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Back to SearchEpisode 299: Oh the Humility!
Episode 299
David and Tamler wrap up the new year talking about intellectual virtues and Rachel Fraser's excellent essay "Against Humility." What is intellectual…
1 year, 2 months ago
Episode 298: Pass the Peace Pipe
Episode 298
Why do we punish people? How did our punishment practices evolve and what is their primary function? David and Tamler talk about a new paper that exa…
1 year, 3 months ago
Episode 297: No Pleasure in Meanness (Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find")
Episode 297
David and Tamler face off with the Misfit in Flannery O'Connor's classic short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find." We sort through the biblical allus…
1 year, 3 months ago
Episode 296: The Other CRT
Episode 296
David and Tamler share a few brief thoughts on the election and then raise some questions about Tucker Carlson being attacked by a demon as he slept …
1 year, 4 months ago
Episode 295: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Episode 295
David and Tamler hop into their Scooby Van and drive into Tobe Hooper's mad and macabre horror classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. How does this e…
1 year, 4 months ago
Episode 294: The Scandal of Philosophy (Hume's Problem of Induction)
Episode 294
CD Broad called induction "the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy." As a matter of habit, we're all confident that the sun will rise tomo…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 293: Who Is the Dreamer? (Borges' "The Circular Ruins")
Episode 293
David and Tamler crawl up a riverbank, kiss the mud, and dream a discussion of Borges' "The Circular Ruins." We sort through various interpretations …
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 292: Boundary Issues
Episode 292
David and Tamler lead off with a breakdown of the new commercial for "friend (not imaginary)" a new AI necklace that takes hikes with you, interrupts…
1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 291: Shoe Shining
Episode 291
Cornell philosopher David Shoemaker joins us for a long winding journey up to the Overlook Hotel, a DEEP dive on Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. We ta…
1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 290: Blinded by the Light (Plato's Cave Pt. 2)
Episode 290
David and Tamler continue their discussion of Plato's allegory of the cave. We talk about the connections with mystical traditions including Gnostici…
1 year, 7 months ago