EV - 153 Filial Piety and Abuse with Janelle Shiroshita-Wawrzyniak

My guest this week is Janelle Shiroshita-Wawrzyniak. We discuss Confucian views about filial piety and what that virtue means for people who come from abusive households.

Convocation:  Joshua Ray Derke

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Next week: Better Know Richard Rorty with Rorty Stan Account

EV - 152 Criminal justice reform with Barry Lam

My guest this week is Barry Lam (@ProfBarryLam), host of Hi-Phi Nation (@HiPhiNation). We discuss philosophy of justice and his recent coverage of criminal justice reform.

Hi-Phi Nation: https://hiphination.org/ 

Convocation: Jindrich Styrsky, Emilie přichází ke mně ve snu

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Next week: Filial piety in abusive households with Janelle Shiroshita-Wawrzyniak

EV - 151 Critical Studies in the Current Climate with Johnathan Flowers

My guest this week is Dr. Johnathan Flowers (@shengokai). Dr. Flowers teaches a range of topics at Wooster State university including asian and africana philosophy and aesthetics when he gets the chance. We discuss the role that critical studies is and should be playing in our current period of social transition. 

Convocation: General Iroh

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 Next week: Criminal justice reform with Barry Lam

EV - 150 Sovereign Nations and the Grievance Hoaxers

Welcome to a very special episode 150! No guest this week, it's sadly a solo episode where I take a deep dive down a dark rabbit hole that I've been stuck in for some time. I hope y'all find this valuable in understanding the culture wars.

Convocation: Yeats

Referenced Materials:

https://twitter.com/GSpellchecker/status/1183297385830797313

https://sovereignnations.com/2019/08/09/grievance-scholars-trojan-horse-social-justice-faith-academics/

https://sovereignnations.com/2020/05/13/alchemy-health-equity/

https://sovereignnations.com/2020/06/30/trans-civilization-cult/

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 Next week: Critical Studies in the Current Climate with Jonathan Flowers

EV - 149 White Fragility with Rod Graham

My guest this week is Rod Graham (@roderickgraham), Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Old Dominion University. We discuss Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility and why it's so hot right now.

White Fragility: https://libjournal.uncg.edu/ijcp/article/viewFile/249/116  

Rod's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RoderickGraham

Convocation: Litany against fear from Dune

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 Next week: Sovereign Nations and the Grievance Studies Hoaxers

EV - 148 Social Justice and Street Epistemology with Reid Nicewonder pt.2

My guest this week is Reid Nicewonder (@ReidN), president of Street Epistemology International (@501c3forSE) and host of Cordial Curiosity YouTube Channel (@CordialCurious). We continue our discussion of street epistemology, its connections to the grievance studies folks, and social justice.

SE International: https://streetepistemologyinternational.org/

Letterwiki referenced: https://letter.wiki/conversation/166 

Convocation: Barnett Newman

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 Next week: White Fragility with Rod Graham

EV - 147 Social Justice and Street Epistemology with Reid Nicewonder pt.1

My guest this week is Reid Nicewonder (@ReidN), president of Street Epistemology International (@501c3forSE) and host of Cordial Curiosity YouTube Channel (@CordialCurious). We discuss street epistemology, its connections to the grievance studies folks, and social justice.

SE International: https://streetepistemologyinternational.org/

Letterwiki referenced: https://letter.wiki/conversation/166

Convocation: A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick

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 Next week: Social Justice and Street Epistemology with Reid Nicewonder pt.2

EV - 146 Revising the Chinese Room with Daniel Estrada

My guest this week is Daniel Estrada (@eripsa), a Lecturer at the New Jersey Institute of Technology where he teaches on engineering ethics, AI, and philosophy of mind. We discuss his critiques of the Chinese room and why he prefers Lady Lovelace's objection to Turing.

Daniel's Website: https://www.madeofrobots.com/

Invocation: Aaron's Chinese Room

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 Next week: Social Justice and Street Epistemology with Reid Nicewonder pt.1

EV - 145 Void Crossing with James Croft

My guest this week is James Croft (@CroftSpeaks), host of the Ethics and Chill podcast and the leader of the Ethical Society of St. Lewis. We try to say profound things about coping with the void through pop culture content, but mostly it's a lot of jokes about Animal Crossing and some advice on how to get that cult money.

Ethics and Chill: https://ethicsandchill.org/

Ethical Society of St. Lewis: https://ethicalstl.org/

Invocation: Animal Crossing

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 Next week: Confucian Filial Piety in Abusive Families with Janelle Shiroshita-Wawrzyniak

EV - 144 Conservative Postmodernism with Matt McManus

My Guest this week is Matt McManus (@MattPolProf), a professor of philosophy  at TEC De Monterrey. Matt is the Solo or co-author of Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson and The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism. We discuss his understanding of postmodernism and how he thinks it can sometimes fruitfully be applied to the right as well.

Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085WB8FXF/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

The Rise of Postmodern Conservatism: Neoliberalism, Post-Modern Culture, and Reactionary Politics (Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07X5KX2BY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Matt's Website: https://left2right.webflow.io/

Invocation: They Might Be Giants Whistling in the Dark

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 Next week: Pop Culture Void Coping with James Croft 

EV - 143 Better Know Mary Astell with Simone Webb

My guest this week is Simone Webb (@SimoneWebbUCL), a PhD student in gender studies at UCL. We do another of our many many parts better know a philosopher series. We focus on the early conservative feminist philosopher Mary Astell, with a little Foucault appetizer.

Simone's website: https://simonewebb.weebly.com/

Invocation: Rishi Sanghani

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 Next week: Right Wing Postmodernism with Matt Mcmanus

EV - 142 Nonreligious Life in America with Alison Gill

My guest this week is Alison Gill, vice president for Legal and Policy at American Atheists (@AmericanAtheist). American Atheists recently completed the largest survey to date compiling and analyzing the experiences of nonbelievers living in America. The results were pretty shocking on the discrimination and stigmatization fronts. Content Waring: Discussions of violence and abuse.

Reality Check: Being Nonreligious in America: https://www.secularsurvey.org/

American Atheists Analysis: https://www.atheists.org/2020/05/reality-check-being-nonreligious-in-america/

Invocation: 21 Pilots Car Radio

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 Next week: Better Know Mary Astell with Simone Webb

EV - 141 Secular Student Alliance with Kevin Bolling

My guest this week is Kevin Bolling, executive director of the Secular Student Alliance (@SecularStudents). We discuss the role of secular student groups in the lives of young nonbelievers, and how they especially play a vital community role in the lives of nonbelievers who come from faith based families. This is a particularly fortuitous conversation given what I'll be discussing next week with Alison Gill.

Secular Student Alliance: https://secularstudents.org/?gclid=CjwKCAjw4871BRAjEiwAbxXi2xaAzMR9fuT2RaqHBh730sR8yRDmraqHHH6OsL1iK4svWJy4FM6mTBoCeNkQAvD_BwE

Invocation: Paul Lynch

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 Next week: Reality check, being nonreligious in America with Alison Gill

EV - 140 Campquest.org with Neil Polzin

My guest this week is Neil Polzin, a long time patron of the void, director of the So Cal Campquest session, and Board Chair for the national Campquest organization. We discuss the joys of combining science and philosophy with the outdoors to help young individuals learn and grow.

Campquest: https://www.campquest.org/

Invocation: https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Dark_Young_of_Shub-Niggurath

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 Next week: Secular Student Alliance with Kevin Bolling

EV - 139 New Media Roundtable

Something new this week! Some friends put together a roundtable discussion on left/liberal relations and related pressing issues. Hope you enjoy!

Video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPI02PAv3GQ

Participants:

Political Philosophy Podcast: 

https://www.politicalphilosophypodcas... 

https://twitter.com/PolPhilPod

Chrisiousity: 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn1b... 

https://twitter.com/chrisiousity

The Poplar Tapes: 

https://thepoplartapes.podbean.com/ 

https://twitter.com/ThePoplarTapes 

Jerb the Humanist: 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmE8jnO-2WwKYjSpRXEu2Hw

https://twitter.com/Jerbivore

Invocation: Aaron's fever dreams

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EV - 138 Naked Shame with Krista Thomason

My guest this week is Krista Thomason (@kkthomason), an associate professor at Swarthmore college who studies negative emotions and their role in ethics. We discuss her challenges to the traditional views of shame and how people can integrate a healthy relationship with shame into their lives.

Naked: https://www.amazon.com/Naked-Dark-Side-Shame-Moral/dp/0190843276

Invocation: Bhagavad Gita

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Next week: Campquest.org with Neil Polzin

EV - 137 Strong Emergence with Emerson Green

My guest this week is Emerson Green (@waldenpod), host of the Counterapologetics Podcast and Walden Pod. We continue our discussion on Panpsychism and focus in particular on the argument agains strong emergence, a concept that may be present in common conceptions of how consciousness arises in the world.

The Right to Reason Discussion with Emerson: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/panpsychism-debate/id1233300936?i=1000465105440

Follow up on Walden Pod: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD-RKKyHDXc 

Emerson's Website: https://emersongreenblog.wordpress.com/

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Next week: Campquest.org with Neil Polzin

EV - 136 Dialetheism with Michael Bench-Capon

My guest this week is Michael Bench-Capon (@MikeBenchCapon), a philosopher turned librarian with an interest in Dialetheism, the view that some things both are and are not P. We discuss this counterintuitive theory and how it applies to paradoxes, aesthetics, and ethics.

Michael's Blogpost on Dialetheism: http://michaelbenchcapon.blogspot.com/2019/11/dialetheism-duchamp-and-deloreans.html

Priest interview: https://historyofphilosophy.net/logic-buddhism-priest

Priest and Young article on Dialetheism and art: https://aeon.co/essays/how-can-duchamp-s-fountain-be-both-art-and-not-art

History of Philosophy without any Gaps pod: https://historyofphilosophy.net/

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Next week: Strong Emergence with Emerson Green

EV - 135 Sentientism with Jamie Woodhouse

My guest this week is Jamie Woodhouse (@JamieWoodhouse), a community organizer for Sentientism, the view that all sentient life matters morally. We do a deep dive into the strengths and weakness of Sentientism.

Jamie's Homepage: https://jamiewoodhouse.com/

Jamie's FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sentientism

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EV - 134 Existential Risk with Phil Torres

My guest this week is the well timed Phil Torres (@@xriskology), an expert on existential risk. We discuss the field of existential risk and several top contenders for what might kill us all.

Phil's website: https://www.xriskology.com/ 

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Next week: Sentientism with Jamie Woodhouse (for reals this time)