Reductio
A seasonal podcast that brings the ideas and tools of philosophy to everyone. Featuring interviews with professional philosophers, personal stories, and lots of fun thought experiments. We'll start with about 5 episodes per season. Monads are shorts that tend to involve less production than full seasonal episodes. Contact us at invertedspectrum@outlook.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
A show called "Philosophy v. Improv" graciously had me on as a guest. This is actually my second appearance! I'll post the other one soon. In this one, appropo of recent episodes, we talk about political liberalism!
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A conversation with Robert Jones of CSU, Dominguez Hills about animal welfare/rights and the ethics of food. We also touch on experimentation and captivity and the legal status of animals.
WARNING: has unbleeped curses and plenty of uncomfortable topics not appropriate for kids.
Robert references John Sanbonmatsu, this is his personal webpage.
With the aptly named "Ranch Hand" from BlueDot Sessions. Used under a CC BY-NC 4...
Note: this is part two. Listen to part one first!
A Conversation with Michael Fitzpatrick on Idealism in Political Theory A.K.A Ideal Theory. It has come under attack in recent years and for good reason, but perhaps the target of these criticisms shouldn't be idealism, but should instead be people who aren't doing idealism well.
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A Conversation with Michael Fitzpatrick on Idealism in Political Theory A.K.A Ideal Theory. It has come under attack in recent years and for good reason, but perhaps the target of these criticisms shouldn't be idealism, but should instead be people who aren't doing idealism well.
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In which Andrew talks with Chris Freiman (of William and Mary) and Michael Fitzpatrick (of Stanford, De Anza College, and Menlo College) about one of the most famous political philosophers of the 20th Century: John Rawls. We also discuss a number of critiques one might bring against Rawls' system of thinking about justice.
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Photo Credit Andrew Lavin
Quill Kukla's book City Living: How Urban Spaces and Urban Dwellers Make One Another
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Note about episode numbering: I've decided to start numbering each episode sequentially not including AudioSophia episodes. This is the 28th overall episode.
Here is The Philosopher and the News. Check them out! They have some really insightful discussions on timely topics.
Here is our Patreon if you want to drop us a buck a month to help keep the lights on.
William Scheuerman's Paper: Political Disobedience in the Climate...
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A conversation with Carneades of Carneades.org about the new book he has released: Are All Lives Equal? Why Cost Benefit Analysis Values Rich Lives More and How Philosophy Can Fix It.
Enjoy the conversation!
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Thaddeus Metz schools us on Ubuntu Ethics and the Good Life. A more interview-driven monad rather than something highly narrated.
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a talk by Matt Strohl with comments by Nick Riggle. Thanks to the Humanities Center at the University of Montana!
Matt's Book:
Why It's Okay to Love Bad Movies
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In which Andrew explores the "Identity" in "Identity Politics" and the social groups by which we identify ourselves.
https://shows.acast.com/reductio/s02e05-another-kind-of-identity
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In which Helen De Cruz reads her short story "Soul Sleep". Enjoy!
Hi Phi Nation's "The Wishes of the Dead"
De Cruz's new book: Philosophy Illustrated
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Andrew talks with Rev. Ben Colahan about themes from s02e04 Who Are You? If you haven't already, listen to that episode before this one. Here's a link: https://shows.acast.com/reductio/s02e04-who-are-you
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In which Andrew explores various questions surrounding the issue of personal identity. Who are you? Including discussions of Transporters, Theseus' Ship(s), and various other thought experiments. With Guest Amy Kind and narration help from Kellie Marie Lavin.
Warning: one bad word in the end credits, but the rest is clean!
Amy Kind's Book:
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In which Andrew asks the questions: what are ghosts, if anything? How should we think about ghost experiences? What sort of reason do they give us to believe that ghosts are real?
Special thanks to "James" and "Dianne" and their family, to Frank McAndrew, and to Casey Smith.
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A monad in which Professor Eric Schwitzgebel shares his fantastic philosophical short story "The Passion of the Sun Probe."
The text of the story is available where it is published and also on Schwitzgebel's blog, where you can leave comments for the author.
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In which Andrew explores Laurie Paul's concept of a Transformative Experience. With help from John Swanson, Laurie Paul, Jordan Wallace-Wolf, and Count Dracula himself.
Laurie Paul's Book Transformative Experience, can be purchased many places, including here.
Editing help by Xinjiang Huang. Thank you for all of your help!
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https://shows.acast.com/reductio/s02e02-transformative-experiences
Welcome back to Reductio for a new Season! We'll be releasing episodes sporadically over the next 6-7 months.
In the first episode, Andrew talks with Jonathan Cohen of UCSD about the Inverted Spectrum possibility: the possibility that we might have totally different experiences of the colors around us and we'd never know it!
Editing help by Inverted Spectrum Media's new intern: Xinjian Huang
Special thanks to Jonathan Cohe...
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