The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
The Partially Examined Life is a podcast by some guys who were at one point set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it. Each episode, we pick a short text and chat about it with some balance between insight and flippancy. You don't have to know any philosophy, or even to have read the text we're talking about to (mostly) follow and (hopefully) enjoy the discussion. For links to the texts we discuss and other info, check out www.partiallyexaminedlife.com. We also feature episodes from other podcasts by our hosts to round out your partially examined life, including Pretty Much Pop (prettymuchpop.com, covering all media), Nakedly Examined Music (nakedlyexaminedmusic.com, deconstructing songs), Philosophy vs. Improv (philosophyimprov.com, fun with performance skills and philosophical ideas), and (sub)Text (subtextpodcast.com, looking deeply at lit and film). Learn about more network podcasts at partiallyexaminedlife.com.
Ep. 355: Marx on Alienation (Part Two)
PEL Presents PvI#85: Prototype Protoplasm w/ Mike Gorgone
Ep. 355: Marx on Alienation (Part One)
PREMIUM-PEL Thick-of-Fall Nightcap 2024
PEL Presents (SUB)TEXT: A Strange Fashion of Forsaking in the Poetry of Thomas Wyatt (Part 1)
Ep. 354: Guest Tim Williamson on Philosophic Method (Part Two)
Ep. 354: Guest Tim Williamson on Philosophic Method (Part One)
PEL Presents PMP#184: !BREAKING! Comedy News
PEL Presents PvI#84: Interesting? w/ Lorraine Besser
Ep. 353: Reid on Visual Knowledge (Part Two)
PEL Presents NEM#224: Steve Dawson (Dolly Varden) Elevates Americana
Ep. 353: Reid on Visual Knowledge (Part One)
PEL Presents PMP#183: Classic Universal Monster Movies
PEL Presents PvI#83: Half Philosophizing (Season 4 Premiere)
Ep. 352: Thomas Reid on Smelling and Knowledge (Part Two)
PEL Presents SUBTEXT: Love Dishonored in Euripides' "Medea" - Part 6
Ep. 352: Thomas Reid on Smelling and Knowledge (Part One)
PEL Presents PMP#182: Tim Burton: Shtick Macabre
PREMIUM-Ep. 351: Sophie Grace Chappell on Transgender (Part Two)
Ep. 351: Guest Sophie Grace Chappell on Transgender (Part One)
Ep. 350: Rorty on Justification and Essentialism (Part Two)
PEL Presents PvI#82: LIVE in Personability w/ James Whittington
Ep. 350: Rorty on Justification and Essentialism (Part One)
Ep. 349: Rorty's Pluralistic Pragmatism (Part Two)
PREMIUM-Closereads: Merleau-Ponty on the Body
Ep. 349: Rorty's Pluralistic Pragmatism (Part One)
Ep. 348: Tim Williamson's Knowledge-First Epistemology (Part Two)
PREMIUM-PEL End-of-Summer Nightcap 2024
Ep. 348: Tim Williamson's Knowledge-First Epistemology (Part One)
Ep. 347: Nyaya Sutra Against Buddhist Skeptics (Part Two)
Ep. 347: Nyaya Sutra Against Buddhist Skeptics (Part One)
Ep. 346: Nyaya Sutra on Knowledge (Part Two)
Ep. 346: Nyaya Sutra on Knowledge (Part One)
Ep. 345: William James on Religious Experience (Part Two)
Ep. 345: William James on Religious Experience (Part One)
PREMIUM-PEL Mid-Summer Nightcap 2024
Ep. 344: Gettier and Goldman on Justified True Belief (Part Two)
Ep. 344: Gettier and Goldman on Justified True Belief (Part One)
Ep. 343: Plotinus the Neo-Platonist (Part Two)
PEL Presents NEM#217: Richard Thompson's Moments in Time
Ep. 343: Plotinus the Neo-Platonist (Part One)
Ep. 342: Zhuangzi on Knowledge and Virtue (Part Two)
Ep. 342: Zhuangzi on Knowledge and Virtue (Part One)
Ep. 341 Supplemental: Zhuangzi for Closereads Evergreen Network Launch
Ep. 341: Guest Karyn Lai on Daoism in the Zhuangzi
Ep. 340: Brian Ellis on the Implications of Essentialism (Part Two)
Ep. 340: Brian Ellis on the Implications of Essentialism (Part One)
PEL 15th Anniversary and Book Release
Ep. 339: Brian Ellis on the Metaphysics of Science (Part Two)
Ep. 339: Brian Ellis on the Metaphysics of Science (Part One)
Ep. 338: Aristotle on Potential vs. Actual and the Unmoved Mover (Part Two)
Ep. 338: Aristotle on Potential vs. Actual and the Unmoved Mover (Part One)
PREMIUM-PEL Nightcap w/ Chris Sunami (March 2024)
Ep. 337: Aristotle on Primary Being (Part Two)
Ep. 337: Aristotle on Primary Being (Part One)
Ep. 336: Aristotle on Being and Non-Contradiction (Part Two)
PEL Presents NEM#212: Graham Parker's Hard Graft
Ep. 336: Aristotle on Being and Non-Contradiction (Part One)
Ep. 335: Aristotle on Fundamental Explanations (Part Two)
Ep. 335: Aristotle on Fundamental Explanations (Part One)
PREMIUM-PEL Long Winter's Nightcap (Jan-Feb 2024)
Ep. 334: Gabriel Marcel's Christian Existentialism (Part Two)
Ep. 334: Gabriel Marcel's Christian Existentialism (Part One)
PEL Presents NEM#209: Bruce Hornsby Is a Lifelong Student
Ep. 333: Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling" on Faith (Part Two)
Ep. 333: Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling" on Faith (Part One)
PREMIUM-PEL Winter Nightcap (Concluding 2023)
Ep. 332: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Ethical Self (Part Two)
Ep. 332: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Ethical Self (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 331: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Ethical Life (Part Three)
Ep. 331: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Ethical Life (Part Two)
Ep. 331: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Ethical Life (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 330: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Aesthetic Life (Part Three)
Ep. 330: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Aesthetic Life (Part Two)
PEL Presents PvI#66: Legacy Mops w/ Kevin Allison
Ep. 330: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Aesthetic Life (Part One)
PEL Presents (SUB)TEXT: The Emptiness of Signification in Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" (Part 1 of 6)
Ep. 329: Kierkegaard on Irony (Part Three/Closereads Part One)
Ep. 329: Kierkegaard on Irony (Part Two)
Ep. 329: Kierkegaard on Irony (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 328: Yascha Mounk Against Identity Politics (Part Three)
Ep. 328: Guest Yascha Mounk Against Identity Politics (Part Two)
Ep. 328: Guest Yascha Mounk Against Identity Politics (Part One)
PREMIUM-PEL Fall Nightcap 2023
Ep. 327: Harry Frankfurt on Bullsh*t and Authenticity (Part Two)
Ep. 327: Harry Frankfurt on Bullsh*t and Authenticity (Part One)
PEL Presents PvI#63: Virtual Socrates w/ David Chalmers
Ep. 326: Michael Tomasello on the Evolution of Agency (Part Two)
Ep. 326: Guest Michael Tomasello on the Evolution of Agency (Part One)
Ep. 325: Paul Grice on Meaning and Conversation (Part Two)
Ep. 325: Paul Grice on Meaning and Conversation (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 324: Plato's "Cratylus" on Language (Part Three)
Ep. 324: Plato's "Cratylus" on Language (Part Two)
Ep. 324: Plato's "Cratylus" on Language (Part One)
PREMIUM-PEL End-of-Summer Nightcap 2023
Ep. 323: Acquiring Language: Tomasello vs. Chomsky (Part Two)
Ep. 323: Acquiring Language: Tomasello vs. Chomsky (Part One)
PEL Closereads: Emerson's Oversoul (New Podcast Premiere)
Ep. 322: Schelling on Art vs. Nature (Part Three)
Ep. 322: Schelling on Art vs. Nature (Part Two)
Ep. 322: Schelling on Art vs. Nature (Part One)
PREMIUM-PEL Tech Nightcap July 2023
Ep. 321: August Schlegel on Beauty (Part Two)
Ep. 321: August Schlegel on Beauty (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 320: Friedrich Schlegel on Romanticism (Part Three)
Ep. 320: Friedrich Schlegel on Romanticism (Part Two)
Ep. 320: Friedrich Schlegel on Romanticism (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 319: Schiller on Experiencing Beauty (Part Three)
Ep. 319: Schiller on Experiencing Beauty (Part Two)
Ep. 319: Schiller on Experiencing Beauty (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 318: Friedrich Schiller on the Civilizing Potential of Art (Part Three)
Ep. 318: Friedrich Schiller on the Civilizing Potential of Art (Part Two)
Ep. 318: Friedrich Schiller on the Civilizing Potential of Art (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 317: Character Philosophies in Dostoevsky's "Brothers Karamazov" (Part Two)
Ep. 317: Character Philosophies in Dostoevsky's "Brothers Karamazov" (Part One)
Ep. 316: Dostoevsky's "Brothers Karamazov": PEL Live in NYC (Part Two)
Ep. 316: Dostoevsky's "Brothers Karamazov": PEL Live in NYC (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 315: Mengzi (Mencius) on Virtuous Leaders (Part Two)
Ep. 315: Mengzi (Mencius) on Virtuous Leaders (Part One)
PREMIUM-PEL Nightcap April 2023
Ep. 314: Mengzi (Mencius) on Moral Psychology (Part Two)
Ep. 314: Mengzi (Mencius) on Moral Psychology (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 313: Mozi's Political Ethics (Part Three)
Ep. 313: Mozi's Political Ethics (Part Two)
Ep. 313: Mozi's Political Ethics (Part One)
PREMIUM-PEL Nightcap Late March 2023
Ep. 312: The Dao De Jing on Virtue (Part Two)
Ep. 312: The Dao De Jing on Virtue (Part One)
PREMIUM-PEL Nightcap Early March 2023
Ep. 311: Understanding the Dao De Jing (Part Two)
Ep. 311: Understanding the Dao De Jing (Part One)
PREMIUM-PEL Nightcap February 2023
Ep. 310: Wittgenstein On World-Pictures (Part Two)
Ep. 310: Wittgenstein On World-Pictures (Part One)
PREMIUM-PEL Nightcap January 2023
Ep. 309: Wittgenstein On Certainty (Part Two)
Ep. 309: Wittgenstein On Certainty (Part One)
Ep. 308: Moore's Proof of Mind-Independent Reality (Part Two)
Ep. 308: Moore's Proof of Mind-Independent Reality (Part One)
PREMIUM-PEL Nightcap 2022 Wrap-Up
Ep. 307: G.E. Moore Defends Common Sense (Part Two)
Ep. 307: G.E. Moore Defends Common Sense (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 306: Dworkin and the Dobbs Decision (Part Three)
Ep. 306: Dworkin and the Dobbs Decision (Part Two)
Ep. 306: Dworkin and the Dobbs Decision (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 305: Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" (Part Three)
Ep. 305: Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" (Part Two)
Ep. 305: Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" (Part One)
PREMIUM-PEL Nightcap November 2022: Listener Testimonials
Ep. 304: Dworkin v. Hart on Legal Judgment (Part Two)
Ep. 304: Dworkin v. Hart on Legal Judgment (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 303: H.L.A. Hart on the Foundations of Law (Part Three)
Ep. 303: H.L.A. Hart on the Foundations of Law (Part Two)
Ep. 303: H.L.A. Hart on the Foundations of Law (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 302: Erasmus Praises Foolishness (Part Three)
Ep. 302: Erasmus Praises Foolishness (Part Two)
Ep. 302: Erasmus Praises Foolishness (Part One)
PREMIUM-PEL Representation Nightcap October 2022
PEL Presents PvI#40: Rules and Voices with Stephen West (Philosophize This!)
Ep. 301: Is Abortion Morally Permissible? (Part Three)
Ep. 301: Is Abortion Morally Permissible? (Part Two)
PEL Presents NEM#181: Robyn Hitchcock Forgets Himself, Sharply
Ep. 301: Is Abortion Morally Permissible? (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 300: Nietzsche on Relating to History (Part Three)
Ep. 300: Nietzsche on Relating to History (Part Two)
Ep. 300: Nietzsche on Relating to History (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 299: Philosophy in Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens" (Part Three)
Ep. 299: Philosophy in Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens" (Part Two)
Ep. 299: Philosophy in Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens" (Part One)
Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens" Audioplay (Part Two)
Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens" Audioplay Feat. Jay O. Sanders, Michael Ian Black, and Michael Tow (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ficino-Flavored Nightcap Early August 2022
Ep. 298: Marsilio Ficino on Love (Part Two)
Ep. 298: Marsilio Ficino on Love (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 297: Heidegger on the Human Condition (Part Three)
Ep. 297: Heidegger on the Human Condition (Part Two)
Ep. 297: Heidegger on the Human Condition (Part One)
Ep. 296: Heidegger Questions Being (Part Two)
Ep. 296: Heidegger's Questions Being (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 295: Kant on Preventing War (Part Three)
Ep. 295: Kant on Preventing War (Part Two)
Ep. 295: Kant on Preventing War (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 294: Quine on Science vs. Epistemology (Part Three)
Ep. 294: Quine on Science vs. Epistemology (Part Two)
Ep. 294: Quine on Science vs. Epistemology (Part One)
Philosophy vs. Improv #32: "On the Standard of [Bad] Taste" w/ Babette Babich
PREMIUM-Ep. 293: Donna Haraway on Feminist Science (Part Two)
Ep. 293: Donna Haraway on Feminist Science (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 292: Langer on Symbolic Music (Part Two)
Ep. 292: Langer on Symbolic Music (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 291: Cassirer and Langer on Myth and Ritual (Part Two)
Ep. 291: Cassirer and Langer on Myth and Ritual (Part One)
PEL Presents NEM#170: Bob Mould From Hüsker Dü to Sugar to Now
PREMIUM-Ep. 290: Susanne Langer on Our Symbol-Making Nature (Part Two)
Ep. 290: Susanne Langer on Our Symbol-Making Nature (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 289: Aesthetic Sense Theory: Hume (Part Two)
Ep. 289: Aesthetic Sense Theory: Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hume (Part One)
PEL Presents Philosophy vs. Improv #28: Enhanced Interrogation w/ Adal Rifai
PREMIUM-Ep. 288: Scruton on Ethical Art (Part Two)
Ep. 288: Scruton on Ethical Art (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 287: Roger Scruton on Beauty (Part Two)
Ep. 287: Roger Scruton on Beauty (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 286: Malebranche on Causality and Theology (Part Three)
PREMIUM-Ep. 286: Malebranche on Causality and Theology (Part Two)
Ep. 286: Malebranche on Causality and Theology (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 285: Nicolas Malebranche on Knowledge (Part Two)
Ep. 285: Nicolas Malebranche on Knowledge (Part One)
PEL Special: Nightcap New Year's Party to Welcome 2022
PREMIUM-Ep. 284: Mark Twain’s Philosophy of Human Nature (Part Two)
Ep. 284: Mark Twain’s Philosophy of Human Nature (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 283: Alain Badiou on Love (Part Two)
Ep. 283: Alain Badiou on Love (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 282: Alain Badiou: What Is Philosophy? (Part Two)
Ep. 282: Alain Badiou: What Is Philosophy? (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 281: Paul Feyerabend's Anarchist Philosophy of Science (Part Two)
Ep. 281: Paul Feyerabend's Anarchist Philosophy of Science (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 280: Imre Lakatos on Scientific Progress (Part Two)
Ep. 280: Imre Lakatos on Scientific Progress (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 279: Aristotle's "Categories" of Being (Part Two)
Ep. 279: Aristotle's "Categories" of Being (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 278: Derrick Bell on the Dynamics of Racism (Part Two)
Ep. 278: Derrick Bell on the Dynamics of Racism (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 277: Hegel on Our Understanding of Physics (Part Two)
Ep. 277: Hegel on Our Understanding of Physics (Part One)
PEL Special: Nightcap Early September 2021
PREMIUM-Ep. 276: Hegel on Perception (Part Two)
Ep. 276: Hegel on Perception (Part One)
PEL Presents Philosophy vs. Improv #7: Meritocracy Now!
PREMIUM-Ep. 275: Hegel's Project in the "Phenomenology of Spirit" (Part Two)
Ep. 275: Hegel's Project in the "Phenomenology of Spirit" (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 274: Schelling on Self-Consciousness (Part Two)
Philosophy vs. Improv: An Introductory Trailer
Ep. 274: Schelling on Self-Consciousness (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 273: Friedrich Schelling's Foundationalist Idealism (Part Two)
Ep. 273: Friedrich Schelling's Foundationalist Idealism (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 272: Fichte's Idealist Theology (Part Two)
Ep. 272: Fichte's Idealist Theology (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 271: Johan Gottlieb Fichte's Transcendental Idealism (Part Two)
Ep. 271: Johan Gottlieb Fichte's Transcendental Idealism (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 270: Classical Indian (Vedanta and Nyaya) Design Arguments for God (Part Two)
Ep. 270: Classical Indian (Vedanta and Nyaya) Design Arguments for God w/ Stephen Phillips (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 269: Arendt on Totalitarianism (Part Two)
Ep. 269: Arendt on Totalitarianism (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 268: Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death" (Part Two)
Ep. 268: Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death" (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 267: Avicenna on God and Soul w/ Peter Adamson (Part Two)
Ep. 267: Avicenna on God and Soul w/ Peter Adamson (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 266: Jonathan Lear's Plato: Psyche and Society (Part Two)
Ep. 266: Jonathan Lear's Plato: Psyche and Society (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 265: Plato's "Phaedo": Philosophy as Training for Death (Part Two)
Ep. 265: Plato's "Phaedo": Philosophy as Training for Death (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 264: Plato's "Timaeus" on Cosmology (Part Two)
Ep. 264: Plato's "Timaeus" on Cosmology (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 263: Lise Van Boxel's "Warspeak" on Strategies for Valuing (Part Two)
Ep. 263: Lise Van Boxel's "Warspeak" on Strategies for Valuing (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 262: Nietzsche on Self-Denial (Part Two)
Ep. 262: Nietzsche on Self-Denial (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 261: Derek Parfit on Personal Identity (Part Two)
Ep. 261: Derek Parfit on Personal Identity (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 260: Locke on Moral Psychology
Ep. 259: Locke Clarifies Misleading Complex Ideas (Part Two)
Ep. 259: Locke Clarifies Misleading Complex Ideas (Part One)
Mark Lint's PEL Network Holiday Party 2020: Merry Chatting and Songs
Ep. 258: Locke on Acquiring Simple Ideas (Part Two)
Ep. 258: Locke on Acquiring Simple Ideas (Part One)
Ep. 257: Locke Against Innate Ideas (Part Two)
Ep. 257: Locke Against Innate Ideas (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 256: Kropotkin's Anarchist Communism (Part Two)
Ep. 256: Kropotkin's Anarchist Communism (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 255: Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" (Part Two)
Ep. 255: Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 254: Michael Sandel Against Meritocracy (Part Two)
Ep. 254: Michael Sandel Interview: Against Meritocracy (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 253: Leibniz on the Problem of Evil (Part Two)
Ep. 253: Leibniz on the Problem of Evil (Part One)
PEL Special: Nightcap Late September 2020
PREMIUM-Ep. 252: Habermas on Communication as Sociality (Part Two)
Ep. 252: Habermas on Communication as Sociality (Part One)
Ep. 251: Simone Weil's Ideal Society
Ep. 250: Simone Weil on Human Needs (Part Three)
Ep. 250: Simone Weil on Human Needs (Part Two)
Ep. 250: Simone Weil on Human Needs (Part One)
Ep. 249: Dewey on Education and Thought (Part Two)
Ep. 249: Dewey on Education and Thought (Part One)
Ep. 248: Racism and Policing (Al-Saji, Merleau-Ponty, et al) (Part Two)
Ep. 248: Racism and Policing (Al-Saji, Merleau-Ponty, et al) (Part One)
Ep. 247: Aristotle on Rhetoric and Emotions (Part Two)
Ep. 247: Aristotle on Rhetoric and Emotions (Part One)
Ep. 246: Susan Sontag on Interpreting Art (Part Two)
Ep. 246: Susan Sontag on Interpreting Art (Part One)
Ep. 245: Fashion (Derrida, Foucault, Sontag) w/ Shahidha Bari (Part Two)
Ep. 245: Fashion (Derrida, Foucault) w/ Shahidha Bari (Part One)
Ep. 244: Camus on Strategies for Facing Plague (Part Two)
Ep. 244: Camus on Strategies for Facing Plague (Part One)
Ep. 243: Aristotle's "Poetics" on Art and Tragedy (Part Two)
Ep. 243: Aristotle's "Poetics" on Art and Tragedy (Part One)
PEL Presents PMP#42: Star Trek Lives Long and Prospers (Intermittently)
Ep. 242: Stanley Cavell on Tragedy via King Lear (Part Two)
Ep. 242: Stanley Cavell on Tragedy via King Lear (Part One)
Ep. 241: Political Philosophy and the Pandemic
Ep. 240: David Lewis on Possible Worlds and Language Games (Part Two)
Ep. 240: David Lewis on Possible Worlds and Language Games (Part One)
Ep. 239: Montesquieu Invents Political Science (Part Two)
Ep. 239: Montesquieu Invents Political Science (Part One)
Ep. 238: Lingering Questions
Ep. 237: Walter Benjamin Analyzes Violence (Part Two)
Ep. 237: Walter Benjamin Analyzes Violence (Part One)
Ep. 236: Judith Butler Interview: "The Force of Nonviolence"
PEL Presents: PMP#32: Judging "The Good Place"
Ep. 235: Judith Butler's "Gender Trouble" (Part Three)
Ep. 235: Judith Butler's "Gender Trouble" (Part Two)
Ep. 235: Judith Butler's "Gender Trouble" (Part One)
PEL Presents PMP#29: Martin Scorsese the Auteur w/ Colin Marshall
Ep. 234: Beauvoir on Romance in "The Second Sex" (Part Two)
Ep. 234: Beauvoir on Romance in "The Second Sex" (Part One)
PEL Presents PMP#27: For the Love of Star Wars
Ep. 233: Plato's "Protagoras" on Virtue (Part Two)
PEL Presents PMP#26: We Watch "Watchmen" w/ David Pizarro (Very Bad Wizards)
Ep. 233: Plato's "Protagoras" on Virtue (Part One)
Ep. 232: Simone De Beauvoir's "The Second Sex" (Part Two)
Ep. 232: Simone De Beauvoir's "The Second Sex" (Part One)
Ep. 231: Descartes's "Discourse" on Wisdom and Certainty (Part Two)
Ep. 231: Descartes's "Discourse" on Wisdom and Certainty (Part One)
Ep. 230: Bruno Latour on Science, Culture, and Modernity (Part Two)
Ep. 230: Bruno Latour on Science, Culture, and Modernity (Part One)
Ep. 229: Descartes's Rules for Thinking (Part Three)
Ep. 229: Descartes's Rules for Thinking (Part Two)
Ep. 229: Descartes's Rules for Thinking (Part One)
PEL Presents PMP#17: Comedy as Philosophy w/ Daniel Lobell
Ep. 228: Social Construction of Race (Appiah, Mills) (Part Two)
Ep. 228: Social Construction of Race (Appiah, Mills) (Part One)
Ep. 227: What Is Social Construction? (Hacking, Berger) (Part Two)
Ep. 227: What Is Social Construction? (Hacking, Berger) (Part One)
Ep. 226: Francis Bacon Invents Science (Part Two)
PEL Presents PMP#12: Once Upon a Tarantino Film w/ Wes Alwan
Ep. 226: Francis Bacon Invents Science (Part One)
Ep. 225: Simone Weil on War and Oppression (Part Two)
Ep. 225: Simone Weil on War and Oppression (Part One)
Ep. 224: Kierkegaard Critiques The Present Age (Part Two)
PEL Presents PMP#8: Spider-Man: Far From Home (and Elsewhere)
Ep. 224: Kierkegaard Critiques The Present Age (Part One)
Ep. 223: Guest Ned Block on Consciousness (Part Two)
Ep. 223: Guest Ned Block on Consciousness (Part One)
Ep. 222: Debating Functionalism (Block, Chalmers) (Part Two)
Ep. 222: Debating Functionalism (Block, Chalmers) (Part One)
PEL Presents PMP#3: CONFORM w/ Yakov Smirnoff
Ep. 221: Functionalist Theories of Mind (Putnam, Armstrong) (Part Two)
Ep. 221: Functionalist Theories of Mind (Putnam, Armstrong) (Part One)
PEL Presents PMP#1: Pop Culture vs. High Culture
Ep. 220: 10-Year Retrospective of The Partially Examined Life
Ep. 219: The Harder Problem of Consciousness (Block & Papineau)
Ep. 218: The Hard Problem of Consciousness (Chalmers et al) (Part Two)
Ep. 218: The Hard Problem of Consciousness (Chalmers et al) (Part One)
(sub)Text #1: Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”: Poesis as Revenge Forsaken
Episode 217: Discussing Calderón's "Life Is a Dream"
Glimpse: Machiavellian Politics (for Partially Examined Life #14)
PEL Audioplayers: "Life Is a Dream" by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
PREMIUM-Ep 216 Game of Thrones' Fantasy Politics (Part Two)
Episode 216: Game of Thrones' Fantasy Politics
Episode 215: Brave New World: PEL Live 10th Anniversary Show
Episode 214: More Nietzsche's Zarathustra (Part Two)
Episode 214: More Nietzsche's Zarathustra (Part One)
Glimpse: Nietzsche's Last Man (for Partially Examined Life #213)
Episode 213: Nietzsche's Zarathustra (Part Two)
PREMIUM-(sub)Text#6: Melanie Klein's "Notes on Some Schizoid Mechanisms"
Episode 213: Nietzsche's Zarathustra (Part One)
Glimpse: Sartre on Literature (for Partially Examined Life #212)
Episode 212: Sartre on Literature (Part Two)
Episode 212: Sartre on Literature (Part One)
Episode 211: Sartre on Racism and Authenticity (Part Three)
Episode 211: Sartre on Racism and Authenticity (Part Two)
Episode 211: Sartre on Racism and Authenticity (Part One)
PEL Presents Constellary Tales #6: Philip K. Dick's "Minority Report" w/ Mark Linsenmayer
Episode 210: Frantz Fanon's Black Existentialism (Part Two)
Episode 210: Frantz Fanon's Black Existentialism (Part One)
Podchaser Interview of Mark Linsenmayer: Partially Examined Life and Nakedly Examined Music
Episode 209: Francis Fukuyama on Identity Politics (Part Two: Discussion)
Episode 209: Guest Francis Fukuyama on Identity Politics (Part One)
Episode 208: Epicurus on Seeking Pleasure (Part Two)
Episode 208: Epicurus on Seeking Pleasure (Part One)
Episode 207: Herder on Art Appreciation (Part Two)
Episode 207: Herder on Art Appreciation (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep 206 Lucretius's Epicurean Physics (Part Three)
Episode 206: Lucretius's Epicurean Physics (Part Two)
Episode 206: Lucretius's Epicurean Physics (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep 205 Durkheim et al on Suicide (Part Three)
Episode 205: Suicide with Dr. Drew (Durkheim et al) (Part Two)
Episode 205: Suicide with Dr. Drew (Durkheim et al) (Part One)
Episode 204: The Bhagavad Gita's Hindu Theology (Part Two)
Episode 204: The Bhagavad Gita's Hindu Theology (Part One)
Episode 203: Kristeva vs. Lovecraft on Horror and Abjection (Part Two)
Episode 203: Kristeva vs. Lovecraft on Horror and Abjection (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep 202 Follow-Up: Close Reading of Kristeva's "Approaching Abjection"
Episode 202: Julia Kristeva on Disgust, Fear and the Self (Part Two)
Episode 202: Julia Kristeva on Disgust, Fear and the Self (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep 201 Marcus Aurelius's "Meditations" (Part Three)
Episode 201: Marcus Aurelius's Stoicism with Ryan Holiday (Part Two)
Episode 201: Marcus Aurelius's Stoicism with Ryan Holiday (Part One)
Episode 200: Kant/Mendelssohn/Foucault on Enlightenment (Part Two)
Episode 200: Kant/Mendelssohn/Foucault on Enlightenment (Part One)
Bonus: (sub)Text#4: Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia" (Part One)
Episode 199: Elizabeth Anderson on Equality (Part Three: Discussion)
Episode 199: Guest Elizabeth Anderson on Private Government (Part Two)
Episode 199: Guest Elizabeth Anderson on Private Government (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep 198 Plato's "Parmenides" (Part Three)
Episode 198: Plato's Forms in the "Parmenides" (Part Two)
Episode 198: Plato's Forms in the "Parmenides" (Part One)
Bonus: (sub)Text #3: Spielberg's "AI: Artificial Intelligence": What Is It to Be Human? (Part One)
Episode 197: Parmenides on What There Is (Part Two)
Episode 197: Parmenides on What There Is (Part One)
Episode 196: Guest Simon Blackburn on Truth (Part Two)
Episode 196: Guest Simon Blackburn on Truth (Part One)
Episode 195: Truth-The Austin/Strawson Debate (Part Two)
Episode 195: Truth-The Austin/Strawson Debate (Part One)
Episode 194: Alfred Tarski on Truth (Part Two)
Episode 194: Alfred Tarski on Truth (Part One)
PREMIUM-Eps 192-193 Allan Bloom & Liberal Education Follow-Ups
Episode 193: The Theory and Practice of Liberal Education (Part Two)
Episode 193: The Theory and Practice of Liberal Education (Part One)
Episode 192: "The Closing of the American Mind": Allan Bloom on Education (Part Two)
Episode 192: "The Closing of the American Mind": Allan Bloom on Education (Part One)
Episode 191: Conceptual Schemes: Donald Davidson & Rudolf Carnap (Part Two)
Episode 191: Conceptual Schemes: Donald Davidson & Rudolf Carnap (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep 189: Authorial Intent (Part Three)
Episode 190: Film Analysis: "mother!"
Episode 189: Authorial Intent (Barthes, Foucault, Beardsley, et al) (Part Two)
Episode 189: Authorial Intent (Barthes, Foucault, Beardsley, et al) (Part One)
Episode 188: Discussing "Lysistrata" and Politics with Lucy and Emily (Part Two)
Episode 188: Discussing "Lysistrata" and Politics with Lucy and Emily (Part One)
"Lysistrata" w/ Lucy Lawless, Emily Perkins, Erica Spyres, Bill Youmans & Aaron Gleason
PREMIUM-Episode 187: The Limits of Free Speech (Part Three)
Episode 187: The Limits of Free Speech (Part Two)
Episode 187: The Limits of Free Speech (Part One)
Episode 186: J.L. Austin on Doing Things with Words (Part Two)
Episode 186: J.L. Austin on Doing Things with Words (Part One)
Episode 185: Ethics in Homer's "Odyssey" Feat. Translator Emily Wilson (Part Two)
Episode 185: Ethics in Homer's "Odyssey" Feat. Translator Emily Wilson (Part One)
Episode 184: Pascal on Human Nature (Part Two)
Episode 184: Pascal on Human Nature (Part One)
Episode 183: Mill on Liberty (Part Two)
Episode 183: Mill on Liberty (Part One)
PREMIUM-Episode 182: Reflections on PEL 2017 (Part Two)
Episode 182: Reflections on PEL 2017 (Part One)
Episode 181: Hannah Arendt on the Banality of Evil (Part Two)
Episode 181: Hannah Arendt on the Banality of Evil (Part One)
Episode 180: More James's Psychology: Self and Will (Part Two)
Episode 180: More James's Psychology: Self and Will (Part One)
Episode 179: William James's Psychology (Part Two)
Episode 179: William James's Introspective Psychology (Part One)
Episode 178: Nietzsche as Social Critic: Twilight of the Idols (Part Two)
Episode 178: Nietzsche as Social Critic: "Twilight of the Idols" (Part One)
Episode 177: Guest Russ Roberts on Adam Smith and Libertarian Economics (Part Two)
Episode 177: Guest Russ Roberts on Adam Smith and Libertarian Economics (Part One)
Episode 176: Situationism in Psych: Milgram & Stanford Prison Experiments (Part Two)
Episode 176: Situationism in Psych: Milgram & Stanford Prison Experiments (Very Bad Wizards Crossover) (Part One)
PREMIUM-Episode 175: Blade Runner (Part Two)
Episode 175: Blade Runner: Androids and Humanity (Part One)
Episode 174: Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" (Part Two)
Episode 174: Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" (Part One)
Episode 173: Relating to American Indian Philosophy (Part Two)
Episode 173: Relating to American Indian Philosophy (Part One)
Episode 172: Mind, Self, and Affect with Guest Dr. Drew (Part Two)
Episode 172: Mind, Self, and Affect with Guest Dr. Drew (Part One)
Episode 171: Buddhism vs. Evolution with Guest Robert Wright (Part Two)
Episode 171: Buddhism vs. Evolution with Guest Robert Wright (Part One)
Episode 170 Second Opinions: Leftists on "Society of the Spectacle"
Episode 170: Guy Debord's "Society of the Spectacle" (Part Two)
Episode 170: Guy Debord's "Society of the Spectacle" (Part One)
PEL Special: Combat & Classics on Rousseau's "Discourse on the Arts and Sciences"
Episode 169: Analyzing Hitchcock's "Vertigo"
Episode 168: Darwin's "Origin of Species" (Part Two)
Episode 168: Darwin's "Origin of Species" (Part One)
Episode 167: Hume on Intelligent Design (Part Two)
Episode 167: Hume on Intelligent Design (Philosophize This! Crossover) (Part One)
Episode 166: Spinoza on Politics and Religion (Part Two)
Episode 166: Spinoza on Politics and Religion (Part One)
Episode 165: Spinoza on Biblical Criticism (Part Two)
Episode 165: Spinoza on Biblical Criticism (Part One)
Nakedly Examined Music: Steve Hackett, Nik Kershaw, Ken Stringfellow, Robbie Fulks
Episode 164: Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot” on Perfection (Part Two)
Episode 164: Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot” on Perfection (Part One)
Episode 163: Guest Stewart Umphrey on Natural Kinds (Part Two)
Episode 163: Guest Stewart Umphrey on Natural Kinds (Part One)
PEL Special: Phi Fic on James Baldwin’s Fiction
Episode 162: James Baldwin on Race in America (Part Two)
Episode 162: James Baldwin on Race in America (Part One)
Episode 161: White Privilege (Peggy McIntosh, Charles Mills, et al) (Part Two)
Episode 161: White Privilege (Peggy McIntosh, Charles Mills, et al) (Part One)
Episode 160: Orwell on Totalitarianism and Language (Part Two)
Episode 160: Orwell on Totalitarianism and Language (Part One)
Episode 159: Confucius on Virtuous Conduct (Part Two)
Episode 159: Confucius on Virtuous Conduct (Part One)
Episode 158: Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy (Part Two)
Episode 158: Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy (Part One)
Episode 157: Richard Rorty on Politics for the Left (Part Two)
Episode 157: Richard Rorty on Politics for the Left (Part One)
Episode 156: Philosophy and Politics Free-Form Discussion (Part Two)
Episode 156: Philosophy and Politics Free-Form Discussion (Part One)
Episode 155: Richard Rorty Against Epistemology
Episode 154: Wilfrid Sellars on the Myth of the Given
Episode 153: Richard Rorty: There Is No Mind-Body Problem
Episode 152: Alexis de Tocqueville on Democracy in America (PEL Live!)
Episode 151: Edmund Burke’s Conservatism
PEL Special: Bill Bruford on Nakedly Examined Music #25
Episode 150: Guest Peter Singer on Famine, Affluence, and Morality
Episode 149: Plato’s “Crito”: A Performance and Discussion
Episode 148: Aristotle on Friendship and Happiness
Episode 147: Aristotle on Wisdom and Incontinence
Episode 146: Emmanuel Levinas on Overcoming Solitude
Episode 145: Emmanuel Levinas: Why Be Ethical?
Episode 144: Guest Martha Nussbaum on Anger
Phi Fic #3 Frankenstein (PEL Crossover Special)
Episode 143: Plato’s “Sophist” on Lies, Categorization, and Non-Being
Episode 142: Plato’s “Phaedrus” on Love and Speechmaking
Episode 141: De Beauvoir’s Existentialism: Moral and Political Dilemmas
Episode 140: De Beauvoir on the Ambiguous Human Condition
Episode 139: bell hooks on Racism/Sexism
Episode 138: Guest John Searle on Perception
Episode 137: Bourdieu on the Tastes of Social Classes
Episode 136: Adorno on the Culture Industry
Episode 135: Hegel on the Logic of Basic Metaphysical Concepts
Episode 134: Hegel on Thought & World (or “Logic”)
PEL Special: Nakedly Examined Music #1 with David Lowery
Episode 133: Erich Fromm on Love as an Art
Episode 132: Living Stoically with Seneca and Massimo
Episode 131: Aristotle’s “De Anima”: What Is the Mind?
Episode 130: Aristotle’s “De Anima”: What Is Life?
Holiday Special 2015: Mark Lint’s “Songs from the Partially Examined Life” with Many Guest Greetings
Episode 129: Is Faith Rational?
Episode 128: Hilary Putnam on Linguistic Meaning
Episode 127: John Dewey on Experience and the World
Episode 126: Saul Kripke on Possibilities, Language & Science
Not School Digest: Asimov, Camus, Jaspers, Brecht, Peirce, Historical Jesus
Episode 125: Hannah Arendt on the Political & Private
Q&A with the Partially Examined Life, Pittsburgh 9-25-15
Episode 124: The Stoic Life with Epictetus
Episode 123: Economics with Hayek and Sen (Intro by Seth Benzell)
Ep 121/122 Aftershow on Augustine feat. James Wetzel
Episode 122: Augustine on Mind and Metaphysics
Precognition of Ep. 123: Economics (F.A. Hayek and Amartya Sen)
Episode 121: Augustine on Being Good
Ep. 119 Aftershow (PREMIUM) on Nietzsche feat. Greg Sadler
Episode 120: A History of “Will” with Guest Eva Brann
Ep. 118 Aftershow (PREMIUM) on Songwriting feat. ex-Camper Chris Molla
Episode 119: Nietzsche on Tragedy and the Psychology of Art
Ep. 117 Aftershow (PREMIUM) on Antigone with Danny Lobell
Episode 118: The Musical Life with Guests from Camper van Beethoven
Episode 117: Discussing Sophocles’s “Antigone”
“Antigone” Read by PEL with Lucy Lawless and Paul Provenza
Episode 116: Freud on Dreams
Episode 115: Schopenhauer on Music with Guest Jonathan Segel
Episode 114: Schopenhauer: “The World Is Will”
Episode 113: Jesus’s Parables
Episode 112: Ricoeur on Interpreting Religion
Episode 111: Gadamer’s Hermeneutics: How to Interpret
Close Reading (PREMIUM) of Heidegger on Truth
Ep. 110 Aftershow (PREMIUM) with Stephen West
Close Reading (PREMIUM) of Kant on the Sublime
Episode 110: Alfred North Whitehead: What Is Nature?
Precognition of Ep. 110: Whitehead
Ep. 109 Aftershow (PREMIUM) with Stephen West
Episode 109: Jaspers’s Existentialism with Guest Paul Provenza
Precognition of Ep. 109: Karl Jaspers
Episode 108: Dangers of A.I. with Guest Nick Bostrom
Episode 107: Edmund Burke on the Sublime
Not Ep. 107: The 12 Interminable Days of Xmas: A Musical Extravaganza
Episode 106: Pyrrhonian Skepticism According to Sextus Empiricus
Episode 105: Kant: What Is Beauty?
Episode 104: Robert Nozick’s Libertarianism
Precognition of Ep. 104: Robert Nozick
Episode 103: Thoreau on Living Deliberately
Episode 102: Emerson on Wisdom and Individuality
Episode 101: Maimonides on God
Episode 100: Plato’s Symposium Live Celebration!
Episode 99: Looking Back on 100 Discussions and 5+ Years
Episode 98: Guest Michael Sandel Against Market Society
Episode 97: Michael Sandel on Social Justice and the Self
Episode 96: Oppenheimer and the Rhetoric of Science Advisers
Precognition of Ep. 96: Oppenheimer’s Rhetoric
Episode 95: Gödel on Math
Precognition of Ep. 95: Gödel
Episode 94: Schopenhauer on Reading, Writing, and Thinking
Episode 93: Freedom and Responsibility (Strawson vs. Strawson)
Precognition of Ep. 93: Free Will (via Strawsons)
Episode 92: Henri Bergson on How to Do Metaphysics
Precognition of Ep. 92: Henri Bergson
Episode 91: Transhumanism (Plus More on Brin)
Episode 90: Sci-Fi and Philosophy with Guest David Brin
Precognition of Ep. 90: Sci-Fi and Philosophy with David Brin
Episode 89: Berkeley: Only Ideas Exist!
Precognition of Ep. 89: Berkeley’s Idealism
Partially Examined Life Not School Digest #4: Sartre, Heidegger, Zizek, Marx, and Theater
Episode 88: G.E.M. Anscombe: Should We Use Moral Language?
Precognition of Ep. 88: G.E.M. Anscombe
Sartre’s “No Exit” Read with Lucy Lawless & Jaime Murray
Episode 87: Sartre on Freedom and Self-Deception
Precognition of Ep. 87: Sartre
Episode 86: Thomas Kuhn on Scientific Progress
Precognition of Ep. 86: Thomas Kuhn
Episode 85: Rawls on Social Justice
Precognition of Ep. 85: John Rawls
PREMIUM-Episode 84: Nietzsche’s “Gay Science”
Episode 83 Follow-Up: Q&A with Frithjof Bergmann
Episode 83: New Work with Guest Frithjof Bergmann
Precognition of Ep. 83: New Work
PREMIUM-Episode 82: Karl Popper on Science
Precognition of Ep. 82: Popper
PREMIUM-Episode 81: Jung on the Psyche and Dreams
Precognition of Ep. 81: Jung
Partially Examined Life Not School Digest #3: Work, Blood Meridian, Mind, and Heidegger
PREMIUM-Episode 80: Heidegger on our Existential Situation
Precognition of Ep. 80: Heidegger
PREMIUM-PEL Ep 79: Heraclitus on Understanding the World
PREMIUM-Episode 78: Ayn Rand on Living Rationally
PREMIUM-Episode 77: Santayana on the Appreciation of Beauty
PREMIUM-Episode 76: Deleuze on What Philosophy Is
PREMIUM-Episode 75: Lacan & Derrida Criticize Poe’s “The Purloined Letter”
PREMIUM-Episode 74: Jacques Lacan’s Psychology
PREMIUM-Episode 73: Why Do Philosophy? (And What Is It?)
PREMIUM-Episode 72: Terrorism with Jonathan R. White
PREMIUM-Episode 71: Martin Buber’s “I and Thou”
PREMIUM-Episode 70: Marx on the Human Condition
Partially Examined Life Not School Digest Jan 2013
PREMIUM-Episode 69: Plato on Rhetoric vs. Philosophy
Not Episode 69: PEL Players Full Cast Audiobook of Plato’s “Gorgias” (part 1)
PREMIUM-Episode 68: David Chalmers Interview on the Scrutability of the World
Not School Digest Nov-Dec 2012: A Bonus Quasisode
PREMIUM-Episode 67: Carnap on Logic and Science
PREMIUM-Episode 66: Quine on Linguistic Meaning and Science
Celebrating Two Million Downloads: A Highlights Minisode
PREMIUM-Episode 65: The Federalist Papers
PREMIUM-Episode 64: Celebrity, with guest Lucy Lawless
PREMIUM-Episode 63: Existentialist Heroes in Cormac McCarthy’s “No Country for Old Men”
PREMIUM-Episode 62: Voltaire’s Novel “Candide”
PREMIUM-Episode 61: Nietzsche on Truth and Skepticism
PREMIUM-Episode 60: Aristotle: What’s the Best Form of Government?
PREMIUM-Episode 59: Alasdair MacIntyre on Moral Justifications
PREMIUM-Episode 58: What Grounds Ethical Claims? (Moore, Stevenson, MacIntyre)
PREMIUM-Episode 57: Henri Bergson on Humor
PREMIUM-Episode 56: More Wittgenstein on Language
PREMIUM-Episode 55: Wittgenstein on Language
PREMIUM-Episode 54: More Buddhism and Naturalism
PREMIUM-Episode 53: Buddhism and Naturalism with Guest Owen Flanagan
PREMIUM-Episode 52: Philosophy and Race (DuBois, Martin Luther King, Cornel West)
PREMIUM-Episode 51: Semiotics and Structuralism (Saussure, et al)
PREMIUM-Episode 50: Pirsig’s “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”
PREMIUM-Episode 49: Foucault on Power and Punishment
PREMIUM-Episode 48: Merleau-Ponty on Perception and Knowledge
PREMIUM-Episode 47: Sartre on Consciousness and the Self
PREMIUM-Episode 46: Plato on Ethics & Religion
PREMIUM-Episode 45: Moral Sense Theory: Hume and Smith
PREMIUM-Episode 44: New Atheist Critiques of Religion
PREMIUM-Episode 43: Arguments for the Existence of God
PREMIUM-Episode 42: Feminists on Human Nature and Moral Psychology
PREMIUM-Episode 41: Pat Churchland on the Neurobiology of Morality (Plus Hume’s Ethics)
PREMIUM-Episode 40: Plato’s Republic: What Is Justice?
PREMIUM-Episode 39: Schleiermacher Defends Religion
PREMIUM-Episode 38: Bertrand Russell on Math and Logic
PREMIUM-Episode 37: Locke on Political Power
PREMIUM-Episode 36: More Hegel on Self-Consciousness
PREMIUM-Episode 35: Hegel on Self-Consciousness
PREMIUM-Episode 34: Frege on the Logic of Language
PREMIUM-Episode 33: Montaigne: What Is the Purpose of Philosophy?
PREMIUM-Episode 32: Heidegger: What is “Being?”
PREMIUM-Episode 31: Husserl’s Phenomenology
PREMIUM-Episode 30: Schopenhauer on Explanations and Knowledge
PREMIUM-Episode 29: Kierkegaard on the Self
PREMIUM-Episode 28: Nelson Goodman on Art as Epistemology
PREMIUM-Episode 27: Nagarjuna on Buddhist “Emptiness”
PREMIUM-Episode 26: Freud on the Human Condition
PREMIUM-Episode 25: Spinoza on Human Nature
PREMIUM-Episode 24: Spinoza on God and Metaphysics
PREMIUM-Episode 23: Rousseau: Human Nature vs. Culture
PREMIUM-Episode 22: More James’s Pragmatism: Is Faith Justified? What is Truth?
PREMIUM-Episode 21: What Is the Mind? (Turing, et al)
PREMIUM-Episode 20: Pragmatism – Peirce and James
PREMIUM-Episode 19: Kant: What Can We Know?
PREMIUM-Episode 18: Plato: What Is Knowledge?
PREMIUM-Episode 17: Hume’s Empiricism: What Can We Know?
PREMIUM-Episode 16: Danto on Art
Episode 15: Hegel on History
Episode 14: Machiavelli on Politics
Episode 13: What Are the Metaphysical Implications of Quantum Physics?
Episode 12: Chuang Tzu’s Taoism: What Is Wisdom?
Episode 11: Nietzsche’s Immoralism: What Is Ethics, Anyway?
Episode 10: Kantian Ethics: What Should We Do?
Episode 9: Utilitarian Ethics: What Should We Do?
Episode 8: Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (and Carnap): What Can We Legitimately Talk About?
Episode 7: Wittgenstein’s Tractatus: What Is There and Can We Talk About It?
Episode 6: Leibniz’s Monadology: What Is There?
Episode 5: Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics
Episode 4: Camus and the Absurd
Episode 3: Hobbes’s Leviathan: The Social Contract
Episode 2: Descartes’s Meditations: What Can We Know?
Episode 1: “The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living.”