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Back to SearchEpisode 281: Choose Your Fighter
Episode 281
We dig into the biggest rivalry in Tamler's profession, analytic vs. continental philosophy. Are analytic philosophers truly the rigorous, precise, c…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 280: Mad Masque (with Phil Ford and J.F. Martel)
Episode 280
Phil Ford and J.F. Martel from the great "Weird Studies" podcast join us for a whirling discussion of Edgar Allan Poe's mesmerizing tale of decadence…
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 279: The Greenhouses We Burned Along the Way (Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" Pt. 2)
Episode 279
David and Tamler conclude their discussion of Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" – we talk about the hunger dance at twilight, Ben's greenhouse burning habit…
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 278: Schrödinger's Everything (Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" Pt. 1)
Episode 278
David and Tamler fall under the spell of Lee Chang-dong's 2018 masterpiece Burning, a movie where nothing is what it seems, or maybe it is. An aliena…
2 years, 7 months ago
Episode 277: The Merits of Buggery (Nagel's "Sexual Perversion")
David and Tamler play the old hits – Thomas Nagel and sex robots. In the main segment we talk about Nagel's essay "Sexual Perversion", a surprising e…
2 years, 7 months ago
Episode 276: Attention Please
Episode 276
David and Tamler are back for the new year and one of our resolutions was to do more episodes on William James. Today we talk about his account of 'A…
2 years, 8 months ago
Episode 275: The Ineffable Center (Borges' "The Aleph")
Episode 275
An episode interesting from every point of view, we train our eyes on Jorge Luis Borges' "The Aleph." The first segment wins the kudos of the learned…
2 years, 8 months ago
Episode 274: Can I Get a Kidney Voucher? (with Vlad Chituc)
Episode 274
RETURNING guest Vlad Chituc joins us for a wide-ranging discussion about donating his kidney to a stranger, the effective altruism movement, and his …
2 years, 9 months ago
Episode 273: Ah. Ah. (Miyazaki's "Spirited Away")
Episode 273
David and Tamler board the train for Hayao Miyazaki's mystical dreamy coming of age masterpiece Spirited Away. This is a true VBW deep dive. Plus a s…
2 years, 9 months ago
Episode 272: Neigh Means Yay
The morality of zoophilia has received shockingly little attention in contemporary ethical discourse…until now. David and Tamler break down the paper…
2 years, 10 months ago