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The Lotus Eaters Episode 11: Cleaning House

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Episode 342: A Boy's Best Friend (Hitchcock's "Psycho")

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The Lotus Eaters Episode 10: Like-Minded [unlocked]

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The Lotus Eaters Episode 9: An Ode to Argos [unlocked]

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Episode 341: Psychology Ranked (With Paul Bloom)

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The Lotus Eaters Episode 8: Home and Homelessness [unlocked]

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The Lotus Eaters Episode 7: Lying Odysseus [unlocked]

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Episode 340: The Sublime Folly of Hope

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The Lotus Eaters Episode 6: Psyches [unlocked]

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The Lotus Eaters Episode 5: Circe, Cyclops, and Psychedelics (Oh My!) [unlocked]

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Episode 339: Is Analytic Philosophy Truthmaxxing?

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The Lotus Eaters Episode 4: I Am Odysseus [unlocked]

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The Lotus Eaters Episode 3: The Halfway House to Humanity [unlocked]

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The Lotus Eaters Episode 2: Intangible as Wind [unlocked]

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The Lotus Eaters Episode 1: The Journey Begins [unlocked]

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Episode 338: The Lotus Eaters (Nolan's "The Odyssey")

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Episode 337: First Contact? (Tarkovsky's "Solaris")

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Episode 336: That Oceanic Feeling (Stanisław Lem's "Solaris")

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Episode 335: The Wright Stuff

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Episode 334: Let's Get Metaphysical

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Episode 333: P-hacking the Mind

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Episode 332: Talking to Myself ("The Other" by Jorge Luis Borges)

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Episode 331: Who's Your Law Daddy? (Plato's "Crito")

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Episode 330: A Fact-Based Podcast (Gogol's "The Overcoat")

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Episode 329: Why We Suffer

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Episode 328: Weapons Free

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Episode 327: You Ain't So Smart (Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People")

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Episode 326: The Most Important Episode of Your (Academic) Life

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Episode 325: It Is Happening Again

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Episode 324: Irruption of the Sacred

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Episode 323: Debate Me 'Phro

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Episode 322: A Theater of Simultaneous Possibilities (William James' "The Stream of Thought")

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Episode 321: The Journey Begins (Plus Blind Ranking Philosophers)

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Episode 320: Forgive Me (Kafka's "A Hunger Artist")

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Episode 319: The Shadow of the Object (Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia")

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Episode 318: A PTA Meeting

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Episode 317: For Shame

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Episode 316: A Four-Letter Man (Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber")

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Episode 315: Ceaseless Striving (Schopenhauer's Pessimism)

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Episode 314: The In-Betweeny Place

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Episode 313: The Spontaneous Eruption of Now

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Episode 312: MechaSkeptic

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Episode 311: The Way to Dusty Death (Shakespeare's "Macbeth")

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Episode 310: Bayes, Brains, and Buddhists

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Episode 309: Dissolving Into the One

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Bonus Episode: Va Va Boom (Robert Aldrich's "Kiss Me Deadly")

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Episode 308: The Gray Man who Dreamed (Borges' "Shakespeare's Memory")

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Episode 307: What's in the BOX?

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Episode 306: What to Expect When You're Expecting (David Lynch's "Eraserhead" with Barry Lam)

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Episode 305: Emile Is the Name of the Goat (with Paul Bloom)

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Episode 304: The Planes Don't Land

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Episode 303: Measure This

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Episode 302: Metaphysical Edging

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Episode 301: Believing is Seeing?

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Episode 300: If We Only Had A Brain

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Episode 299: Oh the Humility!

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Episode 298: Pass the Peace Pipe

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Episode 297: No Pleasure in Meanness (Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find")

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Episode 296: The Other CRT

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Episode 295: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

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Episode 294: The Scandal of Philosophy (Hume's Problem of Induction)

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Episode 293: Who Is the Dreamer? (Borges' "The Circular Ruins")

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Episode 292: Boundary Issues

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Episode 291: Shoe Shining

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Episode 290: Blinded by the Light (Plato's Cave Pt. 2)

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Episode 289: Shadows on the Wall (Plato's Cave Pt. 1)

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Episode 288: The Despised Foot (The Denial of Death Pt. 2)

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Episode 287: Gods With Anuses (The Denial of Death Pt. 1)

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Episode 286: Laugh and the World Laughs With You

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Episode 285: On Culture and Agriculture

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Episode 284: Reel Choices

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Episode 283: When Elephants Podcast

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Episode 282: Fearful Symmetry (Borges' "Death and the Compass")

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Episode 281: Choose Your Fighter

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Episode 280: Mad Masque (with Phil Ford and J.F. Martel)

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Episode 279: The Greenhouses We Burned Along the Way (Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" Pt. 2)

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Episode 278: Schrödinger's Everything (Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" Pt. 1)

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Episode 277: The Merits of Buggery (Nagel's "Sexual Perversion")

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Episode 276: Attention Please

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Episode 275: The Ineffable Center (Borges' "The Aleph")

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Episode 274: Can I Get a Kidney Voucher? (with Vlad Chituc)

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Episode 273: Ah. Ah. (Miyazaki's "Spirited Away")

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Episode 272: Neigh Means Yay

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Episode 271: Concept-Con 2023

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Episode 270: Take Me to the River (Blood Meridian, Pt. 3)

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Episode 269: Death Hilarious (Blood Meridian, Pt. 2)

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Episode 268: Blood Meridian, Part 1

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Episode 267: The Thickness of Reality

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Episode 266: I Want to Half-Believe

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Episode 265: Kekulé (Oh Yeah!)

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[BONUS] Overton Windows Episode 1: Israel and Palestine

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Episode 264: The Rule You Follow (The Coen Brothers' "No Country for Old Men")

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Episode 263: Free Yoel

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Episode 262: Supposing Truth is a Woman (Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil")

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Episode 261: Death of the Author

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Episode 260: The Scream That Never Found a Voice (Murakami's "Sleep")

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Episode 259: Losing Time ("Tár" with Paul Bloom)

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Episode 258: Mystic Peeza

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Episode 257: Aural Fixation

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Episode 256: The Right to Punish?

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