Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Philosophy • AI and technology • Mathematics • Religion and spirituality • Economics and politics • Ethics • Consciousness and metaphysics • Social issues and identity • Critical thinking
This podcast, "Patterson in Pursuit," delves into an eclectic array of philosophical topics and intellectual discussions, often geared toward exploring and challenging established ideologies. The show is characterized by its global perspective, featuring conversations with intellectuals from around the world who provide diverse insights into complex philosophical debates. The episodes primarily focus on themes related to abstract concepts such as truth, consciousness, and reality. A recurrent motif is the scrutiny of mathematical and logical theories and their implications in the real world. Discussions about the nature of free will, postmodernism, and idealism are prevalent, offering listeners in-depth analyses of these intricate philosophical subjects.
Moreover, the podcast often intersects philosophical themes with contemporary issues, including the ethical implications of artificial intelligence, the legitimacy of political secession, and the intricacies of modern economic theories. Episodes also tackle social themes such as race, religion, and personal identity. The show hosts dialogues with experts such as Dr. Bernardo Kastrup and Dr. Walter Block to provide diverse viewpoints on contentious topics like psychedelics, artificial intelligence, and economic models.
"Philosophy in the real world" serves as an apt tagline, reflecting the podcast's aim to connect philosophical ideas with everyday life. Occasionally, the episodes explore the intersection of philosophy with personal experiences, as shown in narratives about health, education, and personal belief systems. Whether addressing meta-philosophical questions or engaging with the nuances of current social and political landscapes, this podcast offers a platform for rigorous intellectual exploration and thought-provoking discussions.
Episodes:
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4 Steps to the Immaterial [Narration]
2024-Sep-29
4 minutes
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Why We Need to Replace Mathematics [Narration]
2024-Sep-22
5 minutes
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The Objectivity of Structure Outside our Concepts [Narration]
2023-May-06
6 minutes
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Ep. 106 - Living with the Robots | Dr. RollerGator
2023-Apr-02
103 minutes
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Ep. 105 - The Philosophy of AI (pt 1) | Alexandros Marinos
2023-Mar-24
135 minutes
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Ep. 104 - "No Longer a Christian" | Isaac Deitz
2021-Nov-26
111 minutes
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Our Present Dark Age
2021-Jul-06
20 minutes
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Ep. 103 - "Mad at Mathematicians" | Isaac Morehouse
2021-Jan-21
48 minutes
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Ep. 102 - Scientific Progress and Intellectual Schelling Points | Dr. Geoff Anders
2020-Apr-19
110 minutes
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Critical Thinking | Zooming In and Zooming Out
2020-Mar-31
8 minutes
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Ep. 101- Is a Ruling Class Inevitable? | Samo Burja
2020-Mar-08
79 minutes
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Coming Around to Platonism
2020-Jan-10
26 minutes
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Ep. 100 - Trying to Solve Philosophy | Patterson in Pursuit
2019-Nov-19
45 minutes
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Ep. 99 - Non-Rationality and Psychedelics | Dr. Bernardo Kastrup
2019-Sep-08
62 minutes
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Ep. 98 - "A Consciousness-Only Ontology" | Dr. Bernardo Kastrup
2019-Sep-01
99 minutes
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Understanding God as Nature or the Universe
2019-Aug-22
26 minutes
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Solving the Interaction Problem
2019-Aug-02
25 minutes
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There Are No Objective Definitions
2019-May-19
15 minutes
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Ep. 97 - Math Heresy: Ultrafinitism | Dr. Doron Zeilberger
2019-Apr-21
57 minutes
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Ep. 96 - Truth and Postmodernism | Breakdown of Thaddeus Russell Interview
2019-Apr-07
105 minutes
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Ep. 95 - The Highest IQ in America | Christopher Langan
2019-Mar-24
71 minutes
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Ep. 94 - A Satoshi Nakamoto Story | Phil "Scronty" Wilson
2018-Sep-02
434 minutes
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Ep. 93 - Abortion, Natural Rights, and Evictionism | Dr. Walter Block
2018-Jun-28
58 minutes
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Ep. 92 - 6 Years of Mystery Illness: When Western Medicine Fails
2018-Jun-17
117 minutes
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Ep. 91 - Tom Woods on Catholicism, Papal Authority, and Intellectual Entrepreneurship | Dr. Thomas Woods
2018-Jun-10
68 minutes
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The Abuse of Apriorism in Economics
2018-May-31
21 minutes
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Ep. 90 - The Overwhelming Beauty of Free Markets | Jeffrey Tucker
2018-May-27
52 minutes
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Does Free Will Even Make Sense?
2018-May-24
18 minutes
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The Crucifixion: A Unification of Love and Hate
2018-May-17
7 minutes
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How the Rubik's Cube Solves Any Paradox
2018-May-13
13 minutes
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Ep. 89 - Is the Whole Greater than the Sum of Its Parts? | Dr. Andrew Brenner
2018-May-06
54 minutes
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Defending Zeno's Paradox
2018-May-03
14 minutes
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Ep. 88 - Watch Out for Bitcoin Cash | Ryan X. Charles
2018-Apr-29
91 minutes
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How Progressives Can Fix the Economy
2018-Apr-26
6 minutes
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Ep. 87 - Race and Colorblindness: Part II | T.K. Coleman
2018-Apr-22
121 minutes
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Gay Marriage and the Absurdity of Courts
2018-Apr-19
13 minutes
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Ep. 86 - Race and Colorblindness: Part I | TK Coleman
2018-Apr-16
105 minutes
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The Profundity of Poker
2018-Apr-08
13 minutes
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Ep. 85 - College Isn't for Education | Dr. Bryan Caplan
2018-Apr-02
58 minutes
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Ep. 84 - When Logic Met Math | Dr. Graham Priest
2018-Mar-25
28 minutes
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Ep. 83 - Logic, Contradictions, and the Liar Paradox | Dr. Graham Priest
2018-Mar-18
82 minutes
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Ep. 82 - Do Entities Exist? | Breakdown of Chalmers Interview
2018-Mar-11
30 minutes
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Ep. 81 - The Ethics of Eating Meat | Dr. Mike Huemer
2018-Mar-04
67 minutes
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Ep. 80 - A Debate about Truth and Postmodernism | Thaddeus Russell
2018-Feb-25
70 minutes
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Ep. 79 - Postmodernism, Marxism, Love, and Religion | Thaddeus Russell
2018-Feb-18
63 minutes
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Ep. 78 - The Case for Idealism | Dr. Bernardo Kastrup
2018-Feb-11
59 minutes
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Time for Writing and Health
2017-Oct-08
4 minutes
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The Puzzle of Awareness
2017-Oct-05
5 minutes
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Ep. 77 - Why I Support Catalonia's Secession
2017-Oct-01
24 minutes
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Don't Fight for Objective Definitions
2017-Sep-28
8 minutes
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Ep. 76 - Metaphysical Questions, Objectivist Answers | Dr. David Kelley
2017-Sep-24
57 minutes
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The Fashionable Thinkers
2017-Sep-21
14 minutes
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Ep. 75 - Do We Perceive Reality? | Dr. Donald Hoffman
2017-Sep-17
66 minutes
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How to Deal with Alien Abductions and Bigfoot Sightings
2017-Sep-14
9 minutes
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Ep. 74 - Race and American Politics | T.K. Coleman
2017-Sep-10
79 minutes
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Unifying the Plural into the Simple
2017-Sep-07
6 minutes
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Ep. 73 - Race, Culture, and Judgments | T.K. Coleman
2017-Sep-03
90 minutes
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Ep. 72 - The Real Story Behind Bitcoin Cash | Ryan X. Charles
2017-Aug-27
60 minutes
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Ep. 71 - Meditation and the Absence of Self | Oren J. Sofer
2017-Aug-20
63 minutes
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Ep. 70 - Should Feminism and Philosophy Mix? | Interview Breakdown
2017-Aug-14
86 minutes
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Ep. 69 - Hegel and Paradox | Dr. Donald Verene
2017-Aug-06
58 minutes
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Ep. 68 - Corruption in the Silk Road Case | Lyn Ulbricht
2017-Jul-30
50 minutes
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Ep. 67 - Catholicism, the Church, and Faith | Fr. Oscar Martin
2017-Jul-23
61 minutes
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Ep. 66 - Ethics, Capitalism, the Meaning of Life, and Social Justice | Dr. Patrick Byrne
2017-Jul-16
38 minutes
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Ep. 65 - "Ultra Spiritual" or "Actually Spiritual"? | JP Sears
2017-Jul-10
56 minutes
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Ep. 64 - Science, Peer Review, and Academic B******t | Brian Earp
2017-Jul-02
70 minutes
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Can Drugs Lead to Truth?
2017-Jun-29
13 minutes
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Ep. 63 - The Limits of the Non-Aggression Principle | Interview Breakdown
2017-Jun-25
30 minutes
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Language is Inherently Ambiguous
2017-Jun-22
7 minutes
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Ep. 62 - Bitcoin, OpenBazaar, and Political Power | Sam Patterson
2017-Jun-17
53 minutes
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Is Space Mental?
2017-Jun-15
8 minutes
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Ep. 61 - Ayn Rand's Objectivism | Dr. David Kelley
2017-Jun-11
64 minutes
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You Live in Your Mind
2017-Jun-08
6 minutes
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Ep. 60 - Dialogue with a Buddhist Monk | Phra Maha Chanomkorn Prakai
2017-Jun-04
58 minutes
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Ep. 59 - Can You Approach Infinity? | Dr. Michael Huemer
2017-May-28
80 minutes
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Is the World Blurry? | The Modernist Fallacy
2017-May-26
6 minutes
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Ep. 58 - The Psychology of Postmodernism | Dr. Stephen Hicks
2017-May-20
58 minutes
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Tai Chi Meets Reality
2017-May-18
8 minutes
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Ep. 57 - Are Some Objects Mind-Dependent? | Interview Breakdown
2017-May-15
52 minutes
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Puerto Rico Has Gone Bankrupt
2017-May-12
7 minutes
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Ep. 56 - Zen Buddhism | Keiho Nishigaki
2017-May-09
33 minutes
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Ep. 55 - Are Science and Religion Incompatible? | Dr. Peter Harrison
2017-Apr-30
55 minutes
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Data versus Anecdotes: From Ghosts to Levaquin
2017-Apr-28
19 minutes
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Ep. 54 - Psychedelic Experience: Ayahuasca | The World Wanderers
2017-Apr-23
113 minutes
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The Social Hierarchy
2017-Apr-20
10 minutes
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Ep. 53 - One Year, 10 Countries | What I've Learned
2017-Apr-15
42 minutes
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People Love Hierarchy
2017-Apr-13
8 minutes
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Ep. 52 - Are Some Infinities Bigger Than Others? | Dr. Toby Meadows
2017-Apr-09
65 minutes
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Ep. 51 - Feminist Philosophy | Dr. Michelle Boulous-Walker
2017-Apr-02
66 minutes
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The Metaphysics of Fiction
2017-Mar-31
7 minutes
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Ep. 50 - Argumentation Ethics | Stephan Kinsella
2017-Mar-26
87 minutes
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Experts and Incompetence
2017-Mar-24
23 minutes
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Ep. 49 - Is Consciousness "Emergent"? | Dr. David Braddon-Mitchell
2017-Mar-18
53 minutes
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My Experience with Christian Evangelicalism
2017-Mar-16
24 minutes
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Ep. 48 - Skepticism of Infinity in Mathematics | Dr. Norman Wildberger
2017-Mar-12
51 minutes
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Infinite Things Do Not Exist
2017-Mar-09
14 minutes
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Ep. 47 - Problems with Paraconsistent Logic | Interview Breakdown
2017-Mar-05
58 minutes
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3 Steps for Changing a Paradigm
2017-Mar-03
5 minutes
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Ep. 46 - Buddhism and Boundaries | Interview Breakdown
2017-Feb-26
36 minutes
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A Requirement for True Love
2017-Feb-24
14 minutes
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Ep. 45 - Infinite Sets: Understanding the Basics | Dr. Gareth
2017-Feb-19
54 minutes
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Charlie Hebdo as an Excuse to Take Selfies
2017-Feb-16
6 minutes
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Ep. 44 - SJWs, the Left, and Academia | Dr. Jamie Whyte
2017-Feb-12
48 minutes
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Ep. 43 - Indigenous Beliefs of New Zealand | Dr. Hirini Kaa
2017-Feb-05
67 minutes
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Ep. 42 - Truth and Paraconsistent Logic
2017-Jan-29
69 minutes
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Ep. 41 - Race Relations, Part II | T.K. Coleman
2017-Jan-26
94 minutes
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Ep. 40 - Race Relations | T.K. Coleman
2017-Jan-22
81 minutes
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Why I Am Not a Physicalist
2017-Jan-19
22 minutes
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Ep. 39 - Theism without the OmniGod | Dr. John Bishop
2017-Jan-15
74 minutes
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Ep. 38 - The Post-Truth Era | Dr. Robert Nola
2017-Jan-08
52 minutes
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Ep. 37 - Free Will, Causality, and Pluralism | Dr. Mario De Caro
2017-Jan-01
48 minutes
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The Bittersweet Paradox
2016-Dec-29
11 minutes
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Ep. 36 - Christmas Breakdown | Scrooge Edition
2016-Dec-26
58 minutes
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Ep. 35 - Legalizing All Drugs | Dr. Jeffrey Miron
2016-Dec-18
38 minutes
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Ep. 34 - The Foundations of Knowledge
2016-Dec-11
22 minutes
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Is It Honorable To Be In The Military?
2016-Dec-08
19 minutes
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Ep. 33 - Do Mathematical Objects Exist? | Dr. Jody Azzouni
2016-Dec-04
58 minutes
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Ep. 32 - Minds, Machines, and Souls | Interview Breakdown
2016-Nov-28
42 minutes
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Ep. 31 - Religious Experience | Isaac Morehouse
2016-Nov-20
52 minutes
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The Case for Cultural Appropriation
2016-Nov-17
13 minutes
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Thank Goodness for Price Gougers
2016-Nov-10
7 minutes
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Ep. 30 - Buddhism, the Self, and Boundaries | Dr. Janet Gyatso
2016-Nov-06
33 minutes
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Gender, Sex, and Language
2016-Nov-03
15 minutes
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Ep. 29 - Trump and Conservatism | Dr. Harvey Mansfield
2016-Oct-30
51 minutes
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Ep. 28 - Questions for a Christian Theologian | Dr. Ian McFarland
2016-Oct-23
55 minutes
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All is One: The Logical Case for Mysticism
2016-Oct-20
9 minutes
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Ep. 27 - Intellectual Optimism | T.K. Coleman
2016-Oct-16
62 minutes
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Reparations for Slavery
2016-Oct-13
12 minutes
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Ep. 26 - Why I'm Not in Academia
2016-Oct-09
36 minutes
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Steak and Certainty
2016-Oct-06
4 minutes
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Ep. 25 - Artificial Intelligence and Minds | Dr. Bram van Heuveln
2016-Oct-02
47 minutes
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Karma or Coincidence?
2016-Sep-29
9 minutes
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Ep. 24 - John Searle and Dualism | Interview Breakdown
2016-Sep-25
34 minutes
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What is Religiosity?
2016-Sep-22
11 minutes
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Ep. 23 - Postmodernism | Dr. Stephen Hicks
2016-Sep-18
52 minutes
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Economic Reality Comes Before Social Justice
2016-Sep-14
8 minutes
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Ep. 22 - Understanding Infinity | Dr. Daniel Isaacson
2016-Sep-11
46 minutes
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An Objective Standard for Sanity
2016-Sep-08
8 minutes
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Ep. 21 - Biological Naturalism | Dr. John Searle
2016-Sep-04
30 minutes
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The Continuum Problem
2016-Sep-01
9 minutes
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Ep. 20 - Democracy to Anarchism | Interview Breakdown
2016-Aug-28
49 minutes
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Logic is Not a Convention
2016-Aug-24
8 minutes
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Ep. 19 - Three Basic Concepts in Economics | Dr. Donald Boudreaux
2016-Aug-22
54 minutes
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Hiding Behind Abstractions
2016-Aug-22
9 minutes
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Ep. 18 - Democracy, More or Less | Dr. Bruce Cain
2016-Aug-14
65 minutes
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Faith and Reason
2016-Aug-10
12 minutes
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Physicalism and Spirituality
2016-Aug-03
8 minutes
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Ep. 17 - Oxford Analysis | Interview Breakdown
2016-Jul-31
37 minutes
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Tautologies Must Not Be Dismissed
2016-Jul-28
10 minutes
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Ep. 16 - What is Logic? | Dr. Timothy Williamson
2016-Jul-24
66 minutes
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The Paradox of Buridan's Ass
2016-Jul-19
6 minutes
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Ep. 15 - Anarchist Intuition | Libertarian Political Philosophy
2016-Jul-17
28 minutes
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Resolving the Liar's Paradox
2016-Jul-14
6 minutes
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Ep. 14 - Understanding Quantum Physics | Dr. Simon Saunders
2016-Jul-11
71 minutes
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Everything is Grounded in Logic
2016-Jul-06
7 minutes
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Ep. 13 - Austrian Economics: Deduction, Logic, and Theory | Dr. Peter Boettke
2016-Jul-03
63 minutes
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Can You Judge Intelligence by Beliefs?
2016-Jun-29
8 minutes
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Ep. 12 - Brexit!
2016-Jun-26
26 minutes
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From Conservative to Anarchist
2016-Jun-22
14 minutes
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Ep. 11 - Contradictions at Columbia | Interview Breakdown
2016-Jun-19
44 minutes
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The Logic of Nothing
2016-Jun-15
8 minutes
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Ep. 10 - Christian Beliefs, Experiences | Dr. Bob Murphy
2016-Jun-12
51 minutes
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Assume Everybody is Wrong
2016-Jun-08
7 minutes
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Ep. 9 - Logic, Contradictions, and Dialetheism | Dr. Justin Clarke-Doane
2016-Jun-05
87 minutes
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Does the Mind Have Access to Objective Truth?
2016-Jun-01
8 minutes
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Ep. 8 - Completed Infinities: Possible or Not? | Dr. Gary McGuire
2016-May-29
44 minutes
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Against "Doing the Right Thing"
2016-May-25
7 minutes
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Ep. 7 - Egoism, Religion, Ayn Rand | Michael Malice
2016-May-22
56 minutes
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Chairs Do Not Exist
2016-May-18
17 minutes
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Ep. 6 - Interview Breakdown: Pragmatism, Objective Truth, and Anarchism
2016-May-15
36 minutes
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Democracy Fail: Trump versus Sanders
2016-May-11
7 minutes
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Ep. 5 - American Pragmatism | Dr. John Stuhr
2016-May-08
74 minutes
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The Sliding Scale of Certainty
2016-May-04
5 minutes
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Ep. 4 - Irrational Voters, Law without Government, and the Case Against Education | Dr. Bryan Caplan
2016-May-01
37 minutes
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The Death of Skepticism
2016-Apr-26
7 minutes
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Ep. 3 - Consciousness and Subjectivity | Dr. Emrys Westacott
2016-Apr-21
36 minutes
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Ep. 2 - Is There Objective Truth? | Dr. Emrys Westacott
2016-Apr-21
33 minutes
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Ep. 1 - Introduction
2016-Apr-20
4 minutes
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