EV - 143 Better Know Mary Astell with Simone Webb

My guest this week is Simone Webb (@SimoneWebbUCL), a PhD student in gender studies at UCL. We do another of our many many parts better know a philosopher series. We focus on the early conservative feminist philosopher Mary Astell, with a little Foucault appetizer.

Simone's website: https://simonewebb.weebly.com/

Invocation: Rishi Sanghani

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 Next week: Right Wing Postmodernism with Matt Mcmanus

EV - 142 Nonreligious Life in America with Alison Gill

My guest this week is Alison Gill, vice president for Legal and Policy at American Atheists (@AmericanAtheist). American Atheists recently completed the largest survey to date compiling and analyzing the experiences of nonbelievers living in America. The results were pretty shocking on the discrimination and stigmatization fronts. Content Waring: Discussions of violence and abuse.

Reality Check: Being Nonreligious in America: https://www.secularsurvey.org/

American Atheists Analysis: https://www.atheists.org/2020/05/reality-check-being-nonreligious-in-america/

Invocation: 21 Pilots Car Radio

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 Next week: Better Know Mary Astell with Simone Webb

EV - 141 Secular Student Alliance with Kevin Bolling

My guest this week is Kevin Bolling, executive director of the Secular Student Alliance (@SecularStudents). We discuss the role of secular student groups in the lives of young nonbelievers, and how they especially play a vital community role in the lives of nonbelievers who come from faith based families. This is a particularly fortuitous conversation given what I'll be discussing next week with Alison Gill.

Secular Student Alliance: https://secularstudents.org/?gclid=CjwKCAjw4871BRAjEiwAbxXi2xaAzMR9fuT2RaqHBh730sR8yRDmraqHHH6OsL1iK4svWJy4FM6mTBoCeNkQAvD_BwE

Invocation: Paul Lynch

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 Next week: Reality check, being nonreligious in America with Alison Gill

EV - 140 Campquest.org with Neil Polzin

My guest this week is Neil Polzin, a long time patron of the void, director of the So Cal Campquest session, and Board Chair for the national Campquest organization. We discuss the joys of combining science and philosophy with the outdoors to help young individuals learn and grow.

Campquest: https://www.campquest.org/

Invocation: https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Dark_Young_of_Shub-Niggurath

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 Next week: Secular Student Alliance with Kevin Bolling

EV - 139 New Media Roundtable

Something new this week! Some friends put together a roundtable discussion on left/liberal relations and related pressing issues. Hope you enjoy!

Video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPI02PAv3GQ

Participants:

Political Philosophy Podcast: 

https://www.politicalphilosophypodcas... 

https://twitter.com/PolPhilPod

Chrisiousity: 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn1b... 

https://twitter.com/chrisiousity

The Poplar Tapes: 

https://thepoplartapes.podbean.com/ 

https://twitter.com/ThePoplarTapes 

Jerb the Humanist: 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmE8jnO-2WwKYjSpRXEu2Hw

https://twitter.com/Jerbivore

Invocation: Aaron's fever dreams

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 Next week: Campquest.org with Neil Polzin

EV - 138 Naked Shame with Krista Thomason

My guest this week is Krista Thomason (@kkthomason), an associate professor at Swarthmore college who studies negative emotions and their role in ethics. We discuss her challenges to the traditional views of shame and how people can integrate a healthy relationship with shame into their lives.

Naked: https://www.amazon.com/Naked-Dark-Side-Shame-Moral/dp/0190843276

Invocation: Bhagavad Gita

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Next week: Campquest.org with Neil Polzin

EV - 137 Strong Emergence with Emerson Green

My guest this week is Emerson Green (@waldenpod), host of the Counterapologetics Podcast and Walden Pod. We continue our discussion on Panpsychism and focus in particular on the argument agains strong emergence, a concept that may be present in common conceptions of how consciousness arises in the world.

The Right to Reason Discussion with Emerson: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/panpsychism-debate/id1233300936?i=1000465105440

Follow up on Walden Pod: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD-RKKyHDXc 

Emerson's Website: https://emersongreenblog.wordpress.com/

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Next week: Campquest.org with Neil Polzin

EV - 136 Dialetheism with Michael Bench-Capon

My guest this week is Michael Bench-Capon (@MikeBenchCapon), a philosopher turned librarian with an interest in Dialetheism, the view that some things both are and are not P. We discuss this counterintuitive theory and how it applies to paradoxes, aesthetics, and ethics.

Michael's Blogpost on Dialetheism: http://michaelbenchcapon.blogspot.com/2019/11/dialetheism-duchamp-and-deloreans.html

Priest interview: https://historyofphilosophy.net/logic-buddhism-priest

Priest and Young article on Dialetheism and art: https://aeon.co/essays/how-can-duchamp-s-fountain-be-both-art-and-not-art

History of Philosophy without any Gaps pod: https://historyofphilosophy.net/

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Next week: Strong Emergence with Emerson Green

EV - 135 Sentientism with Jamie Woodhouse

My guest this week is Jamie Woodhouse (@JamieWoodhouse), a community organizer for Sentientism, the view that all sentient life matters morally. We do a deep dive into the strengths and weakness of Sentientism.

Jamie's Homepage: https://jamiewoodhouse.com/

Jamie's FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sentientism

Editing by Brian Ziegenhagen, check out his pod: http://youarehere.libsyn.com/s02e02-rex-manning-day?fbclid=IwAR2L2_YIJvQpcw0nx6nTSfz0GmyJ1DtWsF--vvdI9W1ug3XW7IAtU6dQ36s

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Next week: Strong Emergence with Emerson Green

EV - 134 Existential Risk with Phil Torres

My guest this week is the well timed Phil Torres (@@xriskology), an expert on existential risk. We discuss the field of existential risk and several top contenders for what might kill us all.

Phil's website: https://www.xriskology.com/ 

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Next week: Sentientism with Jamie Woodhouse (for reals this time)

EV - 133 Open Minded Centrism with Andrea Lewis

My guest this week is Andrea Lewis (@AndreaLynnLewis), host of Andrea with the Bangs on Youtube and the She Wonders Why podcast. We discuss the culture wars from her centrist vantage and what distinguishes her position from progressivism.

Andrea with the Bangs: https://t.co/Ijqo7IoaM5?amp=1

She Wonders Why: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/she-wonders-why-by-andrea-with-the-bangs/id1456695004 

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Next week: Sentientism with Jamie Woodhouse 

EV - 132 American Atheism with Nick Fish

My guest this week is Nick Fish (@AmericanAtheist), president of American Atheists and longtime organizer within the atheist community. We discuss our weirdly similar paths to community organizing and the hopeful direction of movement atheism. 

Invocation: Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

 American Atheist Convention: https://convention.atheists.org/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAhojzBRC3ARIsAGtNtHX45vvm24uWoadFrIAmt-NQqe4CSYVdFGDXh9oRExs2fhuOo_Qj0eUaAjktEALw_wcB

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EV - 131 Politics sans Free Will with Iona Italia

My guest this week is Iona Italia (@IonaItalia), cohost of the Two for Tea podcast and a frequent contributor at sites like letterwiki. We discuss her book on Argentinian Tango, our shared belief that free will is an illusion, and our divergent views on intersectionality.

Invocation: David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

Iona's book: https://www.amazon.com/Our-Tango-World-vol-1-Community/dp/1999755189

Tango videos:

Carlitos & Noelia: https://t.co/myrq97WjyD?amp=1

And me & Manish: https://t.co/G5nUGdAHQI?amp=1

https://t.co/fmQzi8y7da?amp=1

Also watch: https://t.co/LTYZYXw2es?amp=1

If you found this conversation interesting, consider starting a conversation at letter: https://letter.wiki/AaronRabinowitz/conversations

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Next week: American Atheism with Nick Fish

EV - 130 The Soul of Libertarianism with Jason Lee Byas

My guest this week is Jason Lee Byas, a PhD student in political philosophy at University of Michigan. We discuss Libertarianism as a form of radical liberalism, how it has lost its way in the Trump era, and what can be done to turn it around.

Invocation: Jindrich Styrsky, Emilie přichází ke mně ve snu

Radical liberalism: The Soul of Libertarianism: https://c4ss.org/content/49939

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Next week: Politics sans Free Will with Iona Italia

EV - 129 Philosophy of Disability with Elizabeth Barnes

My guest this week is Elizabeth Barnes, a professor of philosophy at the glorious University of Virginia. We discuss her book The Minority Body and the challenges she has encountered when engaging with other philosophers on the lives of disabled individuals. We also break new ground in the emerging sub-discipline of doggo metaphysics.

Elizabeth's homepage: https://elizabethbarnesphilosophy.weebly.com/

Invocation:  Nitya Prakash

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Next week: The Soul of Libertarianism with Jason Lee Byas

EV - 128 Substantial Selves with Donnchadh O'Conaill

My guest is Donnchadh O'Conaill, a post-doc researcher at the University of Frizbourg. We discuss a new project he's working on called "The Subject of Experience: The significance of its Metaphysical Nature in the Philosophy of Mind". We discuss how the project aims to give an account of the self as a substance, which means this episode joins our controversial views library alongside logical positivism, expressivism, HBD, Hamilton being bad, and coming soon, Libertarianism.

Project description: https://www.donnchadhoconaill.com/research.html

Invocation: Aaron's Void

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Next week: Philosophy of Disability with Elizabeth Barnes

EV - 127 Black Metal Environmentalism with Jesse McWilliams

My guest this week is Jesse McWilliams, who reached out to discuss his work on Black Metal philosophy and environmental harm assessment. We look at the day to day work of environmental preservation and why Scandinavians love Black Metal so much. 

Jesse's Black Metal work:

http://amoeba.blue/research/voyd_mms_2_2_2016.pdf

Jesse's Environmental work:

http://amoeba.blue/research/ascfk_wrstsd_13_4_2017.pdf http://amoeba.blue/research/gcmsapdfc_wasp_227_153_2016.pdf

Journal of Metal Music studies: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/mms

Invocation:  Kabir, The Bijak of Kabir

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Next week: Systematizing the Self with Donnchadh O'Conaill

EV - 126 McMindfulness with Ron Purser

My guest this week is Ron Purser (@ronpurser), author of McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality. We discuss the commodifying of mindfulness and the 

Invocation:  A life in Vain by Ono no komachi (translation by Peter MacMillon) http://www.thehypertexts.com/Ono%20no%20Komachi%20English%20Translations.htm

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Next week: Black metal environmentalism with Jesse McWilliams

EV - 125 Why Are We Yelling? with Buster Benson

My guest this week is Buster Benson (@buster), author of Why Are We Yelling?: The Art of Productive Disagreement. We discuss discussions and Buster's preferred methods for untangling confusions. 

Invocation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra

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Next week: McMindfulness with Ron Purser

EV - 124 Death Doulas with Brenda Goodman pt2

My guest this week is Brenda Goodman, a mediator with a Masters in Gerontology and a lifelong interest in aging and death. We work through some of the practical and personal questions Brenda would use in her services as a death doula.

Invocation: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47652/because-i-could-not-stop-for-death-479

Death Doula Resources:

https://www.inelda.org/category/inelda-articles/

https://www.consciousdyinginstitute.com/sacred-passage-guide-certification
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/how-death-doulas-can-help-people-at-the-end-of-their-life#2
https://mindfulmeanderingsajourneyinlove.wordpress.com/2019/11/19/doula-for-the-dying-an-ancient-healing-art-in-modern-times/?fbclid=IwAR1Yw0UX-Q-SLf7yb7RzBZFYcWuFHkkZ10w1D5DiSj76tuKLSHZZnB54Ki4
https://www.dyingwishmedia.com/
https://bkbooks.com/pages/media

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Next week: Why are we Shouting? with Buster Benson