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Back to SearchEpisode 317: For Shame
Episode 317
What is the psychology of shame? Is the experience of shame a human universal? How can we investigate the nature of shame across cultures? David and …
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Episode 316: A Four-Letter Man (Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber")
Episode 316
David and Tamler go big game hunting and explore their first Hemingway short story "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber." We dig into his charac…
10 months, 1 week ago
Episode 315: Ceaseless Striving (Schopenhauer's Pessimism)
Episode 315
David and Tamler tackle the topic chosen by our beloved Patreon supporters in the first VBW madness tournament – Schopenhauer. We discuss his essays …
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 314: The In-Betweeny Place
Episode 314
David and Tamler go long on McDonagh's 2008 masterpiece "In Bruges." We talk about the terrific performances and all the weighty themes - sin, guilt,…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 313: The Spontaneous Eruption of Now
Episode 313
David and Tamler try to wrap their heads around the metaphysics of past and future via the Borges essay(s) "A New Refutation of Time." What does it m…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Episode 312: MechaSkeptic
Episode 312
David and Tamler return to David Hume's somewhat slippery brand of skepticism, this time focusing Chapter 12 of his Enquiry Concerning Human Understa…
1 year ago
Episode 311: The Way to Dusty Death (Shakespeare's "Macbeth")
Episode 311
David and Tamler screw their courage to the sticking place and talk about their first Shakespeare play – The Tragedy of Macbeth. Plus we select 16 to…
1 year ago
Episode 310: Bayes, Brains, and Buddhists
Episode 310
David and Tamler try to wrap their heads around the predictive processing theory of the mind and brain function and talk about a paper that applies t…
1 year, 1 month ago
Episode 309: Dissolving Into the One
Episode 309
David and Tamler heed the call to journey into the realm of Joseph Campbell. What are the unifying elements shared by myths and religions across time…
1 year, 2 months ago
Bonus Episode: Va Va Boom (Robert Aldrich's "Kiss Me Deadly")
We kick off our Bonus "Noir Summer" series with Robert Aldrich's "Kiss Me Deadly" (1956). While the rest of the bonus series will be for Patreon subs…
1 year, 2 months ago