Wed, 6 September 2023
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Wed, 30 August 2023
On today's episode we talk about the upsides of a surveillance state. The ongoing social dilemma of freedom vs security. The value of privacy. States of exception. And Deleuze's Postscript on Societies of Control. Sponsor: Rocket Money - https://www.RocketMoney.com/PT
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Wed, 23 August 2023
Today we talk about Jeremy Bentham's concept of the Panopticon. Michel Foucault's comparison to society in 1975. The historical role of intelligence as a justification for dominance. The anatomy of free will, and how a digital world may systematically limit our free will without us knowing it.
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Wed, 9 August 2023
Today we talk about the revolutionary potential of generative AI. For better or worse.
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Wed, 2 August 2023
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Fri, 21 July 2023
Today we discuss ideas from John Searle and Noam Chomsky and consider several questions surrounding machine intelligence. Get more: Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Philosophize This! Clips: https://www.youtube.com/@philosophizethisclips
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Sun, 2 July 2023
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Fri, 23 June 2023
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Wed, 24 May 2023
Today we talk about one theory of consciousness known as Panpsychism.
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Mon, 24 April 2023
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Wed, 5 April 2023
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Tue, 21 March 2023
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Wed, 1 March 2023
Today we talk about the essay titled Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag. :) www.patreon.com/philosophizethis www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast www.twitter.com/iamstephenwest
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Thu, 2 February 2023
Today we continue talking about the work of Simone Weil.
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Thu, 2 February 2023
Today we continue talking about the work of the brilliant Simone Weil. Hope you love it.
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Mon, 9 January 2023
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Mon, 21 November 2022
Today we begin some general discussions in the direction of the thought of Simone Weil and tell some stories from her life. |
Mon, 31 October 2022
Today we talk about a famous call to action by the philosopher Guy Debord. |
Fri, 23 September 2022
Today we explore some of the themes discussed in The Fall by Albert Camus.
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Sat, 20 August 2022
Today we cover thought provoking pieces of an early work by a great philosopher named Bruno Latour. Hope you love it. |
Tue, 12 July 2022
Today we begin discussing an Ethics of Care. @iamstephenwest on twitter for updates.
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Sat, 25 June 2022
Today we continue talking about the work of Ortega. This time about his book Revolt of the Masses. Twitter - @iamstephenwest for updates
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Wed, 1 June 2022
Today we begin talking about the work of Jose Ortega Y Gasset. |
Sat, 30 April 2022
Today we continue our discussion of Emerson.
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Thu, 21 April 2022
Today we talk about Emerson and his essay about self reliance.
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Wed, 2 March 2022
Today we continue talking about the work of Ernest Becker. |
Tue, 25 January 2022
Today we begin talking about the work of Ernest Becker. |
Fri, 14 January 2022
Today we talk about a famous book from the work of Karl Popper.
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Wed, 5 January 2022
Today we discuss the work of Soren Kierkegaard. His famous work The Lily of the Field and The Bird of The Air. |
Wed, 10 November 2021
Today we continue our discussion on the creation of meaning. |
Tue, 5 October 2021
Today we look at the creation of meaning through the work of Nietzsche. |
Wed, 1 September 2021
Today we talk about the creation of meaning. |
Mon, 9 August 2021
Today we continue talking about Cioran. |
Thu, 8 July 2021
Today we begin our discussion on Emil Cioran. |
Tue, 22 June 2021
Today we discuss Pragmatism. |
Thu, 1 April 2021
Today we continue talking about Walter Benjamin. |
Fri, 19 March 2021
Today we begin discussing the work of Walter Benjamin. |
Sat, 6 February 2021
Today we continue our discussion of the work of Erich Fromm. |
Sat, 30 January 2021
Today we discuss Erich Fromm and his work The Art of Loving. |
Mon, 4 January 2021
Today we discuss the work of Marshall McLuhan. |
Mon, 14 December 2020
Today we discuss the 1988 work of Chomsky and Herman entitled Manufacturing Consent. |
Tue, 10 November 2020
Today we discuss the ancient philosophical debate of being and becoming. |
Tue, 20 October 2020
Today we continue our discussion on the work of Henri Bergson. |
Fri, 18 September 2020
Today we begin our discussion on the work of Bergson. |
Sun, 28 June 2020
Today we discuss some of the work of Max Weber in preparation for an upcoming series. |
Thu, 30 April 2020
Today we begin our discussion of the work of JΓΌrgen Habermas. |
Wed, 15 April 2020
Today we begin our discussion of the work of Richard Rorty. |
Sat, 28 March 2020
Today we continue talking about the work of Isaiah Berlin. |
Wed, 11 March 2020
Today we begin discussing the work of Isaiah Berlin. |
Tue, 11 February 2020
Today we begin our discussion of the work of Friedrich Hayek. |
Mon, 20 January 2020
Today we begin our discussion of the work of Robert Nozick. |
Mon, 30 December 2019
Today we discuss the work of John Rawls. |
Thu, 31 October 2019
Today we discuss the work of Hannah Arendt. |
Mon, 7 October 2019
Today we talk about the work of Leo Strauss. |
Wed, 7 August 2019
Today we talk about the growing dissatisfaction with Enlightenment Reason during the early 20th century. |
Mon, 1 July 2019
Today we continue our discussion of the work of Carl Schmitt. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Mon, 1 July 2019
Today we begin our discussion on the work of Carl Schmitt. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :)
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Wed, 22 May 2019
Today we discuss the work of Antonio Gramsci. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Mon, 29 April 2019
Today we talk about a famous debate from the early 20th century. |
Fri, 15 March 2019
Today we continue our discussion on the work of Deleuze. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Fri, 15 March 2019
Today we continue our discussion on the work of Deleuze. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Wed, 6 February 2019
Today we continue our discussion on the work of Gilles Deleuze. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Fri, 21 December 2018
Today we continue our discussion on the work of Deleuze. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Fri, 7 December 2018
Today we begin our discussion on Gilles Deleuze with a special thanks to Felix Guatarri. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Wed, 24 October 2018
Today we begin our discussion of Jean Baudrillard's book Simulacra and Simulation. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Sun, 23 September 2018
Today we talk about the work of Michel Foucault. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Sun, 23 September 2018
Today we talk about the work of Michel Foucault. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Tue, 14 August 2018
Today we begin talking about the work of Michel Foucault. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Thu, 26 July 2018
Today we talk about Logical Positivism. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Sun, 24 June 2018
Today we begin our discussion on the work of Jacques Derrida. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Sun, 20 May 2018
Today we begin a lengthy conversation on the critiques of Postmodernism. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Sat, 17 March 2018
Today we continue to talk about the projects of Structuralism. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Sat, 17 March 2018
Today we begin talking about the initial projects of Structuralism. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Sun, 28 January 2018
Today we talk about the origins of Structuralism. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :)
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Sat, 23 December 2017
Today we talk about Herbert Marcuse's concepts of The Great Refusal and The New Sensibility. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Fri, 1 December 2017
Today we talk about the revolutionary potential of Art through the eyes of Herbert Marcuse. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Sun, 5 November 2017
Today we continue our discussion of Marcuse's work Eros and Civilization. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Thu, 19 October 2017
Today we talk about Freud's views on civilization and the first half of Marcuse's response to them. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Wed, 6 September 2017
Today we talk about an important chapter from The Dialectic of Enlightenment entitled The Culture Industry. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Fri, 25 August 2017
Today we talk about the Frankfurt School critique of enlightenment style thinking and Herbert Marcuse's book One Dimensional Man. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Wed, 16 August 2017
Today we talk about The Frankfurt School. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Fri, 28 July 2017
Today we talk about part three of Simone De Beauvoir's work The Ethics of Ambiguity. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Tue, 18 July 2017
Today we talk about the first half of The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone De Beauvoir. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Sun, 9 July 2017
Today a cloudy, muddled brain weary from fighting off sickness talks about Sartre's view on the self. Thank you for your patience. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Wed, 31 May 2017
Today we talk about Sartre's view of consciousness and the notion of radical freedom. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Wed, 24 May 2017
Today we tell a story from the history of philosophy in an attempt to prepare us for understanding the Phenomenology of Sartre. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Fri, 12 May 2017
Today we talk about Martin Heidegger and his concept of Authenticity. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Sat, 29 April 2017
Today we discuss Martin Heidegger and his views on Modern Technology. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Thu, 13 April 2017
Today we begin our discussion of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger by looking at his roots in Phenomenology and his revolutionary concept of Dasein. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Tue, 28 March 2017
Today we talk about the ethics of Arthur Schopenhauer. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Mon, 13 March 2017
Today we begin our discussion on Arthur Schopenhauer. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Tue, 28 February 2017
Today we talk about Ludwig Wittgenstein. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Fri, 20 January 2017
Today we talk about Ayn Rand. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Thu, 29 December 2016
Today we discuss the famous paper by Nick Bostrom about the probability that we are living in a simulation. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :)
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Wed, 23 November 2016
Today we look at the concept of suffering from multiple different angles including the philosopher Fyodor Dostoyevsky and the movement in Transhumanism known as The Hedonistic Imperative. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Sat, 5 November 2016
Today we look at the concept of love from several different angles in an attempt to better understand our own thoughts on love. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Mon, 3 October 2016
Today we talk about Nietzsche's famous work Thus Spoke Zarathustra. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Tue, 20 September 2016
Today we talk about Nietzsche, the concept of the Will to Power and the dangers of predatory buffalos. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Fri, 26 August 2016
Today we begin our discussion on the work of Friedrich Nietzsche. www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |
Tue, 16 August 2016
Today we discuss the revolutionary work of Simone De Beauvoir entitled: The Second Sex www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) |