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May 21, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 13
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WhoDunnIt?
Is the world in itself a mystery that science and philosophy take different routes to try to solve? How do luck, logic, empirical investigation, and intuition all work together to make sense of the world? What would a solution even look like? Are philosophers basically just detectives? Is a crime requisite to initiate investigations in mysteries? Is the unknown connected to Aristotle’s idea that philosophy begins in wonder? Is the mystery genre mostly a battle of reason over unreason? Full episo...
May 14, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Privacy
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May 07, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Love
The HBS hosts talk about love. What is love? Is it a feeling? Is it a cosmic or metaphysical force? Is it a primary motivating drive to propagate the species or to create ideas? What happens when love goes wrong? Full episode notes at this link . ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Apr 30, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 10
The Philosophical Canon
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Apr 23, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Apocalypse(s)
The HBS hosts chat about our impending doom. Is the apocalypse nigh? Will it be environmental, political, technological, or biological? Can we imaging human beings existing in 50 years? 100 years? 5000 years? Full episode notes at this link . ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Apr 16, 2021•59 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Nostalgia
The HBS hosts take a look at the political, philosophical, cultural, and personal dimensions of nostalgia. Full episode notes at this link . ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Apr 09, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Metrics
For Episode 6, the HBS hosts take a look at several of the metrics by which we are rated and ranked. We talk about grading, student evaluations, the Philosophical Gourmet Report (in professional Philosophy), social media algorithms, China's social credit systems, and we delve into some of Cathy O'Neal's arguments in *Weapons of Math Destruction.* Full episode notes at this link . ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★...
Apr 02, 2021•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 6
One Year with COVID
For Episode 5, the HBS hosts consider the last year living with COVID: what can we not believe that we did before COVID? what can't we wait to get back to doing? and what do we hope we never go back to doing? Full episode notes at this link . ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Mar 26, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Origins
For Episode 4, the HBS hosts look into the stories we tell, whether or not they are true, and what happens when those stories fall apart. Specifically, they discuss the various ways that origins are grounded in myths, documents, and self-narratives. By way of access into these problems, they take on the new Netflix series, Murder Among the Mormons , which centers around the story of Mark Hoffman, a master forger and murderer. What does it mean to have a physical document versus an oral tradition...
Mar 19, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Leigh M. Johnson on Technology
For Episode 3, Leigh M. Johnson is in the hot seat to explain why philosophers should be thinking more about emergent technologies. Co-hosts Shannon and Ammon make her seat hotter with questions about what counts as "intelligence," how close we are to the Singularity, whether robots will have feelings or should have rights, and which emergent technologies we should be excited (and worried) about in the near future. Full episode notes at this link . ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★...
Mar 12, 2021•51 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Ammon Allred on Art
For Episode 2, Ammon Allred is in the hot seat to explain how thinking about aesthetic experience more seriously can free us from the hold of normativity. Co-hosts Leigh and Shannon make his seat hotter by forcing him to listen and respond to an atonal polka rendition of The National Anthem and then asking questions about what counts as art, what aesthetic experience does for us, whether or not none-human animals and machines can produce art (or have aesthetic experiences), and karaoke. Full epi...
Mar 12, 2021•57 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Shannon M. Mussett on Freedom
For our first episode of HBS, Shannon Mussett is in the hot seat to explain how the existentialist conception of freedom remains useful and important for Philosophy. Co-hosts Ammon and Leigh make her seat hotter with questions about how "radical" human freedom is, whether or not it is an illusion, why Shannon feels the urge to spontaneously drop babies, and the possibility of freedom for non-human animals, Nature, or machines. Check out the full episode notes at this link . ★ Support this podcas...
Mar 12, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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