Pierce and Matt try to make sense of the current state of the culture war.
12 Apr 2020
Episode 8: How Coronavirus Made Me Realize I’m a Jerk (and that I need a new moral paradigm)
Pierce is back to scold you! Danny is on for the first time! I haven’t been outside in a month! Show-notes Overall Point: Our way of seeing the world and considering our place in it is selfish, naive and disconnected from reality. Details of how we see the world: (1) My assuming that I have […]
21 Mar 2019
Episode 7.5: A Response to Very Bad Wizards on Ecclesiastes
In this mini-episode, Pierce solves a murder, and responds to some other dudes on their angsty interpretation of Ecclesiastes. (Picture: Albrecht Durer’s “Knight, Death and the Devil.”) Very Bad Wizards (Podcast)
27 Feb 2019
Episode 7: The Meaning of Life and Intrinsic Value
Pull up a chair, and shut your mouth while Pierce once again lectures you about morality, religion and Jordan Peterson. Listener BEWARE! (Picture: Young William James looking pretty sick.) Sources: Wolf, Susan. “Meaningfulness: A Third Dimension of the Good Life” Scruton, Roger. “Of Beauty and Consolation.” Peterson, Goldstein and Craig on the Meaning of Life […]
11 Feb 2019
Episode 6: Thoughts on Jordan Peterson
Pierce and Matt pull themselves up by their bootstraps, get high and tight fades, and talk about the internet’s favorite frog, Jordan Peterson. Sources: Cathy Newman Interview Jordan Peterson on the “Left Wingers Going Too Far” Peterson and Scruton on the Transcendent Peterson, Goldstein and Craig on the Meaning of Life
28 Nov 2018
Episode 5: Serenity and Serenity
Pierce and Matt analyze the character, Malcolm Reynolds, from Firefly and Serenity.
11 Oct 2018
Episode 4: The Witcher Episode Feedback
Pierce goes solo this week to answer some feedback we received in our previous two-part episode.
5 Oct 2018
Episode 3: The Witcher 3, Consolation and Religion (Part 2)
Pierce breaks down how the video game, The Witcher 3, radically influenced his philosophical study and introduces Matt to meta-ethics. Part 2 of 2.
28 Sept 2018
Episode 2: The Witcher 3, Consolation and Religion (Part 1)
Pierce breaks down how the video game, The Witcher 3, radically influenced his philosophical study and introduces Matt to meta-ethics. Part 1 of 2.
17 Sept 2018
Episode 1: Why make a philosophy podcast?
Pierce and Matt introduce the new podcast.
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