | Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter | PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter | PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy | PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l | PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz | PayPal Subscription 10 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y9r3fc9m | PayPal Subscription 20 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y95uvkao | | ------------------Follow me on--------------------- | Facebook: ... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Feb-16 • 41 minutes #354 — Is Moral Progress a Fantasy? Sam Harris speaks with John Gray about the possibility of moral and political progress. They discuss historical and current threats to freedom of thought, the limits of law, the spread of dangerous technology, failures of convergence on norms and... (@) |
| 2024-Feb-16 • 21 minutes Bonus-wag: Zombies on Film 🧟🪦🧟♀️ Paul and Stephen learn the history of zombies with spiritualism expert Lisa Morton who shares the influence of these phenomena in popular culture, folklore and horror films. Who brought the idea of zombies to mass awareness and what cultures first wrote about these mythical characters? Also, the impact of Bela Lagosi’s film White Zombie, how it gave way to Voodoo zombies, Sci-Fi zombies, George Romero’s human flesh-eating zombies and Frankenstein. Also why are zombies so popular and what do they su... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2024-Feb-16 • 32 minutes Pornography and free speech The global pornography industry is getting bigger, more mainstream and more nasty - but does this mean it should be regulated? Many feminist philosophers would say yes - but this places them at odds with liberal defenders of pornography, who worry that regulation would constitute an attack on free speech. (@DavidPZone) |
| 2024-Feb-16 • 54 minutes Smart Cities, Technology and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias Nothing seems to make a city politician’s eyes light up like the promise of the smart city. In his book, Dream States, journalist John Lorinc questions whether smart technologies live up to the hype and whether ultimately smart cities serve the interests of city dwellers or big tech companies. *This episode originally aired on Sept. 19, 2023. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Feb-16 • 71 minutes 109. The Iron Claw (w/ Fran Hoepfner) We are joined by Fran Hoepfner (BW/DR, Fran Magazine) to experience the triumph and tragedy of the Von Erich family. We discuss wrestling (duh), Zac, brothers, fathers, bodies, cults, the American political circus, all while trying to figure out our wrestling names and signature moves. (@cowspod • @juskhoo) |
| 2024-Feb-16 • 56 minutes Growing Old(er) The HBS hosts consider the sands through the hourglass. It seems as if, when we’re young, the solution to all of our problems is just getting older—when will people take me seriously? when will I understand my own body? when will I gain the confidence to assert my own will? or, just be myself? Then, as we age, it paradoxically occurs to us that the only solution to our problems is to be young again: if I only knew then what I know now, if I only had a chance to do that thing over, if I only could move like... (@hotelbarpodcast • @DrLeighMJohnson • @c_fpeterson • @rickleephilos) |
| 2024-Feb-16 • 86 minutes #307 - Many Worlds in the Multiverse: A Dialogue with Paul Halpern In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Paul Halpern about the multiverse. They discuss the cosmological multiverse and many worlds interpretation, impact of Newton, Maxwell, and Einstein for general relativity, gravitational waves, and quantum mechanics. They also talk about different dimensions, dark matter, dark energy, string theory, the multiverse in popular culture, and many more topics. Paul Halpern is Professor of Physics at Saint Joseph’s University. He has a Bachelors, Masters, and PhD... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Feb-15 • 74 minutes Episode 29: Thomas Mann's Death in Venice with Agnes Mueller In this episode, I speak with my colleague, Agnes… (@eudaimoniapod • @jennfrey) |
| 2024-Feb-15 • 22 minutes Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep - Real And Electric Animals - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the importance animals have assumed for human beings in the post-war era, after the death of most animals. Empathy towards animals has become a major characteristic of human beings. Animals are also replicated in "electric" or mechanical forms To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.co... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Feb-15 • 49 minutes #900 Cailin O'Connor: Game Theory, Science, and Misinformation in the COVID-19 Pandemic Dr. Cailin O’Connor is Professor in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at UC Irvine. She is a philosopher of biology and behavioral sciences, philosopher of science, and evolutionary game theorist. Her monograph The Origins of Unfairness was published in July 2019 by Oxford University Press. She is the author of Games in the Philosophy of Biology, and The Misinformation Age. | | In this episode, we start by talking about game theory, and what we can study through it. We then talk about soci... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Feb-15 • 52 minutes What Dating Culture Says About Us Gwendolyn Dolske welcomes two of the hosts of the popular indie podcast My Worst Date, Keegan and Christina! How do dating apps influence dating culture? What should we keep in mind about safety when dating? How do shifting ideas... (@InTheDetailsPod • @GDolske • @SaloRudy) |
| 2024-Feb-15 • 34 minutes How Did Altruism Evolve? We often talk about evolution in terms of competition, as the survival of the fittest. But if it is, then where did the widespread (and widely admired) impulse to help others even at great cost to ourselves come from? In this episode, Stephanie Preston, a professor of psychology and head of the Ecological Neuroscience Lab at the University of Michigan, talks about the evolutionary, neurological and behavioral foundations for altruism with our new co-host, the astrophysicist and author Janna Levin. (@QuantaMagazine • @stevenstrogatz) |
| 2024-Feb-15 • 54 minutes For the Sake of the Common Good: Honouring Lois Wilson Lois Wilson has lived many lives during her 96 years: a United Church Minister, a Senator, a human rights advocate and an inspiration to many — exhibiting a humility that can only be described as steadfast. For the Sake of the Common Good: Essays in Honour of Lois Wilson is a tribute to the life and work of a remarkable Canadian. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Feb-15 • 54 minutes From Beyoncé to Taylor Swift — what’s behind the mass appeal of live music events? It is worth reflecting, not just on what is singular about Taylor Swift at this particular cultural moment — why she attracts both the loyalty and the animus that she does — but on what it is about live music events that now draw millions of people to them. (@RadioNational) |
| 2024-Feb-15 • 117 minutes Philosophy In Film - 078 - Ghost Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the gang at Philosophy in Film explores love and the afterlife in 1990’s surprise Box Office smash, Ghost, starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Tony Goldwyn, and Whoopi Goldberg. Tag along this journey of... (@PhilInFilm) |
| 2024-Feb-14 • 71 minutes #16 - Modeling Morality Link to today's paper: | Veit, W. (2019). Modeling Morality. In L. Magnani, A. Nepomuceno, F. Salguero, C. Barés and M. Fontane (eds), Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology, Springer, 83-102. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32722-... [Download] | | PODCAST INFO: | Podcast website: https://walterveit.com/podcast/ | Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/24OwJWeaWy... | Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wa... | RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/ed331d30/podcast/rss | YouTube Full Episo... (@wrwveit) |
| 2024-Feb-14 • 14 minutes Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Dialing Up Moods - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the Penfield mood organ which people can use to deliberately induce moods, emotional states, and even outlooks and attitudes in themselves and 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 can do so here - www.paypal.me/Reaso... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Feb-14 • 59 minutes Spiritualism, Seance, Ouija, and Ectoplasm 🖤🖤🖤 Welcome Waggers! Come for the ghosts, stay for the vomiting ectoplasm! Paul and Stephen walk through the myriad ways folks talked to the dead throughout history with spiritualism expert and author Lisa Morton. En route they discuss spirits, mediums, oracles, ouija boards, priming, and rampant charlatanry in the business of ghost-hunting. Hear ghostly experiences from the legendary Stanley Hotel (aka- the Disneyland of ghost hotels made famous in The Shining), the birth of the seance and the impact o... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2024-Feb-14 • 84 minutes Devin Stauffer on Leo Strauss' Natural Right & History, Chapter 5, Part 1 on Hobbes Join us as we delve into the profound insights of political philosopher Leo Strauss' Natural Right and History featuring returning special guest Devin Stauffer, Professor and Associate Chair at UT Austin. In this episode, the group unravel the... (@thenewthinkery • @alexpriou • @GregMcBrayer3 • @Tempest1610) |
| 2024-Feb-14 • 15 minutes RLP Holiday: Love & Death Every once in a while Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday fall on the same day; this episode is for such days. Love and death are visitors from another world, doors in the wall of the world. Join us as we contemplate love and death. (@RedLetterPhil) |
| 2024-Feb-14 • 54 minutes Obtaining Justice Without Demonizing Your Enemies: Martha Minow In the age of growing polarization, how do you tackle injustice without demonizing your enemies? Former Harvard Law School dean Martha Minow tackles that question in her 2023 Horace E. Read Memorial Lecture. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Feb-14 • 47 minutes Ilia Delio on Evolution, Quantum Physics, and Neuroscience in Theology Innovative theologian and neuroscientist Ilia Delio discusses Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, technology and AI, the pursuit of extraterrestrial life, and the roles of evolution, quantum physics, and neuroscience in theology. Dr. Ilia Delio is a Franci... (@CloserToTruth • @RobertLawrKuhn) |
| 2024-Feb-14 • 20 minutes Episode 208: Existentialism Final Part Where do you live? In the real world or online? Danny and Dr. Mike finish off their existentialism chat with a discussion about the way we have recorded our lives and how we present ourselves online. Also, a rigorous talk on what Dr. Jakyll gets up to when his fiancé is 'taking the waters in Bath'. (@PhilosophyWtf) |
| 2024-Feb-14 • 87 minutes #306 - Heidegger's Culmination of German Idealism: A Dialogue with Robert Pippin In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Robert Pippin about Heidegger’s philosophy in connection with German idealism. They discuss Heidegger’s ideas on the culmination of Western philosophy with Hegel, Heidegger’s emphasis on Being, meaningfulness of being, and present-at-hand and ready-to hand. They talk about the impact of Husserl on Heidegger and their different ideas concerning worldhood. They discuss Heidegger’s ideas on standing presence, unveiling and concealment, imagination and intuiti... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Feb-14 • 50 minutes Episode 214 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 21 - Cicero Argues For Idealized Friendship and Happiness Which Epicurus Rejects . Yes, but he sets it at nought; for he says (@NewEpicurean) |
| 2024-Feb-13 • 92 minutes Episode 278: Schrödinger's Everything (Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" Pt. 1) David and Tamler fall under the spell of Lee Chang-dong’s 2018 masterpiece Burning, a movie where nothing is what it seems, or maybe it is. An alienated young man meets what seems like his dream girl from his small town, but she’s... (@verybadwizards • @peez • @tamler) |
 2024-Feb-13 • 72 minutesStreet Epistemology and the Socratic Method In this episode, I speak with Anthony Magnabosco a founder and the current Executive Director of the nonprofit Street Epistemology International, an educational organization that is committed to addressing dysfunction in public and private discourse by encouraging rationality through civil conversation. Anthony has been involved with Street Epistemology since 2013, and has given dozens of talks and workshops at conferences and events domestically and internationally. Many of his conversations have been upl... (@DonJRobertson) |
| 2024-Feb-13 • 63 minutes Cities The village is aglow! In episode 97 of Overthink, Ellie and David guide you through the ideas that make a metropolis tick. From Plato’s spotless Republic to Saudi Arabia’s futuristic The Line, they talk the foul and the vibrant of what it means to live in a city. Why are there so few public plazas in Brasilia? Why did David lose his wallet in Mexico City? How do gridded street layouts reflect colonial fantasies? And how did a medieval woman writer, Christine de Pizan, beat Greta Gerwig to the punch in imagi... (@overthink_pod • @ellieanderphd • @DrPenaGuzman1) |
| 2024-Feb-13 • 54 minutes Seduced by Story: The Dangers of Narrative Humans are storytelling creatures. But literary scholar Peter Brooks argues that stories have become far too dominant as the way we understand ourselves and the world. IDEAS examines the dangers of seeing everything as a story. *This episode originally aired on March 7, 2023. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Feb-13 • 55 minutes The economics of almost everything | Daniel Markovits, Martin Wolf, Madeleine Pennington Chief Economics Commentator for the FT Martin Wolf, Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits and Head of Research at Theos, Madeleine Pennington, debate whether the 21st century will prove to be unique. Hilary Lawson hosts. (@IAI_TV) |
| 2024-Feb-13 • 118 minutes "What the F*ck is Money? Chat with Colin Drumm" - OaD Ep. 185 Interview with Colin Drumm on Money (@owls_at_dawn • @austin_hayden • @axwielderofdeth) |
| 2024-Feb-12 • 177 minutes #179 – Randy Nesse on why evolution left us so vulnerable to depression and anxiety Mental health problems like depression and anxiety affect enormous numbers of people and severely interfere with their lives. By contrast, we don’t see similar levels of physical ill health in young people. At any point in time, something like 20% of young people are working through anxiety or depression that’s seriously interfering with their lives — but nowhere near 20% of people in their 20s have severe heart disease or cancer or a similar failure in a key organ of the body other than the brain.From an e... (@80000Hours) |
| 2024-Feb-12 • 58 minutes #899 Darcia Narvaez & Gay Bradshaw: The Evolved Nest Dr. Darcia Narvaez is a Professor of Psychology Emerita at the University of Notre Dame. She has written extensively on issues of character and moral development. Dr. Narvaez’ research explores questions of species-typical and species-atypical development in terms of wellbeing, morality, and sustainable wisdom. She examines how early life experience (the evolved nest) influences moral functioning and wellbeing in children and adults. | Dr. Gay A. Bradshaw is a psychologist and ecologist, and director of Th... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Feb-12 • 111 minutes 194 - Daniel Dennett: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Evolution of Minds Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 | | Daniel Dennett is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Tufts University, where he was co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy. He is one of the most recognized philosophers today, and has made major contributions to the philosophy of mind and biology, among other areas, and is known as one of the Four Horsemen of Atheism. Dan’s latest book is I’ve Been Thinking (W. W. Norton, 2023), though much of what he and Robi... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2024-Feb-12 • 6 minutes Aristotle - People Who Excel As Laws Unto Themselves - Sadler's Shorts This is a short reflection on an insightful passage from Aristotle's Politics, where he raises the idea of a person who so clearly excels everyone else around them in virtue that it seems strange to have them governed by others. He suggests that such a person is a law unto themself, and that if you're fortunate enough to have such a person, they ought to be given authority. You can get Aristotle's Politics here - https://amzn.to/2LBsQTj The faint music in the background is Mesmerize by Kevin MacLeod, lice... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Feb-12 • 205 minutes AMA | February 2024 Monthly Ask Me Anything episode. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2024-Feb-12 • 48 minutes Ep. 335: Aristotle on Fundamental Explanations (Part One) On Aristotle's Metaphysics, book 1 (aka Alpha) (ca. 340 BCE). What constitutes a basic explanation of the universe? We talk about how mere practical knowledge of how things in fact work is not enough; there's greater wisdom in knowing the theoretical... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2024-Feb-12 • 54 minutes 5 Canadian Writers on Subverting Identity Identity is a hot topic in our era, but also a complex reality. Five literary writers — all of them winners of 2023 Governor General’s Literary Awards — read from new poems, essays, and stories that consider the ways that seemingly solid identities can be altered, questioned, or entirely subverted. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Feb-12 • 84 minutes #305 - The Disillusionment of Suburbia: A Dialogue with Benjamin Herold In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Benjamin Herold about the evolving state of suburbia. They discuss the fast development in Dallas suburbs, Black Americans in suburbs around Atlanta, Multiethnic heritage in Evanston, Illinois, potential multiple futures in Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, and the founding families and long history of Compton. They talk about culture and history in each of these locations, centrality of schools in suburbia, cultural issues, covid-19 pandemic, the future of suburb... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Feb-12 • 50 minutes Episode 73: Corporate Criminal Responsibility with Mihailis Diamantis In this episode, we talk with Mihailis Diamantis about the nature of corporations and some similarities between corporate and individual criminal responsibility.Mihailis's website: https://law.uiowa.edu/people/mihailis-di... paper, "Corporate Criminal Minds": https://ndlawreview.org/wp-content/uploa... https://twitter.com/thefreewillshowInsta... https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillsho... https://www.facebook.com/The-Free-Will-S... (@thefreewillshow • @taylorwcyr • @MatthewFlummer) |
| 2024-Feb-11 • 5 minutes Aristotle - Exercising Authority For The Good Of The Governed - Sadler's Shorts This is a short reflection on an insightful passage from Aristotle's Politics, where he discusses how and why authority should be exercised for the genuine good of those who are governed. This is what most fundamentally distinguishes good regimes from bad regimes, according to Aristotle. We can apply this not only to political relations, but any sorts of situations where power is exercised by one or more people over others. You can get Aristotle's Politics here - https://amzn.to/2LBsQTj The faint music in... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Feb-11 • 61 minutes S3: E12 Your Mind on Sex and Relationships with Dr. Jessica Maxwell Is sexual chemistry just natural compatibility, or can it grow from effort and work? Dr. Jessica Maxwell shares her research exploring how sexual beliefs influence well-being in both long-term and casual relationships. We discuss how individual differences, like attachment styles, shape our relationship preferences, from one-night stands to long-term monogamy. Plus, stay tuned for practical tips for maintaining passion in long-term relationships! (@bethfisher_1 • @avamadesousa) |
| 2024-Feb-11 • 61 minutes The Privacy Paradox | David Boonin Is observing people in a public space from the privacy of your home an infringement of their rights? Can the widespread use of CCTV cameras be justified, or does it violate their privacy? And how do technological developments affect the delicate balance between safety and privacy? | | --- | | Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/... (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2024-Feb-11 • 56 minutes #353 — Race & Reason Sam Harris speaks with Coleman Hughes about race, racism, and social justice. They discuss the ideal of "color blindness," race and crime, Coleman's experience at TED, LatinX, the confusion of the elites, Ibram X. Kendi, affirmative action, class... (@) |
| 2024-Feb-11 • 83 minutes Should Prisons Be Abolished “Should we abolish prisons?” Host Dr. Jack Russell Weinstein discusses that with Tommie Shelby, Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy at Harvard University. (@whyradioshow) |
| 2024-Feb-11 • 76 minutes Jack Symes - Does God Exist? Debating Religion, Evil, and Atheism | STM Podcast #205 On episode 205, we welcome Jack Symes to discuss the possible existence of god, the strongest arguments for it, whether Pascal’s Wager justifies belief in god, the different religions and whether they make belief in god irrational, god necessarily... (@seize_podcast • @EgoEndsNow • @leonscafe31) |
| 2024-Feb-11 • 45 minutes “The AI Playbook: Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learning Deployment” with Eric Siegel The most powerful tool often comes with the greatest challenges. In recent times Machine learning has emerged as the world's leading general-purpose technology, yet its implementation remains notably complex. Beyond the realm of Big Tech and a select few leading enterprises, many machine learning initiatives don’t succeed, failing to deliver on their potential. What's lacking? A specialised business approach and development & deployment strategy tailored for widespread adoption. In his recent book “The AI P... (@BTG_ie) |
| 2024-Feb-11 • 38 minutes HAP 141 - Job Openings - the Rise of Africana Professional Philosophy The key events and figures in philosophy as an academic discipline, in both Africa and the diaspora. (@HistPhilosophy • @ChikeJeffers) |
| 2024-Feb-11 • 39 minutes Episode 126, ‘Playfulness Versus Epistemic Traps’ with C. Thi Nguyen (Part II - Further Analysis and Discussion) Welcome to ‘Episode 126 (Part II of II)’, where we’ll be discussing the ethics and aesthetics of gameplay. (@ThePanpsycast • @_JackSymes • @MrMarleyTeach) |
| 2024-Feb-11 • 10 minutes 195: Lincoln as a Philosopher More at http://philosophytalk.org/shows/lincoln.... than any other President, Abraham Lincoln is known for his words, from the Lincoln-Douglass debates to the second inaugural address, as well as his deeds. What was Lincoln's basic philosophy, and did it change over the course of his Presidency? Ken and John welcome back Chicago Public Radio's Resident Philosopher, Al Gini, to celebrate the bicentennial of Lincoln, the man and his ideas. (@philtalkradio) |
| 2024-Feb-10 • 67 minutes Michael Devitt, "Biological Essentialism" (Oxford UP, 2023) What makes a species a species? Aristotle answered the species question by positing unchanging essences, properties that all and only members of a species shared. Individuals belonged to a species by possessing this essence. Biologists and philosophers of biology today are either not essentialists at all, or if they are think there are essences they are relational, historical properties. In his provocative book Biological Essentialism (Oxford UP, 2023), Michael Devitt argues for a new form of biological es... (@NewBooksPhil) |
| 2024-Feb-10 • 34 minutes Episode #195 ... Could Anarcho-Capitalism be the solution to our problems? - Anarchism pt. 4 (Rothbard, Friedman, Malice) Today we talk more about anarchism. Sponsors: Better Help: https://www.BetterHelp.com/PHILTHIS Fact... http://www.FactorMeals.com/pt50 Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreo... https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizeth... https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Faceb... https://www.facebook.com/philosophizethi... (@iamstephenwest) |
| 2024-Feb-10 • 40 minutes Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan (Part 3/5) In this episode, I cover chapters 17-23 of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan." Episode 1: Ch. 1-9 Episode 2: Ch. 10-16 ... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2024-Feb-09 • 50 minutes #898 Eli Merritt: How to Save Democracy Dr. Eli Merritt is a political historian at Vanderbilt University where he researches the ethics of democracy, the interface of demagogues and democracy, and the founding principles of the United States. He is the editor of How to Save Democracy: Inspiration and Advice From 95 World Leaders. | | In this episode, we focus on How to Save Democracy. We start by discussing what democracy is, and its main strengths and weaknesses. We talk about current threats to democracy, and recent backlash against progress... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Feb-09 • 6 minutes Aristotle - Responsibility For Our Own Character - Sadler's Shorts This is a short reflection on an insightful passage from Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, where he discusses whether, and to what extent people are responsible for the character they develop and exhibit in their choices, habits, and actions You can get Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics here - http://amzn.to/2g9t0UU 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/... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Feb-09 • 97 minutes Ep. 255 - What is a Theory of Everything? w/ Curt Jaimungal Curt Jaimungal joins me for episode 255 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast to discuss theories of everything, phsyics, the simulation hypothesis, worldviews, and more! | | Check out his channel right now right here: https://www.youtube.com/@UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJ... | | 0:00 - What's this episode about? | 3:32 - What is a Theory of Everything? | 5:57 - Worldview (weltanschauung) and God | 21:14 - Why Host an Academic Level Podcast? | 29:08 - The Simulation Hypothesis | 47:23 - Ben Goertzel is a genius | 51:3... (@trendsettercase) |
| 2024-Feb-09 • 14 minutes Bonus-wag: PAUL'S "HAVANA" SYNDROME STORY 🇷🇺😵💫🌀 Paul Giamatti shares a crazy Havana syndrome-like experience he had at the Russian Embassy in Budapest, which somehow leads to his love of acting on stage and sharing that mass-delusion with an audience. Paul Giamatti is an award-winning actor and producer. Stephen Asma is a professor and author specializing in the philosophy of science, religion, and art. 🇷🇺😵💫🌀 ========= 📋 Please help us get to know you better by completing our Chinwagger Survey 👉🏼 https://gum.fm/chinwag 📋 ========= New eps ... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2024-Feb-09 • 54 minutes The Dark Side of Charisma: Molly Worthen Charisma can be a dangerous thing in politics. Writer and scholar Molly Worthen examines how today’s breed of charismatic leaders presents themselves as having the power to transform lives, transfixing their followers into unquestioning fealty, in her 2023 Larkin-Stuart Lecture. *This episode originally aired on Oct. 3, 2023. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Feb-09 • 51 minutes The Phenomenology of Black Spirit (with Biko Mandela Gray and Ryan Johnson) The HBS discuss Hegel, the black radical tradition, and the history of Philosophy with Biko Mandela Gray and Ryan J. Johnson.This week we are joined by Biko Mandela Gray and Ryan J. Johnson to talk about their book Phenomenology of Black Spirit, which reads Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit against the tradition of black thought from Frederick Douglass to Angela Davis. It is a stunning demonstration of a relationship to philosophy that is at once creative, breaking the boundaries between exegesis and history,... (@hotelbarpodcast • @DrLeighMJohnson • @c_fpeterson • @rickleephilos) |
| 2024-Feb-09 • 28 minutes #79: My imperfect but adequate working day I keep getting asked what my working day looks like. You know, as if I've cracked this whole productivity thing. I definitely haven't, but I have managed to make positive changes over the past few years as a result of making the sorts of changes I talk about on this podcast. Let me tell you about how it's all gone - not so that you can do things the way I do them (please don't!), but so you can see that change really is possible. Oh, and I'm also going to tell you about Simba, our c... (@AcademicImp • @rebecca_roache) |
| 2024-Feb-08 • 43 minutes #897 Merlijn Olthof: A Complex Systems Approach to Psychopathology Dr. Merlijn Olthof is a Post-Doc in Tipping points in Treatment at the University of Groningen, and Lecturer in Pedagogical Sciences at Radboud University. His work focuses on complex systems, clinical psychology, developmental psychopathology, and related topics. | | In this episode, we talk about a complex systems approach to psychopathology. We first talk about the study of behavioral variability within individuals, and some conceptual foundations of a complex systems approach to psychopathology, like ... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Feb-08 • 68 minutes The Plague of Marcus Aurelius In this episode, I speak with Colin Elliott, Associate Chair in the Department of History at Indiana University. He describes himself as an economic and social historian with an interest in money, disease and ecology in the ancient Roman world. His latest book, Pox Romana: The Plague that Shook the Roman World was released on 6th Feb, the same day as my Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor. It is currently Amazon’s #1 New Release in Communicable Diseases. Colin is also the host of the Pax Romana Podcast.Hig... (@DonJRobertson) |
| 2024-Feb-08 • 51 minutes Condorcet Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the last great figures of the Enlightenment. (@BBCInOurTime) |
| 2024-Feb-08 • 34 minutes What are Australian philosophers thinking? Australian philosophy has been punching above its weight in recent decades - but does there exist something that we could call an identifiably Australian philosophical tradition? And how does the future of Australian philosophy look, at a time when the academic Humanities are under siege, and universities are being pushed to turn out "job-ready graduates"? (@DavidPZone) |
| 2024-Feb-08 • 54 minutes Hands Up Who Loves Timmins Timmins calls itself “the city with a heart of gold." And it offers a fast track to permanent residency for immigrants willing to move there. IDEAS producer Tom Howell finds out what this northern Ontario city has to offer a newcomer, and who’s ready to fall in love with Shania Twain’s hometown. *This episode originally aired on Sept. 11, 2023. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Feb-08 • 91 minutes #304 - Failures of the Clinton Presidency: A Dialogue with Nelson Lichtenstein In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Nelson Lichtenstein about the failures of the Clinton presidency. They discuss his collaboration with Judith Stein for the book, why Clinton focused on economic issues, Al From, Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), and the impact of Ross Perot on the 1992 Presidential election. They talk about important figures in Clinton’s economic team, failures of healthcare, economic negotiations with Japan and NAFTA. They also talk about the 1994 Crime Bill, repealing... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Feb-08 • 54 minutes What is the harm in “deepfakes” — and what are they doing to democracy? Over the last 18 months, enormously powerful generative AI tools have been placed in the hands of anyone who wants them; as a consequence, the internet and our social media feeds have been inundated with wholly or partially synthetic content. (@RadioNational) |
| 2024-Feb-07 • 12 minutes John Cassian, Institutes Book 8 - Attributing Anger To God - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the late ancient monastic theologian, John Cassian's work Institutes of the Coenobia, book 8, "Of The Spirit of Anger". It focuses specifically on a common argument people make to excuse their own lapses into anger and bad temper, claiming that in Scripture God is said to get angry at people. Cassian's response is to point out that these passages are not to be taken literally, any more than are passages making other similar anthropomorphic claims about God. Instead, the divine anger i... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Feb-07 • 114 minutes 193 - Robert Sapolsky: Determinism, Free Will, & The End of Moral Responsibility Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 | | Robert Sapolsky is John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor and Professor of Biology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery at Stanford University. He’s also a best-selling author and one of the leading voices in the current—and enduring—debate over free will. In this conversation, Robinson and Robert discuss his latest book, Determined (Penguin, 2023), and the many arguments it contains against free will, and how, if we don’t have it, we ought to change many of our social instituti... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2024-Feb-07 • 59 minutes #15 - Nicola Clayton: Animal Cognition, Magic, Corvids, Dance, Embodiment In today's episode I talk to University of Cambridge Professor of Comparative Cognition - Nicola Clayton. | | | PODCAST INFO: | Podcast website: https://walterveit.com/podcast/ | Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/24OwJWeaWy... | Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wa... | RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/ed331d30/podcast/rss | YouTube Full Episodes: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV0j8... | YouTube Clips: https://www.youtube.com/@DrWalterVeit/sh... | | SUPPORT & CONNECT: | Twitter:... (@wrwveit) |
| 2024-Feb-07 • 54 minutes Ami Vitale on Photojournalism and Wildlife Conservation From war zones to wildlife, Ami Vitale has captured vital stories across a hundred countries and counting (@tylercowen) |
| 2024-Feb-07 • 55 minutes MAD GASSERS & MASS HYSTERIA 😵💫😵💫😵💫 Paul and Stephen strive to understand the phenomenon of mass panic and incidences of collective delusion throughout history. Learn the difference between mass panic and mass hysteria, how our minds influence our physical reactions, and the power of the media in escalating these events. What caused the hysteria that surrounded the Beatles and Elvis, or the outbreak of panic after the infamous Orson Welles radio broadcast of H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds? Paul knows a thing or two about the... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2024-Feb-07 • 65 minutes Kaishuo Chen on Confucius and Esotericism Kaishuo Chen, a PhD student at Boston College, joins the guys this week for a dive into the teachings of Confucius and exploring the intersection of his philosophy with esotericism. Uncover the practical applications of this unique blend, as the group... (@thenewthinkery • @alexpriou • @GregMcBrayer3 • @Tempest1610) |
| 2024-Feb-07 • 79 minutes Episode 162: The Incarnation of Meaning: Greenwich Village After the War JF and Phil discuss post-war Greenwich Village, by way of Anatole Broyard's "Kafka Was the Rage" and John Cassavetes' "Shadows." (@weirdstudies • @JF_Martel) |
| 2024-Feb-07 • 54 minutes Queer Diplomacy: Negotiating 2SLGBTQ+ Rights in a Fraught World In the 1980s, Douglas Janoff marched outside the United Nations to promote 2SLGBTQ+ rights. Then, after several decades as an activist, he became a Canadian diplomat — and started pushing for change from within. He shares his experience through the complex and delicate world of queer diplomacy. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Feb-07 • 27 minutes Can Mathematics Explain Biology? If life is a vast space of possibilities, then mathematics can engage with biology. Statistics analyze biological data, and mathematical models improve biological theories and reveal hidden commonalties. But could the mathematics of biology touch fun... (@CloserToTruth • @RobertLawrKuhn) |
| 2024-Feb-07 • 62 minutes 82 | The State and Right: Kant's Metaphysics of Morals In this episode, we dig into the Doctrine of Right in Kant’s Metaphysics of Morals to see what he has to say about the state. Turns out he’s a fan, because the state is what guarantees the possibility of justice and perpetual peace. Nice! But he also thinks that the state should be authorized to kill you. And that you don’t have the right to rebel even if the sovereign is abusing their power. And that you shouldn’t think too hard about the origin of the state. And that human beings are transcendentally disp... (@leftofphil • @whitherutopia • @oglynwil • @classreductress) |
| 2024-Feb-07 • 15 minutes Socrates vs. Thrasymachus on Justice In this episode, I recount Socrates and Thrasymachus' debate on Justice from Plato's The Republic. If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphiloso... paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Twitter: @... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2024-Feb-07 • 59 minutes “Sharing Our Science: How to Write and Speak STEM” with Professor Brandon Brown Science communication plays an important role in bridging the gap between researchers and the general public, fostering understanding, engagement, and appreciation for scientific explorations and advancements. In an era where science and technology shape every aspect of our lives, effective communication of research findings is more critical than ever. This is also a time where there are conflicting views about scientific work and polarizations in societies. This makes effective science communication even m... (@BTG_ie) |
| 2024-Feb-06 • 52 minutes Ep. 111: What is NOT Philosophy? (Part II) In this conversation, Giuseppe and Anthony continue their conversation on what philosophy is _not_. (@LoveofSophiaPOD) |
| 2024-Feb-06 • 13 minutes John Cassian, Institutes Book 8 - Anger, Patience, And Solitude - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the late ancient monastic theologian, John Cassian's work Institutes of the Coenobia, book 8, "Of The Spirit of Anger". It focuses specifically on Cassian's contention that unless one deals with the anger one feels and the reasons one ends up getting angry which have to do with one's own mindset, character, and thought processes, it doesn't do one any good to leave other people behind and go out into solitude. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Feb-06 • 31 minutes In conversation with Slavoj Žižek: Life and philosophy Slavoj Žižek discusses the various components of his philosophy in conversation with novelist Joanna Kavenna. (@IAI_TV) |
| 2024-Feb-06 • 54 minutes Be Reasonable: Scholars Define Who Is and Who Is Not From the interpersonal to the societal: what is reasonableness? And in a democracy, how reasonable can we reasonably demand that others be? Five Canadian thinkers try to define what “reasonableness” means, and what it is to behave and think reasonably. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Feb-06 • 58 minutes Episode 213 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 20 -Only Epicureans Define Pleasure As You Do! Why Do You Lie? Welcome to Episode 213 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the most complete presentation of Epicurean philosophy left to us from the ancient world. Each week we walk you through the Epicurean texts, and we discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. If you find the Epicurean worldview attractive, we invite you to join us in the study of Epicurus at EpicureanFriends.com, where you will find a discussion thread for each of o... (@NewEpicurean) |
| 2024-Feb-06 • 68 minutes Ep. 76 Looking for Beauty: The Philosophy of Beauty, Part 2 Whether concepts such as the Golden Ratio or more subjective standards of aesthetic judgments, beauty has been the subject of debate for every era of philosophical history. In the ancient world, it was the Greeks that formed much of what the ancient era would think about when considering beauty in concepts such as symmetry and ratios. The Enlightenment era philosophers of the modern period, influenced by the new emphasis on reason, grappled with the subjective nature of beauty and proposed a way that beauty... (@opendoorphil • @d_parsonage) |
| 2024-Feb-05 • 72 minutes #896 Gregory Radick - Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology Dr. Gregory Radick is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds. He has held fellowships from the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust, and served as President of the British Society for the History of Science (2014‒16) and the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (2019‒21). He writes and lectures frequently for general audiences, and has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time and in the PBS/National Geographic television series ... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Feb-05 • 74 minutes Ep. 254 - Is Stoicism for Dummies?? w/ Dr. Tom Morris In episdoe 254 of the Parker's I'm joined once again by Dr. Tom Morris. Dr. Morris is a legendary philosopher and an expert on the philosophy of Stoicism. In this episode he schools me on Stoicism from his brand new book, Stoicism for Dummies. Grab the book here to support my podcast: https://amzn.to/47NnKgP | | Check out my sponsor, Murdy Creative Co. to find amazing leather goods and to support the podcast. Use promo code PARKERNOTES at check out for 10% your whole order!! https://murdycreative.co/PARKER... (@trendsettercase) |
| 2024-Feb-05 • 80 minutes 265 | John Skrentny on How the Economy Mistreats STEM Workers I talk with sociologist John Skrentny about how the post-graduation careers of STEM majors aren't generally what they were led to expect. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2024-Feb-05 • 117 minutes REISSUE-Ep. 29: Kierkegaard on the Self What is the self? For K. we are a tension between opposites: necessity and possibility, the finite and the infinite, soul and body. He thinks we're all in despair, whether we know it or not, because we wrongly think we're something we're not, or we... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2024-Feb-05 • 54 minutes Puro Cubano: The Meaning of Tobacco in Cuba For many people around the world, Cuban cigars are a luxury. But for Cubans, they’ve symbolized the country’s rich history and culture. Now as an economic crisis is gripping the country and people are leaving, the cigar is a bellwether of Cuba's uncertain future. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Feb-05 • 92 minutes Symbolic Castration Ryan and Todd consider the concept of symbolic castration as it develops in psychoanalysis and as it bears on both politics and culture. They relate symbolic castration to some of the key concepts in psychoanalytic theory, including fetishistic disavowal and the phallus. (@UVMcas) |
| 2024-Feb-04 • 95 minutes #303 - The Science of Mental Health: A Dialogue with Camilla Nord In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Camilla Nord about the neuroscience of mental health. They define mental health and how the brain is central to mental health, measuring subjective vs. objective well-being, and chronic pain. They discuss depression, anhedonia, dopamine networks, behaviorism for motivation, and reward and valence. They talk about various emotional theories, gut microbiome, Bayesian brain and predictive processing, placebos, homeopathy, antidepressants, and many other topic... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Feb-04 • 70 minutes Aaron James - The Variety of Assholes | STM Podcast #204 On episode 204, we welcome Aaron James to discuss assholes, who they are and how they think, the difference between a regular asshole and someone with narcissistic personality disorder, whether all politicians are narcissistic and if regular people... (@seize_podcast • @EgoEndsNow • @leonscafe31) |
| 2024-Feb-04 • 30 minutes #352 — Hubris & Chaos Sam Harris speaks with Rory Stewart about the fraying world order. They discuss the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the problems with nation building, cultural ignorance, tolerance for corruption, our catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan, the role... (@) |
| 2024-Feb-04 • 62 minutes Dissecting Morality: Error Theory | Matt Lutz What if our understanding of morality is fundamentally flawed? Should the absence of objective moral facts alter the way we live and interact? Is the structure of our society dependent on moral beliefs, or are these just a result of individual desires and social evolution? | | --- | | Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/... (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2024-Feb-04 • 15 minutes John Cassian, Institutes Book 8 - Rooting Out Anger Entirely - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the late ancient monastic theologian, John Cassian's work Institutes of the Coenobia, book 8, "Of The Spirit of Anger". It focuses specifically on one of the main pieces of advice that Cassian provides in that book, namely that the vice of anger ought to be entirely rooted out from the soul of a human being. His first discussion of this takes place in chapter 1 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) |
| 2024-Feb-04 • 18 minutes HoP 438 - Don't Give Up Pope - Catholic Reformation How the Counter-Reformation or Catholic Reformation created a context for philosophy among Catholics, especially in Spain, Portugal, and Italy. (@HistPhilosophy) |
| 2024-Feb-04 • 116 minutes "Can Music Save Us? Chat w/Macon Holt" - OaD Ep. 184 Interview w/Macon Holt about the sonic shimmer within popular music, Afropessimism, and political possibility (@owls_at_dawn • @austin_hayden • @axwielderofdeth) |
| 2024-Feb-03 • 11 minutes PREMIUM-PEL Long Winter's Nightcap (Jan-Feb 2024) We anticipate our upcoming series on Aristotle's Metaphysics by talking through some preliminary issues about the text including what translations we're reading. Is this book really "timeless," or is it like old, outdated science? Also, what kind of... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2024-Feb-03 • 41 minutes Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (Part 2/5) In this episode, I cover chapters 10-16 of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan." Episode 1: Ch. 1-9 Episode 2: Ch. 10-16 ... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2024-Feb-02 • 50 minutes #895 Naomi de Ruiter - Toward a Process Approach in Psychology: Stepping into Heraclitus' River Dr. Naomi de Ruiter is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Groningen. In her current research, she is inspired by critical psychology and discursive psychology in her attempt to study the ontology or process mechanisms of self and identity (and related concepts) as situated in time and context. In much of her research, she adopts a complex dynamic systems approach for micro-genetic or theoretical work. She is the author, together with Paul van Geert, of Toward a Process Approach in Psycho... (@TheDissenterYT) |
 2024-Feb-02 • 75 minutes34 - Andrew does Improv - Liberalism Philosophy vs Improv (@) |
| 2024-Feb-02 • 83 minutes "If you combine rationality and compassion you have the essence" - Jonathan Leighton of OPIS - Sentientism 185 Jonathan is an ethics strategist, writer, social change | advocate and public speaker. He is Executive Director of the Organisation for the Prevention of Intense Suffering (OPIS), a Swiss-based think-and-do tank that promotes the prevention of human and non-human suffering as our overriding global ethical priority. His book, The Battle for Compassion: Ethics in an Apathetic Universe, explores the question "What matters?". His new book The Tango of Ethics: Intuition, Rationality and the Prevention ... (@sentientism • @JamieWoodhouse) |
| 2024-Feb-02 • 12 minutes John Cassian, Institutes Book 8 - Not Retaining Anger - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the late ancient monastic theologian, John Cassian's work Institutes of the Coenobia, book 8, "Of The Spirit of Anger". It focuses specifically on his advice that we ought to not retain anger once we begin feel the emotion, a theme that Cassian returns to at multiple points in the chapter. Specifically, we should not take the precept "let not the sun go down on your anger" as an excuse to retain anger for a given time-period To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.pa... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Feb-02 • 51 minutes #50. Anarchism ft. James Humphries Join hosts Margot Leys Johnston and Tinka Bruneau as they chat with James Humphries, a political philosophy lecturer at the University of Glasgow. In this episode, they delve into the concept of anarchism: its meaning, the appeal of living in an anarchist society, and how anarchist thinkers address potential challenges. Get ready to explore these intriguing questions and more on another episode of Thoughts! | Links to organisations mentioned by James: | Glasgow mutual aid network | https://www.mutualaid.c... (@ThoughtsUofg) |
| 2024-Feb-02 • 91 minutes Children of Memory and Objective Personhood pt.1 We're childish, we sorta have memories. What more do you need?! This book, you need this book. Holy birdbrains, a beautiful third installment in easily one of the best sci-fi series of all time. Meet our new friends the "uplifted" corvids and learn... (@0gPhilosophy) |
| 2024-Feb-02 • 20 minutes Bonus-wag: Does A 10 Gallon Hat Hold Water? 🤠🤠🤠 During Paul and Stephen’s first Chinwag with delightful author and historian Sarah Vowell (go back and listen to that episode from 10/4/23 now!), the term “10 gallon hat” came up. Both hosts, as well as Sarah, were stymied on the origin of the term. What does it really mean? Does it refer to the size of a cowboy hat? A measurement of water? Does it have to do with how much water a cowboy hat can hold, and why would you pour all that water into a hat anyway? Well, Paul and Stephen know when they’re li... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2024-Feb-02 • 13 minutes Policy of Truth After a three month hiatus, Red Letter Philosophy returns. The boys pick up their discussion of the problem of silence and the problem of unbelief. In particular, they look at an intriguing argument from famed author, Andrew Klavan. (@RedLetterPhil) |
| 2024-Feb-02 • 54 minutes Ulysses and the Art of Everyday Living What does it mean to be a good person? Irish scholar and writer Declan Kiberd argues that Ulysses — James Joyce’s iconic novel — has lessons to teach us about the art of everyday living. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Feb-02 • 65 minutes 108. Anatomy of a Fall Take the plunge with us and Veronica Fitzpatrick (BW/DR, Brown University) as we explore the moral complexities of narratives, relationships, and justice. Justice for Sandra? Justice for Samuel? Tune in to find out! (@cowspod • @juskhoo) |
| 2024-Feb-02 • 54 minutes Back to "Normal" The HBS hosts discuss post-COVID demands to get "back to normal."In 2020 the NCAA canceled its basketball tournaments for the year. Over the next several months, mitigation measures became more widespread and strict. In some places more quickly than others, we all eventually “returned to normal.” Did we though? In some ways, normalcy seems to be an irresistible pull. But is “normalcy” not the same as the status quo? And shouldn’t we be critical of both? We can look at other contexts in which we either have ... (@hotelbarpodcast • @DrLeighMJohnson • @c_fpeterson • @rickleephilos) |
| 2024-Feb-01 • 143 minutes #178 – Emily Oster on what the evidence actually says about pregnancy and parenting "I think at various times — before you have the kid, after you have the kid — it's useful to sit down and think about: What do I want the shape of this to look like? What time do I want to be spending? Which hours? How do I want the weekends to look? The things that are going to shape the way your day-to-day goes, and the time you spend with your kids, and what you're doing in that time with your kids, and all of those things: you have an opportunity to deliberately plan them. And you can then feel like, 'I... (@80000Hours) |
| 2024-Feb-01 • 79 minutes #894 Paco Calvo - Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence Dr. Paco Calvo is a Professor at the University of Murcia in Spain, where he leads the Minimal Intelligence Lab (MINT Lab), focusing on the study of minimal cognition in plants. Dr. Calvo’s interdisciplinary work combines insights from biology, philosophy, and cognitive science to explore the fascinating world of plant behavior, decision-making, and problem-solving. By investigating the complex interactions and adaptive responses exhibited by plants, Dr. Calvo has significantly contributed to our understand... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Feb-01 • 38 minutes Thinking Together Philosophers often give the following advice: Think for yourself. In this talk I argue this is unhealthy: it takes two to think. In particular, I motivate the need for an epistemology of ‘thinking together’ and argue it cannot be subsumed under other projects within social-collective epistemology. To foreshadow, thinking together is a matter of perspectival alignment, sharing a way of looking at the world. This cannot be reduced to sharing beliefs or knowledge. I end by highlighting how this picture challen... (@CambridgePhilos) |
| 2024-Feb-01 Brainwashing - Dr Alexandra Stein Brainwashing - Dr Alexandra Stein discusses if there are warning signs when someone is being brainwashed and if brainwashing just affects a certain personality type. (@radphilosophy) |
| 2024-Feb-01 • 57 minutes The Purpose of Punishment Live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. (@BBCRadio4) |
| 2024-Feb-01 • 68 minutes Lisa Herzog, "Citizen Knowledge: Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023) For better or worse, democracy and epistemology are intertwined. For one thing, politics is partly a matter of gathering, assessing, and applying information. And this can be done responsibly or incompetently. At least since Plato, a leading critique of democracy has focused on the ignorance of ordinary citizens. Historically, this kind of critique has supplied the basis for several nondemocratic proposals. Yet it has also worked in the background of a range of views within democratic theory. Among these ar... (@NewBooksPhil) |
| 2024-Feb-01 • 36 minutes What Makes for 'Good' Math? We tend to think of mathematics as purely logical, but the teaching of math, its usefulness and its workings are packed with nuance. So what is “good” mathematics? In 2007, the mathematician Terence Tao wrote an essay for the “Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society” that sought to answer this question. Today, as the recipient of a Fields Medal, a Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics and a MacArthur Fellowship, Tao is among the most prolific mathematicians alive. In this episode, he joins Steven Strogatz... (@QuantaMagazine • @stevenstrogatz) |
| 2024-Feb-01 • 54 minutes Platforms, Power and Democracy: Understanding the Influence of Social Media Research around social media was already hard to do. Now it’s even harder. Researchers describe how Big Tech and right-wing lawsuits block efforts to hold social media giants accountable. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Feb-01 • 102 minutes #302 - Modeling Social Behavior: A Dialogue with Paul Smaldino In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Paul Smaldino about agent-based models of social dynamics. They discuss why modeling in social sciences are important, quantitative and qualitative data, models and how we define them, and decomposition with complexity science. They also discuss modeling with multivariate questions, importance of theory, modeling with COVID19, modeling in politics, and many more topics. Paul Smaldino is an Associate Professor of Cognitive & Information Sciences and faculty... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Feb-01 • 54 minutes How can trust be cultivated in a time of pervasive suspicion? Because it is sustained by nothing more substantial than a weave of trusted institutions, shared habits and moral commitments, democracies are highly susceptible to the corrosive effects of distrust; Jedediah Purdy joins Waleed and Scott to discuss the necessary conditions for democratic life. (@RadioNational) |
| 2024-Jan-31 • 9 minutes 582: Can A.I. Help Us Understand Babies? More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/can... intelligence is everywhere in our day-to-day lives and our interactions with the world. And it's made impressive progress at a variety of visual, linguistic, and reasoning tasks. Does this improved performance indicate that computers are thinking, or is it just an engineering artifact? Can it help us understand how children acquire knowledge and develop language skills? Or are humans fundamentally different from machines? Josh and Ray decode the babble wit... (@philtalkradio) |
| 2024-Jan-31 • 14 minutes Aristotle, Poetics - Fear, Pity, And Tragedy - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Poetics, focusing on his discussions about the two emotions of pity (eleos) and fear (phobos), which Aristotle first mentions in his definition of tragedy. 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 You can find over 3000 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler Purchase Aris... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Jan-31 • 47 minutes Sarah Vowell Pt 2: The Joy of Coincidence 🌺🌺🌺 Author and historian Sarah Vowell may have spoken a little too soon in her first Chinwag with Paul and Stephen. Behold the incredible tales of coincidence that challenge her literal mind and make Sarah question her woo-woo-ness. From Sacagawea’s chance meeting with her long-lost brother, to John Adams’ and Thomas Jefferson’s shared date of death, and odd details about the Lincoln assassination and the Booth brothers – do serendipitous moments in history actually mean anything? On to Ancient Rome and... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2024-Jan-31 • 53 minutes Xenophon's Apology In this episode, delve into the profound philosophical insights of Xenophon's Apology as the guys explore the teachings and reflections of Socrates from Xenophon's point of view. Unravel the layers of Socratic thought and its enduring relevance in... (@thenewthinkery • @alexpriou • @GregMcBrayer3 • @Tempest1610) |
| 2024-Jan-31 • 44 minutes Queer vs the state For a long time there's been an ambivalent relationship between LGBTQ communities and the state. Even in liberal democracies, which supposedly exist to protect the interests of all their citizens, examples of the state-sanctioned persecution of sexual minorities can be found right up to the present day. And the intellectual project of queer theory has had an anti-state scepticism baked into it from its earliest inception. (@DavidPZone) |
| 2024-Jan-31 • 54 minutes Our Bodies, Our Cells Our bodies are a great paradox. We are made up of trillions of cells that are both independent and interconnected units of life. IDEAS travels into the microscopic complexity of the human body to explore sophisticated nanomachines — and probe the deep mysteries of a subatomic world. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Jan-31 • 115 minutes Philosophy In Film - 077 - Leave the World Behind Philosophy in Film brings in the new year with Netflix’s 2023 thriller Leave the World Behind. Directed by Mr. Robot's Sam Esmail and based on the 2020 novel by Rumaan Alam, the gang prepares for cataclysmic crisis by cracking this week’s featured... (@PhilInFilm) |
| 2024-Jan-31 • 10 minutes What is Leviathan? | Thomas Hobbes | Keyword In this episode, I explain Thomas Hobbes' notion of the Leviathan. 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_ph... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2024-Jan-31 • 19 minutes Episode 207: Existentialism Part 8 This week, Dr. Mike whisks Danny of into the mists of time and recalls his days as Earth's first line of defense against Alien invasion! You heard correctly, Mike once was part of a crack team of first responders who were engaged in monitoring the night skies for suspicious flying objects and scouring the countryside for extraterrestrial vehicles etc. That's right! They did all these amazing things and still made sure they were home in time for tea! (@PhilosophyWtf) |
| 2024-Jan-31 • 30 minutes The WHY of Podcasting Gwendolyn Dolske and Rudy Salo present "The Why of Podcasting" for the OutlierHQ Podcast Festival. We share the story and creation of Good Is In The Details, some tips for podcasters, and our journey of learning through producing the show.... (@InTheDetailsPod • @GDolske • @SaloRudy) |
| 2024-Jan-30 • 96 minutes Episode 277: The Merits of Buggery (Nagel's "Sexual Perversion") David and Tamler play the old hits – Thomas Nagel and sex robots. In the main segment we talk about Nagel’s essay “Sexual Perversion”, a surprising essay on many fronts (Sartre, erotic fiction, conceptual analysis, much more). What’s the... (@verybadwizards • @peez • @tamler) |
| 2024-Jan-30 • 43 minutes #351 — 5 Myths about Israel and the War in Gaza A transcript of this podcast is available on . If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at . (@) |
 2024-Jan-30 • 65 minutesRoss Barkan on The State of the City Last week, Mayor Eric Adams delivered his annual State of The City address (apparently it's in a very good state), and so I thought it fitting that we take up the matter here. But rather than take a deep dive into the details and lack thereof of the Mayor’s speech, I wanted to zoom out for a somewhat wider perspective on the condition of the city and some of the issues that it is currently facing. To do so, I invited the New York-based writer Ross Barkan to join me. Ross is not only a prolific writer, but o... (@PhionNewYork • @jsbiehl) |
| 2024-Jan-30 • 16 minutes Aristotle, Poetics - Character, Choice, And Tragedy - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Poetics, focusing on Aristotle's discussion of character (ēthos), which he identifies as the second most important element or part of tragedy. He tells us: "Character is that which reveals moral choice - that is, when otherwise unclear, what kinds of thing an agent chooses or rejects (which is why speeches in which there is nothing at all the speaker chooses or rejects contain no character); while thought covers the parts in which th... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Jan-30 • 19 minutes Psychology of AI | Isabel Millar Ground breaking philosopher and psychoanalytic theorist Dr Isabel Millar discusses her work in challenging assumptions around AI by deploying the tools of psychoanalysis to the study of AI. (@IAI_TV) |
| 2024-Jan-30 • 48 minutes Episode 212 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 19 - Can "Pleasure" Be Defended In The Public Square? Welcome to Episode 212 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the most complete presentation of Epicurean philosophy left to us from the ancient world. Each week we walk you through the Epicurean texts, and we discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. If you find the Epicurean worldview attractive, we invite you to join us in the study of Epicurus at EpicureanFriends.com, where you will find a discussion thread for each of o... (@NewEpicurean) |
| 2024-Jan-30 • 54 minutes The Meaning of Ice: Arctic research embracing traditional knowledge Climate change has transformed the Arctic faster than most places on the planet. Inuit know this better than anyone. But as Arctic ice researcher Dr. Shari Fox argues a colonialist approach to Arctic research by academia has largely disrespected and sidelined traditional knowledge. She's working to change that. *This episode originally aired on Jan. 11, 2023. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Jan-30 • 60 minutes Fatphobia with Kate Manne “They find our bodies repulsive.” On episode 96 of Overthink, Ellie and David bring on Dr. Kate Manne, philosopher and author of Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia. She explains the moral failures and biomedical perils of our fatphobic culture and its misleading imperative to diet. This look at the politics of fat, fatness, and fatphobia in the philosophical canon and beyond to reveal rich links to questions of accessibility, justice, and intimacy. Should we trust the BMI (Body Mass Index) as a measure of h... (@overthink_pod • @ellieanderphd • @DrPenaGuzman1) |
| 2024-Jan-29 • 60 minutes #893 Sarah Hart - Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature Dr. Sarah Hart is an Emerita Professor of Mathematics at Birkbeck, University of London. Educated at Oxford and Manchester, Dr. Hart is also the thirty-third Gresham Professor of Geometry, the first woman to hold the position since its inception in 1597. She is the author of Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature. | | In this episode, we focus on Once Upon a Prime. We talk about the connection between mathematics and literature in several different dimensions, inclu... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Jan-29 • 21 minutes #14 - Enhancement Technologies and Inequality In this episode, I offer an audio version of as well as commentary on my second publication: | | Veit, W. (2018). Enhancement Technologies and Inequality. In Saborido, C., Oms, S. & González de Prado, J. (eds.) Proceedings of the IX Conference of the Spanish Society of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, 471-476. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.21932.08... [Download] | | | EPISODE LINKS: | Free download link of my article: | veit2018_enhancement.pdf (wordpress.com) | | | | | | PODCAS... (@wrwveit) |
| 2024-Jan-29 • 15 minutes Aristotle, Poetics - Different Modes Of Recognition - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Poetics, focusing on the different modes of what Aristotle calls "recognition" (anagnōrisis), one of the key features of good plots in tragedy. He writes: "The definition of recognition was stated earlier. As for its kinds, first is the least artistic and the one used the most from uninventiveness: recognition through tokens....The second kind are those contrived by the poet, and hence inartistic. ... The third kind is through memor... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Jan-29 • 72 minutes 264 | Sabine Stanley on What's Inside Planets I talk with planetary scientist Sabine Stanley about how we know what's inside planets in the Solar System and elsewhere. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2024-Jan-29 • 54 minutes The Tree of Life Revisited: Chava Rosenfarb Chava Rosenfarb, Holocaust survivor and Canadian Yiddish writer, was born 100 years ago in Łódź, Poland. In 2023, Łódź celebrated “The Year of Chava Rosenfarb." In this episode, producer Allison Dempster revisits a 2001 IDEAS documentary that profiles Rosenfarb’s legacy and the politics of Holocaust remembrance in Poland today. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Jan-29 • 23 minutes S2E8 - Kenny Novis on Podcasting, Marxism, and Spinoza | Today we're joined by Kenny Novis, a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford. We'll be talking about Kenny's experiences podcasting with Zer0 Books and Repeater Media, his research on Marxism, as well as his research on Spinoza. If you'd like to get in touch with Kenny, you can reach him via email at [email protected], or on Twitter at @saditious. | Music credit: @progressivaudio (@KOosterum • @99lewiswilliams) |
| 2024-Jan-29 • 54 minutes Ep. 334: Gabriel Marcel's Christian Existentialism (Part Two) Continuing on "On the Ontological Mystery" (1933), we talk more about problems vs. mysteries: The latter implicate OURSELVES; we are not merely witnesses, but our involvement complicates things. Also, what makes Marcel an existentialist? Get more at .... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2024-Jan-29 • 31 minutes Episode 72: Crime and Reparations with Raff Donelson In this episode, we talk with Raff Donelson about several different topics, including his response to free will skepticism, whether its okay to make people responsible to make reparations for historical injustices, and his recent work on medieval criminal trials involving non-human animals.Raff's website: https://www.raffdonelson.com/Raff's paper, "Reparation, Responsibility, and Formalism: A Reply to Carnes": https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?... https://twitter.com/thefreewillsho... (@thefreewillshow • @taylorwcyr • @MatthewFlummer) |
| 2024-Jan-29 • 61 minutes EDI Mean - Street Fame: The Ecstasies and Perils of Hip Hop | STM Podcast #203 On episode 203, we welcome EDI Mean to discuss his book ‘Street Fame’, how it mirrors and differs from the music industry, EDI’s love of hip-hop and his warnings to up and coming rappers, what made 2Pac special, whether conscious rappers can... (@seize_podcast • @EgoEndsNow • @leonscafe31) |
| 2024-Jan-29 • 60 minutes #301 - Directionless Democrats: A Dialogue with Ruy Teixeira In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Ruy Teixeira about the current state of the Democratic party. They discuss how Democrats are running in 2024, why Democrats have abandoned the working class voters, and why they have pivoted to college educated voters. They talk about immigration challenges with Democrats, impact of populism on the Right and the Left, Latinos shifting to the Republican Party, cultural issues, and many more topics. Ruy Teixeira is a sociologist and political commentator who... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Jan-28 • 14 minutes Modern magic: the internet and its endless influencers The quote that motivated this episode….“Central to Hermetic thought was the tenet: ‘As above, so below.’ Everything is connected, from the movement of the stars and the planets to the internal workings of an insect. Understanding these secret connections, and harnessing them, was the key to a successful magician’s art. Central, too, was the occult nature of the mage’s knowledge. The mage saw things, and connections, that ordinary or uninitiated people could not.Whoever shapes the perception of others, in or... (@philosophyguy2 • @brendenslab) |
| 2024-Jan-28 • 62 minutes S3: E11 Your Mind on Rumination with Dr. Rachel Bedder How often do you play negative experiences over in your head? If this is a painful pattern of thinking, why would we do this? This week we talk about rumination with Dr. Rachel Bedder, she explains why we ruminate and how it is different from worry. Dr. Bedder discusses her computational model of rumination and we learn how we can apply these models in real life. Ava and Beth reflect on their own thought patterns. (@bethfisher_1 • @avamadesousa) |
| 2024-Jan-28 • 58 minutes The Morality Maze | Spencer Case Is morality real, a social construct, or non-existent? Can we rely on our moral intuitions? And are moral truths inaccessible to us? | | --- | | Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/... (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2024-Jan-28 • 85 minutes 192 - Norman Finkelstein: Hamas, Hezbollah, and Justice in the Israel-Palestine Conflict Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 | | Norman Finkelstein received his PhD from the Princeton University Politics Department, and is best known for his indefatigable research on Israel and Palestine, which is what he and Robinson discuss in this episode of the show, marking the culmination of a three-installment mini-series on Israel and Palestine. In particular, they discuss the importance—or distraction—of ideology, whether Israel is ethnically cleansing Palestine, the message that October 7th sent to the A... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2024-Jan-28 • 22 minutes 079 - Using Hegel's Triad as a Model for Success Hegel's "triad" of Being, Nothing, and Becoming are central to his ontology. And it can also be used as a framework for personal achievement. This episode explains how. The Being/Nothing/Becoming dialectic comes first in Hegel's Science of Logic, but it also presents the pattern for his overall project of Mind (Idea), Nature, and Spirit (Geist). And it is just this framework that one must use in pushing to new heights of success in life. The basic approach is goal setting (Mind), as... (@CunningofGeist) |
| 2024-Jan-28 • 39 minutes Episode 126, ‘Playfulness Versus Epistemic Traps’ with C. Thi Nguyen (Part I - The Ideal Thinker) Welcome to ‘Episode 126 (Part I of II)’, where we’ll be discussing the virtues of playfulness with C. Thi Nguyen. (@ThePanpsycast • @_JackSymes • @MrMarleyTeach) |
| 2024-Jan-28 • 46 minutes HAP 140 - Cornel West on Himself Cornel West joins us to look back on the development of his thought and the many authors who have inspired him. (@HistPhilosophy • @ChikeJeffers) |
| 2024-Jan-28 • 122 minutes "Are We Living in Nihilistic Times?" - OaD Ep. 183 Wendy Brown's Nihilistic Times (@owls_at_dawn • @austin_hayden • @axwielderofdeth) |
| 2024-Jan-27 • 39 minutes Episode 211 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 18 - Battle Of The Images Welcome to Episode 211 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the most complete presentation of Epicurean philosophy left to us from the ancient world. Each week we walk you through... (@NewEpicurean) |
| 2024-Jan-27 • 13 minutes John Cassian, Institutes Book 8 - When Anger Is Appropriate - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the late ancient monastic theologian, John Cassian's work Institutes of the Coenobia, book 8, "Of The Spirit of Anger". It focuses specifically on the only situations in which Cassian considers anger to be legitimate and useful, that is, anger against the bad dispositions within oneself. He discusses this in chapters 7-9. 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... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Jan-27 • 15 minutes Aristotle, Poetics - Reversal, Recognition, And Suffering - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Poetics, focusing on three key aspects of good plots: reversal (peripeteia), recognition (anagnōrisis), and suffering (pathos). 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 You can find over 3000 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler Purchase Aristotle's Poetics - https://a... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Jan-27 • 36 minutes Episode #194 ... Do we really need the police? - Anarchism pt. 3 - (Gelderloos, Security) Today we answer some questions about the potential security risks of an anarchist society. Sponsors: https://www.DrinkLMNT.com/ph... you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreo... https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizeth... https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Faceb... https://www.facebook.com/philosophizethi... (@iamstephenwest) |
| 2024-Jan-27 • 46 minutes Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (Part 1/5) In this episode, I begin my presentation of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" by covering chapters 1-9. Episode 1: Ch. 1-9 Episode 2: Ch. 10-16 ... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2024-Jan-26 • 84 minutes #892 Philip Ball - The Book of Minds: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings Dr. Philip Ball is a freelance science writer, with a BA in Chemistry from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Physics from the University of Bristol. He was an editor at Nature for over 20 years. He is the author of many popular books on science, including The Book of Minds: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens. | | In this episode, we focus on The Book of Minds. We start by discussing the solipsist position, what a mind is, the idea of the “space of possible minds... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Jan-26 • 87 minutes 33 - Are Animals Food? a conversation with Robert Jones (@) |
| 2024-Jan-26 • 13 minutes Aristotle, Poetics - Plot, Structure, And Unity - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Poetics, focusing on his discussions of what he considers to be the most important part or aspect of tragedy, namely plot or story (mythos). Aristotle stresses that a good plot is complex, but forms a unity. 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 You can find over 3000 philosophy videos in my main YouTube ch... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Jan-26 • 57 minutes Ukraine - the moral case for ceding land for peace Live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. (@BBCRadio4) |
| 2024-Jan-26 • 17 minutes Bonus-wag: Natasha Lyonne on Aliens, Bigfoot and Ghosts 👻🥞🥤 Natasha shares her beliefs in the possibility of aliens, ghosts and Bigfoot, introduces the Fermi Paradox to the conversation with Paul and Stephen, enjoys a pancake lunch, and tells the story of her life with Rootbeer the dog. Bonus: Did Natasha’s dog Rootbeer get plastic surgery or consult a psychic? Tune in to this week’s Bonus-Wag to find out! Paul Giamatti is an award-winning actor and producer. Stephen Asma is a professor and author specializing in the philosophy of science, religion, and art.... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2024-Jan-26 • 54 minutes The Year 1989: Uprisings and Downfalls Our series exploring five years in the 20th century that shaped the world ends with the year 1989. The Berlin Wall comes tumbling down. There are democratic uprisings in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Poland and Hungary. A riot in Tiananmen Square in Beijing is met with a fierce crackdown. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Jan-26 • 60 minutes Real Life Heroes The HBS hosts chat about heroes without capes. In a world saturated with fictional caped crusaders and masked vigilantes, we want to redirect our attention to the unsung champions who make a tangible impact in the lives of others, in other words, “real life” people who display acts of courage, compassion and commitment and who transcend the confines of comic book fantasies.Not all heroes wear flashy costumes or flashy costumes, and they don’t all possess superhuman abilities. Often, they emerge from diverse... (@hotelbarpodcast • @DrLeighMJohnson • @c_fpeterson • @rickleephilos) |
| 2024-Jan-26 • 25 minutes #78: Fix your self-compassion with the metaphysics of personal identity (and an Aeropress) Your problem with self-compassion: the one that leads you to be kind and supportive to other people, but nasty and vindictive to yourself. One reason you struggle with the 'self' part of 'self-compassion' is that you view yourself as separate from other people. But what if you aren't? What if the gap between you and others is simply too small and inconsequential to support your difficult-to-shake belief that it's wrong to be nasty to people, unless the person you're being ... (@AcademicImp • @rebecca_roache) |
| 2024-Jan-25 • 64 minutes The Secular Paradox with Joseph Blankholm My guest this week is Joseph Blankholm, a religious studies scholar and associate professor at UC Santa Barbara. We discuss his recent book The Secular Paradox, where he unpacks several internal conflicts facing secular community organizers. We get into the nature of religion, the secular mindset, and how movement secularism might be able to grow past this seeming paradox. Music by GW Rodriguez The Paradox of Secularism: https://nyupress.org/9781479809523/the-s... Pods: Philosophers in Space: https://0g... (@ETVPod) |
| 2024-Jan-25 • 64 minutes Ep. 253 - Christian Philosophy as a Way of Life w/Dr. Ross Inman In episode 253, I'm joined once again by Dr. Ross Inman, this time we discuss his new book "Christian Philosophy As a Way of Life: An Invitation to Wonder". | | Grab the book here from my affiliate link to support my podcast: https://amzn.to/3RdRKgO | | Check out my sponsor for this episode, Field Notes, and get 10% off your entire order with promo code PARKERNOTES at check out: https://fieldnotesbrand.com?aff=44 | | Check out my other sponsor, Murdy Creative Co. to find amazing leather goods ... (@trendsettercase) |
| 2024-Jan-25 • 100 minutes #891 Luis Favela: Complexity Science, 4E Cognition, and Explanatory Pluralism Dr. Luis Favela is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences (tenured) at the University of Central Florida. He is concurrently a Fellow in the Research Corporation for Science Advancement's Molecular Basis of Cognition Scialog program. His research attempts to understand mind (i.e., behavior, cognition, and consciousness) from a naturalistic and interdisciplinary perspective. | | In this episode, we start by talking about complexity science, and how it applies to the study of the mind, ... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Jan-25 • 36 minutes Artefacts of representational choices When we formulate theories, we make decisions about what to count as theoretically primitive and what to count as theoretically derivative. For example: when we are doing arithmetic, we might treat "+" as a primitive and we might define "<" in terms of "+". Metaphysicians might want to ask whether our decision---about what to treat as theoretically primitive (or derivative)---kept track of what is metaphysically primitive (or derivative). I doubt the question makes sense. To explain why, I'll offer some gen... (@CambridgePhilos) |
| 2024-Jan-25 • 35 minutes What is swearing? What exactly is it about swearing that gives it its offensive power? None of the standard philosophy-of-language explanations really gets to the bottom of why we swear, why we don't, and what we're doing when we use "obscene" language. This week, the author of a new book offers some thoughts. (@DavidPZone) |
| 2024-Jan-25 • 54 minutes The Year 1973: The Dictators In part four of our series exploring five years that shaped the world, IDEAS examines 1973. Augusto Pinochet comes to power in Chile, and dictators rule Portugal, Greece, Uganda and beyond. The OPEC oil embargo sets the world on a new path. The American Supreme Court legalizes abortion in Roe v. Wade, 50 years before it would be overturned. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Jan-25 • 53 minutes What do we lose by succumbing to conspiracy-mindedness? Ours is a time when institutional distrust, digital disinformation and mutual suspicion have become pervasive — but can democracy withstand epistemic and social fragmentation of this kind? (@RadioNational) |
| 2024-Jan-25 • 140 minutes #300 - A Leftist Reading of Nietzsche: A Dialogue with Daniel Tutt In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Daniel Tutt about the importance of the political left reading Nietzsche seriously. They talk about Nietzsche vs. Nietzscheanism, prolepsis and prophetic/esoteric and exoteric readings, and the Janus face of Nietzschean philosophy. They discuss building culture, caste and class, current leftist readings of Nietzsche, and Losurdo’s four stages of Nietzsche. They also talk about Nietzsche and Marx on religion, reading Nietzsche as a parasite, and many more ... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Jan-25 • 93 minutes Thinking about Death, Part 1 What is death? Does fear of death affect our everyday lives? And will your death harm you or not? Travis Timmerman, associate professor at Seton Hall University, joins Spencer to discuss these and other questions. Timmerman is coeditor, along with Michael Cholbi, of a fine anthology on the philosophy of death, Exploring the Philosophy of Death and Dying. Purchase your copy here:https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Ph... (@ADigressions • @SpencerJayCase) |
| 2024-Jan-24 • 20 minutes Aristotle, Poetics - Elements And Definitions Of Tragedy - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Poetics, focusing on Aristotle's definition of tragedy, which runs: "Tragedy, then, is mimesis of an action which is elevated, complete, and of magnitude; in language embellished by distinct forms in its sections; employing the mode of enactment, not narrative; and through pity and fear accomplishing the catharsis a of such emotions. I use "embellished'' for language with rhythm and melody, and "distinct forms" for the fact that som... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Jan-24 • 167 minutes #177 – Nathan Labenz on recent AI breakthroughs and navigating the growing rift between AI safety and accelerationist camps Back in December we spoke with Nathan Labenz — AI entrepreneur and host of The Cognitive Revolution Podcast — about the speed of progress towards AGI and OpenAI's leadership drama, drawing on Nathan's alarming experience red-teaming an early version of GPT-4 and resulting conversations with OpenAI staff and board members.Today we go deeper, diving into:What AI now actually can and can’t do, across language and visual models, medicine, scientific research, self-driving cars, robotics, weapons — and what the ... (@80000Hours) |
| 2024-Jan-24 • 18 minutes 581: 20th Anniversary Quiz Night More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/20t... Talk made its radio debut on August 20, 2003 with a live pilot on KALW San Francisco and weekly broadcasts beginning in January 2004. To celebrate two decades on the air, in November 2023 we held our first-ever Quiz Night. Longtime listeners and first-time fans filled KALW's popup space in downtown San Francisco as Director of Research Laura Maguire ran eight teams through the gauntlet of a philosophical pub quiz. In this special 20th anniversary episode, ... (@philtalkradio) |
| 2024-Jan-24 • 107 minutes Episode 41 - Climate Biology with Fabian Ercan Dr Fabian E.Z. Ercan is a broadly interested (climate) biologist who does not shy away from broader discussions concerning natural sciences, philosophy, engineering and history. The dimension of time plays an important role in biology, ecology and c... (@lifeplatoscave • @MarioVeen) |
| 2024-Jan-24 • 66 minutes Michael Amster - The Power of Awe: How Simple Moments Can Transform Your Life | STM Podcast #202 On episode 202, we welcome Michael Amster to discuss the A.W.E. method, how changing your perspective and seeing miracles in the everyday alleviates suffering, how feeling awe interacts with chronic pain, the vagus nerve and the physiological affects... (@seize_podcast • @EgoEndsNow • @leonscafe31) |
| 2024-Jan-24 • 64 minutes Rebecca F. Kuang on National Literatures, Book Publishing, and History in Fiction How has Rebecca F. Kuang published 5 novels by age 27? An overwhelming compulsion to write, with a dash of Cal Newport. (@tylercowen) |
| 2024-Jan-24 • 50 minutes UNLOCKED - The Struggle for Freedom Move your Buridan's Ass! | This is an UNLOCKED PATREON episode demanded by the listeners wherein the fellas discuss Žižek's new book on Freedom. They touch on the freedom of philosophy, the philosophy of freedom, the pitfalls of Anarchism, Wittgenstein, Sartre, and Canadian Thanksgiving. | | Support the podcast on our PATREON for all of our Patreon episodes, interviews, reading groups and so on. | | Enjoy! | | (@zizekand) |
| 2024-Jan-24 • 54 minutes Natasha Lyonne: Armchair Physicist ⚛️⚛️⚛️ Paul and Stephen read a letter from Keith, an airline pilot in Idaho who shares his incredible UFO sighting and belief in Interdimensional Sasquatch Travel. Then.... Natasha Lyonne joins, and that’s when things get weird and quantum-physical. Listen in as Paul and Stephen follow Natasha around her house, feed Rootbeer the dog, and learn why she’s comforted by the dulcet sound of quantum physics audio books at bedtime. Hear why discipline and restraint and the structure of mathematics is grounding ... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2024-Jan-24 • 61 minutes Roundtable Discussion of Leo Strauss' Natural Right and History This week, Greg and Alex are joined roundtable-style at UATX by Mark Blitz, Fletcher Jones Professor of Political Philosophy at Claremont McKenna University; Devin Stauffer, Professor and Associate Chair at UT Austin; and Christopher T. Lynch, Head of... (@thenewthinkery • @alexpriou • @GregMcBrayer3 • @Tempest1610) |
| 2024-Jan-24 • 90 minutes Episode 161: Scene of the Crime: On Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's 'From Hell' Phil and JF discuss Victorian London through the lens of Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's occult reimagining of Jack the Ripper. (@weirdstudies • @JF_Martel) |
| 2024-Jan-24 • 54 minutes The Year 1963: Social Revolutions Our series continues as we focus on the year 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads a march on Washington, the Pan-African movement ushers in a new era for Africa, President Kennedy is assassinated, and the war in Vietnam heats up. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Jan-24 • 27 minutes Roger Penrose: Mathematics & What Exists Roger Penrose—mathematician, physicist, philosopher—was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics. We speak with Roger about our favorite, fundamental questions. What things exist? What is math and why does it work? What’s fundamental in the cosmos? ... (@CloserToTruth • @RobertLawrKuhn) |
| 2024-Jan-23 • 32 minutes On the nature of reality | Iain McGilchrist and Rowan Williams Rowan Williams and Iain McGilchrist discuss the layered and inter-connected nature of reality from their perspectives. (@IAI_TV) |
| 2024-Jan-23 • 87 minutes Is veganism a moral obligation? Ghostless Machine cross-post bonus - Sentientism 184 Welcome to episode 184 of the Sentientism Podcast. A podcast about what's real, who matters and how we can make a better world. | The Sentientism worldview answers those deep questions by committing to evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings. | This episode is a bonus cross-post of my discussion with Ariel Pontes. His Ghostless Machine podcast includes a series of dialogues where he has friendly disagreements over controversial topics with a variety of guests. I had the pleasure of being hi... (@sentientism • @JamieWoodhouse) |
| 2024-Jan-23 • 43 minutes #350 — Sharing Reality Sam Harris speaks with Jonathan Rauch and Josh Szeps about the foundations of knowledge and the fragmentation of society. They discuss the state of the mainstream media, diversity of viewpoints, the "reality-based" community, what Covid did to our... (@) |
| 2024-Jan-23 • 20 minutes Overview of "Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor" In this episode, I read an exclusive excerpt from my latest book, Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor, published by Yale University Press, as part of the Ancient Lives Series. The book is a philosophical biography of the Roman emperor, which contains many references to the Meditations and how his philosophy shaped his life. You can help it reach a wider audience by pre-ordering now from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or any other bookseller.While the First Marcomannic War was raging, Marcus Aurelius, surrounded b... (@DonJRobertson) |
| 2024-Jan-23 • 14 minutes Aristotle, Poetics - Three Distinctions In Mimesis - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Poetics, focusing on three key distinctions he brings up early on in the work, which bear upon different kinds of mimetic arts (including tragedy, comedy, epic, other poetry, and musical performances). The distinction is between the: Media of the mimetic work (en hois) Objects (or content) of the mimetic work (ha) Mode (or how) of the mimetic work (hōs) The six parts or elements of tragedy fall into this Diction and Lyric Poetry are... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Jan-23 • 56 minutes Ep. 110: What is NOT Philosophy? (Part I) In this episode, Giuseppe and Anthony discuss a seemingly odd set of questions: What kinds of activities/disciplines are definitively non-philosophical? And is there anything that can't be philosophized about, even in principle? These questions lead to a number of rabbit holes regarding mental states, the sciences, personal anecdotes, and other fun stuff. (@LoveofSophiaPOD) |
| 2024-Jan-23 • 54 minutes The Year 1938: The Winds of War On the eve of the Second World War, Hitler annexes Austria and escalates antisemitic persecution, Japan wages war on China, and the parallel collapse of democracy in both the East and West sets the stage for war. This is the second episode in our series exploring five years that have shaped the world. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Jan-23 • 60 minutes Ep. 75 Engaging with Beauty: The Philosophy of Beauty, Part 1 Beauty and aesthetics seems to be one of the least discussed branches of philosophy, yet occupied the minds of some of the greatest philosophers such as: Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hume, just to name a few. Its appeal is immediately obvious, however, when someone asks the seemingly simple question of exactly what beauty is. The conversation that typically follows involves topics such as: what exactly are standards of beauty, if these standards are objective or entirely in the eye of the beholder, and under... (@opendoorphil • @d_parsonage) |
| 2024-Jan-22 • 35 minutes How We Speak About Morality Gwendolyn Dolske and Rudy Salo welcome Philosophy Professor Matthew Congdon (Vanderbilt University). We discuss his book Moral Articulation On the Development of New Moral Concepts. How do we frame moral issues? How does language... (@InTheDetailsPod • @GDolske • @SaloRudy) |
| 2024-Jan-22 • 70 minutes #890 Richard Nisbett: Attribution Theory, Intelligence, and Cognitive Differences Across Cultures Dr. Richard Nisbett is the Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Research Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He was the recipient of the Donald T. Campbell Award from the American Psychological Association in 1982, and he’s a Guggenheim fellow. He’s also the author of several books, including Culture of Honor, The Geography of Thought, Mindware, and Thinking: A memoir. | | In this episode, we talk about topics in social psychology. We... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2024-Jan-22 • 86 minutes 263 | Chris Quigg on Symmetry and the Birth of the Standard Model I talk with physicist Chris Quigg about how the Standard Model of particle physics came to be. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2024-Jan-22 • 46 minutes Ep. 334: Gabriel Marcel's Christian Existentialism (Part One) Discussing "On the Ontological Mystery" (1933) about our need for meaning. Marcel asserts that our need for "mystery" is much more primal than the scientific, technical point of view that breaks down problems into component parts for easy analysis. In... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2024-Jan-22 • 54 minutes The Year 1919: Dividing the Spoils After the First World War, the Western powers create new borders and carve out spheres of influence, leaders from the Global South fight for self-determination, and the League of Nations and the Communist International are formed. In this series recorded at the Stratford Festival, IDEAS explores five years in the 20th century that have shaped our world today. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2024-Jan-22 • 18 minutes David Chalmers on Technophiloosphy and the Extended Mind (@philosophybites • @DavidEdmonds100) |
| 2024-Jan-22 • 11 minutes 81 TEASER | David Harvey: Capitalist Urbanization and the Right to the City In this episode, we talk about David Harvey’s analysis of the urbanization process as a form of accumulated surplus capital expenditure and consider the built environment as a crucial site of class struggle. The physical constitution of the built environment in which we live mediates our forms of sociality and political dispositions, not to mention how important it is for making mass action and organization possible. So it sure sucks that the shape of its development has been determined by the needs of capi... (@leftofphil • @whitherutopia • @oglynwil • @classreductress) |
| 2024-Jan-22 • 96 minutes #299 - Myths of Migration: A Dialogue with Hein de Haas In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Hein de Haas about migration and many of the myths surrounding immigration. They discuss why immigration is a major issue globally and its connection with nationalism, distinctions between immigration, emigration, asylum seekers, and refugees, and how migration is not at an all-time high. They also talk about internal/external migration, borders, labor demand in the USA, low-skilled vs. high-skilled workers, refugee crisis, hypocrisy on the political left ... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2024-Jan-22 • 75 minutes Dialectical Reversal Ryan and Todd explore the working of the dialectical reversal, how weaknesses can turn into strengths, how successes can turn into failures. They look at this through a variety of everyday examples and a few choice filmic ones. (@UVMcas) |
| 2024-Jan-21 • 12 minutes Plato, Republic Book 10 - Poetry And Corruption of The Soul This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's work, The Republic, in particular book 10. Specifically it examines his discussion of the dangers of poetry as a corrupter of the human 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 BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM You can find over 3000 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtu... (@philosopher70) |
| 2024-Jan-21 • 53 minutes S3 E10: Your Mind & Action on Culture and Social Class with Dr. Kimin Eom How does culture shape our actions towards the environment and our responses to global crises? Dr. Kimmon Eom joins us to discuss how different cultures and socioeconomic statuses influence the willingness to engage in pro-environmental actions. He also shares work on how pandemics and fear of contagion may make even the unprejudiced support xenophobic policies. Beth and Ava have an honest conversation about their own experiences with social class. (@bethfisher_1 • @avamadesousa) |
| 2024-Jan-21 • 52 minutes Why Israel's Response to Hamas Was Justified | Natasha Hausdorff | What is a proportional response to a terrorist attack? What does genocide involve? And is South Africa's case at the International Court of Justice justified? | | Presenters: Mark Oppenheimer and Jason Werbeloff | Editor and Producer: Jimmy Mullen and Porter Kaufman | | Brain in a Vat bookshop (Shopify): https://smarturl.it/BrainShop | Brain in a Vat bookshop (Amazon): https://smarturl.it/BrainAmazonShop | | | | --- | | Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/... (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2024-Jan-21 • 63 minutes 191 - Victor Davis Hanson: An American’s Case For Israel Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 | | Victor Davis Hanson is a renowned classicist, military historian, and political commentator. He is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Among numerous other awards, Victor was presented the National Humanities Medal in 2007. In this episode, which is the second in an installment of three considering different perspectives on the Israel-Palestine conflict, Robinson and Vic... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2024-Jan-21 • 35 minutes HoP 437 - Jennifer Rampling on Renaissance Alchemy An expert on Renaissance alchemy tells us how this art related to philosophy at the time... and how she has tried to reproduce its results! (@HistPhilosophy) |
| 2024-Jan-21 • 108 minutes "In Praise of Raw-Dogging the World: Sex, Art, and Consumerism" - OaD Ep. 182 Sex, Art, and Consumerism (@owls_at_dawn • @austin_hayden • @axwielderofdeth) |
| 2024-Jan-20 • 51 minutes Episode 210- Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 17 - Self-Approval As Pleasure Welcome to Episode 210 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the most complete presentation of Epicurean philosophy left to us from the ancient world. Each week we walk you through... (@NewEpicurean) |
| 2024-Jan-20 • 11 minutes Plato, Republic Book 10 - Imitation. Poetry, And Parts Of The Soul This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's work, The Republic, in particular book 10. Specifically it examines his discussion of the rational and irrational parts of the human soul, and the effects and appeals of imitative art, specifically poetry, upon those parts. 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) |
 2024-Jan-20 • 53 minutesWillowbrook State School Devan and Tyler explore the Willowbrook State School, that stands as a stark symbol of the dark chapters in the history of medical ethics and public health. Willowbrook gained infamy for its association with highly controversial medical experiments conducted on children with intellectual disabilities during the mid-20th century. Led by Dr. Saul Krugman, the Willowbrook studies became emblematic of ethical questions about the treatment of vulnerable populations and the boundaries of medical research. (@BioethicsforPPL • @DevanStahl • @tsgibb) |
| 2024-Jan-20 • 55 minutes Jan Westerhoff, "Candrakirti's Introduction to the Middle Way: A Guide" (Oxford UP, 2023) A proponent of the Madhyamaka tradition of Mahāyāna Buddhism, Candrakīrti wrote several works, one of which, the Madhamakāvatāra, strongly influenced later Tibetan understandings of Madhyamaka. This work is the subject of Jan Westerhoff’s Candrakīrti’s Introduction to the Middle Way: A Guide (Oxford University Press, 2024), part of the Oxford Guides to Philosophy series. His book situates Candarkīrti and his text within Indian and Tibetan Buddhism and helps philosophical readers appreciate the text’s main ... (@NewBooksPhil) |
| 2024-Jan-20 • 72 minutes PEL Presents NEM#209: Bruce Hornsby Is a Lifelong Student Bruce is best known for his first album The Way It Is (1986), but has come light years since then through 18+ albums, experimenting with different styles, playing over 100 shows with the Grateful Dead, and scoring numerous projects for Spike Lee. He's... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2024-Jan-20 • 11 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) |
Where did we all get this idea that if we want to succeed, we need to go faster?
... And that if we haven't succeeded yet, that must mean that we're probably not good enough?
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... How does this factor weigh into how much music we release, how eclectic our sound is, and how well ...
"The constraint right now on factory farming is how far can you push the biology of these animals?
How is metaphysics in general possible?
What would they discuss?
... Would they talk past each other?
... Make any progress?
... Would anyone want to hear them?
How do Buddhism, Chinese traditions, Hinduism and Shintoism addresscausality, consciousness, energi...
... What is non-dualism?
... How is the world interconnected?
... How are metaphysics andmorality related?
How is metaphysics in general possible?
Is this 200-year-old system equipped to meet the challenging demands of the 21st century?
... And does it still reflect Humboldt’s ideals, especially at the university level?
How is metaphysics in general possible?
Cohosts Taylor Cyr and Matt Flummer describe their new book How Free Are We?
Are all inequalities perceived the same?
So what do Shakespeare’s plays reveal about identity and status in his time?
Are we on planet Earth a lottery winner, a one in 2 billion chance for establishing life and intell...
... Why no evidence of extraterrestrial life?
Has there ever been a good Operation?
How can drugs change us, our sense of self, and the ways we see the world?
How Is Pure Natural Science Possible?
What would they discuss?
... Would they talk past each other?
... Make any progress?
... Would anyone want to hear them?
Nothing escapes a black hole … or does it?
... If particles can escape, do they preserve any information about the matter that was obliterated?
What is rhetoric?
... How can understanding rhetoric help us in our everyday lives?
How is metaphysics in general possible?
In the face of incredible technological advances, what is the point of human existence?
... Will AI make our life and labor obsolete?
What is the ethical status of cognitive enhancers?
How is metaphysics in general possible?
How is metaphysics in general possible?
Is group therapy underused in treating mental health?
What kind of metaphysics underlies chemistry and physics?
But do we really want to assign artificial intelligence legal—or moral—rights and responsibilities?
How Is Pure Natural Science Possible?
And what separates a good actor from a bad one?
... All this and the Errol Morris STFU school of directing!?
But what is the proper relationship between public and academic philosophy?
What do the social lives of chimps and bonobos reveal about human cognition?
What do ghost stories capture about the experience of being stateless?
What would they discuss?
... Would they talk past each other?
... Make any progress?
... Would anyone want to hear them?
How Is Pure Natural Science Possible?
How do animals and smart machines measure up to human intelligence?
... Can fish feel pain and do dogs get jealous?
Are you really free to eat anything you like for breakfast?
... Even turkey?
... Maybe, How about wear any clothes you want?
... Even slippers outside?
... But what about having children and keeping them?
... Is there really an option not to procreate and not to keep a child you produce?
... Is evolutionary biology controlling us to maintain the human species above your immediate desires?
How Is Pure Natural Science Possible?
What’s the most important question in philosophy?
... What is the origin of the universe?
... What are the most powerful arguments for and against the existence of God?
... What do thinkers outside of the Abrahamic faiths have to say about such questions?
How Is Pure Natural Science Possible?
When it comes to the good, they asked, what good is philosophy?
Could it be that people are also natural born mind sharers, unconsciously shaping our behavior to b...
... How do we change or exaggerate our actions when others are present?
How Is Pure Natural Science Possible?
On this holiday episode of Red Letter Philosophy we ask the question, what’s so good about Good Fri...
How Is Pure Natural Science Possible?
Is Iceland or Norway known for delicacies like rotten shark?
... And listeners out there, do you want to hear Paul and Stephen explore Berserkers?
So should she keep listening to his music?
But did you know that Carl is actually a super-rich millionaire who loves cats so much that when he...
... Should people get to decide what happens with their money after they are gone?
Is it okay to not invite all your friends to your birthday party?
... What should she do?
So what's the right thing to do?
But what if you could pay money to go straight to the front of the queue?
But can we clearly distinguish an acceptable level of demandingness from one that is too high?
What does it mean to have envy?
... How can Philosophy help us understand the different ways envy presents itself?
What would they discuss?
... Would they talk past each other?
... Make any progress?
... Would anyone want to hear them?
Are analytic philosophers truly the rigorous, precise, clear thinkers they take themselves to be?
They take up the question, “What is overthinking?” Is it a kind of fixation on details or an unwant...
When does consciousness emerge in the evolutionary process and does it exist in every bit of matter...
... Then, do Octopuses have language and what is its function?
How well do you know yourself?
... Are there feelings that you have, or things that you care about, that you're in complete denia...
But does current scientific research produce knowledge that is properly about well-being?
... What kind of well-being?
So, what was so radical about Cavendish's views?
... Why did she think all matter, even rocks, was at least partially rational?
... And how did she anticipate the term "epistemic injustice" 400 years before it was coined?
What would they discuss?
... Would they talk past each other?
... Make any progress?
... Would anyone want to hear them?
What is the nature of life?
This time Danny and Dr. Mike consider whether or not they are truly 'good' people or perhaps 'bad' ...
... If morality changes as time moves on, can you be 'good' one moment and 'bad' the next because the w...
Contrasting with Plato, Aristotle believes that some changing, visible things have forms. How do th...
In a world this out of joint, how could we possibly feel secure?
How do we store information in the brain?
... How do we know when one memory should end and another begin?
So what is the most prudent way to employ this cutting edge technology going forward?
... Could VR help solve real world problems, like implicit bias or the climate crisis?
My guest this week is Gil Morejón, a historian of ideas currently teaching at Grenell college, one ...
How does a woman philosopher deal with the challenges posed by conservative, masculinist culture wi...
What drives this turn to the immediate in art, culture, and even politics?
... What do we lose in this turn to immediacy?
What is the structure of thought?
What would they discuss?
... Would they talk past each other?
... Make any progress?
... Would anyone want to hear them?
is democracy as we know it in danger?
Who’s afraid of zombification?
What exactly is the type of being that is the chief reason why we call anything being?
How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World Around Us."What shapes our economic fo...
Today we go from ideology, to New Atheism vs Creationism, to Aristotle, to Thomas Nagel, to Phillip...
Do you Who?
... Did you Who back in the day, or just from the point of the 2005 revival?
What does Existentialism teach us about habits?
... Goals?
... Living in the present?
Does Paul understand the message therein?
... What does water represent in a dream, and what’s the least lucky month of the year?
Who will take home the top prize?
... Who will win best lisp?
Are you hesitant to make certain changes in your life, like changing careers or ending a relationsh...
What would they discuss?
... Would they talk past each other?
... Make any progress?
... Would anyone want to hear them?
When you think about the music you like (or don't like), what does it tell you about your taste?
... Do you think you have good taste?
... And if you do, why?
The weird link between Atlantis and UFO/paranormal activity is legend, but did you know of the lase...
Does consciousness require a radical explanation?
... What causes consciousness?
Has human behaviour pushed our world to the edge, especially the mistaken belief that the earth’s r...
... And can a shift in human behaviour rescue us?
When something's bothering you, do you tend to suppress those emotions or sit with them?
movies of the past year challenged your assumptions and made you think about things in new ways?
How can those two things coexist together?
So when should we treat people of different ages differently?
... And when does it become ageism or age discrimination?
What do I want to do?
... Like, when I'm 80, how strong do I want to be?
... OK, and then if I want to be that strong, how well do my muscles have to work?
... OK, and then if that's true, what would they have to look like at the cellular level for that to be...
... Then what do we have to do to make that happen?
Listen in to hear how she learned to interpret the messages she receives from departed souls and sp...
... How Catholics respond to her abilities, and do demons and negativity in the spirit world get her do...
... And does she fear losing her gifts?
... Get it?
Do these two great atheist philosophers agree, fundamentally, with the great Christian philosophers
But why is it that way, and could time ultimately be a kind of illusion?
What would they discuss?
... Would they talk past each other?
... Make any progress?
... Would anyone want to hear them?
Was there LSD involved?
What moral lessons do we learn from the story of Daredevil?
| | Jacob Israel de Haan | Where are the Palestinian Nelson Mandelas?
What does studying "being" entail?
But is it true?
Is Barbie really a Barbie girl?
... And in what way is this really a Barbie world?
Have you noticed conspiracy theories have gone from “fun” to “crazy”?
... You have?
| | Two State Solutions | What Israelis know | How America ruined Israel | Why journalists censor ...
Is it actually possible to fix this mess?
When you're procrastinating, reluctant to knuckle down and get on with your work, taking way t...
... Instead, you tell yourself that you're lazy and disorganised and shouldn't even have been...
What are we trying to convey when we reach for a word like “evil”?
... Is it something about a person’s actions or character?
So what does it mean to be a sage and how does someone become one?
... How did Im Yunjidang use traditional Confucian texts to argue for women's spiritual equality?
What would they discuss?
... Would they talk past each other?
... Make any progress?
... Would anyone want to hear them?
Is it possible someone doesn’t find Paul charming?
What even is this thing?
... Why has it become a hot topic these past few years?
... What are its origins?
... What are its metaphysics and epistemology?
How is swearing so multivalent in its power?
... Is it just all those harsh “c” and “k” sounds?
... Does swearing take its power from taboo meaning?
... Why is swearing sometimes so funny?
In the thorny thickets of love and desire, how do Shakespeare’s characters talk to each other?
... And what’s changed in 400 years?
How can those two things coexist together?
Can the definition of privilege be nuanced enough to address the broad range of individual experien...
... Does recognizing and discussing privilege lead to meaningful social change?
... Or does talk of privilege oversimplify complex issues?
As robots integrate more and more into human life, how will they figure out the codes for appropria...
... Can social intelligence be learned via an algorithm?
What was "Spycatcher"?
... What secrets did it contain?
... How did it manage to leave Margaret Thatcher "shattered"?
... Was that a typo and she meant "sharted"?
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Paul and Stephen learn the history of zombies with spiritualism expert Lisa Morton who shar...
The global pornography industry is getting bigger, more mainstream and more nasty - but does this m...
It seems as if, when we’re young, the solution to all of our problems is just getting older—when wi...
... when will I understand my own body?
... when will I gain the confidence to assert my own will?
... or, just be myself?
How do dating apps influence dating culture?
... What should we keep in mind about safety when dating?
But if it is, then where did the widespread (and widely admired) impulse to help others even at gre...
In the age of growing polarization, how do you tackle injustice without demonizing your enemies?
Where do you live?
... In the real world or online?
Why are there so few public plazas in Brasilia?
... Why did David lose his wallet in Mexico City?
... How do gridded street layouts reflect colonial fantasies?
What constitutes a basic explanation of the universe?
Is sexual chemistry just natural compatibility, or can it grow from effort and work?
Is observing people in a public space from the privacy of your home an infringement of their rights
... Can the widespread use of CCTV cameras be justified, or does it violate their privacy?
... And how do technological developments affect the delicate balance between safety and privacy?
What's lacking?
What was Lincoln's basic philosophy, and did it change over the course of his Presidency?
What makes a species a species?
| | 0:00 - What's this episode about?
... | 3:32 - What is a Theory of Everything?
... | 5:57 - Worldview (weltanschauung) and God | 21:14 - Why Host an Academic Level Podcast?
Australian philosophy has been punching above its weight in recent decades - but does there exist s...
Wells’s The War of the Worlds?
what is reasonableness?
... And in a democracy, how reasonable can we reasonably demand that others be?
What is the self?
What if our understanding of morality is fundamentally flawed?
... Should the absence of objective moral facts alter the way we live and interact?
... Is the structure of our society dependent on moral beliefs, or are these just a result of individua...
Is this book really "timeless," or is it like old, outdated science?
What does it really mean?
... Does it refer to the size of a cowboy hat?
... A measurement of water?
... Does it have to do with how much water a cowboy hat can hold, and why would you pour all that water...
What does it mean to be a good person?
Justice for Sandra?
... Justice for Samuel?
In some places more quickly than others, we all eventually “returned to normal.” Did we though?
... But is “normalcy” not the same as the status quo?
... And shouldn’t we be critical of both?
What do I want the shape of this to look like?
... What time do I want to be spending?
... Which hours?
... How do I want the weekends to look?
So what is “good” mathematics?
Does this improved performance indicate that computers are thinking, or is it just an engineering a...
... Can it help us understand how children acquire knowledge and develop language skills?
... Or are humans fundamentally different from machines?
From Sacagawea’s chance meeting with her long-lost brother, to John Adams’ and Thomas Jefferson’s s...
Also, what makes Marcel an existentialist?
How often do you play negative experiences over in your head?
... If this is a painful pattern of thinking, why would we do this?
Is morality real, a social construct, or non-existent?
... Can we rely on our moral intuitions?
... And are moral truths inaccessible to us?
Did Natasha’s dog Rootbeer get plastic surgery or consult a psychic?
But what if you aren't?
What exactly is it about swearing that gives it its offensive power?
What is death?
... Does fear of death affect our everyday lives?
... And will your death harm you or not?
Kuang published 5 novels by age 27?
What things exist?
... What is math and why does it work?
... What’s fundamental in the cosmos?
What kinds of activities/disciplines are definitively non-philosophical?
... And is there anything that can't be philosophized about, even in principle?
How do we frame moral issues?
How does culture shape our actions towards the environment and our responses to global crises?
| What is a proportional response to a terrorist attack?
... What does genocide involve?
... And is South Africa's case at the International Court of Justice justified?
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 pape...
... Is math some kind of magic, or does it have a more ordinary explanation?