#144 - Moral Luck
How big of a role does luck play in our moral lives? Are we still to blame if certain factors are out of our control? How much are you allowed to drink at Dave & Busters? That last question might be u...
25 Jan 201734min
#143 - The Last Messiah
Prepare to be bummed out! This week on DP, Connor and Dan are discussing the major bummer philosophy of Peter Wessel Zapffe, specifically his book The Last Messiah. How do humans deal with the fact th...
25 Jan 201737min
#142 - Thus Spoke Zarathustra
(Apologies for the white noise, Dan recorded this episode on vinyl) Connor and Dan brave the California winter storms to bring you an episode on Friedrich Nietzsche's experimental novel Thus Spoke Zar...
11 Jan 201750min
#141 - Thomas Kuhn
Welcome to the new year! Unfortunately, this is still the same old podcast. This week, Connor and Dan dig into Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions. This ep is a real paradigm shift (that...
4 Jan 201743min
#140 - Ancient Ideas of Free Will
Once again, Connor and Dan are jumping in the way back machine. They're headed to Ancient Greece to see what those old fuddy duddys had to say about free will. Do the Gods decide our fate? Are we just...
29 Dec 201645min
#139 - Simulacra and Hyperreality
Just in time for the holiday season, Connor and Dan are back with a wet and wild Drunken Philosophy. This week, they're discussing the complex postmodernist theories of Jean Boudrillard. You'll find o...
21 Dec 201644min
#138 - Rene Girard
Do we form our own desires or do we simply copy them from someone else? Did you actually want those fajitas or did that sizzling platter just trick you into thinking so? Both those questions (mostly t...
14 Dec 201648min
#137 - Growing Block Universe
The time has come for more discussion of time! This week, Connor and Dan dive back into the giant butter dish of time theory. Specifically, the growing block universe theory and something funky called...
7 Dec 201651min
