Fri, 19 December 2014
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. With guest Amir Zaki. |
Fri, 19 December 2014
Mark Lint and the PEL Orchestra present the longest, slowest, biggest, fattest, most surreal Christmas carol ever.
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Thu, 4 December 2014
On "Outlines of Pyrrhonism" from 200 C.E. Can you live while suspending judgment about all non-everyday matters? WIth guest Jessica Berry. |
Fri, 14 November 2014
On Critique of Judgment (1790), Part I, Book I. What is beauty? Disinterested pleasure! |
Mon, 27 October 2014
On Anarchy, State & Utopia (1974), ch. 1-3 and 7. What are the moral limits on government power? No redistributive taxation, suckah! With guest Stephen Metcalf. |
Sun, 26 October 2014
Seth Paskin introduces Anarchy, State, and Utopia about libertarianism and the limits of legitimate government power.
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Tue, 14 October 2014
On Henry David Thoreau's Walden (1854). Should all true philosophers go live in the woods and seek Truth in nature? Probably YOU should. |
Fri, 19 September 2014
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! |
Mon, 1 September 2014
On Guide for the Perplexed about God's lack of properties, featuring guest comedian Danny Lobell of the Modern Day Philosophers podcast. |
Fri, 15 August 2014
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." |
Mon, 11 August 2014
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. With guest Daniel Horne. |
Sat, 26 July 2014
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." |
Sat, 19 July 2014
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. |
Tue, 1 July 2014
Discussing Lynda Walsh's book "Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy" (2013) with the author, focusing on Robert J. Oppenheimer. |
Sat, 28 June 2014
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.
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Mon, 16 June 2014
On two unpublished essays considering the implications of Godel's incompleteness theorems and asserting mathematical realism. With guest Adi Habbu. |
Sun, 15 June 2014
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 in Light of Philosophy" (1961).
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Thu, 22 May 2014
On Arthur Schopenhauer's essays, "On Authorship and Style," "On Thinking for Oneself," and "On Genius" (all published 1851). |
Fri, 2 May 2014
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). With guest Tamler Sommers. |
Tue, 29 April 2014
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).
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Thu, 24 April 2014
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Fri, 11 April 2014
On Bergson's "An Introduction to Metaphysics" (1903). With guest Matt Teichman. |
Sun, 30 March 2014
Guest Matt Teichman introduces Bergson's essay "An Introduction to Metaphysics."
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Sat, 29 March 2014
More on David Brin's novel Existence, plus Nick Bostrom's essay "Why I Want to Be a Posthuman When I Grow Up" (2006). With guest Brian Casey. |
Wed, 26 March 2014
Discussing David Brin's novel Existence (2012) with the author. Also with guest Brian Casey. |
Mon, 24 March 2014
Introductory salvo by Mark Linsenmayer before our interview with author David Brin.
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Wed, 12 March 2014
On Bishop George Berkeley's Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (1713). |
Tue, 11 March 2014
Wes Alwan introduces George Berkeley's Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous.
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Fri, 28 February 2014
Excerpts from 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, and Cormac McCarthy's The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form. |
Tue, 18 February 2014
On Elizabeth Anscombe's "Modern Moral Philosophy" (1958), Intention sections 22-27 (1957), and "War and Murder" (1961). With guest Philosophy Bro. |
Sat, 18 January 2014
Guest Philosophy Bro introduces Elizabeth Anscombe's "Modern Moral Philosophy," and Intention sections 22-27.
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Thu, 2 January 2014
In support of our ep. #87 discussing Sartre, the PEL Players present our 2nd annual dramatic reading of a work of philosophical theater.
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Wed, 1 January 2014
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). |
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