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- "Boy If Life Were Only Like This" (With Joe Henrich)
- "We believe in nothing!" (Cultural diversity, relativism, and moral truth)
- ...But You Can't Hide (Michael Haneke's "Caché")
- 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 Very Bad Wizard (Theme)
- A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)
- Accept the Mystery (with Paul Bloom)
- Agnes Callard
- 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)
- Barry Lam
- 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
- Bonus Episode on Snitches, Tattletales, and Whistleblowers/transcript
- 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
- CHiPs on Our Shoulders (Lessons in Objectivity)
- 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")
- Choose Your Fighter
- Choosing Sartre for All Mankind
- Choosing to Believe
- Chris Matheson
- Christina Hoff Sommers
- Clap Your Hand for Robert Wright
- Concept-Con 2023
- Conceptual Mummies (Nietzsche's "Twilight of the Idols")
- Damani McDole
- David A. Pizarro
- Death, Immortality, and Porn (Intuition) Pumps
- Death and Dreams
- Death of the Author
- 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
- 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
- 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?
- 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
- Happy Freedom Day! (with Lauren Anderson)
- Having Desert and Eating It Too
- Honor, Identity, and Headbutts
- How Do You Solve a Problem Like Theodicy? (The Book of Job)
- How Many Moralities Are There? (Pt.1)
- How Many Moralities Are There? Pt. 2 (with Jesse Graham)
- Hurts So Good (With Paul Bloom)
- 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's a Celebration
- It Is Happening Again
- It is Morally Wrong to Kill Morgan Freeman (with Yoel Inbar)
- J.F. Martel
- Jesse Bering
- Jesus on Trial (Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov")
- Joe Henrich
- Jonathan Edwards' Basement
- Joshua Knobe
- Joshua Weisberg
- Justice for
- Keeping It Surreal (Kafka's "The Trial" Pt. 1)
- Keeping it Unreal
- Kekulé (Oh Yeah!)
- Killer Robots
- Laugh and the World Laughs With You
- Lauren Anderson
- Laurie Santos
- Learning about Bushmen by Studying Freshmen?
- Lies, Damned Lies, and Ashley Madison
- Life With No Head (With Sam Harris)
- Lifting the Veil
- Like A Dog (Kafka's "The Trial" Pt. 2)
- Lose Yourself
- Losing My Religion
- Lost in Borges' Garden
- Lucky You (with Robert Frank)
- Mad Masque (with Phil Ford and J.F. Martel)
- Main Page
- Making Your Nervous System Your Ally (William James on "Habit")
- Manuel Vargas
- Matthew Nock
- Measure This
- MechaSkeptic
- Memory, Pain, and Relationships (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
- Memory and Meaning in "Memento" (with Paul Bloom)
- 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
- Molly Crockett
- 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
- Nina Strohminger
- No Pleasure in Meanness (Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find")
- Nobody's Parfit
- Norm Macdonald
- Not as It Ought to Be (H.P. Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space")
- Notes From Underground (Pt. 1)
- Notes From Underground (Pt. 2)
- Nothing but a "G" Thing (Intelligence Pt. 1)
- Of Mice and Morals
- Oh the Humility!
- On Culture and Agriculture
- On Your Marx
- On the Moral Nature of Nazis, Jerks, and Ethicists (with Eric Schwitzgebel)
- 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)
- PEDs, Tenure Pills, and "Hyberbolic Chambers"
- Pain, Pleasure, and Peer-Reviewed Penises
- Parents Just Don't Understand (with Paul Bloom)
- Pascal, Probability, and Pitchforks
- Pass the Peace Pipe
- Paul Bloom
- Paul Bloom Insisted That We Talk About Sex Robots
- Pee-wee Herman
- Peter Singer
- Phil Ford
- 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
- Rage Against the Machines
- Reach-Around Knowledge and Bottom Performers (The Dunning-Kruger Effect)
- Reason, Responsibility, and Roombas (With Paul Bloom)
- Red, Black, and Blue
- Reel Choices
- Religion, Meaning, and Morality
- Restorative Circle Jerk
- Revenge, Pt. 1
- Revenge, Pt. 2: The Revenge
- Risky, Reckless, and Regretful
- Robert Frank
- Robert Wright
- Rooting for Evil (With Paul Bloom)
- Rounded Brains and Balanced "Play Diets"
- Ruthlessness, Public and Private
- Sam Harris
- Schooled By Our Listeners
- Schrödinger's Everything (Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" Pt. 1)
- Shadows on the Wall (Plato's Cave Pt. 1)
- Shame on You (with Jennifer Jacquet)
- Shaun Nichols
- Shoe Shining
- Should I Stay or Should I Go? (Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas")
- Skin Deep?
- Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)
- Social Psychology, Situationism, and Moral Character
- Social Psychology Gets an Asch-Kicking
- Some Favorite Things
- Sometimes a Paper Tray is Just a Paper Tray
- Sore Losers (Does Sports Make Us Unhappy?)
- Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness
- Stalemates and Closets (with Sam Harris)
- Stepsisters and Neck Braces (with Yoel Inbar)
- Straw Dogs (with Yoel Inbar)
- Suicide (with Matthew Nock)
- Supposing Truth is a Woman (Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil")
- Tainted Glove
- Tamler Sommers
- Tarkovsky's Starchild
- Ted Chiang
- Thanks for the Memories? (Borges' "Funes the Memorious)
- The "Dangerous Truth" about Free Will (Free Will and Morality, Pt. 2)
- The Absurd
- The Anality of Evil (Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents")
- The Beauty of Illusion - David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive"
- The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 1)
- The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 2)
- The Burning Bridges Episode (Pt. 1)
- The Burning Bridges Episode (Pt. 2)
- The Coddling of the Wizard Mind (with Vlad Chituc and Christina Hoff Sommers)
- The Despised Foot (The Denial of Death Pt. 2)
- The Devil's Playground
- The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")
- The Gimp Exception
- The Good Life (with Laurie Santos)
- The Gray Man who Dreamed (Borges' "Shakespeare's Memory")
- The Greatest Books Ever Written
- The Greatest Movies Ever Made about Personal Identity
- The Greenhouses We Burned Along the Way (Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" Pt. 2)
- The Hopeless Dream of Being (Bergman's "Persona")
- The In-Betweeny Place
- The Ineffable Center (Borges' "The Aleph")
- The Journey Begins (Plus Blind Ranking Philosophers)
- The Loneliest Paper in Philosophy
- The Long Slow Death That Is Life
- The Murky Morals and Mysterious Metaphysics of "Mr. Robot"
- The Nature of Nudges
- The One with Peter Singer
- The Other CRT
- The Paper That Launched a Thousand Twitter Wars (With Yoel Inbar)
- The Perils of Empathy (with Paul Bloom)
- The Planes Don't Land
- The Priming of the American Mind (with Jesse Singal)
- The Psychology People Love to Hate (Evolutionary Psychology Pt.1)
- The Real Josh Knobe
- The Repugnance of Repugnance
- The Right to Punish?
- The Scandal of Philosophy (Hume's Problem of Induction)
- The Scream That Never Found a Voice (Murakami's "Sleep")
- The Shadow of the Object (Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia")
- The Spontaneous Eruption of Now
- The Way to Dusty Death (Shakespeare's "Macbeth")
- Theme Music
- Thought Experiments (Huh!) What Are They Good For? (Part 2)
- To Live and Die in Kurosawa's "Ikiru"
- Total Recall (Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling")
- Totalitarian Slide-Rulers
- Touch My Pink Monkey
- Trolley's, Utilitarians, and Psychopaths (Part 1)
- Trolleys, Utilitarians, and Psychopaths (Part 1)
- Tumors All the Way Down (With Sam Harris)
- Tweenie Turing Tests, AI, and Ex Machina (with Joshua Weisberg)
- Unraveling Time Traveling (with Barry Lam and Christina Hoff Sommers)
- Utilitarianism and Moral Identity
- Valerie Tiberius
- Very Bad Lizard People
- Very Bad Orgies (Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut")
- Very Bad Utopias
- Viddy Well, My Listeners (Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange")
- Vlad Chituc
- Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
- We Don't Love Them Hoax
- We Pod. We Pod-Cast. We Podcast. (Frankfurt's "On Bullshit")
- What's in the BOX?
- What Chilling Effect? (Intelligence Pt. 2)
- What to Expect When You're Expecting (David Lynch's "Eraserhead" with Barry Lam)
- When Elephants Podcast
- When Philosophy Goes Sideways
- Who Is the Dreamer? (Borges' "The Circular Ruins")
- Will MacAskill
- Will Wilkinson
- Winking Under Oppression (with Manuel Vargas)
- Wizards Uprising
- Wizards With (Reactive) Attitudes
- Yes We Sene-can
- Yoel Inbar
- You, Your Self, and Your Brain (With Eddy Nahmias)
- You Ain't So Smart (Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People")
- You Ain't So Smart (Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People")/transcript
- You Have the Right to Go to Prison
- You Shouldn't Feel Bad (Except You Should)
- Your Outie Is Skilled at Lovemaking (With Paul Bloom)
- Zombies, Trolleys, and Galileo's Balls
- Übermensch at Work