The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast (podcast episodes)
The Partially Examined Life is a 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. We also feature episodes from other podcasts by our hosts to round out your partially examined life, including Pretty Much Pop (prettymuchpop.com, covering all media), Nakedly Examined Music (nakedlyexaminedmusic.com, deconstructing songs), Philosophy vs. Improv (philosophyimprov.com, fun with performance skills and philosophical ideas), and (sub)Text (subtextpodcast.com, looking deeply at lit and film). Learn about more network podcasts at partiallyexaminedlife.com.

On 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"). With guest Tom McDonald.

Direct download: PREVIEW-PEL_ep_035_3-13-11.mp3
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On Gottlob Frege's "Sense and Reference," "Concept and Object" (both from 1892) and "The Thought" (1918). With guest Matt Teichman.

Direct download: PREVIEW-PEL_ep_034_2-20-11.mp3
Category:Podcast Episodes -- posted at: 1:30pm CDT

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."

Direct download: PREVIEW-PEL_ep_033_2-3-11.mp3
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Discussing Martin Heidegger's Being and Time (1927), mostly the intro and ch. 1 and 2 of Part 1.

Direct download: PREVIEW-PEL_ep_032_1-16-11.mp3
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Discussing Edmund Husserl's Cartesian Meditations (1931).

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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).

Direct download: PREVIEW-PEL_ep_030_11-28-10.mp3
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On Soren Kierkegaard's "The Sickness Unto Death" (1849). With guest Daniel Horne.

Direct download: PREVIEW-PEL_ep_029_11-7-10.mp3
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Discussing Goodman's Ways of Worldmaking (1978). With guest painter Jay Bailey.

Direct download: PREVIEW-PEL_ep_028_10-17-10.mp3
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Primarily discussing "Reasoning: The Sixty Stanzas" and "Emptiness: The Seventy Stanzas," by the 2nd century Indian Buddhist Nagarjuna. With guest Erik Douglas.

Direct download: PREVIEW-PEL_ep_027_10-3-10.mp3
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Discussing Freud's Civilization and its Discontents (1930). Get the full episode at partiallyexaminedlife.com. For Wes Alwan's summary of this book, go here).

Direct download: PREVIEW-PEL_ep_026_9-5-10.mp3
Category:Podcast Episodes -- posted at: 3:57pm CDT