All Episodes

Children of Strife and Intelligent Design

Starfleet Academy 1.5 and Purposeful Creation

Pluribus and the Act/Omission Distinction

Listener Q and A 42

Q and A 41

Harrow the 9th pt.3 and Sacrifice in Relationships

Harrow the 9th pt. 2 and Ethics with Uncertainty

Harrowhark the Ninth pt.1 and Unreliable Narrators

Hazbin Hotel and Critiquing Universalism

Sinners and The Color Line

Death's End and Daoist Ethics Pt.2

Death's End and Who Did Nothing Wrong?

The Dark Forest and Dark Forest Theory pt.2

The Dark Forest and the Wallfacer Project pt.1

Silo and Longterm Paternalism

SOMA and Advanced Problems of Personhood

Listener Qs 40

Listener Qs 39

Starship Troopers

Bobiverse Book Five Pt2 and Advanced AI Alignment

Bobiverse Book Five Pt1 and The Seven Stories

Lower Decks: A Farewell to Farms (5.4)

Intacto (Intact) and Superstitious Luck

Scavengers Reign and the Parasite/symbiote Spectrum

Fraggle Rock 1.6: The Preachification of Convincing John and the Dangers of Paternalism

Alien Clay Pt 2

Alien Clay and Low-Road Capitalism pt.1

Star Trek: The Next Generation, The High Ground and ethical terrorism

Listener Q and As 38

Listener Qs 37

Spiderhead (2022) and Emotional Regulation

Highlander and Male Meaning-Making

Men and Schrodinger's Rapist

Fallout and Laboratories of Democracy

Downsizing and Altruisms

Dune pt 2

The Pod Generation and Naturalness

Monolith and Viral Memetics

Sense8 and TERFs

Barbie

Children of Memory and Objective Personhood pt.1

Listener Qs 36

Q and A 35

Silo and Conspiracy

Gideon Pt 3 and Anti-Meritocratic Pedagogy

Gideon Pt 2 and Meritocratic Pedagogy

Gideon pt1 and Queer Theory

Helsreach and Grimdark Gamergate

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy and Meaningful Needs pt. 2

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy and Anarcho-Primitivism pt.1

Dual and Flourishing in a Dehumanizing Society

Listener Qs 34

Listener Qs 33

Bluey "Rug Island" 2.10 and "Camping" 1.43 and Play

Cabinet of Curiosities ep7: The Viewing and Intersectional High Weirdness

Brand New Cherry Flavor Episodes 1-4 and Cronenbergian High Weirdness

A Color Out of Space and Lovecraftian High Weirdness

A Scanner Darkly and PKD High Weirdness pt1

A Psalm for the Wild-Built and Objects pt2

A Psalm for the Wild-Built and Solarpunk pt1

Lawnmower Man and Dis Crit with Elizabeth Barnes

Star Trek: Discovery and Panpsychism

The Things and Varieties of Uplifting

Children of Ruin pt3 and The Problem of Unity

Children of Ruin pt2 and Radically Distributed Cognition

Children of Ruin pt1 and What It's Like to be a Portid

Listener Qs 32

Listener Qs 31

Andor ep7-12 and the Flavors of Anti-fash

Pylon Pledge Drive!

Andor ep1-6 and the Flavors of Fash

Lower Decks: Strange Energies and Humanism

0G200: Crimes of the Future and Artistic Burnout

0G199: Orville: New Horizons episode 8 and Culture War Child Soldiers

0G198: Orville: New Horizons episode 5 and childhood gender autonomy

0G197: Everything Everywhere All at Once and Modal Luck pt 2

0G196: Everything Everywhere All at Once pt1

0G195: The Boys Season Three and Hobbes' Leviathan

0G194: The Boys Season Two and White Christian Nationalism

0G193: Archive and Advanced Philosophy of Digital Personhood

0G192: Consider Phlebas and Galactic Just War pt.3

0G191: Consider Phlebas and Philosophy of Scale pt.2

0G190: Consider Phlebas and Critiquing the Culture pt.1

0G189: Three Robots Exit Strategies and Billionaire Preppers

Listener Qs 30

Listener Qs 29

0G188: Tremors and Doomsday Prepperism

0G187: Severance and Corporate Culture Alienation

0G186: Beforeigners and Transtemporalism Pt.2

0G185: Beforeigners and Immigration Pt.1

0G184: The Titan and Posthumanism

0G183: SCP and Antimemetics

0G182: John and Sun-Hee and End of Life Ethics

0G181: Existenz and Transhumanist Alienation

0G180: Naked Lunch and Beat Philosophy

Unlocked 0G179: The Fly and Transhumanism

Listener Qs 28

Listener Qs 27

0G178: Videodrome and Marshall Mcluhan

0G177: The Endless and Eternal Return

0G176: The Eternals and Space Baby Antinatalism

0G175: Station Eleven and Theater of Grief pt2

0G174: Station Eleven and Philosophy of Theatre pt1

0G173: Matrix Four and the Ethics of Artistic Reincarnation

0G172: Spiders-Men and the Metamedia Turn

0G171: See and the Social Model of Disability

0G170: The Comet and The Color Line

0G169: Matrix Reloaded and Non-dualism

0G168: Animatrix and AI Empathy

0G167: Dune 2021 and Decolonialism

0G166: Foundation and Cultural Literacy Pt2

0G165: Foundation and Longtermism Pt1

Listener Qs 26

Listener Qs 25

0G164: Dollhouse 1.1 and Ethics of Intermittent Personhood

0G163: Moon and Low-road Capitalism

0G162: Three Body Problem and The Problem of Induction Pt2

0G161: Three Body Problem and Maoism Pt1

0G160: Disney's Atlantis and Racist Pseudohistory

0G159: The Empty Man and Tulpas

0G158: Darmok and Archetypal Communication

0G157: Loki and Multiverse Authoritarianism

0G156: All Systems Red and Nonconforming Identities

0G155: Never Ricking Morty and Metamedia

0G154: Ready Player One and Value Capture

Listener Qs 24

Listener Qs 23

0G153: WandaVision and the Grief of Theseus

0G152: The Sneetches and Ingroup/Outgroup Behavior

0G151: Aniara and Pointlessness

0G150: Babylon 5 ep3.4 and Radical Rehabilitation

0G149: Sorry to Bother You and the Talented Tenth

0G148: X-Files 4.7 and Conspiratorial Art

0G147: Fantastic Planet and Surrealism

0G146: The Expanse ep2.3 and Moral Deference

0G145: The Thing and Anti-Communism

0G144: Godzilla vs. King Kong and Ecoterrorism

Listener Qs 22

Listener Qs 21

0G143: Fringe's White Tulip and Psychological Egoism

0G142: Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and Afropessimism vs. Afrofuturism

0G141: HBO's Lovecraft Country and Colonial Knowledge Production

0G140: Futurama's A Clockwork Origin and Creationism

0G139: Stranger in a Strange Land and Ethical Non-Monogamy Part 3

Aaron and Andrew Debate Stranger vs. Harsh Mistress

0G138: Stranger in a Strange Land and Prosperity Gospel Part 2

0G137: Stranger in a Strange Land and Tat Tvam Asi Part 1

0G136: Heavens River (Bobiverse Book Four) and Unstable Utopias

0G135: All These Worlds (Bobiverse Book Three) and Ephemeral Ethics

Listener Qs 20

Listener Qs 19

0G134: For We Are Many (Bobiverse Book Two) and Pre-Contact Game Theory

0G133: Raised by Wolves and Raising Atheists

0G132: Altered States and Psychonautics

0G131: Tuvix and Transporter Murder

0G130: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) and Ethical Space Colonization Part 2

0G129: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) and Ethically Raised AI Part 1

0G128: Dark City and Conspiracy Theory Logic

0G127: Anathem and Foucault, Part 4

0G126: Parable of the Talents and Positive Obsession, Part 3

Listener Qs 18

Listener Qs 17

0G125: Parable of the Talents and Process Philosophy/Theology, Part 2

0G124: Parable of the Talents and Critical Race Theory, Part 1

0G123: Dr. Who and the Daleks and Pacifism

0G122: Robocop and AI Police

0G121: Lovecraft Country and Othering

0G120: Children of Time and Empathic Prisoner's dilemma, Part 3

0G119: Children of Time and Neuromorphic AI, Part 2

0G118: Children of Time and Uplifting, Part 1

0G117: Avatar and Moral Realism, Part 2

0G116: Avatar the Last Airbender and Agent Neutral Buddhist Ethics, Part 1

Rebroadcasting 0G63: Fury Road and Ecofeminism

Rebroadcasting 0G19: Black Mirror, Hang the DJ, Part 1: Newcomb's Paradox

Listener Qs 16

Listener Qs 15

0G115: Anathem and Polycosmic Protism, Part 3

0G114: Anathem and the Linguistic Turn, Part 2

0G113: Anathem and Platonism, Part 1

0G112: Psychopass and Freewill QnA

0G111: Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom and Dennett's Compatibilism, Part 2

0G110: What's Expected of Us and Dennett's Compatibilism

0G109: Uploaded and For-Profit Afterlife

0G108: The Island and The Categorical Imperative

0G107: Devs and the Paradox of Predictability

0G106: The Platform and Methods of Social Change

0G105: Picard and the Butlerian Jihad

0G104: The Expanse and The Myth of Catching Up

0G103: Dr Who's Heaven Sent and "Self" sacrifice

0G102: Player of Games and Gamification of Ethics, Part 3

0G101: Player of Games and Authoritarian Essentialism, Part 2

Listener Qs 14

Listener Qs 13

0G100: WWZ and the Human Cost of Ethics, Part 2

0G99: WWZ and Lifeboat Ethics, Part 1

0G98: Player of Games and AI Utopia, Part 1

0G97: Bioshock and Going Galt

0G96: Serenity and Positive Eugenics

0G95: Stargate Atlantis and Gamification

0G94: The Good Place and Universalist Enlightenment

OG93: Good Place and Scanlon's Contractualism

0G92: Watchmen and Subjective vs. Objective

0G91: Watchmen and The Absurd

0G90: Mandalorian and Masks

0G89: Empire Strikes Back and Taoism

0G88: Star Wars A New Hope and Just War Theory

Listener Qs 12

Listener Qs 11

0G87: Blindsight and Moral Realism, Part 3

0G86: Blindsight and the Value of Sentience, Part 2

0G85: Blindsight and Philosophical Zombies, Part 1

0G84: A Subway named Mobius and Emergent Properties

0G83: The Society and The State of Nature and Game Theory

0G82: Dr. Who's Girl in the Fireplace and the AI Alignment Problem

0G81: HBO's Watchmen and Reparations

0G80: Primer and the Ethics of Time Travel

0G79: The Ones Who Stay and Fight and The Paradox of Tolerance

0G78: Omelas and Distributive Justice

0G77: DS9 Heart of Stone and Deontology

0G76: The Golden Man and The Ubermensch

0G75: Repo Men and Organ Markets

0G74: Cloud Dragon Skies and Geoengineering

0G73: Snowpiercer and Social Contract Theory, Part 2

0G72: Snowpiercer and Environmental Injustice, Part 1

0G71: Willy Wonka and The Meritocracy Factory

Listener Qs 10

Listener Qs 9

0G70: The Power and Cyborg Feminism, Part 2

0G69: The Power and Cyborg Theory, Part 1

0G68: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Grief

0G67: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Grief

0G66: Striking Vipers and Multifaceted Virtual Identities

0G65: The Evitable Conflict and The Zeroth Law

0G64: I Am Mother and Care Ethics

0G63: Fury Road and Ecofeminism

0G62: One Punch Man and Process vs. Product

0G61: The Waldo Moment and Politics as Entertainment

0G60: Voyager and Procreation

0G59: Endgame and Moral Saints

0G58: Runaround and Three Laws of Robotics

0G57: Orphan Black and Human Cloning

0G56: Humans and Everyday AI

0G55: Cube and Kafkaesque

0G54: The Fifth Element and Manacheanism

0G53: Zima Blue and Projects of Worth

0G52: Infinity Wars and Overpopulation

0G51: The Ricklantis Mixup and Artistic Improvement

Listener Qs 8

0G50: The Ricklantis Mixup and Aesthetic Objectivity

0G49: The Ricklantis Mixup and Aesthetics, Part 1

Listener Qs 7

0G48: Groundhog Day and Buddhist Virtue Theory

0G47: Annihilation and Deep Ecology, Part 2

0G46: Annihilation and Catastrophic Destruction, Part 1

0G45: Star Trek Next Gen 4-22 and Cultural Relativism vs Ethical Pluralism

OG44: Bandersnatch and the Ethics of Mental Illness Representation, Part 2

0G43: Bandersnatch and Quantum Immortality

0G42: Today I am Paul and AI Elder Care

0G41: A Christmas Carol and Moral Motivation

NASA1: Battlefield Earth

0G40: Total Recall and Locke's Theory of Personal Identity, Part 2

0G39: Total Recall and Locke's Theory of Personal Identity, Part 1

0G38: Terminator 2 and Roko's Basilisk, Part 2

0G37: Terminator 2 and the Bootstrap Paradox, Part 1

0G36: The Matrix and Skepticism, Part 2

OG35: The Matrix and Skepticism, Part 1

Listener Qs 6

0G34: The Good Place and Moral Luck

Listener Qs 5

0G33: Aliens and The Second Sex

0G32: Alien and The Corporation as Sociopath

0G31: Snow Crash and Universal Language, Part 2

0G30: Snow Crash and Libertarianism, Part 1

0G29: Ex Machina and the AI Box Problem, Part 2

0G28: Ex Machina and Mary the Color Scientist, Part 1

0G27: Galaxy Quest and Toxic Fandom, Part 2

0G26: Pickle Rick and Toxic Fandom, Part 1

0G25: Minority Report and Time Paradoxes

0G24: Minority Report and Prescient Utilitarianism

0G23: Harrison Bergeron and Equality of Outcome

0G22: Gattaca and Genetic Determinism

OG21: DS9 Dax and Queer Personhood

Listener Qs 4

Listener Qs 3

0G20: Black Mirror, Hang the DJ, Part 2: Predicting Compatibility

0G19: Black Mirror, Hang the DJ, Part 1: Newcomb's Paradox

0G18: Dune Part Three, The Cycle of Politics

OG17: Dune Part Two, Kwisatz Haderach and Self-Perfection

OG16: Dune Part One, the Expositioning

OG15: Orville and the Prime Directive

Listener Qs 2

0G14: The Good Place and Justice vs. Mercy

0G13: Westworld and Virtue Theory, Part 2 - with Eli Bosnick!

0G12: Westworld and Morality Simulators, Part 1 - with Eli Bosnick!

0G11: Full Metal Alchemist and Death

0G10: Brave New world and Genetic Engineering, Part 2

0G9: Brave New World and Utilitarianism, Part 1

0G8: Autofac and Self-Replicating Systems

0G7: Altered Carbon and the Mind/Body Problem

0G6: Arrival and Sapir-Whorf

Listener Qs #1

0G5: Twilight Zone and the Chinese Room

0G4: Star Trek: TNG and AI Personhood

0G3: Futurama and Mereology

0G2: Rick and Morty and Possible Worlds

0G1: Black Mirror and The Experience Machine