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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast — 548 episodes
Ep. 396: Peirce on Knowledge (Part Two)
PEL Presents Closereads: Galen Strawson on Panpsychism (Part One)
Ep. 395: C.S. Lewis Argues for Christianity (Part One)
PEL Presents PvI#120: Mark and Mary in the Struggle Club
PEL Presents NEM#255: Michael Timmins (Cowboy Junkies): Mellow But Energized
Ep. 394: Hegel on Faith vs. The Enlightenment (Part One)
PEL Presents NEM#254: Teddy Thompson Gets Off the Sofa
Ep. 393: Kant vs. Hegel (Part One)
PEL Presents PvI#118: Aphoristically w/ Andrea Roccella
PEL Presents Closereads: Horkheimer and Adorno on The Odyssey (Part One)
Ep. 392: Early Hegel Elevates Reason (Part Two)
PEL Presents NEM#253: Synth-Scaper Richard Barbieri (Japan, Porcupine Tree)
PEL Presents PMP#222: Lordlings of the Flies
Ep. 392: Early Hegel Elevates Reason (Part One)
PREMIUM-Ep. 391: Habermas Defends Modernity (Part Three)
PEL Presents PvI#117: Mark and Mary in the Triboobal Aftermath
Ep. 391: Habermas Defends Modernity (Part Two)
PEL Presents PMP#221: Streep Does Prada
PEL Presents NEM#252: Folk Legend Tom Paxton
PEL Presents PMP#220: Peaky Blinders: Gangs of Birmingham
NEM#251: Dr. Alan Williams (Birdsong at Morning)
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."
Episode 0: Introduction to the Podcast