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Episode 21 - "How many bad guys are there?"
Season 1 Episode 21
This week Steve and Christabel answer Huey, who asks “How many bad guys are there?” Christabel responds with an assortment of takes on villainy given…
1 day, 11 hours ago
Episode 20 - "Does the Universe explode when I go to sleep?"
Season 1 Episode 20
Does the universe explode when I go to sleep?
This week, Steve and Christabel try their very best to get to the bottom of what happens to the world w…
1 week, 1 day ago
Episode 19 - "What's the difference between knowledge and wisdom?"
Season 1 Episode 19
This episode is devoted to finding the difference between knowledge and wisdom (or, as Aristotle might have said, the difference between phronesis an…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Episode 18 - "Why don't we eat meat?"
Season 1 Episode 18
This week, our hosts tackle a question from Steve’s kids as to why in their house, they’re vegetarian. Steve tells us that he doesn’t eat, buy or pre…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Episode 17 - "Should I pick this flower?"
Season 1 Episode 17
In this episode, Steve and Christabel discuss environmental ethics, prompted by Steve’s daughter asking if she should pick a flower she found growing…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
Episode 16 - "Is Lego Batman real Batman?" with MJ Hibbett
Season 1 Episode 16
Is Lego Batman the real Batman?
This week, Steve and Christabel enlist the help of writer, podcaster, musician and fabulously knowledgeable comic boo…
1 month ago
Episode 15 - "Why do Accidents Happen?"
Season 1 Episode 15
In this episode, Christabel and Steve frolic amongst the infinite plurality of possible worlds. Christabel explains that accidents are things that di…
1 month, 1 week ago
Episode 14 - "What makes a good leader?"
Season 1 Episode 14
This week, our hosts ransack the bookshelf of the prototypical edgy teenager to answer ‘What makes a good leader?’. Steve and Christabel start off st…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Episode 13 - "What's it like to be a dog?"
Season 1 Episode 13
This week, Steve and Christabel respond to Max, who asks ‘What is it like to be a dog?’ Christabel tells us of Thomas Nagel’s seminal paper ‘What is …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Episode 12 - "Who looks after Outer Space?"
Season 1 Episode 12
Steve and Christabel set off to bravely go where no one has gone before to answer this week’s question: ‘Who looks after outer space?’ but due to the…
2 months ago