The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

By Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey

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The Partially Examined Life is a podcast by some guys who were at one point set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it. Each episode, we pick a short text and chat about it with some balance between insight and flippancy. You don't have to know any philosophy, or even to have read the text we're talking about to (mostly) follow and (hopefully) enjoy the discussion. For links to the texts we discuss and other info, check out www.partiallyexaminedlife.com. We also feature episodes from other podcasts by our hosts to round out your partially examined life, including Pretty Much Pop (prettymuchpop.com, covering all media), Nakedly Examined Music (nakedlyexaminedmusic.com, deconstructing songs), Philosophy vs. Improv (philosophyimprov.com, fun with performance skills and philosophical ideas), and (sub)Text (subtextpodcast.com, looking deeply at lit and film). Learn about more network podcasts at partiallyexaminedlife.com.

Episode Date
Ep. 338: Aristotle on Potential vs. Actual and the Unmoved Mover (Part One)
Mar 25, 2024
PEL Presents PMP#170: Poor Things and Other Yorgos
Mar 23, 2024
PREMIUM-PEL Nightcap w/ Chris Sunami (March 2024)
Mar 22, 2024
Ep. 337: Aristotle on Primary Being (Part Two)
Mar 18, 2024
Ep. 337: Aristotle on Primary Being (Part One)
Mar 11, 2024
PEL Presents PvI#72: Spock Fever w/ Cole Nasrallah and Chris Rathjen
Mar 10, 2024
PEL Presents PMP#169: Doctor Who? (When?)
Mar 10, 2024
Ep. 336: Aristotle on Being and Non-Contradiction (Part Two)
Mar 04, 2024
PEL Presents NEM#212: Graham Parker's Hard Graft
Mar 02, 2024
Ep. 336: Aristotle on Being and Non-Contradiction (Part One)
Feb 26, 2024
Ep. 335: Aristotle on Fundamental Explanations (Part Two)
Feb 19, 2024
Ep. 335: Aristotle on Fundamental Explanations (Part One)
Feb 12, 2024
REISSUE-Ep. 29: Kierkegaard on the Self
Feb 05, 2024
PREMIUM-PEL Long Winter's Nightcap (Jan-Feb 2024)
Feb 03, 2024
Ep. 334: Gabriel Marcel's Christian Existentialism (Part Two)
Jan 29, 2024
Ep. 334: Gabriel Marcel's Christian Existentialism (Part One)
Jan 22, 2024
PEL Presents NEM#209: Bruce Hornsby Is a Lifelong Student
Jan 20, 2024
Ep. 333: Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling" on Faith (Part Two)
Jan 15, 2024
Ep. 333: Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling" on Faith (Part One)
Jan 08, 2024
PREMIUM-PEL Winter Nightcap (Concluding 2023)
Jan 07, 2024
Ep. 332: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Ethical Self (Part Two)
Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 332: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Ethical Self (Part One)
Dec 25, 2023
PREMIUM-Ep. 331: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Ethical Life (Part Three)
Dec 22, 2023
Ep. 331: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Ethical Life (Part Two)
Dec 18, 2023
Ep. 331: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Ethical Life (Part One)
Dec 11, 2023
(SUB)TEXT: The Emptiness of Signification in Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" (Part 4 of 6)
Dec 10, 2023
PREMIUM-Ep. 330: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Aesthetic Life (Part Three)
Dec 08, 2023
Ep. 330: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Aesthetic Life (Part Two)
Dec 04, 2023
PEL Presents PvI#66: Legacy Mops w/ Kevin Allison
Dec 01, 2023
Ep. 330: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Aesthetic Life (Part One)
Nov 27, 2023
PEL Presents (SUB)TEXT: The Emptiness of Signification in Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" (Part 1 of 6)
Nov 26, 2023
Ep. 329: Kierkegaard on Irony (Part Three/Closereads Part One)
Nov 25, 2023
Ep. 329: Kierkegaard on Irony (Part Two)
Nov 20, 2023
Ep. 329: Kierkegaard on Irony (Part One)
Nov 13, 2023
PREMIUM-Ep. 328: Yascha Mounk Against Identity Politics (Part Three)
Nov 10, 2023
Ep. 328: Guest Yascha Mounk Against Identity Politics (Part Two)
Nov 06, 2023
Ep. 328: Guest Yascha Mounk Against Identity Politics (Part One)
Oct 30, 2023
PREMIUM-PEL Fall Nightcap 2023
Oct 28, 2023
Ep. 327: Harry Frankfurt on Bullsh*t and Authenticity (Part Two)
Oct 23, 2023
Ep. 327: Harry Frankfurt on Bullsh*t and Authenticity (Part One)
Oct 16, 2023
PEL Presents PvI#63: Virtual Socrates w/ David Chalmers
Oct 14, 2023
Ep. 326: Michael Tomasello on the Evolution of Agency (Part Two)
Oct 09, 2023
Ep. 326: Guest Michael Tomasello on the Evolution of Agency (Part One)
Oct 02, 2023
Ep. 325: Paul Grice on Meaning and Conversation (Part Two)
Sep 25, 2023
Ep. 325: Paul Grice on Meaning and Conversation (Part One)
Sep 18, 2023
PREMIUM-Ep. 324: Plato's "Cratylus" on Language (Part Three)
Sep 13, 2023
Ep. 324: Plato's "Cratylus" on Language (Part Two)
Sep 11, 2023
Ep. 324: Plato's "Cratylus" on Language (Part One)
Sep 04, 2023
PREMIUM-PEL End-of-Summer Nightcap 2023
Aug 29, 2023
Ep. 323: Acquiring Language: Tomasello vs. Chomsky (Part Two)
Aug 28, 2023
(SUB)TEXT: Home as Identity in "The Odyssey"
Aug 27, 2023
Ep. 323: Acquiring Language: Tomasello vs. Chomsky (Part One)
Aug 21, 2023
PEL Closereads: Emerson's Oversoul (New Podcast Premiere)
Aug 14, 2023
Ep. 322: Schelling on Art vs. Nature (Part Three)
Aug 07, 2023
Ep. 322: Schelling on Art vs. Nature (Part Two)
Jul 31, 2023
Ep. 322: Schelling on Art vs. Nature (Part One)
Jul 24, 2023
PREMIUM-PEL Tech Nightcap July 2023
Jul 21, 2023
Ep. 321: August Schlegel on Beauty (Part Two)
Jul 17, 2023
Ep. 321: August Schlegel on Beauty (Part One)
Jul 10, 2023
PREMIUM-Ep. 320: Friedrich Schlegel on Romanticism (Part Three)
Jul 08, 2023
Ep. 320: Friedrich Schlegel on Romanticism (Part Two)
Jul 03, 2023
Ep. 320: Friedrich Schlegel on Romanticism (Part One)
Jun 26, 2023
PREMIUM-Ep. 319: Schiller on Experiencing Beauty (Part Three)
Jun 23, 2023
Ep. 319: Schiller on Experiencing Beauty (Part Two)
Jun 19, 2023
Ep. 319: Schiller on Experiencing Beauty (Part One)
Jun 11, 2023
PREMIUM-Ep. 318: Friedrich Schiller on the Civilizing Potential of Art (Part Three)
Jun 10, 2023
Ep. 318: Friedrich Schiller on the Civilizing Potential of Art (Part Two)
Jun 05, 2023
Ep. 318: Friedrich Schiller on the Civilizing Potential of Art (Part One)
May 29, 2023
PREMIUM-Ep. 317: Character Philosophies in Dostoevsky's "Brothers Karamazov" (Part Two)
May 22, 2023
Ep. 317: Character Philosophies in Dostoevsky's "Brothers Karamazov" (Part One)
May 15, 2023
Ep. 316: Dostoevsky's "Brothers Karamazov": PEL Live in NYC (Part Two)
May 08, 2023
Ep. 316: Dostoevsky's "Brothers Karamazov": PEL Live in NYC (Part One)
May 01, 2023
PREMIUM-Ep. 315: Mengzi (Mencius) on Virtuous Leaders (Part Two)
Apr 24, 2023
Ep. 315: Mengzi (Mencius) on Virtuous Leaders (Part One)
Apr 17, 2023
PREMIUM-PEL Nightcap April 2023
Apr 14, 2023
Ep. 314: Mengzi (Mencius) on Moral Psychology (Part Two)
Apr 10, 2023
Ep. 314: Mengzi (Mencius) on Moral Psychology (Part One)
Apr 03, 2023
PREMIUM-Ep. 313: Mozi's Political Ethics (Part Three)
Apr 02, 2023
Ep. 313: Mozi's Political Ethics (Part Two)
Mar 27, 2023
Ep. 313: Mozi's Political Ethics (Part One)
Mar 20, 2023
PREMIUM-PEL Nightcap Late March 2023
Mar 20, 2023
Ep. 312: The Dao De Jing on Virtue (Part Two)
Mar 13, 2023
Ep. 312: The Dao De Jing on Virtue (Part One)
Mar 06, 2023
PREMIUM-PEL Nightcap Early March 2023
Mar 05, 2023
Ep. 311: Understanding the Dao De Jing (Part Two)
Feb 27, 2023
Ep. 311: Understanding the Dao De Jing (Part One)
Feb 20, 2023
PREMIUM-PEL Nightcap February 2023
Feb 18, 2023
Ep. 310: Wittgenstein On World-Pictures (Part Two)
Feb 13, 2023
Ep. 310: Wittgenstein On World-Pictures (Part One)
Feb 06, 2023
PREMIUM-PEL Nightcap January 2023
Jan 31, 2023
Ep. 309: Wittgenstein On Certainty (Part Two)
Jan 30, 2023
Ep. 309: Wittgenstein On Certainty (Part One)
Jan 23, 2023
Ep. 308: Moore's Proof of Mind-Independent Reality (Part Two)
Jan 16, 2023
Ep. 308: Moore's Proof of Mind-Independent Reality (Part One)
Jan 09, 2023
PREMIUM-PEL Nightcap 2022 Wrap-Up
Jan 05, 2023
Ep. 307: G.E. Moore Defends Common Sense (Part Two)
Jan 02, 2023
Ep. 307: G.E. Moore Defends Common Sense (Part One)
Dec 26, 2022
PREMIUM-Ep. 306: Dworkin and the Dobbs Decision (Part Three)
Dec 24, 2022
Ep. 306: Dworkin and the Dobbs Decision (Part Two)
Dec 19, 2022
Ep. 306: Dworkin and the Dobbs Decision (Part One)
Dec 12, 2022
PREMIUM-Ep. 305: Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" (Part Three)
Dec 10, 2022
Ep. 305: Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" (Part Two)
Dec 05, 2022
Ep. 305: Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" (Part One)
Nov 28, 2022
PREMIUM-PEL Nightcap November 2022: Listener Testimonials
Nov 27, 2022
Ep. 304: Dworkin v. Hart on Legal Judgment (Part Two)
Nov 21, 2022
Ep. 304: Dworkin v. Hart on Legal Judgment (Part One)
Nov 14, 2022
PREMIUM-Ep. 303: H.L.A. Hart on the Foundations of Law (Part Three)
Nov 11, 2022
Ep. 303: H.L.A. Hart on the Foundations of Law (Part Two)
Nov 07, 2022
Ep. 303: H.L.A. Hart on the Foundations of Law (Part One)
Oct 31, 2022
PREMIUM-Ep. 302: Erasmus Praises Foolishness (Part Three)
Oct 29, 2022
Ep. 302: Erasmus Praises Foolishness (Part Two)
Oct 24, 2022
Ep. 302: Erasmus Praises Foolishness (Part One)
Oct 17, 2022
PREMIUM-PEL Representation Nightcap October 2022
Oct 14, 2022
PEL Presents PvI#40: Rules and Voices with Stephen West (Philosophize This!)
Oct 13, 2022
Ep. 301: Is Abortion Morally Permissible? (Part Three)
Oct 10, 2022
Ep. 301: Is Abortion Morally Permissible? (Part Two)
Oct 03, 2022
PEL Presents NEM#181: Robyn Hitchcock Forgets Himself, Sharply
Sep 30, 2022
Ep. 301: Is Abortion Morally Permissible? (Part One)
Sep 26, 2022
PREMIUM-Ep. 300: Nietzsche on Relating to History (Part Three)
Sep 23, 2022
Ep. 300: Nietzsche on Relating to History (Part Two)
Sep 19, 2022
Ep. 300: Nietzsche on Relating to History (Part One)
Sep 12, 2022
PREMIUM-Ep. 299: Philosophy in Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens" (Part Three)
Sep 03, 2022
Ep. 299: Philosophy in Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens" (Part Two)
Aug 29, 2022
Ep. 299: Philosophy in Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens" (Part One)
Aug 22, 2022
Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens" Audioplay (Part Two)
Aug 15, 2022
Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens" Audioplay Feat. Jay O. Sanders, Michael Ian Black, and Michael Tow (Part One)
Aug 08, 2022
PREMIUM-Ficino-Flavored Nightcap Early August 2022
Aug 05, 2022
Ep. 298: Marsilio Ficino on Love (Part Two)
Aug 01, 2022
Ep. 298: Marsilio Ficino on Love (Part One)
Jul 25, 2022
PREMIUM-Ep. 297: Heidegger on the Human Condition (Part Three)
Jul 23, 2022
Ep. 297: Heidegger on the Human Condition (Part Two)
Jul 18, 2022
Ep. 297: Heidegger on the Human Condition (Part One)
Jul 11, 2022
Ep. 296: Heidegger Questions Being (Part Two)
Jul 04, 2022
Ep. 296: Heidegger's Questions Being (Part One)
Jun 27, 2022
PREMIUM-Ep. 295: Kant on Preventing War (Part Three)
Jun 18, 2022
Ep. 295: Kant on Preventing War (Part Two)
Jun 13, 2022
Ep. 295: Kant on Preventing War (Part One)
Jun 06, 2022
PREMIUM-Ep. 294: Quine on Science vs. Epistemology (Part Three)
Jun 03, 2022
Ep. 294: Quine on Science vs. Epistemology (Part Two)
May 30, 2022
Ep. 294: Quine on Science vs. Epistemology (Part One)
May 23, 2022
Philosophy vs. Improv #32: "On the Standard of [Bad] Taste" w/ Babette Babich
May 22, 2022
PREMIUM-Ep. 293: Donna Haraway on Feminist Science (Part Two)
May 16, 2022
Ep. 293: Donna Haraway on Feminist Science (Part One)
May 09, 2022
PREMIUM-Ep. 292: Langer on Symbolic Music (Part Two)
May 02, 2022
Ep. 292: Langer on Symbolic Music (Part One)
Apr 25, 2022
PREMIUM-Ep. 291: Cassirer and Langer on Myth and Ritual (Part Two)
Apr 18, 2022
Ep. 291: Cassirer and Langer on Myth and Ritual (Part One)
Apr 11, 2022
PEL Presents NEM#170: Bob Mould From Hüsker Dü to Sugar to Now
Apr 11, 2022
PREMIUM-Ep. 290: Susanne Langer on Our Symbol-Making Nature (Part Two)
Apr 04, 2022
Ep. 290: Susanne Langer on Our Symbol-Making Nature (Part One)
Mar 28, 2022
PREMIUM-Ep. 289: Aesthetic Sense Theory: Hume (Part Two)
Mar 21, 2022
Ep. 289: Aesthetic Sense Theory: Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hume (Part One)
Mar 14, 2022
PEL Presents Philosophy vs. Improv #28: Enhanced Interrogation w/ Adal Rifai
Mar 11, 2022
PREMIUM-Ep. 288: Scruton on Ethical Art (Part Two)
Mar 07, 2022
Ep. 288: Scruton on Ethical Art (Part One)
Feb 28, 2022
PREMIUM-Ep. 287: Roger Scruton on Beauty (Part Two)
Feb 21, 2022
Ep. 287: Roger Scruton on Beauty (Part One)
Feb 14, 2022
PREMIUM-Ep. 286: Malebranche on Causality and Theology (Part Three)
Feb 07, 2022
PREMIUM-Ep. 286: Malebranche on Causality and Theology (Part Two)
Jan 31, 2022
Ep. 286: Malebranche on Causality and Theology (Part One)
Jan 24, 2022
PREMIUM-Ep. 285: Nicolas Malebranche on Knowledge (Part Two)
Jan 17, 2022
Ep. 285: Nicolas Malebranche on Knowledge (Part One)
Jan 10, 2022
PEL Special: Nightcap New Year's Party to Welcome 2022
Jan 02, 2022
PREMIUM-Ep. 284: Mark Twain’s Philosophy of Human Nature (Part Two)
Dec 27, 2021
Ep. 284: Mark Twain’s Philosophy of Human Nature (Part One)
Dec 20, 2021
PREMIUM-Ep. 283: Alain Badiou on Love (Part Two)
Dec 13, 2021
Ep. 283: Alain Badiou on Love (Part One)
Dec 06, 2021
PREMIUM-Ep. 282: Alain Badiou: What Is Philosophy? (Part Two)
Nov 29, 2021
Ep. 282: Alain Badiou: What Is Philosophy? (Part One)
Nov 22, 2021
PREMIUM-Ep. 281: Paul Feyerabend's Anarchist Philosophy of Science (Part Two)
Nov 15, 2021
Ep. 281: Paul Feyerabend's Anarchist Philosophy of Science (Part One)
Nov 08, 2021
PREMIUM-Ep. 280: Imre Lakatos on Scientific Progress (Part Two)
Nov 01, 2021
Ep. 280: Imre Lakatos on Scientific Progress (Part One)
Oct 25, 2021
PREMIUM-Ep. 279: Aristotle's "Categories" of Being (Part Two)
Oct 18, 2021
Ep. 279: Aristotle's "Categories" of Being (Part One)
Oct 11, 2021
PREMIUM-Ep. 278: Derrick Bell on the Dynamics of Racism (Part Two)
Oct 04, 2021
Ep. 278: Derrick Bell on the Dynamics of Racism (Part One)
Sep 27, 2021
PREMIUM-Ep. 277: Hegel on Our Understanding of Physics (Part Two)
Sep 06, 2021
Ep. 277: Hegel on Our Understanding of Physics (Part One)
Aug 30, 2021
PEL Special: Nightcap Early September 2021
Aug 29, 2021
PREMIUM-Ep. 276: Hegel on Perception (Part Two)
Aug 23, 2021
Ep. 276: Hegel on Perception (Part One)
Aug 16, 2021
PEL Presents Philosophy vs. Improv #7: Meritocracy Now!
Aug 15, 2021
PREMIUM-Ep. 275: Hegel's Project in the "Phenomenology of Spirit" (Part Two)
Aug 09, 2021
Ep. 275: Hegel's Project in the "Phenomenology of Spirit" (Part One)
Aug 02, 2021
PREMIUM-Ep. 274: Schelling on Self-Consciousness (Part Two)
Jul 26, 2021
Philosophy vs. Improv: An Introductory Trailer
Jul 22, 2021
Ep. 274: Schelling on Self-Consciousness (Part One)
Jul 19, 2021
PREMIUM-Ep. 273: Friedrich Schelling's Foundationalist Idealism (Part Two)
Jul 12, 2021
Ep. 273: Friedrich Schelling's Foundationalist Idealism (Part One)
Jul 05, 2021
PREMIUM-Ep. 272: Fichte's Idealist Theology (Part Two)
Jun 28, 2021
Ep. 272: Fichte's Idealist Theology (Part One)
Jun 21, 2021
PREMIUM-Ep. 271: Johan Gottlieb Fichte's Transcendental Idealism (Part Two)
Jun 14, 2021
Ep. 271: Johan Gottlieb Fichte's Transcendental Idealism (Part One)
Jun 07, 2021
PREMIUM-Ep. 270: Classical Indian (Vedanta and Nyaya) Design Arguments for God (Part Two)
May 31, 2021
Ep. 270: Classical Indian (Vedanta and Nyaya) Design Arguments for God w/ Stephen Phillips (Part One)
May 24, 2021
PREMIUM-Ep. 269: Arendt on Totalitarianism (Part Two)
May 17, 2021
Ep. 269: Arendt on Totalitarianism (Part One)
May 10, 2021
PREMIUM-Ep. 268: Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death" (Part Two)
May 03, 2021
Ep. 268: Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death" (Part One)
Apr 26, 2021
PREMIUM-Ep. 267: Avicenna on God and Soul w/ Peter Adamson (Part Two)
Apr 19, 2021
Ep. 267: Avicenna on God and Soul w/ Peter Adamson (Part One)
Apr 12, 2021
PREMIUM-Ep. 266: Jonathan Lear's Plato: Psyche and Society (Part Two)
Apr 05, 2021
Ep. 266: Jonathan Lear's Plato: Psyche and Society (Part One)
Mar 29, 2021
PREMIUM-Ep. 265: Plato's "Phaedo": Philosophy as Training for Death (Part Two)
Mar 22, 2021
Ep. 265: Plato's "Phaedo": Philosophy as Training for Death (Part One)
Mar 15, 2021
PREMIUM-Ep. 264: Plato's "Timaeus" on Cosmology (Part Two)
Mar 08, 2021
Ep. 264: Plato's "Timaeus" on Cosmology (Part One)
Mar 01, 2021
PREMIUM-Ep. 263: Lise Van Boxel's "Warspeak" on Strategies for Valuing (Part Two)
Feb 22, 2021
Ep. 263: Lise Van Boxel's "Warspeak" on Strategies for Valuing (Part One)
Feb 15, 2021
PREMIUM-Ep. 262: Nietzsche on Self-Denial (Part Two)
Feb 08, 2021
Ep. 262: Nietzsche on Self-Denial (Part One)
Feb 01, 2021
PREMIUM-Ep. 261: Derek Parfit on Personal Identity (Part Two)
Jan 25, 2021
Ep. 261: Derek Parfit on Personal Identity (Part One)
Jan 18, 2021
PREMIUM-Ep. 260: Locke on Moral Psychology
Jan 11, 2021
Ep. 259: Locke Clarifies Misleading Complex Ideas (Part Two)
Jan 04, 2021
Ep. 259: Locke Clarifies Misleading Complex Ideas (Part One)
Dec 28, 2020
Mark Lint's PEL Network Holiday Party 2020: Merry Chatting and Songs
Dec 24, 2020
Ep. 258: Locke on Acquiring Simple Ideas (Part Two)
Dec 15, 2020
Ep. 258: Locke on Acquiring Simple Ideas (Part One)
Dec 07, 2020
Ep. 257: Locke Against Innate Ideas (Part Two)
Nov 30, 2020
Ep. 257: Locke Against Innate Ideas (Part One)
Nov 23, 2020
PREMIUM-Ep. 256: Kropotkin's Anarchist Communism (Part Two)
Nov 16, 2020
Ep. 256: Kropotkin's Anarchist Communism (Part One)
Nov 09, 2020
PREMIUM-Ep. 255: Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" (Part Two)
Nov 02, 2020
Ep. 255: Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" (Part One)
Oct 26, 2020
PREMIUM-Ep. 254: Michael Sandel Against Meritocracy (Part Two)
Oct 19, 2020
Ep. 254: Michael Sandel Interview: Against Meritocracy (Part One)
Oct 12, 2020
PREMIUM-Ep. 253: Leibniz on the Problem of Evil (Part Two)
Oct 05, 2020
Ep. 253: Leibniz on the Problem of Evil (Part One)
Sep 28, 2020
PEL Special: Nightcap Late September 2020
Sep 21, 2020
PREMIUM-Ep. 252: Habermas on Communication as Sociality (Part Two)
Sep 21, 2020
Ep. 252: Habermas on Communication as Sociality (Part One)
Sep 14, 2020
Ep. 251: Simone Weil's Ideal Society
Sep 07, 2020
Ep. 250: Simone Weil on Human Needs (Part Three)
Aug 31, 2020
Ep. 250: Simone Weil on Human Needs (Part Two)
Aug 24, 2020
Ep. 250: Simone Weil on Human Needs (Part One)
Aug 17, 2020
Ep. 249: Dewey on Education and Thought (Part Two)
Aug 10, 2020
Ep. 249: Dewey on Education and Thought (Part One)
Aug 02, 2020
Ep. 248: Racism and Policing (Al-Saji, Merleau-Ponty, et al) (Part Two)
Jul 27, 2020
Ep. 248: Racism and Policing (Al-Saji, Merleau-Ponty, et al) (Part One)
Jul 20, 2020
Ep. 247: Aristotle on Rhetoric and Emotions (Part Two)
Jul 13, 2020
Ep. 247: Aristotle on Rhetoric and Emotions (Part One)
Jul 06, 2020
Ep. 246: Susan Sontag on Interpreting Art (Part Two)
Jun 29, 2020
Ep. 246: Susan Sontag on Interpreting Art (Part One)
Jun 22, 2020
Ep. 245: Fashion (Derrida, Foucault, Sontag) w/ Shahidha Bari (Part Two)
Jun 15, 2020
Ep. 245: Fashion (Derrida, Foucault) w/ Shahidha Bari (Part One)
Jun 08, 2020
Ep. 244: Camus on Strategies for Facing Plague (Part Two)
Jun 01, 2020
Ep. 244: Camus on Strategies for Facing Plague (Part One)
May 25, 2020
Ep. 243: Aristotle's "Poetics" on Art and Tragedy (Part Two)
May 18, 2020
Ep. 243: Aristotle's "Poetics" on Art and Tragedy (Part One)
May 11, 2020
PEL Presents PMP#42: Star Trek Lives Long and Prospers (Intermittently)
May 06, 2020
Ep. 242: Stanley Cavell on Tragedy via King Lear (Part Two)
May 04, 2020
Ep. 242: Stanley Cavell on Tragedy via King Lear (Part One)
Apr 27, 2020
Ep. 241: Political Philosophy and the Pandemic
Apr 20, 2020
Ep. 240: David Lewis on Possible Worlds and Language Games (Part Two)
Apr 13, 2020
Ep. 240: David Lewis on Possible Worlds and Language Games (Part One)
Apr 06, 2020
Ep. 239: Montesquieu Invents Political Science (Part Two)
Mar 30, 2020
Ep. 239: Montesquieu Invents Political Science (Part One)
Mar 23, 2020
Ep. 238: Lingering Questions
Mar 16, 2020
Ep. 237: Walter Benjamin Analyzes Violence (Part Two)
Mar 09, 2020
Ep. 237: Walter Benjamin Analyzes Violence (Part One)
Mar 02, 2020
Ep. 236: Judith Butler Interview: "The Force of Nonviolence"
Feb 24, 2020
PEL Presents: PMP#32: Judging "The Good Place"
Feb 19, 2020
Ep. 235: Judith Butler's "Gender Trouble" (Part Three)
Feb 17, 2020
Ep. 235: Judith Butler's "Gender Trouble" (Part Two)
Feb 10, 2020
Ep. 235: Judith Butler's "Gender Trouble" (Part One)
Feb 03, 2020
PEL Presents PMP#29: Martin Scorsese the Auteur w/ Colin Marshall
Jan 29, 2020
Ep. 234: Beauvoir on Romance in "The Second Sex" (Part Two)
Jan 27, 2020
Ep. 234: Beauvoir on Romance in "The Second Sex" (Part One)
Jan 20, 2020
PEL Presents PMP#27: For the Love of Star Wars
Jan 15, 2020
Ep. 233: Plato's "Protagoras" on Virtue (Part Two)
Jan 13, 2020
PEL Presents PMP#26: We Watch "Watchmen" w/ David Pizarro (Very Bad Wizards)
Jan 08, 2020
Ep. 233: Plato's "Protagoras" on Virtue (Part One)
Jan 06, 2020
Ep. 232: Simone De Beauvoir's "The Second Sex" (Part Two)
Dec 29, 2019
Ep. 232: Simone De Beauvoir's "The Second Sex" (Part One)
Dec 23, 2019
Ep. 231: Descartes's "Discourse" on Wisdom and Certainty (Part Two)
Dec 16, 2019
Ep. 231: Descartes's "Discourse" on Wisdom and Certainty (Part One)
Dec 09, 2019
Ep. 230: Bruno Latour on Science, Culture, and Modernity (Part Two)
Dec 02, 2019
Ep. 230: Bruno Latour on Science, Culture, and Modernity (Part One)
Nov 25, 2019
Ep. 229: Descartes's Rules for Thinking (Part Three)
Nov 18, 2019
Ep. 229: Descartes's Rules for Thinking (Part Two)
Nov 11, 2019
Ep. 229: Descartes's Rules for Thinking (Part One)
Nov 04, 2019
PEL Presents PMP#17: Comedy as Philosophy w/ Daniel Lobell
Oct 29, 2019
Ep. 228: Social Construction of Race (Appiah, Mills) (Part Two)
Oct 28, 2019
Ep. 228: Social Construction of Race (Appiah, Mills) (Part One)
Oct 21, 2019
Ep. 227: What Is Social Construction? (Hacking, Berger) (Part Two)
Oct 14, 2019
Ep. 227: What Is Social Construction? (Hacking, Berger) (Part One)
Oct 07, 2019
Ep. 226: Francis Bacon Invents Science (Part Two)
Sep 30, 2019
PEL Presents PMP#12: Once Upon a Tarantino Film w/ Wes Alwan
Sep 24, 2019
Ep. 226: Francis Bacon Invents Science (Part One)
Sep 23, 2019
Ep. 225: Simone Weil on War and Oppression (Part Two)
Sep 16, 2019
Ep. 225: Simone Weil on War and Oppression (Part One)
Sep 09, 2019
Ep. 224: Kierkegaard Critiques The Present Age (Part Two)
Sep 02, 2019
PEL Presents PMP#8: Spider-Man: Far From Home (and Elsewhere)
Aug 27, 2019
Ep. 224: Kierkegaard Critiques The Present Age (Part One)
Aug 26, 2019
Ep. 223: Guest Ned Block on Consciousness (Part Two)
Aug 19, 2019
Ep. 223: Guest Ned Block on Consciousness (Part One)
Aug 12, 2019
Ep. 222: Debating Functionalism (Block, Chalmers) (Part Two)
Aug 05, 2019
Ep. 222: Debating Functionalism (Block, Chalmers) (Part One)
Jul 29, 2019
PEL Presents PMP#3: CONFORM w/ Yakov Smirnoff
Jul 23, 2019
Ep. 221: Functionalist Theories of Mind (Putnam, Armstrong) (Part Two)
Jul 22, 2019
Ep. 221: Functionalist Theories of Mind (Putnam, Armstrong) (Part One)
Jul 15, 2019
PEL Presents PMP#1: Pop Culture vs. High Culture
Jul 09, 2019
Ep. 220: 10-Year Retrospective of The Partially Examined Life
Jul 05, 2019
Ep. 219: The Harder Problem of Consciousness (Block & Papineau)
Jul 01, 2019
Ep. 218: The Hard Problem of Consciousness (Chalmers et al) (Part Two)
Jun 24, 2019
Ep. 218: The Hard Problem of Consciousness (Chalmers et al) (Part One)
Jun 17, 2019
(sub)Text #1: Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”: Poesis as Revenge Forsaken
Jun 08, 2019
Episode 217: Discussing Calderón's "Life Is a Dream"
Jun 03, 2019
Glimpse: Machiavellian Politics (for Partially Examined Life #14)
Jun 02, 2019
PEL Audioplayers: "Life Is a Dream" by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
May 27, 2019
PREMIUM-Ep 216 Game of Thrones' Fantasy Politics (Part Two)
May 23, 2019
Episode 216: Game of Thrones' Fantasy Politics
May 20, 2019
Episode 215: Brave New World: PEL Live 10th Anniversary Show
May 13, 2019
Episode 214: More Nietzsche's Zarathustra (Part Two)
May 06, 2019
Episode 214: More Nietzsche's Zarathustra (Part One)
Apr 29, 2019
Glimpse: Nietzsche's Last Man (for Partially Examined Life #213)
Apr 22, 2019
Episode 213: Nietzsche's Zarathustra (Part Two)
Apr 22, 2019
PREMIUM-(sub)Text#6: Melanie Klein's "Notes on Some Schizoid Mechanisms"
Apr 21, 2019
Episode 213: Nietzsche's Zarathustra (Part One)
Apr 15, 2019
Glimpse: Sartre on Literature (for Partially Examined Life #212)
Apr 11, 2019
Episode 212: Sartre on Literature (Part Two)
Apr 08, 2019
Episode 212: Sartre on Literature (Part One)
Apr 01, 2019
Episode 211: Sartre on Racism and Authenticity (Part Three)
Mar 25, 2019
Episode 211: Sartre on Racism and Authenticity (Part Two)
Mar 18, 2019
Episode 211: Sartre on Racism and Authenticity (Part One)
Mar 11, 2019
PEL Presents Constellary Tales #6: Philip K. Dick's "Minority Report" w/ Mark Linsenmayer
Mar 11, 2019
Episode 210: Frantz Fanon's Black Existentialism (Part Two)
Mar 04, 2019
Episode 210: Frantz Fanon's Black Existentialism (Part One)
Feb 25, 2019
Podchaser Interview of Mark Linsenmayer: Partially Examined Life and Nakedly Examined Music
Feb 23, 2019
Episode 209: Francis Fukuyama on Identity Politics (Part Two: Discussion)
Feb 18, 2019
Episode 209: Guest Francis Fukuyama on Identity Politics (Part One)
Feb 11, 2019
Episode 208: Epicurus on Seeking Pleasure (Part Two)
Feb 04, 2019
Episode 208: Epicurus on Seeking Pleasure (Part One)
Jan 28, 2019
Episode 207: Herder on Art Appreciation (Part Two)
Jan 21, 2019
Episode 207: Herder on Art Appreciation (Part One)
Jan 14, 2019
PREMIUM-Ep 206 Lucretius's Epicurean Physics (Part Three)
Jan 13, 2019
Episode 206: Lucretius's Epicurean Physics (Part Two)
Jan 07, 2019
Episode 206: Lucretius's Epicurean Physics (Part One)
Dec 31, 2018
PREMIUM-Ep 205 Durkheim et al on Suicide (Part Three)
Dec 31, 2018
Episode 205: Suicide with Dr. Drew (Durkheim et al) (Part Two)
Dec 22, 2018
Episode 205: Suicide with Dr. Drew (Durkheim et al) (Part One)
Dec 17, 2018
Episode 204: The Bhagavad Gita's Hindu Theology (Part Two)
Dec 10, 2018
Episode 204: The Bhagavad Gita's Hindu Theology (Part One)
Dec 03, 2018
Episode 203: Kristeva vs. Lovecraft on Horror and Abjection (Part Two)
Nov 26, 2018
Episode 203: Kristeva vs. Lovecraft on Horror and Abjection (Part One)
Nov 19, 2018
PREMIUM-Ep 202 Follow-Up: Close Reading of Kristeva's "Approaching Abjection"
Nov 18, 2018
Episode 202: Julia Kristeva on Disgust, Fear and the Self (Part Two)
Nov 12, 2018
Episode 202: Julia Kristeva on Disgust, Fear and the Self (Part One)
Nov 05, 2018
PREMIUM-Ep 201 Marcus Aurelius's "Meditations" (Part Three)
Nov 05, 2018
Episode 201: Marcus Aurelius's Stoicism with Ryan Holiday (Part Two)
Oct 29, 2018
Episode 201: Marcus Aurelius's Stoicism with Ryan Holiday (Part One)
Oct 22, 2018
Episode 200: Kant/Mendelssohn/Foucault on Enlightenment (Part Two)
Oct 15, 2018
Episode 200: Kant/Mendelssohn/Foucault on Enlightenment (Part One)
Oct 08, 2018
Bonus: (sub)Text#4: Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia" (Part One)
Oct 08, 2018
Episode 199: Elizabeth Anderson on Equality (Part Three: Discussion)
Oct 01, 2018
Episode 199: Guest Elizabeth Anderson on Private Government (Part Two)
Sep 24, 2018
Episode 199: Guest Elizabeth Anderson on Private Government (Part One)
Sep 17, 2018
PREMIUM-Ep 198 Plato's "Parmenides" (Part Three)
Sep 13, 2018
Episode 198: Plato's Forms in the "Parmenides" (Part Two)
Sep 10, 2018
Episode 198: Plato's Forms in the "Parmenides" (Part One)
Sep 03, 2018
Bonus: (sub)Text #3: Spielberg's "AI: Artificial Intelligence": What Is It to Be Human? (Part One)
Sep 02, 2018
Episode 197: Parmenides on What There Is (Part Two)
Aug 27, 2018
Episode 197: Parmenides on What There Is (Part One)
Aug 20, 2018
Episode 196: Guest Simon Blackburn on Truth (Part Two)
Aug 13, 2018
Episode 196: Guest Simon Blackburn on Truth (Part One)
Aug 06, 2018
Episode 195: Truth-The Austin/Strawson Debate (Part Two)
Jul 30, 2018
Episode 195: Truth-The Austin/Strawson Debate (Part One)
Jul 23, 2018
Episode 194: Alfred Tarski on Truth (Part Two)
Jul 16, 2018
Episode 194: Alfred Tarski on Truth (Part One)
Jul 09, 2018
PREMIUM-Eps 192-193 Allan Bloom & Liberal Education Follow-Ups
Jul 07, 2018
Episode 193: The Theory and Practice of Liberal Education (Part Two)
Jul 02, 2018
Episode 193: The Theory and Practice of Liberal Education (Part One)
Jun 25, 2018
Episode 192: "The Closing of the American Mind": Allan Bloom on Education (Part Two)
Jun 18, 2018
Episode 192: "The Closing of the American Mind": Allan Bloom on Education (Part One)
Jun 11, 2018
Episode 191: Conceptual Schemes: Donald Davidson & Rudolf Carnap (Part Two)
Jun 04, 2018
Episode 191: Conceptual Schemes: Donald Davidson & Rudolf Carnap (Part One)
May 28, 2018
PREMIUM-Ep 189: Authorial Intent (Part Three)
May 26, 2018
Episode 190: Film Analysis: "mother!"
May 21, 2018
Episode 189: Authorial Intent (Barthes, Foucault, Beardsley, et al) (Part Two)
May 14, 2018
Episode 189: Authorial Intent (Barthes, Foucault, Beardsley, et al) (Part One)
May 07, 2018
Episode 188: Discussing "Lysistrata" and Politics with Lucy and Emily (Part Two)
Apr 30, 2018
Episode 188: Discussing "Lysistrata" and Politics with Lucy and Emily (Part One)
Apr 23, 2018
"Lysistrata" w/ Lucy Lawless, Emily Perkins, Erica Spyres, Bill Youmans & Aaron Gleason
Apr 16, 2018
PREMIUM-Episode 187: The Limits of Free Speech (Part Three)
Apr 14, 2018
Episode 187: The Limits of Free Speech (Part Two)
Apr 09, 2018
Episode 187: The Limits of Free Speech (Part One)
Mar 29, 2018
Episode 186: J.L. Austin on Doing Things with Words (Part Two)
Mar 26, 2018
Episode 186: J.L. Austin on Doing Things with Words (Part One)
Mar 19, 2018
Episode 185: Ethics in Homer's "Odyssey" Feat. Translator Emily Wilson (Part Two)
Mar 12, 2018
Episode 185: Ethics in Homer's "Odyssey" Feat. Translator Emily Wilson (Part One)
Mar 05, 2018
Episode 184: Pascal on Human Nature (Part Two)
Feb 25, 2018
Episode 184: Pascal on Human Nature (Part One)
Feb 19, 2018
Episode 183: Mill on Liberty (Part Two)
Feb 12, 2018
Episode 183: Mill on Liberty (Part One)
Feb 04, 2018
PREMIUM-Episode 182: Reflections on PEL 2017 (Part Two)
Feb 04, 2018
Episode 182: Reflections on PEL 2017 (Part One)
Jan 29, 2018
Episode 181: Hannah Arendt on the Banality of Evil (Part Two)
Jan 22, 2018
Episode 181: Hannah Arendt on the Banality of Evil (Part One)
Jan 15, 2018
Episode 180: More James's Psychology: Self and Will (Part Two)
Jan 08, 2018
Episode 180: More James's Psychology: Self and Will (Part One)
Jan 01, 2018
Episode 179: William James's Psychology (Part Two)
Dec 25, 2017
Episode 179: William James's Introspective Psychology (Part One)
Dec 18, 2017
Episode 178: Nietzsche as Social Critic: Twilight of the Idols (Part Two)
Dec 10, 2017
Episode 178: Nietzsche as Social Critic: "Twilight of the Idols" (Part One)
Dec 04, 2017
Episode 177: Guest Russ Roberts on Adam Smith and Libertarian Economics (Part Two)
Nov 27, 2017
Episode 177: Guest Russ Roberts on Adam Smith and Libertarian Economics (Part One)
Nov 20, 2017
Episode 176: Situationism in Psych: Milgram & Stanford Prison Experiments (Part Two)
Nov 13, 2017
Episode 176: Situationism in Psych: Milgram & Stanford Prison Experiments (Very Bad Wizards Crossover) (Part One)
Nov 06, 2017
PREMIUM-Episode 175: Blade Runner (Part Two)
Nov 06, 2017
Episode 175: Blade Runner: Androids and Humanity (Part One)
Oct 30, 2017
Episode 174: Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" (Part Two)
Oct 22, 2017
Episode 174: Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" (Part One)
Oct 16, 2017
Episode 173: Relating to American Indian Philosophy (Part Two)
Oct 09, 2017
Episode 173: Relating to American Indian Philosophy (Part One)
Oct 02, 2017
Episode 172: Mind, Self, and Affect with Guest Dr. Drew (Part Two)
Sep 25, 2017
Episode 172: Mind, Self, and Affect with Guest Dr. Drew (Part One)
Sep 18, 2017
Episode 171: Buddhism vs. Evolution with Guest Robert Wright (Part Two)
Sep 11, 2017
Episode 171: Buddhism vs. Evolution with Guest Robert Wright (Part One)
Sep 04, 2017
Episode 170 Second Opinions: Leftists on "Society of the Spectacle"
Aug 28, 2017
Episode 170: Guy Debord's "Society of the Spectacle" (Part Two)
Aug 21, 2017
Episode 170: Guy Debord's "Society of the Spectacle" (Part One)
Aug 14, 2017
PEL Special: Combat & Classics on Rousseau's "Discourse on the Arts and Sciences"
Aug 07, 2017
Episode 169: Analyzing Hitchcock's "Vertigo" (Part One)
Jul 31, 2017
Episode 168: Darwin's "Origin of Species" (Part Two)
Jul 24, 2017
Episode 168: Darwin's "Origin of Species" (Part One)
Jul 17, 2017
Episode 167: Hume on Intelligent Design (Part Two)
Jul 10, 2017
Episode 167: Hume on Intelligent Design (Philosophize This! Crossover) (Part One)
Jul 03, 2017
Episode 166: Spinoza on Politics and Religion (Part Two)
Jun 26, 2017
Episode 166: Spinoza on Politics and Religion (Part One)
Jun 19, 2017
Episode 165: Spinoza on Biblical Criticism (Part Two)
Jun 12, 2017
Episode 165: Spinoza on Biblical Criticism (Part One)
Jun 05, 2017
Nakedly Examined Music: Steve Hackett, Nik Kershaw, Ken Stringfellow, Robbie Fulks
May 26, 2017
Episode 164: Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot” on Perfection (Part Two)
May 22, 2017
Episode 164: Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot” on Perfection (Part One)
May 15, 2017
Episode 163: Guest Stewart Umphrey on Natural Kinds (Part Two)
May 08, 2017
Episode 163: Guest Stewart Umphrey on Natural Kinds (Part One)
May 01, 2017
PEL Special: Phi Fic on James Baldwin’s Fiction
Apr 24, 2017
Episode 162: James Baldwin on Race in America (Part Two)
Apr 17, 2017
Episode 162: James Baldwin on Race in America (Part One)
Apr 10, 2017
Episode 161: White Privilege (Peggy McIntosh, Charles Mills, et al) (Part Two)
Apr 03, 2017
Episode 161: White Privilege (Peggy McIntosh, Charles Mills, et al) (Part One)
Mar 27, 2017
Episode 160: Orwell on Totalitarianism and Language (Part Two)
Mar 20, 2017
Episode 160: Orwell on Totalitarianism and Language (Part One)
Mar 13, 2017
Episode 159: Confucius on Virtuous Conduct (Part Two)
Mar 06, 2017
Episode 159: Confucius on Virtuous Conduct (Part One)
Feb 27, 2017
Episode 158: Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy (Part Two)
Feb 20, 2017
Episode 158: Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy (Part One)
Feb 13, 2017
Episode 157: Richard Rorty on Politics for the Left (Part Two)
Feb 06, 2017
Episode 157: Richard Rorty on Politics for the Left (Part One)
Jan 30, 2017
Episode 156: Philosophy and Politics Free-Form Discussion (Part Two)
Jan 23, 2017
Episode 156: Philosophy and Politics Free-Form Discussion (Part One)
Jan 16, 2017
Episode 155: Richard Rorty Against Epistemology
Jan 02, 2017
Episode 154: Wilfrid Sellars on the Myth of the Given
Dec 19, 2016
Episode 153: Richard Rorty: There Is No Mind-Body Problem
Dec 05, 2016
Episode 152: Alexis de Tocqueville on Democracy in America (PEL Live!)
Nov 21, 2016
Episode 151: Edmund Burke’s Conservatism
Nov 07, 2016
PEL Special: Bill Bruford on Nakedly Examined Music #25
Nov 06, 2016
Episode 150: Guest Peter Singer on Famine, Affluence, and Morality
Oct 24, 2016
Episode 149: Plato’s “Crito”: A Performance and Discussion
Oct 17, 2016
Episode 148: Aristotle on Friendship and Happiness
Oct 03, 2016
Episode 147: Aristotle on Wisdom and Incontinence
Sep 19, 2016
Episode 146: Emmanuel Levinas on Overcoming Solitude
Sep 05, 2016
Episode 145: Emmanuel Levinas: Why Be Ethical?
Aug 22, 2016
Episode 144: Guest Martha Nussbaum on Anger
Aug 01, 2016
Phi Fic #3 Frankenstein (PEL Crossover Special)
Jul 25, 2016
Episode 143: Plato’s “Sophist” on Lies, Categorization, and Non-Being
Jul 11, 2016
Episode 142: Plato’s “Phaedrus” on Love and Speechmaking
Jun 27, 2016
Episode 141: De Beauvoir’s Existentialism: Moral and Political Dilemmas
Jun 13, 2016
Episode 140: De Beauvoir on the Ambiguous Human Condition
May 30, 2016
Episode 139: bell hooks on Racism/Sexism
May 09, 2016
Episode 138: Guest John Searle on Perception
Apr 25, 2016
Episode 137: Bourdieu on the Tastes of Social Classes
Apr 11, 2016
Episode 136: Adorno on the Culture Industry
Mar 28, 2016
Episode 135: Hegel on the Logic of Basic Metaphysical Concepts
Mar 14, 2016
Episode 134: Hegel on Thought & World (or “Logic”)
Feb 29, 2016
PEL Special: Nakedly Examined Music #1 with David Lowery
Feb 18, 2016
Episode 133: Erich Fromm on Love as an Art
Feb 08, 2016
Episode 132: Living Stoically with Seneca and Massimo
Jan 25, 2016
Episode 131: Aristotle’s “De Anima”: What Is the Mind?
Jan 11, 2016
Episode 130: Aristotle’s “De Anima”: What Is Life?
Dec 28, 2015
Holiday Special 2015: Mark Lint’s “Songs from the Partially Examined Life” with Many Guest Greetings
Dec 24, 2015
Episode 129: Is Faith Rational?
Dec 14, 2015
Episode 128: Hilary Putnam on Linguistic Meaning
Nov 30, 2015
Episode 127: John Dewey on Experience and the World
Nov 16, 2015
Episode 126: Saul Kripke on Possibilities, Language & Science
Nov 02, 2015
Not School Digest: Asimov, Camus, Jaspers, Brecht, Peirce, Historical Jesus
Oct 25, 2015
Episode 125: Hannah Arendt on the Political & Private
Oct 12, 2015
Q&A with the Partially Examined Life, Pittsburgh 9-25-15
Oct 05, 2015
Episode 124: The Stoic Life with Epictetus
Sep 21, 2015
Episode 123: Economics with Hayek and Sen (Intro by Seth Benzell)
Sep 07, 2015
Ep 121/122 Aftershow on Augustine feat. James Wetzel
Sep 07, 2015
Episode 122: Augustine on Mind and Metaphysics
Aug 24, 2015
Precognition of Ep. 123: Economics (F.A. Hayek and Amartya Sen)
Aug 19, 2015
Episode 121: Augustine on Being Good
Aug 10, 2015
Ep. 119 Aftershow (PREMIUM) on Nietzsche feat. Greg Sadler
Aug 07, 2015
Episode 120: A History of “Will” with Guest Eva Brann
Jul 27, 2015
Ep. 118 Aftershow (PREMIUM) on Songwriting feat. ex-Camper Chris Molla
Jul 24, 2015
Episode 119: Nietzsche on Tragedy and the Psychology of Art
Jul 06, 2015
Ep. 117 Aftershow (PREMIUM) on Antigone with Danny Lobell
Jul 05, 2015
Episode 118: The Musical Life with Guests from Camper van Beethoven
Jun 29, 2015
Episode 117: Discussing Sophocles’s “Antigone”
Jun 15, 2015
“Antigone” Read by PEL with Lucy Lawless and Paul Provenza
Jun 08, 2015
Episode 116: Freud on Dreams
May 25, 2015
Episode 115: Schopenhauer on Music with Guest Jonathan Segel
May 11, 2015
Episode 114: Schopenhauer: “The World Is Will”
Apr 27, 2015
Episode 113: Jesus’s Parables
Apr 06, 2015
Episode 112: Ricoeur on Interpreting Religion
Mar 16, 2015
Episode 111: Gadamer’s Hermeneutics: How to Interpret
Mar 02, 2015
Close Reading (PREMIUM) of Heidegger on Truth
Feb 23, 2015
Ep. 110 Aftershow (PREMIUM) with Stephen West
Feb 22, 2015
Close Reading (PREMIUM) of Kant on the Sublime
Feb 16, 2015
Episode 110: Alfred North Whitehead: What Is Nature?
Feb 02, 2015
Precognition of Ep. 110: Whitehead
Feb 01, 2015
Ep. 109 Aftershow (PREMIUM) with Stephen West
Jan 31, 2015
Episode 109: Jaspers’s Existentialism with Guest Paul Provenza
Jan 19, 2015
Precognition of Ep. 109: Karl Jaspers
Jan 18, 2015
Episode 108: Dangers of A.I. with Guest Nick Bostrom
Jan 06, 2015
Episode 107: Edmund Burke on the Sublime
Dec 20, 2014
Not Ep. 107: The 12 Interminable Days of Xmas: A Musical Extravaganza
Dec 20, 2014
Episode 106: Pyrrhonian Skepticism According to Sextus Empiricus
Dec 04, 2014
Episode 105: Kant: What Is Beauty?
Nov 15, 2014
Episode 104: Robert Nozick’s Libertarianism
Oct 27, 2014
Precognition of Ep. 104: Robert Nozick
Oct 26, 2014
Episode 103: Thoreau on Living Deliberately
Oct 14, 2014
Episode 102: Emerson on Wisdom and Individuality
Sep 20, 2014
Episode 101: Maimonides on God
Sep 01, 2014
Episode 100: Plato’s Symposium Live Celebration!
Aug 15, 2014
Episode 99: Looking Back on 100 Discussions and 5+ Years
Aug 11, 2014
Episode 98: Guest Michael Sandel Against Market Society
Jul 26, 2014
Episode 97: Michael Sandel on Social Justice and the Self
Jul 19, 2014
Episode 96: Oppenheimer and the Rhetoric of Science Advisers
Jul 01, 2014
Precognition of Ep. 96: Oppenheimer’s Rhetoric
Jun 29, 2014
Episode 95: Gödel on Math
Jun 16, 2014
Precognition of Ep. 95: Gödel
Jun 15, 2014
Episode 94: Schopenhauer on Reading, Writing, and Thinking
May 23, 2014
Episode 93: Freedom and Responsibility (Strawson vs. Strawson)
May 03, 2014
Precognition of Ep. 93: Free Will (via Strawsons)
Apr 29, 2014
Episode 92: Henri Bergson on How to Do Metaphysics
Apr 12, 2014
Precognition of Ep. 92: Henri Bergson
Mar 30, 2014
Episode 91: Transhumanism (Plus More on Brin)
Mar 29, 2014
Episode 90: Sci-Fi and Philosophy with Guest David Brin
Mar 26, 2014
Precognition of Ep. 90: Sci-Fi and Philosophy with David Brin
Mar 25, 2014
Episode 89: Berkeley: Only Ideas Exist!
Mar 12, 2014
Precognition of Ep. 89: Berkeley’s Idealism
Mar 11, 2014
Partially Examined Life Not School Digest #4: Sartre, Heidegger, Zizek, Marx, and Theater
Mar 01, 2014
Episode 88: G.E.M. Anscombe: Should We Use Moral Language?
Feb 18, 2014
Precognition of Ep. 88: G.E.M. Anscombe
Jan 18, 2014
Sartre’s “No Exit” Read with Lucy Lawless & Jaime Murray
Jan 02, 2014
Episode 87: Sartre on Freedom and Self-Deception
Jan 01, 2014
Precognition of Ep. 87: Sartre
Dec 30, 2013
Episode 86: Thomas Kuhn on Scientific Progress
Dec 24, 2013
Precognition of Ep. 86: Thomas Kuhn
Dec 23, 2013
Episode 85: Rawls on Social Justice
Dec 07, 2013
Precognition of Ep. 85: John Rawls
Dec 06, 2013
PREMIUM-Episode 84: Nietzsche’s “Gay Science”
Nov 11, 2013
Episode 83 Follow-Up: Q&A with Frithjof Bergmann
Nov 01, 2013
Episode 83: New Work with Guest Frithjof Bergmann
Oct 11, 2013
Precognition of Ep. 83: New Work
Oct 10, 2013
PREMIUM-Episode 82: Karl Popper on Science
Sep 24, 2013
Precognition of Ep. 82: Popper
Sep 23, 2013
PREMIUM-Episode 81: Jung on the Psyche and Dreams
Aug 29, 2013
Precognition of Ep. 81: Jung
Aug 28, 2013
Partially Examined Life Not School Digest #3: Work, Blood Meridian, Mind, and Heidegger
Aug 23, 2013
PREMIUM-Episode 80: Heidegger on our Existential Situation
Aug 08, 2013
Precognition of Ep. 80: Heidegger
Aug 07, 2013
PREMIUM-PEL Ep 79: Heraclitus on Understanding the World
Jul 15, 2013
PREMIUM-Episode 78: Ayn Rand on Living Rationally
Jul 01, 2013
PREMIUM-Episode 77: Santayana on the Appreciation of Beauty
Jun 09, 2013
PREMIUM-Episode 76: Deleuze on What Philosophy Is
May 14, 2013
PREMIUM-Episode 75: Lacan & Derrida Criticize Poe’s “The Purloined Letter”
Apr 19, 2013
PREMIUM-Episode 74: Jacques Lacan’s Psychology
Apr 04, 2013
PREMIUM-Episode 73: Why Do Philosophy? (And What Is It?)
Mar 23, 2013
PREMIUM-Episode 72: Terrorism with Jonathan R. White
Mar 09, 2013
PREMIUM-Episode 71: Martin Buber’s “I and Thou”
Feb 15, 2013
PREMIUM-Episode 70: Marx on the Human Condition
Jan 30, 2013
Partially Examined Life Not School Digest Jan 2013
Jan 23, 2013
PREMIUM-Episode 69: Plato on Rhetoric vs. Philosophy
Jan 13, 2013
Not Episode 69: PEL Players Full Cast Audiobook of Plato’s “Gorgias” (part 1)
Jan 12, 2013
PREMIUM-Episode 68: David Chalmers Interview on the Scrutability of the World
Dec 22, 2012
Not School Digest Nov-Dec 2012: A Bonus Quasisode
Dec 16, 2012
PREMIUM-Episode 67: Carnap on Logic and Science
Dec 07, 2012
PREMIUM-Episode 66: Quine on Linguistic Meaning and Science
Nov 21, 2012
Celebrating Two Million Downloads: A Highlights Minisode
Nov 08, 2012
PREMIUM-Episode 65: The Federalist Papers
Oct 27, 2012
PREMIUM-Episode 64: Celebrity, with guest Lucy Lawless
Oct 07, 2012
PREMIUM-Episode 63: Existentialist Heroes in Cormac McCarthy’s “No Country for Old Men”
Sep 21, 2012
PREMIUM-Episode 62: Voltaire’s Novel “Candide”
Sep 05, 2012
PREMIUM-Episode 61: Nietzsche on Truth and Skepticism
Aug 15, 2012
PREMIUM-Episode 60: Aristotle: What’s the Best Form of Government?
Jul 23, 2012
PREMIUM-Episode 59: Alasdair MacIntyre on Moral Justifications
Jul 05, 2012
PREMIUM-Episode 58: What Grounds Ethical Claims? (Moore, Stevenson, MacIntyre)
Jun 20, 2012
PREMIUM-Episode 57: Henri Bergson on Humor
May 31, 2012
PREMIUM-Episode 56: More Wittgenstein on Language
May 15, 2012
PREMIUM-Episode 55: Wittgenstein on Language
May 02, 2012
PREMIUM-Episode 54: More Buddhism and Naturalism
Apr 06, 2012
PREMIUM-Episode 53: Buddhism and Naturalism with Guest Owen Flanagan
Mar 26, 2012
PREMIUM-Episode 52: Philosophy and Race (DuBois, Martin Luther King, Cornel West)
Mar 17, 2012
PREMIUM-Episode 51: Semiotics and Structuralism (Saussure, et al)
Feb 24, 2012
PREMIUM-Episode 50: Pirsig’s “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”
Feb 03, 2012
PREMIUM-Episode 49: Foucault on Power and Punishment
Jan 11, 2012
PREMIUM-Episode 48: Merleau-Ponty on Perception and Knowledge
Dec 17, 2011
PREMIUM-Episode 47: Sartre on Consciousness and the Self
Dec 01, 2011
PREMIUM-Episode 46: Plato on Ethics & Religion
Nov 17, 2011
PREMIUM-Episode 45: Moral Sense Theory: Hume and Smith
Oct 29, 2011
PREMIUM-Episode 44: New Atheist Critiques of Religion
Oct 11, 2011
PREMIUM-Episode 43: Arguments for the Existence of God
Sep 15, 2011
PREMIUM-Episode 42: Feminists on Human Nature and Moral Psychology
Sep 05, 2011
PREMIUM-Episode 41: Pat Churchland on the Neurobiology of Morality (Plus Hume’s Ethics)
Jul 19, 2011
PREMIUM-Episode 40: Plato’s Republic: What Is Justice?
Jul 11, 2011
PREMIUM-Episode 39: Schleiermacher Defends Religion
Jun 10, 2011
PREMIUM-Episode 38: Bertrand Russell on Math and Logic
May 25, 2011
PREMIUM-Episode 37: Locke on Political Power
May 06, 2011
PREMIUM-Episode 36: More Hegel on Self-Consciousness
Apr 11, 2011
PREMIUM-Episode 35: Hegel on Self-Consciousness
Apr 02, 2011
PREMIUM-Episode 34: Frege on the Logic of Language
Mar 13, 2011
PREMIUM-Episode 33: Montaigne: What Is the Purpose of Philosophy?
Feb 18, 2011
PREMIUM-Episode 32: Heidegger: What is “Being?”
Feb 08, 2011
PREMIUM-Episode 31: Husserl’s Phenomenology
Jan 10, 2011
PREMIUM-Episode 30: Schopenhauer on Explanations and Knowledge
Dec 19, 2010
PREMIUM-Episode 29: Kierkegaard on the Self
Nov 21, 2010
PREMIUM-Episode 28: Nelson Goodman on Art as Epistemology
Nov 01, 2010
PREMIUM-Episode 27: Nagarjuna on Buddhist “Emptiness”
Oct 10, 2010
PREMIUM-Episode 26: Freud on the Human Condition
Sep 25, 2010
PREMIUM-Episode 25: Spinoza on Human Nature
Sep 10, 2010
PREMIUM-Episode 24: Spinoza on God and Metaphysics
Aug 24, 2010
PREMIUM-Episode 23: Rousseau: Human Nature vs. Culture
Jul 29, 2010
PREMIUM-Episode 22: More James’s Pragmatism: Is Faith Justified? What is Truth?
Jul 18, 2010
PREMIUM-Episode 21: What Is the Mind? (Turing, et al)
Jun 28, 2010
PREMIUM-Episode 20: Pragmatism – Peirce and James
Jun 09, 2010
PREMIUM-Episode 19: Kant: What Can We Know?
May 14, 2010
PREMIUM-Episode 18: Plato: What Is Knowledge?
Apr 21, 2010
PREMIUM-Episode 17: Hume’s Empiricism: What Can We Know?
Mar 29, 2010
PREMIUM-Episode 16: Danto on Art
Mar 04, 2010
Episode 15: Hegel on History
Feb 24, 2010
Episode 14: Machiavelli on Politics
Feb 07, 2010
Episode 13: What Are the Metaphysical Implications of Quantum Physics?
Jan 03, 2010
Episode 12: Chuang Tzu’s Taoism: What Is Wisdom?
Dec 06, 2009
Episode 11: Nietzsche’s Immoralism: What Is Ethics, Anyway?
Nov 10, 2009
Episode 10: Kantian Ethics: What Should We Do?
Oct 19, 2009
Episode 9: Utilitarian Ethics: What Should We Do?
Sep 18, 2009
Episode 8: Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (and Carnap): What Can We Legitimately Talk About?
Sep 04, 2009
Episode 7: Wittgenstein’s Tractatus: What Is There and Can We Talk About It?
Aug 19, 2009
Episode 6: Leibniz’s Monadology: What Is There?
Jul 31, 2009
Episode 5: Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics
Jul 16, 2009
Episode 4: Camus and the Absurd
Jun 22, 2009
Episode 3: Hobbes’s Leviathan: The Social Contract
Jun 07, 2009
Episode 2: Descartes’s Meditations: What Can We Know?
May 14, 2009
Episode 1: “The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living.”
May 13, 2009
Episode 0: Introduction to the Podcast
May 11, 2009