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37 episodes
2019 to present
Average episode: 47 minutes
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Categories: Interview-Style
Podcaster's summary: A seasonal podcast that brings the ideas and tools of philosophy to everyone. Featuring interviews with professional philosophers, personal stories, and lots of fun thought experiments. We'll start with about 5 episodes per season.Monads are shorts that tend to involve less production than full seasonal episodes.Contact us at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
| Episodes |
| 2024-Feb-02 • 75 minutes 34 - Andrew does Improv - Liberalism Philosophy vs Improv |
| 2024-Jan-26 • 87 minutes 33 - Are Animals Food? a conversation with Robert Jones |
| 2024-Jan-03 • 52 minutes 32 - Idealism part two further conversation with Michael Fitzpatrick |
| 2024-Jan-03 • 129 minutes 31 - Idealism part one A Conversation with Michael Fitzpatrick |
| 2023-Oct-16 • 82 minutes 30 - The Veil of Ignorance John Rawls' Theory of Justice |
| 2023-May-17 • 72 minutes 29 - City Living Quill Kukla on the ways our spaces make us |
| 2023-May-11 • 67 minutes 28 - Climate Protests The Philosopher and the News dropping into our feed |
| 2023-Mar-01 • 5 minutes Spring 2023 Update What does the Future Hold? Who knows? |
| 2022-Sep-17 • 74 minutes M16 - Are All Lives Equal? A conversation with Carneades |
| 2022-Apr-18 • 46 minutes M15 - Ubuntu and the Good Life Thaddeus Metz on Ubuntu |
| 2022-Apr-11 • 53 minutes M14 - Why It's Okay to Love Bad Movies a talk by Matt Strohl with comments by Nick Riggle |
| 2021-Dec-06 • 46 minutes s02e05 - Another Kind of Identity In which Andrew explores the "Identity" in "Identity Politics" and the social groups by which we identify ourselves.https://shows.acast.com/reduct... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. |
| 2021-Aug-16 • 16 minutes M14 - Soul Sleep Helen De Cruz reads us a story |
| 2021-Aug-11 • 33 minutes M13 - More about Personal Identity Andrew talks with Rev. Ben Colahan about themes from s02e04 Who Are You? If you haven't already, listen to that episode before this one. Here's a link: https://shows.acast.com/reductio/s02e04-who-are-youEpisode... Link for Sharing:https://shows.acast.com/reductio... on Patreon:Patreon | Reductio is creating A Podcast about Ideas, Philosophy, and Understanding | PatreonRate and Review us Please!Reductio: Adventures in Ideas on Apple PodcastsReductio on Spotify Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more... |
| 2021-Jul-16 • 15 minutes M12 - Transporters This is just the first part of the episode "Who Are You?" in standalone format so that it can be used on its own if useful for teaching or other uses. If you enjoy this, listen to the full episode published just before this one. Here's a link. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. |
| 2021-Jul-16 • 60 minutes s02e04 - Who Are You? Transporters, Ships, Bionic Women, Brave Soldiers, and so much more! |
| 2021-Jun-01 • 80 minutes s02e03 - Ghosts What? How? Why Believe? |
| 2021-Mar-25 • 15 minutes M11 - Passion of the Sunprobe a short story by Eric Schwitzgebel |
| 2021-Feb-10 • 58 minutes s02e02 - Transformative Experiences In which Andrew explores Laurie Paul's concept of a Transformative Experience. With help from John Swanson, Laurie Paul, Jordan Wallace-Wolf, and Count Dracula himself.Laurie Paul's Book Transformative Experience, can be purchased many places, including here.Editing help by Xinjiang Huang. Thank you for all of your help!Episode Share Link:https://shows.acast.com/reductio/s0... us on Patreon:Reductio: Adventures in Ideas is creating A Podcast about Ideas, Philosophy, and Understanding | PatreonOther Philosop... |
| 2020-Oct-28 • 33 minutes s02e01 - What's an Inverted Spectrum??? what if we experience color totally differently? |
| 2020-May-20 • 66 minutes s01e05 - Technocracy Andrew explores Jacques Ellul's theory of "Technique" with the help of Professor Joel Zimbelman. Appearances also from Quinn Troester and Poet Chesko.Episode Link for Sharinghttps://shows.acast.com/reductio/... Rate and Review Us!Reductio: Adventures in Ideas on Apple PodcastsReductio on PatreonReductio: Adventures in Ideas is creating A Podcast about Ideas, Philosophy, and Understanding | PatreonVideos MentionedKey and Peele - Text Message ConfusionWeekend Update - Fred Armisen as Randall Meeks Hosted on ... |
| 2020-Apr-28 • 48 minutes s01e04 - Why Does Stuff Cost Money? In which Andrew explores a simple question very carefully: why does stuff cost money? Including critiques of Capitalism from the infamous Karl Marx.Special thanks to my friend and her daughter, to Kellie Marie Lavin, and to Olúfémi O. Táíwò of Georgetown University.Warning: most is child-friendly, but we start talking about "naked violence, genocide, theft, and plunder" at about 34:00. Not necessarily suitable for younger listeners. Discretion advised!Olúfémi O. Táíwòhttp://www.whyeverythingcostsmoney.... L... |
| 2020-Mar-25 • 69 minutes s01e03: The Trolley Problem and its Discontents In which Andrew explores the Trolley Problem with the help of some friends and Jordan Wallace-Wolf of UCLA.Special Thanks to: especially Christy Harrington for lending us her narration skills, to Bill Harrington, Owen Roth, Max Feiler, Garvey Peterson, and of course, the inimitable Dustin Rainey.Episode Link for Sharinghttps://shows.acast.com/reductio/... Rate and Review Us!Reductio: Adventures in Ideas on Apple PodcastsReadings Mentioned in the PodcastThomson: https://philpapers.org/rec/THOKLD-2Taurek:...... |
| 2020-Mar-07 • 47 minutes s01e02: Aristotle's Reductio In which Andrew explores Aristotle's reductio proof for the existence of a god-like "prime mover". Joined by Stanford's Michael Fitzpatrick.Episode Link for sharinghttps://shows.acast.com/reductio/... on iTunesReductio: Adventures in Ideas on Apple PodcastsReductio on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/reductioH... Nationhttps://hiphination.org/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. |
| 2020-Jan-29 • 56 minutes AudioSophia 2 - "Autonomy and Aesthetic Engagement" Thi Nguyen |
| 2020-Jan-19 • 41 minutes s01e01: What the Heck is a Reductio? of Spaghetti Monsters and Flat Planets |
| 2019-Nov-23 • 37 minutes Monad 10 - Religious Exemptions and Civil Disobedience Do religious exemptions and democracy mix? |
| 2019-Sep-13 • 37 minutes Monad 9: Co-Operatism What if everything was a co-op? |
| 2019-Aug-31 • 16 minutes Monad 8: Before Birth Did you already know things when you were born? |
| 2019-Aug-10 • 17 minutes AudioSophia - Bertrand Russell on the Value of Philosophy An audio rendition of a famous philosophy text |
| 2019-Jul-31 • 25 minutes Monad 7: Doctor Andrew Lavin Andrew talks about the topic of his dissertation: Normality |
| 2019-Jul-11 • 20 minutes Monad 6: Ibn Sina's Floating Person Do you necessarily experience yourself? |
| 2019-Jun-27 • 18 minutes Monad 5: Zeno and his Paradoxes Is motion really possible? |
| 2019-May-23 • 21 minutes Monad 4: What is Philosophy? Andrew explores a simple question that might be overdue at this point: what is philosophy anyways?With contributions from June Brown, Michael Fitzpatrick (and his kitty Cozette), Kimberly Engels, Kelby Peeler, Olufemi Taiwo, and Dean Dominguez.Episode link to share:https://shows.pippa.io/reductio/mo... Patreon Page:Reductio: Adventures in Ideas is creating A Podcast about Ideas, Philosophy, and Understanding | PatreonOur Website:www.invertedspectrummedia.comPhi... Bites:https://philosophybites.com/ Hosted o... |
| 2019-May-08 • 71 minutes Monad 3 - On Dog Whistles A conversation with JJ Lang |
| 2019-Apr-15 • 28 minutes Monad 2: The Vice of Consistency Is it a good thing to be consistent? |
| 2019-Feb-12 • 18 minutes Monad 1: What's a Monad? Leibniz's Monadology |