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Podcast Profile: The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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666 episodes
2009 to 2024
Median: 48 minutes
Collection: Philosophy

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"The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast" delves into a variety of philosophical texts and ideas, offering listeners a blend of insightful analysis and casual, often humorous discussion. The podcast is hosted by individuals who initially pursued careers in philosophy but later chose different paths. Instead of adhering strictly to academic conventions, the show often explores philosophy through a more relaxed and accessible lens.

Episodes typically focus on specific philosophical texts or themes, ranging from ancient to modern thought. Frequent subjects include classical philosophers like Aristotle, whose works on metaphysics and essentialism are dissected in detail, and existentialists like Kierkegaard, whose views on faith, ethics, and the self are often revisited. The podcast also covers less traditional philosophical topics, such as the philosophy of race, metaphysics of science, and the philosophical implications of identity politics.

In addition to the main thematic explorations, the podcast features a variety of sub-shows that expand its scope. These include "Pretty Much Pop," which discusses media and popular culture; "Nakedly Examined Music," which deconstructs songs and interviews musicians; "Philosophy vs. Improv," merging performance skills with philosophical ideas; and "(sub)Text," which examines literature and film through a philosophical lens.

Guest appearances are common and bring additional perspectives from scholars, musicians, and other cultural commentators. Discussions frequently integrate metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical considerations, making connections between philosophical theory and practical, everyday issues.

Overall, "The Partially Examined Life" podcast offers a diverse exploration of philosophy, blending deep intellectual engagement with accessible, often light-hearted conversation, making complex philosophical ideas approachable for a wider audience.

Episodes:

Ep. 344: Gettier and Goldman on Justified True Belief (Part One) 2024-Jun-23 42 minutes

PEL Presents PMP#175: Podcast of the Planet of the Apes 2024-Jun-21 53 minutes

Ep. 343: Plotinus the Neo-Platonist (Part Two) 2024-Jun-17 50 minutes

PEL Presents SUBTEXT: Psychedelic Regrets in "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (Part 5) 2024-Jun-15 73 minutes

PEL Presents NEM#217: Richard Thompson's Moments in Time 2024-Jun-14 73 minutes

Ep. 343: Plotinus the Neo-Platonist (Part One) 2024-Jun-10 39 minutes

PEL Presents PvI#76: Hello, Larry w/ Lawrence Ware 2024-Jun-09 57 minutes

Ep. 342: Zhuangzi on Knowledge and Virtue (Part Two) 2024-Jun-03 43 minutes

Ep. 342: Zhuangzi on Knowledge and Virtue (Part One) 2024-May-27 42 minutes

Ep. 341 Supplemental: Zhuangzi for Closereads Evergreen Network Launch 2024-May-20 65 minutes

PEL Presents SUBTEXT - Psychedelic Regrets in "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (Part 1) 2024-May-19 68 minutes

Ep. 341: Guest Karyn Lai on Daoism in the Zhuangzi 2024-May-13 58 minutes

Ep. 340: Brian Ellis on the Implications of Essentialism (Part Two) 2024-May-06 47 minutes

Ep. 340: Brian Ellis on the Implications of Essentialism (Part One) 2024-Apr-29 42 minutes

PEL 15th Anniversary and Book Release 2024-Apr-22 54 minutes

Ep. 339: Brian Ellis on the Metaphysics of Science (Part Two) 2024-Apr-15 45 minutes

PEL Presents PvI#74: A Psychedelic Embrace with David Peña-Guzmán (Overthink) 2024-Apr-13 65 minutes

Ep. 339: Brian Ellis on the Metaphysics of Science (Part One) 2024-Apr-08 52 minutes

Ep. 338: Aristotle on Potential vs. Actual and the Unmoved Mover (Part Two) 2024-Apr-01 43 minutes

Ep. 338: Aristotle on Potential vs. Actual and the Unmoved Mover (Part One) 2024-Mar-25 48 minutes

PREMIUM-PEL Nightcap w/ Chris Sunami (March 2024) 2024-Mar-22 10 minutes

Ep. 337: Aristotle on Primary Being (Part Two) 2024-Mar-18 45 minutes

Ep. 337: Aristotle on Primary Being (Part One) 2024-Mar-11 47 minutes

Ep. 336: Aristotle on Being and Non-Contradiction (Part Two) 2024-Mar-04 53 minutes

PEL Presents NEM#212: Graham Parker's Hard Graft 2024-Mar-02 88 minutes

Ep. 336: Aristotle on Being and Non-Contradiction (Part One) 2024-Feb-26 51 minutes

Ep. 335: Aristotle on Fundamental Explanations (Part Two) 2024-Feb-19 44 minutes

Ep. 335: Aristotle on Fundamental Explanations (Part One) 2024-Feb-12 47 minutes

REISSUE-Ep. 29: Kierkegaard on the Self 2024-Feb-05 116 minutes

PREMIUM-PEL Long Winter's Nightcap (Jan-Feb 2024) 2024-Feb-03 10 minutes

Ep. 334: Gabriel Marcel's Christian Existentialism (Part Two) 2024-Jan-29 54 minutes

Ep. 334: Gabriel Marcel's Christian Existentialism (Part One) 2024-Jan-22 41 minutes

PEL Presents NEM#209: Bruce Hornsby Is a Lifelong Student 2024-Jan-20 71 minutes

Ep. 333: Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling" on Faith (Part Two) 2024-Jan-15 43 minutes

Ep. 333: Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling" on Faith (Part One) 2024-Jan-08 44 minutes

PREMIUM-PEL Winter Nightcap (Concluding 2023) 2024-Jan-07 11 minutes

Ep. 332: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Ethical Self (Part Two) 2024-Jan-01 52 minutes

Ep. 332: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Ethical Self (Part One) 2023-Dec-25 39 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 331: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Ethical Life (Part Three) 2023-Dec-22 9 minutes

Ep. 331: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Ethical Life (Part Two) 2023-Dec-18 47 minutes

Ep. 331: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Ethical Life (Part One) 2023-Dec-11 42 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 330: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Aesthetic Life (Part Three) 2023-Dec-08 11 minutes

Ep. 330: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Aesthetic Life (Part Two) 2023-Dec-04 48 minutes

PEL Presents PvI#66: Legacy Mops w/ Kevin Allison 2023-Dec-01 58 minutes

Ep. 330: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Aesthetic Life (Part One) 2023-Nov-27 44 minutes

PEL Presents (SUB)TEXT: The Emptiness of Signification in Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" (Part 1 of 6) 2023-Nov-26 56 minutes

Ep. 329: Kierkegaard on Irony (Part Three/Closereads Part One) 2023-Nov-25 52 minutes

Ep. 329: Kierkegaard on Irony (Part Two) 2023-Nov-20 52 minutes

Ep. 329: Kierkegaard on Irony (Part One) 2023-Nov-13 40 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 328: Yascha Mounk Against Identity Politics (Part Three) 2023-Nov-10 10 minutes

Ep. 328: Guest Yascha Mounk Against Identity Politics (Part Two) 2023-Nov-06 57 minutes

Ep. 328: Guest Yascha Mounk Against Identity Politics (Part One) 2023-Oct-30 50 minutes

PREMIUM-PEL Fall Nightcap 2023 2023-Oct-28 11 minutes

Ep. 327: Harry Frankfurt on Bullsh*t and Authenticity (Part Two) 2023-Oct-23 51 minutes

Ep. 327: Harry Frankfurt on Bullsh*t and Authenticity (Part One) 2023-Oct-16 41 minutes

PEL Presents PvI#63: Virtual Socrates w/ David Chalmers 2023-Oct-14 58 minutes

Ep. 326: Michael Tomasello on the Evolution of Agency (Part Two) 2023-Oct-09 52 minutes

Ep. 326: Guest Michael Tomasello on the Evolution of Agency (Part One) 2023-Oct-02 45 minutes

Ep. 325: Paul Grice on Meaning and Conversation (Part Two) 2023-Sep-25 56 minutes

Ep. 325: Paul Grice on Meaning and Conversation (Part One) 2023-Sep-18 46 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 324: Plato's "Cratylus" on Language (Part Three) 2023-Sep-13 11 minutes

Ep. 324: Plato's "Cratylus" on Language (Part Two) 2023-Sep-11 46 minutes

Ep. 324: Plato's "Cratylus" on Language (Part One) 2023-Sep-04 45 minutes

PREMIUM-PEL End-of-Summer Nightcap 2023 2023-Aug-29 10 minutes

Ep. 323: Acquiring Language: Tomasello vs. Chomsky (Part Two) 2023-Aug-28 47 minutes

(SUB)TEXT: Home as Identity in "The Odyssey" 2023-Aug-27 67 minutes

Ep. 323: Acquiring Language: Tomasello vs. Chomsky (Part One) 2023-Aug-21 45 minutes

PEL Closereads: Emerson's Oversoul (New Podcast Premiere) 2023-Aug-14 55 minutes

Ep. 322: Schelling on Art vs. Nature (Part Three) 2023-Aug-07 57 minutes

Ep. 322: Schelling on Art vs. Nature (Part Two) 2023-Jul-31 48 minutes

Ep. 322: Schelling on Art vs. Nature (Part One) 2023-Jul-24 43 minutes

PREMIUM-PEL Tech Nightcap July 2023 2023-Jul-21 11 minutes

Ep. 321: August Schlegel on Beauty (Part Two) 2023-Jul-17 44 minutes

Ep. 321: August Schlegel on Beauty (Part One) 2023-Jul-10 46 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 320: Friedrich Schlegel on Romanticism (Part Three) 2023-Jul-08 10 minutes

Ep. 320: Friedrich Schlegel on Romanticism (Part Two) 2023-Jul-03 43 minutes

Ep. 320: Friedrich Schlegel on Romanticism (Part One) 2023-Jun-26 45 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 319: Schiller on Experiencing Beauty (Part Three) 2023-Jun-23 10 minutes

Ep. 319: Schiller on Experiencing Beauty (Part Two) 2023-Jun-19 49 minutes

Ep. 319: Schiller on Experiencing Beauty (Part One) 2023-Jun-11 46 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 318: Friedrich Schiller on the Civilizing Potential of Art (Part Three) 2023-Jun-10 11 minutes

Ep. 318: Friedrich Schiller on the Civilizing Potential of Art (Part Two) 2023-Jun-05 53 minutes

Ep. 318: Friedrich Schiller on the Civilizing Potential of Art (Part One) 2023-May-29 44 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 317: Character Philosophies in Dostoevsky's "Brothers Karamazov" (Part Two) 2023-May-22 11 minutes

Ep. 317: Character Philosophies in Dostoevsky's "Brothers Karamazov" (Part One) 2023-May-15 54 minutes

Ep. 316: Dostoevsky's "Brothers Karamazov": PEL Live in NYC (Part Two) 2023-May-08 35 minutes

Ep. 316: Dostoevsky's "Brothers Karamazov": PEL Live in NYC (Part One) 2023-May-01 40 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 315: Mengzi (Mencius) on Virtuous Leaders (Part Two) 2023-Apr-24 10 minutes

Ep. 315: Mengzi (Mencius) on Virtuous Leaders (Part One) 2023-Apr-17 37 minutes

PREMIUM-PEL Nightcap April 2023 2023-Apr-14 12 minutes

Ep. 314: Mengzi (Mencius) on Moral Psychology (Part Two) 2023-Apr-10 46 minutes

Ep. 314: Mengzi (Mencius) on Moral Psychology (Part One) 2023-Apr-03 40 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 313: Mozi's Political Ethics (Part Three) 2023-Apr-02 10 minutes

Ep. 313: Mozi's Political Ethics (Part Two) 2023-Mar-27 51 minutes

Ep. 313: Mozi's Political Ethics (Part One) 2023-Mar-20 47 minutes

PREMIUM-PEL Nightcap Late March 2023 2023-Mar-20 8 minutes

Ep. 312: The Dao De Jing on Virtue (Part Two) 2023-Mar-13 39 minutes

Ep. 312: The Dao De Jing on Virtue (Part One) 2023-Mar-06 45 minutes

PREMIUM-PEL Nightcap Early March 2023 2023-Mar-05 8 minutes

Ep. 311: Understanding the Dao De Jing (Part Two) 2023-Feb-27 41 minutes

Ep. 311: Understanding the Dao De Jing (Part One) 2023-Feb-20 48 minutes

PREMIUM-PEL Nightcap February 2023 2023-Feb-18 12 minutes

Ep. 310: Wittgenstein On World-Pictures (Part Two) 2023-Feb-13 44 minutes

Ep. 310: Wittgenstein On World-Pictures (Part One) 2023-Feb-06 44 minutes

PREMIUM-PEL Nightcap January 2023 2023-Jan-31 10 minutes

Ep. 309: Wittgenstein On Certainty (Part Two) 2023-Jan-30 39 minutes

Ep. 309: Wittgenstein On Certainty (Part One) 2023-Jan-23 41 minutes

Ep. 308: Moore's Proof of Mind-Independent Reality (Part Two) 2023-Jan-16 45 minutes

Ep. 308: Moore's Proof of Mind-Independent Reality (Part One) 2023-Jan-09 44 minutes

PREMIUM-PEL Nightcap 2022 Wrap-Up 2023-Jan-05 10 minutes

Ep. 307: G.E. Moore Defends Common Sense (Part Two) 2023-Jan-02 49 minutes

Ep. 307: G.E. Moore Defends Common Sense (Part One) 2022-Dec-26 41 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 306: Dworkin and the Dobbs Decision (Part Three) 2022-Dec-24 12 minutes

Ep. 306: Dworkin and the Dobbs Decision (Part Two) 2022-Dec-19 49 minutes

Ep. 306: Dworkin and the Dobbs Decision (Part One) 2022-Dec-12 41 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 305: Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" (Part Three) 2022-Dec-10 11 minutes

Ep. 305: Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" (Part Two) 2022-Dec-05 47 minutes

Ep. 305: Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" (Part One) 2022-Nov-28 40 minutes

PREMIUM-PEL Nightcap November 2022: Listener Testimonials 2022-Nov-27 9 minutes

Ep. 304: Dworkin v. Hart on Legal Judgment (Part Two) 2022-Nov-21 46 minutes

Ep. 304: Dworkin v. Hart on Legal Judgment (Part One) 2022-Nov-14 39 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 303: H.L.A. Hart on the Foundations of Law (Part Three) 2022-Nov-11 10 minutes

Ep. 303: H.L.A. Hart on the Foundations of Law (Part Two) 2022-Nov-07 51 minutes

Ep. 303: H.L.A. Hart on the Foundations of Law (Part One) 2022-Oct-31 43 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 302: Erasmus Praises Foolishness (Part Three) 2022-Oct-29 10 minutes

Ep. 302: Erasmus Praises Foolishness (Part Two) 2022-Oct-24 47 minutes

Ep. 302: Erasmus Praises Foolishness (Part One) 2022-Oct-17 46 minutes

PREMIUM-PEL Representation Nightcap October 2022 2022-Oct-14 16 minutes

PEL Presents PvI#40: Rules and Voices with Stephen West (Philosophize This!) 2022-Oct-13 50 minutes

Ep. 301: Is Abortion Morally Permissible? (Part Three) 2022-Oct-10 49 minutes

Ep. 301: Is Abortion Morally Permissible? (Part Two) 2022-Oct-03 43 minutes

PEL Presents NEM#181: Robyn Hitchcock Forgets Himself, Sharply 2022-Sep-30 74 minutes

Ep. 301: Is Abortion Morally Permissible? (Part One) 2022-Sep-26 49 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 300: Nietzsche on Relating to History (Part Three) 2022-Sep-23 11 minutes

Ep. 300: Nietzsche on Relating to History (Part Two) 2022-Sep-19 41 minutes

Ep. 300: Nietzsche on Relating to History (Part One) 2022-Sep-12 44 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 299: Philosophy in Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens" (Part Three) 2022-Sep-03 11 minutes

Ep. 299: Philosophy in Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens" (Part Two) 2022-Aug-29 51 minutes

Ep. 299: Philosophy in Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens" (Part One) 2022-Aug-22 42 minutes

Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens" Audioplay (Part Two) 2022-Aug-15 79 minutes

Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens" Audioplay Feat. Jay O. Sanders, Michael Ian Black, and Michael Tow (Part One) 2022-Aug-08 82 minutes

PREMIUM-Ficino-Flavored Nightcap Early August 2022 2022-Aug-05 12 minutes

Ep. 298: Marsilio Ficino on Love (Part Two) 2022-Aug-01 50 minutes

Ep. 298: Marsilio Ficino on Love (Part One) 2022-Jul-25 45 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 297: Heidegger on the Human Condition (Part Three) 2022-Jul-23 10 minutes

Ep. 297: Heidegger on the Human Condition (Part Two) 2022-Jul-18 44 minutes

Ep. 297: Heidegger on the Human Condition (Part One) 2022-Jul-11 41 minutes

Ep. 296: Heidegger Questions Being (Part Two) 2022-Jul-04 60 minutes

Ep. 296: Heidegger's Questions Being (Part One) 2022-Jun-27 49 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 295: Kant on Preventing War (Part Three) 2022-Jun-18 9 minutes

Ep. 295: Kant on Preventing War (Part Two) 2022-Jun-13 45 minutes

Ep. 295: Kant on Preventing War (Part One) 2022-Jun-06 39 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 294: Quine on Science vs. Epistemology (Part Three) 2022-Jun-03 14 minutes

Ep. 294: Quine on Science vs. Epistemology (Part Two) 2022-May-30 34 minutes

Ep. 294: Quine on Science vs. Epistemology (Part One) 2022-May-23 44 minutes

Philosophy vs. Improv #32: "On the Standard of [Bad] Taste" w/ Babette Babich 2022-May-22 54 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 293: Donna Haraway on Feminist Science (Part Two) 2022-May-16 10 minutes

Ep. 293: Donna Haraway on Feminist Science (Part One) 2022-May-09 54 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 292: Langer on Symbolic Music (Part Two) 2022-May-02 14 minutes

Ep. 292: Langer on Symbolic Music (Part One) 2022-Apr-25 47 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 291: Cassirer and Langer on Myth and Ritual (Part Two) 2022-Apr-18 13 minutes

Ep. 291: Cassirer and Langer on Myth and Ritual (Part One) 2022-Apr-11 44 minutes

PEL Presents NEM#170: Bob Mould From Hüsker Dü to Sugar to Now 2022-Apr-11 63 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 290: Susanne Langer on Our Symbol-Making Nature (Part Two) 2022-Apr-04 12 minutes

Ep. 290: Susanne Langer on Our Symbol-Making Nature (Part One) 2022-Mar-28 49 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 289: Aesthetic Sense Theory: Hume (Part Two) 2022-Mar-21 12 minutes

Ep. 289: Aesthetic Sense Theory: Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hume (Part One) 2022-Mar-14 51 minutes

PEL Presents Philosophy vs. Improv #28: Enhanced Interrogation w/ Adal Rifai 2022-Mar-11 69 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 288: Scruton on Ethical Art (Part Two) 2022-Mar-07 11 minutes

Ep. 288: Scruton on Ethical Art (Part One) 2022-Feb-28 46 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 287: Roger Scruton on Beauty (Part Two) 2022-Feb-21 11 minutes

Ep. 287: Roger Scruton on Beauty (Part One) 2022-Feb-14 47 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 286: Malebranche on Causality and Theology (Part Three) 2022-Feb-07 13 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 286: Malebranche on Causality and Theology (Part Two) 2022-Jan-31 11 minutes

Ep. 286: Malebranche on Causality and Theology (Part One) 2022-Jan-24 50 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 285: Nicolas Malebranche on Knowledge (Part Two) 2022-Jan-17 12 minutes

Ep. 285: Nicolas Malebranche on Knowledge (Part One) 2022-Jan-10 47 minutes

PEL Special: Nightcap New Year's Party to Welcome 2022 2022-Jan-02 47 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 284: Mark Twain’s Philosophy of Human Nature (Part Two) 2021-Dec-27 10 minutes

Ep. 284: Mark Twain’s Philosophy of Human Nature (Part One) 2021-Dec-20 40 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 283: Alain Badiou on Love (Part Two) 2021-Dec-13 10 minutes

Ep. 283: Alain Badiou on Love (Part One) 2021-Dec-06 43 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 282: Alain Badiou: What Is Philosophy? (Part Two) 2021-Nov-29 12 minutes

Ep. 282: Alain Badiou: What Is Philosophy? (Part One) 2021-Nov-22 49 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 281: Paul Feyerabend's Anarchist Philosophy of Science (Part Two) 2021-Nov-15 13 minutes

Ep. 281: Paul Feyerabend's Anarchist Philosophy of Science (Part One) 2021-Nov-08 50 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 280: Imre Lakatos on Scientific Progress (Part Two) 2021-Nov-01 9 minutes

Ep. 280: Imre Lakatos on Scientific Progress (Part One) 2021-Oct-25 52 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 279: Aristotle's "Categories" of Being (Part Two) 2021-Oct-18 9 minutes

Ep. 279: Aristotle's "Categories" of Being (Part One) 2021-Oct-11 54 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 278: Derrick Bell on the Dynamics of Racism (Part Two) 2021-Oct-04 10 minutes

Ep. 278: Derrick Bell on the Dynamics of Racism (Part One) 2021-Sep-27 45 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 277: Hegel on Our Understanding of Physics (Part Two) 2021-Sep-06 11 minutes

Ep. 277: Hegel on Our Understanding of Physics (Part One) 2021-Aug-30 53 minutes

PEL Special: Nightcap Early September 2021 2021-Aug-29 30 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 276: Hegel on Perception (Part Two) 2021-Aug-23 10 minutes

Ep. 276: Hegel on Perception (Part One) 2021-Aug-16 58 minutes

PEL Presents Philosophy vs. Improv #7: Meritocracy Now! 2021-Aug-15 39 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 275: Hegel's Project in the "Phenomenology of Spirit" (Part Two) 2021-Aug-09 11 minutes

Ep. 275: Hegel's Project in the "Phenomenology of Spirit" (Part One) 2021-Aug-02 60 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 274: Schelling on Self-Consciousness (Part Two) 2021-Jul-26 9 minutes

Philosophy vs. Improv: An Introductory Trailer 2021-Jul-22 1 minute

Ep. 274: Schelling on Self-Consciousness (Part One) 2021-Jul-19 46 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 273: Friedrich Schelling's Foundationalist Idealism (Part Two) 2021-Jul-12 10 minutes

Ep. 273: Friedrich Schelling's Foundationalist Idealism (Part One) 2021-Jul-05 48 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 272: Fichte's Idealist Theology (Part Two) 2021-Jun-28 9 minutes

Ep. 272: Fichte's Idealist Theology (Part One) 2021-Jun-21 56 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 271: Johan Gottlieb Fichte's Transcendental Idealism (Part Two) 2021-Jun-14 9 minutes

Ep. 271: Johan Gottlieb Fichte's Transcendental Idealism (Part One) 2021-Jun-07 51 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 270: Classical Indian (Vedanta and Nyaya) Design Arguments for God (Part Two) 2021-May-31 10 minutes

Ep. 270: Classical Indian (Vedanta and Nyaya) Design Arguments for God w/ Stephen Phillips (Part One) 2021-May-24 59 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 269: Arendt on Totalitarianism (Part Two) 2021-May-17 10 minutes

Ep. 269: Arendt on Totalitarianism (Part One) 2021-May-10 47 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 268: Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death" (Part Two) 2021-May-03 13 minutes

Ep. 268: Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death" (Part One) 2021-Apr-26 44 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 267: Avicenna on God and Soul w/ Peter Adamson (Part Two) 2021-Apr-19 9 minutes

Ep. 267: Avicenna on God and Soul w/ Peter Adamson (Part One) 2021-Apr-12 56 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 266: Jonathan Lear's Plato: Psyche and Society (Part Two) 2021-Apr-05 10 minutes

Ep. 266: Jonathan Lear's Plato: Psyche and Society (Part One) 2021-Mar-29 51 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 265: Plato's "Phaedo": Philosophy as Training for Death (Part Two) 2021-Mar-22 10 minutes

Ep. 265: Plato's "Phaedo": Philosophy as Training for Death (Part One) 2021-Mar-15 42 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 264: Plato's "Timaeus" on Cosmology (Part Two) 2021-Mar-08 9 minutes

Ep. 264: Plato's "Timaeus" on Cosmology (Part One) 2021-Mar-01 42 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 263: Lise Van Boxel's "Warspeak" on Strategies for Valuing (Part Two) 2021-Feb-22 12 minutes

Ep. 263: Lise Van Boxel's "Warspeak" on Strategies for Valuing (Part One) 2021-Feb-15 41 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 262: Nietzsche on Self-Denial (Part Two) 2021-Feb-08 11 minutes

Ep. 262: Nietzsche on Self-Denial (Part One) 2021-Feb-01 46 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 261: Derek Parfit on Personal Identity (Part Two) 2021-Jan-25 12 minutes

Ep. 261: Derek Parfit on Personal Identity (Part One) 2021-Jan-18 50 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 260: Locke on Moral Psychology 2021-Jan-11 19 minutes

Ep. 259: Locke Clarifies Misleading Complex Ideas (Part Two) 2021-Jan-04 64 minutes

Ep. 259: Locke Clarifies Misleading Complex Ideas (Part One) 2020-Dec-28 42 minutes

Mark Lint's PEL Network Holiday Party 2020: Merry Chatting and Songs 2020-Dec-24 125 minutes

Ep. 258: Locke on Acquiring Simple Ideas (Part Two) 2020-Dec-15 55 minutes

Ep. 258: Locke on Acquiring Simple Ideas (Part One) 2020-Dec-07 40 minutes

Ep. 257: Locke Against Innate Ideas (Part Two) 2020-Nov-30 49 minutes

Ep. 257: Locke Against Innate Ideas (Part One) 2020-Nov-23 48 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 256: Kropotkin's Anarchist Communism (Part Two) 2020-Nov-16 7 minutes

Ep. 256: Kropotkin's Anarchist Communism (Part One) 2020-Nov-09 47 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 255: Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" (Part Two) 2020-Nov-02 8 minutes

Ep. 255: Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" (Part One) 2020-Oct-26 47 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 254: Michael Sandel Against Meritocracy (Part Two) 2020-Oct-19 11 minutes

Ep. 254: Michael Sandel Interview: Against Meritocracy (Part One) 2020-Oct-12 65 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 253: Leibniz on the Problem of Evil (Part Two) 2020-Oct-05 6 minutes

Ep. 253: Leibniz on the Problem of Evil (Part One) 2020-Sep-28 47 minutes

PEL Special: Nightcap Late September 2020 2020-Sep-21 23 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep. 252: Habermas on Communication as Sociality (Part Two) 2020-Sep-21 5 minutes

Ep. 252: Habermas on Communication as Sociality (Part One) 2020-Sep-14 50 minutes

Ep. 251: Simone Weil's Ideal Society 2020-Sep-07 70 minutes

Ep. 250: Simone Weil on Human Needs (Part Three) 2020-Aug-31 54 minutes

Ep. 250: Simone Weil on Human Needs (Part Two) 2020-Aug-24 51 minutes

Ep. 250: Simone Weil on Human Needs (Part One) 2020-Aug-17 47 minutes

Ep. 249: Dewey on Education and Thought (Part Two) 2020-Aug-10 67 minutes

Ep. 249: Dewey on Education and Thought (Part One) 2020-Aug-02 48 minutes

Ep. 248: Racism and Policing (Al-Saji, Merleau-Ponty, et al) (Part Two) 2020-Jul-27 67 minutes

Ep. 248: Racism and Policing (Al-Saji, Merleau-Ponty, et al) (Part One) 2020-Jul-20 50 minutes

Ep. 247: Aristotle on Rhetoric and Emotions (Part Two) 2020-Jul-13 50 minutes

Ep. 247: Aristotle on Rhetoric and Emotions (Part One) 2020-Jul-06 53 minutes

Ep. 246: Susan Sontag on Interpreting Art (Part Two) 2020-Jun-29 52 minutes

Ep. 246: Susan Sontag on Interpreting Art (Part One) 2020-Jun-22 45 minutes

Ep. 245: Fashion (Derrida, Foucault, Sontag) w/ Shahidha Bari (Part Two) 2020-Jun-15 48 minutes

Ep. 245: Fashion (Derrida, Foucault) w/ Shahidha Bari (Part One) 2020-Jun-08 51 minutes

Ep. 244: Camus on Strategies for Facing Plague (Part Two) 2020-Jun-01 65 minutes

Ep. 244: Camus on Strategies for Facing Plague (Part One) 2020-May-25 47 minutes

Ep. 243: Aristotle's "Poetics" on Art and Tragedy (Part Two) 2020-May-18 53 minutes

Ep. 243: Aristotle's "Poetics" on Art and Tragedy (Part One) 2020-May-11 48 minutes

PEL Presents PMP#42: Star Trek Lives Long and Prospers (Intermittently) 2020-May-06 56 minutes

Ep. 242: Stanley Cavell on Tragedy via King Lear (Part Two) 2020-May-04 43 minutes

Ep. 242: Stanley Cavell on Tragedy via King Lear (Part One) 2020-Apr-27 43 minutes

Ep. 241: Political Philosophy and the Pandemic 2020-Apr-20 64 minutes

Ep. 240: David Lewis on Possible Worlds and Language Games (Part Two) 2020-Apr-13 70 minutes

Ep. 240: David Lewis on Possible Worlds and Language Games (Part One) 2020-Apr-06 52 minutes

Ep. 239: Montesquieu Invents Political Science (Part Two) 2020-Mar-30 50 minutes

Ep. 239: Montesquieu Invents Political Science (Part One) 2020-Mar-23 43 minutes

Ep. 238: Lingering Questions 2020-Mar-16 74 minutes

Ep. 237: Walter Benjamin Analyzes Violence (Part Two) 2020-Mar-09 45 minutes

Ep. 237: Walter Benjamin Analyzes Violence (Part One) 2020-Mar-02 42 minutes

Ep. 236: Judith Butler Interview: "The Force of Nonviolence" 2020-Feb-24 63 minutes

PEL Presents: PMP#32: Judging "The Good Place" 2020-Feb-19 45 minutes

Ep. 235: Judith Butler's "Gender Trouble" (Part Three) 2020-Feb-17 66 minutes

Ep. 235: Judith Butler's "Gender Trouble" (Part Two) 2020-Feb-10 66 minutes

Ep. 235: Judith Butler's "Gender Trouble" (Part One) 2020-Feb-03 51 minutes

PEL Presents PMP#29: Martin Scorsese the Auteur w/ Colin Marshall 2020-Jan-29 55 minutes

Ep. 234: Beauvoir on Romance in "The Second Sex" (Part Two) 2020-Jan-27 58 minutes

Ep. 234: Beauvoir on Romance in "The Second Sex" (Part One) 2020-Jan-20 49 minutes

PEL Presents PMP#27: For the Love of Star Wars 2020-Jan-15 47 minutes

Ep. 233: Plato's "Protagoras" on Virtue (Part Two) 2020-Jan-13 60 minutes

PEL Presents PMP#26: We Watch "Watchmen" w/ David Pizarro (Very Bad Wizards) 2020-Jan-08 56 minutes

Ep. 233: Plato's "Protagoras" on Virtue (Part One) 2020-Jan-06 53 minutes

Ep. 232: Simone De Beauvoir's "The Second Sex" (Part Two) 2019-Dec-29 63 minutes

Ep. 232: Simone De Beauvoir's "The Second Sex" (Part One) 2019-Dec-23 53 minutes

Ep. 231: Descartes's "Discourse" on Wisdom and Certainty (Part Two) 2019-Dec-16 68 minutes

Ep. 231: Descartes's "Discourse" on Wisdom and Certainty (Part One) 2019-Dec-09 39 minutes

Ep. 230: Bruno Latour on Science, Culture, and Modernity (Part Two) 2019-Dec-02 57 minutes

Ep. 230: Bruno Latour on Science, Culture, and Modernity (Part One) 2019-Nov-25 45 minutes

Ep. 229: Descartes's Rules for Thinking (Part Three) 2019-Nov-18 52 minutes

Ep. 229: Descartes's Rules for Thinking (Part Two) 2019-Nov-11 51 minutes

Ep. 229: Descartes's Rules for Thinking (Part One) 2019-Nov-04 49 minutes

PEL Presents PMP#17: Comedy as Philosophy w/ Daniel Lobell 2019-Oct-29 45 minutes

Ep. 228: Social Construction of Race (Appiah, Mills) (Part Two) 2019-Oct-28 45 minutes

Ep. 228: Social Construction of Race (Appiah, Mills) (Part One) 2019-Oct-21 38 minutes

Ep. 227: What Is Social Construction? (Hacking, Berger) (Part Two) 2019-Oct-14 64 minutes

Ep. 227: What Is Social Construction? (Hacking, Berger) (Part One) 2019-Oct-07 45 minutes

Ep. 226: Francis Bacon Invents Science (Part Two) 2019-Sep-30 61 minutes

PEL Presents PMP#12: Once Upon a Tarantino Film w/ Wes Alwan 2019-Sep-24 47 minutes

Ep. 226: Francis Bacon Invents Science (Part One) 2019-Sep-23 43 minutes

Ep. 225: Simone Weil on War and Oppression (Part Two) 2019-Sep-16 58 minutes

Ep. 225: Simone Weil on War and Oppression (Part One) 2019-Sep-09 47 minutes

Ep. 224: Kierkegaard Critiques The Present Age (Part Two) 2019-Sep-02 64 minutes

PEL Presents PMP#8: Spider-Man: Far From Home (and Elsewhere) 2019-Aug-27 49 minutes

Ep. 224: Kierkegaard Critiques The Present Age (Part One) 2019-Aug-26 47 minutes

Ep. 223: Guest Ned Block on Consciousness (Part Two) 2019-Aug-19 54 minutes

Ep. 223: Guest Ned Block on Consciousness (Part One) 2019-Aug-12 50 minutes

Ep. 222: Debating Functionalism (Block, Chalmers) (Part Two) 2019-Aug-05 51 minutes

Ep. 222: Debating Functionalism (Block, Chalmers) (Part One) 2019-Jul-29 49 minutes

PEL Presents PMP#3: CONFORM w/ Yakov Smirnoff 2019-Jul-23 74 minutes

Ep. 221: Functionalist Theories of Mind (Putnam, Armstrong) (Part Two) 2019-Jul-22 69 minutes

Ep. 221: Functionalist Theories of Mind (Putnam, Armstrong) (Part One) 2019-Jul-15 50 minutes

PEL Presents PMP#1: Pop Culture vs. High Culture 2019-Jul-09 43 minutes

Ep. 220: 10-Year Retrospective of The Partially Examined Life 2019-Jul-05 62 minutes

Ep. 219: The Harder Problem of Consciousness (Block & Papineau) 2019-Jul-01 83 minutes

Ep. 218: The Hard Problem of Consciousness (Chalmers et al) (Part Two) 2019-Jun-24 50 minutes

Ep. 218: The Hard Problem of Consciousness (Chalmers et al) (Part One) 2019-Jun-17 55 minutes

(sub)Text #1: Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”: Poesis as Revenge Forsaken 2019-Jun-08 70 minutes

Episode 217: Discussing Calderón's "Life Is a Dream" 2019-Jun-03 104 minutes

Glimpse: Machiavellian Politics (for Partially Examined Life #14) 2019-Jun-02 8 minutes

PEL Audioplayers: "Life Is a Dream" by Pedro Calderón de la Barca 2019-May-27 137 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep 216 Game of Thrones' Fantasy Politics (Part Two) 2019-May-23 4 minutes

Episode 216: Game of Thrones' Fantasy Politics 2019-May-20 82 minutes

Episode 215: Brave New World: PEL Live 10th Anniversary Show 2019-May-13 96 minutes

Episode 214: More Nietzsche's Zarathustra (Part Two) 2019-May-06 79 minutes

Episode 214: More Nietzsche's Zarathustra (Part One) 2019-Apr-29 49 minutes

Glimpse: Nietzsche's Last Man (for Partially Examined Life #213) 2019-Apr-22 8 minutes

Episode 213: Nietzsche's Zarathustra (Part Two) 2019-Apr-22 72 minutes

PREMIUM-(sub)Text#6: Melanie Klein's "Notes on Some Schizoid Mechanisms" 2019-Apr-21 9 minutes

Episode 213: Nietzsche's Zarathustra (Part One) 2019-Apr-15 52 minutes

Glimpse: Sartre on Literature (for Partially Examined Life #212) 2019-Apr-11 8 minutes

Episode 212: Sartre on Literature (Part Two) 2019-Apr-08 60 minutes

Episode 212: Sartre on Literature (Part One) 2019-Apr-01 49 minutes

Episode 211: Sartre on Racism and Authenticity (Part Three) 2019-Mar-25 65 minutes

Episode 211: Sartre on Racism and Authenticity (Part Two) 2019-Mar-18 44 minutes

Episode 211: Sartre on Racism and Authenticity (Part One) 2019-Mar-11 54 minutes

PEL Presents Constellary Tales #6: Philip K. Dick's "Minority Report" w/ Mark Linsenmayer 2019-Mar-11 59 minutes

Episode 210: Frantz Fanon's Black Existentialism (Part Two) 2019-Mar-04 59 minutes

Episode 210: Frantz Fanon's Black Existentialism (Part One) 2019-Feb-25 51 minutes

Podchaser Interview of Mark Linsenmayer: Partially Examined Life and Nakedly Examined Music 2019-Feb-23 39 minutes

Episode 209: Francis Fukuyama on Identity Politics (Part Two: Discussion) 2019-Feb-18 82 minutes

Episode 209: Guest Francis Fukuyama on Identity Politics (Part One) 2019-Feb-11 60 minutes

Episode 208: Epicurus on Seeking Pleasure (Part Two) 2019-Feb-04 54 minutes

Episode 208: Epicurus on Seeking Pleasure (Part One) 2019-Jan-28 46 minutes

Episode 207: Herder on Art Appreciation (Part Two) 2019-Jan-21 83 minutes

Episode 207: Herder on Art Appreciation (Part One) 2019-Jan-14 54 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep 206 Lucretius's Epicurean Physics (Part Three) 2019-Jan-13 14 minutes

Episode 206: Lucretius's Epicurean Physics (Part Two) 2019-Jan-07 74 minutes

Episode 206: Lucretius's Epicurean Physics (Part One) 2018-Dec-31 54 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep 205 Durkheim et al on Suicide (Part Three) 2018-Dec-31 19 minutes

Episode 205: Suicide with Dr. Drew (Durkheim et al) (Part Two) 2018-Dec-22 51 minutes

Episode 205: Suicide with Dr. Drew (Durkheim et al) (Part One) 2018-Dec-17 44 minutes

Episode 204: The Bhagavad Gita's Hindu Theology (Part Two) 2018-Dec-10 57 minutes

Episode 204: The Bhagavad Gita's Hindu Theology (Part One) 2018-Dec-03 53 minutes

Episode 203: Kristeva vs. Lovecraft on Horror and Abjection (Part Two) 2018-Nov-26 65 minutes

Episode 203: Kristeva vs. Lovecraft on Horror and Abjection (Part One) 2018-Nov-19 53 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep 202 Follow-Up: Close Reading of Kristeva's "Approaching Abjection" 2018-Nov-18 17 minutes

Episode 202: Julia Kristeva on Disgust, Fear and the Self (Part Two) 2018-Nov-12 77 minutes

Episode 202: Julia Kristeva on Disgust, Fear and the Self (Part One) 2018-Nov-05 46 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep 201 Marcus Aurelius's "Meditations" (Part Three) 2018-Nov-05 13 minutes

Episode 201: Marcus Aurelius's Stoicism with Ryan Holiday (Part Two) 2018-Oct-29 59 minutes

Episode 201: Marcus Aurelius's Stoicism with Ryan Holiday (Part One) 2018-Oct-22 57 minutes

Episode 200: Kant/Mendelssohn/Foucault on Enlightenment (Part Two) 2018-Oct-15 66 minutes

Episode 200: Kant/Mendelssohn/Foucault on Enlightenment (Part One) 2018-Oct-08 44 minutes

Bonus: (sub)Text#4: Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia" (Part One) 2018-Oct-08 35 minutes

Episode 199: Elizabeth Anderson on Equality (Part Three: Discussion) 2018-Oct-01 65 minutes

Episode 199: Guest Elizabeth Anderson on Private Government (Part Two) 2018-Sep-24 60 minutes

Episode 199: Guest Elizabeth Anderson on Private Government (Part One) 2018-Sep-17 53 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep 198 Plato's "Parmenides" (Part Three) 2018-Sep-13 11 minutes

Episode 198: Plato's Forms in the "Parmenides" (Part Two) 2018-Sep-10 70 minutes

Episode 198: Plato's Forms in the "Parmenides" (Part One) 2018-Sep-03 45 minutes

Bonus: (sub)Text #3: Spielberg's "AI: Artificial Intelligence": What Is It to Be Human? (Part One) 2018-Sep-02 34 minutes

Episode 197: Parmenides on What There Is (Part Two) 2018-Aug-27 50 minutes

Episode 197: Parmenides on What There Is (Part One) 2018-Aug-20 54 minutes

Episode 196: Guest Simon Blackburn on Truth (Part Two) 2018-Aug-13 63 minutes

Episode 196: Guest Simon Blackburn on Truth (Part One) 2018-Aug-06 48 minutes

Episode 195: Truth-The Austin/Strawson Debate (Part Two) 2018-Jul-30 60 minutes

Episode 195: Truth-The Austin/Strawson Debate (Part One) 2018-Jul-23 59 minutes

Episode 194: Alfred Tarski on Truth (Part Two) 2018-Jul-16 70 minutes

Episode 194: Alfred Tarski on Truth (Part One) 2018-Jul-09 54 minutes

PREMIUM-Eps 192-193 Allan Bloom & Liberal Education Follow-Ups 2018-Jul-07 16 minutes

Episode 193: The Theory and Practice of Liberal Education (Part Two) 2018-Jul-02 51 minutes

Episode 193: The Theory and Practice of Liberal Education (Part One) 2018-Jun-25 48 minutes

Episode 192: "The Closing of the American Mind": Allan Bloom on Education (Part Two) 2018-Jun-18 64 minutes

Episode 192: "The Closing of the American Mind": Allan Bloom on Education (Part One) 2018-Jun-11 51 minutes

Episode 191: Conceptual Schemes: Donald Davidson & Rudolf Carnap (Part Two) 2018-Jun-04 66 minutes

Episode 191: Conceptual Schemes: Donald Davidson & Rudolf Carnap (Part One) 2018-May-28 54 minutes

PREMIUM-Ep 189: Authorial Intent (Part Three) 2018-May-26 16 minutes

Episode 190: Film Analysis: "mother!" 2018-May-21 84 minutes

Episode 189: Authorial Intent (Barthes, Foucault, Beardsley, et al) (Part Two) 2018-May-14 78 minutes

Episode 189: Authorial Intent (Barthes, Foucault, Beardsley, et al) (Part One) 2018-May-07 51 minutes

Episode 188: Discussing "Lysistrata" and Politics with Lucy and Emily (Part Two) 2018-Apr-30 56 minutes

Episode 188: Discussing "Lysistrata" and Politics with Lucy and Emily (Part One) 2018-Apr-23 48 minutes

"Lysistrata" w/ Lucy Lawless, Emily Perkins, Erica Spyres, Bill Youmans & Aaron Gleason 2018-Apr-16 82 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 187: The Limits of Free Speech (Part Three) 2018-Apr-14 13 minutes

Episode 187: The Limits of Free Speech (Part Two) 2018-Apr-09 60 minutes

Episode 187: The Limits of Free Speech (Part One) 2018-Mar-29 58 minutes

Episode 186: J.L. Austin on Doing Things with Words (Part Two) 2018-Mar-26 69 minutes

Episode 186: J.L. Austin on Doing Things with Words (Part One) 2018-Mar-19 46 minutes

Episode 185: Ethics in Homer's "Odyssey" Feat. Translator Emily Wilson (Part Two) 2018-Mar-12 68 minutes

Episode 185: Ethics in Homer's "Odyssey" Feat. Translator Emily Wilson (Part One) 2018-Mar-05 46 minutes

Episode 184: Pascal on Human Nature (Part Two) 2018-Feb-25 68 minutes

Episode 184: Pascal on Human Nature (Part One) 2018-Feb-19 49 minutes

Episode 183: Mill on Liberty (Part Two) 2018-Feb-12 63 minutes

Episode 183: Mill on Liberty (Part One) 2018-Feb-04 56 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 182: Reflections on PEL 2017 (Part Two) 2018-Feb-04 3 minutes

Episode 182: Reflections on PEL 2017 (Part One) 2018-Jan-29 51 minutes

Episode 181: Hannah Arendt on the Banality of Evil (Part Two) 2018-Jan-22 79 minutes

Episode 181: Hannah Arendt on the Banality of Evil (Part One) 2018-Jan-15 46 minutes

Episode 180: More James's Psychology: Self and Will (Part Two) 2018-Jan-08 75 minutes

Episode 180: More James's Psychology: Self and Will (Part One) 2018-Jan-01 59 minutes

Episode 179: William James's Psychology (Part Two) 2017-Dec-25 59 minutes

Episode 179: William James's Introspective Psychology (Part One) 2017-Dec-18 51 minutes

Episode 178: Nietzsche as Social Critic: Twilight of the Idols (Part Two) 2017-Dec-10 66 minutes

Episode 178: Nietzsche as Social Critic: "Twilight of the Idols" (Part One) 2017-Dec-04 51 minutes

Episode 177: Guest Russ Roberts on Adam Smith and Libertarian Economics (Part Two) 2017-Nov-27 73 minutes

Episode 177: Guest Russ Roberts on Adam Smith and Libertarian Economics (Part One) 2017-Nov-20 49 minutes

Episode 176: Situationism in Psych: Milgram & Stanford Prison Experiments (Part Two) 2017-Nov-13 57 minutes

Episode 176: Situationism in Psych: Milgram & Stanford Prison Experiments (Very Bad Wizards Crossover) (Part One) 2017-Nov-06 43 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 175: Blade Runner (Part Two) 2017-Nov-06 2 minutes

Episode 175: Blade Runner: Androids and Humanity (Part One) 2017-Oct-30 45 minutes

Episode 174: Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" (Part Two) 2017-Oct-22 64 minutes

Episode 174: Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" (Part One) 2017-Oct-16 54 minutes

Episode 173: Relating to American Indian Philosophy (Part Two) 2017-Oct-09 59 minutes

Episode 173: Relating to American Indian Philosophy (Part One) 2017-Oct-02 48 minutes

Episode 172: Mind, Self, and Affect with Guest Dr. Drew (Part Two) 2017-Sep-25 57 minutes

Episode 172: Mind, Self, and Affect with Guest Dr. Drew (Part One) 2017-Sep-18 42 minutes

Episode 171: Buddhism vs. Evolution with Guest Robert Wright (Part Two) 2017-Sep-11 65 minutes

Episode 171: Buddhism vs. Evolution with Guest Robert Wright (Part One) 2017-Sep-04 52 minutes

Episode 170 Second Opinions: Leftists on "Society of the Spectacle" 2017-Aug-28 67 minutes

Episode 170: Guy Debord's "Society of the Spectacle" (Part Two) 2017-Aug-21 69 minutes

Episode 170: Guy Debord's "Society of the Spectacle" (Part One) 2017-Aug-14 54 minutes

PEL Special: Combat & Classics on Rousseau's "Discourse on the Arts and Sciences" 2017-Aug-07 53 minutes

Episode 169: Analyzing Hitchcock's "Vertigo" (Part One) 2017-Jul-31 47 minutes

Episode 168: Darwin's "Origin of Species" (Part Two) 2017-Jul-24 61 minutes

Episode 168: Darwin's "Origin of Species" (Part One) 2017-Jul-17 46 minutes

Episode 167: Hume on Intelligent Design (Part Two) 2017-Jul-10 64 minutes

Episode 167: Hume on Intelligent Design (Philosophize This! Crossover) (Part One) 2017-Jul-03 46 minutes

Episode 166: Spinoza on Politics and Religion (Part Two) 2017-Jun-26 94 minutes

Episode 166: Spinoza on Politics and Religion (Part One) 2017-Jun-19 50 minutes

Episode 165: Spinoza on Biblical Criticism (Part Two) 2017-Jun-12 66 minutes

Episode 165: Spinoza on Biblical Criticism (Part One) 2017-Jun-05 64 minutes

Nakedly Examined Music: Steve Hackett, Nik Kershaw, Ken Stringfellow, Robbie Fulks 2017-May-26 74 minutes

Episode 164: Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot” on Perfection (Part Two) 2017-May-22 81 minutes

Episode 164: Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot” on Perfection (Part One) 2017-May-15 57 minutes

Episode 163: Guest Stewart Umphrey on Natural Kinds (Part Two) 2017-May-08 69 minutes

Episode 163: Guest Stewart Umphrey on Natural Kinds (Part One) 2017-May-01 51 minutes

PEL Special: Phi Fic on James Baldwin’s Fiction 2017-Apr-24 103 minutes

Episode 162: James Baldwin on Race in America (Part Two) 2017-Apr-17 54 minutes

Episode 162: James Baldwin on Race in America (Part One) 2017-Apr-10 46 minutes

Episode 161: White Privilege (Peggy McIntosh, Charles Mills, et al) (Part Two) 2017-Apr-03 76 minutes

Episode 161: White Privilege (Peggy McIntosh, Charles Mills, et al) (Part One) 2017-Mar-27 51 minutes

Episode 160: Orwell on Totalitarianism and Language (Part Two) 2017-Mar-20 72 minutes

Episode 160: Orwell on Totalitarianism and Language (Part One) 2017-Mar-13 50 minutes

Episode 159: Confucius on Virtuous Conduct (Part Two) 2017-Mar-06 76 minutes

Episode 159: Confucius on Virtuous Conduct (Part One) 2017-Feb-27 52 minutes

Episode 158: Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy (Part Two) 2017-Feb-20 70 minutes

Episode 158: Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy (Part One) 2017-Feb-13 55 minutes

Episode 157: Richard Rorty on Politics for the Left (Part Two) 2017-Feb-06 63 minutes

Episode 157: Richard Rorty on Politics for the Left (Part One) 2017-Jan-30 54 minutes

Episode 156: Philosophy and Politics Free-Form Discussion (Part Two) 2017-Jan-23 61 minutes

Episode 156: Philosophy and Politics Free-Form Discussion (Part One) 2017-Jan-16 51 minutes

Episode 155: Richard Rorty Against Epistemology 2017-Jan-02 112 minutes

Episode 154: Wilfrid Sellars on the Myth of the Given 2016-Dec-19 103 minutes

Episode 153: Richard Rorty: There Is No Mind-Body Problem 2016-Dec-05 112 minutes

Episode 152: Alexis de Tocqueville on Democracy in America (PEL Live!) 2016-Nov-21 87 minutes

Episode 151: Edmund Burke’s Conservatism 2016-Nov-07 116 minutes

PEL Special: Bill Bruford on Nakedly Examined Music #25 2016-Nov-06 78 minutes

Episode 150: Guest Peter Singer on Famine, Affluence, and Morality 2016-Oct-24 127 minutes

Episode 149: Plato’s “Crito”: A Performance and Discussion 2016-Oct-17 80 minutes

Episode 148: Aristotle on Friendship and Happiness 2016-Oct-03 120 minutes

Episode 147: Aristotle on Wisdom and Incontinence 2016-Sep-19 119 minutes

Episode 146: Emmanuel Levinas on Overcoming Solitude 2016-Sep-05 139 minutes

Episode 145: Emmanuel Levinas: Why Be Ethical? 2016-Aug-22 122 minutes

Episode 144: Guest Martha Nussbaum on Anger 2016-Aug-01 144 minutes

Phi Fic #3 Frankenstein (PEL Crossover Special) 2016-Jul-25 116 minutes

Episode 143: Plato’s “Sophist” on Lies, Categorization, and Non-Being 2016-Jul-11 106 minutes

Episode 142: Plato’s “Phaedrus” on Love and Speechmaking 2016-Jun-27 129 minutes

Episode 141: De Beauvoir’s Existentialism: Moral and Political Dilemmas 2016-Jun-13 109 minutes

Episode 140: De Beauvoir on the Ambiguous Human Condition 2016-May-30 128 minutes

Episode 139: bell hooks on Racism/Sexism 2016-May-09 114 minutes

Episode 138: Guest John Searle on Perception 2016-Apr-25 113 minutes

Episode 137: Bourdieu on the Tastes of Social Classes 2016-Apr-11 129 minutes

Episode 136: Adorno on the Culture Industry 2016-Mar-28 127 minutes

Episode 135: Hegel on the Logic of Basic Metaphysical Concepts 2016-Mar-14 119 minutes

Episode 134: Hegel on Thought & World (or “Logic”) 2016-Feb-29 118 minutes

PEL Special: Nakedly Examined Music #1 with David Lowery 2016-Feb-18 76 minutes

Episode 133: Erich Fromm on Love as an Art 2016-Feb-08 112 minutes

Episode 132: Living Stoically with Seneca and Massimo 2016-Jan-25 123 minutes

Episode 131: Aristotle’s “De Anima”: What Is the Mind? 2016-Jan-11 119 minutes

Episode 130: Aristotle’s “De Anima”: What Is Life? 2015-Dec-28 117 minutes

Holiday Special 2015: Mark Lint’s “Songs from the Partially Examined Life” with Many Guest Greetings 2015-Dec-24 126 minutes

Episode 129: Is Faith Rational? 2015-Dec-14 133 minutes

Episode 128: Hilary Putnam on Linguistic Meaning 2015-Nov-30 123 minutes

Episode 127: John Dewey on Experience and the World 2015-Nov-16 139 minutes

Episode 126: Saul Kripke on Possibilities, Language & Science 2015-Nov-02 138 minutes

Not School Digest: Asimov, Camus, Jaspers, Brecht, Peirce, Historical Jesus 2015-Oct-25 87 minutes

Episode 125: Hannah Arendt on the Political & Private 2015-Oct-12 120 minutes

Q&A with the Partially Examined Life, Pittsburgh 9-25-15 2015-Oct-05

Episode 124: The Stoic Life with Epictetus 2015-Sep-21 128 minutes

Episode 123: Economics with Hayek and Sen (Intro by Seth Benzell) 2015-Sep-07 135 minutes

Ep 121/122 Aftershow on Augustine feat. James Wetzel 2015-Sep-07 97 minutes

Episode 122: Augustine on Mind and Metaphysics 2015-Aug-24 134 minutes

Precognition of Ep. 123: Economics (F.A. Hayek and Amartya Sen) 2015-Aug-19 12 minutes

Episode 121: Augustine on Being Good 2015-Aug-10 125 minutes

Ep. 119 Aftershow (PREMIUM) on Nietzsche feat. Greg Sadler 2015-Aug-07 17 minutes

Episode 120: A History of “Will” with Guest Eva Brann 2015-Jul-27 100 minutes

Ep. 118 Aftershow (PREMIUM) on Songwriting feat. ex-Camper Chris Molla 2015-Jul-24 18 minutes

Episode 119: Nietzsche on Tragedy and the Psychology of Art 2015-Jul-06 166 minutes

Ep. 117 Aftershow (PREMIUM) on Antigone with Danny Lobell 2015-Jul-05 17 minutes

Episode 118: The Musical Life with Guests from Camper van Beethoven 2015-Jun-29 115 minutes

Episode 117: Discussing Sophocles’s “Antigone” 2015-Jun-15 117 minutes

“Antigone” Read by PEL with Lucy Lawless and Paul Provenza 2015-Jun-08 85 minutes

Episode 116: Freud on Dreams 2015-May-25 145 minutes

Episode 115: Schopenhauer on Music with Guest Jonathan Segel 2015-May-11 135 minutes

Episode 114: Schopenhauer: “The World Is Will” 2015-Apr-27 130 minutes

Episode 113: Jesus’s Parables 2015-Apr-06 144 minutes

Episode 112: Ricoeur on Interpreting Religion 2015-Mar-16 129 minutes

Episode 111: Gadamer’s Hermeneutics: How to Interpret 2015-Mar-02 141 minutes

Close Reading (PREMIUM) of Heidegger on Truth 2015-Feb-23 16 minutes

Ep. 110 Aftershow (PREMIUM) with Stephen West 2015-Feb-22 19 minutes

Close Reading (PREMIUM) of Kant on the Sublime 2015-Feb-16 13 minutes

Episode 110: Alfred North Whitehead: What Is Nature? 2015-Feb-02 137 minutes

Precognition of Ep. 110: Whitehead 2015-Feb-01 13 minutes

Ep. 109 Aftershow (PREMIUM) with Stephen West 2015-Jan-31 20 minutes

Episode 109: Jaspers’s Existentialism with Guest Paul Provenza 2015-Jan-19 121 minutes

Precognition of Ep. 109: Karl Jaspers 2015-Jan-18 10 minutes

Episode 108: Dangers of A.I. with Guest Nick Bostrom 2015-Jan-06 102 minutes

Episode 107: Edmund Burke on the Sublime 2014-Dec-20 135 minutes

Not Ep. 107: The 12 Interminable Days of Xmas: A Musical Extravaganza 2014-Dec-20 88 minutes

Episode 106: Pyrrhonian Skepticism According to Sextus Empiricus 2014-Dec-04 116 minutes

Episode 105: Kant: What Is Beauty? 2014-Nov-15 120 minutes

Episode 104: Robert Nozick’s Libertarianism 2014-Oct-27 122 minutes

Precognition of Ep. 104: Robert Nozick 2014-Oct-26 11 minutes

Episode 103: Thoreau on Living Deliberately 2014-Oct-14 107 minutes

Episode 102: Emerson on Wisdom and Individuality 2014-Sep-20 126 minutes

Episode 101: Maimonides on God 2014-Sep-01 101 minutes

Episode 100: Plato’s Symposium Live Celebration! 2014-Aug-15 148 minutes

Episode 99: Looking Back on 100 Discussions and 5+ Years 2014-Aug-11 109 minutes

Episode 98: Guest Michael Sandel Against Market Society 2014-Jul-26 88 minutes

Episode 97: Michael Sandel on Social Justice and the Self 2014-Jul-19 105 minutes

Episode 96: Oppenheimer and the Rhetoric of Science Advisers 2014-Jul-01 125 minutes

Precognition of Ep. 96: Oppenheimer’s Rhetoric 2014-Jun-29 12 minutes

Episode 95: Gödel on Math 2014-Jun-16 110 minutes

Precognition of Ep. 95: Gödel 2014-Jun-15 9 minutes

Episode 94: Schopenhauer on Reading, Writing, and Thinking 2014-May-23 99 minutes

Episode 93: Freedom and Responsibility (Strawson vs. Strawson) 2014-May-03 96 minutes

Precognition of Ep. 93: Free Will (via Strawsons) 2014-Apr-29 14 minutes

Episode 92: Henri Bergson on How to Do Metaphysics 2014-Apr-12 98 minutes

Precognition of Ep. 92: Henri Bergson 2014-Mar-30 15 minutes

Episode 91: Transhumanism (Plus More on Brin) 2014-Mar-29 92 minutes

Episode 90: Sci-Fi and Philosophy with Guest David Brin 2014-Mar-26 95 minutes

Precognition of Ep. 90: Sci-Fi and Philosophy with David Brin 2014-Mar-25 7 minutes

Episode 89: Berkeley: Only Ideas Exist! 2014-Mar-12 93 minutes

Precognition of Ep. 89: Berkeley’s Idealism 2014-Mar-11 30 minutes

Partially Examined Life Not School Digest #4: Sartre, Heidegger, Zizek, Marx, and Theater 2014-Mar-01 69 minutes

Episode 88: G.E.M. Anscombe: Should We Use Moral Language? 2014-Feb-18 107 minutes

Precognition of Ep. 88: G.E.M. Anscombe 2014-Jan-18 10 minutes

Sartre’s “No Exit” Read with Lucy Lawless & Jaime Murray 2014-Jan-02 87 minutes

Episode 87: Sartre on Freedom and Self-Deception 2014-Jan-01 116 minutes

Precognition of Ep. 87: Sartre 2013-Dec-30 8 minutes

Episode 86: Thomas Kuhn on Scientific Progress 2013-Dec-24 88 minutes

Precognition of Ep. 86: Thomas Kuhn 2013-Dec-23 5 minutes

Episode 85: Rawls on Social Justice 2013-Dec-07 106 minutes

Precognition of Ep. 85: John Rawls 2013-Dec-06 10 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 84: Nietzsche’s “Gay Science” 2013-Nov-11 32 minutes

Episode 83 Follow-Up: Q&A with Frithjof Bergmann 2013-Nov-01 57 minutes

Episode 83: New Work with Guest Frithjof Bergmann 2013-Oct-11 90 minutes

Precognition of Ep. 83: New Work 2013-Oct-10 13 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 82: Karl Popper on Science 2013-Sep-24 30 minutes

Precognition of Ep. 82: Popper 2013-Sep-23 13 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 81: Jung on the Psyche and Dreams 2013-Aug-29 31 minutes

Precognition of Ep. 81: Jung 2013-Aug-28 13 minutes

Partially Examined Life Not School Digest #3: Work, Blood Meridian, Mind, and Heidegger 2013-Aug-23 44 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 80: Heidegger on our Existential Situation 2013-Aug-08 30 minutes

Precognition of Ep. 80: Heidegger 2013-Aug-07 13 minutes

PREMIUM-PEL Ep 79: Heraclitus on Understanding the World 2013-Jul-15 29 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 78: Ayn Rand on Living Rationally 2013-Jul-01 30 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 77: Santayana on the Appreciation of Beauty 2013-Jun-09 29 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 76: Deleuze on What Philosophy Is 2013-May-14 32 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 75: Lacan & Derrida Criticize Poe’s “The Purloined Letter” 2013-Apr-19 32 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 74: Jacques Lacan’s Psychology 2013-Apr-04 28 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 73: Why Do Philosophy? (And What Is It?) 2013-Mar-23 31 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 72: Terrorism with Jonathan R. White 2013-Mar-09 32 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 71: Martin Buber’s “I and Thou” 2013-Feb-15 32 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 70: Marx on the Human Condition 2013-Jan-30 30 minutes

Partially Examined Life Not School Digest Jan 2013 2013-Jan-23 50 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 69: Plato on Rhetoric vs. Philosophy 2013-Jan-13 32 minutes

Not Episode 69: PEL Players Full Cast Audiobook of Plato’s “Gorgias” (part 1) 2013-Jan-12 83 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 68: David Chalmers Interview on the Scrutability of the World 2012-Dec-22 30 minutes

Not School Digest Nov-Dec 2012: A Bonus Quasisode 2012-Dec-16 30 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 67: Carnap on Logic and Science 2012-Dec-07 31 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 66: Quine on Linguistic Meaning and Science 2012-Nov-21 30 minutes

Celebrating Two Million Downloads: A Highlights Minisode 2012-Nov-08 7 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 65: The Federalist Papers 2012-Oct-27 31 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 64: Celebrity, with guest Lucy Lawless 2012-Oct-07 35 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 63: Existentialist Heroes in Cormac McCarthy’s “No Country for Old Men” 2012-Sep-21 31 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 62: Voltaire’s Novel “Candide” 2012-Sep-05 35 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 61: Nietzsche on Truth and Skepticism 2012-Aug-15 31 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 60: Aristotle: What’s the Best Form of Government? 2012-Jul-23 32 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 59: Alasdair MacIntyre on Moral Justifications 2012-Jul-05 30 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 58: What Grounds Ethical Claims? (Moore, Stevenson, MacIntyre) 2012-Jun-20 31 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 57: Henri Bergson on Humor 2012-May-31 31 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 56: More Wittgenstein on Language 2012-May-15 31 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 55: Wittgenstein on Language 2012-May-02 32 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 54: More Buddhism and Naturalism 2012-Apr-06 33 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 53: Buddhism and Naturalism with Guest Owen Flanagan 2012-Mar-26 34 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 52: Philosophy and Race (DuBois, Martin Luther King, Cornel West) 2012-Mar-17 32 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 51: Semiotics and Structuralism (Saussure, et al) 2012-Feb-24 26 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 50: Pirsig’s “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” 2012-Feb-03 31 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 49: Foucault on Power and Punishment 2012-Jan-11 32 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 48: Merleau-Ponty on Perception and Knowledge 2011-Dec-17 33 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 47: Sartre on Consciousness and the Self 2011-Dec-01 30 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 46: Plato on Ethics & Religion 2011-Nov-17 29 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 45: Moral Sense Theory: Hume and Smith 2011-Oct-29 32 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 44: New Atheist Critiques of Religion 2011-Oct-11 32 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 43: Arguments for the Existence of God 2011-Sep-15 32 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 42: Feminists on Human Nature and Moral Psychology 2011-Sep-05 30 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 41: Pat Churchland on the Neurobiology of Morality (Plus Hume’s Ethics) 2011-Jul-19 33 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 40: Plato’s Republic: What Is Justice? 2011-Jul-11 31 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 39: Schleiermacher Defends Religion 2011-Jun-10 33 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 38: Bertrand Russell on Math and Logic 2011-May-25 33 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 37: Locke on Political Power 2011-May-06 30 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 36: More Hegel on Self-Consciousness 2011-Apr-11 32 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 35: Hegel on Self-Consciousness 2011-Apr-02 29 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 34: Frege on the Logic of Language 2011-Mar-13 33 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 33: Montaigne: What Is the Purpose of Philosophy? 2011-Feb-18 32 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 32: Heidegger: What is “Being?” 2011-Feb-08 32 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 31: Husserl’s Phenomenology 2011-Jan-10 31 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 30: Schopenhauer on Explanations and Knowledge 2010-Dec-19 32 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 29: Kierkegaard on the Self 2010-Nov-21 31 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 28: Nelson Goodman on Art as Epistemology 2010-Nov-01 31 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 27: Nagarjuna on Buddhist “Emptiness” 2010-Oct-10 31 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 26: Freud on the Human Condition 2010-Sep-25 32 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 25: Spinoza on Human Nature 2010-Sep-10 31 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 24: Spinoza on God and Metaphysics 2010-Aug-24 31 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 23: Rousseau: Human Nature vs. Culture 2010-Jul-29 31 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 22: More James’s Pragmatism: Is Faith Justified? What is Truth? 2010-Jul-18 30 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 21: What Is the Mind? (Turing, et al) 2010-Jun-28 31 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 20: Pragmatism – Peirce and James 2010-Jun-09 30 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 19: Kant: What Can We Know? 2010-May-14 31 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 18: Plato: What Is Knowledge? 2010-Apr-21 33 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 17: Hume’s Empiricism: What Can We Know? 2010-Mar-29 30 minutes

PREMIUM-Episode 16: Danto on Art 2010-Mar-04 43 minutes

Episode 15: Hegel on History 2010-Feb-24 112 minutes

Episode 14: Machiavelli on Politics 2010-Feb-07 93 minutes

Episode 13: What Are the Metaphysical Implications of Quantum Physics? 2010-Jan-03 122 minutes

Episode 12: Chuang Tzu’s Taoism: What Is Wisdom? 2009-Dec-06 110 minutes

Episode 11: Nietzsche’s Immoralism: What Is Ethics, Anyway? 2009-Nov-10 111 minutes

Episode 10: Kantian Ethics: What Should We Do? 2009-Oct-19 125 minutes

Episode 9: Utilitarian Ethics: What Should We Do? 2009-Sep-18 119 minutes

Episode 8: Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (and Carnap): What Can We Legitimately Talk About? 2009-Sep-04 97 minutes

Episode 7: Wittgenstein’s Tractatus: What Is There and Can We Talk About It? 2009-Aug-19 100 minutes

Episode 6: Leibniz’s Monadology: What Is There? 2009-Jul-31 99 minutes

Episode 5: Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics 2009-Jul-16 101 minutes

Episode 4: Camus and the Absurd 2009-Jun-22 97 minutes

Episode 3: Hobbes’s Leviathan: The Social Contract 2009-Jun-07 98 minutes

Episode 2: Descartes’s Meditations: What Can We Know? 2009-May-14 99 minutes

Episode 1: “The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living.” 2009-May-13 74 minutes

Episode 0: Introduction to the Podcast 2009-May-11 10 minutes