Philosophers In Space

By Aaron Rabinowitz and Callie Wright

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Welcome to Philosophers In Space, where the intrepid trekker captain Callie Wright and their questionable Chief Ethics Officer Aaron Rabinowitz explore the weird, gooey world of sci-fi, searching for tantalizing hypotheticals and gear-stripping questions in a space odyssey of meaning and amusement.

Episode Date
Downsizing and Altruisms
May 06, 2024
Dune pt 2
Apr 23, 2024
The Pod Generation and Naturalness
Apr 08, 2024
Monolith and Viral Memetics
Mar 22, 2024
Sense8 and TERFs
Mar 08, 2024
Barbie
Feb 23, 2024
Children of Memory and Objective Personhood pt.1
Feb 02, 2024
Listener Qs 36
Jan 13, 2024
Q and A 35
Jan 05, 2024
Silo and Conspiracy
Dec 29, 2023
Gideon Pt 3 and Anti-Meritocratic Pedagogy
Dec 16, 2023
Gideon Pt 2 and Meritocratic Pedagogy
Dec 01, 2023
Gideon pt1 and Queer Theory
Nov 21, 2023
Helsreach and Grimdark Gamergate
Nov 05, 2023
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy and Meaningful Needs pt. 2
Oct 20, 2023
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy and Anarcho-Primitivism pt.1
Oct 09, 2023
Dual and Flourishing in a Dehumanizing Society
Sep 22, 2023
Listener Qs 34
Sep 05, 2023
Listener Qs 33
Sep 05, 2023
Bluey “Rug Island” 2.10 and “Camping” 1.43 and Play
Aug 11, 2023
Cabinet of Curiosities ep7: The Viewing and Intersectional High Weirdness
Aug 01, 2023
Brand New Cherry Flavor Episodes 1-4 and Cronenbergian High Weirdness
Jul 14, 2023
A Color Out of Space and Lovecraftian High Weirdness
Jul 07, 2023
A Scanner Darkly and PKD High Weirdness pt1
Jun 17, 2023
A Psalm for the Wild-Built and Objects pt2
Jun 02, 2023
A Psalm for the Wild-Built and Solarpunk pt1
May 19, 2023
Lawnmower Man and Dis Crit with Elizabeth Barnes
May 05, 2023
Star Trek: Discovery and Panpsychism
Apr 20, 2023
The Things and Varieties of Uplifting
Apr 07, 2023
Children of Ruin pt3 and The Problem of Unity
Mar 24, 2023
Children of Ruin pt2 and Radically Distributed Cognition
Mar 10, 2023
Children of Ruin pt1 and What It's Like to be a Portid
Feb 24, 2023
Listener Qs 32
Feb 03, 2023
Listener Qs 31
Jan 20, 2023
Andor ep7-12 and the Flavors of Anti-fash
Jan 13, 2023
Pylon Pledge Drive!
Jan 05, 2023
Andor ep1-6 and the Flavors of Fash
Dec 30, 2022
Lower Decks: Strange Energies and Humanism
Dec 16, 2022
0G200: Crimes of the Future and Artistic Burnout
Dec 02, 2022
0G199: Orville: New Horizons episode 8 and Culture War Child Soldiers
Nov 19, 2022
0G198: Orville: New Horizons episode 5 and childhood gender autonomy
Nov 04, 2022
0G197: Everything Everywhere All at Once and Modal Luck pt 2
Oct 21, 2022
0G196: Everything Everywhere All at Once pt1
Oct 07, 2022
0G195: The Boys Season Three and Hobbes' Leviathan
Sep 23, 2022
0G194: The Boys Season Two and White Christian Nationalism
Sep 09, 2022
0G193: Archive and Advanced Philosophy of Digital Personhood
Aug 26, 2022
0G192: Consider Phlebas and Galactic Just War pt.3
Aug 12, 2022
0G191: Consider Phlebas and Philosophy of Scale pt.2
Aug 10, 2022
0G190: Consider Phlebas and Critiquing the Culture pt.1
Jul 22, 2022
0G189: Three Robots Exit Strategies and Billionaire Preppers
Jul 08, 2022
Listener Qs 30
Jun 24, 2022
Listener Qs 29
Jun 10, 2022
0G188: Tremors and Doomsday Prepperism
Jun 03, 2022
0G187: Severance and Corporate Culture Alienation
May 27, 2022
0G186: Beforeigners and Transtemporalism Pt.2
May 20, 2022
0G185: Beforeigners and Immigration Pt.1
May 13, 2022
0G184: The Titan and Posthumanism
May 06, 2022
0G183: SCP and Antimemetics
Apr 29, 2022
0G182: John and Sun-Hee and End of Life Ethics
Apr 22, 2022
0G181: Existenz and Transhumanist Alienation
Apr 08, 2022
0G180: Naked Lunch and Beat Philosophy
Apr 01, 2022
Unlocked 0G179: The Fly and Transhumanism
Mar 18, 2022
Listener Qs 28
Mar 11, 2022
Listener Qs 27
Mar 04, 2022
0G178: Videodrome and Marshall Mcluhan
Feb 25, 2022
0G177: The Endless and Eternal Return
Feb 18, 2022
0G176: The Eternals and Space Baby Antinatalism
Feb 09, 2022
0G175: Station Eleven and Theater of Grief pt2
Feb 02, 2022
0G174: Station Eleven and Philosophy of Theatre pt1
Jan 26, 2022
0G173: Matrix Four and the Ethics of Artistic Reincarnation
Jan 19, 2022
0G172: Spiders-Men and the Metamedia Turn
Jan 12, 2022
0G171: See and the Social Model of Disability
Dec 29, 2021
0G170: The Comet and The Color Line
Dec 22, 2021
0G169: Matrix Reloaded and Non-dualism
Dec 15, 2021
0G168: Animatrix and AI Empathy
Dec 08, 2021
0G167: Dune 2021 and Decolonialism
Dec 01, 2021
0G166: Foundation and Cultural Literacy Pt2
Nov 24, 2021
0G165: Foundation and Longtermism Pt1
Nov 17, 2021
Listener Qs 26
Nov 10, 2021
Listener Qs 25
Nov 03, 2021
0G164: Dollhouse 1.1 and Ethics of Intermittent Personhood
Oct 27, 2021
0G163: Moon and Low-road Capitalism
Oct 20, 2021
0G162: Three Body Problem and The Problem of Induction Pt2
Oct 13, 2021
0G161: Three Body Problem and Maoism Pt1
Oct 06, 2021
0G160: Disney's Atlantis and Racist Pseudohistory
Sep 29, 2021
0G159: The Empty Man and Tulpas
Sep 22, 2021
0G158: Darmok and Archetypal Communication
Sep 15, 2021
0G157: Loki and Multiverse Authoritarianism
Sep 08, 2021
0G156: All Systems Red and Nonconforming Identities
Sep 01, 2021
0G155: Never Ricking Morty and Metamedia
Aug 18, 2021
0G154: Ready Player One and Value Capture
Aug 04, 2021
Listener Qs 24
Jul 28, 2021
Listener Qs 23
Jul 21, 2021
0G153: WandaVision and the Grief of Theseus
Jul 14, 2021
0G152: The Sneetches and Ingroup/Outgroup Behavior
Jul 07, 2021
0G151: Aniara and Pointlessness
Jun 30, 2021
0G150: Babylon 5 ep3.4 and Radical Rehabilitation
Jun 23, 2021
0G149: Sorry to Bother You and the Talented Tenth
Jun 16, 2021
0G148: X-Files 4.7 and Conspiratorial Art
Jun 09, 2021
0G147: Fantastic Planet and Surrealism
Jun 02, 2021
0G146: The Expanse ep2.3 and Moral Deference
May 26, 2021
0G145: The Thing and Anti-Communism
May 19, 2021
0G144: Godzilla vs. King Kong and Ecoterrorism
May 12, 2021
Listener Qs 22
May 05, 2021
Listener Qs 21
Apr 28, 2021
0G143: Fringe's White Tulip and Psychological Egoism
Apr 21, 2021
0G142: Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and Afropessimism vs. Afrofuturism
Apr 14, 2021
0G141: HBO's Lovecraft Country and Colonial Knowledge Production
Apr 07, 2021
0G140: Futurama's A Clockwork Origin and Creationism
Mar 31, 2021
0G139: Stranger in a Strange Land and Ethical Non-Monogamy Part 3
Mar 24, 2021
Aaron and Andrew Debate Stranger vs. Harsh Mistress
Mar 23, 2021
0G138: Stranger in a Strange Land and Prosperity Gospel Part 2
Mar 17, 2021
0G137: Stranger in a Strange Land and Tat Tvam Asi Part 1
Mar 10, 2021
0G136: Heavens River (Bobiverse Book Four) and Unstable Utopias
Mar 03, 2021
0G135: All These Worlds (Bobiverse Book Three) and Ephemeral Ethics
Feb 24, 2021
Listener Qs 20
Feb 17, 2021
Listener Qs 19
Feb 10, 2021
0G134: For We Are Many (Bobiverse Book Two) and Pre-Contact Game Theory
Feb 03, 2021
0G133: Raised by Wolves and Raising Atheists
Jan 27, 2021
0G132: Altered States and Psychonautics
Jan 20, 2021
0G131: Tuvix and Transporter Murder
Jan 13, 2021
0G130: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) and Ethical Space Colonization Part 2
Jan 06, 2021
0G129: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) and Ethically Raised AI Part 1
Dec 30, 2020
0G128: Dark City and Conspiracy Theory Logic
Dec 23, 2020
0G127: Anathem and Foucault, Part 4
Dec 16, 2020
0G126: Parable of the Talents and Positive Obsession, Part 3
Dec 09, 2020
Listener Qs 18
Dec 02, 2020
Listener Qs 17
Nov 25, 2020
0G125: Parable of the Talents and Process Philosophy/Theology, Part 2
Nov 18, 2020
0G124: Parable of the Talents and Critical Race Theory, Part 1
Nov 11, 2020
0G123: Dr. Who and the Daleks and Pacifism
Nov 04, 2020
0G122: Robocop and AI Police
Oct 28, 2020
0G121: Lovecraft Country and Othering
Oct 21, 2020
0G120: Children of Time and Empathic Prisoner's dilemma, Part 3
Oct 14, 2020
0G119: Children of Time and Neuromorphic AI, Part 2
Oct 07, 2020
0G118: Children of Time and Uplifting, Part 1
Sep 30, 2020
0G117: Avatar and Moral Realism, Part 2
Sep 23, 2020
0G116: Avatar the Last Airbender and Agent Neutral Buddhist Ethics, Part 1
Sep 16, 2020
Rebroadcasting 0G63: Fury Road and Ecofeminism
Sep 09, 2020
Rebroadcasting 0G19: Black Mirror, Hang the DJ, Part 1: Newcomb's Paradox
Sep 02, 2020
Listener Qs 16
Aug 26, 2020
Listener Qs 15
Aug 19, 2020
0G115: Anathem and Polycosmic Protism, Part 3
Aug 12, 2020
0G114: Anathem and the Linguistic Turn, Part 2
Aug 05, 2020
0G113: Anathem and Platonism, Part 1
Jul 29, 2020
0G112: Psychopass and Freewill QnA
Jul 22, 2020
0G111: Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom and Dennett's Compatibilism, Part 2
Jul 15, 2020
0G110: What's Expected of Us and Dennett's Compatibilism
Jul 08, 2020
0G109: Uploaded and For-Profit Afterlife
Jul 01, 2020
0G108: The Island and The Categorical Imperative
Jun 24, 2020
0G107: Devs and the Paradox of Predictability
Jun 17, 2020
0G106: The Platform and Methods of Social Change
Jun 10, 2020
0G105: Picard and the Butlerian Jihad
Jun 03, 2020
0G104: The Expanse and The Myth of Catching Up
May 27, 2020
0G103: Dr Who's Heaven Sent and "Self" sacrifice
May 20, 2020
0G102: Player of Games and Gamification of Ethics, Part 3
May 13, 2020
0G101: Player of Games and Authoritarian Essentialism, Part 2
May 06, 2020
Listener Qs 14
Apr 29, 2020
Listener Qs 13
Apr 22, 2020
0G100: WWZ and the Human Cost of Ethics, Part 2
Apr 15, 2020
0G99: WWZ and Lifeboat Ethics, Part 1
Apr 08, 2020
0G98: Player of Games and AI Utopia, Part 1
Apr 01, 2020
0G97: Bioshock and Going Galt
Mar 25, 2020
0G96: Serenity and Positive Eugenics
Mar 18, 2020
0G95: Stargate Atlantis and Gamification
Mar 11, 2020
0G94: The Good Place and Universalist Enlightenment
Mar 04, 2020
OG93: Good Place and Scanlon's Contractualism
Feb 26, 2020
0G92: Watchmen and Subjective vs. Objective
Feb 19, 2020
0G91: Watchmen and The Absurd
Feb 12, 2020
0G90: Mandalorian and Masks
Feb 05, 2020
0G89: Empire Strikes Back and Taoism
Jan 29, 2020
0G88: Star Wars A New Hope and Just War Theory
Jan 22, 2020
Listener Qs 12
Jan 15, 2020
Listener Qs 11
Jan 08, 2020
0G87: Blindsight and Moral Realism, Part 3
Jan 01, 2020
0G86: Blindsight and the Value of Sentience, Part 2
Dec 25, 2019
0G85: Blindsight and Philosophical Zombies, Part 1
Dec 18, 2019
0G84: A Subway named Mobius and Emergent Properties
Dec 11, 2019
0G83: The Society and The State of Nature and Game Theory
Dec 04, 2019
0G82: Dr. Who's Girl in the Fireplace and the AI Alignment Problem
Nov 27, 2019
0G81: HBO's Watchmen and Reparations
Nov 20, 2019
0G80: Primer and the Ethics of Time Travel
Nov 13, 2019
0G79: The Ones Who Stay and Fight and The Paradox of Tolerance
Nov 06, 2019
0G78: Omelas and Distributive Justice
Oct 30, 2019
0G77: DS9 Heart of Stone and Deontology
Oct 23, 2019
0G76: The Golden Man and The Ubermensch
Oct 16, 2019
0G75: Repo Men and Organ Markets
Oct 09, 2019
0G74: Cloud Dragon Skies and Geoengineering
Oct 02, 2019
0G73: Snowpiercer and Social Contract Theory, Part 2
Sep 25, 2019
0G72: Snowpiercer and Environmental Injustice, Part 1
Sep 18, 2019
0G71: Willy Wonka and The Meritocracy Factory
Sep 11, 2019
Listener Qs 10
Sep 04, 2019
Listener Qs 9
Aug 28, 2019
0G70: The Power and Cyborg Feminism, Part 2
Aug 21, 2019
0G69: The Power and Cyborg Theory, Part 1
Aug 14, 2019
0G68: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Grief
Aug 07, 2019
0G67: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Grief
Jul 31, 2019
0G66: Striking Vipers and Multifaceted Virtual Identities
Jul 24, 2019
0G65: The Evitable Conflict and The Zeroth Law
Jul 17, 2019
0G64: I Am Mother and Care Ethics
Jul 10, 2019
0G63: Fury Road and Ecofeminism
Jul 03, 2019
0G62: One Punch Man and Process vs. Product
Jun 26, 2019
0G61: The Waldo Moment and Politics as Entertainment
Jun 19, 2019
0G60: Voyager and Procreation
Jun 12, 2019
0G59: Endgame and Moral Saints
May 29, 2019
0G58: Runaround and Three Laws of Robotics
May 22, 2019
0G57: Orphan Black and Human Cloning
May 15, 2019
0G56: Humans and Everyday AI
May 08, 2019
0G55: Cube and Kafkaesque
May 01, 2019
0G54: The Fifth Element and Manacheanism
Apr 24, 2019
0G53: Zima Blue and Projects of Worth
Apr 17, 2019
0G52: Infinity Wars and Overpopulation
Apr 10, 2019
0G51: The Ricklantis Mixup and Artistic Improvement
Apr 03, 2019
Listener Qs 8
Mar 27, 2019
0G50: The Ricklantis Mixup and Aesthetic Objectivity
Mar 27, 2019
Listener Qs 7
Mar 20, 2019
0G49: The Ricklantis Mixup and Aesthetics, Part 1
Mar 20, 2019
0G48: Groundhog Day and Buddhist Virtue Theory
Mar 13, 2019
0G47: Annihilation and Deep Ecology, Part 2
Mar 06, 2019
0G46: Annihilation and Catastrophic Destruction, Part 1
Feb 27, 2019
0G45: Star Trek Next Gen 4-22 and Cultural Relativism vs Ethical Pluralism
Feb 20, 2019
OG44: Bandersnatch and the Ethics of Mental Illness Representation, Part 2
Feb 13, 2019
0G43: Bandersnatch and Quantum Immortality
Feb 06, 2019
0G42: Today I am Paul and AI Elder Care
Jan 30, 2019
0G41: A Christmas Carol and Moral Motivation
Jan 23, 2019
NASA1: Battlefield Earth
Jan 21, 2019
0G40: Total Recall and Locke's Theory of Personal Identity, Part 2
Jan 16, 2019
0G39: Total Recall and Locke's Theory of Personal Identity, Part 1
Jan 09, 2019
0G38: Terminator 2 and Roko's Basilisk, Part 2
Jan 02, 2019
0G37: Terminator 2 and the Bootstrap Paradox, Part 1
Dec 26, 2018
0G36: The Matrix and Skepticism, Part 2
Dec 19, 2018
OG35: The Matrix and Skepticism, Part 1
Dec 12, 2018
Listener Qs 6
Dec 05, 2018
0G34: The Good Place and Moral Luck
Dec 05, 2018
Listener Qs 5
Nov 28, 2018
0G33: Aliens and The Second Sex
Nov 28, 2018
0G32: Alien and The Corporation as Sociopath
Nov 21, 2018
0G31: Snow Crash and Universal Language, Part 2
Nov 14, 2018
0G30: Snow Crash and Libertarianism, Part 1
Nov 07, 2018
0G29: Ex Machina and the AI Box Problem, Part 2
Oct 31, 2018
0G28: Ex Machina and Mary the Color Scientist, Part 1
Oct 23, 2018
0G27: Galaxy Quest and Toxic Fandom, Part 2
Oct 17, 2018
0G26: Pickle Rick and Toxic Fandom, Part 1
Oct 10, 2018
0G25: Minority Report and Time Paradoxes
Oct 03, 2018
0G24: Minority Report and Prescient Utilitarianism
Sep 26, 2018
0G23: Harrison Bergeron and Equality of Outcome
Sep 19, 2018
0G22: Gattaca and Genetic Determinism
Sep 12, 2018
OG21: DS9 Dax and Queer Personhood
Sep 05, 2018
Listener Qs 4
Sep 04, 2018
Listener Qs 3
Aug 29, 2018
0G20: Black Mirror, Hang the DJ, Part 2: Predicting Compatibility
Aug 29, 2018
0G19: Black Mirror, Hang the DJ, Part 1: Newcomb's Paradox
Aug 22, 2018
0G18: Dune Part Three, The Cycle of Politics
Aug 15, 2018
OG17: Dune Part Two, Kwisatz Haderach and Self-Perfection
Aug 08, 2018
OG16: Dune Part One, the Expositioning
Aug 01, 2018
OG15: Orville and the Prime Directive
Jul 25, 2018
Listener Qs 2
Jul 18, 2018
0G14: The Good Place and Justice vs. Mercy
Jul 11, 2018
0G13: Westworld and Virtue Theory, Part 2 - with Eli Bosnick!
Jul 04, 2018
0G12: Westworld and Morality Simulators, Part 1 - with Eli Bosnick!
Jun 27, 2018
0G11: Full Metal Alchemist and Death
Jun 13, 2018
0G10: Brave New world and Genetic Engineering, Part 2
May 30, 2018
0G9: Brave New World and Utilitarianism, Part 1
May 16, 2018
0G8: Autofac and Self-Replicating Systems
May 02, 2018
0G7: Altered Carbon and the Mind/Body Problem
Apr 18, 2018
0G6: Arrival and Sapir-Whorf
Apr 04, 2018
Listener Qs #1
Mar 28, 2018
0G5: Twilight Zone and the Chinese Room
Mar 21, 2018
0G4: Star Trek: TNG and AI Personhood
Mar 07, 2018
0G3: Futurama and Mereology
Feb 28, 2018
0G2: Rick and Morty and Possible Worlds
Feb 14, 2018
0G1: Black Mirror and The Experience Machine
Feb 14, 2018