Episode 19: Does Desire Lead to Suffering?
This week Eric and Taylor are joined by journalist and adult industry activist Laura Desirée as they wonder whether desire inevitably leads to suffering. Or maybe desiring just is suffering. Is desire...
11 Jul 202358min
Episode 18: Does Technology Endanger Something Important About Being Human?
This week Eric and Taylor are joined by Michael Thaddeus, professor of mathematics at Columbia University, as they ponder the worrisome thought that technological progress might threaten something ess...
3 Jul 202359min
Episode 17: Do We Have to Lie?
Is lying unavoidable? Should you always tell the truth, no matter what? Even if an axe murderer asks you where your sister is hiding? What if a flounder asks you, “Does this place on the sea floor mak...
25 Jun 202358min
Episode 16: Is It Impossible to Be Cool by Trying?
Can we try to become cool, or is trying to be cool by definition like totally uncool man? Is it like keeping yourself up trying to fall asleep? Maybe it’s impossible, like trying to look at the edge o...
19 Jun 202347min
Episode 15: Is There Any Such Thing as the Self?
Am I a self? Am I myself? Am I yourself? And if there is no such thing as the self, do I not exist? The Buddha and David Hume thought so – were they right? Join Taylor and Eric as they explore the con...
11 Jun 202349min
Episode 14: Are We Trapped by Tradition?
Are we prisoners of the past or is radical revolution possible? Revolutionaries say we can get out. Conservatives say we shouldn’t even want to. But maybe both sides get it wrong! Do we need a past to...
5 Jun 202349min
Episode 13: What If Wisdom Does Not Make Us Blessed?
Philosopher Helen De Cruz joins Eric and Taylor this week to discuss the unsettling possibility that insight and understanding might not actually make us happier or more at peace with our existence. M...
29 Mai 202351min
Episode 12: Are We Our Bodies?
Are we our bodies? Do we also have souls? Do we have minds? Do haircuts diminish our true selves? Can our selves be hit by a bus or uploaded onto The Cloud? The French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-...
22 Mai 202348min
