A composite list of episodes from the past 90 days of philosophy podcasts.
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 2023-Oct-04 • 82 minutesNasser Behnegar on Leo Strauss' Natural Right and History, Chapter 2 The guys are joined by Professor Nasser Behnegar, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at Boston College. The group discuss how Strauss delves into the differences between classical political philosophy and modern political... (@thenewthinkery • @alexpriou • @GregMcBrayer3 • @Tempest1610) |
 2023-Oct-04 • 51 minutesNo Woo-Woo for Sarah Vowell Essayist and historian Sarah Vowell joins the Chinwag (@TreefortMedia) |
 2023-Oct-04 • 30 minutesMyisha Cherry: Failures of Forgiveness Myisha Cherry is on the show today to help us reframe our understanding of the complicated topic of forgiveness. | The post Myisha Cherry: Failures of Forgiveness appeared first on Prindle Institute. (@DePauwPrindle) |
 2023-Oct-04 • 82 minutesDan Dennett on the Mysteries of the Mind Philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett discusses his new memoir, I've Been Thinking, about the dominant themes of twentieth-century philosophy and cognitive science—including language, evolution, logic, religion, free will, consciousness,... (@CloserToTruth • @RobertLawrKuhn) |
 2023-Oct-03 • 33 minutesEpisode #189 ... Everything that connects us is slowly disappearing. - Byung Chul Han pt. 2 Today we talk about the disappearance of rituals, truth, community, communication, public spaces and talk about the importance sometimes of being an idiot. Hope you love it! :) Sponsor: Better Help Get more: Website: Patreon: ... (@iamstephenwest) |
 2023-Oct-03 • 46 minutesThe ignorance of experts |Julian Baggini, Ellen Clarke, Ben Burgis Julian Baggini, Ellen Clarke, and Ben Burgis debate whether our mistrust in science if justified. (@IAI_TV) |
 2023-Oct-03 • 10 minutesAristotle, Categories - Contraries And Substances - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Categories, focusing on his discussion in chapter 5 of the relationship between substances and contraries. Substances - whether primary or secondary - do not have contraries themselves, and do not admit of degrees. Substances do, however, admit of or accept contraries - and this is something distinctive to substances as opposed to other things. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd lik... (@philosopher70) |
 2023-Oct-03 • 35 minutesChinese Cosmopolitanism: Interview with Shuchen Xiang In this episode, Haley speaks with Shuchen Xiang, professor of philosophy at Xidian University, about her new book, “Chinese Cosmopolitanism: The History and Philosophy of an Idea”. In discussing the book, we talk about historical Chinese accounts of... (@olivbransc) |
 2023-Oct-03 • 54 minutesThe Dark Side of Charisma 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. (@NahlahAyed) |
 2023-Oct-03 • 30 minutesMedical Ethics and The Retrievals Gwendolyn Dolske talks with Dr. Kate Madorin and Dr. Kristina Tansavadti about their thoughts on the popular podcast The Retrievals (from This American Life). How is women's pain understood and communicated? What is the role of empathy in... (@InTheDetailsPod • @GDolske • @SaloRudy) |
 2023-Oct-03 • 70 minutesEp. 67 Where Should I Start with Philosophy? Philosophy is a notoriously massive subject, and for someone unfamiliar, it might be difficult to figure out where to start. Do you look for a famous name on the bookshelf? Try to choose a subject? Start with self-help? Maybe join a book club? In this episode, we answer a listener question by exploring how to get started in philosophy by recounting our own experiences and plotting a course. Open Door Philosophy on Twitter @d_parsonage or @opendoorphilOpen Door Philosophy on Instagram @opendoorphilosophyOpen... (@opendoorphil • @d_parsonage) |
 2023-Oct-02 • 184 minutes#164 – Kevin Esvelt on cults that want to kill everyone, stealth vs wildfire pandemics, and how he felt inventing gene drives "Imagine a fast-spreading respiratory HIV. It sweeps around the world. Almost nobody has symptoms. Nobody notices until years later, when the first people who are infected begin to succumb. They might die, something else debilitating might happen to them, but by that point, just about everyone on the planet would have been infected already. And then it would be a race. Can we come up with some way of defusing the thing? Can we come up with the equivalent of HIV antiretrovirals before it's too late?" — Kevin... (@80000Hours) |
 2023-Oct-02 • 97 minutes#842 Kevin Mitchell - Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will Dr. Kevin Mitchell is Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin. He is interested in the development of connectivity in the brain, specifically in how this process is controlled by genes and how mutations in such genes affect the connectivity of neuronal circuits, influence behavior and perception and contribute to disease. His latest book is Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will. | | In this episode, we focus on Free Agents. We start by discussing how scientists ap... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Oct-02 • 13 minutes Aristotle, Categories - Species And Genus - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Categories, focusing on his distinction in chapter 5 between two sorts of secondary substances - species (eidos) and genus (genos). Species are types of things, i.e. of primary substances or individually existing things. Genuses have a similar relation to species, as species do to individual things. 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... (@philosopher70) |
 2023-Oct-02 • 57 minutesEpisode 194 - The Epicurean Arguments In Cicero's On Ends - Book One - Part 04 Welcome to Episode 194 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the only complete presentation of Epicurean philosophy left to us from the ancient world. Each week we walk you through... (@NewEpicurean) |
 2023-Oct-02 • 76 minutes252 | Hannah Ritchie on Keeping Hope for the Planet Alive I talk with Hannah Ritchie about working to save the environment without minimizing the threats to it. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2023-Oct-02 • 54 minutes Shape: Hidden Geometry In his book, Shape, mathematician Jordan Ellenberg reveals the geometry lurking beneath history, democracy, biology, and everything else. He argues geometry is a way of thinking, a method of reasoning and argument, and a system for making sense of the world. *This episode originally aired on May 11, 2022. (@NahlahAyed) |
 2023-Oct-02 • 46 minutesEp. 326: Guest Michael Tomasello on the Evolution of Agency (Part One) On The Evolution of Agency (2022), with the author, and guest panelist Chris Heath. What is human agency? How would we determine whether an animal is a legitimate agent, as opposed to just acting automatically? Tomasello investigates this by thinking... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
 2023-Oct-02 • 59 minutes74 | Time and Work Discipline with E.P. Thompson In this episode, we discuss E.P. Thompson’s amazing article “Time, Work Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism.” E.P. Thompson is the legendary Marxist historian and author of The Making of the English Working Class. How did time become money? And why can’t we just pass it away? Lots of work discipline, as it turns out, which leads us to ask – maybe laziness is a virtue?leftofphilosophy.com | @leftofphil References:E.P. Thompson, “Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism,” in Class: The Anthology, ed... (@leftofphil • @whitherutopia • @oglynwil • @classreductress) |
 2023-Oct-02 • 85 minutes#266 - The Identity Trap: A Dialogue with Yascha Mounk In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Yascha Mounk about the cultural wars and how identity has become central for society today. They discuss his motivations for writing the book and his perspective on identity and cultural issues. They talk about the lure of the identity trap, the history of the identity synthesis from Foucault, to Said, to Spivack, to Bell, to Crenshaw, and the links between these figures. They discuss the impact of social media, institutional capture, how to engage with id... (@xavierbonilla87) |
 2023-Oct-01 • 63 minutesS3EP04: Your Mind on Guilt with Dr. Hongbo Yu When guilt strikes, how do you respond? Is it a rush to make things right or an urge to evade? Dr. Hongbo Yu is joins us to delve into the complexities of guilt, its neural bases, and the surprising role our eyes play in magnifying or mitigating those guilty feelings. Plus, Beth and Ava share some personal perspectives on eye contact. (@bethfisher_1 • @avamadesousa) |
 2023-Oct-01 • 66 minutesClaire Jean Kim - Understanding Structural Racism and Anti-Blackness | STM Podcast #190 On episode 190, we welcome Claire Jean Kim to discuss affirmative action and the arguments for and against it in recent Supreme Court cases, the history of Asian minorities in the US being weaponized against Black minority groups for political ends,... (@seize_podcast • @EgoEndsNow • @leonscafe31) |
 2023-Oct-01 • 58 minutesThe Philosophy of Infinity Pool | Travis Timmerman Does the clone of a murderer deserve to be punished? Is the clone with the murderer’s memories and dispositions guilty of the murder? And has justice been served if the clone is punished, even if the original murderer goes free? (@JasonWerbeloff) |
 2023-Oct-01 • 76 minutes148 - Lee Smolin: Presentism, Foundations of Mathematics, and Realism in Quantum Mechanics Lee Smolin is a founding and senior faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He is best known for contributions to quantum gravity as a co-inventor of loop quantum gravity and deformed special relativity. Beyond his work in other areas of physics, Lee has written a number of best-selling books, the most recent of which is Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum (Penguin, 2019). In this episode, Robinson and Lee discuss one of the main tenets th... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
 2023-Oct-01 • 61 minutesEmily McTernan, "On Taking Offence" (Oxford UP, 2023) An interview with Emily McTernan (@NewBooksPhil) |
 2023-Oct-01 • 25 minutesHoP 429 - She Uttereth Piercing Eloquence - Women’s Spiritual Literature How women’s writing in England changed from the early fifteenth century, the time of Margery Kempe, to the late sixteenth century, the time of Anne Lock. (@HistPhilosophy) |
 2023-Oct-01 • 74 minutesThe Prince Ryan and Todd analyze Machiavelli's The Prince by tracing its influence on later political thinkers, including Hegel, Gramsci, and Althusser. They discuss Machiavelli's novelty and his limitations as a thinker of the political act. (@UVMcas) |
 2023-Oct-01 • 9 minutes523: Disinformation and the Future of Democracy More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/dis... 2020 election and startling events that followed show that the US is as polarized as ever. Not only is there fundamental disagreement over values and goals, but people can’t seem to agree on the most basic, easily verifiable facts, like who actually won. With so many seemingly living in an alternative reality, how do we continue the business of democracy together? Should we adopt paternalistic policies towards fellow citizens who are so profoundly divorced... (@philtalkradio) |
| 2023-Sep-30 • 100 minutes PEL Presents NEM#203: Andy White Tells the Truth Andy has released 20 albums since 1986, touring with just him and his acoustic guitar. We discuss "The Happiness Index" from AT (2023), his second collaboration with Tim Finn; the title track from The Guilty and the Innocent (2017); and "Speechless"... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2023-Sep-30 • 48 minutes Episode 193 - The Epicurean Arguments In Cicero's On Ends - Book One - Part 03 Welcome to Episode 193 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the only 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) |
 2023-Sep-30 • 30 minutesPodcast episode 36: Interview with Ghil‘ad Zuckermann on revivalistics In this interview, we talk to Ghil‘ad Zuckermann about language reclamation and revival in Australia and around the world. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 36 The Barngarla trinity: people, language, land. The Barngarla…Read more › (@hiphilangsci • @TeapotLinguist) |
| 2023-Sep-29 • 94 minutes #841 Rebecca Tuvel: Feminism, Cultural Appropriation, Transracialism, and Animal Ethics Dr. Rebecca Tuvel is Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Rhodes College. She works in feminist philosophy, philosophy of race, and the ethics of identity. Her book project Changing Race: The Ethics and Metaphysics of Transracialism explores the possibility and permissibility of changing one’s race. | | In this episode, we talk about feminism, cultural appropriation, the philosophy of race, and animal ethics. We discuss what it means to be a feminist, and why are there so few people identifying ... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Sep-29 • 79 minutes 147 - Yascha Mounk: Liberalism, Identity Politics, and the History of Equality Yascha Mounk is a Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University. He is also a Contributing Editor at the Atlantic, a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and the host of The Good Fight podcast. Yascha has written five books, the most recent of which is The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time (Penguin, 2023). In this episode, Robinson and Yascha talk about this latest work. They begin by discussing the interrelationship between political theory... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
 2023-Sep-29 • 95 minutes171: "We've made a civilizational error" - Philosopher John Sanbonmatsu - Sentientism John is a writer, philosopher, cultural critic and magician. He is best known for his book, The Postmodern Prince, and for his more recent work in Critical Animal Studies where he edited the collection "Critical Theory and Animal Liberation". Also in that field his book "The Omnivore's Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and the Nature of Moral Life" will be published by NYU Press in 2024. He has taught at the University of Illinois Chicago, DePaul University, and the Unive... (@sentientism • @JamieWoodhouse) |
 2023-Sep-29 • 64 minutesUNLOCKED - Desire, Drive, & Football w/ Jack Black Unlocked from our patreon: this week, we're joined again by Jack Black, Associate Professor of Culture, Media, and Sport at Sheffield Hallam University. We're talking football, melancholy, and English football anthems. How does football, or 'soccer', serve as an emblematic example of the Freudian/Žižekian concept of drive? Jack explains! | For access to many more interviews and other episodes, check out our PATREON! Thank you to all of our Patrons, we have some VERY SPECIAL guests coming up, so stick around... (@zizekand) |
| 2023-Sep-29 • 16 minutes Aristotle, Categories - Primary And Secondary Substances - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Categories, focusing on his distinction in chapter 5 of the distinction between primary and secondary substances. Primary substances are existing individual things, which function as the underlying subjects that other things either are in or are predicated of. Secondary substances include species and genera, and are not substances in a full sense of the term. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadle... (@philosopher70) |
 2023-Sep-29 • 63 minutes#45. Play ft. Michael Ridge How do we define and understand the nature of play? In this episode, Calum and Laura speak to Michael Ridge, Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. They discuss Ridge's functionalist theory of play, the difference between playing a game and playing full-stop, whether animals can engage in transgressive play and whether play can be considered as a moral virtue. | | About the Guest | Michael Ridge is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. For most of his career h... (@ThoughtsUofg) |
 2023-Sep-29TITE 2: The Methods of Technology Ethics In this episode, John and Sven discuss the methods of technology ethics. What exactly is it that technology ethicists do? How can they answer the core questions about the value of technology and our moral response to it? Should they consult their intuitions? Run experiments? Use formal theories? The possible answers to these questions are considered with a specific case study on the ethics of self-driving cars. | | You can listen below or download the episode here. You can also subscribe to the podcast o... (@JohnDanaher) |
 2023-Sep-29 • 38 minutesFree will, consciousness and AI: a conversation with Daniel Dennett Daniel Dennett is one of the world's leading philosophers and cognitive scientists - at 81, and with a new memoir published, he's still as provocative and inspiring as ever. (@DavidPZone) |
| 2023-Sep-29 • 54 minutes Nine: A Number of Synchronicity Going the whole nine yards, dressing to the nines, being on cloud nine. In pop culture, in ancient folklore, in music, even in sports the number nine is everywhere. In the last episode of our series, The Greatest Numbers of All Time, we explore nine and its uncanny connections. (@NahlahAyed) |
 2023-Sep-29 • 64 minutesThe Uncanny Valley The HBS hosts discuss why humanlike robots are sooooo creepy.In 1970, a Japanese roboticist by the name of Masahiro Mori published a short essay in the journal Energy entitled “The Uncanny Valley," in which he attempted to explain humans' reactions to robots that looked and acted almost human. Mori hypothesized that when we encounter humanlike technological objects, our feelings of affinity toward them tend to increase as their verisimilitude increase. (To use a Star Wars example, think of the way we’re mo... (@hotelbarpodcast • @DrLeighMJohnson • @c_fpeterson • @rickleephilos) |
 2023-Sep-29 • 21 minutes#71: The best time to write is the worst time to write Do you tell yourself that if only you had a day of uninterrupted time ahead of you (and, of course, the right stationery), you'd finally be able to get some writing done - only to procrastinate your precious writing time away when you do finally get what you need? Thought so. Your problem is that you wouldn't know a good writing opportunity even if it walked up to you and poked you in the eye. Put down that stationery catalogue and let your Imperfectionist friend sort you out. (@AcademicImp • @rebecca_roache) |
 2023-Sep-29 • 93 minutes99. King Arthur (2004) w/ Jon Gabrus Have you ever wanted to know the TRUE story that inspired King Arthur? Did you know that Arthur was a freedom fighter battling for the independence of Britannia? Wait until you see what armor Guinevere preferred to wear into battle! And don't forget Tristan and his faithful falcon! Join us and Jon Gabrus (High & Mighty, Action Boyz, 101 Places to Party Before You Die) to unpack this forgotten mid-aughts classic from Antoine Fuqua! (@cowspod • @juskhoo) |
 2023-Sep-29 • 11 minutes144: Confirmation Bias Tune into today's episode to learn more about confirmation bias. What is it? Why do we have it? What can be done about it? | | Send you comments, questions, and ideas for future episodes to: [email protected] (@MillikinU) |
 2023-Sep-28 • 72 minutesTrust and the liberal order Kevin Vallier joins Spencer Case to talk about social trust and the role it plays in the psychological and moral foundations of liberal societies. (@ADigressions • @SpencerJayCase) |
 2023-Sep-28 • 64 minutesProfessional Surrogacy with Barbie Dangond My guest this week is Barbie , co-founder of Lift Life Travel and a professional gestational surrogate. We discuss her motivation for helping women experience travel and many parts of the ethics surrounding surrogacy. Convocation: Nietzsche Lift Life Travel: https://www.liftlifetravel.com/?fbclid=I... by GW Rodriguez Sibling Pods: Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/ Filmed Live Musicals Pod: https://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/thepo... us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid If you enjoy t... (@ETVPod) |
| 2023-Sep-28 • 100 minutes #840 Alicia Juarrero - Context Changes Everything: How Constraints Create Coherence Dr. Alicia Juarrero is President and Founder of VectorAnalytica. Her research in neurophilosophy has been focused on the causal role of context-sensitive constraints in the emergence of mental events such as intentions. She is the author of several books, the most recent one being Context Changes Everything: How Constraints Create Coherence. | | In this episode, we focus on Context Changes Everything. We start by discussing the problem of identity, how change is compatible with remaining the same, and why... (@TheDissenterYT) |
 2023-Sep-28 • 51 minutesReplay: Is it ok to punch a nazi? Old Description: | In this second episode, Jake and Ant explore the circumstances in which we may be justified in doing something we'd typically class as wrong. Are we ever justified in using violence, particularly against those who have done or intend to do bad things? Would you be proud if your child punched a bully? Would you lie to an axe-murderer? Can you punch a secret nazi? All this and more discussed in this episode, including a breakdown of the 3 main types of moral frameworks - virtue based ethics... (@MoralityofThe • @AnthonyNCollias) |
 2023-Sep-28 • 8 minutesBase/Superstructure | Marxism | Keyword In this episode, I explain the Marxist idea of the base/superstructure. 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_... (@DavidGuignion) |
 2023-Sep-28 • 63 minutesContrarians (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with Aella) 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 Minds Almost Meeting website here: ... (@AgnesCallard • @robinhanson) |
| 2023-Sep-28 • 54 minutes We Give You Five Five: a simple, easy number with a diabolical side. As we continue our series, The Greatest Numbers of All Time, meet the Janus-faced figure of five and find out how the number has acquired its personality for people in the arts and sciences. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Sep-28 • 104 minutes #265 - 700 years of Rivalry Between Rome and Persia: A Dialogue with Adrian Goldsworthy In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Adrian Goldsworthy about the 700 years of rivalry between the Roman and Persian Empires. They discuss the importance of studying past empires, overview of the rivalry, and the Roman and Persia Empires in this 700 year period. They discuss the differences in governing and peaceful co-existing, complexities of Armenia, greatness of Augustus, and the silk road. They also discuss Constantine, Justinian’s reign, the Arab armies and how they quelled the Roman an... (@xavierbonilla87) |
 2023-Sep-27 • 62 minutes#336 — The Roots of Identity Politics Sam Harris speaks with Yascha Mounk about identity politics. They discuss Yascha’s concept of the “identity synthesis,” skepticism about “cancel culture,” racial segregation in schools, the ideological change on college campuses, Michel... (@) |
| 2023-Sep-27 • 17 minutes Aristotle, Categories - The Ten Categories - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Categories, focusing on his listing in chapter 4 of the ten categories or predicables. These are main ways that uncombined terms signify something. These are: substance (ousia), Quantity (poson), Quality (poion), Relation (pros ti), Place (pou), Time (pote), Position (keisthai), State (ekhein),Action (poiein) and Passion (pashkein). To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make ... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Sep-27 • 57 minutes 146 - Christopher E. Mason & Igor Tulchinsky: Smart Weapons, Genetics, and Predictive Algorithms Christopher E. Mason is Professor of Computational Genomics in Computational Biomedicine in the Institute for Computational Biomedicine and Professor of Neuroscience in the Brain and Mind Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine. Igor Tulchinsky is the founder, chairman, and CEO of WorldQuant, a global quantitative asset management firm. Together, they lead a joint project between Cornell Medicine and WorldQuant, the WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, which seeks to marry the expertise of financi... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
 2023-Sep-27 • 22 minutesSeth Lazar on Political Philosophy in the Age of AI AI has changed our lives already and looks set to have a huge impact. How should we adapt our thinking about political philosophy in the light of this? The philosopher Seth Lazar explores this question in conversation with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. (@philosophybites • @DavidEdmonds100) |
| 2023-Sep-27 • 43 minutes Stephen Colbert Pt 2: More Magical Thoughts 🧙🏻♂️🧙🏻♂️🧙🏻♂️ Catch PART 2 of Paul and Stephen’s dip into the profoundly thoughtful mind of Mr. Stephen Colbert. Explore the power of prayer and magical thinking, the importance of unlearning what you know, and Paul and Colbert’s shared love of sci-fi, or as Stephen Asma calls it, “Gandalf and sh*t.” What’s the difference between sci-fi and fantasy, and can Lord of the Rings help process one’s grief? Tune in for musings on improvisation, zen master Amy Sedaris, and the fantastic conclusion to Colbert’s i... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2023-Sep-27 • 21 minutes Hannah Dawson on Mary Wollstonecraft In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Nigel Warburton interviews Hannah Dawson (editor of The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing) on Mary Wollstonecraft and her book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). (@philosophybites • @DavidEdmonds100) |
| 2023-Sep-27 • 75 minutes Shilo Brooks on Nietzsche's "On the Use and Disadvantage of History for Life" This week, Alex and Greg take over the show to speak with Shilo Brooks, Executive Director of the James Madison Program at Princeton University, about Nietzsche's essay "On the Use and Disadvantage of History for Life". The group walk through... (@thenewthinkery • @alexpriou • @GregMcBrayer3 • @Tempest1610) |
| 2023-Sep-27 • 54 minutes The Magic of Three Three is a magic number. From curses to charms to incantations and evocations, speaking thrice gives power — today, and in the ancient past. As our number series continues, we enter the powerful and spiritual realm of three. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Sep-27 • 69 minutes Will Kinney on Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe Cosmologist and physics professor Will Kinney discusses his latest book, An Infinity of Worlds: Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe. Kinney considers what happened before the primordial fire of the Big Bang. What is the origin of struc... (@CloserToTruth • @RobertLawrKuhn) |
 2023-Sep-27 • 33 minutesEpisode 199: Existentialism Part One Congratulations! You have chosen wisely to listen to this podcast! This week Danny and Dr. Mike t... (@PhilosophyWtf) |
 2023-Sep-26 • 84 minutesEpisode 154: Into the Night Land, with Erik Davis JF and Phil are joined by Erik Davis to discuss William Hope Hodgson's masterfully weird 1912 novel. (@weirdstudies • @JF_Martel) |
 2023-Sep-26 • 92 minutesEpisode 269: Blood Meridian, Part 2: Death Hilarious In part 2 of our journey into Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, Tamler and David talk about the kid and his form of resistance to the judge’s gleeful nihilism - does he (as the man) ultimately succumb at the end of the novel? We also discuss... (@verybadwizards • @peez • @tamler) |
| 2023-Sep-26 • 15 minutes Aristotle, Categories - In A Subject Vs Predicated Of A Subject - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Categories, focusing on his distinction in chapter 2 between something being "in" a subject, and something being predicated of a subject. There are four main possibilities, and each of those is discussed here, using Aristotle's own examples. 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 2500 philo... (@philosopher70) |
 2023-Sep-26 • 57 minutesEp. 103: What is it like to Be an Octopus? (Part II) In this episode, Giuseppe and Anthony continue their conversation on the qualia of octopi and how it may relate to human consciousness: When an octopus sees "its" arms below it, does it perceive them as being totally foreign things, or is there some loose sense of unity? Is our inability to draw definitive conclusions about consciousness a result of the limits of empirical/inductive inquiry, or is it more of an a priori/definitional issue? Does biological similarity between species necessarily result in c... (@LoveofSophiaPOD) |
| 2023-Sep-26 • 54 minutes Echoes of an Empty Sound: The Story of Zero It's the middle of the number line, and the likely end of the universe. It's nothing — and it's everywhere. Zero has confounded humanity for thousands of years. On IDEAS, we explore the infinite danger and promise of the void in a series called The Greatest Numbers of All Time. (@NahlahAyed) |
 2023-Sep-26 • 60 minutesAuthenticity Time to be real! In episode 87 of Overthink, Ellie and David go back and forth about authenticity. They explore its deep roots in existentialist philosophy and Romanticism, and grapple with the paradoxes of being authentic in the era of reality TV, social media, and friendly-branded megacorps. They dive into philosophical critiques of authenticity, and explore how Heidegger’s writings on “Eigentlichkeit” (often translated as “authenticity” or “actuality”) stand up today. Is authenticity the same thing as si... (@overthink_pod • @ellieanderphd • @DrPenaGuzman1) |
| 2023-Sep-25 • 47 minutes Beyond the boundary | Lisa Miller, Nick Lane, Paul Bickley In a secular age dominated by scientific understanding, philosophers Lisa Miller, Nick Lane, and Paul Bickley explore the profound mysteries of life and death, delving into questions surrounding consciousness and the potentiality of an afterlife. (@IAI_TV) |
| 2023-Sep-25 • 100 minutes #839 Michael Muthukrishna: A Theory of Everyone Dr. Michael Muthukrishna is an Associate Professor of Economic Psychology at the London School of Economics. His other affiliations include Affiliate of the Developmental Economics Group at STICERD, Affiliate of the Data Science Institute, Azrieli Global Scholar at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Technical Director of The Database of Religious History, and Board member of the One Pencil Project. His research focuses on the psychological and evolutionary processes that underlie culture ... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Sep-25 • 56 minutes Ep. 325: Paul Grice on Meaning and Conversation (Part Two) Continuing on "Meaning" (1957), "Utterer’s Meaning and Intentions" (1969), and "Logic and Conversation" (1975) with guest Steve Gimbell. We tie the articles together, talk more about the rules implicit in conversation, and try to relate Grice's... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2023-Sep-25 New Podcast Series - 'This is Technology Ethics' I am very excited to announce the launch of a new podcast series with my longtime friend and collaborator Sven Nyholm. The podcast is intended to introduce key themes, concepts, arguments and ideas arising from the ethics of technology. It roughly follows the structure from the book This is Technology Ethics by Sven , but in a loose and conversational style. In the nine episodes, we will cover the nature of technology and ethics, the methods of technology ethics, the problems of control, responsibility, age... (@JohnDanaher) |
| 2023-Sep-25 • 71 minutes 251 | Rosemary Braun on Uncovering Patterns in Biological Complexity I talk with biologist Rosemary Braun about how to think about the collective behavior that defines biological organisms. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2023-Sep-25 • 54 minutes The Great Reset The Great Reset — it came down from the mountains of Davos, Switzerland. To conspiracy theorists, it's a plot by global elites at the World Economic Forum to control our lives. To its supporters, it represents a gentler, more humane form of capitalism. IDEAS contributor Ira Basen investigates what exactly is the Great Reset and why it's so controversial. *This episode originally aired on May 23, 2023. (@NahlahAyed) |
 2023-Sep-25 • 30 minutesEpisode 64: Moral Authority and Punishment with Victor Tadros In this episode, we talk with Victor Tadros about moral authority (or standing) and punishment. In particular, we ask about what it would mean for the state to be complicit in the behavior of criminal offenders and how that complicity might affect its standing to punish. Victor's website: https://vtadros367761169.wordpress.com/V... book, Criminal Responsibility: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/... https://twitter.com/thefreewillshowInsta... https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillsho... https://ww... (@thefreewillshow • @taylorwcyr • @MatthewFlummer) |
 2023-Sep-25 • 31 minutesS2E2 - Declan O'Gara on University as a First-Gen Student, Moral Error Theory, and Running WiP Seminars Today we're joined by Declan O’Gara, a PhD student at The University of Edinburgh. We'll be talking about Declan’s experience of the PhD life as a student from a working class background, his research on the provocative moral error theory, and his experiences running a work-in-progress seminar. If you'd like to get in touch with Declan, you can DM him on his Twitter account @Declan_OGara, or email him at [email protected]. (@KOosterum • @99lewiswilliams) |
| 2023-Sep-25 • 54 minutes #264 - The Golden Age of the Roman Empire: A Dialogue with Tom Holland In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Tom Holland about the Golden Age of the Roman empire. They provide an overview of Pax Romana, greatness of Augustus, and Nero as a tyrant. They talk about the chaotic year of AD 69 with four emperors, Judean revolt, and Vespasian’s peacemaking abilities. They discuss the importance of Pliny, environmental contexts for peace, the five good emperors and the rule of Trajan and Hadrian, legacy of the Roman empire, and many more topics. Tom Holland is a histori... (@xavierbonilla87) |
 2023-Sep-24 • 59 minutesMeaningful Work: A Conversation with Andrea Veltman In our second episode of our mini-series on the future of work, we are joined by Andrea Veltman, Professor of Philosophy at James Madison University. We speak with Andrea about what it takes for work to be meaningful, if meaningful work is available ... (@UMBEthics) |
| 2023-Sep-24 • 56 minutes Oppenheimers on Barbenheimer | Was dropping the bomb on Hiroshima justified? Is Ken the real star of Barbie? Three Oppenheimers weigh in on the film event of the year. | | 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 | | Contact us: Mark.Oppenheimer[at]gmail and Jwerbe[at]gmail | | (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2023-Sep-24 • 69 minutes PEL Presents (SUB)TEXT: Foolish Adventures in "The Odyssey" (Part 2 of 3) Wes & Erin continue their discussion of the Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson. In this episode, part 2 of our 3-part series, they look closely at the heart of the poem, books 5-12, in which Odysseus arrives in Phaeacia and provides the... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2023-Sep-24 • 117 minutes 145 - Deirdre McCloskey: What Is Classical Liberalism? Deirdre McCloskey is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Economics and of History and Professor Emerita of English and of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is also Isaiah Berlin Chair in Liberal Thought at the Cato Institute. Over the span of her career, Deirdre has written on economic theory, history, rhetoric, feminism, ethics, law, and more. In this episode, she and Robinson discuss her political philosophy—classical liberalism. They begin by discussing her training before delvin... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2023-Sep-24 • 67 minutes Roy Richard Grinker - Nobody's Normal: Breaking the Stigma of Mental Illness | STM Podcast #189 On episode 189, we welcome Roy Richard Grinker to discuss the cultural differences of conceptions of mental illness, the WEIRD model of mental health and its limitations in helping us understand it, the false dichotomy of the social/cultural and... (@seize_podcast • @EgoEndsNow • @leonscafe31) |
| 2023-Sep-24 • 18 minutes Aristotle, Categories - Univocal, Equivocal, And Derivative Terms - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Categories, focusing on his distinction in chapter 1 between three types of terms - Univocal (sunonuma), Equivocal (homonuma), and Derivative (paronuma). This distinction concerns the connection between linguistic expressions and meanings. Univocal terms have the same meaning, or in Aristotle's terms, "statement of essence" (logos tes ousias). Equivocal terms have the same name or expression, but different statements of essence. De... (@philosopher70) |
 2023-Sep-24 • 39 minutesEpisode 122, ‘Justice for Animals’ with Martha Nussbaum (Part I - The Capabilities Approach) Welcome to ‘Episode 122 (Part I of II)’, in which we discuss animal ethics with Professor Martha Nussbaum. (@ThePanpsycast • @_JackSymes • @MrMarleyTeach) |
 2023-Sep-24 • 34 minutesHAP 131 - Mixed Messages - Black British Cultural Studies Stuart Hall pioneers “cultural studies,” offering tools for analysis of films, television, fiction and music that were put to use by followers like Paul Gilroy and Hazel Carby. (@HistPhilosophy • @ChikeJeffers) |
| 2023-Sep-24 • 9 minutes 520: What Is Masculinity? More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/wha... in control, and stoic—these are traits of the ideal masculine man. Men who fail to conform to this ideal are often penalized, particularly if they are men of color, queer men, working-class men, or men with disabilities. So how do we create different visions of masculinity that make room for all kinds of men? Should we abandon the idea of masculinity altogether, or would that be throwing out the baby with the bathwater? Which models of masculinity will bri... (@philtalkradio) |
 2023-Sep-23 • 50 minutesM Knows It When They See It After last week's episode - which totally exists and was awesome, you guys - we dial things down a notch with a look a recent paper of M's, where they survey some works, outline some methodologies, tabulate some results - are we sure this is a philos... (@PodGuideCon • @monkeyfluids) |
 2023-Sep-23 • 33 minutes075 - A Matter of Life & Death: How Philosophy Underpins Politics, Law, Science, and Morality. Is philosophy just mental masturbation? Nothing but air?Many today see no value in philosophy because there seems to be little agreement among philosophers on anything, and much of what they say seems to have little or no impact on one's life, or society in general. Is this the case?An examination of the major pillars upon which society stands - political systems, the law, science, and its moral base - shows just the opposite. Holding each of these institutions up is a philosophical position. In mo... (@CunningofGeist) |
| 2023-Sep-23 • 19 minutes Plato, Republic Book 2 - The Ring Of Gyges - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's work, The Republic, in particular book 2. Specifically it examines one of the most striking metaphors of the book: The Ring of Gyges, which turns its possessor invisible, and is liable to lead the wielder into injustice. 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 ... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Sep-22 • 71 minutes #335 — A Postmortem on My Response to Covid If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at . (@) |
| 2023-Sep-22 • 80 minutes Great power conflict (Article) Today’s release is a reading of our Great power conflict problem profile, written and narrated by Stephen Clare.If you want to check out the links, footnotes and figures in today’s article, you can find those here.And if you like this article, you might enjoy a couple of related episodes of this podcast: | #128 – Chris Blattman on the five reasons wars happen | #140 – Bear Braumoeller on the case that war isn’t in decline | Audio mastering and editing for this episode: Dominic ArmstrongAudio Engineering Lea... (@80000Hours) |
| 2023-Sep-22 • 62 minutes #838 Jana Gallus: The Psychology and Economics of Incentives Dr. Jana Gallus is Associate Professor of Strategy and Behavioral Decision Making at UCLA Anderson School of Management. Her research interests lie in behavioral economics, strategy, and innovation, with a focus on recognition incentives and their effects on decision-making. She investigates how incentive schemes can be designed to enhance employee motivation and organizational performance in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. | | In this episode, we talk about the psychology and economics of inc... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Sep-22 • 119 minutes 144 - Carl Wieman: Winning the Nobel Prize, Bose-Einstein Condensates, & Science Education Carl Wieman is Cheriton Family Professor, Professor of Physics, and Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University and winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics for the production and observation of the first Bose-Einstein condensate. In addition to his extensive work in atomic and optical physics, Carl has pioneered the use of experimental techniques to evaluate the effectiveness of various teaching strategies for physics and other sciences. He also served as Associate Director for Science in the W... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2023-Sep-22 • 13 minutes Plato, Republic Book 2 - Representations Of Justice As Instrumentally Good - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's work, The Republic, in particular book 2. Specifically it examines the ways in which justice is typically represented by family, media, and other sources of moral education -- namely as an instrumental, rather than intrinsic good 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/... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Sep-22 • 28 minutes René Girard and victimhood The politics of victimhood is a feature of our contemporary cultural landscape - but according to French philosopher René Girard, the impetus behind victim politics has been driving human civilisation for millennia. (@DavidPZone) |
| 2023-Sep-22 • 54 minutes The Bird Man: Adventures with Bill Montevecchi *Be advised there is some strong language in this episode | Seabird biologist Bill Montevecchi has been ranked in the world’s top two per cent of scientists. IDEAS producer Mary Lynk follows him on a heart-pounding overnight rescue mission of young storm petrels along Newfoundland’s coastline. This episode originally aired on March 31, 2023. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Sep-22 • 59 minutes Jordan Peele's Horror (with Johanna Isaacson) The HBS hosts discuss Jordan Peele's special brand of horror with the author of Stepford Daughters, Johanna Isaacson.For a long time, or at least it seemed, horror films were considered to be beneath serious scrutiny. The problematic politics of such films were all too apparent in the violence brought to bear on women’s bodies in countless slasher films. The racial politics were not much better; the cliche of the black character dying first exists for a reason. Gradually this changed, though, first with suc... (@hotelbarpodcast • @DrLeighMJohnson • @c_fpeterson • @rickleephilos) |
 2023-Sep-22 • 96 minutesDual and Flourishing in a Dehumanizing Society What would you do if a slightly better version of you tried to steal your life, and you were legally allowed to fight them to the death? Can you tell yourself you wouldn't, you'd do something better? You'd let them kill you? Welcome to the world of... (@0gPhilosophy) |
| 2023-Sep-21 • 65 minutes #837 Vanessa Bohns: You Have More Influence Than You Think Dr. Vanessa Bohns is a Professor of Organizational Behavior at Cornell University. Her research focuses broadly on social influence and the psychology of compliance and consent. She is the author of You Have More Influence Than You Think: How We Underestimate Our Power of Persuasion, and Why It Matters. | | In this episode, we focus on You Have More Influence Than You Think. We discuss how much we impact other people, and go through topics like compliments; expressing gratitude; the invisibility cloak ill... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Sep-21 • 56 minutes PEL Presents PMP#158: "Oppenheimer" and Other Christopher Nolan Films Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn, and Al talk about the writer-director's work, touching on not only his recent tour-de-force, but back to Memento, Dunkirk, Tenet, Inception, The Prestige, Interstellar, Insomnia, and The Following. Is Nolan overrated as... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
 2023-Sep-21 • 57 minutesAdults, Children and Power Labour has confirmed that it plans to allow 16 and 17 year-olds to vote in elections, in line with Scotland and Wales. The idea, they say, is to empower younger people by engaging them in the democratic process. Some older members of the electorate might raise the question of whether people under 18 have the maturity to vote. It would be no surprise to hear that argument, we were all children once and we know that adults think they’re superior. It’s nearly fifty years since the concept of “childism” was... (@BBCRadio4) |
 2023-Sep-21 • 36 minutesS4 Ep9: Evidence-based strategies for suicide and self-harm prevention with Professor Seena Fazel | Content warning: | Please be aware that this episode refers to topics such as suicide, suicidal ideations, methods of suicide and overdose. | In Episode 9 of the series, Professor Belinda Lennox sits down with Professor Seena Fazel, Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry and Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist. | Here, they discuss Oxford’s long history of suicide research, and Professor Fazel’s work identifying high-risk populations, particularly those who have been through the ... (@PhilFacOx) |
| 2023-Sep-21 • 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. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Sep-21 • 167 minutes #263 - Climate and the Science of Denial: A Dialogue with David Lipsky In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with David Lipsky about the history of climate science denial. They discuss how he wrote this book, origins of discovering climate change, Edison and Westinghouse, and the influence of Einstein. They discuss the history of scientists observing climate changes, Nixon and the Clean Air Act and EPA, and Fred Singer and his involvement with the Unification church. They also talk about believing pseudoscience, PR campaigns for science denial for smoking and climate,... (@xavierbonilla87) |
 2023-Sep-21 • 54 minutesCan democracy withstand the strategic use of online confusion? Is there any way of retrieving the deliberative conditions under which democratic life is possible, when the social media cacophony makes hearing one another so hard? (@RadioNational) |
| 2023-Sep-21 • 63 minutes Robin's Birthday (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson, with Arnold Brooks) 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 Minds Almost Meeting website here: ... (@AgnesCallard • @robinhanson) |
| 2023-Sep-20 • 11 minutes Plato, Republic Book 2 - The Origin And Nature Of Justice - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's work, The Republic, in particular book 2. Specifically it examines the theory about the nature and origin of justice presented there by Glaucon -- a view that justice arises primarily because human beings realize that their chances of getting away with committing injustice are lower than their chances -- or the harm done -- of avoiding suffering injustice. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If yo... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Sep-20 • 114 minutes 143 - Andrew Knoll: The Origins of Life on Earth Andrew Knoll is the Fisher Professor of Natural History in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. Andy’s work straddles the line between the early evolution of life on Earth and our planet’s environmental history. He has written numerous books on these subjects, most recently A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters (Custom House). In this episode, Robinson and Andy discuss when and how life arose on earth—and, just as importantly, what and how we know ab... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2023-Sep-20 • 44 minutes Replay: Should billionaires exist? NOTE: we'll be doing replays and occassional hot-take updates between now and January next year, when we will release our next season! The episode that started it all...Should billionaires exist? We explore classic perspectives from the likes of Nozick and Rawls and give some context on just how much a billion is! Old description: In this first episode, Jake and Ant explore the moral implications of extreme wealth inequality. Can billionaires co-exist with a population in poverty? When, if ever, is it right... (@MoralityofThe • @AnthonyNCollias) |
 2023-Sep-20 • 52 minutesLazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One’s Potential Lessons from the Barkley Marathons creator. (@tylercowen) |
| 2023-Sep-20 • 52 minutes Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act II Continuing their mini-series breaking down Shakespeare's Hamlet, the guys sit down this week to take a close look at Act II. The guys analyze every detail, from King Claudius increasing suspicion of Hamlet's erratic behavior to Hamlet's continued... (@thenewthinkery • @alexpriou • @GregMcBrayer3 • @Tempest1610) |
| 2023-Sep-20 • 52 minutes Talking Sense with Stephen Colbert 🐟🐟🐟 Paul and Stephen get their daily dose of happiness during PART 1 of this illuminating and hilarious chat with writer, comedian, late night host, Mr. Stephen Colbert. Have you ever wondered why some spell Stephen with a V, while others with a PH? No? It’s great party fodder, trust us! Mr. Colbert captivates with his love of fishing, the evolution of the flounder, the consequences of unaddressed grief, and the religious sermon that changed him forever. Stay tuned for talk of Jungian archetypes and two tr... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2023-Sep-20 • 54 minutes The Many Afterlives of the Queen of Sheba The Queen of Sheba is a holy figure to some; a demon in disguise to others. Author and journalist Kamal Al-Solaylee explores the many afterlives of the Queen of Sheba — and how ideas about gender and power have shifted in each retelling of her life. *This episode originally aired on May 9, 2023. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Sep-20 • 77 minutes Matthew R. Dasti, "Vatsyayana's Commentary on the Nyaya-Sutra: A Guide" (Oxford UP, 2023) In Vatsyayana's Commentary on the Nyaya-Sutra: A Guide (Oxford University Press, 2023), Matthew Dasti unpacks a canonical classical Indian text, the Nyayabhasya, while simultaneously demonstrating its relevance to contemporary philosophy. The commentary, the earliest extant on the Nyayasutra, ranges over topics in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, dialectics, and value theory. Dasti's guide includes his own translations of selections of the text and engagement with select interpretive contr... (@NewBooksPhil) |
| 2023-Sep-20 • 27 minutes The Marvels of Space-Time Einstein showed that space and time are essentially the same thing-a single entity, space-time. But space and time seem so radically different. How could space and time be literally the same thing? Featuring interviews with Max Tegmark, J. Gott, Ju... (@CloserToTruth • @RobertLawrKuhn) |
| 2023-Sep-20 • 61 minutes 73 | Effective Altruism is Terrible w/ John Duncan In this episode, we are joined by researcher and video essayist John Duncan (@Johntheduncan) to talk about the Effective Altruism movement and why it is so comprehensively awful. Granted, it’s got some pretty solid marketing: who could be against altruism, especially if it’s effective? But consider: from its individualism to its focus on cost-effectiveness and rates of return, from its idealist historiography to its refusal to cop to its obvious utilitarianism, from its naive empiricism to its wild-eyed obs... (@leftofphil • @whitherutopia • @oglynwil • @classreductress) |
| 2023-Sep-19 • 83 minutes 170: "Think more like six year olds!" - Psychology Researcher Luke McGuire - Sentientism Luke is a lecturer working in the Department of Psychology at the University of Exeter. His research examines social and moral development between childhood, adolescence and young adulthood. Between 2017 and 2020 he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow on the Wellcome Trust, ESRC and NSF funded “STEM Teens” project. This project examined the role of youth educators in informal science learning sites, both by longitudinally following youth educators and by quasi-experimentally examining their role in the... (@sentientism • @JamieWoodhouse) |
| 2023-Sep-19 • 28 minutes How I changed my mind about truth | Simon Blackburn Simon Blackburn delves into the heart of objective morality, challenging metaphysics and shedding light on the philosophical intricacies of truth. (@IAI_TV) |
| 2023-Sep-19 • 10 minutes Foucault, Industry, and the Church In this episode, I explain the role of industry and the church on the treatment of madness and criminality. If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphiloso... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2023-Sep-19 • 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 latest 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. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Sep-19 • 73 minutes Ep. 66 Can Science and Wisdom Traditions Complement Each Other?” The Shawnee, a native American tribe, tells a tale of brother crow and brother buffalo which imparts the wisdom of balance: to only hunt the buffalo when it is necessary for food and skins, but to remember that each creature is our brother and sister too. Tales like this one are not uncommon in many indigenous cultures around the world. Through an illustrative story set in nature, they transmit the ethical, epistemological, and metaphysical beliefs of the tribe from one generation to the next on topics such... (@opendoorphil • @d_parsonage) |
| 2023-Sep-18 • 36 minutes Episode 192 - Special Edition - Chapter 16 of A Few Days In Athens Welcome to Episode 192 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the only 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) |
 2023-Sep-18 • 63 minutesEp. 248 - Wisdom for Young Men in a New World w/CR Wiley In episode 248 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined again by C.R. Wiley. This time we go over a smattering of practical questions of wisdom for young men. Mostly for myself. Check the time stamps for a full topic list. | | Grab C.R. Wiley's amazing book, In the House of Tom Bombadil here to support the pod: https://amzn.to/3ZjnHH1 | | Join this channel to get access to perks: | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYbTRur... | | Join the Facebook group, Parker's Pensées Penseurs, here: https://www.fa... (@trendsettercase) |
| 2023-Sep-18 • 50 minutes #334 — The Low-Trust Society Sam Harris speaks with David Brooks about the state of American democracy and the liberal world order. They discuss the weakness of moral individualism, the loss of social trust, the dangers of identity politics, what happened to the Republican Party,... (@) |
| 2023-Sep-18 • 84 minutes 169: A Sentientism Salon with the American Ethical Union - with Amy Halpern-Laff and Jamie Woodhouse - hosted by Hugh Taft-Morales - a cross-post bonus episode This episode is a bonus cross-post of a salon session about Sentientism with the American Ethical Union back in February 2022 hosted by Hugh Taft-Morales. Amy Halpern-Laff and I (Jamie Woodhouse) presented the Sentientism worldview and we had a great Q&A session with the group. | If you prefer video you can watch the session on the AEU YouTube channel here. | Find out more about the AEU on their website here. | In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” &... (@sentientism • @JamieWoodhouse) |
| 2023-Sep-18 • 47 minutes #836 Sabine Nöbel: Social Learning, Mate Copying, and Culture from a Biological Perspective Dr. Sabine Nöbel is a Postdoc at the Martin-Luther University Halle Wittenberg in the group “Animal Ecology“. Her background is in the behavioral ecology of Poeciliids and Drosophila studying non-genetic inheritance of mating preferences using mate-copying, by which females build mating preferences by observing and copying conspecific females’ mate-choice. She studies how new, socially learnt mating preferences can invade a population and persist across generations. Dr. Nöbel is the secretary of ESLR (Assoc... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Sep-18 • 14 minutes Plato, Republic Book 2 - What Kind Of Good Is Justice - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's work, The Republic, in particular book 2. Specifically it examines the question about what sort of good justice is -- instrumental or intrinsic. 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 2500 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.y... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Sep-18 • 58 minutes 250 | Brendan Nyhan on Navigating the Information Ecosystem I talk with political scientist Brendan Nyhan about information, misinformation, and how to deal with them both. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2023-Sep-18 • 49 minutes Ep. 325: Paul Grice on Meaning and Conversation (Part One) On "Meaning" (1957), "Utterer’s Meaning and Intentions" (1969), and "Logic and Conversation" (1975), featuring Mark, Seth, Dylan, and guest . Grice tries to give a rigorous analysis of what it means for a speaker (as opposed to a sentence) to mean... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2023-Sep-18 • 42 minutes The good, the bad and the ignored | Peter Singer, Julian Baggini, Sophie Scott-Brown Peter Singer, Julian Baggini and Sophie Scott-Brown debate if inaction is equally as bad as, or worse than, action. (@IAI_TV) |
| 2023-Sep-18 • 54 minutes War and Medicine: Hawkeye's Army We think nothing today of calling healthcare workers “front line workers,” engaged in a “battle” against disease. But the roots of the war metaphor in medicine go a long way back — entrenched by pop culture icons like the TV show M*A*S*H and Hawkeye’s army. Dr. Jillian Horton explores a less heroic but healthier way forward for doctors and health professionals. *This episode originally aired on Feb. 21, 2023. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Sep-18 • 25 minutes Episode 63: Mens Rea with Craig Agule In this episode, we talk with Craig Agule about some of the philosophical issues related to mens rea requirements in the law and also about the connection between mens rea and free will.Craig's website: https://craigagule.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshowInsta... https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillsho... https://www.facebook.com/The-Free-Will-S... (@thefreewillshow • @taylorwcyr • @MatthewFlummer) |
| 2023-Sep-18 • 83 minutes #262 - Failures of Forgiveness: A Dialogue with Myisha Cherry In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Myisha Cherry about forgiveness. They define forgiveness, discuss how moral systems are important for forgiveness, and discuss the narrow view and the broad view of forgiveness. They also talk about emotions and behaviors, what we do with bitterness, actions or the person, different capacities for different people, canceling others and forgiving public figures, forgiving one’s self, and many other topics. Myisha Cherry is associate professor of philosophy... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2023-Sep-17 • 70 minutes Making Light Work - A Conversation with David Spencer In the first episode of our mini-series on the future of work, we are joined by University of Leeds economist David Spencer. We discuss the experience of alienated labor under contemporary capitalism, the importance of work for meaning and dignity in... (@UMBEthics) |
| 2023-Sep-17 • 52 minutes Stephen Kershnar on Cultural Appropriation Is it permissible for members of one group to appropriate the cultural practices of another? Is there anything wrong with cultural appropriation at all, or are there benefits to cultural appropriation? (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2023-Sep-17 • 69 minutes PEL Presents PvI#61: TEAM PLAY CIRCUS with Adal Rifai and Jenny Hansen It's Jenny in the ring with /Podcaster with and Adal, along with Mark and Bill, of course. And the Bullshot is flying! Who will be hit? Mark philosophizes at . Take a class this fall from him at . Bill improvises (and teaches) at . . to get... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2023-Sep-17 • 51 minutes S3EP03: A Conversation about Women's Health with a Patient-Researcher, with Elle Murata Elle Murata is a neuroscience Ph.D. student specializing in the impact of sex hormones on the brain. When she noticed something was off with her own menstrual cycle, she found herself having to advocate for her own health to receive proper care. In this conversation, Elle shares her journey to find answers about her own health, and insights from her lab about the effects of sex hormones on our brain's functions. (@bethfisher_1 • @avamadesousa) |
| 2023-Sep-17 • 121 minutes 142 - Tim Maudlin: Carnap, Kuhn, Bell’s Inequality, & The Philosophy of Science Tim Maudlin is Professor of Philosophy at NYU and Founder and Director of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics. Tim is renowned as one of the leading philosophers of physics, and he also works in the philosophy of science and metaphysics. This is Tim’s fourth appearance on the show. Tim was also a guest on episode 46 (laws of nature, space, and free will), episode 67 with David Albert (the foundations of quantum mechanics), and episode 115 with Craig Callender (the philosophy of time). In ... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2023-Sep-17 • 61 minutes Wendy Dio - Rock's Power Couple: My Life with Ronnie James Dio | STM #188 On episode 188, we welcome Wendy Dio to discuss her marriage to and career managing Ronnie James Dio, Dio’s relationship with Ritchie Blackmore and time in Rainbow, moving on to Black Sabbath and whether he was intimidated by replacing Ozzy... (@seize_podcast • @EgoEndsNow • @leonscafe31) |
 2023-Sep-17 • 83 minutesThe Popperian Podcast #30 – Jamie Shaw– ‘Paul Feyerabend, Anything Goes’ This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Jamie Shaw. They speak about the life, the work, and the specifically epistemological anarchism of Paul Feyerabend. Jamie Shaw is a Postdoctoral Fellow at... (@JedLeaHenry) |
| 2023-Sep-17 • 26 minutes HoP 428 - Weird Sisters - Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Witchcraft How Macbeth reflects the anxieties and explanations surrounding witchcraft and witch-hunting in early modern Europe. (@HistPhilosophy) |
| 2023-Sep-16 • 77 minutes Surplus Enjoyment Ryan and Todd explore the idea of surplus enjoyment as the basis for a theory of capitalism. They consider the psychic hold that capitalism has in terms of the surplus enjoyment that it both promises and provides. (@UVMcas) |
| 2023-Sep-16 • 14 minutes Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae - The Fifth Way To Prove Gods Existence This lecture discusses key ideas from the Medieval philosopher, theologian, and Dominican friar, Thomas Aquinas, and focuses on his Summa Theologiae, Prima Pars, q. 2. It focuses upon his discussion in article 2, bearing on whether God's existence can be proven or demonstrated by rational means at all. Thomas offers us five ways to argue for God's existence. The fifth way, a design argument, focuses on order and governance within the world, and argues to God as the governor or orderer of all things. To su... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Sep-15 • 128 minutes #835 William Kelly: The Sociocultural Anthropology of Japan Dr. William Kelly is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and the Sumitomo Professor Emeritus of Japanese Studies at Yale University. A noted authority on the social and historical anthropology of Japan, Dr. Kelly focused much of his research for two decades on regional society in Japan, based on extensive fieldwork in the Shōnai area of Yamagata Prefecture. He has also written widely on the broader dynamics of class formation in Japanese society. At the same time, much of his research for the past two decade... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Sep-15 • 54 minutes Encore: How to Recover Creativity and Empathy in Work Life Gwendolyn Dolske and Rudy Salo talk with Dr. Michaela O'Donnell about her book Make Work Matter. What can theology teach us about our approach to work? How has the pandemic shaped our ideas of work? What is the role of empathy?... (@InTheDetailsPod • @GDolske • @SaloRudy) |
| 2023-Sep-15 • 134 minutes 141 - Norman Naimark: The History of Genocide Norman Naimark is Robert & Florence McDonnell Professor of East European History at Stanford University. He is also Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution and the Institute of International Studies. He has worked on a wide array of topics related to the Cold War, genocide, communism, Hitler, Stalin, and more. In this episode, Robinson and Norman talk about the world history of genocide. After discussing just what constitutes genocide, they begin with the most distant reaches of prehistory—neanderthals ... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2023-Sep-15 • 12 minutes Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae - The Fourth Way To Prove Gods Existence This lecture discusses key ideas from the Medieval philosopher, theologian, and Dominican friar, Thomas Aquinas, and focuses on his Summa Theologiae, Prima Pars, q. 2. It focuses upon his discussion in article 2, bearing on whether God's existence can be proven or demonstrated by rational means at all. Thomas offers us five ways to argue for God's existence. The fourth focuses on degrees of being, and argues that God is supreme goodness, being, and every other perfection. To support my ongoing work, go... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Sep-15 • 57 minutes Episode 191 - The Epicurean Arguments In Cicero's On Ends - Book One - Part 02 Welcome to Episode 191 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the only 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) |
 2023-Sep-15 • 19 minutesThe Problem of Unbelief Do you struggle with belief? Are you disturbed by the apparent silence (or indifference) of the universe? If so, then this is the episode for you. Join us for a discussion of belief, silence, and much more in this first episode of... (@RedLetterPhil) |
| 2023-Sep-15 • 54 minutes Canada's School Trains They were known as school cars and schools on wheels. Trains that brought the classroom to children in the most isolated communities of Northern Ontario. IDEAS contributor Alisa Siegel explores remote education, homeschooling and nation-building. *This episode originally aired on January 9, 2023. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Sep-15 • 50 minutes The Mask Alright, it's our 100th episode and we're talking masks. From Jim Carrey's The Mask to the Kardashians it's an important concept that crops up throughout Žižek's work where he emphasises that the truth is in your mask, the truth is in what you are doing. The intimate stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, are usually a fake... | | We're running the official book launch with Bloomsbury Publishing for Žižek's new book Freedom: A Disease Without A Cure in early October with an interview, events...and som... (@zizekand) |
| 2023-Sep-15 • 52 minutes The Subversive Seventies (with Michael Hardt) The HBS hosts ask Michael Hardt why we so quickly jump from the 60's to the 80's in our political imagination? Most histories of the present either overlook the seventies, jumping from the sixties of radical struggle to the eighties of Reagan/Thatcher and repression, or dismiss it as just the end point of the previous era struggles, the point where the sixties fell apart, collapsing into infighting, or went too far, devolving into violence. What do we overlook in not thinking about the seventies as a decade... (@hotelbarpodcast • @DrLeighMJohnson • @c_fpeterson • @rickleephilos) |
| 2023-Sep-15 • 29 minutes #70: How to write Writing is why we all do what we do - or at least, a big part of it. But it's also a source of intense anxiety, whether we're new to it or whether we've been at it for years. So, here's another start-of-the-new-academic-year imperfectionist special for you. Your imperfect pal here set out to create a little survival guide for new students who want to get their essay-writing off to a good start - but along the way, it turns out that there are plenty of lessons about writing that are usefu... (@AcademicImp • @rebecca_roache) |
| 2023-Sep-15 • 81 minutes 98. Starship Troopers (w/ Liam Billingham) Liam Billingham (Die Hard on a Blank / OuevreBusters) joins us to discuss Paul Verhoeven's meta-propaganda Brechtian war film Starship Troopers. We discuss the film's odd mixture of big budget VFX with soap opera stars, how it's three movies in one, the nature of meaning in a world devoid of conflict, and art that risks embarrassment. It's a squishy, gooey, fun time, so jump on this one way rocket to Klendathu with us, folks! (@cowspod • @juskhoo) |
| 2023-Sep-14 • 9 minutes 573: Are We Living in a Simulation? More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/are... rapid advances in Virtual Reality technology and the like, it’s now possible for us to become absorbed in completely made-up worlds. We might wonder how soon it will be till we reach a point where VR is so good, we can’t tell it apart from the real world. But what if we’ve already reached that point? How would we know if we were currently living in a simulated reality, or are there always telltale signs? And if we were in a simulation, what difference woul... (@philtalkradio) |
| 2023-Sep-14 • 97 minutes #834 Kristen Lindquist: The Psychology and Neuroscience of Emotions Dr. Kristen Lindquist is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research seeks to understand the psychological and neural basis of emotions, moods, and feelings. Her ongoing work uses tools from social cognition, physiology, neuroscience, and big data methods to examine how emotions emerge from the confluence of the body, brain, and culture. | | In this episode, we start by talking about a multidisciplinary approach to emotions. We discuss if infan... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Sep-14 • 28 minutes S4 Ep8: Suicide prevention and mental health advocacy with Ben West | Content warning: | Please be aware that this episode refers to topics such as suicide, suicidal ideations and depression. | In the eighth episode of the series, Professor Belinda Lennox speaks to Ben West, mental health campaigner, best-selling author and social media influencer. | In 2018, Ben unexpectedly lost his brother to suicide. In this conversation, Ben shares his journey as a campaigner for mental health awareness, suicide prevention, and his work to fundamentally change how we approach menta... (@PhilFacOx) |
| 2023-Sep-14 • 69 minutes #261 - Collective Memory and Civil Rights: A Dialogue with Hajar Yazdiha In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Hajar Yazdiha about collective memory and the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. They discuss how we can accruately understand Dr. King’s message and legacy, how we reckon with history, and what a multicultural coalition looks like today. They discuss collective memory, creating culture, primary audience of Dr. King’s message, various groups using Dr. King’s message, and many more topics. Hajar Yazdiha is a sociologist and writer. She is an Assistant Pro... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2023-Sep-14 • 28 minutes Beauty and AI AI-powered beauty apps are becoming increasingly popular, as people use them to evaluate, rate and enhance their facial appearance in selfies and other images. But exactly what's going on behind the technological wizardry raises a host of troubling ethical and philosophical concerns. (@DavidPZone) |
| 2023-Sep-14 • 54 minutes The Enslaved Teen Who Cracked Vanilla’s Secret Vanilla may well be the world’s most popular flavour. Its history is intertwined with the institution of slavery, scientific discovery, geopolitics and one individual’s breathtaking resilience. Scholar Eric Jennings shares the troubled, yet inspiring, history of vanilla, in his June 2023 lecture for the Jackman Humanities Institute. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Sep-14 • 53 minutes In a critical age, are we losing the ability to say why we love what we love? We’ve reached the point in mass culture, to say nothing of the “higher culture” of academia, when criticism is the norm. To the point that we increasingly define ourselves by what we hate. (@RadioNational) |
| 2023-Sep-13 • 62 minutes Fertility (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard) 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 Minds Almost Meeting website here: ... (@AgnesCallard • @robinhanson) |
| 2023-Sep-13 • 72 minutes 168: "Most people think they're better than average" - Tania Lombrozo - Psychologist - Sentientism Tania is the Arthur W. Marks Professor of Psychology at Princeton University. She oversees the Concepts and Cognition Laboratory, which uses the empirical tools of cognitive psychology and the conceptual tools of analytic philosophy to study the human mind. Their research focuses on topics including explanation, learning, causal reasoning, and folk epistemology. Tania is the recipient of numerous early-career awards including the Stanton Prize from the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, the Spence Awar... (@sentientism • @JamieWoodhouse) |
| 2023-Sep-13 • 11 minutes Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae - The Third Way To Prove Gods Existence This lecture discusses key ideas from the Medieval philosopher, theologian, and Dominican friar, Thomas Aquinas, and focuses on his Summa Theologiae, Prima Pars, q. 2. It focuses upon his discussion in article 2, bearing on whether God's existence can be proven or demonstrated by rational means at all. Thomas offers us five ways to argue for God's existence. The third way focuses on possibility and necessity, and argues that God is Necessary Being. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Sep-13 • 11 minutes PREMIUM-Ep. 324: Plato's "Cratylus" on Language (Part Three) Mark and Wes do a Closeread on the latter part of the dialogue, where Socrates argues to Cratylus that even if names (words) were devised to somehow depict the things they stand for, that wouldn't guarantee that they ACCURATELY describe the world. You... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2023-Sep-13 • 94 minutes 140 - John Burgess: Realism in the Philosophy of Mathematics John Burgess is John N. Woodhull Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, where he works in mathematical and philosophical logic and the philosophy of mathematics. In this episode, Robinson and John discuss realism in the philosophy of mathematics, and while the nature of this question is itself disputed, it can be roughly described as concerning the extent to which we should be committed to the mind-independent truth of mathematical theorems, or to the existence of the objects they apparently descr... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2023-Sep-13 • 79 minutes Episode 153: Celestial Machine: On the Temperance Card in the Tarot Phil and JF discuss the fourteenth arcanum, traditionally known as Temperance. (@weirdstudies • @JF_Martel) |
 2023-Sep-13 • 19 minutesBlueprints of life Some excerpts…"We pull from the external world to formulate our own narratives, yet they're never truly our own.""Narratives become our masks, and over time, we become consumed by them.""In the vast digital landscape, we're both the authors and the characters of our stories, constantly shaping and being shaped.""The uncertain interplay with the external world continuously evolves us, forcing us to navigate and find our place anew.""Stories, myths, narratives—they act as symbols that drive us, resonating dee... (@philosophyguy2 • @brendenslab) |
| 2023-Sep-13 • 61 minutes Alex Priou's Musings on Plato's Symposium This week, the guys gather to discuss a new book written by our very own Alex Priou! The book, Musings on Plato's Symposium, is a short but powerful series of thoughts on every part of the Symposium, in lengths varying from a few sentences to a... (@thenewthinkery • @alexpriou • @GregMcBrayer3 • @Tempest1610) |
| 2023-Sep-13 • 58 minutes JOURNEY INTO THE HOLLOW EARTH! 🪐🪐🪐 Welcome to Paul’s happy place, discussing the ins and outs of the Hollow Earth Theory! Listen in as Paul and Stephen go deep to the chewy center of this fringe theory that the earth is not a solid sphere but a hollow shell with its own universe living within it. This is not your mama’s flat earth theory, or any of that fake moon landing stuff – welcome to the Hollow Earth. And what’s all this got to do with Nazis, UFOs, AI and the Imp of Perversity? Learn about Cyrus Teed (the hero of the hollow earth t... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2023-Sep-13 • 54 minutes Ghost Particles The mysterious ‘neutrino’ has a nickname: the ‘ghost particle.’ Benjamin Tam is finishing his PhD in Particle Astrophysics at Queen’s University. He takes us two kilometres to a laboratory deep below the earth’s surface where he and fellow scientists hope to watch neutrinos finally explain the universe’s existence. *This episode originally aired on February 1, 2023. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Sep-13 • 63 minutes Samuel Lebens on Jewish Philosophy In honor of Rosh Hashanah, this week's podcast presents the arguments for, and against, the existence of God in Judaic history. From pogroms to the Holocaust, how to deal with the Problem of Evil — with respect to the existence of God and attributes ... (@CloserToTruth • @RobertLawrKuhn) |
| 2023-Sep-13 • 54 minutes 72 | Gerrard Winstanley and the English Revolution In this episode we talk English Revolutionary politics in the mid-17th century, and specifically the philosophy and practice of legendary 'Digger' Gerrard Winstanley. We discuss his radically egalitarian conviction that the execution of Charles I was not sufficient, and that all the 'kingly power' of landlords and owners must be abolished to complete the Revolution. We draw a stark contrast between Winstanley and his contemporary, Thomas Hobbes, while distinguishing his conception of the... (@leftofphil • @whitherutopia • @oglynwil • @classreductress) |
 2023-Sep-13 • 22 minutesA World Without … Privacy Imagine if something private you told a friend could be shouted out for the whole world to hear? Or if an embarrassing bodily function was shared with everyone? Some people say privacy is only necessary if you have something to hide, but are there other reasons to keep certain things just for yourself? | | Brains Trust: Plenty Parklands Primary School in Mill Park, Melbourne: Ibrahim, Kiara, Victoria, Vinugo and Sienna. (@matthewtbeard) |
| 2023-Sep-13 • 23 minutes A World Without … Heartbreak We often feel sadness and heartbreak when something bad happens, like when a much-loved pet dies or someone at school doesn't want to be friends anymore. Or even when your sports team loses the grand final after you've trained really hard for it. Would life be better if you could magically make that sadness disappear? | | Brains Trust: Plenty Parklands Primary School in Mill Park, Melbourne: Ibrahim, Kiara, Victoria, Vinugo and Sienna. (@matthewtbeard) |
| 2023-Sep-13 • 24 minutes A World Without … Schools What's the point of school anyway? That's a question lots of you have written to us to ask. Nearly every day of the week for years and years and years, you have to get up, put your uniform on and go to a big building full of other children, just so you can learn stuff. And then once you're in the school building, grownups get to decide when you're allowed to eat your lunch and when you're allowed to play. It's tiring and sometimes boring. So should we just get rid of schools? | | Brains Trust: Plenty Parkl... (@matthewtbeard) |
| 2023-Sep-13 • 24 minutes A World Without … Punishment What if there was no fine for letting your dog poo on the footpath? No consequences for hitting your brother or sister? And teachers never gave detention for breaking a school rule? If we lived in a world without punishment, would we all start just doing whatever we wanted? Or are there better ways to deal with people doing the wrong thing? | | Brains Trust: Plenty Parklands Primary School in Mill Park, Melbourne: Mara, Roni, Alana, Isaac and Adele. (@matthewtbeard) |
| 2023-Sep-13 • 24 minutes A World Without … Winning and losing Would you still want to play sport if there was no one keeping score, there were no winners or losers, and no trophies at the end of the season? What would be the point? On the other hand, can competition actually ruin sport? Come and spend the afternoon with Molly and Carl as they kick the ball around in a park. | | Brains Trust: Plenty Parklands Primary School in Mill Park, Melbourne: Mara, Roni, Alana, Isaac and Adele. (@matthewtbeard) |
| 2023-Sep-12 • 77 minutes Episode 268: Blood Meridian, Part 1 In part one of our two-part episode on Cormac McCarthy’s blood-soaked phantasmagorical 1985 masterpiece Blood Meridian, David and Tamler talk about the historical sources of the novel, the cosmic questions the book poses, the capriciousness of the... (@verybadwizards • @peez • @tamler) |
| 2023-Sep-12 • 57 minutes Ep. 102: What is it Like to Be an Octopus? (Part I) In this episode, Giuseppe and Anthony discuss a number of issues pertaining to human and animal consciousness raised by Godfrey-Smith's article, "On Being an Octopus." What do octopi have to do with consciousness? What are qualia? What would it be like to taste through your fingers, or to feel the world through your tongue>. How would having a "decentralized" nervous system alter the feeling of being conscious? If an octopus doesn't have a "self," can it even be considered one thing? Or is it more accu... (@LoveofSophiaPOD) |
| 2023-Sep-12 • 54 minutes The North Star: Canada and the Civil War Plots Against Lincoln by Julian Sher 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) |
| 2023-Sep-12 • 34 minutes A Better Way to Buy Books Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org has already raised more than $27,000,000. In this interview, Andy Hunter, founder and CEO discusses his journey to creating one of the most revolutionary new organizations in the book world. Bookshop has found a way to retain the convenience of online book shopping while also supporting independent bookstores that are the backbones of many local communities. Andy Hunte... (@NewBooksPhil) |
| 2023-Sep-12 • 61 minutes Adam Toon, "Mind As Metaphor: A Defence of Mental Fictionalism" (Oxford UP, 2023) Folk psychology (on a standard reading) is the way we attribute contentful mental states to others in order to explain and predict their behavior – for example, saying that John thinks the plant needs water as an inner mental state that explains why he is looking for the watering can. In Mind As Metaphor: A Defence of Mental Fictionalism (Oxford UP, 2023), Adam Toon argues that this view is incorrect: we do not have mental representations. Instead, while our concept of mind is of an inner world, this inner... (@NewBooksPhil) |
| 2023-Sep-12 • 56 minutes World Give us a listen, and we’ll give you the world! In Episode 86 of Overthink, Ellie and David ask: what does it mean to live in a world? From animal spirit masters in Labrador to the foundations of climate science, they discuss why the concept of "world" is so contentious, and even at the brink of collapse. They navigate our entangled concepts of nature, culture, and the idyllic nurturing earth through the work of Hannah Arendt and Arturo Escobar. Is the world of animals the same as our own? And, w... (@overthink_pod • @ellieanderphd • @DrPenaGuzman1) |
 2023-Sep-12 • 55 minutesEp. 68 - Sukaina Hirji: Outrage and the Bound of Empathy I speak with Sukaina Hirji about her (very) recent paper discussing a type of anger referred to as outrage: what it is, how it differs from other emotions, & how it functions in our emotional lives. (@Jordan_C_Myers) |
| 2023-Sep-11 • 13 minutes Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae - The Second Way To Prove Gods Existence This lecture discusses key ideas from the Medieval philosopher, theologian, and Dominican friar, Thomas Aquinas, and focuses on his Summa Theologiae, Prima Pars, q. 2. It focuses upon his discussion in article 2, bearing on whether God's existence can be proven or demonstrated by rational means at all. Thomas offers us five ways to argue for God's existence. The second way focuses on efficient causality, and argues that God is the First Cause. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patr... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Sep-11 • 77 minutes #833 Inês Hipólito: 4E Cognition, and Dynamical Approaches in Psychology/Cognitive Science Dr. Inês Hipólito is a faculty member at Macquarie University, where she serves as a Lecturer of Philosophy of AI and a researcher at the Ethics and Agency Research Center. Furthermore, she holds the position of Ethicist of AI at Verses, a pioneering cognitive computing company specializing in next-generation AI, with Karl Friston serving as Chief Research bridging the gap between academia and industry, contributing to ethical considerations embedded within cutting-edge AI advancements. As a co-founder and ... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Sep-11 • 88 minutes 249 | Peter Godfrey-Smith on Sentience and Octopus Minds I talk with philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith about what we can learn about minds by thinking about cephalopods. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2023-Sep-11 • 46 minutes Ep. 324: Plato's "Cratylus" on Language (Part Two) Continuing on Plato's mid-period dialogue about language. Is attaching a word to a thing, i.e. naming it, like other activities such as carpentry or sewing that can go wrong? Can we put the "form" of a thing into letters and syllabus of its name? We... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2023-Sep-11 • 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. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Sep-11 • 65 minutes #260 - Power and Progress: A Dialogue with Daron Acemoglu In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Daron Acemoglu on technology, inequality, and power. They discuss how technological progress is a choice, defining progress, power of persuasion, and needs and innovations. They also talk about innovation, globalization, and automation in the post World War II era, AI and culture, fixing the challenges of technological inequality, and many more topics. Daron Acemoglu is an economist and Institute Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2023-Sep-10 • 59 minutes Sex work or prostitution? | Lori Watson Is sex work actually work? Is prostitution always a form of exploitation? And show we legalize or decriminalize prostitution? (@JasonWerbeloff) |
 2023-Sep-10 • 77 minutes“How to Give Sex Advice” with Dan Savage Host Jack Russell Weinstein is joined by author and podcast host Dan Savage to discuss "How to Give Sex Advice." (@whyradioshow) |
| 2023-Sep-10 • 59 minutes 139 - Lawrence Summers: Economic Policy, Free Speech, and The Pursuit of Truth Lawrence Summers is the President Emeritus and Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University. He also served as the 71st Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration, as Director of the White House National Economic Council in the Obama Administration, and as the Chief Economist of the World Bank. In this episode, Robinson and Larry discuss two topics close to his heart and work. First, they talk about the relationship between economic research and economic policy, both at a broad, ... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2023-Sep-10 • 67 minutes Katie Palmer - Behind the Curtain: Directing 'The Nobodies Who Were Everybody' | STM #187 On episode 187, we welcome Katie Palmer to discuss the lack of social funding for the arts, theater as philosophy and how it teaches us to become better thinkers, how the visceral theater experience cultivates empathy and a sense of belonging, theater... (@seize_podcast • @EgoEndsNow • @leonscafe31) |
| 2023-Sep-10 • 55 minutes PEL Presents PMP#157: What Is a Pop Culture Podcast For? (Season Finale) What is media criticism, and is that what we're doing? For our Season 3 finale (i.e. the end of PMP's 4th year of operation), your now officially official hosts Mark Linsenmayer, Lawrence Ware, Sarahlyn Bruck, and Al Baker turn their gazes fully... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2023-Sep-10 • 47 minutes Episode 121, The Philosophy of Privacy (Part III - Further Analysis and Discussion) Welcome to ‘Episode 121 (Part III of III)’, in which we focus on arguments against the sanctity of privacy. (@ThePanpsycast • @_JackSymes • @MrMarleyTeach) |
| 2023-Sep-10 • 36 minutes HAP 130 - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o on... Himself! The great Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o joins us to speak about his career, his influences, and the power and politics of language. (@HistPhilosophy • @ChikeJeffers) |
| 2023-Sep-10 • 12 minutes 453: Adorno and the Culture Industry More at www.philosophytalk.org/shows/culture-ind... your favorite movie? Did you watch that season finale last night? No spoilers! Popular cultures pervades modern life. But what if pop culture was actually more pernicious than we ordinarily think? Could it be systematically deceiving us—eroding our ability to think for ourselves and fight for change? That's what the 20th century German philosopher Theodor Adorno thought. The Philosophers get cultured on Adorno's life and thought with Adrian Daub from Stanf... (@philtalkradio) |
| 2023-Sep-09 • 38 minutes Ebolagain! (Back to the Conspiracy) The rumoured outbreak of Ebola at this year's Burning Man is all the excuse M and Josh need to take a look at our old episodes about Ebola conspiracy theories, and infectious disease conspiracy theories in general. Who remembers Zika? — You can conta... (@PodGuideCon • @monkeyfluids) |
| 2023-Sep-09 • 11 minutes Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae - The First Way To Prove Gods Existence This lecture discusses key ideas from the Medieval philosopher, theologian, and Dominican friar, Thomas Aquinas, and focuses on his Summa Theologiae, Prima Pars, q. 2. It focuses upon his discussion in article 2, bearing on whether God's existence can be proven or demonstrated by rational means at all. Thomas offers us five ways to argue for God's existence. The first way focuses on motion or change, and argues that God is the Prime Mover. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Sep-09 • 56 minutes Episode 190 - The Epicurean Arguments In Cicero's On Ends - Book One - Part 01 Welcome to Episode 190 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the only 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) |
| 2023-Sep-08 • 71 minutes Triangle Freethought Society with Matthew Krevat My guest this week is Matthew Krevat, a secular and skeptical organizer with Triangle Freethought Society. We discuss his experiences with local organizing and trying to balance the interests of skeptics and atheists within a single group. Convocation: Schomburg Triangle Freethought Website: https://www.trianglefreethought.org/ Ma... podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@TalkingAboutThe... by GW Rodriguez Sibling Pods: Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/ Filmed Live Musicals Pod: https... (@ETVPod) |
| 2023-Sep-08 • 187 minutes #163 – Toby Ord on the perils of maximising the good that you do Effective altruism is associated with the slogan "do the most good." On one level, this has to be unobjectionable: What could be bad about helping people more and more?But in today's interview, Toby Ord — moral philosopher at the University of Oxford and one of the founding figures of effective altruism — lays out three reasons to be cautious about the idea of maximising the good that you do. He suggests that rather than “doing the most good that we can,” perhaps we should be happy with a more modest and ma... (@80000Hours) |
| 2023-Sep-08 • 10 minutes John Hospers, What Libertarianism Is - Government, Individuals, And Business - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century philosopher and political activist John Hospers' essay "What Libertarianism Is" It focuses specifically on his views on the limited role government should play, mainly focused on protecting rights, and the impacts and implications this would have for businesses and individuals 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 Buy... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Sep-08 • 73 minutes #832 Ursula Goodenough - The Sacred Depths of Nature: How Life Has Emerged and Evolved Dr. Ursula Goodenough is a Professor of Biology Emerita at Washington University in St. Louis where she engaged in research on eukaryotic algae. She has presented the paradigm of Religious Naturalism and the Epic of Evolution in numerous venues around the world. She currently serves as president of the Religious Naturalist Association. She is the author of The Sacred Depths of Nature: How Life Has Emerged and Evolved. | | In this episode, we focus on The Sacred Depths of Nature. We talk about “why” questi... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Sep-08 • 120 minutes 138 - Konstantin Batygin: Planet Nine, Oumuamua, and the Death of Pluto Konstantin Batygin is Professor of Planetary Science in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at the California Institute of Technology, where he works on a wide variety of problems related to the formation and evolution of the solar system, the dynamical evolution of exoplanets, and physical processes that occur in planetary interiors and atmospheres. In this episode, Robinson and Konstantin discuss interstellar interlopers in our solar system, planet and satellite formation, the death of Pluto... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2023-Sep-08 • 51 minutes Summer Bonus #2: Art and AI Another Patreon bonus, released for your listening pleasure as we prepare the first episode of the new season, which begins on September 13th. (@weirdstudies • @JF_Martel) |
| 2023-Sep-08 • 50 minutes S4 Ep7: Supporting the mental health of young people with Cynthia Germanotta, Dr Claudia-Santi F. Fernandes and Professor Mina Fazel In the seventh episode of the series, Professor Lennox is joined by Cynthia Germanotta and Dr Claudia-Santi F. Fernandes from Born This Way Foundation, and Professor Mina Fazel from Oxford’s Department of Psychiatry, to examine how to best help support the mental health of young people. | Cynthia Germanotta is President and Co-Founder of Born This Way Foundation and Global Goodwill Ambassador for Mental Health at the World Health Organization. Cynthia co-founded Born This Way Foundation with her daughter, L... (@PhilFacOx) |
| 2023-Sep-08 • 28 minutes The pathology of ugliness There are plenty of features of our faces and bodies that we don't necessarily like - but does this make them aberrations that require medical intervention? As the cosmetic surgery industry goes from strength to strength, the answer would increasingly appear to be Yes. (@DavidPZone) |
| 2023-Sep-08 • 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. Earlier this 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? (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Sep-08 • 57 minutes Forgiveness The HBS hosts wonder how a hard heart is melted and mended.In a world often colored by misunderstandings, hurtful actions, and lingering grudges, the concept of forgiveness emerges as a beacon of hope and healing. For some, its transformative power to mend relationships, free us from the shackles of resentment, and grant us the gift of emotional liberation make forgiveness a moral imperative. Forgiveness is not merely an internal journey; it's also a dynamic force that shapes societies and mends the fabric ... (@hotelbarpodcast • @DrLeighMJohnson • @c_fpeterson • @rickleephilos) |
| 2023-Sep-07 • 57 minutes #831 Freddie deBoer: How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement ------------------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) |
| 2023-Sep-07 • 7 minutes PREVIEW - Derrida & Žižek LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! | Alright, we’re back with another PATREON episode and we’re talking Jacques Derrida, the difference between parallax and différance, How To? with John Wilson, Krzysztof Kieślowski, documentary and fiction cinema, a deconstruction of Smash Mouth’s All Star, and the (w)hole in the picture. | Thank you to all of our Patreons, we have some VERY SPECIAL guests coming up, so stick around. | Enjoy! (@zizekand) |
| 2023-Sep-07 • 83 minutes #259 - Nietzsche's Great Politics: A Dialogue with Hugo Drochon In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Hugo Drochon about Nietzsche’s political thought. They talk about why Nietzsche’s political thought has been ignored, Nietzsche’s great politics, Nietzsche’s emphasis on culture, Plato and political philosophy, and how to build a culture. They also talk about philosophy of state, democracy, slavery, caste systems, Nietzsche’s politics in modernity, and many other topics. Hugo Drochon is a political theorist and historian. He has his PhD from Cambridge and ... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2023-Sep-07 • 54 minutes Astra Taylor: The Hidden Truth of the World Writer and political organizer Astra Taylor is the 2023 CBC Massey Lecturer. She speaks with Nahlah Ayed about key moments in her intellectual coming-of-age, from her early life in the “unschooling” movement to her involvement with Occupy Wall Street. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Sep-07 • 53 minutes Facing the darkness: The moral challenge of Goya’s “Saturn devouring his son” (1823) Spanish painter Francisco de Goya’s depiction of Saturn eating his son is a haunting portrait of lust and the fear of one’s own finitude. Christos Tsiolkas joins Waleed and Scott to look into that darkness, and discover what looks back. (@RadioNational) |
| 2023-Sep-07 • 36 minutes Episode #188 ... Achievement Society and the rise of narcissism, depression and anxiety - Byung-Chul Han Today we talk about positive power, neoliberalism, narcissism as a reaction to modern life, how technology makes isolation easier, and some tactics to find peace in the digital panopticon. Thanks for supporting the podcast by checking out... (@iamstephenwest) |
| 2023-Sep-06 • 11 minutes John Hospers, What Libertarianism Is - Rights To Life, Liberty, and Property - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century philosopher and political activist John Hospers' essay "What Libertarianism Is" It focuses specifically on his discussion of the three rights he takes as fundamental, i.e. the right to maintain one's life, the right to maintain one's liberty or freedom, and the right to one's own property. These supersede and structure all other moral considerations for the libertarian. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If y... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Sep-06 • 30 minutes Episode 62: Theories of Punishment with Erin Kelly In this episode, we talk with Erin Kelly about the main theories of justification for punishment, as well as some challenges for those theories. We also ask her about her work on moving from retributive to restorative justice.Erin's website: https://erinikelly.comErin's book, The Limits of Blame: Rethinking Punishment and Responsibility: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?... Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshowInsta... https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillsho... https://www.facebook.... (@thefreewillshow • @taylorwcyr • @MatthewFlummer) |
| 2023-Sep-06 • 68 minutes PEL Presents NEM#202: Richard Lloyd (Television): Guitar is Combustible Richard joined Television in 1973 and has released three albums with them, plus seven solo albums starting in 1980. He has also played with Matthew Sweet, John Doe, Rocket from the Tomb, and others, and has a 2019 memoir Everything Is Combustible. We... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2023-Sep-06 • 93 minutes 137 - Joyce Carol Oates: Craft in Fiction and Poetry Joyce Carol Oates is the Rogers S. Berlind ’52 Professor Emerita in the Humanities at Princeton University with the Program in Creative Writing. She is among the most widely-recognized and respected writers of our time, and has written in a wide variety of media and genres, from poetry and fiction in the former category to horror and Gothic in the latter. Her work has also been adapted into various other media, from plays to film. Joyce is the recipient of two O. Henry Awards and the National Book Award, am... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2023-Sep-06 • 27 minutes How do we know we're not living in the matrix? Solipsism and another classic philosophy film The season finale....we bring it back to films we love which are loaded with philosophical ideas and we dive into a little bit of Latin - Cogito Ergo Sum! We discuss the classic questions of, how do we know anything is real? Is there anything we CAN know is real? Does it even matter? We discuss Descartes and how he came to his famous "I think therefore I am" and what that exactly means, and we extend his skepticism to help explain the relationship with the classic movie The Matrix. This is the final episode... (@MoralityofThe • @AnthonyNCollias) |
| 2023-Sep-06 • 63 minutes Jerusalem Demsas on The Dispossessed, Gulliver's Travels, and Of Boys and Men It's time for a CWT book club! (@tylercowen) |
| 2023-Sep-06 • 59 minutes Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act I Continuing their mini-series on Shakespeare's Hamlet, the guys move from an overview to an thorough analysis of the play's first act. An emphasis is placed on the supernatural elements of the act, as well as the creeping dark atomsphere the act... (@thenewthinkery • @alexpriou • @GregMcBrayer3 • @Tempest1610) |
| 2023-Sep-06 • 66 minutes It's All A Show with Derek DelGaudio 🪄🪄🪄 Paul and Stephen are fascinated by magic and the art of deception and they’re thrilled to take this extraordinary ride into the wondrous mind of master illusionist Derek DelGaudio. Listen in as they explore themes of reality, deception, imagination, morality, manipulation, and belief with the sleight of hand maestro. Is authenticity even possible anymore? Is Tik Tok just a series of mini-Shakespearian tragedies? And what’s the fix for the absence of human connection in an online world Bonus: Learn about... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2023-Sep-06 • 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. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Sep-06 • 34 minutes Taking Offense with Emily McTernan Philosopher Emily McTernan joins us on the show to defend the act of taking offense and showing disapproval. | The post Taking Offense with Emily McTernan appeared first on Prindle Institute. (@DePauwPrindle) |
| 2023-Sep-06 • 27 minutes What Exists? What exists? Lots of things exist. But what’s truly fundamental? The challenge is to discern the minimum number of basic categories that explains the entirety of existence. Featuring interviews with Sean Carroll, David Wallace, David Chalmers, and ... (@CloserToTruth • @RobertLawrKuhn) |
| 2023-Sep-05 • 56 minutes 2: Being a Vegan Atheist activist and actress in Hollywood - "Sentientism feels like home!" - Sentientist Conversations - Carole Davis #1 Jamie talks to actress, singer/song-writer, author and activist Carole Raphaelle Davis about Sentientism, what she believes and what matters morally. If you prefer reading to listening, we've posted an article based on this conversation here. | You can watch the video of our conversation here on our Sentientism YouTube channel. Why not subscribe there as well as to this podcast? | Carole Raphaelle Davis is an actress, recording artist, writer and activist best known for her roles in Sex and the City a... (@sentientism • @JamieWoodhouse) |
| 2023-Sep-05 • 68 minutes #333 — Sanity Check on Climate Change Sam Harris speaks with Chris Field about climate change and its consequences. They discuss skepticism about climate change, the accuracy of climate models, the magnitude of temperature increases, how global temperatures are measured, the historical... (@) |
| 2023-Sep-05 • 77 minutes Ep. 247 - Political Philosophy & Classical Liberalism and Radical Religions w/Dr. Kevin Vallier In ep. 247 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Kevin Vallier to discuss his new book, All the Kingdoms of the World. We get into all sorts of fun political philosophy and different forms of radical religious movements on the rise today and why they want to fight against the tenets of classical liberalism. | | Grab the book here to support my podcast: https://amzn.to/3qQur2i | | Join this channel to get access to perks: | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYbTRur... | | Join the Facebook gr... (@trendsettercase) |
| 2023-Sep-05 • 41 minutes Getting everything, losing everything | Anders Sandberg, Massimo Pigliucci, Mazviita Chirimuuta Anders Sandberg, Massimo Pigliucci, Mazviita Chirimuuta debate promises and perils of our potential digital future. (@IAI_TV) |
| 2023-Sep-05 • 54 minutes What are universities for? What are universities for? Where have they gone wrong? What are they doing right? And what do they owe the public? Those were just some of the questions put to university educators and renowned scholars at a public discussion hosted by the University of Regina. You'll also hear voices from students past, present and possibly future on what the purpose of a university means to them. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Sep-05 • 79 minutes Listener Qs 34 The only thing we like better than Ws is As. Huge Ships of Theseus full of As just rolling up on your ear holes like they never skipped leg day. Thanks for the support Ferda! Listener Survey: Music by Thomas Smith: Support us at Patreon: Follow us... (@0gPhilosophy) |
| 2023-Sep-05 • 57 minutes Listener Qs 33 QQQQQQQQs! and AAAAAAAAAs! You love to hear it! Thank y'all so much as always for supporting the show. Listener Survey: Music by Thomas Smith: Support us at Patreon: Follow us on Twitter: Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the... (@0gPhilosophy) |
| 2023-Sep-05 • 72 minutes Ep. 65 Authority, Labels, and Oranges On first listen, you might think this episode is about the Tao Te Ching. We thought it would be too, but it became a meandering conversations about the origin of authority, premises that lead to conclusion, justification, wisdom versus reason, and social media. Open Door Philosophy on Twitter @d_parsonage or @opendoorphilOpen Door Philosophy on Instagram @opendoorphilosophyOpen Door Philosophy website at opendoorphilosophy.comContact us via email at [email protected] (@opendoorphil • @d_parsonage) |
| 2023-Sep-04 • 12 minutes 143: Bioethics and Organ Donation Tune in for a discussion of ethical issues related with organ donation and specifically what a system of organ donation ought to be like. | Send your questions, comments, and ideas for future episodes to: [email protected] | Image Attribution: By Tiiu Sild - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.ph... (@MillikinU) |
| 2023-Sep-04 • 9 minutes Norman Bowie, A Kantian Approach To Business Ethics - Organizations As Moral Communities This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century philosopher Norman Bowie's article "A Kantian Approach To Business Ethics" It focuses specifically on his discussion of the third formulation of Immanuel Kant's categorical imperative, which deals with the kingdom of ends. He applies this to business organizations and companies and draws out some of the implications of applying Kant's ideas for the workplace and decision-making. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadl... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Sep-04 • 71 minutes #830 Émile Torres: The Philosophy of Effective Altruism and Longtermism Dr. Émile Torres is a researcher at Leibniz Universität Hannover, in | Germany. Their work over the past decade has centered around a single theme: eschatology, whether religious, secular, or scientific. Recently, their work has been focused on the nature and causes of human extinction, its ethical implications, and the history of the idea. They are the author of Morality, Foresight, and Human Flourishing: An Introduction to Existential Risks, and their latest book is Human Extinction: A History of the Scie... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Sep-04 • 243 minutes AMA | September 2023 Ask Me Anything episode for September 2023. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2023-Sep-04 • 50 minutes Ep. 324: Plato's "Cratylus" on Language (Part One) On Plato's mid-period dialogue from around 388 BCE. How do words relate to the things they represent? Socrates first argues that words represent things, and so doing etymology is a way of learning philosophical truths, then seemingly reverses himself.... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2023-Sep-04 • 281 minutes The 80,000 Hours Career Guide (2023) An audio version of the 2023 80,000 Hours career guide, also available on our website, on Amazon and on Audible.If you know someone who might find our career guide helpful, you can get a free copy sent to them by going to 80000hours.org/gift. (@80000Hours) |
| 2023-Sep-04 • 27 minutes S2E1 - Nicholas Drake on Self-Sufficiency, the Aim(s) of Philosophy, and Measuring Wellbeing | Today we're going to be joined by Nicholas Drake, a PhD student at The Australian National University. We'll be talking about Nicholas' previous self-sufficient life in the forest, his thoughts on the aim of philosophy, and his research on government measures of national wellbeing. If you'd like to get in touch with Nicholas, you can email him at [email protected], and you can read more about his research on his website: www.nicholasdrake.org. (@KOosterum • @99lewiswilliams) |
| 2023-Sep-04 • 69 minutes #258 - Beyond the Wall: A Dialogue with Katja Hoyer In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Katja Hoyer about the history of East Germany. They discuss the culture of East and West Germany and how East Germany originated, East Germany and the relationship with the Soviet Union, and the political makeup of East Germany. They also talk about the significance of Ulbrecht and socialism, creation of the Berlin Wall, and the Stasi in East Germany. They discuss the failed economics in East Germany in the 1980s, similarities between unification in 1871 a... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2023-Sep-04 • 54 minutes World on Fire The Labour Day long weekend is the unofficial end to our Canadian summer but it won't be the end of the smoke or the fires. This unprecedented wildfire season has burned further, faster and is predicted to last longer than even some of the climate experts could have imagined. CBC reporter Adrienne Lamb explores what this could mean for all of us. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Sep-03 • 59 minutes S3EP02 Your Mind on Reality and Imagination, with Dr Nadine Dijkstra How do we tell our imagination apart from reality? Although it may seem like a simple process we often get the two confused. This week Dr. Nadine Dijkstra shares with us her research on the reality threshold and how this helps us determine what is real and what is not! Ava and Beth discuss top-down and bottom-up processes in perception and how reality can seem blurry at times. (@bethfisher_1 • @avamadesousa) |
| 2023-Sep-03 • 67 minutes The Islam-Atheism Debate: Behind the Curtain Recently, Eron Fasser and Mark Oppenheimer debated Hamza Tzortzis and Mohammed Hijab on whether Atheism or is Islam more rational. This episode discusses the arguments made and strategies employed by both sides. Were Hamza and Mohammed arguing in good faith? Or were they trying to derail a debate they were clearly losing? (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2023-Sep-03 • 137 minutes 136 - Andrew Strominger: String Theory, Black Holes, and Extra Dimensions Andrew Strominger is Gwill E. York Professor of Physics and Director of the Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature at Harvard University, where he works on some of the deepest questions in physics, including black holes and the unification of quantum field theory and general relativity in the form of string theory. In this episode, Robinson and Andy discuss the basics of string theory, including its unifying role in physics, its application to outstanding and once-intractable problems of black holes, and... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2023-Sep-03 • 10 minutes Norman Bowie, A Kantian Approach To Business Ethics - Respect For Persons And Layoffs This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century philosopher Norman Bowie's article "A Kantian Approach To Business Ethics" It focuses specifically on his discussion of the second categorical imperative articulated by Immanuel Kant, which Bowie reformulates in terms of "respect for persons", and applies to the example of laying people off. 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) |
| 2023-Sep-03 • 79 minutes Krista K. Thomason - The Myth of Emotional Harmony: Rational and Irrational Emotions | STM Podcast #186 On episode 186, we welcome Krista Thomason to discuss the ways we tend to address our negative feelings, using techniques in positive psychology and stoicism to suppress them, psychotherapy’s divergent stance in seeking to manage them instead, the... (@seize_podcast • @EgoEndsNow • @leonscafe31) |
| 2023-Sep-03 • 23 minutes HoP 427 - Brave New World - Shakespeare’s Tempest and Colonialism Can Shakespeare’s Tempest be read as a reflection on the English encounter with the peoples of the Americas? (@HistPhilosophy) |
| 2023-Sep-03 • 17 minutes 568: Summer Reading List 2023 What books should thoughtful people read this summer? Josh and Ray talk to the authors and editors of new and recent books as they compile their annual Summer Reading List: • Michael Schur, creator of TV's "The Good Place" and author of "How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question" • Lori Gruen, Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University and co-editor of "The Good It Promises, The Harm It Does: Critical Essays on Effective Altruism" • Gabriella Safran, Professor of Slavic Languages an... (@philtalkradio) |
| 2023-Sep-02 • 79 minutes Surplus Value Ryan and Todd unpack Marx's concept of surplus value and explore its fundamental role in the interpretation of capitalist society. They discuss the relationship between surplus value and profit, while considering how we should think about the drive to amass surplus value. (@UVMcas) |
 2023-Sep-02 • 57 minutes“The Good-Enough Life” with Dr Avram Alpert We live in a society driven by a relentless pursuit of greatness, where we are constantly pushed to attain the highest levels of wealth, power, and fame. This relentless fixation on greatness leads to stress and anxiety, strains our interpersonal connections, fosters extensive political and economic disparities, and contributes to the deterioration of our natural environment. In his book “The Good-Enough Life” author and educator Avram Alpert explores the idea of whether embracing our limitations could pav... (@BTG_ie) |
| 2023-Sep-02 • 63 minutes Conspirituality Emerges! (Conspiracy Theory Masterpiece Theatre) Josh and M look at “The Emergence of Conspirituality” by Charlotte Ward & Prof. David Voas, the prequel to a paper of Dean Ballinger's (RIP) that we looked at last year. — You can contact us at: [email protected] Why not support The Pod... (@PodGuideCon • @monkeyfluids) |
| 2023-Sep-02 • 54 minutes PhD Lecture In this episode, I present my doctoral research and my public lecture for my defense. If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphiloso... paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Twitter: @DavidGuignio... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2023-Sep-01 • 60 minutes #162 – Mustafa Suleyman on getting Washington and Silicon Valley to tame AI Mustafa Suleyman was part of the trio that founded DeepMind, and his new AI project is building one of the world's largest supercomputers to train a large language model on 10–100x the compute used to train ChatGPT.But far from the stereotype of the incorrigibly optimistic tech founder, Mustafa is deeply worried about the future, for reasons he lays out in his new book The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the 21st Century's Greatest Dilemma (coauthored with Michael Bhaskar). The future could be really go... (@80000Hours) |
| 2023-Sep-01 • 82 minutes 167: What kind of relationships do we want with AI and other sentient beings? - Novelist and AI Researcher Jared Moore - Sentientism Jared is a researcher at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Until the summer of 2023 he was a lecturer at the University of Washington School of Computer Science. While there he created a class on the philosophy of AI and created and taught an ethics course as well as teaching technical artificial intelligence courses. His satirical novel "The Strength of The Illusion" was published in the summer of 2023. Previous Sentientism guest Mark Solms called it "extraordinary". | In... (@sentientism • @JamieWoodhouse) |
| 2023-Sep-01 • 91 minutes #829 Susanna Schellenberg - The Unity of Perception: Content, Consciousness, Evidence Dr. Susanna Schellenberg is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Rutgers University, where she holds a secondary appointment at the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science. She specializes in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language and is best known for her work on perceptual experience, evidence, capacities, mental content, and imagination. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Award, a Humboldt Prize, and a Mellon New Directions Fellows... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Sep-01 • 55 minutes PEL Presents PvI#60: Elu-Sedations w/ Matt Teichman Philosopher Matt, host of and frequent PEL guest, finally gets in on Philosophy vs. Improv in this, our Season Two Finale. And many is he a de dicto. Or is he a de re? Slowly learn the difference as we make things personal through scenes of... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2023-Sep-01 • 9 minutes Norman Bowie, A Kantian Approach To Business Ethics - Respect For Persons And Meaningful Work This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century philosopher Norman Bowie's article "A Kantian Approach To Business Ethics" It focuses specifically on his discussions of how Immanuel Kant's categorical imperative would apply in Business Ethics situations and contexts. In this case, the second formulation, which has to do with respect for persons, has implications for "meaningful work". To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribu... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Sep-01 • 84 minutes 135 - Thomas Hertog: Stephen Hawking, Cosmology, and the Origin of Time Thomas Hertog is Professor and Head of Theoretical Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at KU Leuven in Belgium. He was a doctoral student and close collaborator of Stephen Hawking. In this episode, Robinson and Thomas discuss his recent book, On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory. More particularly they discuss his collaboration with Stephen Hawking Hawking’s work on black holes, and the three stages of his cosmological research, which culminated in his final theory, which Tho... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2023-Sep-01 • 93 minutes Ep. 246 - Souls Are Back, And You Are One! w/Dr. Joshua Farris In episode 246 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Joshua Farris to discuss his work on souls and the mind in his new book, The Creation of Self. | | Grab the book here to support my podcast: | https://amzn.to/3OV9LOm | | Join this channel to get access to perks: | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYbTRur... | | Join the Facebook group, Parker's Pensées Penseurs, here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/96047149... | | If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $3, $5 or more ... (@trendsettercase) |
| 2023-Sep-01 • 54 minutes BBC Reith Lecture # 4: Fiona Hill The final BBC Reith Lecture on the theme of Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms features intelligence specialist Fiona Hill, who served under three U.S. Presidents — Bush, Obama, and Trump. In her lecture, she argues that fear is a weapon of war, and the best way to fight back is through education. *This episode originally aired on April 13, 2023. (@NahlahAyed) |
 2023-Sep-01 • 43 minutesEpisode 71: Kate Norlock on Self-Forgiveness Myisha Cherry chats with philosopher Kate Norlock about self-forgiveness, regret, remorse, and more. (@UnMutePodcast • @myishacherry) |
| 2023-Sep-01 • 52 minutes Episode 70: Matthew Potts on Memory and Repair Myisha Cherry chats with Harvard Chaplain and theologian Matthew Potts about memory, repair, confession, and more. (@UnMutePodcast • @myishacherry) |
| 2023-Sep-01 • 55 minutes Episode 69: Alice MacLachlan on Revenge Myisha Cherry chats with philosopher Alice MacLachlan about revenge, justice, and more. (@UnMutePodcast • @myishacherry) |
| 2023-Sep-01 • 47 minutes Episode 68: Benjamin Brewer on Hannah Arendt & Forgiveness Myisha Cherry chats with philosopher Benjamin Brewer about Hannah Arendt, forgiveness, revenge, and more. (@UnMutePodcast • @myishacherry) |
| 2023-Sep-01 • 45 minutes Episode 67: Miranda Fricker on Ambivalence about Forgiveness Myisha Cherry chats with philosopher Miranda Fricker about the ambivalence we should all have about forgiveness. (@UnMutePodcast • @myishacherry) |
| 2023-Sep-01 • 62 minutes Episode 66: Jeremy Reid on The Stoics and Forgiveness Myisha Cherry chats with philosopher Jeremy Reid about the stoics, forgiveness, and more. (@UnMutePodcast • @myishacherry) |
| 2023-Sep-01 • 38 minutes Episode 65: Lucy Allais on Human Frailty and the Need for Forgiveness Myisha Cherry chats with philosopher Lucy Allais about human frailty, Immanuel Kant, the need for forgiveness, and more. (@UnMutePodcast • @myishacherry) |
| 2023-Sep-01 • 60 minutes HBS Goes to the Movies: "Hands on a Hardbody" (1997) The HBS hosts discuss a real human drama.Note to listeners: if you haven't already, you may want to watch “Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary” (link to complete film on YouTube here) before listening!"Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary" tells the story of an annual competition held from 1992 to 2005 in Longview, Texas, in which a local Nissan dealership selected 24 contestants by lottery for a chance to win a tantalizing symbol of freedom and mobility in many rural areas: a brand-new hardbody truck. All... (@hotelbarpodcast • @DrLeighMJohnson • @c_fpeterson • @rickleephilos) |
| 2023-Sep-01 • 29 minutes #69: How to read Do you ever try to read philosophy (or some other stodgy not-designed-for-entertainment text) and find yourself struggling to understand ... well, any of it? Do you finish reading a paragraph and find that you have absolutely no idea what it was about? Does it take you an entire day just to read one chapter? Of course not - you'd never admit to any of it, anyway. Even five-year-olds can read, so there's no way anyone's blowing the lid off your shameful reading troubles. But don't worry.... (@AcademicImp • @rebecca_roache) |
 2023-Sep-01 • 66 minutesRe-run: Episode 43 - The Closing of the American Mind with Brad Carson This week, we revisit Episode 43 with Brad Carson on Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind! In this episode, I speak with the president of the University of Tulsa, Brad Carson, about Allan Bloom’s infamous book, The Closing of the American Mind. Brad and I ultimately decide that while we like some of Bloom’s key ideas about what a university is for, we do not love the book itself, which has some serious flaws (though we may differ slightly about what we think those flaws are). As always, I hope... (@eudaimoniapod • @jennfrey) |
| 2023-Sep-01 • 91 minutes 97. Star Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace (w/ Matt Teichman) The Phantom Menace has weathered the highs and (mostly) lows of fan appraisal. Once derided, then reclaimed, where does it stand in 2023? We issue the definitive assessment: it is good (kind of). Matt Teichman (Elucidations Podcast) brings his colleague Jar Jar Binks along for the ride, as we discuss pod racing, queen wardrobes, lightsaber battles, Jedi Stoicism, ineffectual bureaucracy, and the allure of fascism. Stay with us to the end for a blast of 1999 nostalgia! (@cowspod • @juskhoo) |
| 2023-Aug-31 • 41 minutes What True Crime Reveals About Us Gwendolyn Dolske and Rudy Salo welcome back author/Professor, Dr. Dahlia Schweitzer. Dahlia is examining the true crime case of The Black Dahlia. What is the historical significance of this unsolved crime? How does the public's... (@InTheDetailsPod • @GDolske • @SaloRudy) |
| 2023-Aug-31 • 63 minutes Episode 189 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 41 - Chapter 15 - Extension, Submergence, Revival - 04 Welcome to Episode 189 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the only 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) |
| 2023-Aug-31 • 61 minutes #828 Greger Larson: Animal Domestication and Human Evolution Dr. Greger Larson is a Professor in the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford and Director of the Wellcome Trust Palaeogenomics and Bio-Archaeology Research Network (PaleoBARN). His research interests include evolutionary genomics, ancient DNA, domestication, human and animal | dispersal, and phylogenetics. His work on the domestication of canines and the origin of the domestic dog has provided insights into the prehistoric bond | between humans and early dogs. | | In this episode, we talk abo... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Aug-31 • 9 minutes Norman Bowie, A Kantian Approach To Business Ethics - Universalization Of Actions This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century philosopher Norman Bowie's article "A Kantian Approach To Business Ethics" It focuses specifically on his discussion of the first formulation of Immanuel Kant's categorical imperative and how it can be applied within business ethics settings. This formulation focuses on whether actions or policies can be universalized or not, and what significance this bears for their ethical status. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Aug-31 • 57 minutes S4 Ep6: Protecting mental health in crisis contexts with Benjamin Perks and Sabine Rakotomalala In Episode 6 of the series, Professor Belinda Lennox is joined by Benjamin Perks, from UNICEF, Sabine Rakotomalala, from the World Health Organization, and Dr Jamie Lachman, Dr Isang Awah and Stephanie Eagling-Peche from Oxford’s Department of Social Policy and Intervention. | Here, they discuss the impact of trauma on mental health, how to protect children during a crisis and the resources developed collaboratively between Oxford, the WHO and UNICEF for the Parenting for Lifelong Health programme. | Benjam... (@PhilFacOx) |
| 2023-Aug-31 • 38 minutes Women philosophers in 19th century Germany When we think of 19th century German philosophy, we perhaps think first of Nietzsche, or Hegel, and then some other men - but Germany in the 1800s was also home to a number of women philosophers. (@DavidPZone) |
| 2023-Aug-31 • 54 minutes Eugenic thinking has never gone away Eugenics is seen as a 19th-century idea put into horrific 20th-century practice. But the attraction to breeding “better” humans has a long and persistent history, says Adam Rutherford. The geneticist and science podcaster explains, in conversation with host Nahlah Ayed. *This episode originally aired on January 20, 2023. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Aug-31 • 87 minutes Ep. 67 - Two Levels of Pluralism (Celebrating Susan Wolf) In the final episode of the series, we discuss Wolf's article "Two Levels of Pluralism" which investigates whether pluralism reduces into relativism. Spoiler--it doesn't! (@Jordan_C_Myers) |
| 2023-Aug-31 • 39 minutes Episode #187 ... How much freedom would you trade for security? (Foucault, Hobbes, Mill, Agamben) On today's episode we talk about the upsides of a surveillance state. The ongoing social dilemma of freedom vs security. The value of privacy. States of exception. And Deleuze's Postscript on Societies of Control. Sponsor: Rocket Money - ... (@iamstephenwest) |
| 2023-Aug-31 • 53 minutes When is a referendum an unethical way of resolving a political question? Now that the PM has announced the date of the referendum, it’s worth remembering that the zero-sum nature of referenda can unleash the kind of bruising rhetoric that does lasting damage to a political community, no matter the outcome. (@RadioNational) |
| 2023-Aug-31 • 120 minutes #257 - Polyamory and Eugenics: A Dialogue with Diana Fleischman In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Diana Fleischman about a wide range of topics including polyamory and eugenics. They talk about how evolutionary psychology is a good framework for understanding relationships, patriarchal and matriarchal societies, history of monogamous and polyamorous relationships and jealousy and polyamory. They also talk about the difficult history of eugenics, decoupling bad from the good, polygenic scores, governmental differences with prenatal care, GWAS, and many ... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2023-Aug-31 • 47 minutes Kant, Race, and Racism: Interview with Huaping Lu-Adler In this episode, Haley speaks with Huaping Lu-Adler, associate professor of philosophy at Georgetown University, about her new book titled 'Kant, Race, and Racism: Views from Somewhere'. In the course of our conversation about the book, we discuss wh... (@olivbransc) |
| 2023-Aug-30 • 58 minutes Advice (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson) 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 Minds Almost Meeting website here: ... (@AgnesCallard • @robinhanson) |
| 2023-Aug-30 • 17 minutes Ursula K Leguin, A Wizard Of Earthsea - Fleeing And Facing The Shadow - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's novel, A Wizard of Earthsea, the first of six Earthsea books It focuses specifically on Ged's struggles with the "Shadow", the entity that came into Earthsea through a terrible mistake with magic on Ged's part. At first, he attempts to escape and flee the shadow, but then following Ogion's advice he turns on it and hunts it. Finally he and the shadow are integrated through his giving the shadow his own name. To support my o... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Aug-30 • 89 minutes 134 - Christopher Capozzola: Uncle Sam, the Draft, and Vigilantes in World War I Christopher Capozzola is Professor of History and MacVicar Faculty Fellow at MIT, where he works on the history of citizenship, war, and the military in modern American history. In this episode, Robinson and Chris discuss his first book, Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen (Oxford, 2008). More particularly, they talk about the background of the famous Uncle Sam “I Want You!” image and its status as a piece of propaganda, how it functioned in the United States durin... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2023-Aug-30 • 40 minutes How should we decide what makes the news? Imploding submarines and manufacturing consent. In this episode, we use the recent nautical disaster of the imploding submarine to explore how we determine what makes the news, and what should make the news? We examine the model of "newsworthyness" as well as looking at the work of Baudrillard and Chomsky. Basically, is the news a filter that brings forward diamonds, or does the new have an agenda and weave narratives to guide our thinking, or distract us? P.s. we're thinking of a London live show! Let us know if you'd like to see us live :) Join the wha... (@MoralityofThe • @AnthonyNCollias) |
| 2023-Aug-30 • 55 minutes Vishy Anand on Staying in the Game At 53, the chess legend is still one of the best in the world. What keeps him playing? (@tylercowen) |
| 2023-Aug-30 • 79 minutes Jacob Howland on the Crisis of Higher Education and the University of Austin The guys are joined this week by Professor Jacob Howland, Dean of UATX’s Intellectual Foundations program. The group takes a closer look at higher education in America to point out what ails it, as well as identify ways to circumvent or cure it,... (@thenewthinkery • @alexpriou • @GregMcBrayer3 • @Tempest1610) |
| 2023-Aug-30 • 36 minutes PHONE CALLS FROM THE DEAD! 📯📯📯 Your fan mail gets answered this week! Arthur from Japan writes in and asks Paul and Stephen to discuss Thomas Edison’s spirit phone, a little known device to contact the dead. What happened with Edison’s quest to prove life after death, and what’s TikTok got to do with it? Also learn about a ghostly human voice recording from the 1840s (predating known technology)! Add to that a bonus visit with William Shatner musing about ghosts and paranormal activity. Your takeaway? As usual, none of us reall... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2023-Aug-30 • 54 minutes Nowhere Left to Run: Climate Reparations At the most recent COP27 global meeting, vulnerable countries counted a win — sort of — with the creation of a fund to pay for loss and damage brought on by climate change. All they need now is for rich nations to pay up. But will they take on moral responsibility? And if not, how can climate justice be achieved? *This episode originally aired on Dec. 12, 2022. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Aug-30 • 27 minutes What Are Dreams About? Throughout history, dreams have fascinated and mystified. Messages from God? Images of the subconscious? Much about dreams is myth. What's real? Featuring interviews with Robert Stickgold, Deirdre Barrett, Christopher Isham, and Patrick McNamara. ... (@CloserToTruth • @RobertLawrKuhn) |
| 2023-Aug-29 • 18 minutes Ursula K Leguin, A Wizard Of Earthsea - Vetch's Friendship With Ged - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's novel, A Wizard of Earthsea, the first of six Earthsea books It focuses specifically on the character Vetch's friendship with Ged, which begins on the first day Ged arrives at Roke and continues on throughout their life. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO You can find over 2,000 philosophy vide... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Aug-29 • 10 minutes PREMIUM-PEL End-of-Summer Nightcap 2023 Mark, Seth, Dylan, and eventually Wes talk about traveling, Barbie, gender, evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, and more. If you're not hearing , sign up via one of the options described at . (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2023-Aug-29 • 37 minutes How philosophy got lost | Slavoj Zizek Slavoj Žižek provides a Hegelian insight into historical and current political crises. (@IAI_TV) |
| 2023-Aug-29 • 54 minutes Suzuki's Survival Guide | Air and Atmosphere Air of course is all around us. We move through it without noticing it. This episode from 2010 is called The Last Breath. We follow a single breath in its journey around the world, explore how an ice-free Arctic will change life on Earth, and David Suzuki sits down with Margaret Atwood for an entertaining chat conversation about breath, life, and death. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Aug-29 • 59 minutes Sexual Consent This episode gets an enthusiastic yes from us. In episode 85 of Overthink, Ellie and David dive into the crux of sexual consent. They work through some of the earliest attempts on the part of American universities at developing a sexual consent policy, before unpacking the fiery debates surrounding consent today — ranging from complex legal cases as well as instances of “gray rape.” They probe the limits of popular understandings of consent with cases involving intense physical pain, and cases which undo th... (@overthink_pod • @ellieanderphd • @DrPenaGuzman1) |
| 2023-Aug-28 • 59 minutes #827 Joseph Henrich: Cross-Cultural Research, Intelligence, Mating Systems, and Religion Dr. Joseph Henrich is Professor and chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. He is interested in the question of how humans evolved from "being a relatively unremarkable primate a few million years ago to the most successful species on the globe", and how culture affected our genetic development. He is also the author of The Secret of Our Success, and The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous. | ... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Aug-28 • 55 minutes #332 — Can We Contain Artificial Intelligence? Sam Harris speaks with Mustafa Suleyman about his new book, “.” They discuss the progress in artificial intelligence made at his company DeepMind, the acquisition of DeepMind by Google, Atari DQN, AlphaGo, AlphaZero, AlphaFold, the invention of... (@) |
| 2023-Aug-28 • 73 minutes 248 | Yejin Choi on AI and Common Sense I talk with computer scientist Yejin Choi about how AI models can be simultaneously very smart and kind of stupid. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2023-Aug-28 • 48 minutes Ep. 323: Acquiring Language: Tomasello vs. Chomsky (Part Two) Continuing on Michael Tomasello's "Language Is Not an Instinct" (1995) and Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition (2003), as contrasted with Chomsky universal grammar (the flag that Steven Pinker continues to carry).... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2023-Aug-28 • 54 minutes The Librarian Who Won’t Stay Quiet Libraries are under literal attack in Ukraine, and ideological attack amid North America’s culture wars. Oxford librarian and author Richard Ovenden is not about to stay quiet about it. He argues that libraries defend our democratic freedoms, and deserve our defence in return. *This episode originally aired on March 21, 2023. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Aug-28 • 59 minutes #256 - The Rigor of Angels: A Dialogue with William Egginton In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with William Egginton about the nature of reality through the work by Borges, Heisenberg, and Kant. They discuss what connects these three men, role of interpretation, and different tools to ask big questions about space, time, and reality. They also talk about the origins of reality, change, Hume’s impact on Kant’s thinking, power of theory for understanding science, existence, and many more topics.William Egginton is an author, literary critic, and Decker Pro... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2023-Aug-27 • 70 minutes David R. Samson - Redefining Tribalism for Good: Discussing 'Our Tribal Future' | STM Podcast #185 On episode 185, we welcome David Samson to discuss our current understanding of how tribes form, tribalism as political polarization, why the Bloodline storyline in the WWE is so popular, why some of the smartest people are also the most irrational,... (@seize_podcast • @EgoEndsNow • @leonscafe31) |
| 2023-Aug-27 • 57 minutes Death | Travis Timmerman Would it be better to live forever than to die? Is the goodness or badness of death dependent on the future quality of our lives? Is death so bad that it would be better never to have been born? | Travis' Book: Exploring the Philosophy of Death and Dying https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Philoso... (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2023-Aug-27 • 133 minutes 133 - Ian Hutchinson: Plasma Physics & The Compatibility of Science and Religion Ian Hutchinson is Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering in he Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT. He works in both plasma physics and nuclear physics and also writes on the philosophy of science and the compatibility of Christianity and science. In this episode, Ian and Robinson begin by discussing his work in plasma and nuclear physics, touching on space exploration, nuclear fusion, and the containment of superheated plasma. Then they turn t... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2023-Aug-27 • 23 minutes 074 - Is the Unconscious Mind Real or Fantasy? - B.F. Skinner, Freud, & Hegel The behaviorism of B.F. Skinner took the psychology world by storm. His 1971 book "Beyond Freedom and Dignity" was hailed as the most important psychological publication of the 20th century. And this was from someone who denied mind and free will. It was an attempt to dignify psychology as a hard science, based on experiments and what can be observed, rather than what people think or feel, a direct contradiction to the root meaning of word psychology - "a study of mind." He claimed th... (@CunningofGeist) |
| 2023-Aug-27 • 18 minutes Ursula K Leguin, A Wizard Of Earthsea - Magic, Mages, And Roke Island - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's novel, A Wizard of Earthsea, the first of six Earthsea books It focuses specifically on Ged's education in the high arts of magic at Roke Island. 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 2,000 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler Purchase A Wi... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Aug-27 • 77 minutes The Popperian Podcast #29 – Rafe Champion – ‘Jacques Barzun’ This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Rafe Champion. They speak about the life and work of Jacques Barzun. Rafe Champion grew up on a dairy farm in the far northwest of Tasmania and studied... (@JedLeaHenry) |
| 2023-Aug-27 • 68 minutes PEL Presents (sub)Text: Home as Identity in "The Odyssey" He was famously a man of many ways, whether we interpret these as abilities or norms; designs or deceptions; reasons or identities. Yet despite such resources, he was also famously stuck, making a 10-year odyssey of his attempt to return home from a... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2023-Aug-27 • 57 minutes Episode 121, The Philosophy of Privacy (Part II - Privacy in Peril) Welcome to ‘Episode 121 (Part II of III)’, where we’ll be discussing the value of data and threats to our privacy. (@ThePanpsycast • @_JackSymes • @MrMarleyTeach) |
| 2023-Aug-27 • 8 minutes 93: Georg Hegel More at http://philosophytalk.org/shows/hegel. ... Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is without doubt one of the most influential philosophers of all time. He has, however, been largely ignored by American "analytic" philosophers of the twentieth century. John in particular, and Ken to a lesser extent, don't know nearly as much about Hegel and his philosophy as they should. They will be lively if somewhat obtuse students for Allen Wood, Stanford's resident expert on virtually all aspects of modern philosophy, when P... (@philtalkradio) |
 2023-Aug-26Sappho - Professor Diane Rayor Sappho - Professor Diane Rayor discusses Sappho's poetic output, who her poetry was written for and Sappho's philosophy on life. (@radphilosophy) |
| 2023-Aug-25 • 80 minutes 166: "An Aligned AGI would end factory farming" - Kat Woods - EA Charity Co-Founder - Sentientism Kat is an effective altruist who co-founded Nonlinear (incubating artificial intelligence extinction risk non-profits), Charity Entrepreneurship (helping people start new, effective charities), and Charity Science Health. She describes her main focus today as trying "to make transformative artificial intelligence go well instead of poorly." | In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “who matters?” | Sentientism is "evidence, reason &... (@sentientism • @JamieWoodhouse) |
| 2023-Aug-25 • 89 minutes #826 Eric Funkhouser: The Signaling Functions of Beliefs, and Self-Deception Dr. Eric Funkhouser is Professor and Departmental Chair of Philosophy at the University of Arkansas. His main areas of research are in the philosophy of psychology/mind and metaphysics. He is currently working on a series of papers concerning how social forces shape the functions of belief and other mental states. This work should culminate in a book, The Signaling Mind: Belief as Social Manipulation. In this manuscript, he argues that many beliefs serve a signaling function—much like animal signals used to... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Aug-25 • 85 minutes 132 - Jonathan Shedler: Freud, Psychoanalysis, and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Jonathan Shedler is Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco and a faculty member at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. He is a psychologist and psychotherapist. In this episode, Robinson and Jonathan discuss the clinical side of psychoanalytic theory. They begin by describing just how different contemporary practice is from its beginnings with Freud a hundred years ago, before detailing how psychodynamic therapy comp... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2023-Aug-25 • 16 minutes RLP Special: Death in the Grand Canyon (Refreshed) The Grand Canyon is a place where the veil between this world and the next world grows thin; a place where we learn to take life, but not ourselves, seriously. In this episode, we look again at the death and spookiness that surrounds the canyon. (@RedLetterPhil) |
| 2023-Aug-25 • 29 minutes Filler Episode - Toxic Oil Syndrome Since M is en route to China (did we mention that M is going back to China?), Josh supplies a story of mass food poisoning in Spain with conflicting explanations. Listen as he tries to pronounce the word "epidemiological" repeatedly while his childre... (@PodGuideCon • @monkeyfluids) |
| 2023-Aug-25 • 54 minutes BBC Reith Lecture #3: Darren McGarvey Scottish journalist and musician Darren McGarvey gives the third of four BBC Reith Lectures on the theme of 'Freedom from Want.' He says it's incumbent upon people to challenge and confront what inequality means. McGarvey argues that expecting compassion from the government is unreasonable — as governments have become hard-wired to avoid compassion. *This episode originally aired on April 6, 2023. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Aug-25 • 59 minutes REPLAY: Death The HBS hosts confront the inevitable.It is most obviously true that we are all going to die. The very fact that anything is alive seems to entail that it is going to die. Death confronts us as an ultimate cancellation and nullification in the face of which one might ask, “what does it matter if I am going to die?” The chorus in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus says that the best thing is never to have been born at all. This is especially true if one’s life is filled with suffering and then death. Kant, not ab... (@hotelbarpodcast • @DrLeighMJohnson • @c_fpeterson • @rickleephilos) |
| 2023-Aug-25 • 80 minutes Re-run: Episode 50 - "Are the Humanities in Crisis" with Zena Hitz and Chad Wellmon Throwback to the big five-oh: Episode 50 with Zena Hitz and Chad Wellmon! On April 26, 2022, The Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America hosted a launch event to reveal the new design and website of Sacred and Profane Love. I am pleased to share the audio of that event as episode 50, but you can also watch a video of it here. This event, with Zena Hitz and Chad Wellmon, was titled “Are the Humanities in Crisis” and the two starting points for the conversation were two books... (@eudaimoniapod • @jennfrey) |
| 2023-Aug-24 • 63 minutes Interpretation (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with Arnold Brooks) 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 Minds Almost Meeting website here: ... (@AgnesCallard • @robinhanson) |
| 2023-Aug-24 • 48 minutes #825 Mark Coeckelbergh - Self-Improvement: Technologies of the Soul in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Dr. Mark Coeckelbergh is Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna. He is member of the High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence for the European Commission, the Rat für Robotik, as well as member of the Technical Expert Committee (TEC) for the Foundation for Responsible Robotics. His work is focused on the area of philosophy of technology, in particular the ethics of robotics and ICTs. He is the author of several books, including h... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Aug-24 • 44 minutes Episode 188 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 40 - Chapter 15 - Extension, Submergence, Revival - 03 Welcome to Episode 188 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the only 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) |
 2023-Aug-24 • 78 minutesStoicism and Buddhism In this episode, I speak about Stoicism and Buddhism with Matthew Gindin. Matthew is a former Forest Monk in the Thai Buddhist tradition. He taught meditation practices for 15 years, and has written extensively for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. He is now the author of the newsletter on Substack.Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Highlights* How Matthew became interested in Stoicis... (@DonJRobertson) |
| 2023-Aug-24 • 19 minutes Ursula K Leguin, A Wizard Of Earthsea - The Dragons Of Pendor - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's novel, A Wizard of Earthsea, the first of six Earthsea books It focuses specifically on Ged/Sparrowhawk's encounter with the younger dragons and the great dragon off the shores of the Isle of Pendor 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 2,000 philosophy videos in my main YouTube c... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Aug-24 • 36 minutes S4 Ep5: Workplace wellbeing with Professor Jan-Emmanuel De Neve In Episode 5 of the series Professor Lennox sits down with Professor Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Director of the Wellbeing Research Centre, Fellow at Harris Manchester College and Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science at the Saïd Business School. | During their conversation they look at recent research findings from the Wellbeing Research Centre that examine the role of the workplace in overall life satisfaction. | Here, they also discuss the surprising findings on how social elements, office architect... (@PhilFacOx) |
| 2023-Aug-24 • 28 minutes Police abolition What might a society without police look like? For some, the idea of police abolition evokes a vision of danger, anarchy and chaos - but for heavily-policed communities subject to high rates of incarceration, it's a survival imperative. (@DavidPZone) |
| 2023-Aug-24 • 54 minutes Muhammad Iqbal: one of the greatest South Asian thinkers of the 20th century Muhammad Iqbal was popularly known as the intellectual founder of Pakistan, but his greater fame is for his philosophical works in English and his poetry, both in Urdu and Persian. IDEAS looks at the life and work of one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century. *This episode originally aired on January 25, 2023. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Aug-24 • 77 minutes Ep. 66 - Moral Luck (Celebrating Susan Wolf [& Bernard Williams]) In this episode, we discuss the seminal paper "Moral Luck" by Bernard Williams and a new replies to the problem of moral luck. (@Jordan_C_Myers) |
| 2023-Aug-24 • 54 minutes Should climate change make us rethink the ethics of nuclear energy? Opposition leader Peter Dutton has recently reintroduced the prospect of nuclear power as part of Australia’s commitment to decarbonisation. But what is behind the push for nuclear, and does it make sense in a nation like this? (@RadioNational) |
| 2023-Aug-24 • 59 minutes #255 - Notes on Complexity: A Dialogue with Neil Theise In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Neil Theise about complexity in biology, physics, and consciousness. They talk about complexity with general systems theory, chaos theory, and fractals. They discuss complementarity with cellular biology and quantum mechanics. They also discuss consciousness, what it means to be human, and many more topics. Neil Theise is a professor of pathology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. His main research interests are on adult stem cells and the anatomy of ... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2023-Aug-24 • 40 minutes Episode #186 ... Are we heading for a digital prison? - Panopticon (Foucault, Bentham, Cave) Today we talk about Jeremy Bentham's concept of the Panopticon. Michel Foucault's comparison to society in 1975. The historical role of intelligence as a justification for dominance. The anatomy of free will, and how a digital world may systematically... (@iamstephenwest) |
| 2023-Aug-23 • 211 minutes #161 – Michael Webb on whether AI will soon cause job loss, lower incomes, and higher inequality — or the opposite "Do you remember seeing these photographs of generally women sitting in front of these huge panels and connecting calls, plugging different calls between different numbers? The automated version of that was invented in 1892. However, the number of human manual operators peaked in 1920 -- 30 years after this. At which point, AT&T is the monopoly provider of this, and they are the largest single employer in America, 30 years after they've invented the complete automation of this thing that they're employi... (@80000Hours) |
| 2023-Aug-23 • 66 minutes 131 - Tal Ben-Shahar: What Is Happiness? Tal Ben-Shahar did his undergraduate and graduate work at Harvard, where he later lectured on positive psychology and taught the most popular course in the university’s history. He is now a speaker and writer who focuses on happiness. In this episode, Robinson and Tal discuss the field of Happiness Studies, which Tal has been developing for half a decade. They discuss the origin of happiness studies with Aristotle before moving on to how various academic disciplines like philosophy, neuroscience, psychology... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2023-Aug-23 • 18 minutes Ursula K Leguin, A Wizard Of Earthsea - Understanding The Equilibrium - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's novel, A Wizard of Earthsea, the first of six Earthsea books It focuses specifically on the conception of the "equilibrium" that the masters and mages of Roke invoke and discuss in and out of their classes. The young mage Ged has to learn about the equilibrium by painful experience as well. 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 h... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Aug-23 • 59 minutes Celebrating Marginal Revolution's 20th Anniversary MR co-founders Tyler and Alex Tabarrok reflect on the blog's legacy with long-time readers Vitalik Buterin, Ben Casnocha, and Jeff Holmes. (@tylercowen) |
| 2023-Aug-23 • 32 minutes INTERVIEW: Life Is Hard, with Kieran Setiya - part 2 Following our episode discussing his book and the concepts within, we speak with the author himself! Kieran is a professor in Philosophy from MIT and author of several books around philosophy and it's practical place within our lives. In this follow-on episode we focus more on the concept of justice and it's role in Kieran's conception of dealing with the hard parts of life - and a wider ranging conversation thereafter! Support the show: Please leave us a review! Spotify even now let's you do it - see that ... (@MoralityofThe • @AnthonyNCollias) |
| 2023-Aug-23 • 47 minutes Ray Bradbury's The Veldt Imagine a Jetsons-esque home that attempts to meet all of your needs while also featuring a room that makes your imagination into reality. Add some behaviorally troubled children imagining bloodthirsty lions into the mix, and you have the setup for... (@thenewthinkery • @alexpriou • @GregMcBrayer3 • @Tempest1610) |
| 2023-Aug-23 • 54 minutes Mooning with Mike Massimino 👨🏻🚀👨🏻🚀👨🏻🚀 Paul and Stephen are obsessed with UFOs and life beyond earth–so who better to add to the conversation than a guy who’s been to space twice? This week, our intrepid Chinwaggers are joined by former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino, a man who decided that a fear of heights would be best overcome by a trip to space. In this week’s classified file: space toilets, robot arms, and why there should never be more than one comedian per space shuttle. Paul Giamatti is an award-winning actor and producer. S... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2023-Aug-23 • 54 minutes On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe Starting in 1493, tens of thousands of Indigenous people began arriving in Europe. British historian Caroline Dodds Pennock pieces together the evidence of their lives and experiences there in her book, On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe. *This episode originally aired on April 5, 2023. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Aug-23 • 27 minutes What is Time? To appreciate Time is to touch the texture of reality. Does Time differ from our common perceptions of it? Is Time fixed or flexible? What is time, really? Featuring interviews with Huw Price, Julian Barbour, David Albert, Jeff Tollaksen, and John ... (@CloserToTruth • @RobertLawrKuhn) |
| 2023-Aug-22 • 73 minutes Episode 267: The Thickness of Reality David and Tamler return to the work of old favorite William James and argue about the 6th lecture (inspired by the French philosopher Henri Bergson) of his 1909 book “A Pluralistic Universe.” James attacks the philosophical habit of elevating... (@verybadwizards • @peez • @tamler) |
| 2023-Aug-22 • 51 minutes Looking Awry This week the fellas read through Žižek’s Looking Awry. We’re talking anamorphosis, Shakespeare, Zeno’s Paradoxes and the end of the world. Will is in the woods, Peter is at a gathering and Michael’s cat is out of the bag. Thank you to all our fellow Thespians, Ž&… For access to many more episodes, and to support us, check out our Patreon! PODCAST YOUTUBE INSTAGRAM (@zizekand) |
| 2023-Aug-22 • 22 minutes How to find and make sense of happiness | Paul Dolan Paul Dolan believes that attention significantly impacts happiness and suggests making life choices based on what will occupy our daily focus afterward. (@IAI_TV) |
| 2023-Aug-22 • 54 minutes Suzuki's Survival Guide | Life and Death Death is a part of life…and as such, it is all around us. In this episode of Suzuki's Survival Guide: A Retrospective from 2010, David Suzuki takes an unflinching look at death and decomposition, at the way cells die to make way for new life within us, and at what happens to a carrot after we harvest it and eat it. All to unlock the cycle in which the things we are made of are never wasted. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Aug-22 • 56 minutes Ep. 64 What Is Happiness? It’s pretty common in the self-help age we live in, with piles of well meaning books and as many podcast as the stars, to pursue happiness. But often the focus is on what we can change or tweak in our life to obtain it rather than what exactly it is. What is happiness? Perhaps if we identify what happiness is, we can create a foundation on which to build.Open Door Philosophy on Twitter @d_parsonage or @opendoorphilOpen Door Philosophy on Instagram @opendoorphilosophyOpen Door Philosophy website at opendoorp... (@opendoorphil • @d_parsonage) |
| 2023-Aug-21 • 104 minutes #824 Valerie Fridland - Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English Dr. Valerie Fridland is Professor and former Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English at the University of Nevada in Reno. She is an expert on the relationship between language and society. Dr. Fridland also speaks and writes widely for a popular audience. Her language blog, Language in the Wild, appears in Psychology Today and her lecture series, Language and Society, is featured with The Great Courses. She is the author of several books, including | Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Aug-21 • 104 minutes Ep. 245 - Flickers of Freedom Don't Save Us from Frankfurt Cases w/Dr. Taylor Cyr In episode 245 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined once again by Dr. Taylor Cyr of the Free Will Show. This time we discuss Frankfurt style cases in the free will and moral responsibility literature and discuss Taylor's paper against several "flickers of freedom" theorists who want to save the principle of alternate possibilities from Frankfurt via flickers of freedom. Just watch the video, Taylor will explain it all! Check the time stamps for the full topic list. | | Join this channel t... (@trendsettercase) |
| 2023-Aug-21 • 17 minutes Ursula K Leguin, A Wizard Of Earthsea - Danger And Temptations Of Power - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's novel, A Wizard of Earthsea, the first of six Earthsea books It focuses specifically on the dangers and temptations of magical power that are depicted in the novel. 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 2,000 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisa... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Aug-21 • 49 minutes Ep. 323: Acquiring Language: Tomasello vs. Chomsky (Part One) On Michael Tomasello's "Language Is Not an Instinct" (1995) and Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition (2003). With guest Christopher Heath. Get more at . Visit to get ad-free episodes and tons of bonus discussion.... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2023-Aug-21 • 80 minutes 247 | Samuel Bowles on Economics, Cooperation, and Inequality I talk with economist Samuel Bowles about human nature and the origin of inequality. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2023-Aug-21 • 54 minutes Left Is Not Woke: Susan Neiman In recent years, the word "woke" has evolved from a catchphrase into a political ideology — and a catch-all pejorative, routinely wielded on the right against its left-leaning adherents. But in her new book, Left Is Not Woke, moral philosopher Susan Neiman argues that the "woke" ideology represents a fundamental break from traditional leftist ideals. *This episode originally aired on April 12, 2023. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Aug-21 • 98 minutes #254 - Trying To "Own the Libs" Since 1967: A Dialogue with Lauren Lassabe Shepherd In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Lauren Lassabe Shepherd about conservatives on colleges campuses in the 1960s. They talked about the organization of the book, presentism, the New Right being exported to mass media and politics, and how the New Right was very “Anti.” They discuss Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), movement from college campuses to politics, Libertarians split from conservatives, and the impact on current politics. Lauren Lassabe Shepherd is a historian, writer, and teache... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2023-Aug-20 • 63 minutes S3EP01 Your Mind on Compassion, with Dr Julian Scheffer We are back for season 3! To start off the season we talk with Dr. Julian Scheffer about his research on compassion. Dr. Scheffer tells us about the cognitive costs of compassion and how effort may effect our decision to feel compassion for others. We discuss how compassion compares to empathy and why it is beneficial to feel compassion at all! (@bethfisher_1 • @avamadesousa) |
| 2023-Aug-20 • 58 minutes Luck and Knowledge | Mylan Engel What is knowledge? Does a justified true belief count as knowledge? And is our knowledge lucky? | | | | | | (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2023-Aug-20 • 9 minutes #331 — A Golden Age for Assholes If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at . (@) |
| 2023-Aug-20 • 84 minutes Barry Mauer - The Tumor of Denial: Exploring Metaphorical Growth into Delusions | STM Podcast #184 On episode 184, we welcome Barry Mauer to discuss using the medical model of metastatic cancer to explain how false beliefs spread, Barry's view that institutions are more important than personal responsibility in inoculating minds from delusional... (@seize_podcast • @EgoEndsNow • @leonscafe31) |
| 2023-Aug-20 • 77 minutes NEM#201: Ivan Neville Gets Personal (but Still Funky) Ivan is the keyboardist/singer/multi-instrumentalist son of Aaron Neville and has played with the Neville Brothers, The Rolling Stones The Spin Doctors, etc. He has released eight albums since 1988, half of these under the band name Dumpstaphunk. We... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2023-Aug-20 • 118 minutes 130 - Donald Hoffman: The Illusion of Reality Donald Hoffman is Professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, where he also has joint appointments in the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, and the School of Computer Science. Don has worked on a number of problems in his career, including human facial attractiveness, the mind-body problem, the evolution of perception, and even vehicle lighting. In this episode, Robinson and Don discuss his latest book, The Case Agains... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2023-Aug-19 • 81 minutes Oppenheimer Ryan and Todd offer their interpretation of Christopher Nolan's most recent film Oppenheimer. They focus on the relationship between the form of the film and its content, while considering the political implications of its depiction of the hero. They think about the film in relationship to the rest of Nolan's filmography. (@UVMcas) |
| 2023-Aug-18 • 118 minutes 129 - Jeremi Suri: The Impossibility of the American Presidency Jeremi Suri holds the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is Professor of History in the Department of History and the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Jeremi’s selection of topics in his work is sprawling, but he writes largely on modern and contemporary politics and foreign policy. In this episode, Robinson and Jeremi discuss the American presidency and how it has shifted over the past two hundred and fifty years to become an impossib... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2023-Aug-18 • 89 minutes #823 Owen Flanagan: Against Happiness Dr. Owen Flanagan is James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Duke University. His work is in philosophy of mind and psychiatry, ethics, moral psychology, and cross-cultural philosophy. He is co-author of Against Happiness. | | In this episode, we focus on Against Happiness. We talk about the “happiness agenda”, and what is promoted by advocates of happiness as the ultimate goal. We discuss if this agenda is hedonist and utilitarian. We talk about some philosophical issues, and crit... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Aug-18 • 86 minutes 165: "I don't believe that people are born bad" - Alexandra Paul - Actress and Activist - Sentientism Alexandra is an actress, activist and health coach. She has appeared in more than 100 feature films and television programs starring alongside actors including Tom Hanks, Pamela Anderson, Pierce Brosnan, Kevin Costner and Dan Ackroyd. She is internationally recognized for her 5-year starring role in the tv series Baywatch. | Alexandra has been a lifelong and often award-winning (and arrested!) activist, spanning causes including animal liberation, environmentalism, human population, peace, voting rights and... (@sentientism • @JamieWoodhouse) |
| 2023-Aug-18 • 65 minutes 96. Roma (w/ Agustín Rayo) We sit down with my colleague Agustín Rayo (Professor of Philosophy, Dean of SHASS at MIT, and winner of the big number duel) to discuss Alfonso Cuarón's autobiographical film, Roma. We discuss memory, dreams, guilt, class, background, lenses, digital formats, and, of course, Mexico City. (@cowspod • @juskhoo) |
| 2023-Aug-18 • 44 minutes The F Kennedy Syndrome Josh and M discuss not one, not two, not three but four of the F. Kennedy clan. — You can contact us at: [email protected] Why not support The Podcaster's Guide to the Conspiracy by donating to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/podcaster... (@PodGuideCon • @monkeyfluids) |
| 2023-Aug-18 • 39 minutes Neofeudalism: techno-lords and peasants For many on the political left, the end of capitalism is a cherished ideal - but what if capitalism ended and we found ourselves with something worse? This week we're exploring the possibility that Western liberal democracies could be sliding in the direction of "neofeudalism" and devolving into a much nastier set of economic and social structures than the ones we presently have. (@DavidPZone) |
| 2023-Aug-18 • 54 minutes BBC Reith Lecture #2: Rowan Williams The BBC Reith Lectures return and this year’s theme is The Four Freedoms. Rowan Williams, a former Archbishop of Canterbury, delivers the second BBC Reith Lecture. He argues that the West has forgotten what freedom of religion really means. *This episode originally aired on March 30, 2023. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Aug-18 • 54 minutes REPLAY: Revolutionary Mathematics (with Justin Joque) The HBS hosts chat with Justin Joque about how we might get Thomas Bayes' robot boot off our necks. Why does Netflix ask you to pick what movies you like when you first sign on in order to recommend other movies and shows to you? How does Google know what search results are most relevant? Why does it seem as if every tech company wants to collect as much data as they can get from you? It turns out that all of this is because of a shift in the theoretical and mathematical approach to probability. Bayesian st... (@hotelbarpodcast • @DrLeighMJohnson • @c_fpeterson • @rickleephilos) |
| 2023-Aug-18 • 18 minutes #68: Plato (and Barbie) on perfection If you won't accept anything less than perfection from yourself, I have some disappointing news from Ancient Greece. Back in the 4th (ish) century BC, Plato was telling anyone who would listen that perfection doesn't even exist in the material world - so, save your energy and lower your standards. Get the kettle on and then gather round to learn what this means for you, from Plato, Socrates, and ... erm, the Barbie movie.Here's the monologue by American Ferrera (as Gloria) in Barbie:'It ... (@AcademicImp • @rebecca_roache) |
| 2023-Aug-18 • 75 minutes Re-run: Episode 45 - Roosevelt Montás on Great Books and Intellectual Transformation This very exciting episode on liberal education with Professor Roosevelt Montás makes a come back this week! In this episode, I am joined by Professor Roosevelt Montás to discuss his new book, Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed my Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation. Montás, a Dominican-born American academic, makes the compelling case that study of the Great Books is potentially transformative, especially for students from working-class communities or who are members of historicall... (@eudaimoniapod • @jennfrey) |
| 2023-Aug-18 • 50 minutes Episode 187 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 39 - Chapter 15 - Extension, Submergence, Revival - 02 Welcome to Episode 187 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the only 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) |
| 2023-Aug-17 • 77 minutes #822 Christian Miller: The Virtues of Generosity and Patience Dr. Christian B. Miller is the A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University. His research is primarily in contemporary ethics and philosophy of religion. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, Dallas Morning News, Slate, Prospect Magazine, Relevant Magazine, Michael Hyatt Magazine, The Conversation, Newsweek, Aeon, Greater Good Magazine, Nautilus Magazine, Fathom Magazine, Institute of Art and Ideas, and Christianity Today. He’s the author of several books, the most recent one being Hon... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Aug-17 • 59 minutes INTERVIEW: Life Is Hard, with Kieran Setiya - part 1 Excuse posting this episode 1 day late. This week, following our episode discussing his book and the concepts within, we speak with the author himself! Kieran is a professor in Philosophy from MIT and author of several books around philosophy and it's practical place within our lives. We have a far ranging topic around why he wrote this book, whether philosophy is self-help and a breakdown of a synopsis of the book! Support the show: Please leave us a review! Spotify even now let's you do it - see that litt... (@MoralityofThe • @AnthonyNCollias) |
| 2023-Aug-17 • 70 minutes Design your Mind with Stoicism In this episode, I talk to Ryan A. Bush, author of Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture and the forthcoming Become Who You Are: A New Theory of Self-Esteem, Human Greatness, and the Opposite of Depression. Bonus: Ryan is generously offering listeners two free ebooks from his website, called the Psychitect’s Toolkit and The Book of Self Mastery. Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid s... (@DonJRobertson) |
| 2023-Aug-17 • 100 minutes #253 - Taking Flight: A Dialogue with Lev Parikian In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Lev Parikian about flight in animals. They discuss convergent evolution for flight, four forces of flight, and early flight with mayflies and dragonflies. They talk about vision in dragonflies, beetles, bees and their different uses of their wings and pterosaurs. They talk about birds, flightless birds, speed of hummingbirds, bats, and many more topics. Lev Parikian is an author and conductor. He has written for many publications on birds. He is the author... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2023-Aug-17 • 40 minutes S4 Ep4: Building resilient mental health in the workplace with Sir John Kirwan In Episode 4 of the series Professor Lennox is joined by Sir John Kirwan (known to most as JK), a former New Zealand rugby player and co-founder of workplace wellbeing technology platform Groov. | They discuss how JK’s own experiences with depression informed his extensive mental health advocacy work and led to the founding of Groov, with a mission to impact mental wellbeing globally by helping businesses to improve employee wellbeing and performance. | Here, they also look at ways people can build resilie... (@PhilFacOx) |
| 2023-Aug-17 • 54 minutes In Defence of Democracy: Naheed Nenshi Democratic backsliding is speeding up. Is there a way to revive civic engagement and resilience and push back against public apathy? IDEAS host, Nahlah Ayed talks to former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi about the possibility of renewing civic purpose in Canada, as part of a public lecture hosted by the Samara Centre. *This episode originally aired on Dec. 9, 2022. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Aug-17 • 105 minutes Ep. 65 - The Role of Rules (Celebrating Susan Wolf) In this episode, Adam, Giffin, and I discuss two essays by Wolf: "The Role of Rules" and "Two Concepts of Rule Utilitarianism." (@Jordan_C_Myers) |
| 2023-Aug-17 • 54 minutes 1 May 1956: Was Elizabeth Anscombe right to charge Harry Truman with murder? When Oxford University proposed to confer an honorary degree on the man who ordered an atomic bomb to be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe condemned the decision as “shar[ing] in the guilt of a bad action by praise and flattery”. (@RadioNational) |
| 2023-Aug-16 • 96 minutes #330 — The Doomsday Machine Sam Harris speaks with Carl Robichaud about the ongoing threat of nuclear war. They discuss the film "Oppenheimer," the ethics of dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the false lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the history and future of... (@) |
| 2023-Aug-16 • 18 minutes Ursula K Leguin, A Wizard Of Earthsea - Ged's Pride And Humbling - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's novel, A Wizard of Earthsea, the first of six Earthsea books It focuses specifically on the sources of - and the struggles with - Ged/Sparrowhawk's pride, and the humbling of it as he realizes the consequences of his actions 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 2,000 philosophy v... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Aug-16 • 87 minutes 128 - Clara Sousa-Silva: Exoplanets, Astrobiology, and the Search For Alien Life Clara Sousa-Silva is a professor of physics at Bard College, where she is a quantum astrochemist and molecular astrophysicist. The focus of Clara’s work is on investigating the interaction of particular molecules with light so that they can be detected on exoplanets, where, in addition to giving us atmospheric information, these chemicals may indicate the existence of life. In this episode, Robinson and Clara discuss her research on a specific molecule—phosphine—which may play a key role in identifying plan... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
 2023-Aug-16 • 54 minutesEpisode 38A - How to Block a Freeway with Anne Kervers (Part 1) Anne Kervers is a PhD candidate in political theory at the University of Amsterdam. She researches the political dimensions of money creation in relation to the climate finance gap. Previously she worked at Triodos Bank and completed studies in sust... (@lifeplatoscave • @MarioVeen) |
| 2023-Aug-16 • 5 minutes PREVIEW - Moby Dick & Lacan FULL EPISODE HERE | This is a PREVIEW for PART TWO of our conversation with professor RUSSELL SBRIGLIA and we're talking Lacanian theory and Moby Dick, the Kantian and Hegelian Sublime, Master Signifier and the Thing, the Whiteness of the Whale, and Orca attacks. | | We have some big interviews coming up and some | SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. | Thank you to all of our PATREONS and everyone who listens and supports us. | | Enjoy! | | | (@zizekand) |
| 2023-Aug-16 • 9 minutes 572: Weird Wants More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/wei... from Thomas Aquinas to Elizabeth Anscombe have claimed that wanting something means seeing the good in it. Even if what you want is bad overall, like procrastinating on important work, you can still desire it for its positive qualities. But don't we sometimes want things because of their badness, not in spite of it? Isn't there joy in doing something totally pointless, or even in breaking the rules? And is it really impossible, logically speaking, to want ... (@philtalkradio) |
| 2023-Aug-16 • 27 minutes Scott Hershovitz on Law and Morality What is the relationship between law and morality? How do they differ? Scott Hershovitz discusses these questions with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. (@philosophybites • @DavidEdmonds100) |
| 2023-Aug-16 • 63 minutes Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology In an increasingly tech-driven world, it's easy to forget the human, and what essence of technology actually is. Heidegger's essay, The Question Concerning Technology, was his attempt to examine tech and humanity. The guys break it all down and... (@thenewthinkery • @alexpriou • @GregMcBrayer3 • @Tempest1610) |
| 2023-Aug-16 • 62 minutes Nnedi Okorafor Sees The Future 🌍📚✍🏾 Award-winning science fiction writer Nnedi Okorafor, who coined the term "Africanfuturism" joins co-hosts Paul Giamatti and Stephen Asma on this episode of CHINWAG. Tickling mice, javelin-throwing nuns and making friends with sentient AI are just some of the detours their conversation takes this week. Can Stephen and Nnedi finally bridge the gap between cat people and dog people and bring long-lasting peace to civilization? Paul Giamatti is an award-winning actor and producer. Stephen Asma is a profess... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2023-Aug-16 • 54 minutes Killam Prize Winner: Carl E. James Carl E. James is the winner of the 2022 Killam Prize for Social Science. Professor James is Canada's leading expert on schools and universities, especially as viewed through the lives of racialized students. He insists we must notice the processes behind what can appear to be flaws in society. *This episode originally aired on Oct. 28, 2022. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Aug-16 • 27 minutes Do Angels and Demons Exist? Many theologians take angels and demons seriously. Why? Do most human beings believe in angels and demons? Certainly, such nonphysical beings, in one form or another, populate most of the world's religions. Featuring interviews with J.P. Moreland, Th... (@CloserToTruth • @RobertLawrKuhn) |
| 2023-Aug-16 • 25 minutes Roasting Ethics with Luvell Anderson Philosopher Luvell Anderson joins us to explore the ethics of the comedic roast. | The post Roasting Ethics with Luvell Anderson appeared first on Prindle Institute. (@DePauwPrindle) |
| 2023-Aug-16 • 51 minutes Episode 61: Introduction to Free Will and the Law with Kyle Fritz This episode starts a new season on free will and the law. In a wide-ranging discussion, Kyle Fritz gives some background for various key issues at the intersection of free will and the law.Kyle's website: https://kylegfritz.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefreewillshowInsta... https://www.instagram.com/thefreewillsho... https://www.facebook.com/The-Free-Will-S... (@thefreewillshow • @taylorwcyr • @MatthewFlummer) |
| 2023-Aug-15 • 15 minutes Ursula K Leguin, A Wizard Of Earthsea - Bringing Shadows Into The World - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's novel, A Wizard of Earthsea, the first of six Earthsea books It focuses specifically on specifically how Ged/Sparrowhawk uses a spell he does not fully understand to summon a spirit of the dead, but ends up opening a rift through which a dangerous and evil shadow comes into Earthsea. 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 - w... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Aug-15 • 48 minutes Truth, delusion, and psychedelic reality | Eileen Hall, Julian Baggini, James Rucker Experts discuss the intersection of psychedelics, reality, and the human psyche. (@IAI_TV) |
| 2023-Aug-15 • 39 minutes 164: Talking about Sentientism on "Knowing Animals" with philosopher Josh Milburn - a cross-post bonus episode This episode is a bonus cross-post of my conversation about Sentientism with Josh Milburn on his Knowing Animals podcast, founded by the late and much loved Siobhan O'Sullivan, as part of their Protecting Animals series. | Make sure you subscribe to Knowing Animals wherever you listen. Of course Josh has also been my guest on Sentientism back in episode 50. You can find it here on the Sentientism YouTube (don't forget to subscribe and click the bell!) and here on the Sentientism Podcast. | In Sentientist Co... (@sentientism • @JamieWoodhouse) |
| 2023-Aug-15 • 73 minutes Ep. 101: What is Love? (Part II) In this episode, Giuseppe and Anthony continue their conversation on the nature of love: What exactly happens to someone who is "in love?" Are humans meant to be in love? Is it possible to stop loving someone? What about a family member? (@LoveofSophiaPOD) |
| 2023-Aug-15 • 50 minutes Summer Bonus: On Affectation, with a Special Announcement Phil and JF discuss the virtues of affectation in this bonus episode, previously available only to Patreon members. (@weirdstudies • @JF_Martel) |
| 2023-Aug-15 • 54 minutes David Suzuki's Survival Guide | Wonders of Water Water is essential for our survival; it's an integral part of our bodies. It is also at the heart of some of the most profound mysteries of existence. How deep is the ocean, and what is it really like in the darkest reaches? What are whales doing when they sing? And why do we have so much trouble taking care of this precious and crucial resource? (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Aug-15 • 61 minutes Standpoint Epistemology with Briana Toole What does it mean to be marginalized? Does marginalization give some people more epistemic authority than others? And, if so, what should we all do with this information? In episode 84 of Overthink, Ellie and David talk about standpoint theory, its complex intellectual history, and its relationship to W. E. B. DuBois’ concept of double consciousness. They welcome an expert on the subject: Dr. Briana Toole, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College. In their conversation, they chat about... (@overthink_pod • @ellieanderphd • @DrPenaGuzman1) |
| 2023-Aug-14 • 157 minutes #160 – Hannah Ritchie on why it makes sense to be optimistic about the environment "There's no money to invest in education elsewhere, so they almost get trapped in the cycle where they don't get a lot from crop production, but everyone in the family has to work there to just stay afloat. Basically, you get locked in. There's almost no opportunities externally to go elsewhere. So one of my core arguments is that if you're going to address global poverty, you have to increase agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan Africa. There's almost no way of avoiding that." — Hannah RitchieIn today’... (@80000Hours) |
| 2023-Aug-14 • 41 minutes #821 Rebecka Hahnel-Peeters: Who Accepts Rape Myths, and Why? ------------------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: htt... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Aug-14 • 18 minutes Ursula K Leguin, A Wizard Of Earthsea - Magical Power In Earthsea - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's novel, A Wizard of Earthsea, the first of six Earthsea books It focuses specifically on the different types and users of magic within Earthsea, as we learn about them in the first book. This not only includes human beings like witches, warlocks, wizards, enchantresses, and mages, but also dragons and the old powers of the earth To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Aug-14 • 55 minutes PEL Closereads: Emerson's Oversoul (New Podcast Premiere) Are we underlyingly all really a single, unified organism? Or do we just have a lot in common? PEL's most verbose hosts Mark Linsenmayer and Wes Alwan begin unraveling this puzzling claim by reading Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1841 essay "The Over-Soul" and... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2023-Aug-14 • 89 minutes #252 - The Philosophy of Translation: A Dialogue with Damion Searls In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Damion Searls about the philosophy of translation. They talk about decisions in translation, primacy of reading, and trusting the translator. They discuss language proficiency, fluency, dead vs. modern languages, and translating various authors. They also talk about translating Wittgenstein, translation process, how to select a translation, and many more topics. Damion Searls is a translator, author, and philosopher. He has translated works by Proust, Ril... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2023-Aug-14 • 69 minutes 246 | David Stuart on Time and Science in Maya Civilization I talk with Mayanist David Stuart about Maya civilization, how they kept time, and what they thought about science. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2023-Aug-14 • 54 minutes Exploring Indigenous Sexuality and Gender When Europeans colonized North America, they brought very specific ideas about gender and sexuality. Following the 2022 CBC Massey Lectures, Tomson Highway joined panellists to discuss Indigenous sexuality in the aftermath of colonialism — from Cree mythology to the Vancouver dating scene. *This episode originally aired on Nov. 21, 2022. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Aug-14 • 38 minutes Does Free Will Exist? Gwendolyn Dolske and Rudy Salo interview Philosophy Professor Dr. Gregg Caruso (SUNY Corning), author of Rejecting Retributivism. Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice. We discuss the meaning of free will, what is a free will skeptic,... (@InTheDetailsPod • @GDolske • @SaloRudy) |
| 2023-Aug-13 • 76 minutes Sander van der Linden - Battling Fake News: Foolproof Strategies | STM Podcast #183 On episode 183, we welcome Sander van der Linden to discuss how to spot and protect yourself from falling for disinformation, the emotional reasons that sustain and prevent people from changing their false beliefs, the psychological foundations of... (@seize_podcast • @EgoEndsNow • @leonscafe31) |
| 2023-Aug-13 • 25 minutes A Missing Bonus Episode - Walt Gumbly! Due to miscommunication the previous bonus episode we said would be free for all, never got released. Missing in the archives for over two weeks, we are proud to bring you this missing bonus episode of the Podcaster's Guide to the Conspiracy, complet... (@PodGuideCon • @monkeyfluids) |
| 2023-Aug-13 • 92 minutes 127 - Richard Wolff: What’s Wrong with Capitalism? Richard Wolff is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor at The New School, where he works on economics in the Marxist tradition. In this episode, Robinson and Richard discuss his criticisms of capitalism. They begin with why mainstream economists dismiss Marx and then move on to the basics of economics, the problems of our capitalist system, and the myriad social issues we face today. | | Richard’s Website: https://www.rdwolff.com | | Economic U... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2023-Aug-13 • 79 minutes “The Myths of Whiteness” Jack Russell Weinstein visits with David Mura, the author of “The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives.” (@whyradioshow) |
| 2023-Aug-13 • 56 minutes Ep. 244 - Artificial Intelligence: Definitions and Evidence for God w/Dr. Selmer Bringjord In episode 244 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Selmer Bringsjord to discuss his work on the philosophy of artificial intelligence as well as his work running an AI lab. We also touch on his argument for God from artificial intelligence.: http://kryten.mm.rpi.edu/... out more of is work here: https://homepages.rpi.edu/~brings/ Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/U... the Facebook group, Parker's Pensées Penseurs, here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/... (@trendsettercase) |
| 2023-Aug-13 • 15 minutes Marketplace of overstimulation (Transcript edited for readability.) Amidst dusk, I stood alone in a sprawling, chaotic marketplace. Stalls stretched endlessly, selling sleek, high-tech smartphones. The crowd was full of anticipation. I grabbed a device. Its screen lit up, flooding me with flashes and buzzing alerts. Each ping of my phone further itching my curiosity. But it was a hollow thrill, only to be replaced by a curiosity for more. I found a tent with shifting, shimmering fabrics. The sign above read, "Future Fashion Today." The c... (@philosophyguy2 • @brendenslab) |
| 2023-Aug-13 • 55 minutes Who was Derek Parfit? | David Edmonds Parfit altered the landscape of the philosophy of identity. We speak to David Edmonds about his recently released biography on this influential philosopher, and ask: what made Parfit the man he was? (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2023-Aug-13 • 54 minutes Episode 121, The Philosophy of Privacy (Part I - Privacy is Power) Welcome to ‘Episode 121 (Part I of III)’, where we’ll be discussing the nature and power of privacy. (@ThePanpsycast • @_JackSymes • @MrMarleyTeach) |
| 2023-Aug-12 • 45 minutes Episode 186 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 38 - Chapter 15 - Extension, Submergence, Revival - 01 Welcome to Episode 186 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the only 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) |
| 2023-Aug-12 • 18 minutes 142: Philosophy and 1984: Part 4 This fourth and final installment of the Summer Series takes a look at the philosophical themes from the last quarter of 1984. Winston is being interrogated by O'Brien and what ensues in their encounter is a vivid description of totalitarianism at its worse and lots of ground for philosophical consideration. | A free copy of 1984 can be found here: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021... | Send over your questions, comments, and ideas for future episodes to: [email protected] | Image Attribu... (@MillikinU) |
| 2023-Aug-12 • 20 minutes Ursula K Leguin, A Wizard Of Earthsea - The Names Of Things - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's novel, A Wizard of Earthsea, the first of six Earthsea books It focuses specifically on the concept of a "true name", which allows the knowing or understanding of the thing named, as well as its control or manipulation by magic. Persons, animals, things, even bodies of water each have their name in Earthsea To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Aug-12 • 21 minutes Patron Bonus Episode - Kissinger in a sack It's another free patron bonus episode (largely because we realised there was some Patreon admin/fallout we failed to mention in the main episode)! (@PodGuideCon • @monkeyfluids) |
| 2023-Aug-12 • 27 minutes Sigmund Freud’s ”The Ego and the Id” In this video, I explain Sigmund Freud's "The Ego and the Id." 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_p... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2023-Aug-12 • 61 minutes #329 — What Happened to the Republican Party? Sam Harris speaks with Bret Stephens about the current state of the Republican Party. They discuss the strange change in Republican attitudes toward Putin, the character of Tucker Carlson, the war in Ukraine, the failures of elites and experts, the... (@) |
| 2023-Aug-11 • 57 minutes Truth Trajectories (Conspiracy Theory Masterpiece Theatre) Having sucked the philosophical literature dry (for now), M gets some anthropology into the mix, by having Josh read through the 2011 paper “Conspiracy theories and their truth trajectories” by Mathijs Pelkmans and Rhys Machold. It's a gripping read ... (@PodGuideCon • @monkeyfluids) |
| 2023-Aug-11 • 75 minutes #820 Joseph Errington: The History of Linguistics, Colonialism, and Language Ideologies Dr. Joseph Errington is Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. He studies language change as a source of insight into the ways languages constitute intimate parts of our everyday lives, and at the same time are foundational for large-scale institutions, social groups, and social dynamics. He has worked mostly in Indonesia, studying Javanese (90 million speakers), Indonesian (250 million speakers) and a range of Malay dialects. He has also worked on questions of language ideology and practice: how con... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Aug-11 • 81 minutes 126 - Michael Strevens: Scientific Explanation & Methodology and The Knowledge Machine Michael Strevens is Professor of Philosophy at New York University, where he works across the philosophy of science and the philosophical applications of cognitive science. In this episode, Robinson and Michael talk about his recent book, The Knowledge Machine, which explores how irrationality shaped the Scientific Revolution. Along the way, they discuss the great debate over the nature of the scientific method—including appearances from Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn—how explanations function in science, and ... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2023-Aug-11 • 28 minutes Friendship What makes a true friend? Aristotle in his Nicomachean Ethics outlines certain conditions for virtuous friendship, but he sets the bar high, and his estimation of women's capacity for friendship is low. This week we're putting Aristotle in dialogue with Mary Astell, an early modern (and proto-feminist) English philosopher who also wrote extensively on friendship. (@DavidPZone) |
| 2023-Aug-11 • 16 minutes RLP Special: Chance or the Dance (Refreshed) In this episode, we continue our contemplation of a mystery. We began, two episodes ago, with G. K. Chesterton and his comment about seeing in “the light of the supernatural”. In the last episode we continued our musings with Peter... (@RedLetterPhil) |
| 2023-Aug-11 • 54 minutes BBC Reith Lectures #1: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The BBC Reith Lectures return and the theme is The Four Freedoms. In the first lecture, Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi-Aidichie analyzes the state of free speech today, including the phenomenon some call “cancel culture.” She argues that moral courage is required to resist threats to freedom of speech, be they political, legal or social. *This episode originally aired on March 23, 2023. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Aug-11 • 55 minutes The Master/Slave Dialectic The HBS hosts struggle for recognition.The dialectic of lordship and bondage, more commonly known as the “Master/Slave dialectic,” is a moment in a much longer and exceedingly difficult-to-read (much less understand!) text by G.W.F. Hegel entitled The Phenomenology of Spirit. It’s probably a passage that is referenced in a wide number of fields– psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, literary analysis, any number of “area studies,” and even economics-- though very few of the scholars who reference it... (@hotelbarpodcast • @DrLeighMJohnson • @c_fpeterson • @rickleephilos) |
| 2023-Aug-11 • 80 minutes Bluey “Rug Island” 2.10 and “Camping” 1.43 and Play Lets play a game! Lets pretend we're podcasters and you're listeners and we're playing a fun game called "enjoying our show and reading these notes and thinkings this is all deep and insightful and then realizing that this literally how we live our... (@0gPhilosophy) |
| 2023-Aug-11 • 67 minutes Re-run: Episode 41 - James Baldwin is bringing the fire with Dr. Cornel West Throwback to our first episode recorded with a live audience: Dr. Cornel West on James Baldwin! I am pleased to share a very special episode of Sacred and Profane Love, our first episode recorded in front of a live audience, with the amazing Dr. Cornel West! The context for this episode is that the Classic Learning Test (which has sponsored several episodes this season, and on whose board of academic advisors I happily serve) held its third annual higher education summit in beautiful Annapolis, Maryland, a... (@eudaimoniapod • @jennfrey) |
| 2023-Aug-10 • 12 minutes Milton Friedman, The Social Responsibility Of Business - Politics, Taxation, & Social Responsbility This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century economist and statistician Milton Friedman's essay, originally published in the New York Times, "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits" It focuses specifically on discussion of how social responsibility in business matters amounts, in his view, to a tax, which he thinks ought to be treated as a political matter. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contrib... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Aug-10 • 95 minutes #819 Geoffrey West - Scale; Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies Dr. Geoffrey West is Shannan Distinguished Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is a theoretical physicist whose primary interests have been in fundamental questions in physics, especially those concerning the elementary particles, their interactions and cosmological implications. His long-term fascination in general scaling phenomena evolved into a highly productive collaboration on the origin of universal scaling laws that pervade biology from the molecular genomic scale up through mitochondria and cel... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Aug-10 • 9 minutes What are the Id, Ego, and Super-Ego? | Sigmund Freud | Keyword In this episode, I explain Freud's notion of the Id, Ego, and Super-Ego. 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... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2023-Aug-10 • 44 minutes S4 Ep3: Childhood and adolescent anxiety with Professor Cathy Creswell and Associate Professor Polly Waite In the third episode of the series Professor Lennox sits down with Professors Cathy Creswell and Polly Waite to talk about how anxiety affects young people and the complex picture that makes up the risk factors for developing mental health disorders. | They also look at the effective new treatments being developed, and the work being done to make them as accessible as possible. | Cathy Creswell is Professor of Developmental Clinical Psychology and holds a joint position in Oxford’s Departments of Experiment... (@PhilFacOx) |
| 2023-Aug-10 • 11 minutes 571: Making a Better World More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/mak... philosophers think that morality boils down to one idea: we should make the world better for everyone. But who counts in "everyone"—babies, animals, future people? How can we tell what makes the world better for others? And in an uncertain world, how can anyone gauge the effects of their actions? Josh and Ray try to save the world with acclaimed Princeton philosopher Peter Singer, author of "Ethics in the Real World: 90 Essays on Things That Matter." (@philtalkradio) |
| 2023-Aug-10 • 54 minutes Getting Past Polarization: Anand Giridharadas The extremes are extreme in U.S. politics. But Anand Giridharadas and some other progressives are convinced that there are uncompromising approaches that can move up to 60 per cent of voters to value democracy and human rights. The author of The Persuaders describes the methods proven effective in shifting views. *This episode originally aired on Nov. 23, 2022. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Aug-10 • 63 minutes Berislav Marusić, "On the Temporality of Emotions: An Essay on Grief, Anger, and Love" (Oxford UP, 2022) When someone close to us dies, intense grief is an expected and reasonable response. But while the reason for our grief – the loss of the person who is the object of our grief – doesn’t change, our grief itself diminishes. This diminishment is also expected, but how can it be reasonable if the reason for the grief hasn’t changed? In On the Temporality of Emotions: An Essay on Grief, Anger, and Love (Oxford UP, 2022), Berislav Marusic articulates this puzzle of accommodation as a general feature of our ment... (@NewBooksPhil) |
| 2023-Aug-10 • 39 minutes Episode #185 ... Should we prepare for an AI revolution? Today we talk about the revolutionary potential of generative AI. For better or worse. Support the podcast by checking out our sponsors: Better Help - LMNT - Get more: Website: Patreon: Philosophize This! Clips: Be... (@iamstephenwest) |
| 2023-Aug-10 • 87 minutes Ep. 64 - Above and Below the Line of Duty (Celebrating Susan Wolf) In this episode, we discuss an underrated paper by Wolf. We discuss the connection between decency, moral duty, and reasonably violating your obligations. (@Jordan_C_Myers) |
| 2023-Aug-10 • 59 minutes 8 September 1974: Was Gerald Ford right to pardon Richard Nixon? When US President Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon of his crimes, did he thereby place the presidency above the law — or did he understand a hard reality about democratic politics that should inform the multiple prosecutions of Donald Trump? (@RadioNational) |
| 2023-Aug-10 • 65 minutes #251 - Mental Imagery: A Dialogue with Bence Nanay In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Bence Nanay about mental imagery. They define mental imagery, hyperaphantasia and aphantasia, mental imagery as unconscious, predictive processing and representations. They discuss the role of the body, multimodal dimensions, EMDR, metaphysics, phenomenology of perception, and many more topics. Bence Nanay is a philosopher and BOF Research Professor of philosophical psychology at the University of Antwerp. His main interests are on the philosophy and psych... (@xavierbonilla87) |
 2023-Aug-10 • 117 minutesPhilosophy In Film - 072 - Barbie Philosophy in Film wraps up our 3rd season in style with this very special episode featuring the summer smash hit: Barbie! In this episode, the gang dives into their old toy chest to delve into the decades-popular toy as she hits the big screen.... (@PhilInFilm) |
| 2023-Aug-09 • 50 minutes Lacan and Literature w/ Russell Sbriglia Part 1 of our interview with Russell Sbriglia on his book Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Žižek. | We're talking Lacanian psychoanalysis as a way to interpret literature, Žižek's bad taste in novels, toilets, the object from inner space, why Beckett is better than Joyce, and what Tony Soprano's major was. | Join our Patreon for extra episodes, and the back catalogue of dozens of extra episodes. | Buy Russell's book here! | (@zizekand) |
| 2023-Aug-09 • 43 minutes Is it wrong to increase the price of medicine? Some of you may remember "The Pharma Bro" who raised the cost of medicine 1000%. He recently appeared on a podcast and it led us to consider the question. Should medicine be sacrasanct? Is it really that different ot other businesses and is being sanctimonious about it just going to get in the way of progress? We discuss whether Shkreli is fully morally developed, mid-term vs short-term moral optimization and the Heinz thought experiment (is it ok to steal medicine?). Support the show: Please leave us a rev... (@MoralityofThe • @AnthonyNCollias) |
| 2023-Aug-09 • 86 minutes 125 - Bas van Fraassen: Realism, Thomas Kuhn, and the Semantic Approach in Philosophy of Science Bas van Fraassen is the McCosh Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Princeton University and a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. In addition to being one of the most recognized philosophers of science working today—he received the Philosophy of Science Association’s inaugural Hempel Award—he has also worked in epistemology and logic. In this episode, Bas and Robinson discuss a major shift in the philosophy of science in the second half of the twentieth century from the ... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2023-Aug-09 • 10 minutes Milton Friedman, The Social Responsibility Of Business - The Cloak Of Social Responsibility This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century economist and statistician Milton Friedman's essay, originally published in the New York Times, "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits" It focuses specifically on his discussion of what he calls the "cloak of social responsibility," which he views as providing a pretext for engaging in irresponsible and unethical decision-making in business, To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Aug-09 • 55 minutes Paul Graham on Ambition, Art, and Evaluating Talent Plus, his bizarre strategy for getting over a fear of flying. (@tylercowen) |
| 2023-Aug-09 • 56 minutes Steven Hayward on David Mitchell's "Cloud Atlas" This week, the guys are joined for the third time by author, political commentator, and policy scholar Steven F. Hayward, who is replacing David for this episode. The group take a trip to the silver screen to review Cloud Atlas, based on a book... (@thenewthinkery • @alexpriou • @GregMcBrayer3 • @Tempest1610) |
| 2023-Aug-09 • 35 minutes WE'VE GOT MAIL! 📨📨📨 Paul Giamatti and Stephen Asma asked for your thoughts, your burning questions, your weirdest musings, and you responded - in droves! Stephen from St. Louis asks, do watershed moments exist and is the term actually overused and misunderstood? Paul and Stephen discuss and wonder what history actually IS after all? And somehow, American soldier Boston Corbett makes an appearance. Then - are you superstitious? Anna from Belfast writes in about the Irish Fairy Thorn Tree which some believe to be the gateway... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2023-Aug-09 • 54 minutes The Canterbury Tales: Wife of Bath A group of pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales tell stories to each other. One of them — the bawdy, smart, confident Wife of Bath — tells us exactly what she thinks about marriage — and men. She’s been called the first fully-formed woman in English literature, and 700 years later, the Wife of Bath remains an inspiration to writers today. *This episode originally aired on April 3, 2023. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Aug-09 • 66 minutes Dr. Aomawa Shields on Life on Other Planets Astrobiologist Dr. Aomawa Shields discusses her latest book, Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe. The book charts her life as an astronomer, classically-trained actor, mother, and Black woman in STEM, searching for lif... (@CloserToTruth • @RobertLawrKuhn) |
| 2023-Aug-08 • 83 minutes Episode 266: I Want to Half-Believe Last December, with Argentina minutes away from a World Cup championship, friend of the show Yoel texted David “congratulations.” David was furious, and soon after (with less than 2 minutes left in extra time) France’s Mbappe scored a game-tying... (@verybadwizards • @peez • @tamler) |
| 2023-Aug-08 • 11 minutes Milton Friedman, The Social Responsibility Of Business - Businesses Agents And Responsibilities This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century economist and statistician Milton Friedman's essay, originally published in the New York Times, "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits" It focuses specifically on his discussion of what responsibilities business managers and executives have, and towards whom. 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 - o... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Aug-08 • 49 minutes The seduction of thought | Miranda Keeling, Steve Taylor, Andy West Is thought a distraction from reality?Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesF... the birth of reason to Descartes' "I think, therefore I am"; Western culture has placed thought at the centre of what it is to be human. We spend much of our time planning the future, reflecting on the past, puzzling about what to do, and talking about it with others. But might this be a mistake? Should culture, as Nietzsche proposes, 'free itself from the seduction of words and thou... (@IAI_TV) |
| 2023-Aug-08 • 54 minutes Suzuki's Survival Guide | The 'Love' Economy The field of economics is limited by how it measures success. It doesn't take into account the things that sustain life that can't clearly be measured. The earth and its atmosphere provide infinite services free of charge — the air we breathe, the water we drink, the soil that sustains countless lifeforms on earth. It also doesn't include the impact of community bonds, relationships, and love. This episode explores new ways to think of growth and society's holistic well-being. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Aug-08 • 20 minutes 71 TEASER | What is Liberalism? Part IV: Neo-Republicanism In this episode, we dive into Philip Pettit’s Republicanism from 1997, which argued that republicanism and liberalism are not the fast friends many assume them to be. However, many liberal and left philosophers think that neo-republicanism is just riding the coattails of liberalism or that it’s just another bourgeois moralism. So what’s the big deal? And how radical can republicanism be? This is just a short clip from the full episode, which is available to our subscribers on Patreon:patreon.com/leftofphilo... (@leftofphil • @whitherutopia • @oglynwil • @classreductress) |
| 2023-Aug-08 • 64 minutes Ep.63 The Philosophy of Love, Part 2 Love is a driving factor in our decisions. People plan their lives around who they love: they stay close to their parents, take a completely random job to stay with their spouse, and save hundreds of thousands of dollars for their future children’s education. But just as the people we love drive our decisions, so do what activities we love. Famously, Paul Gauguin ran away from his wife and children, culture and country to pursue his love of painting in Tahiti. The composer Piotor Tchaikovsky gave up a poten... (@opendoorphil • @d_parsonage) |
| 2023-Aug-07 • 171 minutes #159 – Jan Leike on OpenAI's massive push to make superintelligence safe in 4 years or less In July, OpenAI announced a new team and project: Superalignment. The goal is to figure out how to make superintelligent AI systems aligned and safe to use within four years, and the lab is putting a massive 20% of its computational resources behind the effort.Today's guest, Jan Leike, is Head of Alignment at OpenAI and will be co-leading the project. As OpenAI puts it, "...the vast power of superintelligence could be very dangerous, and lead to the disempowerment of humanity or even human extinction. ... C... (@80000Hours) |
| 2023-Aug-07 • 100 minutes #818 Tibor Rutar: The Rise, Benefits, and Challenges of Liberal Democracies Dr. Tibor Rutar is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Maribor, Slovenia, Researcher at the Center for the Study of Post-Socialist Societies in Maribor, and Researcher at the Research Center for Strategy and Governance at the University of Ljubljana. His last two books are Rational Choice and Democratic Government: A Sociological Approach (Routledge, 2021) and Capitalism for Realists: Virtues and Vices of the Modern Economy (Routledge, 2022). | | This time, we focus on Rational Choice an... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Aug-07 • 9 minutes Robert Audi, Virtue Ethics As A Resource In Business - Four Dimensions Of Ethical Challenge This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American philosopher Robert Audi's article, "Virtue Ethics as a Resource in Business" It focuses specifically on four main areas of ethical challenge: ethical decisions, rules of action, traits of character, and virtues & obligations. 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 ... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Aug-07 • 57 minutes Ep. 322: Schelling on Art vs. Nature (Part Three) Mark and Wes conclude with some close reading of Part 6 of System of Transcendental Idealism (1800), section 3: "Relation of Art to Philosophy." Schelling thinks that art enables us to do intuitively what philosophy tries to do with concepts. We're... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2023-Aug-07 • 218 minutes AMA | August 2023 Ask Me Anything episode for August 2023. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2023-Aug-07 • 81 minutes Gender, Pronouns and Linguistic Negotiation Alex Byrne discusses the controversy around his article on pronouns in the Journal of Controversial Ideas. Byrne and Matt Lutz debate the meaning of the word 'woman.' Alex's view is that women are adult human females, whereas Matt thinks that the word is ambiguous between that traditional definition and a trans-inclusive meaning. We can be tolerant and accept both are legitimate meanings of the word. The conversation eventually comes to focus on the idea that the meanings of words are outcom... (@ADigressions • @SpencerJayCase) |
| 2023-Aug-07 • 54 minutes 2022 CBC Massey Lectures | # 5: On Death Tomson Highway's final Massey lecture is an uplifting and joyous conclusion to his series — a message that the worldview of Indigenous people suggests ways of seeing and believing that make our journey on Earth joyous, hilariously funny and rich in diversity. *This episode aired on Nov. 18, 2022. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Aug-07 • 75 minutes #250 - Parfit: A Dialogue with David Edmonds In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with David Edmonds about the life and philosophy of Derek Parfit. They discuss the enigma of Derek Parfit, impact of his religious family, his work with poetry, journalism, and photography, and his time in the USA and Oxford. They talk about personal identity and the self, Reasons and Persons, utilitarianism, non-identity, equality, On What Matters, and many more topics. David Edmonds is a philosopher and author. He is Distinguished Research Fellow at Oxford U... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2023-Aug-06 • 128 minutes Is Islam more rational than Atheism? | Eron Fasser, Mohammed Hijab, Mark Oppenheimer, Hamza Tzortzis A debate held at the University of Johannesburg. Does God Exist? How can something come from nothing? Are God's commands moral? (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2023-Aug-06 • 108 minutes 124 - Jay McClelland: Deep Learning, Neural Networks, and Artificial Intelligence Jay McClelland is Lucie Stern Professor in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University, where he is also Director of the Center for Mind, Brain, Computation and Technology. Along with other towering figures like Geoffrey Hinton, Jay is considered one of the fathers of artificial intelligence. In this episode, Robinson and Jay discuss some of his main interests in and contributions to the field, including his work on parallel distributed processing with David Rumelhart, the relationship between neura... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2023-Aug-06 • 72 minutes Melanie Trecek-King - Charlatans Exposed: On the Art of Deception | STM Podcast #182 On episode 182, we welcome Melanie Trecek-King to discuss the power of critical thinking, how she transformed her science-based curriculum into one more focused on teaching thinking tools, beliefs in witchcraft and how experiential beliefs tend to... (@seize_podcast • @EgoEndsNow • @leonscafe31) |
| 2023-Aug-05 • 90 minutes Barbie Ryan and Todd interpret the film Barbie while responding to both leftist and rightist critiques of the film. They discuss the film's exploration of fantasy, its highlighting of contradiction, and its emphasis on the role of desire in politics. (@UVMcas) |
| 2023-Aug-05 • 6 minutes I Need Help (5 and ½ Years of The Dissenter) I need help. Since last February, when I last asked for support, some more patrons had to cancel their support because their financial situation changed. I have been helped by a few donations over these last months, but I stand at $715 of support by the time of the recording of this video (July 31st), and I need to go up to $900 to keep the channel/podcast sustainable. | Over the past 5 years and a half, I’ve already released 817 interviews, have already done 865 interviews, and already have new interviews ... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Aug-05 • 69 minutes Ep. 243 - Philosophy is for Human Flourishing (Eudamonistic Metaphilosophy) w/Dr. Aaron Preston In episode 243 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Aaron Preston for a second time. This time we discuss the nature of philosophy and how it ought to aid in human flourishing. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/U... the Facebook group, Parker's Pensées Penseurs, here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/96047149... you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $3, $5 or more a month. Any amount helps, and for $5 you get a Parker's Pensées sticker a... (@trendsettercase) |
| 2023-Aug-05 • 6 minutes We now offer shorter 'interview highlights' episodes Over on our other feed, 80k After Hours, you can now find 20-30 minute highlights episodes of our 80,000 Hours Podcast interviews. These aren’t necessarily the most important parts of the interview, and if a topic matters to you we do recommend listening to the full episode — but we think these will be a nice upgrade on skipping episodes entirely.Get these highlight episodes by subscribing to our more experimental podcast on the world’s most pressing problems and how to solve them: type 80k After Hours into... (@80000Hours) |
| 2023-Aug-05 • 42 minutes HAP 129 - Afrophone Home - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o How one of Kenya's greatest writers came to argue that African literature should be written in African languages. (@HistPhilosophy • @ChikeJeffers) |
| 2023-Aug-05 • 13 minutes Thomas Nagel’s ”What Is It Like To Be a Bat?” In this episode, I cover Thomas Nagel's "What Is It Like To Be a Bat?" 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_an... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2023-Aug-05 • 11 minutes 519: What Has Replaced Freud? More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/wha... the concept that we can have thoughts and desires hidden from consciousness can be traced back to antiquity, it was Freud who truly popularized it in the twentieth century. Now Freud’s theory of the unconscious mind has mostly been abandoned for being unscientific and lacking in empirical evidence. So what has replaced it? Are newer theories that reference “automatic systems” or “implicit attitudes” any more scientific than Freud’s? And why is so much rese... (@philtalkradio) |
| 2023-Aug-04 • 52 minutes #817 Raymond Hames: Hunting, Mating Systems, Warfare, and Evolutionary Anthropology Dr. Raymond Hames is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His research interests are in behavioral ecology, food and labor exchange, human ecology, marriage, and kin and parental | investment. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (anthropology section), past-president of the Evolutionary Anthropology Society of the American Anthropological Association, consulting editor for Human Nature, and for ten years he served as treasurer of the Human Behavior and Evolution So... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Aug-04 • 70 minutes 163: "It was a huge wake-up call... I felt like I'd been living a lie" - Lawyer Delci Winders - Sentientism Delci is an animal protection lawyer, scholar, teacher and programme builder. She is an associate professor of law and Director & Founder of the Animal Law and Policy Institute at Vermont Law and Graduate School. The Institute is committed to training animal advocacy leaders (e.g. masters degrees and programmes, Farmed Animal Advocacy Clinic) and serving as a resource hub. | In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “who matters?” | Sentientism is ... (@sentientism • @JamieWoodhouse) |
| 2023-Aug-04 • 79 minutes 123 - Paul Boghossian: The Sokal Hoax, The A Priori, and Moral Facts Paul Boghossian is Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University, where he is also Chair of the Philosophy Department. Paul has worked in a wide variety of areas within philosophy, including epistemology and the philosophy of language, mind, and logic respectively. Robinson and Paul discuss the sociological relationship between physics and philosophy, the Sokal Hoax, philosophy in public life, the role of the a priori and a posteriori distinction in metaphysics, logic, and epistemology, and the natu... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2023-Aug-04 • 56 minutes Episode 185 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 37 - Chapter 14 - The New Virtues 08 Welcome to Episode 185 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the only complete presentation of Epicurean philosophy left to us from the ancient world. Each week we walk you through... (@NewEpicurean) |
| 2023-Aug-04 • 28 minutes Gaslighting Gaslighting is the word on everyone's lips right now – in fact, Merriam-Webster named it their Word of the Year for 2022. But what is it about gaslighting that has us all talking about it? And why is it philosophically interesting? (@DavidPZone) |
| 2023-Aug-04 • 54 minutes The New World Disorder | The Rise of the Strongman Democracy is shrivelling and illiberalism is on the rise. We've been watching this unfold for more than three decades but the sense of urgency has, perhaps, never been so great. IDEAS hears from people on the frontline of the fight against rising authoritarianism — how they understand the struggle and what they're doing to survive it. *This episode is part of our series, The New World Disorder. It originally aired on Sept. 29, 2022. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Aug-04 • 52 minutes Too Soon? The HBS hosts discuss timing, prudence, discretion, and propriety.When we talk about propriety, there are a lot of “gray” areas, largely because propriety demands that we conform to conventional rules of speech or behavior… and “conventional rules” are often more the product of “convention” than they are actual “rules.” Propriety requires that we develop prudence and discretion, our capacities of judgment, sagacity, and interpersonal awareness, which are arguably quite different from our capacity to apply a... (@hotelbarpodcast • @DrLeighMJohnson • @c_fpeterson • @rickleephilos) |
| 2023-Aug-04 • 18 minutes #67: You owe your success to your flaws I get it: you want to be less of a perfectionist, more confident and assertive, less of a procrastinator, and all the rest of it. These, after all, are things that hold us back - or so we often think. As it happens, though, things are more complicated than that. Those same traits that stand in your way are the same ones that have enabled you to achieve awesome things. Is there a way to get the 'awesome things' bit without the 'stand in your way' bit? Well, put up a chair, chum - the Acad... (@AcademicImp • @rebecca_roache) |
| 2023-Aug-04 • 111 minutes 95. Oppenheimer (w/ Bilge Ebiri) Join us and Bilge Ebiri (New York Magazine / Vulture) to discuss Christopher Nolan's deconstructed biopic about the man who birthed a very big bomb. Deconstructed narratives, quantum mechanics, moral dilemmas, subjective inflection, brilliant and sure-handed intercutting... and we set the record straight on whether Nolan's films are funny and whether his female characters are poorly developed. (@cowspod • @juskhoo) |
| 2023-Aug-04 • 52 minutes Re-run: Episode 1 - The Short Stories of Flannery O’Connor with Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P. Let's go back to the beginning, where it all began: Episode 1 on Flannery O'Connor with Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P. ! In Episode 1, I speak with Father Thomas Joseph White, O.P. about Aquinas on grace and charity, and how Thomistic concepts of grace and charity operate in the short stories of Flannery O’Connor. The episode covers themes of grace, redemption, the comic unveiling of the human person to itself, and the violence of Divine Love as a necessary antidote to human folly and brokenness. Fr. Tho... (@eudaimoniapod • @jennfrey) |
| 2023-Aug-03 • 59 minutes #816 Gareth Leng - The Matter of Facts: Skepticism, Persuasion, and Evidence in Science Dr. Gareth Leng was one of the founders in 1983 of the British Society for Neuroendocrinology. He was appointed as the Chair of Experimental Physiology at the University of Edinburgh in 1994, after 17 years at what is now the Babraham Institute, Cambridge. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Neuroendocrinology, and a former President of the International Neuroendocrine Federation. He is the author of The Matter of Facts: Skepticism, Persuasion, and Evidence in Science. | | In this episode, we... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Aug-03 • 11 minutes The Mind-Body Problem In this episode, I describe the Mind-Body Problem. If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphiloso... paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Twitter: @DavidGuignion IG: @theory_and_philosophy Tiktok:... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2023-Aug-03 • 11 minutes Robert Audi, Virtue Ethics As A Resource In Business - Virtuous Persons, Motivation, And Action This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American philosopher Robert Audi's article, "Virtue Ethics as a Resource in Business" It focuses specifically on one important aspect of virtue ethics in business, the motivations people have for their choices and actions. This requires we distinguish acting from virtue from acting in accordance with virtue 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.... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Aug-03 • 49 minutes S4 Ep2: Maternal mental health with Professor Marian Knight and Professor Fiona Alderdice In the second episode of the series Professor Lennox is joined by Professors Marian Knight and Fiona Alderdice to examine how mental illnesses impact women and families in the postnatal period, and the power of speaking out. | Professor Marian Knight is the Director of Oxford’s National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU) and Honorary Consultant in Public Health with Public Health England. | Professor Fiona Alderdice is Senior Social Scientist at Oxford’s National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU) and Hono... (@PhilFacOx) |
| 2023-Aug-03 • 84 minutes #249 - A Cellular Story of Life: A Dialogue with Alfonso Martinez Arias In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Alfonso Martinez Arias about the cell and its importance for organisms. They talk about why many people overemphasize genes and underemphasize cells, provide a basic overview of the cell, and discuss the role of gametes. They talk about cells and embryos, embryonic stem cells, bioethics, science communication, polygenic index scores, cancerous cells, and many more topics.Alfonso Martinez Arias is a developmental biologist and ICREA Research Professor at Un... (@xavierbonilla87) |
 2023-Aug-03 • 73 minutesS2E05 Americans Don’t Know How to Sing the Blues w/ Brad Elliott Stone & Jacob Goodson School boards and state governments have been locked in intense debates over what counts as history and whose history ought to be taught. Many of these wrestles orbit around events and cultural beliefs that the pragmatist philosopher Cornel West might refer to as “catastrophes.”Some voices are eager to bury, ignore, or sterilize many of the truly horrendous deeds that have happened in the United States. Slavery. Segregation. Jim Crow. Genocide. The exploitation of workers. And the list goes on.This inabilit... (@Jeffrey_Howard_ • @erraticusmag) |
| 2023-Aug-03 • 54 minutes The Shock of the New | The Year 1947: Fractures and Tectonic Shifts The Partition of India creates the largest mass migration in human history. The newly-created United Nations votes to partition British Palestine. The Cold War divides the world into opposing camps, and empires collapse and retreat. This is the final episode in our series, The Shock of the New, exploring how change happens. *This episode originally aired on Nov. 4, 2022. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Aug-03 • 91 minutes Ep. 63 - Moral Obligations and Social Commands (Celebrating Susan Wolf) In this episode, Adam, Giffin, and I discuss Wolf's essay "Moral Obligations and Social Commands," which asks where the true authority of moral enforcement originates from. (@Jordan_C_Myers) |
| 2023-Aug-03 • 54 minutes Is there any benefit to boredom? It is fair to say that boredom is a distinctly modern terror. But, as Stan Grant discusses with Waleed and Scott, what if existential boredom points us to our deeper need? (@RadioNational) |
| 2023-Aug-02 • 35 minutes Episode #184 ... Is Artificial Intelligence really an existential risk? Get more: Website: Patreon: Philosophize This! Clips: Be social: Twitter: Instagram: TikTok: Facebook: Thank you for making the show possible. 🙂 (@iamstephenwest) |
| 2023-Aug-02 • 63 minutes #328 — Health & Longevity Sam Harris speaks with Peter Attia about his book, “.” They discuss "healthspan," centenarians, diet and nutrition, sugar, macronutrients, alcohol, fasting and time-restricted eating, exercise, Zone 2 training, heart disease, blood pressure,... (@) |
| 2023-Aug-02 • 109 minutes 122 - David Pizarro: Moral Psychology, Praise & Blame, Disgust & Politics David Pizarro is Professor of Psychology at Cornell University. While he teaches and publicly discusses a wide variety of material in the discipline, his primary research interest is in moral judgment. In this episode, Robinson and David discuss some of the conceptual underpinnings of moral psychology before turning to the research on praise, blame, social cognition, and the relationship between disgust and political affiliation. David is also the co-host of two podcasts, Very Bad Wizards with Tamler Sommer... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2023-Aug-02 • 55 minutes Life is hard, but can philosophy help deal with our suffering and the meaning of life? A discussion of Kieran Setiya's book In this episode, we discuss Kieran Setiya's book "life is hard" and discuss the place of philosophy in our everyday lives. Can philosophy be a guide to a life well lived, and actually educate us to live through suffering effectively? This one is a far-ranging open discussion around the topic of the book. Support the show: Please leave us a review! Spotify even now let's you do it - see that little star icon - go on, give it a click. Reviews are a great way to help others find the show, and it makes us feel ... (@MoralityofThe • @AnthonyNCollias) |
| 2023-Aug-02 • 61 minutes An Overview of Shakespeare's Hamlet The guys are back this week with a break from the philosophy books, opting instead for another of Shakespeare's great plays. They generally discuss the plot, characters, themes, and more in this episode. This is just the first episode on Hamlet to set... (@thenewthinkery • @alexpriou • @GregMcBrayer3 • @Tempest1610) |
| 2023-Aug-02 • 57 minutes Pillow Talk with Dream Expert Deirdre Barrett 💭💭💭 Paul Giamatti and Stephen Asma are fascinated and confounded by dreams and the act of dreaming. Enter renowned dream and hypnosis expert, Dr. Deirdre Barrett and hear Paul and Stephen question the very meaning and purpose of dreams. Are they precognitive? Can dreams tell of past lives? Does imagination and intuition play a role? Do recurring dreams help protect us? What is dream incubation and can we manipulate our dreams to find answers to life’s pressing questions? Answers are revealed during this liv... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2023-Aug-02 • 54 minutes The Odyssey of Saturn the Alligator: Hitler's 'Favourite' Saturn, an alligator that was supposedly Hitler’s favourite animal was 'liberated' from the Berlin zoo when the Red Army invaded Germany at the end of the Second World War. The reptile was relocated to Moscow where it died in 2020. But with Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Saturn’s story has become once again a symbol in wartime geopolitics. *This episode originally aired on Jan. 10, 2023. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Aug-02 • 27 minutes How to Decipher Deception in Evolution? Deception pervades all life, up and down the phylogenetic tree. Deceptions have a "purpose" - the well-being, often the survival, of the deceiver. But deceptions need not be done "on purpose". In the tool-kit of evolution, what is the workload of dec... (@CloserToTruth • @RobertLawrKuhn) |
| 2023-Aug-02 • 35 minutes Capitalist Humanitarianism with Lucia Hulsether Ethnographer and historian of religion Lucia Hulsether on the strange phenomenon she calls “capitalist humanitarianism.” | The post Capitalist Humanitarianism with Lucia Hulsether appeared first on Prindle Institute. (@DePauwPrindle) |
| 2023-Aug-01 • 92 minutes Cabinet of Curiosities ep7: The Viewing and Intersectional High Weirdness Well, my unconventional conventionalists, I hope it's clear by now why I've assembled you here. Your minds and orifices have all been primed and gooed in anticipation of the main event, the mind fuck du jure, the sparkling diamond of gear strippers.... (@0gPhilosophy) |
| 2023-Aug-01 • 43 minutes A world by any other name | Arif Ahmed, Ruth Kempson, Hilary Lawson Questioning the significance and solvability of language's role in shaping our understanding of the world. (@IAI_TV) |
| 2023-Aug-01 • 108 minutes Episode 152: The Science of Things Spiritual: Live in Lily Dale JF and Phil discuss Frederic Myers, founding member of the Society for Psychical Research, at the 2023 Science of Things Spiritual Symposium in Lily Dale, New York. (@weirdstudies • @JF_Martel) |
| 2023-Aug-01 • 90 minutes Ep. 100: Audience Q & A In this special 100th episode, Giuseppe and Anthony take some more questions from listeners. Questions range from epistemology, to aesthetics, to education, and more. (@LoveofSophiaPOD) |
| 2023-Aug-01 • 54 minutes Suzuki's Survival Guide | Naked Ape to Superspecies Never before in the four billion-year history of life on Earth has a single species been able to alter the geological, biological and physical features of the planet. As David Suzuki puts it, "We have evolved from naked ape to superspecies." This first episode from his 1999 IDEAS series, The Naked Ape, explores the impact of human culture on the natural world. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Aug-01 • 71 minutes Chrisoula Andreou, "Choosing Well: The Good, the Bad, and the Trivial" (Oxford UP, 2023) It is common to think that rational agency involves acting in ways that, given one’s options, maximize the satisfaction of one’s preferences. This intuitive understanding has generated a wide-ranging literature about the ways in which individuals routinely fail to be rational in the proposed sense: they make choices that not only do not maximize their preference satisfaction, but actually undermine or defeat their aims. Maybe we’re not rational animals after all? In Choosing Well: The Good, The Bad, and The... (@NewBooksPhil) |
| 2023-Aug-01 • 57 minutes Exercise Western philosophy started… at the gym. In episode 83 of Overthink, Ellie and David tackle the philosophy of workouts, from Plato’s days as a wrestler to the modern loneliness of a solitary bench press. As they discuss the role of exercise — which the Greeks called gymnastics — in building bodies and training souls, they consider the ancient Olympics, the cravings for health and beauty that guide us through what David calls the "Protestant work-out ethic," and Jean Baudrillard's thoughts abou... (@overthink_pod • @ellieanderphd • @DrPenaGuzman1) |
| 2023-Jul-31 • 194 minutes #158 – Holden Karnofsky on how AIs might take over even if they're no smarter than humans, and his 4-part playbook for AI risk Back in 2007, Holden Karnofsky cofounded GiveWell, where he sought out the charities that most cost-effectively helped save lives. He then cofounded Open Philanthropy, where he oversaw a team making billions of dollars’ worth of grants across a range of areas: pandemic control, criminal justice reform, farmed animal welfare, and making AI safe, among others. This year, having learned about AI for years and observed recent events, he's narrowing his focus once again, this time on making the transition to adv... (@80000Hours) |
| 2023-Jul-31 • 51 minutes Madeleine de Scudéry’s Illustrious Women: Interview with Allauren Samantha Forbes In this episode, Olivia speaks with Allauren Samantha Forbes, an assistant professor in philosophy and gender and social justice at McMaster University. We discuss the thought of the French philosopher and novelist Madeleine de Scudéry, who lived fro... (@olivbransc) |
| 2023-Jul-31 • 77 minutes #815 Rebecca Sear: Demography, Family Structures, National IQs, and the Evolutionary Social Sciences Dr. Rebecca Sear is a demographer and anthropologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), teaching demography and researching human reproductive behavior from an | evolutionary perspective. She is particularly interested in taking a comparative perspective to understanding human reproductive behavior, and exploring why such behavior varies between, as well as within, | populations. | | In this episode, we start by talking about the study of human demography, and what we can learn... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Jul-31 • 11 minutes Robert Audi, Virtue Ethics As A Resource In Business - Six Dimensions Of Virtue This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American philosopher Robert Audi's article, "Virtue Ethics as a Resource in Business" It focuses specifically on the six dimensions he identifies as involved in a virtue. These are: Field; Target; Beneficiaries; Agential Understanding; Motivation; and Grounding. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - ww... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Jul-31 • 97 minutes Patrick Brooks on the Origin of (Some) Conspiracy Theories M interviews Patrick Brooks, author of the forthcoming paper "On the origins of conspiracy theories" (Philosophical Studies: https://philpapers.org/rec/BROOTO-6). — ... can contact us at: podc[email protected] Why not support The Podcaster's Gu... (@PodGuideCon • @monkeyfluids) |
| 2023-Jul-31 • 22 minutes Podcast episode 35: Interview with Nick Thieberger on historical documentation and archiving In this interview, we talk to Nick Thieberger about the value of historical documentation for linguistic research, and how this documentation can be preserved and made accessible today and in the future in digital form. Download | Spotify | Apple…Read more › (@hiphilangsci • @TeapotLinguist) |
| 2023-Jul-31 • 262 minutes 245 | Solo: The Crisis in Physics I talk about why there's not really a crisis in physics, although there definitely are ways the field could improve. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2023-Jul-31 • 48 minutes Ep. 322: Schelling on Art vs. Nature (Part Two) Continuing on "On the Relation Between the Plastic Arts and Nature" (1807) and Part 6 of System of Transcendental Idealism (1800). We talk sculpture vs. painting and why art is the direct, intuitive way to achieve the insight that philosophy can only... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2023-Jul-31 • 54 minutes 2022 CBC Massey Lectures | # 4: On Sex and Gender In his fourth Massey lecture, Tomson Highway explores some of the limits monotheism imposes our understanding of the human body and gender. In the world of Indigenous peoples, Highway writes, "the circle of pantheism has space for any number of genders" — an idea with fresh relevance for understanding our own times. *This episode originally aired on Nov. 17, 2022. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Jul-31 • 116 minutes #248 - Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of A Divided Land: A Dialogue with Jacob Mikanowski In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Jacob Mikanowski about the past and present history of Eastern Europe. They define the contours of Eastern Europe and why this region is often forgotten. They talk about the Slavs possibly originating from Romania, Ashkenazi Jews, Paganism, Christianity, and Judaism in Eastern Europe. They talk about Muslim majority countries in Eastern Europe, impact of the Ottoman Empire, the “almost empire” of Poland-Lithuania, and Transylvania. They also discuss langua... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2023-Jul-31 • 36 minutes The Philosophy of The Godfather Trilogy Gwendolyn Dolske and Rudy Salo welcome philosophers Richard Greene and Joshua Heter to discuss the film The Godfather. What philosophical lessons and ideas come through in the film? How are we to understand justice? Loyalty?... (@InTheDetailsPod • @GDolske • @SaloRudy) |
| 2023-Jul-30 • 56 minutes Imagine There’s No Gender | Holly Lawford-Smith (with Raja Halwani) Would the world be better if we didn’t recognize genders? | | In such a world, there would be males and females, but nothing associated with what it means to be male or female other than biological facts. Men and women would be equally likely to be social leaders. And there would be no stereotypically male or female behavior. | | In this world, there’d be true sex equality, and, it seems, no need for trans activists. Should we fight for such a world? (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2023-Jul-30 • 32 minutes 073 - Who Needs Philosophy? - You Do! Developing one's own philosophy of life can be one of the most rewarding experiences. ll can serve as the basis for a productive and happy experience in this world. What many don’t realize is that our beliefs, values, and actions are based on a grounding in a particular philosophy, whether we understand it or not. Examining the underpinnings of our concept of self and the world can be a fruitful exercise. It is better to actively choose one's philosophy of life rather than have it handed to us by... (@CunningofGeist) |
| 2023-Jul-30 • 117 minutes 121 - Julian Barbour: Thermodynamics, Boltzmann Brains, and a New Theory of Time Julian Barbour is a physicist working in the foundations of physics and quantum gravity, with a special interest in time and the history of science. In this episode, Julian and Robinson discuss thermodynamics and the arrows of time, including a new theory of time developed by Julian and his collaborators, which is laid out in his book, The Janus Point: A New Theory of Time. If you’re interested in the foundations of physics—which you absolutely should be—then please check out the John Bell Institute (Julian... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2023-Jul-30 • 69 minutes Dan "Nitro" Clark - Cheating Death, Loving Life: Muscles, Mayhem, and Meaning | STM Podcast #181 On episode 181, we welcome Dan ‘Nitro’ Clark to discuss being one of the main athletes on American Gladiators, how watching his brother die instilled in him an obsession with success, the difference between healthy and unhealthy perfectionism,... (@seize_podcast • @EgoEndsNow • @leonscafe31) |
| 2023-Jul-30 • 125 minutes The Popperian Podcast #28 – Nicholas Maxwell – ‘Our Fundamental Problem’ This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Nicholas Maxwell. They speak about Maxwell’s agreements and disagreements with Popper, the metaphysical assumption that there is a unity of knowledge and... (@JedLeaHenry) |
| 2023-Jul-30 • 54 minutes Episode 120, The Mystery of Existence (Part II - Further Analysis and Discussion) Welcome to ‘Episode 120 (Part II of II)’, where we continue our live debate – and take audience questions – at the Royal Institution Threate. (@ThePanpsycast • @_JackSymes • @MrMarleyTeach) |
| 2023-Jul-29 • 9 minutes Robert Audi, Virtue Ethics As A Resource In Business - Five Contexts Of Application This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American philosopher Robert Audi's article, "Virtue Ethics as a Resource in Business" It focuses specifically on five of what Audi calls contexts of application for virtue ethics: aspiration, prohibition, exhortation, discovery, and justification 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.co... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Jul-29 • 15 minutes Angela Davis’ ”The Prison Industrial Complex” In this episode, I present Angela Davis' "The Prison Industrial Complex." If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphiloso... @DavidGuignion IG: @theory... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2023-Jul-28 • 12 minutes 141: Philosophy and 1984: Part 3 This third installment of the Summer Series returns to 1984 where Winston and Julia are becoming increasingly entangled in a dangerous conspiracy against The Party. | A free copy of 1984 can be found here: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021... | Send over your questions, comments, and ideas for future episodes to: [email protected] | Image Attribution: By Photographed by Victor Grigas - From EN WP: 1, Public Domain, ttps://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php... | (@MillikinU) |
| 2023-Jul-28 • 63 minutes 120 - Simon Blackburn: Vanity, Narcissism, Lust, and Pride Simon Blackburn was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. This is Simon’s second appearance on the show. In episode 68, Simon and Robinson discussed metaethics and moral realism. In this episode, they talk about his latest books, Lust and Mirror, Mirror, with special attention to toxic vanity, the tale of Narcissus, and pride. | | Lust: https://a.co/d/9dcOem9 | | Mirror, Mirror: http... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2023-Jul-28 • 93 minutes #814 Christopher Ferrie - Quantum Bullsh*t: How to Ruin Your Life with Advice from Quantum Physics Dr. Christopher Ferrie is an Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney and Centre for Quantum Software and Information. His research interests include quantum estimation and control, and, in particular, the use of machine learning to solve statistical problems in quantum information science. He is the author of several books, the latest one being Quantum Bullsh*t: How to Ruin Your Life with Advice from Quantum Physics. | | In this episode, we focus on Quantum Bullsh*t. We discuss what “qu... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Jul-28 • 11 minutes Robert Audi, Virtue Ethics As A Resource In Business - Virtue Ethics As A Theory This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American philosopher Robert Audi's article, "Virtue Ethics as a Resource in Business" It focuses specifically on his general overview about virtue ethics as a moral theory, looking at whether it can provide standards, what sort of standards it provides, and how it does so. 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 BuyMeACo... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Jul-28 • 28 minutes Why time doesn't pass Most of us experience time as something that passes, or flows like a river - or at least we think we do. Could it be that the sense of time passing is just an illusion? This week we're getting to grips with a theory of time that denies the reality of "flow" - and we're asking why time seems to speed up or slow down in certain situations. (@DavidPZone) |
| 2023-Jul-28 • 12 minutes RLP Special: The Sea Within (Refreshed) The Summer of the supernatural continues. In this episode we revisit and refresh a pervious episode, The Sea Within. Perhaps the supernatural isn’t so far from the natural; perhaps what we call natural is supernatural from a certain... (@RedLetterPhil) |
| 2023-Jul-28 • 54 minutes The New World Disorder | The End of America The U.S. is at a turning point and experts say the country hasn't been this divided since the Civil War. Some are predicting the end of American democracy, while others claim the potential for political violence looms. IDEAS contributor Melissa Gismondi explores where the country might be headed and what — if anything — can save it. *This episode is part of our series, The New World Disorder. It originally aired on Sept 28, 2022. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Jul-28 • 49 minutes Tenure The HBS hosts discuss the pros and cons of tenure.There are many good ideological reasons to defend tenure in higher education, not least of which among them is that tenure is perhaps the only institutional guard that society has established to protect its researchers, scientists, and intellectuals against the pressures of the market. That’s no small thing. But we also understand that, to the non-academic public, tenure may seem like nothing more than a guarantee that haughty academics with cushy jobs can’t... (@hotelbarpodcast • @DrLeighMJohnson • @c_fpeterson • @rickleephilos) |
| 2023-Jul-28 • 59 minutes 70 | How Does Propaganda Work? w/ Dr. Megan Hyska In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Megan Hyska to discuss her work on propaganda. She takes us through the history of the term propaganda, what makes propaganda a distinctly political concept, and how propaganda helps create or inhibit group agency. She shows why thinking that assumes propaganda can only work by manipulating our irrationality fails to help us see that propaganda can be effective even when it does not trick or deceive us. This is a great episode for those of you interested in the relation... (@leftofphil • @whitherutopia • @oglynwil • @classreductress) |
| 2023-Jul-28 • 70 minutes Re-run: Episode 55 - Christopher Snyder on Tolkien and Virtue Ethics Please join us for the most popular of our re-runs thus far. It's the return of Episode 55 with Professor Christopher Snyder on Tolkien and Virtue Ethics! In this episode, I am joined by Christopher Snyder, professor of history and director of British Studies at Mississippi State University, to discuss J.R.R. Tolkien's fiction and virtue ethics. We discuss Tolkien's background , training, academic work and influences, how to think about his fiction and its enduring value, and what role virtue pla... (@eudaimoniapod • @jennfrey) |
| 2023-Jul-28 • 52 minutes Episode 184 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 36 - Chapter 14 - The New Virtues 07 Episode 184 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 36 - Chapter 14 - The New Virtues 07Welcome to Episode 184 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the only 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 Ep... (@NewEpicurean) |
| 2023-Jul-27 • 14 minutes Best Philosophy Books (According to me) In this episode, I present the best philosophy books according to me lol. 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: @th... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2023-Jul-27 • 56 minutes #813 Marissa Harrison - Just as Deadly: The Psychology of Female Serial Killers Dr. Marissa Harrison is Associate Professor of Psychology in the School of Behavioral Sciences and Education, and Interim Chair of Social Sciences and Psychology at Penn State Harrisburg. She is a research psychologist who investigates serial murder, and interest in serial murder, from an evolutionary and other psychological perspectives. She is the author of Just as Deadly: The Psychology of Female Serial Killers. | In this episode, we focus on Just as Deadly. We start by talking about statistics on serial... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Jul-27 • 37 minutes S4 Ep1: Brain injury and rehabilitation with Jenny Clarke and Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg Episode 1: Brain injury and rehabilitation | | In the first episode of the new series, host Professor Belinda Lennox talks to Jenny Clarke, CEO and co-founder of the charity SameYou. | | SameYou’s vision is to transform the way brain injury survivors and their loved ones are supported through emotional, mental health and cognitive recovery services, and was founded following Jenny’s daughter Emilia’s experiences of brain injury and recovery. | | They are joined by Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg, Director ... (@PhilFacOx) |
| 2023-Jul-27 • 69 minutes Heavy Metal Philosophy with David Burke My guest this week is David Burke, a PhD student at Bathe’s Spa University, with a focus on studying the philosophy of heavy metal. He has written on the Neitzchien elements of heavy metal and argues that metal should be taken seriously as a philosophical art form. Convocation: None Music by GW Rodriguez Sibling Pods: Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/ Filmed Live Musicals Pod: https://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/thepo... us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid If you enjoy the show, plea... (@ETVPod) |
| 2023-Jul-27 • 57 minutes Is idleness good for us? School’s out for summer. For many, holidays are a chance to rest, unwind and empty the mind of work. For others, the long break brings additional pressures and stresses, such as childcare. It’s a period when inaction and inactivity are to be celebrated and envied. What does that reveal about our priorities? During the pandemic, many people got a glimpse of what it was like to live more simply. Aristotle writes that the greatest possible human good is contemplation, a life lived remote from endless activi... (@BBCRadio4) |
| 2023-Jul-27 • 54 minutes The Shock of the New | The Year 1913: The World on the Brink The Ottoman Empire is at war in the Balkans. There's a revolution in Mexico and a coup in Istanbul. Women worldwide agitate for suffrage, and Rabindranath Tagore becomes the first non-western writer to win the Nobel Prize. Part four in our series, The Shock of the New, exploring how change happens. *This episode originally aired on Nov. 3, 2022. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Jul-27 • 81 minutes Ep. 62 - Moral Saints (Celebrating Susan Wolf) A new (mini) series! This begins a 6 part series on the moral philosophy of Susan Wolf in conjunction with a graduate seminar I took at Rice in the Fall of 2022. This episode is a discussion of her famous essay "Moral Saints." (@Jordan_C_Myers) |
| 2023-Jul-27 • 54 minutes Does AI pose a threat to human life — and if so, what kind? Are the doomsday scenarios associated with Artificial “Super” Intelligence distracting us from the ways that the pervasive use of AI is already corrupting our use of language and the transmission of knowledge? (@RadioNational) |
| 2023-Jul-27 • 101 minutes #247 - Kant's Influence on Biology: A Dialogue with Andrew Jones In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Andrew Jones about the impact that Kant had on biology. They discuss philosophy of science, Kant’s influence on biology, and how transcendental idealism of Kant impacts biology. They talk about Kant’s idea of the natural world and reality, Straussian interactions with Kant, the need for distinct disciplines, and some spiritualism in biology. They also talk about the impact of judgement on science, Kant and Hume, Kant’s relevance on Darwin, on biological o... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2023-Jul-26 • 12 minutes Philip Dick, The Android And Human - Concerns About Drugs - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's speech "The Android and the Human", given at the Vancouver SF Convention at the University of British Columbia, in March 1972. It focuses specifically on Dick's views on the use of drugs, both street drugs and prescribed drugs, the latter of which he views as more problematic, and used to reduce people to analogues of androids To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site ... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Jul-26 • 92 minutes 119 - Mark Solms: Neuropsychoanalysis and the Source of Consciousness Mark Solms is professor of Neuropsychology at the Neuroscience Institute at the University of Cape Town. He is also a psychoanalyst, and while Mark’s early research focused on the brain mechanisms of sleep and dreaming, he is currently working on the neural correlates of consciousness and affect. In this episode, Robinson and Mark talk about his new book The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness. More particularly, they discuss the hard problem of consciousness and how recent advances in n... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
 2023-Jul-26 • 45 minutesDoes Nothingness Exist? Aristotle argued almost 2,400 years ago that a perfect vacuum could never exist. Today, the concept of nothingness figures at least implicitly into almost every theory of modern physics. In this episode closing out season 2 of “The Joy of Why,” the theoretical physicist Isabel Garcia Garcia of New York University and the Institute for Advanced Study talks with host Steven Strogatz about the impact of quantum mechanics on the definition of a “true vacuum,” the possibility of false vacuums, how the concept of... (@QuantaMagazine • @stevenstrogatz) |
| 2023-Jul-26 • 42 minutes Universal Basic Income with Professor Guy Standing (part 2) - how do we practically make it happen, and what will the impact be? A follow on to last episode where we discuss Basic Income with Guy Standing. Last episode we talked about the moral basis for Basic Income, this week we follow on with a moral practical approach. How will it be funded, what will the impact be, how/when are we likely to see this, etc. Guy is a fantastic and fun guest, so it's definitely worth listening to the follow up here. Support the show: Please leave us a review! Spotify even now let's you do it - see that little star icon - go on, give it a click. Revi... (@MoralityofThe • @AnthonyNCollias) |
| 2023-Jul-26 • 78 minutes Paul Davies on What’s Eating the Universe (Part 2) Astrophysicist Paul Davies continues the conversation on his new book, What’s Eating the Universe? And Other Cosmic Questions. From Consciousness, the Cosmic Horizon, and the fate of our universe to if there's meaning to existence, the Doomsday Argum... (@CloserToTruth • @RobertLawrKuhn) |
| 2023-Jul-26 • 59 minutes Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded The owner of the Comedy Cellar shares his views on the evolving comedy scene. (@tylercowen) |
| 2023-Jul-26 • 30 minutes Paul Davies on What’s Eating the Universe (Part 1) Astrophysicist Paul Davies talks his new book, What’s Eating the Universe? And Other Cosmic Questions. In it, he covers teleology in the cosmos, the fine-tuning of our universe, multiple universes, how to understand reality, dark energy, dark matter,... (@CloserToTruth • @RobertLawrKuhn) |
| 2023-Jul-26 • 80 minutes Jacob Howland on Glaucon's Fate & Plato's Republic This week, the guys are joined by Jacob Howland, author of Glaucon's Fate: History, Myth, and Character in Plato's Republic, among other impressive works, and the McFarlin Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Tulsa. Howland goes... (@thenewthinkery • @alexpriou • @GregMcBrayer3 • @Tempest1610) |
| 2023-Jul-26 • 50 minutes The Marvel-ous Mr. Cheadle 🦶🏽🦶🏽🦶🏽 Paul Giamatti and Stephen Asma go deep with Don Cheadle and explore the importance of improv to combat aging, miming to Zapruder films, religion to tame the ego, gorilla trekking, and Paul’s desire to be considered for foot fetish sites. 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. Don Cheadle is an award-winning actor, director, activist, musician and golfer. His new Marvel spy series Sec... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2023-Jul-26 • 54 minutes George McCullagh — Canada's first media mogul you've never heard of The Globe and Mail's founder George McCullagh once had the ear of the entire nation — but despite his remarkable rise to power, few know his name. Historian Mark Bourrie traces his legacy in the book, Big Men Fear Me. *Please be advised this episode contains discussion of suicide. It originally aired on March 6, 2023. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Jul-25 • 80 minutes Episode 265: Kekulé (Oh Yeah!) The Summer of Cormac McCarthy continues – this time we dive into his one piece of non-fiction, the short essay “The Kekulé Problem.” How does our unconscious mind solve problems that conscious deliberation can’t crack? Why does... (@verybadwizards • @peez • @tamler) |
 2023-Jul-25 • 120 minutesDonald Hoffman: What is Reality? Donald Hoffman is a cognitive scientist at UC Irvine and author of 'The Case Against Reality.' He believes that the world we experience is an illusion, whilst ultimate reality is composed of networks of conscious agents. Keith and Philip probe Professor Hoffman's view from their very different perspectives on the nature of consciousness. | Here's the paper we discuss at length which argues that Donald's argument from evolution is self-defeating: https://link.springer.com/article/10.100... | Here's Donald's ... (@keithfrankish • @Philip_Goff) |
| 2023-Jul-25 • 114 minutes Eric Schwitzgebel : Is the United States Conscious? Eric Schwitzgebel is professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. His research interests include philosophy of psychology, philosophy of mind, moral psychology, classical Chinese philosophy, epistemology, metaphilosophy, and metaphysics. He has also written a number of pieces of philosophical science fiction, which have been published in leading science fiction magazines. | | (@keithfrankish • @Philip_Goff) |
| 2023-Jul-25 • 70 minutes 162: "What I learned from that power was that I didn't want it" - Jo-Anne McArthur - Photojournalist - Sentientism Jo-Anne McArthur is a photojournalist, public speaker, animal rights activist and author. She is best known for her We Animals Media project, a media agency and photography project documenting human relationships with animals. Jo-Anne offers presentations about human relationships with animals in educational and other environments and provides photographs and other media for those working to help animals. | | Jo-Anne was the primary subject of the 2013 documentary The Ghosts in Our Machine, directed by Liz... (@sentientism • @JamieWoodhouse) |
| 2023-Jul-25 • 19 minutes Philip Dick, The Android And Human - State Order And Youthful Disobedience - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's speech "The Android and the Human", given at the Vancouver SF Convention at the University of British Columbia, in March 1972. It focuses specifically on how some of the characteristics and motivations of the present generation of children and young adults in his time can function to resist being reduced to analogues to androids ("androidization"). To support my ongoing work, ... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Jul-25 • 24 minutes Material girls - philosophies of gender | Kathleen Stock Philosopher Kathleen Stock shares her perspective on the current gender identity discourse. (@IAI_TV) |
| 2023-Jul-25 • 47 minutes The Stopped Clock Effect (Back to the Conspiracy) Josh and M revisit episode 28 (and a few others) to (re)investigate cases where someone got it right about a conspiracy, only to then go on to have a career where they seem to always get it wrong... — You can contact us at: [email protected]... (@PodGuideCon • @monkeyfluids) |
| 2023-Jul-25 • 54 minutes Suzuki's Survival Guide | Eco-nomics "Growth is what we've come to live for. It has been the inspiration for our political and economic systems," says David Suzuki in his 1989 series, It's a Matter of Survival. In this episode, Suzuki explores the clash between ecological and economic objectives and how it came to pass that the environment is seen as an infinite sinkhole as the quest for profit and growth dominates political and business interests. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Jul-25 • 66 minutes Ep. 62 The Philosophy of Love, Part 1 Around 2500 years ago in Ancient Greece, Empedocles contemplated the essential questions of the universe, including the role of love and strife. Empedocles is known as a pre-Socratic philosopher, although he was primarily a poet. In his surviving works, On Nature and Purifications, Empedocles posits that the cosmic powers of Love and Strife govern the four indestructible elements of the universe. Love unifies the elements with each other and draws like to like. Since then, philosophers, poets, and thinkers ... (@opendoorphil • @d_parsonage) |
| 2023-Jul-24 • 79 minutes #157 – Ezra Klein on existential risk from AI and what DC could do about it In Oppenheimer, scientists detonate a nuclear weapon despite thinking there's some 'near zero' chance it would ignite the atmosphere, putting an end to life on Earth. Today, scientists working on AI think the chance their work puts an end to humanity is vastly higher than that.In response, some have suggested we launch a Manhattan Project to make AI safe via enormous investment in relevant R&D. Others have suggested that we need international organisations modelled on those that slowed the proliferation... (@80000Hours) |
| 2023-Jul-24 • 94 minutes #812 Mélusine Boon-Falleur: The Impact of Resources on Psychology, and Climate Change ------------------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 | | This show is sponsored by Enlites, Learning & Development do... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Jul-24 • 17 minutes Philip Dick, The Android And Human - Human Beings And Androids - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's speech "The Android and the Human", given at the Vancouver SF Convention at the University of British Columbia, in March 1972. It focuses specifically on the ways in which he thinks genuinely human beings (those who have not been reduced to androids) can be distinguished from androids. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Jul-24 • 67 minutes Grassroots Secular Organizing with Devon Graham My guest this week is Devon Graham, one of the Assistant state directors for American Atheists in Florida. We discuss the challenges of secular organizing in deeply red territories and conflicts within movement secularism over the relationship between secular values and social justice. Convocation: None Music by GW Rodriguez Sibling Pods: Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/ Filmed Live Musicals Pod: https://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/thepo... us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid If you... (@ETVPod) |
| 2023-Jul-24 • 97 minutes 244 | Katie Elliott on Metaphysics, Chance, and Explanation I talk with philosopher Katie Elliott about the metaphysics of laws, chances, and time travel. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2023-Jul-24 • 157 minutes Episode 37 - Technics and Time (Stiegler) with Daniel Ross Daniel Ross obtained his doctorate from Monash University in 2002. He is the author of Violent Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and Psychopolitical Anaphylaxis: Steps Towards a Metacosmics (Open Humanities Press, 2021 -free to download).... (@lifeplatoscave • @MarioVeen) |
| 2023-Jul-24 • 48 minutes Ep. 322: Schelling on Art vs. Nature (Part One) Discussing "On the Relation Between the Plastic Arts and Nature" (1807) and Part 6 of System of Transcendental Idealism (1800). Is the goal of art to imitate nature? Only if that means showing the divine, ideal, dynamic aspect of the subject matter... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2023-Jul-24 • 54 minutes 2022 CBC Massey Lectures | # 3: On Humour In his third CBC Massey lecture, Tomson Highway invites us into the Cree world of scatological, wild laughter. He invokes the Trickster — a central figure to mythologies of many Indigenous communities across Turtle Island. The audience is invited to experience the world through joy and laughter. *This episode originally aired on Nov. 16, 2022. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Jul-24 • 60 minutes #246 - Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds: A Dialogue with Mackenzie Cooley, Anna Toledano, & Duygu Yildirim In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Mackenzie Cooley, Anna Toledano, & Duygu Yildirim about natural things in early modern worlds. They discuss how they wrote and edited their book together, Bezoar stones and their medicinal purposes, and ambergris and its medicinal purposes along with aesthetic uses. They also talk about coffee in the middle Ottoman Empire and the relationship of coffee with the body. They discuss Felix de Azara as an engineer turned naturalist, use of local terms and label... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2023-Jul-23 • 78 minutes Andy Norman - Mental Immunity & Infectious Ideas: Debunking Disinformation and Cult Leaders | STM Podcast #180 On episode 180, we welcome Andy Norman to discuss the principles of mental immunity, how ideas spread like viruses, why critics of the paradigm believe the fear of widespread misinformation is another overblown moral panic, learning how to play role... (@seize_podcast • @EgoEndsNow • @leonscafe31) |
| 2023-Jul-23 • 37 minutes Hate Speech | Mark Oppenheimer (Live at St Andrews) Mark Oppenheimer presents a live seminar at St Andrews. The talk features footage from a prominent hate speech trial that Mark appeared in as a lawyer. What is hate speech? What is the value of free speech? Do some groups deserve special protection against hate speech? | | 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/BrainAm... (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2023-Jul-23 • 109 minutes 118 - Slavoj Žižek & Sean Carroll: Quantum Physics, the Multiverse, and Time Travel Slavoj Žižek is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New York University, and a senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana’s Department of Philosophy. He was also the guest for Robinson’s Podcast #109 on psychoanalysis, wokeness, racism, and a hundred other topics. 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 Ca... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2023-Jul-23 • 17 minutes Philip Dick, The Android And Human - Reversibility, Animation, Technology - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's speech "The Android and the Human", given at the Vancouver SF Convention at the University of British Columbia, in March 1972. It focuses specifically on Dick's view that the distinction between the mechanical or electrical and the animate is beginning to break down in late modernity. He also suggests that in addition to looking to machines, computers, and androids to understa... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Jul-23 • 21 minutes HoP 426 - A Face Without a Heart - Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Individualism How the Renaissance turn towards individual identity is reflected in Shakespeare's most famous play. (@HistPhilosophy) |
| 2023-Jul-22 • 79 minutes Creative Writers & Daydreaming Ryan and Todd analyze Freud's essay "Creative Writings and Daydreaming." They look first at the theory of fantasy that Freud develops in this essay and then turn to his conception of what generates the work of art, discussing it in terms of the current strike in Hollywood. In their concluding remarks, they deal with problems that Freud runs into in his theorizing here. (@UVMcas) |
 2023-Jul-22 • 79 minutesTHE ANCIENT NEAR EAST With Amanda Podany I'm joined by Amanda Podany, author of Weavers, Scribes, and Kings, to chat all things Ancient Near East. From her 'microhistory' method, to the culture, religion, gender norms, politics, and even food of the period. (After a longish pause in episodes I'm coming back with two at once!) (@PolPhilPod) |
| 2023-Jul-22 • 77 minutes THE STATE With Philip Pettit After a content creation sabbatical, the podcast is back! Friend of the Podcast Philip Pettit returns to discuss his latest book - the State - we discuss his genealogy of norms, laws, and nations. (@PolPhilPod) |
| 2023-Jul-22 • 57 minutes Episode 183 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 35 - Chapter 14 - The New Virtues 06 - Honesty Welcome to Episode 183 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the only 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) |
| 2023-Jul-22 • 33 minutes Guy Debord’s ”The Society of the Spectacle” (Part 2/2) In this episode, I cover the second half of Guy Debord's "The Society of the Spectacle." If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphiloso... paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Twitter: @DavidGu... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2023-Jul-22 • 30 minutes Episode #183 ... Is ChatGPT really intelligent? Today we discuss ideas from John Searle and Noam Chomsky and consider several questions surrounding machine intelligence. Get more: Website: Patreon: Philosophize This! Clips: Be social: Twitter: Instagram: TikTok: (@iamstephenwest) |
| 2023-Jul-21 • 50 minutes #327 — Transformative Experiences Sam Harris speaks with L.A. Paul about the nature of transformative experiences. They discuss how certain experiences change the self, the nature of regret, changing belief systems, conspiracy thinking, empathy, doing good in the world, our... (@) |
| 2023-Jul-21 • 57 minutes #811 Elijah Millgram: Practical Reasoning and Ethics Dr. Elijah Millgram is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. His research focuses on rationality, theoretical reasoning, and practical reasoning. He is the author of six books, including Practical Induction, Varieties of Practical Reasoning, Ethics Done Right: Practical Reasoning as a Foundation for Moral Theory, and John Stuart Mill and the Meaning of Life. | In this episode, we talk about practical reasoning. We start by discussing what practical reasoning is, and the questions it applies t... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Jul-21 • 88 minutes 117 - Anna Lembke: Dopamine, Drug Addiction, and Recovery Dr. Anna Lembke received her undergraduate degree in Humanities from Yale University and and her medical degree from Stanford University. She is currently Professor and Medical Director of Addiction Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She is also Program Director of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Fellowship, and Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. In this episode, Robinson and Anna discuss her latest, New York Times bestselling book Dopamine Nation: Finding B... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2023-Jul-21 • 12 minutes PREMIUM-PEL Tech Nightcap July 2023 Mark, Wes, and Seth talk about how we might cover philosophy of technology, and other areas like medical ethics, business ethics, environmental ethics, etc. Do we remember things that we recorded a few years back? What summer films are we looking... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2023-Jul-21 • 11 minutes 570: Hypatia of Alexandria More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/hyp... of Alexandria, late antiquity public figure and scholar, made significant contributions to mathematics, philosophy, and astronomy. Her embrace of Neoplatonism was seen as such a threat to the political elite in Alexandria that she was murdered by a mob of Christians. So what made her ideas so dangerous and revolutionary for her time? As a woman in Ancient Egypt, how did she exert power over her own narrative? And should she really be considered a "martyr" ... (@philtalkradio) |
| 2023-Jul-21 • 17 minutes J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories - Eucatastrophe, Evangelium, And Joy - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century English author, linguist, and literary critic J.R.R. Tolkien's essay On Fairy Stories It focuses specifically on his discussion, at the very end of the work, of what he terms "eucatastrophe" (as opposed to duscatastrophe) as a function of fairy stories, the "happy ending" that occurs through pain, suffering, loss, but not a final defeat. There is a joy both for sub-creators and for readers or listeners of the stories, and it is connected to the good ne... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Jul-21 • 57 minutes The Morality of Climate Activism Wimbledon, the Ashes, the Proms and George Osborne’s wedding have all been interrupted by ‘Just Stop Oil’ protesters in recent days. Several areas of London have been brought to a standstill, provoking the ire of motorists and leading to multiple arrests. ‘Just Stop Oil’ describes itself as a “nonviolent civil resistance group demanding the UK Government stop licensing all new oil, gas and coal projects”. The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he wouldn't be “giving in to eco-zealots” disrupting the British su... (@BBCRadio4) |
| 2023-Jul-21 • 39 minutes Exploring Tourette's Tourette Syndrome is not well understood, even by clinicians, and it raises a host of fascinating philosophical questions around volition and free will. Is Tourette's-related behaviour intentional? And if it is, should it be understood as action that carries moral responsibility? (@DavidPZone) |
| 2023-Jul-21 • 54 minutes The New World Disorder | The Nature of Nationalism Today’s nationalist leaders employ an exclusionary nationalism that can stoke fear, insularity, and hate. Yet political scientists Maya Tudor and Harris Mylonas argue it's important to understand nationalism as a powerful ideology that can be harnessed for national and global good. *This episode is part of our series, The New World Disorder. It originally aired on Sept. 27, 2022. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Jul-21 • 69 minutes Prestige TV The HBS try to decipher what makes prestige TV "prestigious." The 21st Century hasn’t given us a lot of reason to recommend it so far—terror, war, fascism, plague, climate disaster, and an impending technopocalyps... but, hey, at least we’ve had good tv! Often referred to as “Peak TV,” the so-called second (or “new”) Golden Age of Television began in the very late 90’s and really cemented its influence in the first decade of the 2000’s. The plots were complex and protracted, not episodic. The protagonists w... (@hotelbarpodcast • @DrLeighMJohnson • @c_fpeterson • @rickleephilos) |
| 2023-Jul-21 • 21 minutes #66: The only productivity hack you need We all love a bit of productivity porn. What could be wrong with learning about how to get better at getting things done? Well, quite a few things, as it happens. Seeking out the latest productivity tools and techniques can be a way to mask the anxieties you have around your work. To avoid the pitfalls, you need to look inward and think about how you go about getting stuff done. Gather round, friends, and let's dive in. (@AcademicImp • @rebecca_roache) |
| 2023-Jul-21 • 64 minutes 94. What Maisie Knew (w/ Daniela Taplin Lundberg) Joining us to talk about What Maisie Knew (2012) is the film's producer, Daniela Taplin Lundberg (whose feature credits include The Kids Are All Right, Beasts of No Nation, and Honey Boy)! We talk about the challenges making independent feature films, the film's portrayal of divorce and new beginnings, and how it captures the feeling of a memory. After you listen, you should check out Daniela's podcast, Hollywood Gold, a series of interviews with Hollywood producers about the stories we know and love. (@cowspod • @juskhoo) |
| 2023-Jul-21 • 72 minutes Re-run: Episode 56 - Dana Gioia on Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil We invite you to explore one of our previously aired episodes: a conversation with Dana Gioia. In this episode, I am joined by the poet and critic Dana Gioia to discuss Charles Baudelaire's famous book of poems, Les Fleurs du Mal, or The Flowers of Evil. We tackle some big questions in this episode, such as whether and how evil can be beautiful, the nature of Catholic art and poetry, original sin, and the poet as a damned figure. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Dana Gioia is an internationally accla... (@eudaimoniapod • @jennfrey) |
| 2023-Jul-20 • 82 minutes #810 Jeff McMahan: Threats to Academic Freedom, and the Journal of Controversial Ideas Dr. Jeff McMahan is Sekyra and White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He specializes in Practical Ethics, Political Philosophy, and Ethics. He is editor of the Journal of Controversial Ideas. He’s the author of books like The Morality of Nationalism, The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life, and Killing in War. | | In this episode, we talk about academic freedom. We start by discussing the role of universities, and if political activism is incompatible with academ... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Jul-20 • 12 minutes Achille Mbembe vs. Michel Foucault In this episode, I highlight the differences between Achille Mbembe's notion of necropolitics and Michel Foucault's notion of biopolitics. If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilos.... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2023-Jul-20 • 57 minutes Tips for Practical Stoicism in Everyday Life Elliot Chung, a student at Phillips Academy Andover, interviewed me recently for his new Philosophy for the Modern Mind podcast, and we decided to share our conversation on this podcast as well. We talk in particular about how Stoicism could be of practical benefit to young people, and the challenges they face today. Thank you for reading Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life. This post is public so feel free to share it.Thank you for reading Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life. This post is public so f... (@DonJRobertson) |
| 2023-Jul-20 • 54 minutes The Shock of the New | The Year 1833: Evolution and Entrenchment Britain abolishes slavery — but consolidates and expands its empire, especially in Africa and the Caribbean. Industrialization transforms the nature of work, communication and travel. The inventors of the computer meet for the first time, and Charles Darwin has a revelation that will revolutionize science and challenge religions. Part three in our series exploring “hinge moments” in history. *This episode originally aired on Nov. 2, 2022. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Jul-20 • 54 minutes Are cluster munitions a “lesser evil” in the war in Ukraine? Earlier this month, US President Joe Biden made the surprising decision to supply Ukraine with cluster munitions. Does the threat posed by Russia outweigh the moral considerations that place such weapons beyond the pale for many other nations? (@RadioNational) |
| 2023-Jul-20 • 52 minutes #245 - Oppenheimer: A Dialogue with Kai Bird In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue about the life and impact of J. Robert Oppenheimer. They talk about the elusive nature of Oppenheimer, how he became involved with theoretical physics, and the creation of the atomic bomb. They discuss his involvement with communism, AEC hearings, his last years, the legacy of Oppenheimer, and many more topics. Kai Bird is a historian, journalist, and writer. He is executive director and distinguished lecturer at CUNY Graduate Center's Leon Levy Center for Biog... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2023-Jul-19 • 12 minutes J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories - Escapes And Desires - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century English author, linguist, and literary critic J.R.R. Tolkien's essay On Fairy Stories It focuses specifically on his discussion of the motivations we can have for engaging in escape from the present by reading fairy stories. Some of these motivations might be framed negatively, but others are better understood in terms of basic and even primordial desires of human beings. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If ... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Jul-19 • 67 minutes 116 - Massimo Pigliucci: Pseudoscience, Conspiracy Theories, and the Public Intellectual Massimo Pigliucci is K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York, where he specializes in both ancient philosophy and the philosophy of science. In addition to a doctorate in philosophy, Massimo has a PhD in evolutionary biology. In this episode, Robinson and Massimo discuss the vast landscape between science on the one hand and pseudoscience on the other, covering how they should be distinguished, examples galore, and the role of the public intellectual in science education. Check... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
 2023-Jul-19 • 24 minutes36: "The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis", David Chalmers Recently, there has been frenzied interest in artificial intelligence and, in particular, in the issue of AI safety; there have been “open letters” signed by some of the biggest names in the tech business urging us to take seriously the existential threat posed by AI, and the UK government has just announced that it will convene the first global AI safety summit this autumn. But what is the threat here, exactly? There are risks associated with any new technology: fire burns, nuclear energy can be harnessed ... (@KimptonNye) |
| 2023-Jul-19 • 7 minutes PREVIEW - Žižek & Quantum Physics w/ Adrian Johnston LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! | This is a PREVIEW of PART TWO of our conversation with Adrian Johnston, you can hear the whole thing and support us on our Patreon getting access to all of our Patreon episodes, the Discord and our courses. | The gang is back for the final part of our conversation with Adrian Johnston. It's a big one! | We're talking Žižek's relationship with Kant, Schelling and Hegel, the Roberts (Pippin and Brandom), Quantum Physics, the genesis of subjectivity, materialism, Catherine M... (@zizekand) |
| 2023-Jul-19 • 49 minutes Universal Basic Income with Professor Guy Standing - what is the moral justification for giving everyone free money? After having previously said over and over that we'll "do UBI properly at some point", the time has come, and what better way to approach this question than including the man who quite literally wrote the book on it, Guy Standing. A professor in Economics at SOAS, who spent many years at the Internatinoal Labour Organization and founded the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), this episode is really more about Guy than us - with us questioning him on what drives the moral imperative for everyone receiving bas... (@MoralityofThe • @AnthonyNCollias) |
| 2023-Jul-19 • 65 minutes E. M. Forster's The Machine Stops This week, the guys dive into the underground world of E. M. Forster's The Machine Stops. People live in pods, communication is done almost solely by instant messaging/video conferencing, and the omnipotent Machine takes care of people's bodily and... (@thenewthinkery • @alexpriou • @GregMcBrayer3 • @Tempest1610) |
| 2023-Jul-19 • 76 minutes Episode 151: The Real and the Possible: Live at the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute, with Jacob G. Foster Jacob G. Foster joins Phil and JF to discuss art, science, and the reality of the possible. (@weirdstudies • @JF_Martel) |
| 2023-Jul-19 • 60 minutes SATANIC PANIC! 👹👹👹 This week, Paul Giamatti and Stephen Asma go down a wild rabbit hole on Satanism, a topic they find endlessly fascinating. They ruminate on everything from atheism to Aleister Crowley, pentagrams to Frankenstein. Also hear about sex magick (with a "K"). Bonus: Jimmy Page’s purported Satan worship! You don’t want to miss this deep dive into the diabolical. Paul Giamatti is an award-winning actor and producer. Stephen Asma is a professor and author specializing in the philosophy of science, religion, a... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2023-Jul-19 • 54 minutes The New Masters: 2022 Sobey Art Award How did the iconic Taj Mahal get turned into a bouncy castle? Artist and winner of the 2022 Sobey Art Award, Divya Mehra explains the meaning behind her art installation and joins the four finalists in a conversation that celebrates where new art is taking us. *This episode originally aired on Feb. 9, 2023. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Jul-19 • 27 minutes How Do Humans Differ from Other Animals? How are humans and animals different? Physically, humans and animals seem similar. Mentally, humans seem so superior. What's so special about human nature? Featuring interviews with Colin Blakemore, Barry Smith, Nicholas Humphrey, Jared Diamond, an... (@CloserToTruth • @RobertLawrKuhn) |
| 2023-Jul-19 • 64 minutes Ep. 242 - What is Philosophy and What's It Good For? w/Dr. Jared Henderson In episode 242 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Jared Henderson @_jared to discuss the nature of philosophy, both academic and public. Jared is a rising star in the YouTube philosophy sphere, did his PhD on formal theories of truth, and works as an ontologist in the tech world. Check the time stamps for the specifics of what we got into in this conversation. | | Check out Jared's fantastic YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@UC2Kyj04yISmHr1... | | Join my channel to get ac... (@trendsettercase) |
| 2023-Jul-18 • 44 minutes Being ourselves and being with others | Janne Teller, Stefan Priebe, Sophie Ward Exploring the complexities of independence vs. community in modern society. (@IAI_TV) |
| 2023-Jul-18 • 69 minutes [BONUS] Overton Windows Episode 1: Israel and Palestine A new mini-series with Tamler Sommers and Robert Wright on the range of politically acceptable discourse for a given topic and how this “Overton window” changes over time. This episode is available for free for everyone, the... (@verybadwizards • @peez • @tamler) |
| 2023-Jul-18 • 68 minutes Ep. 99: What is Love? (Part I) In this episode, Giuseppe and Anthony begin to discuss a number of general questions pertaining to this thing we call "love." Are there different types of love? Is there anything that binds the different types? What is the foundation of romantic relationships? For questions or suggestions for future episodes: [email protected]. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/publicphilosophyproject (@LoveofSophiaPOD) |
| 2023-Jul-18 • 54 minutes Suzuki's Survival Guide | How we got to this point "If we don't move now, it will be a disaster," said Lucien Bouchard in 1989 when he was the Conservative Environment Minister under Brian Mulroney. He was addressing the need to cut back on fossil fuels in the face of climate change, saying the survival of our species is at stake. In an attempt to understand the conditions that created the climate emergency, David Suzuki talks to Bouchard and others, including Stephen Lewis, Ralph Nader and historian Graeme Decarie. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Jul-18 • 55 minutes Regret Coulda, woulda, shoulda… In Overthink’s long-awaited epsiode 82, David and Ellie fret over the meaning of regret, in everything from life-altering career decisions to sloppy teenage breakups. They consider the usefulness of regret — if it has one at all — and explore its relation to a life well lived, investigating its philosophical lineage from Confucius and Aristotle to today. Can 20-year-olds regret? Can dogs? Is regret ever rational? And, when does remorse turn into existential despair?Works DiscussedAr... (@overthink_pod • @ellieanderphd • @DrPenaGuzman1) |
| 2023-Jul-17 • 15 minutes J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories - Escape's Legitimacy - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century English author, linguist, and literary critic J.R.R. Tolkien's essay On Fairy Stories It focuses specifically on his discussion of the common criticism that gets made of fantasy, science fiction, and fairy stories, namely that they are escapes from the reality of the ordinary life that we have a duty to remain with. Tolkien thinks this misguided, and offers some reasons why escape might be a reasonable and valuable thing to engage in. To support my on... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Jul-17 • 39 minutes #809 Luciano Floridi: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence for the Sustainable Development Goals Dr. Luciano Floridi is the Founding Director of the Digital Ethics Center and Professor of Cognitive Science at Yale University. His research concerns primarily Digital Ethics, the Philosophy of Information, and the Philosophy of Technology. He is editor of The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence for the Sustainable Development Goals, and author of | forthcoming The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: Principles, Challenges, and Opportunities (OUP), and The Green and the Blue: Naïve Ideas to Improve Politics i... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Jul-17 • 71 minutes 243 | Joseph Silk on Science on the Moon I talk with astrophysicist Joseph Silk about the prospects and justifications for building telescopes on the Moon. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2023-Jul-17 • 45 minutes Ep. 321: August Schlegel on Beauty (Part Two) We continue on Theory of Art, getting more into sections of the text about the relationship between beauty and purposiveness, genius, unconscious vs. conscious creation, style vs. manner, and art imitating nature. Get more at . Visit to get ad-free... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2023-Jul-17 • 54 minutes 2022 CBC Massey Lectures | # 2: On Creation In his second CBC Massey lecture, Tomson Highway questions how the universe came to be. He explores ancient Greek and Christian beliefs and suggests the Indigenous worldview offers something else: "Those who lived in ages before us... who have died, our loved ones — they live here with us, still, today, in the very air we breathe." *This episode originally aired on Nov. 15, 2022. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Jul-17 • 87 minutes #244 - Psychoanalysis: Past and Present: A Dialogue with Nancy McWilliams In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Nancy McWilliams about psychoanalysis and the evolution of psychoanalytic theory and practice. They discuss the origins of psychoanalysis and misconceptions about Freud and the evolution of psychoanalytic theory from drive theory to object relations to self psychology to relational theory. They talk about the strengths and areas of improvement for psychoanalytic clinicians, case conceptualization, level of personality organization, defenses, transference, ... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2023-Jul-16 • 84 minutes Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling - From Quacks to Cures: Inside the World of Alternative Medicine | STM Podcast #179 On episode 179, we welcome Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling to discuss the alternative medical industrial complex, the proliferation of ‘One True Cures’ and why people are attracted to them, how the elitism and esotericism of mainstream medicine... (@seize_podcast • @EgoEndsNow • @leonscafe31) |
| 2023-Jul-16 • 62 minutes What is a woman? | Alex Byrne | Oxford University Press refused to publish Alex Byrne's book on gender. We discuss whether women are adult human females and whether sex is the same as gender. | | 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 | | (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2023-Jul-16 • 125 minutes 115 - Craig Callender & Tim Maudlin: Time Travel, Time’s Arrow, and The Block Universe Craig Callender is Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Institute for Practical Ethics at UC San Diego. Tim Maudlin is Professor of Philosophy at NYU and Founder and Director of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics. Craig and Tim are leading philosophers of science and physics. Craig also appeared on episode 73, in which he and Robinson discussed pseudoscience and conspiracy theories. Tim was a guest on episode 46, which covered laws of nature, space, and free will, and episode 6... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2023-Jul-16 • 15 minutes J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories - Recovery, Loss, And Fairy Stories - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century English author, linguist, and literary critic J.R.R. Tolkien's essay On Fairy Stories It focuses specifically on his discussion near the end of the work of recovery of what has been lost (sometimes without us even realizing it) through fairy stories. He also addresses the problem many people impose upon themselves, worrying too much about originality, rather than seeing that creativity is possible even with few and often-used elements. To support my o... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Jul-16 • 56 minutes Episode 120, The Mystery of Existence (Part I - The Debate) Welcome to ‘Episode 120 (Part I of II)’, the first instalment of our live show at the Royal Institution Theatre. (@ThePanpsycast • @_JackSymes • @MrMarleyTeach) |
| 2023-Jul-16 • 19 minutes HAP 128 - Marginal Comments - bell hooks and Patricia Hill Collins We bring the story of black feminism up to the turn of the century with the incisive works of bell hooks and Patricia Hill Collins. (@HistPhilosophy • @ChikeJeffers) |
| 2023-Jul-16 • 10 minutes 514: The Arts For All? More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/art... we think of “real” art, we often think of expensive, highbrow pieces that are displayed in museums and galleries, and critiqued by the elite. In fact, people commonly lament that they don’t know enough about art to truly understand or appreciate the works that they encounter. So should art aim to be accessible to everyone? Or is it ever okay to sacrifice accessibility for other competing aims that art can pursue? Do artists have a duty to make their work m... (@philtalkradio) |
 2023-Jul-15 • 40 minutesEpisode 147: Gabriella Gonzalez discusses the intersection of algebra and programming Can abstract algebra help make it easier to write complex software? (@ElucidationsPod) |
| 2023-Jul-15 • 69 minutes “Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness” with Professor Nicholas Humphrey We experience, thus we exist. Our conscious perceptions form the foundation of our self-awareness. They play a vital role in shaping our understanding of ourselves as sentient beings: present, alive, and significant. However, what is the origin of consciousness, and how does the process of experiencing sensations and developing a sense of awareness contribute to its emergence? Is this capacity limited solely to humans? Do other animals share this ability? And what about the potential for future machines? ... (@BTG_ie) |
| 2023-Jul-15 • 39 minutes Guy Debord’s ”Society of Spectacle” (Part 1/2) In this episode, I present the first half of Guy Debord's "The Society of Spectacle." If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphiloso... paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Twitter: @DavidGuignion... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2023-Jul-15 • 52 minutes Episode 182 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 34 - Chapter 14 - The New Virtues 05 Welcome to Episode 182 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the only 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) |
| 2023-Jul-14 • 118 minutes 114 - Eric Helms: Nutrition, Bodybuilding, & Supplementation for Strength and Aesthetics Eric Helms is an AUT Research Fellow at the Sports Performance Research Institute New Zealand (Auckland University of Technology) in the Strength & Conditioning and Sports Physiology and Nutrition research groups. He is also the Director and Chief Science Officer of 3DMJ, an organization devoted to strength training and education centered around the same, a competitive bodybuilder, co-host of the Iron Culture podcast—which comes highly, highly recommended by Robinson—and a founding editor and reviewer f... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2023-Jul-14 • 69 minutes #808 Frederick Toates: Understanding Sexual Serial Killing Dr. Frederick Toates is Emeritus Professor of Biological Psychology at the Open University. Dr. Toates' research interests are primarily in the area of motivation. He is the author of a number of books, the most recent one being Understanding Sexual Serial Killing. | In this episode, we focus on Understanding Sexual Serial Killing. We start by defining sexual serial killing, and get into what motivates it. We talk about the psychological traits, the social context, and sociohistorical context of sexual seri... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Jul-14 • 15 minutes J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories - Sub-Creators And Secondary Worlds - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century English author, linguist, and literary critic J.R.R. Tolkien's essay On Fairy Stories It focuses specifically on his discussion bearing upon four connected terms and ideas: sub-creation, sub-creators, secondary worlds, and secondary beliefs. Successful fantasy and fairy stories involves the author as a sub-creator, producing and offering to us a secondary world in which we can believe and within the scope of which things can be true. To support my on... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Jul-14 • 61 minutes Will Mittendorf on Racist and Anti-Racist Conspiracy Theories M chats with Will Mittendorf about his paper at the 2nd International Conference of the Philosophy of Conspiracy Theories, which concerns racist and anti-racist conspiracy theories. — You can contact us at: [email protected] Why not support... (@PodGuideCon • @monkeyfluids) |
| 2023-Jul-14 • 15 minutes RLP Special: Life Is a Pigsty (Refreshed) Approximately five years ago we posted our first episode. The episode was, and is, titled, Life Is A Pigsty. In this episode, we reexamine, and elaborate upon, that first episode. Morrissey, Chesterton, & the messiness of life,... (@RedLetterPhil) |
| 2023-Jul-14 • 54 minutes French Evolution: The History of France in 9 Songs The history of France is intimately connected with its music. Where there's revolution, resistance or riots, there are chansons, ballads, and marches. Roxanne Panchasi, a historian of French culture, spins records with songs that reveal tensions, myths, and memories of France through the 20th and 21st centuries. *This episode originally aired on May 4, 2023. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Jul-14 • 92 minutes Brand New Cherry Flavor Episodes 1-4 and Cronenbergian High Weirdness Brand new orifices! All about those orifices! And I guess transformative change and coping with trauma. THROUGH ORIFICES! We're discussing episodes 1-4 Brand New Cherry Flavor: Listener Survey: Music by Thomas Smith: Support us at Patreon: ... (@0gPhilosophy) |
| 2023-Jul-14 • 59 minutes Hobbies The HBS hosts lobby for hobbies.The concept of hobbies is perhaps anachronistic and even ambivalent. Many hobbies are shadows of more respected pursuits such as the creation of art, music, or literature, and thus tinged with the idea of failure. Their primary function seems to be to pass the time. Every hobby risks being seen as not just an idiosyncratic activity, but a kind of failure as if that time and energy was better spent on something else, something more useful or productive. Hobbies are often seen ... (@hotelbarpodcast • @DrLeighMJohnson • @c_fpeterson • @rickleephilos) |
| 2023-Jul-14 • 139 minutes #243 - Heidegger's Destruction of Aristotle: A Dialogue with Sean Kirkland In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Sean Kirkland about Heidegger’s destruction of Aristotle. They discuss how he came to write on Heidegger and Aristotle together, destruction of the philosophical tradition, and the differences between positive and negative destruction. They provide and overview of Heidegger’s philosophy and provide an overview of Aristotle’s philosophy. They talk about the threefold aspects of Nietzsche, Aristotle’s idea of concepts, and three tactics of the destructive me... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2023-Jul-14 • 76 minutes Re-run: Episode 48 - Crime And Punishment With Thomas Hibbs We come back to Episode 48, where I speak with Thomas Hibbs about Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, in our second re-run for the summer! In this episode, I speak with philosopher Thomas Hibbs (Baylor) about Dostoevsky's famous novel, Crime and Punishment. We discuss how Raskolnikov gets trapped in various philosophical theories he has embraced, and what might help him go from theory to authentic human life again. Along the way, we discuss the limitations of philosophy, the importance of literature as an a... (@eudaimoniapod • @jennfrey) |
| 2023-Jul-13 • 79 minutes Ep. 241 - The Philosophy of Honesty w/Dr. Matthew Benton n this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Matthew Benton to discuss the philosophy of honesty. We ended up going deep on whether or not dogs can communicate, can be honest or dishonest, and whether or not they know stuff. Check the time stamps for the full list of topics discussed! Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/U... the Facebook group, Parker's Pensées Penseurs, here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/96047149... you like this podcast, then... (@trendsettercase) |
| 2023-Jul-13 • 12 minutes plastic perfection | barbie, baudrillard, and beyond reality (Transcript edited for readability.) Barbie. The new film is set to come out on July 21st, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. Director, Greta Gerwig is the writer and director, who has been Oscar-nominated for her work. This fact is likely part of the reason for some of the increased hype around this film, as her name behind this indicates it's likely not a simple cash grab. But this is Hollywood we're talking about...in some sense, all their work is a bit of a cash grab. But we will get into that lat... (@philosophyguy2 • @brendenslab) |
| 2023-Jul-13 • 42 minutes What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Gwendoly Dolske and Rudy Salo welcome Psychologist and author, Dr. Seth Gillihan. How can we temper our thoughts? How can we become mindful? What are the techniques of CBT? Learn more about Seth's work: Join our Patreon: ... (@InTheDetailsPod • @GDolske • @SaloRudy) |
| 2023-Jul-13 • 41 minutes #807 Raymond Craib - Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age Dr. Raymond Craib is Marie Underhill Noll Professor of History at Cornell University. His research and teaching interests revolve around the intersections of space, politics, and everyday practice. He is the author of Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age. | In this episode, we focus on Adventure Capitalism. We talk about what characterizes libertarianism in the US, and how it became popular in the 1960s. We discuss exit projects, and how peop... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Jul-13 • 11 minutes Jean Baudrillard vs. Guy Debord In this episode, I present the differences between Jean Baudrillard and Guy Debord's views of the spectacle and simulation. If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphiloso... paypal.me/th... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2023-Jul-13 • 57 minutes Cluster bombs and the ethics of warfare As NATO meets this week, the US is seeking to calm its critics over sending cluster bombs to Ukraine. Cluster munitions are banned by many countries – including the UK and most EU members. They are more indiscriminate and can leave unexploded bomblets scattered over a wide area, posing a lethal threat to civilians years after a conflict has ended. The US, which is not a signatory to the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, argues that supplying these weapons is justified in the defence of Ukraine, that civ... (@BBCRadio4) |
| 2023-Jul-13 • 69 minutes 161: India has a rich history of pro-animal thought. So why aren't we using that in our advocacy (instead of global north narratives)? - Varda Mehrotra - Sentientism Varda Mehrotra is an animal advocate and movement builder, exploring intersectional solutions. Most recently, she founded Samayu to undertake intersectional work and apply a systems approach for issues surrounding justice and animals in food systems. Under her decade-long leadership, FIAPO - India’s federation for animal organisations - was recognized as one of the most effective animal charities. She has spearheaded several large-scale undercover investigations, campaigns for farmed animals, companion anim... (@sentientism • @JamieWoodhouse) |
| 2023-Jul-13 • 54 minutes The Shock of the New | The Year 1789: More Than One Revolution A revolution in France heralds a change in political order everywhere. New definitions of freedom and equality emerge — and are fiercely contested. As empires expand, enslaved people and anticolonial leaders push back. Part two in a series about what Salman Rushdie calls “hinge moments” in history, exploring how change happens. *This episode originally aired on Nov. 1, 2022. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Jul-13 • 57 minutes 69 | Mute Compulsion: Economic Power and Capitalist Domination w/ Dr. Søren Mau On this episode we are joined by Dr. Søren Mau to discuss his new book, Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital. We talk about why economic power is different than violence and ideology, what’s distinctive about the human being in terms of its metabolic exchange with nature, and what this means for capitalist reproduction and the possibility of its interruption. Speaking of interruptions, we find ourselves subject to reactionary infrastructural violence when the internet crashes m... (@leftofphil • @whitherutopia • @oglynwil • @classreductress) |
| 2023-Jul-13 • 54 minutes Why do we distance ourselves from our age? Western culture’s association of ageing with decline and obsolescence fuels (and is fuelled by) a desire to dissociate ourselves from our age — but such forms of subtle and overt ageism express contempt for something that is essentially human. (@RadioNational) |
| 2023-Jul-12 • 17 minutes J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories - Fantasy And The Arts - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century English author, linguist, and literary critic J.R.R. Tolkien's essay On Fairy Stories It focuses specifically on Tolkien's conception of fantasy, which he takes to be at the core of fairy tales, and why it is that one art in particular - literature, using the medium of language - is best suited for fantasy and fairy stories, by contrast to painting or to drama To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Jul-12 • 18 minutes 140: Philosophy and 1984: Part 2 This installment of the Summer Series takes a look at some of the more important philosophical and social themes from the second quarter of 1984. Winston visits the proles section of the city and beings a secret and rebellious romantic relationship with Julia. He also receives an invitation from an Inner Party member named O'Brien which he hopes will set the stage for revolution against The Party. | A free copy of 1984 can be found here: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021... | Send over your questions... (@MillikinU) |
| 2023-Jul-12 • 55 minutes Žižek's Ontology w/ Adrian Johnston It’s summer and the fellas are back! Today we're talking with Adrian Johnston, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico. | In this first part of a series we’re talking the philosophical foundations of Žižek’s work, the equivalence between negativity and Death Drive at the core of Žižek’s theory of subjectivity, Transcendental Materialism, and Johnston’s efforts toward changing the reception of Žižek’s work. | Adrian has published and co-edited a number of books... (@zizekand) |
| 2023-Jul-12 • 56 minutes David Bentley Hart on Reason, Faith, and Diversity in Religious Thought Is he the best-read guest in the history of the show? (@tylercowen) |
| 2023-Jul-12 • 37 minutes Money in sports - is it wrong to support Newcastle United now they have Saudi money? We've previously discussed footballers being overpaid...but where is that money coming from? With our beloved clubs being increasingly funded by authoritarian regimes with spotty human rights records, who are arguably intentionally using these investments as a means of improving their global image, what responsibility sits on the fans? Are newcastle fans required to take a stand against their saudi owners? Should we have boycotted the most recent world cup in Qatar? All this and more as we explore jakes fav... (@MoralityofThe • @AnthonyNCollias) |
| 2023-Jul-12 • 54 minutes Dostoevsky's The Grand Inquisitor This week, the guys turn to Dostoevsky's story within The Brothers Karamazov: The Grand Inquisitor. Centering on two chapters within the book, discussion and analysis ranges from the idea of a benevolent God, to unanswered implications about human... (@thenewthinkery • @alexpriou • @GregMcBrayer3 • @Tempest1610) |
| 2023-Jul-12 • 28 minutes Philosophy and myth There was once a time when mythology and philosophy got along perfectly well together. But since the Enlightenment, philosophy has come to regard myth as something of an embarrassment – especially in political theory, where the memory of "blood and soil" Nazi ideology is still fresh. Is there a role for myth in secular democratic politics, and in modern philosophy? (@DavidPZone) |
| 2023-Jul-12 • 46 minutes A Detour Through Life with Amy Sedaris 🚇🚇🚇 Paul Giamatti and Stephen Asma host a candid chat with the always effervescent and inventive Amy Sedaris. Hear about Amy’s love of Japanese subways, why she finally broke down and got a phone, her impression of Dolly Parton, and love for the artistic works of George W. Bush, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr. 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. Amy Sedaris is a comedian, writer, tale... (@TreefortMedia) |
| 2023-Jul-12 • 54 minutes Inherited Memories of Partition: Aanchal Malhotra It’s been 75 years since the Partition of India — a rupture that still shapes the lives of those born in its wake. Oral historian Aanchal Malhotra speaks with Nahlah Ayed about how the inherited memory of Partition continues to shape people’s politics, identities, curiosities and fears. *This episode originally aired on Dec. 13, 2022. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Jul-12 • 69 minutes Frank Wilczek on the Future of Science (Part 2) Theoretical physicist and mathematician Frank Wilczek discusses his way of thinking about fundamental science, his writing and philosophy, humanity's place and purpose, what is and what could be in science, and the laws of physics. Wilczek's latest... (@CloserToTruth • @RobertLawrKuhn) |
| 2023-Jul-12 • 45 minutes Frank Wilczek on the Future of Science (Part 1) Theoretical physicist and mathematician Frank Wilczek discusses humankind's place and purpose, what is and what could be in science, and the laws of physics. Wilczek's latest book, Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality, is available for purchase now. ... (@CloserToTruth • @RobertLawrKuhn) |
| 2023-Jul-12 • 46 minutes Can Math and Physics Save an Arrhythmic Heart? The heart’s electrical system keeps all its muscle cells beating in sync. A hard whack to the chest at the wrong moment, however, can set up unruly waves of abnormal electrical excitation that are potentially deadly. The resulting kind of arrhythmia may be what caused the football player Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills to collapse on the field after he took a powerful hit during a 2023 National Football League game. Today, powerful defibrillators are usually used to help resynchronize hearts in distress. ... (@QuantaMagazine • @stevenstrogatz) |
 2023-Jul-12 • 65 minutesChat GPT Understands & Reuben Cohn- Gordon Chat GPT, an AI powered chat-bot, has become the world’s fastest growing application, with over 100 million users in the first month of its launch. Even its harshest critics concede that when interacting with Chat GPT, it can seem as if one is talking to an intelligent machine. But, the standard critique goes, that’s just an illusion. Chat GPT isn’t in fact intelligent. It doesn’t understand the questions it’s asked, or the answers it gives. But, what if this critique is wrong? What if our elevation of huma... (@newsphilosophy • @philosopher1923) |
| 2023-Jul-11 • 93 minutes 113 - David Spiegel: Hypnosis and Mental Illness David Spiegel is Willson Professor of Medicine and Associate Chair of Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine. He did his undergraduate work at Yale and received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. David is highly regarded as one of the most creative psychiatrists in the field, and has worked on a wide array of topics within the discipline. In this episode, Robinson and David discuss his pioneering work in hypnotherapy, as David is the world’s leading hypnotherapist and hypnotherapy researche... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2023-Jul-11 • 131 minutes Episode 264: The Rule You Follow (The Coen Brothers' "No Country for Old Men") David and Tamler dive into the Coen brothers’ bleak and beautiful adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s 2005 novel "No Country for Old Men." What’s the underlying philosophy that animates Anton Chigurh? Does he have a code of any kind, or is he just a... (@verybadwizards • @peez • @tamler) |
| 2023-Jul-11 • 16 minutes J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories - The Cauldron Of Story - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century English author, linguist, and literary critic J.R.R. Tolkien's essay On Fairy Stories It focuses specifically on his culinary metaphor of stories as being something that comes out of a pot or cauldron, as a stock, soup, or stew, and prepared by cooks. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffe... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Jul-11 • 91 minutes Ep. 240 - The Metaphysics of Stoicism w/Dr. Michael Tremblay In episode 240 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Michael Temblay to discuss the ancient philosophy of Stoicism. We also discuss modern Stoic movements and we compare and contrast some Stoic doctrines with Christian doctrines. Check the time stamps for the full list of topics. | | find more from Dr. Michael Tremblay at his website here: https://www.tremblaymichael.com/ | | Join this Pensées channel to get access to perks: | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYbTRur... | | Join the Faceboo... (@trendsettercase) |
| 2023-Jul-11 • 29 minutes Head to Head: Philosophy vs Science | Marika Taylor, Julian Baggini In a dynamic head-to-head, physicist Marika Taylor and philosopher Julian Baggini explore the intertwined histories and futures of philosophy and science. (@IAI_TV) |
| 2023-Jul-11 • 54 minutes Suzuki’s Survival Guide | A Warning In his 1989 CBC Radio series, It's a Matter of Survival, David Suzuki and other scientists look ahead 50 years into the future to paint a picture of what the world could be like if nothing is done to curb the human impact on climate change. The series galvanized the environmental movement in Canada, with more than 14,000 listeners writing letters of support. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Jul-11 • 66 minutes Ep. 61 Philosophy and Literature Roughly 3700 years ago, in the fertile crescent of mesopotamia, the first Western epic was composed. The character Gilgamesh, and his friend Enkidu, have many adventures battling mighty beasts. But when Enkidu dies, Gilgamesh is thrown into, what we would today call, an existential crisis, as Gilgamesh grapples with themes such as friendship and love, mortality, free will and fate, and the search for meaning. Since that time, literature has been consistently used as a vehicle to explore philosophical themes... (@opendoorphil • @d_parsonage) |
| 2023-Jul-10 • 13 minutes J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories - Three Faces Of Fairy Stories - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century English author, linguist, and literary critic J.R.R. Tolkien's essay On Fairy Stories It focuses specifically on the passage where he distinguishes three "faces" of fairy stories, "the Mystical towards the Supernatural; the Magical towards Nature; and the Mirror of scorn and pity towards Man." Tolkien claims that the magical is the essential face, but the other two are often involved as well. We also go into his later distinction between magic and enc... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Jul-10 • 106 minutes Philosophy In Film - 071 - Cool Hand Luke What…we’ve got here is…Episode 71 of Philosophy in Film! Returning with 1967’s touchstone classic: ‘Cool Hand Luke’, guided by the Oscar-winning performances of Paul Newman and George Kennedy, the gang digs away at the highly decorated... (@PhilInFilm) |
| 2023-Jul-10 • 127 minutes #156 – Markus Anderljung on how to regulate cutting-edge AI models "At the front of the pack we have these frontier AI developers, and we want them to identify particularly dangerous models ahead of time. Once those mines have been discovered, and the frontier developers keep walking down the minefield, there's going to be all these other people who follow along. And then a really important thing is to make sure that they don't step on the same mines. So you need to put a flag down -- not on the mine, but maybe next to it. And so what that looks like in practice is maybe o... (@80000Hours) |
| 2023-Jul-10 • 104 minutes #806 James Cortada - Birth of Modern Facts; Information, Government, Business, and Science Dr. James W. Cortada is Senior Research Fellow at the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota. He worked at IBM for thirty-eight years in sales, consulting, managerial, and research positions. His latest book is Birth of Modern Facts: How the Information Revolution Transformed Academic Research, Governments, and Businesses. | | In this episode, we focus on Birth of Modern Facts. We first discuss what information is, and how it changes over time. We talk about governments as suppliers of ... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Jul-10 • 75 minutes Uncanny Ryan and Todd analyze Freud's essay "The Uncanny" and the broader implications of this concept. They discuss the importance of the uncanny for understanding the horror film and focus on the difference between a psychoanalytic approach to the concept and the notion of the uncanny valley. Links from the episode: Žižek & So On podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episod... Shibui (minimal groove quartet): https://shibuimusic.bandcamp.c... Joseph Aisenberg’s Brian De Palma’s Carrie: Studies in the Horror Film:... (@UVMcas) |
| 2023-Jul-10 • 93 minutes 242 | David Krakauer on Complexity, Agency, and Information I talk with David Krakauer about the current state of research in complex systems. (@seanmcarroll) |
| 2023-Jul-10 • 83 minutes #242 - Roots of The Black Working Class: A Dialogue with Blair LM Kelley In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Blair LM Kelley about the roots of the Black working class in the United States. They discuss why she wrote the book with some biographical content along with the historical events, class and race for Black Americans, and the impact of slavery for Black working class folks. They talk about the role of the church for building and organizing community, history of Black washerwomen and their involvement with unions, and the great migration. They also discuss ... (@xavierbonilla87) |
| 2023-Jul-10 • 49 minutes Ep. 321: August Schlegel on Beauty (Part One) Covering the elder Schlegel brother's Theory of Art (ca. 1800). How does our experience of Beauty relate to the infinite? Schlegel provides a Romantic response to Kant on knowing the divine, inner essences of things through art, how genius... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2023-Jul-10 • 68 minutes Torin Alter, "The Matter of Consciousness: From the Knowledge Argument to Russellian Monism" (Oxford UP, 2023) Frank Jackson’s "Knowledge Argument" introduced the philosophical world to Mary the brilliant neuroscientist, who knows everything there is to know about the physical world while living in a completely black and white environment. Yet she seems to learn something new when she leaves the room for the first time and sees and smells a red rose. So is physicalism – the claim that everything, including conscious experience, is physical – false? In The Matter of Consciousness: From the Knowledge Argument to Russ... (@NewBooksPhil) |
| 2023-Jul-10 • 54 minutes 2022 CBC Massey Lectures | # 1: On Language In his 2022 CBC Massey Lectures, acclaimed Cree writer Tomson Highway explores fundamental questions of human existence through the lens of Indigenous mythologies, and contrasts them with the ideas from ancient Greece and Christianity. In the first lecture, Highway argues that language shapes the way we see the world. Without language, we are lost creatures in a meaningless existence — which is why we tell stories. *This episode originally aired on Nov. 14, 2022. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Jul-09 • 9 minutes 569: Mexican Philosophy More at www.philosophytalk.org/shows/mexican-phi... early feminist Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz to existentialist Emilio Uranga, from Indigenous thought to theorists of aesthetic utopia, Mexican philosophy is full of fascinating figures with brilliant insights. What can we learn from them today about belief, desire, freedom, morality, and education? And do Mexican philosophers speak with one voice or in a complicated harmony, stretching across the centuries? Josh and Ray travel through space and time with Manu... (@philtalkradio) |
| 2023-Jul-09 • 51 minutes Is Grieving Good for You? | Michael Cholbi Experiencing grief at the death of a person we love or who matters to us―as universal as it is painful―is central to the human condition. In Grief, Michael Cholbi presents a groundbreaking philosophical exploration of this complex emotional event, offering valuable new insights about what grief is, whom we grieve, and how grief can ultimately lead us to a richer self-understanding and a fuller realization of our humanity. | Michael's Book: https://www.amazon.com/Grief-Philosophic... (@JasonWerbeloff) |
| 2023-Jul-09 • 61 minutes 112 - Victor Davis Hanson: Revisionist History and the Dying Citizen 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, Robinson and Victor discuss his latest book, The Dying Citizen. More particularly, they talk about the Ancient Greek origin of a flourishing egalitarian society centered... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2023-Jul-09 • 76 minutes Lee McIntyre - Democracy at Risk: Exposing the Threat of Disinformation | STM Podcast #178 On episode 178, we welcome Lee McIntyre to discuss the viral spread of disinformation and the motivators behind it, combating science denialism and Lee’s foray into the world of Flat-Earthers, how to distinguish between real and fake conspiracies,... (@seize_podcast • @EgoEndsNow • @leonscafe31) |
| 2023-Jul-09 • 86 minutes “Who is Responsible for War Crimes?” In an encore presentation from 2018, host Jack Russell Weinstein visits with Matthew Talbert and Jessica Wolfendale, co-authors of the book, War Crimes: Causes, Excuses, and Blame. (@whyradioshow) |
| 2023-Jul-09 • 19 minutes J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories - Are Fairy Stories For Children? - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century English author, linguist, and literary critic J.R.R. Tolkien's essay On Fairy Stories It focuses specifically on his discussion of whether or not Fairy Stories are essentially for children or not. Tolkien engages in some useful criticism of people who think they are, including Andrew Lang, well known for his fairy books. 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 ... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Jul-09 • 37 minutes HoP 425 - Patrick Gray on Shakespeare We're joined by Patrick Gray to discuss Shakespeare's knowledge of philosophy, his ethics, and his influence on such thinkers as Hegel. (@HistPhilosophy) |
| 2023-Jul-08 • 11 minutes PREMIUM-Ep. 320: Friedrich Schlegel on Romanticism (Part Three) Mark and Wes conclude our discussion of the younger Schlegel brother by going through more of his critical fragments, largely published in 1797 in the journal Lyceum Tier Schonen Kunste. If you're not hearing , sign up via one of the options described... (@PartiallyExLife • @MarkLinsenmayer • @wesalwan • @DylanPEL) |
| 2023-Jul-08 • 96 minutes Re-run: Episode 51 - A Canticle For Leibowitz With Christopher Frey In our first re-run for the summer, we revisit our most popular episode from Season 4, Episode 51! In this episode, I speak to my husband (and fellow philosopher) Chris Frey about Walter M. Miller’s sci-fi novel, A Canticle for Leibowitz. We both agree that this is a novel about sin, and more specifically, how sin is connected to the myriad ways that our desire for knowledge becomes perverted and disordered. Along the way, we also talk about memory, Promethean fear, impiety, hope, the Immaculate Conceptio... (@eudaimoniapod • @jennfrey) |
| 2023-Jul-08 • 16 minutes 35: "There is no measurement problem for Humeans", Chris Dorst The measurement problem highlights a deeply puzzling feature of quantum mechanics: nature seems to obey one law when not measured and a completely different law when measured. But how does nature "recognise" measurement contexts?! What explains these shifts in how nature operates? For the Humean about laws, i.e., one who maintains that nature unthinkingly acts and the laws describe, these issues lose their bite. So perhaps there just is no measurement problem for Humeans! But if true, does this c... (@KimptonNye) |
| 2023-Jul-08 • 63 minutes Walter Benjamin’s ”The Concept of History” In this episode, I cover Walter Benjamin's "The Concept of History." 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_a... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2023-Jul-07 • 102 minutes A Color Out of Space and Lovecraftian High Weirdness Sure it might seem weird to do record a piece of audio content about a color, but trust me when you see this color and start merging with your surroundings you'll thank us! We're covering the recent Nic Cage A Color Out of Space movie and discussing... (@0gPhilosophy) |
| 2023-Jul-07 • 110 minutes 111 - Avi Loeb: Alien Life, Extraterrestrial Spacecraft, and Oumuamua Avi Loeb is Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science in the Department of Astronomy at Harvard University, and former chair of the department. Before joining Harvard he spent fifteen years working in theoretical astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is also the Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation, the Founding Director of the Black Hole Initiative at Harvard, and Head of the Galileo Project. In this episode, Avi and Robinson discuss his controversial and compellin... (@RobinsonErhardt) |
| 2023-Jul-07 • 38 minutes #805 Lisa Yon: Elephant Welfare, Environmental Pollutants, and Zoonotic Pathogens Dr. Lisa Yon is an Associate Professor in Zoo and Wildlife Medicine at the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science at the University of Nottingham. She is Head of the Behaviour Subgroup, and Vice Chair, of BIAZA's Elephant Welfare Group. She is a Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. She is interested in the health, welfare and conservation of captive and free-living wildlife (with a particular focus on elephants), which includes a One Health approach looking at the interface between humans/... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Jul-07 • 19 minutes #65: Reflections on a recent failure We all hate failure. We're terrified of it. And so, when I chalked up a big fat failure a few days ago, I knew immediately that I needed to dissect it for you lot. The key lesson here? Our unwillingness to look failure square in the face is holding us back. Read Costica Bradatan's Psyche essay about Emil Cioran here. (@AcademicImp • @rebecca_roache) |
| 2023-Jul-07 • 54 minutes The New World Disorder | The Future of Democracy What hope does democracy have when geopolitical instability is mounting, and public discourse is drowning in a sea of misinformation and disinformation? There is hope — according to two former Massey Lecturers Ron Deibert and Jennifer Welsh. *This episode is part of our series, The New World Disorder. *This episode originally aired on Sept. 26, 2022. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Jul-07 • 57 minutes What's YOUR Philosophy? The HBS hosts celebrate our 100th episode by asking each other the question "what's YOUR philosophy?"Hotel Bar Sessions, as a podcast, is committed to the idea of "public philosophy," but is there such a thing as a “private philosophy"? Not private in the sense that it is kept out of the public, but private in that it is a philosophy that belongs to an individual. As professional philosophers, we often find that when were out in public and tell people what we do, they will often ask: "what's your philosoph... (@hotelbarpodcast • @DrLeighMJohnson • @c_fpeterson • @rickleephilos) |
| 2023-Jul-07 • 80 minutes 93. Tar (w/ Emily St. James) We sit down with Lydia Tár expert Emily St. James to talk about guilt, repression, cancel culture, subjectivity, moral hazards, the Todd Field Cinematic Universe, and... you guessed it... Oklahoma! How is any of this possible? Tune in to find out! (@cowspod • @juskhoo) |
| 2023-Jul-06 • 111 minutes Ep. 239 - Philosophical Constraints on Building Artificial Intelligence w/Dr. Josh Rasmussen In episode 239 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined for the third time by Dr. Josh Rasmussen. This time we talk about some philosophical constraints on creating consciousness. We discuss patternist and computational theories of the mind and Josh explains why structure alone isn't sufficient for creating consciousness. Check the time stamps for the specifics. | | Grab Josh's Book, Who Are You Really? here to support my podcast: https://amzn.to/44bhIVN | | Check out more from Josh here: https://www.... (@trendsettercase) |
| 2023-Jul-06 • 44 minutes The Mountain Meadows Massacre (What the Conspiracy?) Inspired by Steve Clarke's talk "When Conspiracy Theorists Win", M and Josh introduce an unsuspecting Georgia to the unpleasant tale of the Mountain Meadows Massacre - if she's lucky, she'll live to regret it. Alternate titles for this episode includ... (@PodGuideCon • @monkeyfluids) |
| 2023-Jul-06 • 49 minutes #326 — AI & Information Integrity Sam Harris speaks with Nina Schick about generative AI and information integrity. They discuss the challenges of regulating AI, authentication vs detection, fake video, hyper-personalization of information, the promise of generative design,... (@) |
| 2023-Jul-06 • 17 minutes J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories - Origins Of Fairy Stories - Sadler's Lectures This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century English author, linguist, and literary critic J.R.R. Tolkien's essay On Fairy Stories It focuses specifically on his discussion of theories about the origins of fairy stories, tackling what he considers to be the least important of the three questions he is focused upon. 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 BuyMeACof... (@philosopher70) |
| 2023-Jul-06 • 43 minutes #804 Deborah Gordon: Ant Colonies, Distributed Intelligence, and Systems Without Central Control Dr. Deborah Gordon is a Professor in the Department of Biology at Stanford University. She studies how ant colonies work without central control using networks of simple interactions, and how these networks evolve in relation to changing environments. | In this episode, we talk about ant colonies. We discuss decision-making from an ecological perspective, and distributed problem solving. We talk about the tole of genetics and the environment in ant sociality. We discuss task allocation, and why “division of... (@TheDissenterYT) |
| 2023-Jul-06 • 9 minutes Deleuze & Guattari vs. Marx In this video, I explain Deleuze and Guattari's departure(s) from Marx. If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphiloso... paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Tiktok: @theoryphilosophy Twitter: @D... (@DavidGuignion) |
| 2023-Jul-06 • 18 minutes Stoic Philosophy and Alcoholism How to drink like a Roman emperor, if that emperor is Marcus Aurelius. In this episode I explore the relationship between Stoic philosophy and the Twelve Step Program of Alcoholics Anonymous, discussing how Stoicism can help those suffering from alcoholism, as well as their friends and families. I spot parallels between the Twelve Step advice and Stoic teachings, and give examples from the life of Marcus Aurelius. I talk about how his wayward brother, and co-emperor, Lucius Verus, was almost certainly an... (@DonJRobertson) |
| 2023-Jul-06 • 65 minutes Episode 181 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 33 - Chapter 14 - The New Virtues 04 Welcome to Episode 181 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the only complete presentation of Epicurean philosophy left to us from the ancient world. Each week we walk you through... (@NewEpicurean) |
| 2023-Jul-06 • 52 minutes Ep. 98: What is Friendship? (Part II) In this episode, Giuseppe and Anthony continue their conversation on friendship: Is friendship more than just a willingness to be friends? What ruins friendships? Can "friends with benefits" actually exist successfully? Can men and women really be friends? What different types of friendships exist? For questions or suggestions for future episodes: [email protected]. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/publicphilosophyproject (@LoveofSophiaPOD) |
| 2023-Jul-06 • 57 minutes The Morality of Privatisation Thames Water, which serves a quarter of the UK population, is billions of pounds in debt and on the brink of insolvency. The company has received heavy criticism, and calls for it to be nationalised, following a series of sewage discharges and leaks. The energy sector, railway companies, and the Royal Mail have faced a similar outcry in recent months. When it comes to the provision of services which are essential for our national life, the calculation is often utilitarian: which form of ownership, public... (@BBCRadio4) |
| 2023-Jul-06 • 30 minutes Transgender identity and experience Transgender is commonly invoked as an identity, but this week we're asking if it is better understood as something that points to experience. (@DavidPZone) |
| 2023-Jul-06 • 54 minutes The Shock of the New | The Year 1600: The Birth of the Modern? Empires are expanding, the British East India Company is born, and the silver trade between South America and China begins to stitch the world into a global economy. Part one in a series about what Salman Rushdie calls “hinge moments” in history, exploring how change happens. *This episode originally aired on Oct. 31, 2022. (@NahlahAyed) |
| 2023-Jul-06 • 54 minutes What does it take to address a “wicked problem” like political corruption? The newly formed National Anti-Corruption Commission faces both unrealistic expectations and a potentially fraught political climate. Professor A.J. Brown joins Waleed and Scott to discuss how it can restore popular faith in democratic politics. (@RadioNational) |
| 2023-Jul-06 • 77 minutes #241 - States of Being: A Dialogue with Frank Putnam In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Frank Putnam about our various states of being. They discuss states of being, the continuous self, and states of being in development. They also talk about different states of being in rapid cycling with those that have Bipolar Disorders, importance of memory, and how critical is personality and the Big-5. They discuss mental disorders within a state model, the fragmented self and therapy, trauma and PTSD, Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), psychedelics... (@xavierbonilla87) |
How is women's pain understood and communicated?
Do you look for a famous name on the bookshelf?
... Try to choose a subject?
... Start with self-help?
... Maybe join a book club?
Can we come up with some way of defusing the thing?
What is human agency?
... How would we determine whether an animal is a legitimate agent, as opposed to just acting automatic...
How did time become money?
... And why can’t we just pass it away?
When guilt strikes, how do you respond?
... Is it a rush to make things right or an urge to evade?
Does the clone of a murderer deserve to be punished?
... Is the clone with the murderer’s memories and dispositions guilty of the murder?
With so many seemingly living in an alternative reality, how do we continue the business of democra...
We're talking football, melancholy, and English football anthems. How does football, or 'soccer', s...
How do we define and understand the nature of play?
What exactly is it that technology ethicists do?
... How can they answer the core questions about the value of technology and our moral response to it?
... Should they consult their intuitions?
... Run experiments?
... Use formal theories?
Do you tell yourself that if only you had a day of uninterrupted time ahead of you (and, of course,...
Have you ever wanted to know the TRUE story that inspired King Arthur?
... Did you know that Arthur was a freedom fighter battling for the independence of Britannia?
What is it?
... Why do we have it?
... What can be done about it?
Are we ever justified in using violence, particularly against those who have done or intend to do b...
... Would you be proud if your child punched a bully?
... Would you lie to an axe-murderer?
... Can you punch a secret nazi?
What would they discuss?
... Would they talk past each other?
... Make any progress?
... Would anyone want to hear them?
How should we adapt our thinking about political philosophy in the light of this?
Explore the power of prayer and magical thinking, the importance of unlearning what you know, and P...
In part 2 of our journey into Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, Tamler and David talk about the kid...
When an octopus sees "its" arms below it, does it perceive them as being totally foreign things, or...
... Is our inability to draw definitive conclusions about consciousness a result of the limits of empir...
| Was dropping the bomb on Hiroshima justified?
... Is Ken the real star of Barbie?
So how do we create different visions of masculinity that make room for all kinds of men?
... Should we abandon the idea of masculinity altogether, or would that be throwing out the baby with t...
Is philosophy just mental masturbation?
What would you do if a slightly better version of you tried to steal your life, and you were legall...
... Can you tell yourself you wouldn't, you'd do something better?
... You'd let them kill you?
Is it actually possible to fix this mess?
What would they discuss?
... Would they talk past each other?
... Make any progress?
... Would anyone want to hear them?
The episode that started it all...Should billionaires exist?
... Can billionaires co-exist with a population in poverty?
Have you ever wondered why some spell Stephen with a V, while others with a PH?
... No?
How could space and time be literally the same thing?
who could be against altruism, especially if it’s effective?
Is it permissible for members of one group to appropriate the cultural practices of another?
Who will be hit?
What can theology teach us about our approach to work?
... How has the pandemic shaped our ideas of work?
Do you struggle with belief?
... Are you disturbed by the apparent silence (or indifference) of the universe?
The HBS hosts ask Michael Hardt why we so quickly jump from the 60's to the 80's in our political i...
But what if we’ve already reached that point?
... How would we know if we were currently living in a simulated reality, or are there always telltale ...
What would they discuss?
... Would they talk past each other?
... Make any progress?
... Would anyone want to hear them?
And what’s all this got to do with Nazis, UFOs, AI and the Imp of Perversity?
Imagine if something private you told a friend could be shouted out for the whole world to hear?
... Or if an embarrassing bodily function was shared with everyone?
... Some people say privacy is only necessary if you have something to hide, but are there other reason...
Would life be better if you could magically make that sadness disappear?
What's the point of school anyway?
... So should we just get rid of schools?
What if there was no fine for letting your dog poo on the footpath?
... No consequences for hitting your brother or sister?
... And teachers never gave detention for breaking a school rule?
... If we lived in a world without punishment, would we all start just doing whatever we wanted?
... Or are there better ways to deal with people doing the wrong thing?
Would you still want to play sport if there was no one keeping score, there were no winners or lose...
... What would be the point?
... On the other hand, can competition actually ruin sport?
What do octopi have to do with consciousness?
... What are qualia?
... How would having a "decentralized" nervous system alter the feeling of being conscious?
... If an octopus doesn't have a "self," can it even be considered one thing?
what does it mean to live in a world?
... Is the world of animals the same as our own?
naming it, like other activities such as carpentry or sewing that can go wrong?
... Can we put the "form" of a thing into letters and syllabus of its name?
Is sex work actually work?
... Is prostitution always a form of exploitation?
What is media criticism, and is that what we're doing?
your favorite movie?
... Did you watch that season finale last night?
... But what if pop culture was actually more pernicious than we ordinarily think?
... Could it be systematically deceiving us—eroding our ability to think for ourselves and fight for ch...
Who remembers Zika?
There are plenty of features of our faces and bodies that we don't necessarily like - but does this...
| Alright, we’re back with another PATREON episode and we’re talking Jacques Derrida, the differenc...
We discuss the classic questions of, how do we know anything is real?
... Is there anything we CAN know is real?
... Does it even matter?
Is authenticity even possible anymore?
... Is Tik Tok just a series of mini-Shakespearian tragedies?
What exists?
... But what’s truly fundamental?
Why not subscribe there as well as to this podcast?
What are universities for?
... Where have they gone wrong?
... What are they doing right?
... And what do they owe the public?
How do words relate to the things they represent?
How do we tell our imagination apart from reality?
Were Hamza and Mohammed arguing in good faith?
What books should thoughtful people read this summer?
Or is he a de re?
well, any of it?
... Do you finish reading a paragraph and find that you have absolutely no idea what it was about?
... Does it take you an entire day just to read one chapter?
Once derided, then reclaimed, where does it stand in 2023?
What is the historical significance of this unsolved crime?
What would they discuss?
... Would they talk past each other?
... Make any progress?
... Would anyone want to hear them?
In this episode, we use the recent nautical disaster of the imploding submarine to explore how we d...
... Basically, is the news a filter that brings forward diamonds, or does the new have an agenda and we...
What happened with Edison’s quest to prove life after death, and what’s TikTok got to do with it?
... Your takeaway?
But will they take on moral responsibility?
... And if not, how can climate justice be achieved?
Messages from God?
... Images of the subconscious?
... What's real?
Would it be better to live forever than to die?
... Is the goodness or badness of death dependent on the future quality of our lives?
... Is death so bad that it would be better never to have been born?
What would they discuss?
... Would they talk past each other?
... Make any progress?
... Would anyone want to hear them?
What might a society without police look like?
"Do you remember seeing these photographs of generally women sitting in front of these huge panels ...
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Paul and Stephen are obsessed with UFOs and life beyond earth–so who better to add to ...
Does Time differ from our common perceptions of it?
... Is Time fixed or flexible?
... What is time, really?
What is happiness?
What is knowledge?
... Does a justified true belief count as knowledge?
... And is our knowledge lucky?
For many on the political left, the end of capitalism is a cherished ideal - but what if capitalism...
Why does Netflix ask you to pick what movies you like when you first sign on in order to recommend ...
... How does Google know what search results are most relevant?
... Why does it seem as if every tech company wants to collect as much data as they can get from you?
Is there a way to revive civic engagement and resilience and push back against public apathy?
But don't we sometimes want things because of their badness, not in spite of it?
... Isn't there joy in doing something totally pointless, or even in breaking the rules?
What is the relationship between law and morality?
... How do they differ?
Can Stephen and Nnedi finally bridge the gap between cat people and dog people and bring long-lasti...
Why?
... Do most human beings believe in angels and demons?
Are humans meant to be in love?
... Is it possible to stop loving someone?
How deep is the ocean, and what is it really like in the darkest reaches?
... What are whales doing when they sing?
What does it mean to be marginalized?
... Does marginalization give some people more epistemic authority than others?
... And, if so, what should we all do with this information?
Are we underlyingly all really a single, unified organism?
... Or do we just have a lot in common?
What makes a true friend?
But who counts in "everyone"—babies, animals, future people?
... How can we tell what makes the world better for others?
... And in an uncertain world, how can anyone gauge the effects of their actions?
This diminishment is also expected, but how can it be reasonable if the reason for the grief hasn’t...
Should medicine be sacrasanct?
... Is it really that different ot other businesses and is being sanctimonious about it just going to g...
Louis asks, do watershed moments exist and is the term actually overused and misunderstood?
... Paul and Stephen discuss and wonder what history actually IS after all?
... Then - are you superstitious?
Is thought a distraction from reality?Looking for a link we mentioned?
... But might this be a mistake?
So what’s the big deal?
... And how radical can republicanism be?
Does God Exist?
... How can something come from nothing?
So what has replaced it?
... Are newer theories that reference “automatic systems” or “implicit attitudes” any more scientific t...
But what is it about gaslighting that has us all talking about it?
Is there a way to get the 'awesome things' bit without the 'stand in your way' ...
Can philosophy be a guide to a life well lived, and actually educate us to live through suffering e...
Enter renowned dream and hypnosis expert, Dr. Deirdre Barrett and hear Paul and Stephen question th...
... Can dreams tell of past lives?
... Does imagination and intuition play a role?
... Do recurring dreams help protect us?
... What is dream incubation and can we manipulate our dreams to find answers to life’s pressing questi...
they make choices that not only do not maximize their preference satisfaction, but actually undermi...
What philosophical lessons and ideas come through in the film?
... How are we to understand justice?
Would the world be better if we didn’t recognize genders?
Could it be that the sense of time passing is just an illusion?
What does that reveal about our priorities?
Astrophysicist Paul Davies continues the conversation on his new book, What’s Eating the Universe?
Astrophysicist Paul Davies talks his new book, What’s Eating the Universe?
The Summer of Cormac McCarthy continues – this time we dive into his one piece of non-fiction, the ...
Is the goal of art to imitate nature?
What is hate speech?
... What is the value of free speech?
... Do some groups deserve special protection against hate speech?
Do we remember things that we recorded a few years back?
So what made her ideas so dangerous and revolutionary for her time?
... As a woman in Ancient Egypt, how did she exert power over her own narrative?
Is Tourette's-related behaviour intentional?
What could be wrong with learning about how to get better at getting things done?
But what is the threat here, exactly?
How did the iconic Taj Mahal get turned into a bouncy castle?
How are humans and animals different?
... What's so special about human nature?
Are there different types of love?
... Is there anything that binds the different types?
... What is the foundation of romantic relationships?
Can 20-year-olds regret?
... Can dogs?
... Is regret ever rational?
So should art aim to be accessible to everyone?
... Or is it ever okay to sacrifice accessibility for other competing aims that art can pursue?
However, what is the origin of consciousness, and how does the process of experiencing sensations a...
... Is this capacity limited solely to humans?
... Do other animals share this ability?
... And what about the potential for future machines?
How can we temper our thoughts?
... How can we become mindful?
... What are the techniques of CBT?
We've previously discussed footballers being overpaid...but where is that money coming from?
... With our beloved clubs being increasingly funded by authoritarian regimes with spotty human rights ...
... Are newcastle fans required to take a stand against their saudi owners?
... Should we have boycotted the most recent world cup in Qatar?
But, what if this critique is wrong?
What’s the underlying philosophy that animates Anton Chigurh?
How does our experience of Beauty relate to the infinite?
So is physicalism – the claim that everything, including conscious experience, is physical – false?
What can we learn from them today about belief, desire, freedom, morality, and education?
... And do Mexican philosophers speak with one voice or in a complicated harmony, stretching across the...
What explains these shifts in how nature operates?
The key lesson here?
What hope does democracy have when geopolitical instability is mounting, and public discourse is dr...
The HBS hosts celebrate our 100th episode by asking each other the question "what's YOUR philosophy...
How is any of this possible?
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Is friendship more than just a willingness to be friends?
... What ruins friendships?
... Can "friends with benefits" actually exist successfully?
... Can men and women really be friends?
... What different types of friendships exist?