The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
By Mark Linsenmayer
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Description
The Partially Examined Life is a philosophy podcast by some guys who were at one point set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it. Each episode, we pick a short text and chat about it with some balance between insight and flippancy. You don't have to know any philosophy, or even to have read the text we're talking about to (mostly) follow and (hopefully) enjoy the discussion. For links to the texts we discuss and other info, check out www.partiallyexaminedlife.com.
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ExplicitEpisode 111: Gadamer’s Hermeneutics: How to Interpret | On Hans-Georg Gadamer's Truth and Method (1960, ch. 4), "Aesthetics and Hermeneutics" (1964), "The Universality of the Hermeneutical Problem" (1966), and "Hermeneutics as Practical Philosophy" (1972). | 3/2/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitClose Reading (Preview) of Heidegger on Truth | Mark and Seth go line-by-line through the first half of "On the Essence of Truth" to help you understand Heidegger's language. This is a 17-min preview of a 2 hr, 37-min bonus recording. | 2/23/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEp. 110 Aftershow (Preview) with Stephen West | Stephen West returns: Citizens should go to the Free Stuff page to get the new Aftershow on Whitehead featuring Dylan Casey and David Buchanan, and you can all listen to the first chunk of the discussion now. | 2/22/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitClose Reading (Preview) of Kant on the Sublime | Mark and Wes go line-by-line through a chunk of the Critique of Judgment to help you feel confident decoding Kant and other difficult texts. This is a 13-min preview of a 72-min bonus recording. | 2/16/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 110: Alfred North Whitehead: What Is Nature? | On The Concept of Nature (1920). Nature, i.e. the object of our experience, is events, not things, ya dig? | 2/2/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEp. 109 Aftershow (Preview) with Stephen West | The first chunk of our new after-the-episode discussion, featuring Stephen West from Philosophize This! and Mark Linsenmayer. This is a 20-min preview of a 72-min discussion that can be found in full on our Free Stuff for Citizens page. | 1/31/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 109: Jaspers’s Existentialism with Guest Paul Provenza | On Karl Jaspers's "On My Philosophy" (1941), featuring comedian/actor/director/author Paul Provenza | 1/19/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPrecognition of Ep. 110: Whitehead | Mark Linsenamayer outlines Alfred North Whitehead's book The Concept of Nature (1920) | 1/19/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 108: Dangers of A.I. with Guest Nick Bostrom | On Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, and Strategies (2014) with the author. What can we predict about, and how can we control in advance, the motivations of the entity likely to result from eventual advances in machine learning? | 1/6/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPrecognition of Ep. 109: Karl Jaspers | Mark Linsenmayer introduces Karl Jaspers's existentialist tract, "On My Philosophy." (1941) | 1/5/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 107: Edmund Burke on the Sublime | On A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, where young Burke lays out our knee-jerk aesthetic reactions, including those to scary things at a safe distance. | 12/19/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitNot Ep. 107: The 12 Interminable Days of Xmas: A Musical Extravaganza | Mark Lint and the PEL Orchestra present the longest, slowest, biggest, fattest, most surreal Christmas carol ever. | 12/19/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 106: Pyrrhonian Skepticism According to Sextus Empiricus | On "Outlines of Pyrrhonism" from 200 C.E. Can you live while suspending judgment about all non-everyday matters? | 12/4/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 105: Kant: What Is Beauty? | On Critique of Judgment (1790), Part I, Book I. What is beauty? Disinterested pleasure! | 11/14/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 104: Robert Nozick’s Libertarianism | On Anarchy, State & Utopia (1974), ch. 1-3 and 7. What are the moral limits on government power? No redistributive taxation, suckah! | 10/27/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 103: Thoreau on Living Deliberately | On Henry David Thoreau's Walden (1854). Should all true philosophers go live in the woods and seek Truth in nature? Probably YOU should. | 10/14/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPrecognition of Ep. 104: Robert Nozick | Seth Paskin introduces Anarchy, State, and Utopia about libertarianism and the limits of legitimate government power. | 10/12/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 102: Emerson on Wisdom and Individuality | On Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “The American Scholar” lecture (1837) and his essays “Self-Reliance” and “Circles” (1841). Be yourself! Don't conform! Realize your oneness with the universe! | 9/19/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 101: Maimonides on God | On Guide for the Perplexed about God's lack of properties, featuring guest comedian Danny Lobell of the Modern Day Philosophers podcast. | 9/1/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 100: Plato’s Symposium Live Celebration! | Our big live episode (also on video) about love, sex, self-improvement, and ancient Greek pederasty! Featuring a set by Mark Lint, plus Philosophy Bro on Plato's "Apology" | 8/15/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 99: Looking Back on 100 Discussions and 5+ Years | What have we learned? How has our take on the PEL project changed? On the eve before our big ep. 100 live show, we sat down to reflect on what we've been doing here. | 8/11/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 98: Guest Michael Sandel Against Market Society | Interviewing him on his book "What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets" and continuing the discussion of his first book, "Liberalism and the Limits of Justice" | 7/26/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 97: Michael Sandel on Social Justice and the Self | On "Liberalism and the Limits of Justice" (1982) where Sandel critiques Rawls's version of liberalism as based on a bogus picture of us as purely choosing beings. | 7/19/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 96: Oppenheimer and the Rhetoric of Science Advisers | Discussing Lynda Walsh's book "Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy" (2013) with the author, focusing on Robert J. Oppenheimer. What is the role of the science adviser? Should scientists just "stick to the facts, | 7/1/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 95: Gödel on Math | On two unpublished essays considering the implications of Godel's incompleteness theorems and asserting mathematical realism. With guest Adi Habbu. | 6/15/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPrecognition of Ep. 96: Oppenheimer’s Rhetoric | Guest Lynda Walsh describes her book Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy, focusing on J. Robert Oppenheimer's conflicted position after WWII as science advisor and anti-nuke spokesman. | 6/6/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 94: Schopenhauer on Reading, Writing, and Thinking | On Arthur Schopenhauer's essays, "On Authorship and Style," "On Thinking for Oneself," and "On Genius" (all published 1851). Is the best way to do philosophy (or any art) to self-consciously build on the work of others to advance the genre? | 5/22/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPrecognition of Ep. 95: Gödel | Guest Adi Habbu lays out Kurt Gödel's famous incompleteness theorems and describes some highlights from "Some Basic Theorems on the Foundations of Mathematics and their Implications" (1951) and "The Modern Development of the Foundations of Mathematics .. | 5/22/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 93: Freedom and Responsibility (Strawson vs. Strawson) | On P.F. Strawson's "Freedom and Resentment" (1960), Galen Strawson's "The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility" (1994), and Gary Watson's "Responsibility and the Limits of Evil: Variations on a Strawsonian Theme" (1987). | 5/2/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 92: Henri Bergson on How to Do Metaphysics | On Bergson's "An Introduction to Metaphysics" (1903) | 4/11/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPrecognition of Ep. 93: Free Will (via Strawsons) | Guest Tamler Sommers (from the Very Bad Wizards podcast) summarizes Galen Strawson's "The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility" (1994) and his father P.F. Strawson's "Freedom and Resentment" (1960). | 4/8/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 91: Transhumanism (Plus More on Brin) | Continuing discussion of David Brin's novel Existence (without him) and adding Nick Bostrom's essay "Why I Want to Be a Posthuman When I Grow Up" (2006). | 3/29/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 90: Sci-Fi and Philosophy with Guest David Brin | Discussing David Brin's novel Existence (2012) with the author. | 3/26/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPrecognition of Ep. 92: Henri Bergson | Guest Matt Teichman introduces Bergson's essay "An Introduction to Metaphysics." | 3/20/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 89: Berkeley: Only Ideas Exist! | On Bishop George Berkeley's Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (1713). | 3/11/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitNot School Digest #4: Sartre, Heidegger, Zizek, Marx, and Theater | Excerpts from PEL podcaster & listener discussions on Sartre's Nausea, Heidegger's "The Question Concerning Technology," Slavoj Zizek's Year of Dreaming Dangerously, Marx and Engels's "Communist Manifesto," Peter Schaffer's play Equus, | 2/28/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPrecognition of Ep. 89: Berkeley’s Idealism | Wes Alwan introduces George Berkeley's Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous. | 2/18/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 88: G.E.M. Anscombe: Should We Use Moral Language? | >On Elizabeth Anscombe's "Modern Moral Philosophy" (1958), Intention sections 22-27 (1957), and "War and Murder" (1961). | 2/18/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPrecognition of Ep. 88: G.E.M. Anscombe | Guest Philosophy Bro introduces Elizabeth Anscombe's "Modern Moral Philosophy," and Intention sections 22-27. | 1/18/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSartre’s “No Exit” Read with Lucy Lawless & Jaime Murray | In support of our ep. #87 discussing Sartre, the PEL Players present our 2nd annual dramatic reading of a work of philosophical theater. | 1/1/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 87: Sartre on Freedom and Self-Deception | On Jean-Paul Sartre's "Existentialism is a Humanism" (1946), "Bad Faith" (pt. 1, ch. 2 of Being & Nothingness, 1943), and his play No Exit (1944). | 1/1/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 86: Thomas Kuhn on Scientific Progress | On The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, published mostly in 1962. | 12/24/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPrecognition of Ep. 87: Sartre | Mark Linsenmayer lays out some themes from Jean-Paul Sartre's "Existentialism is a Humanism" and the "Bad Faith" chapter (Part 1, Ch. 2) of Being & Nothingness. | 12/20/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 85: Rawls on Social Justice | On John Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1971), most of ch. 1-4. | 12/7/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPrecognition of Ep. 86: Thomas Kuhn | Dylan Casey lays out Thomas Kuhn's thesis in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. | 12/7/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 84: Nietzsche’s “Gay Science” | On Friedrich Nietzsche's The Gay Science (1882, with book 5 added 1887). | 11/11/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPrecognition of Ep. 85: John Rawls | Seth Paskin summarizes the John Rawls's A Theory of Justice. | 11/10/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 83 Follow-Up: Q&A with Frithjof Bergmann | In light of our ep. 83, many listeners had questions on Frithjof's social/political/economic proposals for creating a post-job, pro-meaningful-work world. | 11/1/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 83: New Work with Guest Frithjof Bergmann | alking with Frithjof Bergmann, Prof. Emeritus from U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor about his book New Work, New Culture (2004, English release coming soon). | 10/10/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 82: Karl Popper on Science | On Popper's Conjectures and Refutations (1963), the first three essays. | 9/24/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPrecognition of Ep. 83: New Work | An introduction to and summary of Frithjof Bergmann's New Work, New Culture, read by Mark Linsenmayer. | 9/15/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 81: Jung on the Psyche and Dreams | On Carl Jung's "Approaching the Unconscious" from Man and His Symbols, written in 1961. | 8/29/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPrecognition of Ep. 82: Popper | A summary of the first three essays in Karl Popper's collection Conjectures and Refutations, read by Dylan Casey. | 8/28/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitNot School Digest #3: The Future of Work, Blood Meridian, Embodied Mind, and Heidegger | Excerpts of discussions about Frithjof Bergmann's New Work, New Culture, Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian, Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, | 8/22/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 80: Heidegger on our Existential Situation | On Martin Heidegger's "Letter on Humanism" (1949). | 8/8/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPrecognition of Ep. 81: Jung | An introduction to Carl Jung's Man and His Symbols, read by Wes Alwan. | 8/6/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 79: Heraclitus on Understanding the World | Eva Brann discusses her book The Logos of Heraclitus (2011). | 7/14/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPrecognition of Ep. 80: Heidegger | A short summary of Heidegger's "Essay on Humanism," read by Seth Paskin. | 7/14/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 78: Ayn Rand on Living Rationally | On Rand's Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (1967) and "The Objectivist Ethics" (1961). | 7/1/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 77: Santayana on the Appreciation of Beauty | On George Santayana's The Sense of Beauty (1896). | 6/9/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 76: Deleuze on What Philosophy Is | On Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's What Is Philosophy? (1991). | 5/14/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 75: Lacan & Derrida Criticize Poe’s “The Purloined Letter” | On Jacques Lacan's "Seminar on 'The Purloined Letter'" (1956), Jacques Derrida's "The Purveyor of Truth" (1975), and other essays in the collection The Purloined Poe: Lacan, Derrida, and Psychoanalytic Reading. | 4/19/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 74: Jacques Lacan’s Psychology | On Bruce Fink's The Lacanian Subject (1996) and Lacan's "The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience" (1949). | 4/3/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 73: Why Do Philosophy? (And What Is It?) | Mark, Seth, Wes, and Dylan share what drove them into philosophy and keeps them there. How is philosophy different than (or similar to) science? Than religion? Art? | 3/22/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 72: Terrorism with Jonathan R. White | We're joined by an international terrorism expert to discuss how to define terrorism and whether it can ever be ethical. | 3/9/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 71: Martin Buber’s “I and Thou” | On Buber's 1923 book I and Thou. | 2/15/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 70: Marx on the Human Condition | On Karl Marx's The German Ideology, Part I, an early, unpublished work from 1846. | 1/29/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitNot School Digest Jan 2013: A Bonus Quasisode | Excerpts of discussions about Deleuze & Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus, an article on emergence called "More Is Different" by Nobel Prize Winning physicist P.W. Anderson, John Searle's Mind: A Brief Introduction, | 1/23/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 69: Plato on Rhetoric vs. Philosophy | >On Plato's Dialogue, "Gorgias" (380 BCE or so). | 1/12/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitNot Episode 69: PEL Players Full Cast Audiobook of Plato’s “Gorgias” (part 1) | Three podcasters and two listeners join to read Plato's fabulous dialogue. | 1/11/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 68: David Chalmers Interview on the Scrutability of the World | On David Chalmer's book Constructing the World (2012). | 12/21/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitNot School Digest Nov-Dec 2012: A Bonus Quasisode | Excerpts of discussions about David Chalmers's The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory, Thomas Nagel's Mind and Cosmos, and Paul Auster's City of Glass. | 12/16/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 67: Carnap on Logic and Science | On Rudolph Carnap's The Logical Structure of the World (1928). | 12/7/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 66: Quine on Linguistic Meaning and Science | On W.V.O. Quine's "On What There Is" (1948) and "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" (1951). | 11/21/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitCelebrating Two Million Downloads: A Highlights Minisode | Our highlight reel in thanks to all you listeners who have brought us to the milestone of approximately two million downloads. | 11/8/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 65: The Federalist Papers | On Alexander Hamilton/James Madison's Federalist Papers (1, 10-12, 14-17, 39, 47-51), published as newspaper editorials 1787-8, plus Letters III and IV from Brutus, an Anti-Federalist. | 10/26/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 64: Celebrity, with guest Lucy Lawless | On Fame: What the Classics Tell Us About Our Cult of Celebrity by Tom Payne (2010). | 10/6/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 63: Existentialist Heroes in Cormac McCarthy’s “No Country for Old Men” | On philosophical issues in McCarthy's 2005 novel about guys running around with drug money and shooting each other, and about fiction as a form for exploring philosophical ideas. | 9/21/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 62: Voltaire’s Novel “Candide” | On Candide: or, Optimism, the novel by Voltaire (1759). | 9/5/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 61: Nietzsche on Truth and Skepticism | On Friedrich Nietzsche's "On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense" (1873). | 8/15/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 60: Aristotle: What’s the Best Form of Government? | On Aristotle's Politics (350 BCE), books 1 (ch 1-2), 3, 4 (ch 1-3), 5 (ch 1-2), 6 (ch 1-6), and 7 (ch. 1-3, 13-15). | 7/22/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 59: Alasdair MacIntyre on Moral Justifications | On Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory (1981), mostly ch. 3-7 and 14-17. | 7/5/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 58: What Grounds Ethical Claims? (Moore, Stevenson, MacIntyre) | >On G.E. Moore's Principia Ethica, ch. 1 (1903); Charles Leslie Stevenson's "The Emotive Meaning of Ethical Terms" (1937), and Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue, ch. 1-2. | 6/20/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 57: Henri Bergson on Humor | On Bergson's Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic (1900). | 5/31/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 56: More Wittgenstein on Language | Continuing discussion of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, Part I, sections 1-33 and 191-360. | 5/14/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 55: Wittgenstein on Language | On Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, Part I, sections 1-33 and 191-360 (written around 1946). | 5/2/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 54: More Buddhism and Naturalism | Continuing our discussion of Owen Flanagan's The Bodhisattva's Brain: Buddhism Naturalized (2011). | 4/6/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 53: Buddhism and Naturalism with Guest Owen Flanagan | Discussing The Bodhisattva's Brain: Buddhism Naturalized (2011) with Owen Flanagan. | 3/26/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 52: Philosophy and Race (DuBois, Martin Luther King, Cornel West) | On W.E.B. DuBois's "Of Our Spiritual Strivings" (1903), Cornel West's "A Genealogy of Modern Racism" (1982), and Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (1963) and "The Black Power Defined" (1967), | 3/17/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 51: Semiotics and Structuralism (Saussure, et al) | On Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics (1916) (Part I and Part II, Ch. 4), Claude Levi-Strauss's "The Structural Study of Myth" (1955), and Jacques Derrida's "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" (1966). | 2/24/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 50: Pirsig’s “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” | On Robert M. Pirsig's philosophical, autobiographical novel from 1974. | 2/3/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 49: Foucault on Power and Punishment | Discussing Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish (1975), parts 1, 2 and section 3 of part 3. | 1/11/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 48: Merleau-Ponty on Perception and Knowledge | Discussing Maurice Merleau-Ponty's "Primacy of Perception" (1946) and The World of Perception (1948). | 12/16/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 47: Sartre on Consciousness and the Self | Discussing Jean-Paul Sarte's The Transcendence of the Ego (written in 1934). | 11/30/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 46: Plato on Ethics & Religion | Discussing Plato's "Euthyphro." | 11/16/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 45: Moral Sense Theory: Hume and Smith | Discussing parts of David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature (1740) and Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759). | 10/28/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 44: New Atheist Critiques of Religion | Discussing selections from Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel C. Dennett. | 10/11/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 43: Arguments for the Existence of God | Discussing the arguments by Descartes, St. Anselm, Thomas Aquinas, William Paley, Kant, and others, as analyzed in J.L. Mackie's The Miracle of Theism: Arguments For and Against the Existence of God (1983), chapters 1-3, 5-6, 8, and 11. | 9/14/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 42: Feminists on Human Nature and Moral Psychology | Discussing Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s utopian novel Herland (1915) and psychologist Carol Gilligan's In a Different Voice (1983). | 9/5/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 41: Pat Churchland on the Neurobiology of Morality (Plus Hume’s Ethics) | Patricia Churchland on her new book Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality. We also discussed David Hume's ethics as foundational to her work, reading his Treatise on Human Nature (1739), Book III, | 7/18/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 40: Plato’s Republic: What Is Justice? | Discussing The Republic by Plato, primarily books 1 and 2. | 7/11/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 39: Schleiermacher Defends Religion | Discussing Friedrich Schleiermacher's "On Religion; Speeches to its Cultured Despisers" (1799, with notes added 1821), first and second speeches. | 6/10/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 38: Bertrand Russell on Math and Logic | Discussing Russell's Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (1919), ch. 1-3 and 13-18. | 5/25/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 37: Locke on Political Power | Discussing John Locke's Second Treatise on Government (1690). | 5/6/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 36: More Hegel on Self-Consciousness | Part 2 of our discussion of G.F.W. Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit," covering sections 178-230 within section B, "Self-Consciousness." | 4/10/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 35: Hegel on Self-Consciousness | Discussing G.F.W. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), Part B (aka Ch. 4), "Self-Consciousness," plus recapping the three chapters before that (Part A. "Consciousness"). | 4/1/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 34: Frege on the Logic of Language | Discussing Gottlob Frege's "Sense and Reference," "Concept and Object" (both from 1892) and "The Thought" (1918). | 3/13/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 33: Montaigne: What Is the Purpose of Philosophy? | Discussing Michel de Montaigne's Essays: "That to Philosophize is to Learn to Die," "Of Experience," "Of Cannibals," "Of the Education of Children," and "Of Solitude" (all from around 1580) with some discussion of "Apology for Raymond Sebond." | 2/18/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 32: Heidegger: What is “Being?” | Discussing Martin Heidegger's Being and Time (1927), mostly the intro and ch. 1 and 2 of Part 1. | 2/7/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 31: Husserl’s Phenomenology | Discussing Edmund Husserl's Cartesian Meditations (1931). | 1/10/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPREVIEW-Episode 30: Schopenhauer on Explanations and Knowledge | Discussing Arthur Schopenhauer's On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, published in 1847 (as an expansion of his doctoral thesis from 1813). | 12/19/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPREVIEW-Episode 29: Kierkegaard on the Self | Discussing Soren Kierkegaard's "The Sickness Unto Death" (1849). | 11/21/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPREVIEW-Episode 28: Nelson Goodman on Art as Epistemology | Discussing Goodman's Ways of Worldmaking (1978). | 10/31/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPREVIEW-Episode 27: Nagarjuna on Buddhist “Emptiness” | Primarily discussing "Reasoning: The Sixty Stanzas" and "Emptiness: The Seventy Stanzas," by the 2nd century Indian Buddhist Nagarjuna. | 10/10/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPREVIEW-Episode 26: Freud on the Human Condition | Discussing Freud's Civilization and its Discontents (1930). | 9/25/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPREVIEW-Episode 25: Spinoza on Human Nature | Discussing Spinoza's the Ethics, Books II through V. | 9/10/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPREVIEW-Episode 24: Spinoza on God and Metaphysics | Discussing Spinoza's Ethics (1677), books 1 and 2. | 8/23/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPREVIEW-Episode 23: Rousseau: Human Nature vs. Culture | Discussing Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse in Inequality (1754) and book 1 of The Social Contract (1762). | 7/28/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPREVIEW-Episode 22: More James’s Pragmatism: Is Faith Justified? What is Truth? | Discussing William James's "The Will to Believe". | 7/17/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPREVIEW-Episode 21: What Is the Mind? (Turing, et al) | Discussing articles by Alan Turing, Gilbert Ryle, Thomas Nagel, John Searle, and Dan Dennett. | 6/28/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPREVIEW-Episode 20: Pragmatism – Peirce and James | On Pragmatism (1907) by William James and "The Fixation of Belief" (1877) and "How to Make Our Ideas Clear" (1878) by Charles Sanders Peirce. | 6/9/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPREVIEW-Episode 19: Kant: What Can We Know? | Discussing Immanuel Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (1783). | 5/13/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPREVIEW-Episode 18: Plato: What Is Knowledge? | Discussing Plato's Theatetus and Meno. | 4/20/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPREVIEW-Episode 17: Hume’s Empiricism: What Can We Know? | On David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748). | 3/29/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPREVIEW-Episode 16: Danto on Art | Discussing three essays by Arthur Danto from The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art (1986): the title essay, "The Appreciation and Interpretation of Works of Art," and "The End of Art." | 3/4/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 15: Hegel on History | Discussing G.W.F Hegel's Introduction to the Philosophy of History. | 2/24/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 14: Machiavelli on Politics | Discussing Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince and Ch. 1-20 of The Discourse on the First Ten Books of Titus Livy | 2/7/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 13: What Are the Metaphysical Implications of Quantum Physics? | On Werner Heisenberg’s Physics and Philosophy (1958). | 1/3/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 12: Chuang Tzu’s Taoism: What Is Wisdom? | Discussing the "Chuang Tzu," Chapters 2, 3, 6, 18, and 19. | 12/5/2009 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 11: Nietzsche’s Immoralism: What Is Ethics, Anyway? | Discussing The Genealogy of Morals (mostly the first two essays) and Beyond Good and Evil Ch. 1 (The Prejudices of Philosophers), 5 (Natural History of Morals), and 9 (What is Noble?). | 11/10/2009 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 10: Kantian Ethics: What Should We Do? | Discussing Fundamental Principles (aka Groundwork) of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785). | 10/19/2009 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 9: Utilitarian Ethics: What Should We Do? | Discussing Jeremy Bentham’s An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation chapters 1-5, John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism, and Peter Singer's "Famine, Affluence, and Morality." | 9/17/2009 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 8: Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (and Carnap): What Can We Legitimately Talk About? | Continuing last ep's discussion of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus with some Rudolph Carnap from his 1935 book Philosophy and Logical Syntax. | 9/4/2009 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 7: Wittgenstein’s Tractatus: What Is There and Can We Talk About It? | Discussing the beginning (through around 3.1) of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. | 8/19/2009 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 6: Leibniz’s Monadology: What Is There? | Discussing Liebniz's Monadology. | 7/31/2009 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 5: Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics | Discussing Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Books I and II. | 7/16/2009 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 4: Camus and the Absurd | Discussing Camus's "An Absurd Reasoning" and "The Myth of Sisyphus" (1942). | 6/22/2009 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 3: Hobbes’s Leviathan: The Social Contract | Discussing Hobbes's Leviathan, Chapters 13-15. | 6/6/2009 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 2: Descartes’s Meditations: What Can We Know? | Discussing Descartes's Meditations 1 and 2. | 5/13/2009 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPart 2 of Episode 1: “The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living.” | More discussion of Plato's "Apology." | 5/13/2009 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPart 1 of Episode 1: “The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living.” | Discussing Plato's "Apology." Does studying philosophy make you a better person? No. | 5/12/2009 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 0: Introduction to the Podcast | What are we trying to do here? Why should you bother to listen to us? | 5/10/2009 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Intelligent and funny - a rare combo
The best philosophy podcast on iTunes. In fact, one of the best podcasts on iTunes. These guys know their stuff, and importantly, know how to explain obscure philosophical concepts to the uninitiated. The fact that all 3 guys have a sense of humor doesn't hurt, either. Highly recommended. Some of the early episodes suffer from twitchy audio, but they've resolved those problems now. The episodes on Hobbes and Nietzsche are particularly good episodes with which to start.
Seriously fun and informative conversations
Like: Unlike most philosophy podcasts, this one really works. It's a long-form (over an hour, usually) discussion among three former philosophy grad students discussing brief readings from core philosophy. What keeps this show on my subscribe list is that they explain their core arguments in clear English, and don't hesitate to object to it, or each other, in an entertaining and unpretentious way. This is not an abstract discourse on ideas, either; these guys care about how philosophy helps us better undstand what's really going on in our experience. In their own words, they focus on ideas instead of fetishizing dead guys. Further, it's not a contentious-for-the-sake-of-"good radio" show, but a fun and collaborative discussion among people who appear to care about the personal philosophical enterprise. Needs Improvement: They sometimes break one of their self-imposed rules, by assuming that you *do* know some philosophy. For example, in the show on Camus, they just start discussing Existentialism (a term that's taken on all kinds of meanings in the wild) without any introductory definition of what it is or how it arose. So before they get to the text's core argument I would appreciate a bit more stage setting which better indicates who this philosopher was, when they lived, and what they're reacting to. They often get to much of this material, but often much later in the episode. Verdict: If you've been looking for an accessible philosophy podcast, and don't mind the long format, you should try this show. I strongly advise starting with episode 1, as references to previous episodes appear to accrete. Definitely worth listening to.
Really wonderful way to grab and engage your brain for two hours
The chemistry among these three guys is but one of the assets of the listening experience. A lot of good analysis is also delivered of these many classic and contemporary texts, and always leavened with good spirits. Even when the occasionally "stupid" exhortation of one member gets expressed, it inevitably gets caught by one or both of the other two. But such "stupid" exhortations, being also often shared by the listener herself (i.e., ME!!), when taken seriously in the larger discussion, often help work out even more insights that might not have been achievable had the s.e. not been expressed in the first place.
All this is meant to say that I really like the model set up so far for this podcast. So don't tinker with it too much just yet!!
