Ep 22: Paradoxes Part II - Buford, Beethoven and Brothers
All handsome people enjoy a good paradox, so we decided to open up our paradox box again and pick out a few new ones for this episode. A lot...
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Ep 21: Halloween Spooktacular—From Aardvark to Zombies!
Are zombies real? Could we all be zombies? On this special Halloween episode, we raise topics from the dead—specifically we’re reanimating o...
Ep 20: Listener Mail - Sam Harris and the Ethics of Jabba's Droid Dungeon
In this episode we sort through some listener mail and attempt to answer your most pressing questions. A number of fans wanted to know why w...
Ep 19: Ontological Argument for the Existence of God - The Everything Bagel
In this episode we jump around in time. From a conversation last year at a bagel shop, to Paco’s college years and all the way back to the m...
Ep 18: Moral Realism - Vampire Socrates
Are moral statements objectively true? When we say “stealing for fun is wrong,” are we making a factual claim about the world, or are we jus...
Ep 17: Rationalism vs. Empiricism - Kevin Spacey Eyes
Do we learn everything we know from the world around us, or are there some things we learn independently of our sensory experiences? Rationa...
Ep 16: Descriptivist Theory of Names - The Howie Mandel Effect
This is our second show about how proper names work (check out episode 10 for part one). It’s an important topic because much of philosophy...
Ep 15: Possible Worlds - Better call Saul Kripke
You might say it’s possible that Tom Selleck could have played Indiana Jones. But what does that actually mean? Can you prove that this stat...
Ep 14: Paradoxes - Infinite Oranges, Paradise Trunk
Paradoxes have confounded philosophers and handsome people for ages, perhaps since the dawn of language. The oldest ones we have on record c...
Ep 13: Categorical Imperative - From Prussia With Love
One of the great debates in philosophy is whether or not moral rules are created by humans or exist independently from us as absolute truths...
Ep 12: Personal Identity - What happens on Risa stays on Risa
If all of the cells in your body get replaced every ten years, will you still be the same person a decade from now? If all of your memories...
Ep 11: Listener Mail - Gary Busey Syndrome
Questions from our listeners have been stacking up, and in this episode we tackle a few of your your most pressing concerns. Is there such a...
Ep 10: Sense and Reference - The Superman Paradox
What’s in a name? In his 1892 paper, “Sense and Reference,” the German philosopher Gottlob Frege gave an unconventional answer to this quest...
Ep 9: The New Riddle of Induction - Eaten by a Grue
Inductive reasoning is the process whereby we take a lot of specific observations and use them to form more general conclusions. For example...
Ep 8: Ship of Theseus - One Ship, Two Ship, Old Ship, New Ship
The Ship of Theseus is one of longest-standing paradoxes in philosophy. It asks us to consider how something can change over time, but still...
Ep 7: Compatibilism - To-do list: Cake, Ketamine, Gym, Podcast
The problem of free will has long haunted philosophers who also want to believe that the laws of physics govern everything in the universe....
Ep. 6: Thomas Kuhn – Losing my Saganity
In his 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn argued that the history of science is not the history of a steady mar...
Ep. 5: Time Theory – A Time, B Time, C All-Of-The-Above Time
Time is a fundamental part of how we experience the world. But when we try to describe what time actually is, things get murky pretty fast....
Ep. 4: Supererogation - The Spiritual Bank Account
In traditional moral philosophy there are three kinds of actions: Good actions you’re required to do, bad actions you’re not allowed to do,...
Ep. 3: Gettier Problems - A Squishy Dodge
The traditional definition of “knowledge,” first put forward by Plato, is a “justified, true belief.” That definition stuck for a few thousa...