Episode 309: Dissolving Into the One
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Episode 309: Dissolving Into the One

David and Tamler heed the call to journey into the realm of Joseph Campbell. What are the unifying elements shared by myths and religions across time and culture? Does myth give us a portal into the hidden cosmic forces of the universe? Can it take us into depths of our unconscious and the nature of our own being? What is the legacy of Campbell's thought today?

Plus, three brave scholars of fascism at Yale flee the country to form in a center of resistance at…The University of Toronto.

We're Experts in Fascism. We're Leaving the U.S. | NYT Opinion [youtube.com]

Joseph Campbell [wikipedia.org]

The Hero with a Thousand Faces [wikipedia.org]

The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell [amazon.com affiliate link]

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Episode 117: Extended Minds, Extended Foreskins

Episode 117: Extended Minds, Extended Foreskins

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Episode 116: Pain, Pleasure, and Peer-Reviewed Penises

Episode 116: Pain, Pleasure, and Peer-Reviewed Penises

David and Tamler break down the latest small-stakes academic controversy--yes the one about conceptual penises. Does the recent "Sokal-like" hoax expose the ideological extremism of gender studies? Or...

31 Touko 20171h 16min

Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?

Episode 115: Which Field is More Fu@%ed: Philosophy or Psychology?

David and Tamler go ambulance chasing for scandals in their own fields. Inspired by a tweet from Jay Van Bavel, they argue about which of their disciplines--philosophy or psychology--is more completel...

16 Touko 20171h 37min

Episode 114: Great Vengeance and Furious Anger (Top 5 Movies About Revenge)

Episode 114: Great Vengeance and Furious Anger (Top 5 Movies About Revenge)

Somehow, after 113 episodes David and Tamler have never done a top 5 movie episode about revenge (so unbelievable that we had to double-check). That changes today. Among the things we learned: good re...

4 Touko 20171h 21min

Episode 113: Pascal, Probability, and Pitchforks

Episode 113: Pascal, Probability, and Pitchforks

David and Tamler break down what may be the best argument that it's rational to believe in God: Pascal's Wager. (No, we're not just trolling our Sam Harris listeners.) Does the expected value of belie...

18 Huhti 20171h 18min

Episode 112: Gettier Goggles

Episode 112: Gettier Goggles

For four years Tamler has been bitching about Gettier cases without even explaining what they are or why he hates them. That ends today. David and Tamler talk about the famous paper that challenged th...

4 Huhti 20171h 31min

Episode 111: Our Language Doesn't Have a Word For This Title (with Yoel Inbar)

Episode 111: Our Language Doesn't Have a Word For This Title (with Yoel Inbar)

In Part 2 of our episode with film scholar Yoel Inbar (AOS: Quebecois New Wave Cinema), we break down the philosophy and psychology of the movie Arrival. [Note: Massive spoilers, see the movie first!]...

22 Maalis 20171h 3min

Episode 110: Stepsisters and Neck Braces (with Yoel Inbar)

Episode 110: Stepsisters and Neck Braces (with Yoel Inbar)

Any time the topic is campus politics there's a good chance we'll have to record more than once. True to form, David and Tamler yelled at each other for most of the first attempt to discuss the Middle...

14 Maalis 201741min

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