In our latest installment of Better Know a Philosopher we talk about Simone de Beauvoir. A French philosopher who lived during the Suffrage movement and had interesting ideas about Feminism.
Opening Invocation:
Source: Thomas Smith's Question
Hero of the Week:
The Philosopher Queens
Today we bring on the host of Habeas Humor Podcast, Charone Frankel. We discuss the philosophy of "beyond a reasonable doubt". Is it appropriate? What does it actually mean?
References:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-02/trump-says-it-s-a-very-scary-time-in-america-for-men
https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1000&context=fss_papers
Opening Invocation:
Suggested by: Daniel Source: "The Book of Disquiet" by Pessoa
Hero of the Week:
Dr. Christine Blasey Ford
Presumption of innocence in the law vs. society. He said, she said, but apparently only "he" is telling the truth?
In this episode we go to where the rubber of philosophy meets the road of our daily lives. We discuss the Judge Kavanaugh hearings from a philosophical angle, and of course, more about octopi.
Opening Invocation:
Aaron
Hero of the Week:
Octopuses on MDMA
We are once again fortunate enough to bring on Jesse Rabinowitz for this discussion on Mind Body Dualism. This time we jump right into the weeds so think you can't see the tails from the Velociraptors.
Opening Invocation:
Jesse
For this months segment of Better Know A Philosopher, we talk about Angela Davis. A highly dynamic figure who's still making speeches and continuing her activist path from the Black Panthers, to Occupy Wall Street.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrSIm2RXN4o
Opening Invocation:
"The Book of Disquiet" by Pessoa
Hero of the Week:
This thing: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bnpv85/the-emerging-fetish-of-laying-alien-eggs-inside-yourself
For this weeks episode we welcome on Alonzo Fyfe, a philosopher and proponent of Desirism. We discuss this ethical model and how it relates to morality.
References:
Desirism Facebook
Atheist Ethicist
Desirism
Opening Invocation:
Ben Thompson
Hero of the Week:
John McCain
This episode could also be named, "Aaron and GW try to pronounce peoples names". We dive into this question about art going too far. Getting into the weeds of what constitutes too far objectively, and how that relates to our subjective opinions of too far.
Reference Material:
https://www.therichest.com/shocking/15-performance-artists-who-took-their-art-way-too-far/
Opening Invocation:
Grosse Pointe Blank
Hero of the Week:
Another Octopus
Today we're joined by the lovely ladies from Delightful Bitchcraft and Secular Soup Podcast. We talk about everything from kids and bullying, the mormon church, and how the womb is your first apartment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/opinion/climate-change-parenting.html
Opening Invocation:
Natural History Museum
Hero of the Week:
Joe Radinovich
Anonymous
Another installment of Better Know A Philosopher. This time we're diving into David Hume. During out conversation we even go into the weeds of some ways philosophers talk and argue, and why slave owners suck.
Opening Invocation:
The Animatrix
Hero of the Week:
Susan Unterberg
Today we're joined with Eran Segev, the president of Australian Skeptics. We talk about what the organization does, their convention coming up in October, and the lovely anti-vaccination movement.
Opening Invocation
Muppets (Thanks to @Ghostwoods @MichaelToole @camgarrity
Hero of the Week:
Anonymous
What is a Staw-man (or as we call it Staw-bot) fallacy? What about a Steel-bot? We dive into both of these types or arguments and dig into the importance of Steel-boting and why we do it.
Opening Invocation:
Jesse Rabinowitz from Zen Buddhism
Hero of the Week:
Bo Burnham (film Eighth Grade)
Today we're joined by fellow podcaster Stephanie Lepp of Reckonings podcast. This wonderful podcast interviews people who've had a major life changing moment or moments that altered their ideology or belief of something.
Opening Invocation
Jesse Rabinowitz Source: Zen Buddhism
Hero of the Week
Anonymous
We kick off our first official Better Know A Philosopher with John Rawls. Essentially the father of modern liberalism. Aaron takes us through a bit of his life and we dive deep into his main argument.
Opening Invocation
listener: Petra Partake
Hero of the Week
Speakers of Nexus 2018
In this episode we talk with Stephen Stich, a Philosophy professor at Rutgers University about his career, addressing moral/ethical issues in the classroom, and much more.
Opening Invocation
Norse Mythology
Information provide by Stephen Stich:
Here is a link to our Templeton "Geography of Philosophy" Project website:
https://www.geographyofphilosophy.com/
And here's a link to a Templeton site based on an interview with my co-PI, Edouard Machery:
There is more information on the book I was plugging here:
and here:
There is information about the new Intro text that I wrote with Tom Donaldson here:
https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/philosophy-9780199329960?cc=us&lang=en&
This is our grand 50th episode of Embrace The Void! Aaron and GW do a little VoidNews and then launch into a new segment called, "Get to know a Philosopher".
Opening Invocation
@atheist_house
Hero of the Week
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Today we're joined with Cory Johnston host of the Brainstorm Podcast talking about the equality of opportunity vs. the equality of outcome.
Opening Invocation
Evan Mathews
Hero of the Week
Dr. Kim TallBear
Her podcast mediaINDIGENA
Making up for not having an episode last week, we're having a double this week. In this episode we take a deep dive into Daoism. Aaron takes us though a few of the 80+ chapters in the Tao Te Ching.
Opening Invocation
Mad Men
Hero of the Week
Terrance Mannery
In this episode we talk with comedian and philosopher Myq Kaplan. We talk about just about everything from politics, jokes, what the hell philosophy is, and much more.
Opening Invocation
Aaron
Hero of the Week
Letitia Chai
This is the unedited version of episode 46. The only thing I have done is put the audio regions in the right alignment, and made it a touch louder overall so it's not too quite to be unlistenable.
AKA GW's big day! Today we dive deep into the art and technique of sound design/editing. GW talks about editing the ETV podcast, dives into compression, different types of audio editing techniques, DAW's like Reaper, and we get super in the weeds talking about K-System Metering.
Opening Invocation
Her
Hero of the Week
This Guy!