38 - GiT Holiday Special with Sep
It’s the holidays again! And Theory Elf Sep comes on to help celebrate them. We talk about the past year of working on the pod, where I've been for the past two months, how she makes the episode art a...
26 Dec 202139min
37 - Thought Lab 4: The Psychology of Horror
Grizzly bears are scary. But what about zombie grizzly bears? What’s makes something horrifying rather than just frightening? Paul has a theory. It turns out that humans have a psychological way of o...
28 Okt 202136min
36 - Moral Saints 2: Why Be a Saint?
This episode is about Wolf’s “Moral Saints,” Peter Singer’s “Famine, Affluence and Morality,” and Larissa Macfarquhar’s Strangers Drowning. Susan Wolf thinks that devoting your life to helping other...
12 Okt 202133min
35 - Susan Wolf, “Moral Saints”
This episode is about Susan Wolf’s 1982 article “Moral Saints.” You’re probably a moral enough person. But have you ever had that nagging feeling that you should be even better? That if you were real...
28 Sep 202126min
34 - The Esoteric Plato feat. Earl Fontainelle
Today I speak with Earl Fontainelle of the Secret History of Western Esotericism podcast (SHWEP). I don’t understand Plato. Partly this is because he never writes in his own voice and partly it’s bec...
13 Sep 20211h 28min
33 - The End of the End of History feat. Philip Cunliffe and George Hoare
I talk to Phillip Cunliffe and George Hoare about their new book The End of the End of History. In 1989, Francis Fukuyama predicted a boring eternity of liberal capitalism and for nearly 30 years, i...
30 Aug 20211h 5min
32 - Fukuyama’s “The End of History?”
In 1989, Francis Fukuyama was a foreign policy expert with an interest in Hegel. He published a little essay called “The End of History?” in which he argued that the Cold War was more than a rivalry b...
17 Aug 202127min
31 - Thought Lab 3: Utilitarianism & the Great Spreadsheet
Today, Paul Sagar and I get into utilitarianism. We talk about thought experiments that involve: drowning kids, ruined loafers, death squads and bioweapons. The drowning children are from Peter Sing...
2 Aug 202147min
