What is a Staw-man (or as we call it Staw-bot) fallacy? What about a Steel-bot? We dive into both of these types or arguments and dig into the importance of Steel-boting and why we do it.
Opening Invocation:
Jesse Rabinowitz from Zen Buddhism
Hero of the Week:
Bo Burnham (film Eighth Grade)
Today we're joined by fellow podcaster Stephanie Lepp of Reckonings podcast. This wonderful podcast interviews people who've had a major life changing moment or moments that altered their ideology or belief of something.
Opening Invocation
Jesse Rabinowitz Source: Zen Buddhism
Hero of the Week
Anonymous
We kick off our first official Better Know A Philosopher with John Rawls. Essentially the father of modern liberalism. Aaron takes us through a bit of his life and we dive deep into his main argument.
Opening Invocation
listener: Petra Partake
Hero of the Week
Speakers of Nexus 2018
In this episode we talk with Stephen Stich, a Philosophy professor at Rutgers University about his career, addressing moral/ethical issues in the classroom, and much more.
Opening Invocation
Norse Mythology
Information provide by Stephen Stich:
Here is a link to our Templeton "Geography of Philosophy" Project website:
https://www.geographyofphilosophy.com/
And here's a link to a Templeton site based on an interview with my co-PI, Edouard Machery:
There is more information on the book I was plugging here:
and here:
There is information about the new Intro text that I wrote with Tom Donaldson here:
https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/philosophy-9780199329960?cc=us&lang=en&
This is our grand 50th episode of Embrace The Void! Aaron and GW do a little VoidNews and then launch into a new segment called, "Get to know a Philosopher".
Opening Invocation
@atheist_house
Hero of the Week
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Today we're joined with Cory Johnston host of the Brainstorm Podcast talking about the equality of opportunity vs. the equality of outcome.
Opening Invocation
Evan Mathews
Hero of the Week
Dr. Kim TallBear
Her podcast mediaINDIGENA
Making up for not having an episode last week, we're having a double this week. In this episode we take a deep dive into Daoism. Aaron takes us though a few of the 80+ chapters in the Tao Te Ching.
Opening Invocation
Mad Men
Hero of the Week
Terrance Mannery
In this episode we talk with comedian and philosopher Myq Kaplan. We talk about just about everything from politics, jokes, what the hell philosophy is, and much more.
Opening Invocation
Aaron
Hero of the Week
Letitia Chai
This is the unedited version of episode 46. The only thing I have done is put the audio regions in the right alignment, and made it a touch louder overall so it's not too quite to be unlistenable.
AKA GW's big day! Today we dive deep into the art and technique of sound design/editing. GW talks about editing the ETV podcast, dives into compression, different types of audio editing techniques, DAW's like Reaper, and we get super in the weeds talking about K-System Metering.
Opening Invocation
Her
Hero of the Week
This Guy!
This is a heavy one. We bring on a friend of the show, Abe, to help us understand what's happening in Jerusalem. Later we attempt to discuss possible solutions and outcomes.
Opening Invocation
Dune, Litany against Fear
Today we dive deep into a topic we (mostly Aaron) constantly reference: Moral Luck. We start with the root of the concept from Thomas Nagel's Moral Luck. We then dive into the factors that contribute to it, how it affects all aspects of our existence, and what a world might look like where Free Will as a concept is eliminated.
Opening Invocation
Jordan Peterson's Beatitudes
Hero of the Week
Yanni, or maybe Laurel
Guest Jody debates Aaron on Daniel Dennett's position on Free Will. We try to define what Free Will is and how that relates to a determinist philosophical view. We also examine the relationship of Free Will with consciousness.
Opening Invocation
This Is America - Childish Gambino
Hero of the Week
Duplex
Antinatalism is essentially a philosophical look at whether people should or should not have children. One doesn't consent to being born. Is a parent morally responsible for any suffering their child causes in their life?
Opening Invocation
Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
Hero of the Week
Mandy Manning
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/02/teacher-of-the-year-award-trump-mandy-manning
Part two of our lncel episode. Definitely listen to part one first.
This is part one of a two part episode where we talk about Incel's, and we're graced with a returning guest Bethany Futrell (host of She Talks Atheism, and cohost of The Inciting Incident Podcast). We discuss the people, the communities, what they represent, and why they exist.
Opening Invocation
From listener and fan @HBOUFO (Twitter)
Hero of the Week
The women that told their stories to get 3 convictions of Bill Cosby
In this episode we are very glad to have the podcast veteran Ari Stillman. They're currently pursuing a masters degree in psychology at The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. We discuss different areas of research, especially in areas of trauma and PTSD. We also cover some in the area of gender and the Non-Binary community.
Ari Stillman
http://www.thegaytheistmanifesto.com/
https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-cis-are-getting-out-of-hand
https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-sjw-circle-jerk
http://reasonableriskpodcast.com/
Opening Invocation
Westworld
Hero of the Week
Charles Benight PhD
After we've signed our respective NDA's, we dive into Virtue Theory. Looking at what it means to have a virtue in something, and relate it to the Milgram Experiment and the Stanford Prison Experiment.
Opening Invocation: Milgram Experiment
Hero of the Week: James Comey
As promised, here's the episode where we talk about pejoratives, and other language that could be unknowingly harmful to specific groups of people. We are joined by the amazing Marissa McCool and Priss to help us understand those perspectives that we cis white men might be missing.
Marissa McCool
http://rismccool.com/
Priss
Twitter: @prissunicorn
References
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Opening Invocation
The Elevator Game (with Lu Lyons)
Hero of the Week
Aiden McCool
For Trans Men
What is consciousness? The short of it: nobody knows.
This episode we dive into a really hotly debated topic, consciousness. What is it? How do we test it? Do animals have it? Do machines have it? Does Aaron's calculator have it? DOES THIS PODCAST HAVE IT? Does it even exist?
References:
What is it like to be a bat
Smarty Plants
Opening Invocation:
Dealer's Choice (Source: Tax Day)
Hero of the Week
Liberty Mutual (not a sponsor)
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/381049-liberty-mutual-to-stop-running-ads-on-laura-ingrahams-show