Latest Episodes
Persons, Minds, and Thingy Things (Daniel Kaufman & Joshua Rasmussen)
How can there be persons? ... Against hypostatic ontological commitment ... Things vs. thingy things ... Mind over matter, or vice versa? ... Are...
The Past and Future of Marvel Movies (Daniel Kaufman & Milton Lawson)
The incredible achievement of the Marvel Cinematic Universe ... The choices that led to the MCU's greatness... ... ...and the choices that didn't quite...
Prolegomena: Ontological Commitments (Daniel Kaufman & Crispin Sartwell)
Explaining Crispin’s position on explanatory unity ... Dan: Meaning is part of social reality, it’s not all in our heads ... What is the...
The Lacanian Principle of Special Effects (Daniel Kaufman & David Ottlinger)
Why does bad CGI make us feel weird? ... Where digital effects work (The Avengers) vs. where they don't (CATS) ... Gollum vs. Thanos,...
The Tyranny of Opinion (Daniel Kaufman & Russell Blackford)
Russell’s book, The Tyranny of Opinion: Conformity and the Future of Liberalism ... Preserving the liberal tradition ... Can the genie of stakes-inflation be...
Prolegomena: What Are Persons? (Daniel Kaufman & Crispin Sartwell)
What are persons? ... Why don't we say "my legs went to the store"? ... Actions and intentions ... The case of the robot...