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PEL Presents PvI#83: Half Philosophizing (Season 4 Premiere)
Welcome to the beginning of a new round of shenanigans on Philosophy vs. Improv. Let the senior slump begin!
Your hosts Mark Linsenmayer and Bill Arn…
1 year, 6 months ago
Ep. 352: Thomas Reid on Smelling and Knowledge (Part Two)
Continuing on Inquiry into the Human Mind, getting further into the chapter on smelling as well as the conclusion and Reid's exchange with Hume.
Wha…
1 year, 6 months ago
Love Dishonored in Euripides' "Medea" - Part 6
Wes & Erin continue their discussion of Ancient Greece’s most notorious battle of the sexes, and Euripides’ rumination on the question of whether the…
1 year, 6 months ago
Ep. 352: Thomas Reid on Smelling and Knowledge (Part One)
On Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense (1764): the introduction, conclusion, ch. 2 "Of Smelling" ch. 4 "Of Hearing," and so…
1 year, 6 months ago
PEL Presents PMP#182: Tim Burton: Shtick Macabre
In light of the new Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, we discuss the films of director (and occasional writer) Tim Burton since his career was firmly establis…
1 year, 6 months ago
PREMIUM-Ep. 351: Sophie Grace Chappell on Transgender (Part Two)
Mark, Seth and Dylan continue talking about philosophy surrounding trans phenomena in light of our interview with Sophie Grace about Trans Figured.
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Ep. 351: Guest Sophie Grace Chappell on Transgender (Part One)
Mark, Seth, and Dylan interview this British philosophy prof about her new book, Trans Figured, and philosophy's role in discussing transgender.
Get…
1 year, 6 months ago
PEL Presents NEM#223: Dale Crover (Melvins) the Accidentalist
Though Dale is known as the long-time drummer for Washington sludge-metal band Melvins ('88-present), he's also a guitarist and singer who led the ba…
1 year, 6 months ago
Ep. 350: Rorty on Justification and Essentialism (Part Two)
Concluding on "Universality and Truth" from Richard Rorty's Pragmatism As Anti-Authoritarianism. It it coherent to simply not have a theory of truth?…
1 year, 7 months ago
PEL Presents PvI#82: LIVE in Personability w/ James Whittington
Chicago's iO Theater was graced on August 21 by Mark, Bill, and special guest theater educator James Whittington, who spoke about embodiment (see Mau…
1 year, 7 months ago