Philosophize This!
Hosted by Stephen West · Stephen West
4.9from 55,566 ratings
- 253
- Episodes
- 61
- Transcribed
- 55,566
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2013
- First episode
- 6M
- YouTube views
About Philosophize This!
Beginner friendly if listened to in order! For anyone interested in an educational podcast about philosophy where you don't need to be a graduate-level philosopher to understand it. In chronological order, the thinkers and ideas that forged the world we live in are broken down and explained.
- Publisher
- Stephen West
- Category
- education · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 6 Jun 2013
- Latest episode
- 27 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
61 of 253 episodes have a transcript.
27 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode #253 ... The Philosophy of Alan Watts - What Am I?
29 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode #252 ... Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
8 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode #251 ... You Must Change Your Life, Pt. 2 - The Worlds That Make Us
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Episode #253 ... The Philosophy of Alan Watts - What Am I?
Published 27 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And the irony is, he thinks, we create this whole ego, again, this little controlling boss up in our head, where on one hand, it's the thing that many people experience as their most independent, authentic self. But on the other hand, it's something that's mostly made up of other people's ideas about who we ought to have been in the first place. […]
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- YouTube views
- 6,499,938
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 15,407 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 40,159 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 61 / 100
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- Quality
- 25
- Social presence
- 97
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 100
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