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What is Philosophy? Why should we bother with it? Sit down with Danny and Dr. Mike in the comfort of their local pub, as they grapple with the big ideas in a unique and accessible way! Dive into our archive of earlier episodes here: https://castbox.fm/channel/id3766780?country=gb Send us an email: [email protected] Check out our article about the podcast here! Get into Mike and Danny's heads for free! https://blog.apaonline.org/2018/10/03/the-philosophy-wtf-podcast-philosophy-outside-academia/Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Accessible pub-chat philosophy • personal identity, selfhood, persistence • memory and ageing • free will vs determinism, genetics, morality • existentialism, meaning, authenticity, absurdity • AI/ChatGPT, Turing Test, creativity, social media • culture, nation, consumerismThis podcast is a conversational philosophy show in which the hosts, Danny and Dr. Mike, discuss major ideas in an informal, pub-style setting aimed at making philosophy accessible outside academic contexts. Across the episodes, they work through big themes in multi-part series, returning repeatedly to questions about what it means to be a person and how we understand ourselves over time.
A central thread is personal identity: how the self is connected to the body, memory, culture, and social categories, and whether there is any “essence” that makes someone who they are. Related discussions examine persistence through time and the role of recollection in shaping continuity, as well as what ageing reveals about experience, value, and the life course. The show also spends significant time on free will and determinism, weighing how choice might be constrained by social pressures, psychology, politics, morality, evolutionary biology, or even genetics, and what that implies for responsibility and freedom.
Contemporary topics appear alongside classic philosophical touchstones. The hosts apply philosophical tools to technology and media, including debates about artificial intelligence, the Turing Test, the Chinese Room, social media governance, creativity, and how online self-presentation intersects with existentialist concerns about authenticity, meaning, despair, and the absurd. Some episodes broaden into interviews and lighter specials, using films, literature, and popular culture references as entry points for exploring philosophical questions in everyday life.
