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Episode 252
David and Tamler dive into Seneca's "On the Happy Life" and stoicism, the topic selected by our beloved patreon supporters. Why is stoicism so popula…
3 years, 8 months ago
First Order, Then Chaos
Episode 251
David and Tamler wind their way through another Borges story - "The Immortal"- about a Roman soldier who seeks the secret of immortality and, much to…
3 years, 9 months ago
Metaphors All the Way Down
Episode 250
We often think of metaphors as poetic flourishes, a nice way to punctuate your ideas and make them more relatable. But what if metaphors aren’t sim…
3 years, 9 months ago
Phlegm and Carelessness (Hume's "The Sceptic")
Episode 249
David and Tamler gild and stain David Hume’s essay “The Sceptic†with their sentiments. If nothing is inherently valuable or despicable, desirab…
3 years, 10 months ago
Checkmate, Grasshopper
Episode 248
In this podcast we examine a recent argument for the view that chess is not, in fact, a game. We discuss the Grasshopper's claim that all games must …
3 years, 10 months ago
Open the Pod, Dave (with Sam Harris)
Episode 247
We welcome Sam Harris back to the show for a deep dive into Stanley Kubrick's confounding 1968 masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey." How long is the D…
3 years, 11 months ago
Existential Poker-Face (David Foster Wallace's "E Unibus Pluram")
Episode 246
We dive into David Foster Wallace's sprawling 1993 essay "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction." How do TV and new forms of media keep their …
3 years, 11 months ago
Pragmatically Speaking
Episode 245
David and Tamler take their first real look at pragmatism via Richard Rorty's "Solidarity or Objectivity." Can we discover facts about the world as i…
4 years ago
Thanks for the Memories? (Borges' "Funes the Memorious)
Episode 244
David and Tamler return to Borges land to get lost in the infinite, this time with his legendary and tragic character Funes the memorious. What would…
4 years ago
Finding My Religion
Episode 243
David and Tamler continue their discussion of Leo Tolstoy's 'Confession.' When we left him last time, the famous author had bottomed out just years a…
4 years, 1 month ago