Philosophize This!
Hosted by Stephen West · Stephen West
4.9from 55,224 ratings
- 252
- Episodes
- 60
- Transcribed
- 55,224
- Ratings
- Daily
- 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
- 29 Aug 2026
Latest episodes
60 of 252 episodes have a transcript.
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
14 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode #250 ... You Must Change Your Life. - Peter Sloterdijk
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Episode #252 ... Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Published 29 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And while it'd be silly to treat this book like it's an ambitious philosophical work that's trying to do the same thing Kant was doing or Plato or something... I do think it can be valuable to talk about where the philosophy in it begins and ends. In fact, at some points, I think it's even valuable to take the philosophy a couple levels deeper than it goes in the book as a way of understanding the real depth of the questions posed by Vonnegut here, even if it's only alluded to. At the very least, we're going to familiarize ourselves with a classic here today, one that without question dramatizes certain pieces of philosophy far better than many philosophers or textbooks ever managed to do. […]
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- YouTube views
- 6,499,938
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 15,380 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 39,844 ratings
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- 25
- Social presence
- 97
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 100
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