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The Dawdler's Philosophy — 89 episodes

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E47: On Margin Haunting - Quo Bros, Margin Haunters, & Secular Gurus

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Shorts - E33: The World

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Dear Dawdler - E5: To Every Philosophy There Is A Season

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E46: 10 Things To Hate About Nonfiction Books

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E45: Dawdler Review - Triamonds, Episodic Synchronies, and NME Skeptics!

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Dear Dawdler - E4: We Live in a Context (So I See)

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Dear Dawdler - E3: We Live in a (Complex) Society

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Shorts - E32: Putting Thumbs on a Penguin

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Dear Dawdler - E2: We Are All in the Same Boat

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Dear Dawdler - E1: We Are All Mutineers

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Shorts - E31: The Two Cultures

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Shorts - E30: The American Dream

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E44: Subjective Chiroptera of Experience - Thomas Nagel's "What is it Like to Be a Bat?"

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Haunting the Margins - E3: Alan Watts

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E43: Rorty's Mirror of Nature Part II - Dividing by Zero

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E42: Richard Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature - Part I - An Ironic Kind of Fellow

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Shorts - E29: The Great Server

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E41: Every Theory of Everything Ever - The Evolution of Religions

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Shorts - E28: Science NOW!

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Shorts - E27: Luck vs. Karma

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Shorts - E26: Planet(ary Problems) of the Apes

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Shorts - E25: Pedants and Magisters

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Shorts - E24: Deadlock

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E40: Maniraptoran Gravy -The Dinosaur Episode

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E39: We Don't Need No Stinking Badges - Whitehead on Laws of Nature

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E38: Cognitive Combinatorialism - What Makes Humans Special?

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E37: The Memory of an Old Idea No One Ever Had - Derrida's Hauntology

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E36: The Man on the Street - A Definition of 'Definition'

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Shorts - E23: Discordianism

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Shorts - E22: Self-Evidence

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E35: An Irenic Kind of Fellow - A Discussion on Illusionism with Keith Frankish

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E34: More Vice Than Virtue – Nelson Goodman’s Fake News

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Shorts - E21: Personal Accountability

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Shorts - E20: The Monty Hall Problem

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E33: Massimo Pigliucci's Hard Problems - Multi-Level Selection & Cultural Evolution

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Shorts - E19: Repeatability in Science

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Shorts - E18: Depression

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E32: Anatol Rapoport's Man-Made Conflicts - General Systems Theory

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E31: The Helm of the Mutineers - On Sociopolitical Revolutions

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E30: The Imbalance of the Century - Zizek v. Peterson

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Shorts - E17: Life is Meaningless

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Shorts - E16: The Good Life

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Shorts - E15: Health

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Shorts - E14: Fairness

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E29: Hustling Past the Graveyard - Ideation in the New Gilded Age

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E28: The Pleistocene - Part II

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E27: The Pleistocene - Part I

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Shorts - E13: The Future

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Shorts - E12: Scarcity

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E26: Hofstadter's Scrumptious Edibles - Analogy as the Core of Cognition

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Shorts - E11: Authority

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Shorts - E10: End ofs

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Shorts - E9: Stupidity

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Haunting the Margins - E2: Terence McKenna

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Shorts - E8: Artificial Intelligence

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E25: A Fetish of Fallacies - Are All Fallacies Created Equal?

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Shorts - E7: Anything is Possible

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E24: In Lieu of Arguments - The Gettier Problem

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Shorts - E6: What Came First: Thinking or Language?

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E23: The Moonlight Walks - Aesthetics in Science

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Shorts - E5: Reproducing

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E22: A Farewell to Armchairs - Philosophy Without Intuitions

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Shorts - E4: Mortality

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E21: Ever Since the Universe Invented Imagination - What Do You Believe but Can't Prove?

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Shorts - E3: Time Travel

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E20: The Great Silliness - Consciousness Does Not Exist

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Shorts - E2: Determinism

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E19: The Muck Raker's Son-in-Law - R.A. Fisher's Science and Statistics

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Shorts - E1: Does Everyone Have a Right to Their Opinions?

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E18: Wittgenstein's Inner Parliament - Exploring "On Certainty"

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E17: The Final Induction - The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses

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Haunting the Margins - E1: Robert Anton Wilson

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E16: Episodic Synchrony - Diversity in Consumer-Resource Systems

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E15: The Rolling Wall of Fog - Science v. Philosophy

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E14: Nietzsche's Rich Pageant - Exploring "Will to Power"

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E13: Footnotes to Fermi - The Aliens Episode

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E12: Daniel Dennett's Easy Problems - Content, Consciousness, and Intuition Pumps

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E11: I Just Wanna Get off the Bus - The Overpopulation Episode

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E10: The Argument Argument - Walking the Tightrope 'twixt Truth and Nihilism

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E9: Megadeath - The Mass Extinction Episode

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E8: Curing this Guy's Headache - Alfred Korzybski's General Semantics

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E7: Summer at Aphelion - The Climate Change Episode

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E6: NME Skepticism - Pyrrho was Right!

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E5: This Reminds Me of Another Future - The Emergence Episode

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E4: The Tiger in the Bushes - The Truth Episode

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E3: Triamond Joy! - A World Beyond Truth Seeking

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E2: An Immense Investment in the Utterly Obvious - Gould and Lewontin's "Spandrels of San Marco"

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E1: John Searle does not Understand - The Chinese Room Argument

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E0: Dawdlers & (but mostly) Hustlers - Introducing the Dawdler's Philosophy