All Episodes
Philosophers In Space — 312 episodes
Shards of Earth Pt.2 and Alien Moral Realism
Shards of Earth and Eugenics Pt.1
Space Pirate Queen of the Ten Billion Utopias
The Amazing Digital Circus Episode Four and Sartre's No Exit
The Measure and Imperfect Foreknowledge
Children of Strife and Advanced Honor Culture pt. 2
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