Episodes

Episodes

• Episode 327: You Ain't So Smart (Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People") 2026-02-24
• Episode 326: The Most Important Episode of Your (Academic) Life 2026-02-10
• Episode 325: It Is Happening Again 2026-01-27
• Episode 324: Irruption of the Sacred 2026-01-13
• Episode 323: Debate Me 'Phro 2025-12-23
• Episode 322: A Theater of Simultaneous Possibilities (William James' "The Stream of Thought") 2025-12-09
• Episode 321: The Journey Begins (Plus Blind Ranking Philosophers) 2025-11-25
• Episode 320: Forgive Me (Kafka's "A Hunger Artist") 2025-11-11
• Episode 319: The Shadow of the Object (Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia") 2025-10-28
• Episode 318: A PTA Meeting 2025-10-14
• Episode 317: For Shame 2025-09-30
• Episode 316: A Four-Letter Man (Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber") 2025-09-16
• Episode 315: Ceaseless Striving (Schopenhauer's Pessimism) 2025-09-02
• Episode 314: The In-Betweeny Place 2025-08-12
• Episode 313: The Spontaneous Eruption of Now 2025-07-29
• Episode 312: MechaSkeptic 2025-07-15
• Episode 311: The Way to Dusty Death (Shakespeare's "Macbeth") 2025-07-01
• Episode 310: Bayes, Brains, and Buddhists 2025-06-10
• Episode 309: Dissolving Into the One 2025-05-27
• Episode 308: The Gray Man who Dreamed (Borges' "Shakespeare's Memory") 2025-05-06
• Episode 307: What's in the BOX? 2025-04-22
• Episode 306: What to Expect When You're Expecting (David Lynch's "Eraserhead" with Barry Lam) 2025-04-08
• Episode 305: Emile Is the Name of the Goat (with Paul Bloom) 2025-03-25
• Episode 304: The Planes Don't Land 2025-03-11
• Episode 303: Measure This 2025-02-25
• Episode 302: Metaphysical Edging 2025-02-11
• Episode 301: Believing is Seeing? 2025-01-28
• Episode 300: If We Only Had A Brain 2025-01-14
• Episode 299: Oh the Humility! 2024-12-24
• Episode 298: Pass the Peace Pipe 2024-12-10
• Episode 297: No Pleasure in Meanness (Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find") 2024-11-26
• Episode 296: The Other CRT 2024-11-12
• Episode 295: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 2024-10-29
• Episode 294: The Scandal of Philosophy (Hume's Problem of Induction) 2024-10-08
• Episode 293: Who Is the Dreamer? (Borges' "The Circular Ruins") 2024-09-24
• Episode 292: Boundary Issues 2024-09-10
• Episode 291: Shoe Shining 2024-08-27
• Episode 290: Blinded by the Light (Plato's Cave Pt. 2) 2024-08-06
• Episode 289: Shadows on the Wall (Plato's Cave Pt. 1) 2024-07-23
• Episode 288: The Despised Foot (The Denial of Death Pt. 2) 2024-07-09
• Episode 287: Gods With Anuses (The Denial of Death Pt. 1) 2024-06-25
• Episode 286: Laugh and the World Laughs With You 2024-06-11
• Episode 285: On Culture and Agriculture 2024-05-28
• Episode 284: Reel Choices 2024-05-15
• Episode 283: When Elephants Podcast 2024-04-30
• Episode 282: Fearful Symmetry (Borges' "Death and the Compass") 2024-04-16
• Episode 281: Choose Your Fighter 2024-03-26
• Episode 280: Mad Masque (with Phil Ford and J.F. Martel) 2024-03-12
• Episode 279: The Greenhouses We Burned Along the Way (Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" Pt. 2) 2024-02-27
• Episode 278: Schrödinger's Everything (Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" Pt. 1) 2024-02-13
• Episode 277: The Merits of Buggery (Nagel's "Sexual Perversion") 2024-01-30
• Episode 276: Attention Please 2024-01-16
• Episode 275: The Ineffable Center (Borges' "The Aleph") 2023-12-26
• Episode 274: Can I Get a Kidney Voucher? (with Vlad Chituc) 2023-12-13
• Episode 273: Ah. Ah. (Miyazaki's "Spirited Away") 2023-11-29
• Episode 272: Neigh Means Yay 2023-11-15
• Episode 271: Concept-Con 2023 2023-11-13
• Episode 270: Take Me to the River (Blood Meridian, Pt. 3) 2023-10-10
• Episode 269: Death Hilarious (Blood Meridian, Pt. 2) 2023-10-10
• Episode 268: Blood Meridian, Part 1 2023-09-12
• Episode 267: The Thickness of Reality 2023-08-22
• Episode 266: I Want to Half-Believe 2023-08-08
• Episode 265: Kekulé (Oh Yeah!) 2023-07-25
• Episode 264: The Rule You Follow (The Coen Brothers' "No Country for Old Men") 2023-07-11
• Episode 263: Free Yoel 2023-06-27
• Episode 262: Supposing Truth is a Woman (Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil") 2023-06-13
• Episode 261: Death of the Author 2023-05-30
• Episode 260: The Scream That Never Found a Voice (Murakami's "Sleep") 2023-05-09
• Episode 259: Losing Time ("Tár" with Paul Bloom) 2023-04-25
• Episode 258: Mystic Peeza 2023-04-11
• Episode 257: Aural Fixation 2023-03-28
• Episode 256: The Right to Punish? 2023-03-14
• Episode 255: Beloved Child of the House (Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi") 2023-02-28
• Episode 254: Nobody's Parfit 2023-02-14
• Episode 253: Tarkovsky's Starchild 2023-01-31
• Episode 252: Yes We Sene-can 2023-01-10
• Episode 251: First Order, Then Chaos 2022-12-20
• Episode 250: Metaphors All the Way Down 2022-12-06
• Episode 249: Phlegm and Carelessness (Hume's "The Sceptic") 2022-11-22
• Episode 248: Checkmate, Grasshopper 2022-11-01