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Episode 240
David and Tamler descend into the dark pits of Hell to look Satan in the eyes and discover the nature of evil. OK…that's not fully accurate, we just …
4 years ago
Lose Yourself
Episode 239
David and Tamler lose themselves in Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's (pr. 'chick sent me high') classic paper on the concept of flow. We talk about the feat…
4 years, 1 month ago
I Am Not Ivan Ilyich...Am I?
Episode 238
Ivan Ilyich is a man. All men are mortal. So Ivan Ilyich is mortal. Sure absolutely, that's true for Ivan Ilyich and for all men. But we're not Ivan …
4 years, 1 month ago
Glitches Ain't Shit
Episode 237
David and Tamler explore the many variations of simulation theory, the view that our universe is just a computer generated model created by an advanc…
4 years, 2 months ago
Your Outie Is Skilled at Lovemaking (With Paul Bloom)
Episode 236
We welcome Paul Bloom to talk about the first season of "Severance," the new mind-bending and mind-splitting TV series on Apple TV+. What happens whe…
4 years, 2 months ago
Animated Objects
Episode 235
Panpsychism didn't give us river spirits or mischievous sootballs, so this time we go straight to the source - a defense of animism, and in a top 10 …
4 years, 3 months ago
Like A Dog (Kafka's "The Trial" Pt. 2)
Episode 234
David and Tamler conclude their discussion of "The Trial," Franz Kafka's darkly comic vision of an opaque and impenetrable bureaucracy that comes for…
4 years, 3 months ago
Keeping It Surreal (Kafka's "The Trial" Pt. 1)
Episode 233
David and Tamler wander through the bewildering dream-like world of Franz Kafka's "The Trial." In part one of a two-part discussion we discuss the ci…
4 years, 4 months ago
Mind Over Matter
Episode 232
It's the topic voted on by our beloved Patreon patrons, panpsychism! David and Tamler delve into the resurgent debate over whether consciousness is t…
4 years, 4 months ago
Ideal Critics (Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste")
Episode 231
Many of us think that art is subjective, but at the same time it seems like some artistic judgments are better than others. Do you think Crash deserv…
4 years, 5 months ago