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| episode number | title | release date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brains, Robots, and Free Will (Free Will and Morality Pt. 1) | 2012-08-30 |
| 2 | The "Dangerous Truth" about Free Will (Free Will and Morality, Pt. 2) | 2012-09-01 |
| 3 | "We believe in nothing!" (Cultural diversity, relativism, and moral truth) | 2012-09-08 |
| 4 | Revenge, Pt. 1 | 2012-09-20 |
| 5 | Revenge, Pt. 2: The Revenge | 2012-10-08 |
| 6 | Trolleys, Utilitarians, and Psychopaths (Part 1) | 2012-10-20 |
| 7 | Psychopaths and Utilitarians Pt. 2 (Now with more poo poo) | 2012-11-04 |
| 8 | Dishonesty, Character, and Dan Ariely | 2012-11-12 |
| 9 | Social Psychology, Situationism, and Moral Character | 2012-12-03 |
| 10 | Religion, Meaning, and Morality | 2012-12-11 |
| 11 | It is Morally Wrong to Kill Morgan Freeman (with Yoel Inbar) | 2012-12-28 |
| 12 | Justice for #!$@ ? | 2013-01-14 |
| 13 | Beanballs, Blood Feuds, and Collective Moral Responsibility (With Fiery Cushman) | 2013-01-22 |
| 14 | Bonus Episode on Snitches, Tattletales, and Whistleblowers | 2013-02-08 |
| 15 | The Burning Bridges Episode (Pt. 1) | 2013-02-16 |
| 17 | Learning about Bushmen by Studying Freshmen? | 2013-03-16 |
| 18 | "Boy If Life Were Only Like This" (With Joe Henrich) | 2013-03-22 |
| 19 | The Burning Bridges Episode (Pt. 2) | 2013-04-06 |
| 20 | Boston, Brains, and Bad Pronunciation (with Molly Crockett) | 2013-04-21 |
| 21 | Grad School | 2013-05-06 |
| 23 | Straw Dogs (with Yoel Inbar) | 2013-05-27 |
| 24 | The Perils of Empathy (with Paul Bloom) | 2013-06-10 |
| 25 | Burning Armchairs (with Joshua Knobe) | 2013-06-24 |
| 26 | Evolution and Sexual Perversion (with Jesse Bering) | 2013-07-08 |
| 27 | You, Your Self, and Your Brain (With Eddy Nahmias) | 2013-07-22 |
| 28 | Moral Persuasion | 2013-08-05 |
| 29 | PEDs, Tenure Pills, and "Hyberbolic Chambers" | 2013-08-19 |
| 30 | The Greatest Books Ever Written | 2013-09-02 |
| 31 | An Anthropologist's Guide to Moral Psychology (Pt. 1) | 2013-09-16 |
| 32 | Disagreeing About Disagreement | 2013-09-30 |
| 33 | Monkeys, Smurfs, and Human Conformity (With Laurie Santos) | 2013-10-14 |
| 34 | Does Reading Harry Potter Make You Moral? (with Will Wilkinson) | 2013-10-28 |
| 35 | Douchebags and Desert | 2013-11-11 |
| 36 | An Irresponsible Meta-Book Review of Joshua Greene's "Moral Tribes" | 2013-11-25 |
| 37 | Porn, Poop, and Personal Identity (with Nina Strohminger) | 2013-12-17 |
| 38 | The Greatest Movies Ever Made about Personal Identity | 2013-12-31 |
| 39 | How Many Moralities Are There? (Pt.1) | 2014-01-20 |
| 40 | How Many Moralities Are There? Pt. 2 (with Jesse Graham) | 2014-02-03 |
| 41 | Moral Dilemmas at the Movies | 2014-02-19 |
| 42 | Reason, Responsibility, and Roombas (With Paul Bloom) | 2014-03-03 |
| 43 | The Nature of Nudges | 2014-03-17 |
| 44 | Killer Robots | 2014-04-05 |
| 45 | Rounded Brains and Balanced "Play Diets" | 2014-04-21 |
| 46 | The Real Josh Knobe | 2014-05-05 |
| 47 | Schooled By Our Listeners | 2014-05-22 |
| 48 | Restorative Circle Jerk | 2014-06-09 |
| 49 | Psychopaths and Contrastivizzzzzzzz (With Walter Sinnott-Armstrong) | 2014-06-23 |
| 50 | Keeping it Unreal | 2014-07-15 |
| 51 | Zombies, Trolleys, and Galileo's Balls | 2014-08-12 |
| 52 | Thought Experiments (Huh!) What Are They Good For? (Part 2) | 2014-08-25 |
| 53 | The Psychology People Love to Hate (Evolutionary Psychology Pt.1) | 2014-09-08 |
| 54 | Pooping on Ecstasy (Pain, Pleasure, and the Ethics of Breeding) | 2014-09-24 |
| 55 | Rooting for Evil (With Paul Bloom) | 2014-10-21 |
| 57 | Free Willie | 2014-11-18 |
| 58 | Do the Right Thing (with Yoel Inbar) | 2014-12-02 |
| 59 | Tumors All the Way Down (With Sam Harris) | 2014-12-16 |
| 60 | Drunk on Intuitions | 2015-01-02 |
| 61 | Putting a Little Meaning in Your Life | 2015-01-19 |
| 62 | Brain Jizz and "Black Mirror" | 2015-02-09 |
| 63 | Stalemates and Closets (with Sam Harris) | 2015-02-28 |
| 64 | Believing in a Just World | 2015-03-19 |
| 65 | Philocalypse Now | 2015-04-06 |
| 66 | Übermensch at Work | 2015-04-20 |
| 67 | Funny How? | 2015-05-18 |
| 68 | Risky, Reckless, and Regretful | 2015-06-01 |
| 69 | CHiPs on Our Shoulders (Lessons in Objectivity) | 2015-06-17 |
| 70 | Some Favorite Things | 2015-06-29 |
| 71 | The Murky Morals and Mysterious Metaphysics of "Mr. Robot" | 2015-07-14 |
| 72 | Tweenie Turing Tests, AI, and Ex Machina (with Joshua Weisberg) | 2015-07-28 |
| 73 | Authentic Apes and Infinite Torture | 2015-08-12 |
| 74 | Lies, Damned Lies, and Ashley Madison | 2015-09-16 |
| 75 | A Golden Shower of Guests | 2015-10-06 |
| 76 | Cha-Cha-changes | 2015-10-26 |
| 77 | On the Moral Nature of Nazis, Jerks, and Ethicists (with Eric Schwitzgebel) | 2015-11-09 |
| 78 | Wizards Uprising | 2015-11-24 |
| 79 | Good Lives, Good Friends, and Gay Mormons (with Valerie Tiberius) | 2015-12-04 |
| 80 | The Coddling of the Wizard Mind (with Vlad Chituc and Christina Hoff Sommers) | 2015-12-21 |
| 81 | Domo Arigato, Mr. Robot (With Yoel Inbar) | 2016-01-12 |
| 82 | Totalitarian Slide-Rulers | 2016-01-26 |
| 83 | Ego Trip | 2016-02-09 |
| 84 | Lifting the Veil | 2016-02-23 |
| 85 | A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom) | 2016-03-12 |
| 86 | Guns, Shame, and the Meaning of Punishment | 2016-03-22 |
| 87 | Lucky You (with Robert Frank) | 2016-04-12 |
| 88 | A Doobie for Elijah | 2016-04-26 |
| 89 | Shame on You (with Jennifer Jacquet) | 2016-05-10 |
| 90 | Of Mice and Morals | 2016-05-25 |
| 91 | Rage Against the Machines | 2016-06-07 |
| 92 | Jonathan Edwards' Basement | 2016-06-21 |
| 93 | Avalanches, Blame, and Cowardice (With Yoel Inbar) | 2016-07-05 |
| 94 | Buttery Friendships | 2016-07-19 |
| 95 | The Repugnance of Repugnance | 2016-08-02 |
| 96 | Memory and Meaning in "Memento" (with Paul Bloom) | 2016-08-16 |
| 97 | Dogmatic Slumber Party | 2016-08-30 |
| 98 | Mind the Gap | 2016-09-13 |
| 99 | Mockingbirds, Destructo-Critics, and Mr. Robot | 2016-09-27 |
| 100 | It's a Celebration | 2016-10-13 |
| 101 | Having Desert and Eating It Too | 2016-11-01 |
| 102 | Red, Black, and Blue | 2016-11-15 |
| 103 | Very Bad Utopias | 2016-11-29 |
| 104 | Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom) | 2016-12-14 |
| 105 | Wizards With (Reactive) Attitudes | 2016-12-28 |
| 106 | American Grandstand | 2017-01-10 |
| 107 | Winking Under Oppression (with Manuel Vargas) | 2017-01-24 |
| 108 | The Gimp Exception | 2017-02-07 |
| 109 | Moral Pluralism: Behind the Lube | 2017-02-28 |
| 110 | Stepsisters and Neck Braces (with Yoel Inbar) | 2017-03-14 |
| 111 | Our Language Doesn't Have a Word For This Title (with Yoel Inbar) | 2017-03-22 |
| 113 | Pascal, Probability, and Pitchforks | 2017-04-18 |
| 114 | Great Vengeance and Furious Anger (Top 5 Movies About Revenge) | 2017-05-04 |
| 116 | Pain, Pleasure, and Peer-Reviewed Penises | 2017-05-31 |
| 117 | Extended Minds, Extended Foreskins | 2017-06-13 |
| 118 | We Don't Love Them Hoax | 2017-06-28 |
| 119 | A Brief History of Values | 2017-07-12 |
| 120 | Clap Your Hand for Robert Wright | 2017-07-25 |
| 121 | The Beauty of Illusion - David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive" | 2017-08-15 |
| 122 | Nothing but a "G" Thing (Intelligence Pt. 1) | 2017-08-29 |
| 123 | What Chilling Effect? (Intelligence Pt. 2) | 2017-09-12 |
| 124 | Dr. Strawson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Episodic Life | 2017-09-26 |
| 125 | Can You Feel It? | 2017-10-10 |
| 126 | The Absurd | 2017-10-24 |
| 127 | Moral Luck | 2017-11-14 |
| 128 | Fragmented Values and Sex Panics (with Christina Hoff Sommers) | 2017-11-28 |
| 129 | Dystopias | 2017-12-12 |
| 130 | Dehumanization and Disintegration (with Paul Bloom) | 2017-12-26 |
| 131 | I Have No Genitals and I Must Scream | 2018-01-09 |
| 132 | Emotional Willpower (with David DeSteno) | 2018-01-23 |
| 133 | Death and Dreams | 2018-02-06 |
| 134 | Digital Outrage (with Molly Crockett) | 2018-02-27 |
| 135 | Utilitarianism and Moral Identity | 2018-03-13 |
| 136 | The Good Life (with Laurie Santos) | 2018-03-27 |
| 137 | Are Buddhists Afraid to Die? (with Shaun Nichols) | 2018-04-10 |
| 138 | Memory, Pain, and Relationships (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) | 2018-04-24 |
| 139 | Honor, Identity, and Headbutts | 2018-05-12 |
| 140 | Milgram's Mice | 2018-05-22 |
| 141 | Implicit Bias | 2018-06-05 |
| 142 | Suicide (with Matthew Nock) | 2018-06-26 |
| 145 | Lost in Borges' Garden | 2018-08-07 |
| 146 | Sore Losers (Does Sports Make Us Unhappy?) | 2018-08-21 |
| 147 | Effective Altruism and Moral Uncertainty (with The One True Scotsman, Will MacAskill) | 2018-09-04 |
| 148 | Am I Wrong? | 2018-09-19 |
| 149 | Death, Immortality, and Porn (Intuition) Pumps | 2018-10-02 |
| 150 | Paul Bloom Insisted That We Talk About Sex Robots | 2018-10-23 |
| 151 | Viddy Well, My Listeners (Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange") | 2018-11-06 |
| 152 | Ruthlessness, Public and Private | 2018-11-20 |
| 153 | Progress in Psychology: A Reply to BootyBootyFartFart | 2018-12-04 |
| 154 | Metaphysical Vertigo (Borges's "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius") | 2018-12-18 |
| 155 | Alfred Hitchcock's Money Shot | 2019-01-08 |
| 156 | Notes From Underground (Pt. 1) | 2019-01-22 |
| 157 | Notes From Underground (Pt. 2) | 2019-02-05 |
| 158 | False Dichotomies and Oral Reciprocity | 2019-02-19 |
| 159 | You Have the Right to Go to Prison | 2019-03-05 |
| 160 | Everything is Meaningless: The Book of Ecclesiastes | 2019-03-19 |
| 161 | Reach-Around Knowledge and Bottom Performers (The Dunning-Kruger Effect) | 2019-04-02 |
| 162 | Parents Just Don't Understand (with Paul Bloom) | 2019-04-16 |
| 163 | Should I Stay or Should I Go? (Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas") | 2019-05-01 |
| 164 | Choosing to Believe | 2019-05-14 |
| 165 | Life With No Head (With Sam Harris) | 2019-06-04 |
| 166 | Total Recall (Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling") | 2019-06-18 |
| 167 | The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 1) | 2019-07-03 |
| 168 | The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 2) | 2019-07-16 |
| 169 | A Bug's Life (Kafka's "The Metamorphosis") | 2019-07-30 |
| 170 | Social Psychology Gets an Asch-Kicking | 2019-08-13 |
| 171 | How Do You Solve a Problem Like Theodicy? (The Book of Job) | 2019-08-27 |
| 172 | Are You Free (to like the Chappelle special)? | 2019-09-17 |
| 174 | More Chiang for Your Buck ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" Pt. 2) | 2019-10-15 |
| 175 | At Least We Didn't Talk About Zombies (Nagel's "What is it Like to be a Bat?") | 2019-10-29 |
| 176 | Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness | 2019-11-12 |
| 177 | Pure Linguistic Chauvinism | 2019-11-26 |
| 178 | Borges' Obsession-Obsession ("The Zahir") | 2019-12-10 |
| 180 | Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon") | 2020-01-14 |
| 181 | The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon") | 2020-01-28 |
| 182 | The Paper That Launched a Thousand Twitter Wars (With Yoel Inbar) | 2020-02-11 |
| 183 | Accept the Mystery (with Paul Bloom) | 2020-02-25 |
| 184 | Tainted Glove | 2020-03-10 |
| 185 | The Devil's Playground | 2020-03-24 |
| 186 | The One with Peter Singer | 2020-04-07 |
| 187 | More Zither | 2020-04-21 |
| 188 | Conceptual Mummies (Nietzsche's "Twilight of the Idols") | 2020-05-12 |
| 189 | The Anality of Evil (Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents") | 2020-05-26 |
| 190 | We Pod. We Pod-Cast. We Podcast. (Frankfurt's "On Bullshit") | 2020-06-09 |
| 191 | All the Rage | 2020-06-23 |
| 192 | Postmodern Wet Dreams (Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote") | 2020-07-07 |
| 193 | Free Wanting (Frankfurt's "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person") | 2020-07-21 |
| 194 | God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson) | 2020-08-11 |
| 195 | Jesus on Trial (Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov") | 2020-08-25 |
| 196 | The Loneliest Paper in Philosophy | 2020-09-08 |
| 197 | The Long Slow Death That Is Life | 2020-09-22 |
| 198 | Is Mental Illness a Myth? (Thomas Szasz's "The Myth of Mental Illness") | 2020-10-06 |
| 199 | When Philosophy Goes Sideways | 2020-10-20 |
| 200 | Our 200th Episode Spectactular | 2020-11-03 |
| 201 | Very Bad Lizard People | 2020-11-24 |
| 202 | Not as It Ought to Be (H.P. Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space") | 2020-12-08 |
| 203 | Gorgias, Tell Me Something I Don't Know (with Agnes Callard) | 2020-12-22 |
| 204 | Happy Freedom Day! (with Lauren Anderson) | 2021-01-12 |
| 205 | Making Your Nervous System Your Ally (William James on "Habit") | 2021-01-26 |
| 206 | Angel Chasing (Ted Chiang's "Hell is the Absence of God") | 2021-02-09 |
| 207 | Sometimes a Paper Tray is Just a Paper Tray | 2021-02-23 |
| 208 | Dream Theater | 2021-03-09 |
| 209 | Basic Instincts (with Paul Bloom) | 2021-03-23 |
| 210 | The Priming of the American Mind (with Jesse Singal) | 2021-04-06 |
| 211 | To Live and Die in Kurosawa's "Ikiru" | 2021-04-20 |
| 212 | Follow Your Nose (with Yoel Inbar) | 2021-05-11 |
| 214 | You Shouldn't Feel Bad (Except You Should) | 2021-06-08 |
| 215 | Touch My Pink Monkey | 2021-06-22 |
| 216 | Oral Judgments | 2021-07-06 |
| 217 | Dropping Paradigms (Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions") | 2021-07-20 |
| 218 | ...But You Can't Hide (Michael Haneke's "Caché") | 2021-08-03 |
| 219 | Multiplied by Mirrors | 2021-08-17 |
| 220 | On Your Marx | 2021-09-07 |
| 221 | Granite Cocks vs Robot Overlords | 2021-09-21 |
| 222 | Choosing Sartre for All Mankind | 2021-10-05 |
| 223 | The Hopeless Dream of Being (Bergman's "Persona") | 2021-10-19 |
| 224 | Hurts So Good (With Paul Bloom) | 2021-11-02 |
| 225 | Forbidden Modules | 2021-11-16 |
| 226 | Unraveling Time Traveling (with Barry Lam and Christina Hoff Sommers) | 2021-12-07 |
| 227 | A Terrible Master (David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water"). | 2021-12-21 |
| 228 | Forever Jung | 2022-01-11 |
| 229 | Skin Deep? | 2022-01-25 |
| 230 | Be Happy (Lars von Trier's "Melancholia") | 2022-02-08 |
| 231 | Ideal Critics (Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste") | 2022-02-22 |
| 232 | Mind Over Matter | 2022-03-08 |
| 233 | Keeping It Surreal (Kafka's "The Trial" Pt. 1) | 2022-03-22 |
| 234 | Like A Dog (Kafka's "The Trial" Pt. 2) | 2022-04-05 |
| 235 | Animated Objects | 2022-04-19 |
| 236 | Your Outie Is Skilled at Lovemaking (With Paul Bloom) | 2022-05-03 |
| 238 | I Am Not Ivan Ilyich...Am I? | 2022-06-07 |
| 239 | Lose Yourself | 2022-06-21 |
| 240 | Evil | 2022-07-06 |
| 241 | Very Bad Orgies (Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut") | 2022-07-19 |
| 242 | Losing My Religion | 2022-08-02 |
| 243 | Finding My Religion | 2022-08-16 |
| 244 | Thanks for the Memories? (Borges' "Funes the Memorious) | 2022-09-06 |
| 245 | Pragmatically Speaking | 2022-09-20 |
| 246 | Existential Poker-Face (David Foster Wallace's "E Unibus Pluram") | 2022-10-04 |
| 247 | Open the Pod, Dave (with Sam Harris) | 2022-10-18 |
| 248 | Checkmate, Grasshopper | 2022-11-01 |
| 249 | Phlegm and Carelessness (Hume's "The Sceptic") | 2022-11-22 |
| 250 | Metaphors All the Way Down | 2022-12-06 |
| 251 | First Order, Then Chaos | 2022-12-20 |
| 252 | Yes We Sene-can | 2023-01-10 |
| 253 | Tarkovsky's Starchild | 2023-01-31 |
| 254 | Nobody's Parfit | 2023-02-14 |
| 255 | Beloved Child of the House (Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi") | 2023-02-28 |
| 256 | The Right to Punish? | 2023-03-14 |
| 257 | Aural Fixation | 2023-03-28 |
| 258 | Mystic Peeza | 2023-04-11 |
| 260 | The Scream That Never Found a Voice (Murakami's "Sleep") | 2023-05-09 |
| 261 | Death of the Author | 2023-05-30 |
| 262 | Supposing Truth is a Woman (Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil") | 2023-06-13 |
| 265 | Kekulé (Oh Yeah!) | 2023-07-25 |
| 271 | Concept-Con 2023 | 2023-11-13 |
| 273 | Ah. Ah. (Miyazaki's "Spirited Away") | 2023-11-29 |
| 274 | Can I Get a Kidney Voucher? (with Vlad Chituc) | 2023-12-13 |
| 275 | The Ineffable Center (Borges' "The Aleph") | 2023-12-26 |
| 276 | Attention Please | 2024-01-16 |
| 278 | Schrödinger's Everything (Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" Pt. 1) | 2024-02-13 |
| 279 | The Greenhouses We Burned Along the Way (Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" Pt. 2) | 2024-02-27 |
| 280 | Mad Masque (with Phil Ford and J.F. Martel) | 2024-03-12 |
| 281 | Choose Your Fighter | 2024-03-26 |
| 282 | Fearful Symmetry (Borges' "Death and the Compass") | 2024-04-16 |
| 283 | When Elephants Podcast | 2024-04-30 |
| 284 | Reel Choices | 2024-05-15 |
| 285 | On Culture and Agriculture | 2024-05-28 |
| 286 | Laugh and the World Laughs With You | 2024-06-11 |
| 287 | Gods With Anuses (The Denial of Death Pt. 1) | 2024-06-25 |
| 288 | The Despised Foot (The Denial of Death Pt. 2) | 2024-07-09 |
| 289 | Shadows on the Wall (Plato's Cave Pt. 1) | 2024-07-23 |
| 290 | Blinded by the Light (Plato's Cave Pt. 2) | 2024-08-06 |
| 291 | Shoe Shining | 2024-08-27 |
| 292 | Boundary Issues | 2024-09-10 |
| 293 | Who Is the Dreamer? (Borges' "The Circular Ruins") | 2024-09-24 |
| 294 | The Scandal of Philosophy (Hume's Problem of Induction) | 2024-10-08 |
| 295 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | 2024-10-29 |
| 296 | The Other CRT | 2024-11-12 |
| 297 | No Pleasure in Meanness (Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find") | 2024-11-26 |
| 298 | Pass the Peace Pipe | 2024-12-10 |
| 299 | Oh the Humility! | 2024-12-24 |
| 300 | If We Only Had A Brain | 2025-01-14 |
| 301 | Believing is Seeing? | 2025-01-28 |
| 302 | Metaphysical Edging | 2025-02-11 |
| 303 | Measure This | 2025-02-25 |
| 304 | The Planes Don't Land | 2025-03-11 |
| 305 | Emile Is the Name of the Goat (with Paul Bloom) | 2025-03-25 |
| 306 | What to Expect When You're Expecting (David Lynch's "Eraserhead" with Barry Lam) | 2025-04-08 |
| 307 | What's in the BOX? | 2025-04-22 |
| 308 | The Gray Man who Dreamed (Borges' "Shakespeare's Memory") | 2025-05-06 |
| 309 | Dissolving Into the One | 2025-05-27 |
| 310 | Bayes, Brains, and Buddhists | 2025-06-10 |
| 311 | The Way to Dusty Death (Shakespeare's "Macbeth") | 2025-07-01 |
| 312 | MechaSkeptic | 2025-07-15 |
| 313 | The Spontaneous Eruption of Now | 2025-07-29 |
| 314 | The In-Betweeny Place | 2025-08-12 |
| 315 | Ceaseless Striving (Schopenhauer's Pessimism) | 2025-09-02 |
| 316 | A Four-Letter Man (Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber") | 2025-09-16 |
| 317 | For Shame | 2025-09-30 |
| 318 | A PTA Meeting | 2025-10-14 |
| 319 | The Shadow of the Object (Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia") | 2025-10-28 |
| 320 | Forgive Me (Kafka's "A Hunger Artist") | 2025-11-11 |
| 321 | The Journey Begins (Plus Blind Ranking Philosophers) | 2025-11-25 |
| 322 | A Theater of Simultaneous Possibilities (William James' "The Stream of Thought") | 2025-12-09 |
| 323 | Debate Me 'Phro | 2025-12-23 |
| 324 | Irruption of the Sacred | 2026-01-13 |
| 325 | It Is Happening Again | 2026-01-27 |
| 327 | You Ain't So Smart (Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People") | 2026-02-24 |
Pages in category "Episodes"
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A
- A Brief History of Values
- A Bug's Life (Kafka's "The Metamorphosis")
- A Doobie for Elijah
- A Four-Letter Man (Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber")
- A Golden Shower of Guests
- A PTA Meeting
- A Terrible Master (David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water").
- A Theater of Simultaneous Possibilities (William James' "The Stream of Thought")
- A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)
- Accept the Mystery (with Paul Bloom)
- Ah. Ah. (Miyazaki's "Spirited Away")
- Alfred Hitchcock's Money Shot
- All the Rage
- Am I Wrong?
- American Grandstand
- An Anthropologist's Guide to Moral Psychology (Pt. 1)
- An Irresponsible Meta-Book Review of Joshua Greene's "Moral Tribes"
- Angel Chasing (Ted Chiang's "Hell is the Absence of God")
- Animated Objects
- Are Buddhists Afraid to Die? (with Shaun Nichols)
- Are You Free (to like the Chappelle special)?
- At Least We Didn't Talk About Zombies (Nagel's "What is it Like to be a Bat?")
- Attention Please
- Aural Fixation
- Authentic Apes and Infinite Torture
- Avalanches, Blame, and Cowardice (With Yoel Inbar)
B
- Basic Instincts (with Paul Bloom)
- Bayes, Brains, and Buddhists
- Be Happy (Lars von Trier's "Melancholia")
- Beanballs, Blood Feuds, and Collective Moral Responsibility (With Fiery Cushman)
- Believing in a Just World
- Believing is Seeing?
- Beloved Child of the House (Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi")
- Blinded by the Light (Plato's Cave Pt. 2)
- Bonus Episode on Snitches, Tattletales, and Whistleblowers
- Borges' Obsession-Obsession ("The Zahir")
- Boston, Brains, and Bad Pronunciation (with Molly Crockett)
- Boundary Issues
- Brain Jizz and "Black Mirror"
- Brains, Robots, and Free Will (Free Will and Morality Pt. 1)
- Burning Armchairs (with Joshua Knobe)
- Buttery Friendships
C
- Can I Get a Kidney Voucher? (with Vlad Chituc)
- Can You Feel It?
- Ceaseless Striving (Schopenhauer's Pessimism)
- Cha-Cha-changes
- Checkmate, Grasshopper
- Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")
- CHiPs on Our Shoulders (Lessons in Objectivity)
- Choose Your Fighter
- Choosing Sartre for All Mankind
- Choosing to Believe
- Clap Your Hand for Robert Wright
- Concept-Con 2023
- Conceptual Mummies (Nietzsche's "Twilight of the Idols")
D
- Death and Dreams
- Death of the Author
- Death, Immortality, and Porn (Intuition) Pumps
- Debate Me 'Phro
- Dehumanization and Disintegration (with Paul Bloom)
- Digital Outrage (with Molly Crockett)
- Disagreeing About Disagreement
- Dishonesty, Character, and Dan Ariely
- Dissolving Into the One
- Do the Right Thing (with Yoel Inbar)
- Does Reading Harry Potter Make You Moral? (with Will Wilkinson)
- Dogmatic Slumber Party
- Domo Arigato, Mr. Robot (With Yoel Inbar)
- Douchebags and Desert
- Dr. Strawson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Episodic Life
- Dream Theater
- Dropping Paradigms (Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions")
- Drunk on Intuitions
- Dystopias
E
- Effective Altruism and Moral Uncertainty (with The One True Scotsman, Will MacAskill)
- Ego Trip
- Emile Is the Name of the Goat (with Paul Bloom)
- Emotional Willpower (with David DeSteno)
- Everything is Meaningless: The Book of Ecclesiastes
- Evil
- Evolution and Sexual Perversion (with Jesse Bering)
- Existential Poker-Face (David Foster Wallace's "E Unibus Pluram")
- Extended Minds, Extended Foreskins
F
- False Dichotomies and Oral Reciprocity
- Fearful Symmetry (Borges' "Death and the Compass")
- Finding My Religion
- First Order, Then Chaos
- Follow Your Nose (with Yoel Inbar)
- For Shame
- Forbidden Modules
- Forever Jung
- Forgive Me (Kafka's "A Hunger Artist")
- Fragmented Values and Sex Panics (with Christina Hoff Sommers)
- Free Wanting (Frankfurt's "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person")
- Free Willie
- Funny How?
G
- God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)
- Gods With Anuses (The Denial of Death Pt. 1)
- Good Lives, Good Friends, and Gay Mormons (with Valerie Tiberius)
- Gorgias, Tell Me Something I Don't Know (with Agnes Callard)
- Grad School
- Granite Cocks vs Robot Overlords
- Great Vengeance and Furious Anger (Top 5 Movies About Revenge)
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
- Guns, Shame, and the Meaning of Punishment
H
I
- I Am Not Ivan Ilyich...Am I?
- I Have No Genitals and I Must Scream
- Ideal Critics (Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste")
- If We Only Had A Brain
- Implicit Bias
- Irruption of the Sacred
- Is Mental Illness a Myth? (Thomas Szasz's "The Myth of Mental Illness")
- It Is Happening Again
- It is Morally Wrong to Kill Morgan Freeman (with Yoel Inbar)
- It's a Celebration
L
M
- Mad Masque (with Phil Ford and J.F. Martel)
- Making Your Nervous System Your Ally (William James on "Habit")
- Measure This
- MechaSkeptic
- Memory and Meaning in "Memento" (with Paul Bloom)
- Memory, Pain, and Relationships (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
- Metaphors All the Way Down
- Metaphysical Edging
- Metaphysical Vertigo (Borges's "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius")
- Milgram's Mice
- Mind Over Matter
- Mind the Gap
- Mockingbirds, Destructo-Critics, and Mr. Robot
- Monkeys, Smurfs, and Human Conformity (With Laurie Santos)
- Moral Dilemmas at the Movies
- Moral Luck
- Moral Persuasion
- Moral Pluralism: Behind the Lube
- More Chiang for Your Buck ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" Pt. 2)
- More Zither
- Multiplied by Mirrors
- Mystic Peeza
N
O
- Of Mice and Morals
- Oh the Humility!
- On Culture and Agriculture
- On the Moral Nature of Nazis, Jerks, and Ethicists (with Eric Schwitzgebel)
- On Your Marx
- Open the Pod, Dave (with Sam Harris)
- Oral Judgments
- Our 200th Episode Spectactular
- Our Language Doesn't Have a Word For This Title (with Yoel Inbar)
P
- Pain, Pleasure, and Peer-Reviewed Penises
- Parents Just Don't Understand (with Paul Bloom)
- Pascal, Probability, and Pitchforks
- Pass the Peace Pipe
- Paul Bloom Insisted That We Talk About Sex Robots
- PEDs, Tenure Pills, and "Hyberbolic Chambers"
- Philocalypse Now
- Phlegm and Carelessness (Hume's "The Sceptic")
- Pooping on Ecstasy (Pain, Pleasure, and the Ethics of Breeding)
- Porn, Poop, and Personal Identity (with Nina Strohminger)
- Postmodern Wet Dreams (Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote")
- Pragmatically Speaking
- Progress in Psychology: A Reply to BootyBootyFartFart
- Psychopaths and Contrastivizzzzzzzz (With Walter Sinnott-Armstrong)
- Psychopaths and Utilitarians Pt. 2 (Now with more poo poo)
- Pure Linguistic Chauvinism
- Putting a Little Meaning in Your Life