My guest this week is Oliver Traldi (@olivertraldi), a philosophy PhD student at Notre Dame Spencer who frequently publishes at ArcDigi and Heterdox academy. We discuss a range of topics from the role of the objective/subjective divide in the culture wars to the vagaries of conspiracy theories on the right and left. Website: https://olivertraldi.weebly.com/ Convocation: Culture War Rap by @Matt_Allan78 Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlive...
Feb 25, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 181
My guest this week is Spencer Bradley (@CafeSinister), a public defender with a background in critical legal theory. We discuss the origins of CLT, its relationship to the more famous Critical Race Theory, and how we can apply it in free speech debates. Spencer's comment on Free Speech Absolutism: https://ideas.dickinsonlaw.psu.edu/dlr/vol123/iss2/6/ Convocation: Aaron's free expression Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/pod...
Feb 19, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 180
My guest this week is Joey Tuminello, an assistant professor of philosophy at McNeese State University, a program coordinator for the nonprofit orgs Farm Forward and Better Food Foundation, and one of my very closest IRL philosophy brothers. We talk food, drugs, applied ethics, really all that is good in life. Joey's website: https://josephtuminello.academia.edu/ DefaultVeg: https://defaultveg.org/ 2021 Jonathan Safran Foer Virtual Visit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GNSTLP2 Convoc...
Feb 12, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 179
My returning guest this week is Donnchadh O' Conaill, a post-doc at University of Fribourg in Switzerland, where he does work on metaphysics of the self. We try to explain what metaphysics and why you need it in your life. Donnchadh's Website: www.donnchadhoconaill.com Donnchadh's letterwiki with Naomi Thompson on carving reality at the joints: https://letter.wiki/conversation/723 Referenced materials: David Armstrong is Universals: An Opinionated Introduction (Westview Press, 1989) The o...
Feb 05, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 178
My guest this week is Rabbi Josh Yuter (@JYuter), my interlocutor in a letterwiki on secular and religious ethics. We discuss Josh's experiences with Jewish orthodoxy and how it contrasts with secular ethics. The letterwiki is a valuable companion piece but necessary to enjoy the episode. Josh's website: https://joshyuter.com/ Our Letter Exchange: https://letter.wiki/conversation/832 Convocation: Hillel the Elder Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www...
Jan 29, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 177
My guest this week is Dr. Ami Palmer (@FilosoferzBLike), a philosophy professor at Ohio Northern University. We discuss the ongoing epistemic crisis, the limits of models for addressing causes of the crisis, and where we're likely to go from here. Dr. Palmer's anti-science propaganda article: https://wrestling-with-philosophy.com/2020/01/08/how-and-why-anti-science-propaganda-works/ Convocation: Ben Franklin Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.film...
Jan 22, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 176
My guests this week are Jennifer Foster (@philoso_foster), a philosophy Ph.D. student at the University of Southern California, and Cassie Finley (@Angry_Cassie), a philosophy Ph.D. student at the University of Iowa. They’ve come together to organize the Cogtweeto Philosophy Workshop Series. We discuss the workshop and community organizing within philosophy twitter. Cogtweeto conference info: https://www.cogtweeto.com/ Daily Nous writeup: https://dailynous.com/2021/01/06/new-workshop-series-brin...
Jan 15, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 175
My guest this week is Joseph Clark (@clarkjosephf), a journalist and critic currently embedded with Philosophy Twitter. We discuss American Pragmatism and it's implications for epistemology and ethics. Joseph's Opinionated Introduction to Pragmatism: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XyGkGX2Ndb6zpxs1DzXgRDzXzCT6Pw45z65kx_frvAc/edit Hayden Bruce on twitter: https://twitter.com/HaydenSBruce Hayden Bruce's podcast: https://pragmaticchristian.com/podcast Jeffery Howard on twitter: https://twitter....
Jan 08, 2021•59 min•Ep. 174
My guest this week is my good friend and Philosophers in Space cohost Thomas Smith. He joins me to help thank all the ETV patrons for their support and general chillness as the show continues to evolve. Y'all are the best, the void wouldn't exist without you. Convocation: Wareframe Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html Music by GW Rodriguez Sibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/ Support...
Jan 01, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 173
My returning guest this week is Eiynah (@NiceMangos), host of the Polite Conversations and Woking Up podcasts. We follow up on the State of the IDW episode with a deep dive on Sam Harris. Eiynah makes some solid arguments that we shouldn't give Harris too much credit for his recent symbolic break with the IDW. Polite Conversations: https://soundcloud.com/politeconversations Woking Up: https://soundcloud.com/politeconversations/woking-up-1 Convocation: Tao Te Ching Editing by Lu Lyons, check out ...
Dec 25, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 172
My returning guest this week is C Thi Nguyen (@add_hawk), a philosophy professor at University of Utah with a special interest in gaming and porn. We discuss porn, cheap talk, value capture, conspiracy theories and just so much other stuff. Highly recommend listening back to C Thi's first episode as we basically pick up where we left off there: https://voidpod.com/podcasts/2019/6/19/ev-094-echoes-in-the-void-with-c-thi-nguyen C Thi's Website: https://objectionable.net/ Invocation: Aaron's...
Dec 18, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 171
My guest this week is Chris Kavanagh (@C_Kavanagh), a cognitive anthropologist/social scientist and cohost of the Decoding the Gurus podcast. We assess the state of the Intellectual Dark Web post election and discuss why conspiracy theories appear to be rampant in the IDW. Decoding the Gurus: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/ Invocation: Alan Moore Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html Music by GW Rodriguez ...
Dec 11, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 170
My guest this week is Emma McClure, a parole solicitor who frequently works with prisoners with mental health issues. We discuss the role of luck in the criminal justice system, possible reforms, and the impacts of Covid. Invocation: Watership Down Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html Music by GW Rodriguez Sibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/ Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid ...
Dec 04, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 169
My guests this week are Rebecca Buxton (@RebeccaBuxton) and Lisa Whiting (@lisawhiting_), the editors of this year's best philosophy book, Philosopher Queens. We discuss the overlooked history of women in philosophy and cutting edge work they did dealing with totalitarianism and reply guys. Philosopher queens: https://unbound.com/books/philosopher-queens/ Invocation: Martha Nussbaum Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/...
Nov 27, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 168
My guest this week is Tom Curry (@dissonance_pod), co-host of the Cognitive Dissonance pod and one of the hive of villainy on the Citation Needed pod. We discuss Tom's letters to his sons and how to teach healthy masculinity. Tom's Blog: https://dangerousletters.wordpress.com/ Cog Dis: https://dissonancepod.com/ Citation Needed: http://citationpod.com/ Invocation: https://dangerousletters.wordpress.com/2020/11/05/you-are-not-a-good-person/ Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filme...
Nov 20, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 167
My guest this week is Dr. Alice Howarth (@AliceEmmaLouise), co-host of the Skeptics with a K podcast and postdoc in pharmacology at the University of Liverpool. We discuss cancer treatment and pseudoscience alternative medicines that are targeted at cancer patients. Alice's Blog: https://dralice.blog/ Skeptics with a K: http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/category/podcast/skeptics-with-a-k/ Invocation: Robert Heinlein Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals...
Nov 13, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 166
My guest this week is Dr. TJ Curry (@DrTJC), chair of Africana studies and Black Male Studies at Edinburgh University. We discuss violent decolonialization, intersectionality, and Black Male Studies. Invocation: The book of the Living, from Parable of the Talents by Butler The Man-not: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072Q2JXW9/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html ...
Nov 06, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 165
My guest this week is Daniel Harper, co-host of the I Don't Speak German Podcast. We discuss the many flavors of the far right and where that energy is headed after the election. Invocation: Fantasy High S1E7 I don't Speak German Podcast: https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/ Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html Music by GW Rodriguez Sibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/ Support us at ...
Oct 30, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 164
My guest this week is Jeff Sebo (@jeffrsebo) director of the NYU animal studies MA program and author of Chimpanzee rights and Food, Animals, and the Environment. We discuss animal consciousness and the implications for animal ethics. Invocation: The Aarononomicon Jeff's website: https://jeffsebo.net/ Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html Music by GW Rodriguez Sibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy...
Oct 23, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 163
My guest this week is Casey Petersen (@CaseyAPetersen), a research and development electrical engineer at Sandia National Labs who took issue with the diversity and racial awareness training at the National Labs. We discuss his video challenging Critical Race Theory and its use in diversity training and school curriculums. (NOTE: This discussion happened prior to the release of Breonna Taylor's grand jury testimonies) Casey's Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyNW9nlFDBk Study on bias perpe...
Oct 15, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 162
My guest this week is Casey Petersen (@CaseyAPetersen), a research and development electrical engineer at Sandia National Labs who took issue with the diversity and racial awareness training at the National Labs. We discuss his video challenging Critical Race Theory and its use in diversity training and school curriculums. Casey's Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyNW9nlFDBk Study on bias perpetuation through AI lending: https://news.berkeley.edu/story_jump/mortgage-algorithms-perpetuate-r...
Oct 08, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 161
My guest this week is Matt Browne (@ArthurCDent), a psychology professor at central Queensland Australia and cohost of the new Decoding the Gurus podcast. We discuss conspiracy theories within the Anti-vaxxer community and what they can tell us about a world inundated with conspiracy theories. Matt's Vaccination Paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29863949/ Decoding the Gurus: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/ Convocation: Richard Hofstadter's The Paranoid Style in American Politics, H...
Oct 02, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 160
My guest this week is Bo Winegard, Assistant Professor at Marietta College, cohost of the psyphilopod podcast, and frequent contributor to Quillette. We've engaged in several disagreements on twitter and thought it could be valuable to debate some of these issues on the show. We focused our debate on the question "should society attempt to promote social progress by changing human nature". The argument is naturally wide ranging. Invocation: The Tower of Babel Bo's article on Progressivism and th...
Sep 25, 2020•2 hr 23 min•Ep. 101
Taking a two week break to commune with the void. In the meantime enjoy this double wide rebroadcast of our discussion of Trump's narcissism and diagnosing at a distance. Here's a link to the DSM-5 definition of narcissism: http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-personality-disorder/basics/symptoms/CON-20025568 Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html Music by GW Rodriguez Sibling Pod Philosophers ...
Sep 18, 2020•2 hr 40 min•Ep. 11
My guest this week is Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (@OlufemiOTaiwo), assistant professor at Georgetown university with an interest in pan African community action. We discuss a recent exchange that he and Liam Bright had with Michael Wazler on the issue of Racial Capitalism. Wazler's article: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/a-note-on-racial-capitalism Liam and Femi's response article: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/a-response-to-michael-walzer Femi's website: http://www.why...
Sep 11, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 159
My guest this week is Kevin Dorst (@kevin_dorst), a philosopher at Oxford University and University of Pittsburg with a particular interest in polarization and irrationality. We discuss why current polarization involves elevated levels of demonization and if there's any way to break out of this spiral. Kevin's Website: https://www.kevindorst.com/ Convocation: The Tower of Babel Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html...
Sep 04, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 158
My guest this week is Raphaël Millière (@raphamilliere), a philosopher of mind and cognitive science at Columbia university’s Center for Science and Society. We discuss the new natural language processor GPT-3 and it's potential benefits and risks to various parts of society. Raphaël's website: http://raphaelmilliere.com/ Convocation: GPT-3's Manifesto of Void Art Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html Music by GW R...
Aug 28, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 157
My guest this week is Marcus Schultz-Bergin (@schultzbergin), a teaching professor in philosophy at Cleveland State University who’s interests include ethics and political philosophy. Marcus is also a former colleague of mine from the Colorado State masters program. We discuss different kinds of Liberalism and what the view can still bring to the table. Marcus's Website: http://schultzbergin.xyz/ Convocation: Simón Bolívar Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! ...
Aug 21, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 156
My guest this week is Sam Hoadley-Brill (@deonteleologist), a grad student in philosophy at CUNY Graduate Center with interests in moral, social, and political philosophy. We discuss his forthcoming review of Cynical Theories by James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose. Convocation: Terry Pratchett Helen Longino "Cognitive and Non-Cognitive values in science": https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-1742-2_3 Alison Wylie "Why Standpoint Matters": https://philpapers.org/rec/WYLWSM Charles M...
Aug 14, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 155
My guest this week is Adrian Rutt adjunct at Cleveland state, editor at Liberal Currents, and the manager of the Rorty Stan Account on twitter (@Adrian_Rutt). Adrian helps me to better understand Richard Rorty and his roll in all of this ::gestures wildly at the culture war:: Convocation: Richard Rorty Editing by Callie Wright Music by GW Rodriguez Sibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/ Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid If you enjoy the show, please Like and R...
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