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Episode 256: The Right to Punish?
EEpisode 255: Beloved Child of the House (Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi")
EEpisode 254: Nobody's Parfit
EEpisode 253: Tarkovsky's Starchild
EEpisode 252: Yes We Sene-can
EEpisode 251: First Order, Then Chaos
EEpisode 250: Metaphors All the Way Down
EEpisode 249: Phlegm and Carelessness (Hume's "The Sceptic")
EEpisode 248: Checkmate, Grasshopper
EEpisode 247: Open the Pod, Dave (with Sam Harris)
EEpisode 246: Existential Poker-Face (David Foster Wallace's "E Unibus Pluram")
EEpisode 245: Pragmatically Speaking
EEpisode 244: Thanks for the Memories? (Borges' "Funes the Memorious)
EEpisode 243: Finding My Religion
EBonus Episode: The Ambulators (A "Deadwood" Podcast)
EEpisode 242: Losing My Religion
EEpisode 241: Very Bad Orgies (Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut")
EEpisode 240: Evil
EEpisode 239: Lose Yourself
EEpisode 238: I Am Not Ivan Ilyich...Am I?
EEpisode 237: Glitches Ain't Shit
EEpisode 236: Your Outie Is Skilled at Lovemaking (With Paul Bloom)
EEpisode 235: Animated Objects
EEpisode 234: Like A Dog (Kafka's "The Trial" Pt. 2)
EEpisode 233: Keeping It Surreal (Kafka's "The Trial" Pt. 1)
EEpisode 232: Mind Over Matter
EEpisode 231: Ideal Critics (Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste")
EEpisode 230: Be Happy (Lars von Trier's "Melancholia")
EEpisode 229: Skin Deep?
EEpisode 228: Forever Jung
EEpisode 227: A Terrible Master (David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water").
EEpisode 226: Unraveling Time Traveling (with Barry Lam and Christina Hoff Sommers)
EEpisode 225: Forbidden Modules
EEpisode 224: Hurts So Good (With Paul Bloom)
EEpisode 223: The Hopeless Dream of Being (Bergman's "Persona")
EEpisode 222: Choosing Sartre for All Mankind
EEpisode 221: Granite Cocks vs Robot Overlords
EEpisode 220: On Your Marx
EEpisode 219: Multiplied by Mirrors
EEpisode 218: ...But You Can't Hide (Michael Haneke's "Caché")
EEpisode 217: Dropping Paradigms (Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions")
EEpisode 216: Oral Judgments
EEpisode 215: Touch My Pink Monkey
EEpisode 214: You Shouldn't Feel Bad (Except You Should)
EEpisode 213: What Is It Like To Be a Robot Fish Man? (with Ted Chiang)
EEpisode 212: Follow Your Nose (with Yoel Inbar)
EEpisode 211: To Live and Die in Kurosawa's "Ikiru"
EEpisode 210: The Priming of the American Mind (with Jesse Singal)
EEpisode 209: Basic Instincts (with Paul Bloom)
EEpisode 208: Dream Theater
EEpisode 207: Sometimes a Paper Tray is Just a Paper Tray
EEpisode 206: Angel Chasing (Ted Chiang's "Hell is the Absence of God")
EEpisode 205: Making Your Nervous System Your Ally (William James on "Habit")
EEpisode 204: Happy Freedom Day! (with Lauren Anderson)
EEpisode 203: Gorgias, Tell Me Something I Don't Know (with Agnes Callard)
EEpisode 202: Not as It Ought to Be (H.P. Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space")
EEpisode 201: Very Bad Lizard People
EEpisode 200: Our 200th Episode Spectactular
EEpisode 199: When Philosophy Goes Sideways
EEpisode 198: Is Mental Illness a Myth? (Thomas Szasz's "The Myth of Mental Illness")
EEpisode 197: The Long Slow Death That Is Life
EEpisode 196: The Loneliest Paper in Philosophy
EEpisode 195: Jesus on Trial (Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov")
EEpisode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)
EEpisode 193: Free Wanting (Frankfurt's "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person")
EEpisode 192: Postmodern Wet Dreams (Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote")
EEpisode 191: All the Rage
EEpisode 190: We Pod. We Pod-Cast. We Podcast. (Frankfurt's "On Bullshit")
EEpisode 189: The Anality of Evil (Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents")
EEpisode 188: Conceptual Mummies (Nietzsche's "Twilight of the Idols")
EEpisode 187: More Zither
EEpisode 186: The One with Peter Singer
EEpisode 185: The Devil's Playground
EBonus Episode: Top 5 Deadwood Characters
EEpisode 184: Tainted Glove
EEpisode 183: Accept the Mystery (with Paul Bloom)
EEpisode 182: The Paper That Launched a Thousand Twitter Wars (With Yoel Inbar)
EEpisode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")
EEpisode 180: Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")
EEpisode 179: Talking Shit
EEpisode 178: Borges' Obsession-Obsession ("The Zahir")
EEpisode 177: Pure Linguistic Chauvinism
EEpisode 176: Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness
EEpisode 175: At Least We Didn't Talk About Zombies (Nagel's "What is it Like to be a Bat?")
EEpisode 174: More Chiang for Your Buck ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" Pt. 2)
EEpisode 173: Talking to Your (Alternate) Self [Ted Chiang's "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom"]
EEpisode 172: Are You Free (to like the Chappelle special)?
EEpisode 171: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Theodicy? (The Book of Job)
EEpisode 170: Social Psychology Gets an Asch-Kicking
EEpisode 169: A Bug's Life (Kafka's "The Metamorphosis")
EEpisode 168: The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 2)
EEpisode 167: The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 1)
EEpisode 166: Total Recall (Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling")
EEpisode 165: Life With No Head (With Sam Harris)
EEpisode 164: Choosing to Believe
EEpisode 163: Should I Stay or Should I Go? (Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas")
EEpisode 162: Parents Just Don't Understand (with Paul Bloom)
EEpisode 161: Reach-Around Knowledge and Bottom Performers (The Dunning-Kruger Effect)
EEpisode 160: Everything is Meaningless: The Book of Ecclesiastes
EEpisode 159: You Have the Right to Go to Prison
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