Twitter: @steveinpursuit (followed by 2 philosophers)
Site: steve-patterson.com/podcast
100 episodes
2017 to 2021
Average episode: 50 minutes
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Categories: Interview-Style
Podcaster's summary: Interviews with intellectuals from across the globe. Exploring philosophy, politics, religion, and rationalism. | | Steve Patterson is an independent philosopher currently traveling the world to interview people in the pursuit of truth. | | Topics include logic and epistemology, skepticism, metaphysics, ethics, science and religion, truth, Christianity, Buddhism, atheism, culture, economics, the philosophy of mathematics, and every other topic that's important to humans.
| Episodes |
| 2021-Nov-26 • 112 minutes Ep. 104 - "No Longer a Christian" | Isaac Deitz Wonderful conversation with my old friend Isaac Deitz who shares his personal religious journey. After decades of being a Christian, he no longer identifies with that label. In my opinion, that's only because "Christian" is a terrible term nowadays.... |
| 2021-Jul-06 • 20 minutes Our Present Dark Age Part 1 |
| 2021-Jan-21 • 49 minutes Ep. 103 - "Mad at Mathematicians" | Isaac Morehouse Making the World Worse with Math |
| 2020-Apr-19 • 111 minutes Ep. 102 - Scientific Progress and Intellectual Schelling Points | Dr. Geoff Anders What does scientific progress look like? Is it steady progress, getting ever closer to the truth? Or does it go through waves? What about cases where we seem to have lost knowledge or the foundations of a theory we’ve been building on... |
| 2020-Mar-31 • 9 minutes Critical Thinking | Zooming In and Zooming Out A Tool of Thought |
| 2020-Mar-08 • 80 minutes Ep. 101- Is a Ruling Class Inevitable? | Samo Burja Power, Leadership, Government |
| 2020-Jan-10 • 27 minutes Coming Around to Platonism A Change of Mind |
| 2019-Nov-19 • 45 minutes Ep. 100 - Trying to Solve Philosophy | Patterson in Pursuit Episode 100 of Patterson in Pursuit! Wow, what a milestone. Thanks to everybody who has listened to and supported the show. I hope it's created value for you. In this episode, I share my personal thoughts about the show, some of my motivations, the... |
| 2019-Sep-08 • 63 minutes Ep. 99 - Non-Rationality and Psychedelics | Dr. Bernardo Kastrup The Limits of Logic |
| 2019-Sep-01 • 99 minutes Ep. 98 - "A Consciousness-Only Ontology" | Dr. Bernardo Kastrup A Defense of Idealism |
| 2019-Aug-22 • 26 minutes Understanding God as Nature or the Universe A Rational Conception of God |
| 2019-Aug-02 • 26 minutes Solving the Interaction Problem Mind-Body Dualism |
| 2019-May-19 • 16 minutes There Are No Objective Definitions Definitions are Mental |
| 2019-Apr-21 • 57 minutes Ep. 97 - Math Heresy: Ultrafinitism | Dr. Doron Zeilberger Math Without Infinities |
| 2019-Apr-07 • 106 minutes Ep. 96 - Truth and Postmodernism | Breakdown of Thaddeus Russell Interview Knowing Something |
| 2019-Mar-24 • 71 minutes Ep. 95 - The Highest IQ in America | Christopher Langan Christopher Langan is an independent intellectual known for having the highest IQ in America - somewhere around 200, which is six standard deviations above the norm. His story is fascinating. Chris is not working within the academy. Instead, he's... |
| 2018-Sep-02 • 435 minutes Ep. 94 - A Satoshi Nakamoto Story | Phil "Scronty" Wilson Could Phil Wilson be Satoshi Nakamoto? |
| 2018-Jun-28 • 59 minutes Ep. 93 - Abortion, Natural Rights, and Evictionism | Dr. Walter Block To Abort, or to Evict? |
| 2018-Jun-17 • 118 minutes Ep. 92 - 6 Years of Mystery Illness: When Western Medicine Fails Our Story |
| 2018-Jun-10 • 69 minutes Ep. 91 - Tom Woods on Catholicism, Papal Authority, and Intellectual Entrepreneurship | Dr. Thomas Woods Can the Pope Be Wrong? |
| 2018-May-31 • 22 minutes The Abuse of Apriorism in Economics A Priori Economic Knowledge? |
| 2018-May-27 • 52 minutes Ep. 90 - The Overwhelming Beauty of Free Markets | Jeffrey Tucker This week's interview is with Jeff Tucker. We're talking about how capitalism fits into the bigger picture. Libertarians tend to assume that everybody values the creation of wealth, and therefore free markets are important. But why make this... |
| 2018-May-24 • 18 minutes Does Free Will Even Make Sense? Can We Really Choose? |
| 2018-May-17 • 7 minutes The Crucifixion: A Unification of Love and Hate My Analysis from a Church in Norway... |
| 2018-May-13 • 13 minutes How the Rubik's Cube Solves Any Paradox Unscrambling the Cube |
| 2018-May-06 • 54 minutes Ep. 89 - Is the Whole Greater than the Sum of Its Parts? | Dr. Andrew Brenner A Conversation about Mereology |
| 2018-May-03 • 14 minutes Defending Zeno's Paradox Zeno Was Right... Sort of |
| 2018-Apr-29 • 92 minutes Ep. 88 - Watch Out for Bitcoin Cash | Ryan X. Charles You've Been Warned! |
| 2018-Apr-26 • 7 minutes How Progressives Can Fix the Economy Or, "Bad Ideas That Sound Good" |
| 2018-Apr-22 • 121 minutes Ep. 87 - Race and Colorblindness: Part II | T.K. Coleman Race and Discrimination in America |
| 2018-Apr-19 • 14 minutes Gay Marriage and the Absurdity of Courts Think About the Supreme Court For a Minute... |
| 2018-Apr-16 • 106 minutes Ep. 86 - Race and Colorblindness: Part I | TK Coleman Race in America |
| 2018-Apr-08 • 14 minutes The Profundity of Poker How Do You Know? |
| 2018-Apr-02 • 59 minutes Ep. 85 - College Isn't for Education | Dr. Bryan Caplan Learning vs. Signaling |
| 2018-Mar-25 • 28 minutes Ep. 84 - When Logic Met Math | Dr. Graham Priest A Brief History of Logic |
| 2018-Mar-18 • 83 minutes Ep. 83 - Logic, Contradictions, and the Liar Paradox | Dr. Graham Priest This Subtitle is False |
| 2018-Mar-11 • 30 minutes Ep. 82 - Do Entities Exist? | Breakdown of Chalmers Interview Are There Things, Or Just Stuff? |
| 2018-Mar-04 • 68 minutes Ep. 81 - The Ethics of Eating Meat | Dr. Mike Huemer Is It Immoral to Eat Meat? |
| 2018-Feb-25 • 70 minutes Ep. 80 - A Debate about Truth and Postmodernism | Thaddeus Russell Is There Objective Truth? |
| 2018-Feb-18 • 64 minutes Ep. 79 - Postmodernism, Marxism, Love, and Religion | Thaddeus Russell Is Postmodernism a Boogeyman? |
| 2018-Feb-11 • 59 minutes Ep. 78 - The Case for Idealism | Dr. Bernardo Kastrup Is Everything Mental? |
| 2017-Oct-08 • 5 minutes Time for Writing and Health I need to take a break from Patterson in Pursuit to focus on health and writing. I can't wait to return. |
| 2017-Oct-05 • 6 minutes The Puzzle of Awareness How Do Shifts of Awareness Work? |
| 2017-Oct-01 • 25 minutes Ep. 77 - Why I Support Catalonia's Secession Self-Governance in Spain |
| 2017-Sep-28 • 9 minutes Don't Fight for Objective Definitions "What X Means" versus "What I Mean by X" |
| 2017-Sep-24 • 57 minutes Ep. 76 - Metaphysical Questions, Objectivist Answers | Dr. David Kelley Parts and Wholes, Consciousness, and Free Will |
| 2017-Sep-21 • 14 minutes The Fashionable Thinkers What Looks Good vs. What's True |
| 2017-Sep-17 • 66 minutes Ep. 75 - Do We Perceive Reality? | Dr. Donald Hoffman Is Realism Realistic? |
| 2017-Sep-14 • 10 minutes How to Deal with Alien Abductions and Bigfoot Sightings It's tempting to dismiss anybody who claims they've been abducted by aliens or seen Bigfoot in the forest. However, simple dismissal might not be the most rational response. Extreme cases can actually help us understand the relationship between the... |
| 2017-Sep-10 • 80 minutes Ep. 74 - Race and American Politics | T.K. Coleman Can Government Solve Racial Problems? |
| 2017-Sep-07 • 7 minutes Unifying the Plural into the Simple One and Many |
| 2017-Sep-03 • 91 minutes Ep. 73 - Race, Culture, and Judgments | T.K. Coleman Cultural Differences Among Races |
| 2017-Aug-27 • 60 minutes Ep. 72 - The Real Story Behind Bitcoin Cash | Ryan X. Charles The Facts and History Leading to Bitcoin's Split |
| 2017-Aug-20 • 64 minutes Ep. 71 - Meditation and the Absence of Self | Oren J. Sofer Do Thoughts Require a Thinker? |
| 2017-Aug-14 • 86 minutes Ep. 70 - Should Feminism and Philosophy Mix? | Interview Breakdown How Real is the Patriarchy? |
| 2017-Aug-06 • 58 minutes Ep. 69 - Hegel and Paradox | Dr. Donald Verene To Be And Not To Be |
| 2017-Jul-30 • 50 minutes Ep. 68 - Corruption in the Silk Road Case | Lyn Ulbricht Tampered Evidence, Corrupt Agents, and a Malicious Judge |
| 2017-Jul-23 • 62 minutes Ep. 67 - Catholicism, the Church, and Faith | Fr. Oscar Martin From Sacraments to Salvation |
| 2017-Jul-16 • 38 minutes Ep. 66 - Ethics, Capitalism, the Meaning of Life, and Social Justice | Dr. Patrick Byrne From Ethics to Economics |
| 2017-Jul-10 • 56 minutes Ep. 65 - "Ultra Spiritual" or "Actually Spiritual"? | JP Sears From Satire to Serious Spirituality |
| 2017-Jul-02 • 70 minutes Ep. 64 - Science, Peer Review, and Academic Bullshit | Brian Earp Can We Be Skeptical about Science? |
| 2017-Jun-29 • 14 minutes Can Drugs Lead to Truth? Are Drug-Induced Epiphanies Trustworthy? |
| 2017-Jun-25 • 30 minutes Ep. 63 - The Limits of the Non-Aggression Principle | Interview Breakdown Is Non-Aggression Absolute? |
| 2017-Jun-22 • 8 minutes Language is Inherently Ambiguous What Does the Word "Root" Really Mean? |
| 2017-Jun-17 • 54 minutes Ep. 62 - Bitcoin, OpenBazaar, and Political Power | Sam Patterson Blockchains and Their Impact |
| 2017-Jun-15 • 9 minutes Is Space Mental? The Space in Your Mind |
| 2017-Jun-11 • 64 minutes Ep. 61 - Ayn Rand's Objectivism | Dr. David Kelley The Basics of Objectivism |
| 2017-Jun-08 • 7 minutes You Live in Your Mind Your Mind, or The World? |
| 2017-Jun-04 • 58 minutes Ep. 60 - Dialogue with a Buddhist Monk | Phra Maha Chanomkorn Prakai Meditation, Consciousness, and the Self |
| 2017-May-28 • 80 minutes Ep. 59 - Can You Approach Infinity? | Dr. Michael Huemer Zeno, Cantor, and the Paradoxes of Infinity |
| 2017-May-26 • 6 minutes Is the World Blurry? | The Modernist Fallacy Blurry Language, or a Blurry World? |
| 2017-May-20 • 58 minutes Ep. 58 - The Psychology of Postmodernism | Dr. Stephen Hicks You Contradicted Yourself: Now What? |
| 2017-May-18 • 8 minutes Tai Chi Meets Reality Mouth Versus Fist |
| 2017-May-15 • 53 minutes Ep. 57 - Are Some Objects Mind-Dependent? | Interview Breakdown From Fiction to Formulas |
| 2017-May-12 • 8 minutes Puerto Rico Has Gone Bankrupt The Can Cannot Be Kicked Forever |
| 2017-May-09 • 33 minutes Ep. 56 - Zen Buddhism | Keiho Nishigaki Practicing Pure Mind |
| 2017-Apr-30 • 55 minutes Ep. 55 - Are Science and Religion Incompatible? | Dr. Peter Harrison History, Heresy, and a Fundamental Tension |
| 2017-Apr-28 • 20 minutes Data versus Anecdotes: From Ghosts to Levaquin Heresy: Anecdotes are Another Type of Data |
| 2017-Apr-23 • 113 minutes Ep. 54 - Psychedelic Experience: Ayahuasca | The World Wanderers Can Drugs Help You Discover Truth? |
| 2017-Apr-20 • 10 minutes The Social Hierarchy People and Power |
| 2017-Apr-15 • 42 minutes Ep. 53 - One Year, 10 Countries | What I've Learned Academia, Multiculturalism, Travel, Religion, and New Ideas |
| 2017-Apr-13 • 8 minutes People Love Hierarchy Some Difficult Observations |
| 2017-Apr-09 • 65 minutes Ep. 52 - Are Some Infinities Bigger Than Others? | Dr. Toby Meadows Is There a Hierarchy of Infinities? |
| 2017-Apr-02 • 67 minutes Ep. 51 - Feminist Philosophy | Dr. Michelle Boulous-Walker What is Feminist Philosophy? |
| 2017-Mar-31 • 7 minutes The Metaphysics of Fiction Does Harry Potter Exist? |
| 2017-Mar-26 • 87 minutes Ep. 50 - Argumentation Ethics | Stephan Kinsella Is "Self-Ownership" Inescapable? |
| 2017-Mar-24 • 23 minutes Experts and Incompetence A Seed of Doubt |
| 2017-Mar-18 • 53 minutes Ep. 49 - Is Consciousness "Emergent"? | Dr. David Braddon-Mitchell Matter to Mind |
| 2017-Mar-16 • 24 minutes My Experience with Christian Evangelicalism Good Religion, Bad Religion |
| 2017-Mar-12 • 52 minutes Ep. 48 - Skepticism of Infinity in Mathematics | Dr. Norman Wildberger Is There Room for Skepticism in Mathematics? |
| 2017-Mar-09 • 15 minutes Infinite Things Do Not Exist Every Thing Has Boundaries |
| 2017-Mar-05 • 59 minutes Ep. 47 - Problems with Paraconsistent Logic | Interview Breakdown Consistency, Contradiction, and Incoherence |
| 2017-Mar-03 • 6 minutes 3 Steps for Changing a Paradigm Problem, Solution, Explanation |
| 2017-Feb-26 • 37 minutes Ep. 46 - Buddhism and Boundaries | Interview Breakdown Things and Persons |
| 2017-Feb-24 • 15 minutes A Requirement for True Love Truth and Love are Inseparable |
| 2017-Feb-19 • 55 minutes Ep. 45 - Infinite Sets: Understanding the Basics | Dr. Gareth Can You Really Complete an Infinity? |
| 2017-Feb-16 • 7 minutes Charlie Hebdo as an Excuse to Take Selfies Using a Tragedy for Social Signaling |
| 2017-Feb-12 • 49 minutes Ep. 44 - SJWs, the Left, and Academia | Dr. Jamie Whyte Relativism in Practice |
| 2017-Feb-05 • 67 minutes Ep. 43 - Indigenous Beliefs of New Zealand | Dr. Hirini Kaa "Religion Was Everything" to the Māori |
| 2017-Jan-29 • 69 minutes Ep. 42 - Truth and Paraconsistent Logic Can We Make Sense of Logical Contradictions? |