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PEL Presents NEM#231: Bill Champlin (ex-Chicago) Sings of Love Just to Find It
Bill released 8 albums from 1969-1977 with Sons of Champlin then moved to LA to become a solo artist and session musician, co-writing two Grammy-winn…
11 months ago
Ep. 367: Hume on the Foundations of Ethics (Part One)
On David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751). What is morality, and how can we know it?
Hume claims that we simply find ours…
11 months, 1 week ago
PEL Presents PMP#196: Our "Sinners" Shindig
Luvell Anderson (Philosophy prof. at U of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign) joins Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn, and Al to discuss Ryan Coogler's new vampire …
11 months, 1 week ago
Ep. 366: Edith Stein on Empathy (Part Two)
Continuing on The Problem of Empathy. What does it mean to say that we know other people's mental states "non-primordially"? We talk about Stein's pr…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
PEL Presents PvI#92: Postale au Naturale w/ Greg McBrayer
Greg teaches philosophy (and is Interim Provost at Ashland, loves Xenophon, and runs a podcast. We reflect on the dangers of radon and other "natural…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
PREMIUM-PEL Sentimentalism Nightcap 2025
We put our recent episodes on moral phenomenology into perspective, anticipating our upcoming Hume discussion and going through some other options to…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Ep. 366: Edith Stein in Empathy (Part One)
On The Problem of Empathy (1917). What is empathy, and what is its significance?
Stein pictures empathy as a dynamic process that involves what Schel…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
PEL Presents PMP#195: Mike White's Lotus
We discuss the HBO dramedy about rich people having existential crises at a luxury resort in light of its third season. What exactly made this latest…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Ep. 365: Scheler on Love (Part Two)
We conclude our treatment of Max Scheler's The Nature of Sympathy (1922), getting further into the Part II of the book about love and hatred and grap…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
PEL Presents NEM#230: Dean Wareham (Luna, Galaxie 500) Waxes Poetic
Dean has released about 20 albums, starting with three '88-'90 with Galaxie 500, then he started fresh in New York as Luna, releasing seven albums an…
1 year ago