Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFree Wanting (Frankfurt's "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person")
Episode 193
David and Tamler want to go old school and discuss a classic Frankfurt paper on free will. But do they want to want that? Are they free to want what …
6 years, 2 months ago
Postmodern Wet Dreams (Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote")
Episode 192
David and Tamler dive into "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote," a very funny Borges story that also raises deep questions about authorship, readin…
6 years, 2 months ago
All the Rage
Episode 191
A lotta anger out there right now, but does it do more harm than good? Is anger counterproductive, an obstacle to progress? And even when it is, can …
6 years, 3 months ago
We Pod. We Pod-Cast. We Podcast. (Frankfurt's "On Bullshit")
Episode 190
David and Tamler talk about police violence, the protests, and Harry Frankfurt's journal article turned bestseller "On Bullshit." Plus we dive into a…
6 years, 3 months ago
The Anality of Evil (Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents")
Episode 189
David and Tamler dive into Sigmund Freud's world of unconscious drives, death instincts, and thwarted incestuous urges in his classic text "Civilizat…
6 years, 3 months ago
Conceptual Mummies (Nietzsche's "Twilight of the Idols")
Episode 188
Socrates was ugly and tired of life, so he made a tyrant of reason. Philosophers are mummies who hate the body and the senses. Reason is a tricky old…
6 years, 4 months ago
More Zither
Episode 187
With a global pandemic and a collapsing economy upon us, it's time to ask ourselves some tough questions. Sex robots or platonic love robots - what a…
6 years, 5 months ago
The One with Peter Singer
Episode 186
The legendary Peter Singer joins us to talk about effective altruism, AI, animal welfare, esoteric morality, future Tuesday indifference, and more. I…
6 years, 5 months ago
The Devil's Playground
Episode 185
David and Tamler begin by talking about the question on everyone's mind right now – are we obligated to be pansexual? Then, since many of us have mor…
6 years, 6 months ago
Bonus Episode: Top 5 Deadwood Characters
Here's something that might help with the Coronavirus blues: we're releasing our latest Patreon bonus episode for everyone. In this (unedited) episod…
6 years, 6 months ago