Latest Episodes
Philosophy and Professional Wrestling (Robert Gressis & Douglas Edwards)
Doug's new book, Philosophy Smackdown ... Plato's Cave and the three layers of wrestling reality ... What it means when wrestlers break the fourth...
Objectivity and Realism (Daniel Kaufman & Massimo Pigliucci)
Are we really as social as the Stoics believed? ... Distinguishing between the “objective” and the “real”... ... ...and between the “real” and representations...
To Boldly Go (Daniel Kaufman & Milton Lawson)
Spoiler alert! Critiquing Star Trek: Discovery and Picard ... Serial vs. episodic storytelling ... Why Dan hated Discovery's main character ... Is the show...
Prolegomena for a Pluralist Metaphysics (Daniel Kaufman & Crispin Sartwell)
Dan's in-progress book, Prolegomena for a Pluralist Metaphysics ... Avoiding the "crazy positions" ... A stereoscopic view of the "scientific" and "manifest" images ......
Gender Critical (Daniel Kaufman & Jesse Singal)
The continuing battle over gender in philosophy ... Harm avoidance vs. competing interests ... Jesse: There's disagreement within the trans community over what it...
Epidemiological Modeling, Policy, and Covid-19 (Daniel Kaufman, Eric Winsberg, and John Symons)
How to model an epidemic ... The costs and benefits of cost-benefit analysis ... Turning coronavirus models into coronavirus policy ... Eric: Your intuitions...