Podcast Episodes

PEL Presents PvI#40: Rules and Voices with Stephen West (Philosophize This!)

Stephen West from the juggernaut Philosophize This! podcast joins Mark and Bill to learn to say no and talk about reason vs. emotion in grounding eth…

3 years, 6 months ago

Ep. 301: Is Abortion Morally Permissible? (Part Three)

Jenny Hansen joins us to cover "On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion" by Mary Anne Warren (1973), with more thoughts on "A Defense of Abortion" …

3 years, 6 months ago

PEL Presents PMP#134: Unpopular Music Genre Fandom

With the dissolution of popular music culture by the Internet, what is it now to be into music genres that aren't currently popular? Is it still an a…

3 years, 6 months ago

Ep. 301: Is Abortion Morally Permissible? (Part Two)

Continuing on Judith Jarvis Thomson's "A Defense of Abortion" (1971), plus Don Marquis' "Why Abortion is Immoral" (1989) and a summary of Mary Anne W…

3 years, 6 months ago

PEL Presents PvI#39: Cutting Edge Post-Patternation

Mark and Bill break former patterns by each bringing in not a lesson but a question, which we knew about beforehand, and those questions are about pa…

3 years, 6 months ago

PEL Presents NEM#181: Robyn Hitchcock Forgets Himself, Sharply

Robyn has been producing a distinctive flavor of very British rock with surrealist lyrics for 35+ albums since 1979.

We discuss "The Raging Muse" (an…

3 years, 6 months ago

Ep. 301: Is Abortion Morally Permissible? (Part One)

We discuss widely read papers about abortion, including an excerpt from Roe v. Wade (1973) and Judith Jarvis Thomson's "A Defense of Abortion" (1971)…

3 years, 7 months ago

PEL Presents NEM#180: Rebecca Pidgeon's Inner Speech

Rebecca has balanced her musical career with her acting career since the mid '80s, starting in Scotland with Ruby Blue and then moving to New York in…

3 years, 7 months ago

PEL Presents PMP#133: Predator (Films) and Prey

Thanks to the new film Prey, we now have six films (starting with 1987's Predator) featuring the dreadlocked, camouflaged, infrared-seeing race of al…

3 years, 7 months ago

PREMIUM-Ep. 300: Nietzsche on Relating to History (Part Three)

Mark, Wes, and Dylan conclude our discussion of “On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life” (1874). What is the practical upshot of Nietzsche…

3 years, 7 months ago