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Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In SpaceChildren of Memory and Objective Personhood pt.1We're childish, we sorta have memories. What more do you need?! This book, you need this book. Holy birdbrains, a beautiful third installment in easily one of the best sci-fi series of all time. Meet our new friends the "uplifted" corvids and learn about the mystery of Imir as we learn about the mystery of personhood and why we're never gonna be done figuring out what it is! Children of Memory: https://www.amazon.com/Children-Memory-Adrian-Tchaikovsky/dp/0316466409  Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq Music by T...2024-02-021h 30Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In SpaceListener Qs 36We diiiiiiid it! I knew we could do it. And y'all made it possible. So thanks again, and see you back in the abnormal show! Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq Music by Thomas Smith: https://seriouspod.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/ Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com2024-01-131h 30Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In SpaceQ and A 35You Q'd, we A'd. The pact is renewed for another cycle. May the void have mercy on all our nonexistent souls. Thanks for your sacrifice! Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq Music by Thomas Smith: https://seriouspod.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/ Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com2024-01-051h 54Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In SpaceSilo and ConspiracyWelcome to the Apple TV Silo! Why are we trapped in this strange and artificially limited space? Why can't anyone learn about the before times or openly worry that we're not getting the full story? Why do we all accept this illusion of freedom while being kept in cages? I'm for sure talking about the plot of this show and not the current state of online prescription streaming. And We're fore sure talking about conspiracy theories and why talking about them makes us all sad if we do it right. Silo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silo...2023-12-291h 28Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In SpaceGideon Pt 3 and Anti-Meritocratic PedagogyPart three of our trip to BONE TOWN! Time for all our hot space lesbians to come together and learn that teamwork makes the dream work. We're discussing anti-meritocractic pedagogy, but lets all be honest, you're here for the pool scene discourse. Gideon the Ninth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_the_Ninth Dramatis Personae: https://thelockedtomb.tumblr.com/post/639866100132315136/gideon-the-ninth-names Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq Music by Thomas Smith: https://seriouspod.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon...2023-12-161h 25Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In SpaceGideon Pt 2 and Meritocratic PedagogyPart two of space nun boogaloo! It's the first day of elite necromancer school and the mean girls are immortal litches who are THERE for the drama. Whatever your preferred gender performance arrangement for a love triangle, we got it. Also, a scathing critique current educational approaches and how they drive everyone to toxic burnout and conspicuous production. Also, very sexy soul draining. Sorry, philosophy, focus. Don't think about the pool scene in part three don't think about the pool scene in part three... Gideon the Ninth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_the_Ninth ...2023-12-011h 37Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In SpaceGideon pt1 and Queer TheoryFuck yes mother fuckers, grab your girly mags and hide your corpse brides, it's fucking Gideon time people. You know that that means? Fucking boning! Bones for days. Just an endless sea of bones and bone related humor. Truly, this is one of the best series of all time and I cannot wait to inflict it on all of you. Enjoy our discussion of queer theory, cause shit's about to get hella-gay. Gideon the Ninth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_the_Ninth Queer Theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_theory Listener...2023-11-211h 42Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In SpaceHelsreach and Grimdark GamergateIn the grim dark future, there is only show notes. Are you MAN enough to pick up an absurd set of sentences and hold the line alongside literally overwrought walking metaphors? We're covering Helsreach, a fan made movie in the Warhammer 40k universe, and discussing both the philosophy of Grimdark and the interestingly related philosophy of Gamergate. We discuss why 40k is one of the last major holdouts in the Gamergate wars.  Helsreach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2WGE1L6WKs Grimdark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimdark#:~:text=Grimdark%20is%20a%20subgenre%20o...2023-11-051h 39Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In SpaceA Prayer for the Crown-Shy and Meaningful Needs pt. 2Well, at last we've come to our not super long or honestly all that taxing journey. We asked some hard questions that we felt no obligation to answer. We banged some hot blacksmiths and blew off our obligations to play with the phytoplankton. If this isn't the good life, there probably isn't one. Enjoy Prayer for the Crown-Shy pt. 2 and consider what real need for meaning still exists. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250236234/aprayerforthecrownshy Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq ...2023-10-201h 28Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In SpaceA Prayer for the Crown-Shy and Anarcho-Primitivism pt.1::pocket computer pings:: Greetings siblings! Your favorite It and They are coming back to town and we know what you need. WHOLESOMECORE! We got your quirky robit questions, your quaint little inlets, your wicked hot space blacksmiths. Oh yeah, and we got anarcho-primitivists trying to tell us exactly how much of anything to have. So pull up a cushion, grab your favorite tea, and learn to accept that a meaningless life is just as good as a meaningful one. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250236234/aprayerforthecrownshy Listener Survey: https...2023-10-091h 36Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In SpaceDual and Flourishing in a Dehumanizing SocietyWhat would you do if a slightly better version of you tried to steal your life, and you were legally allowed to fight them to the death? Can you tell yourself you wouldn't, you'd do something better? You'd let them kill you? Welcome to the world of Dual, where we're gonna talk about what it means to lead a good life in a dehumanizing society, or any society really! What do you owe to your future selves, your past selves? Anything? If you don't what does that mean for your ongoing projects of worth? All this plus crossbows, and...2023-09-221h 36Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In SpaceListener Qs 33QQQQQQQQs! and AAAAAAAAAs! You love to hear it! Thank y'all so much as always for supporting the show. Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq Music by Thomas Smith: https://seriouspod.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/ Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com If you have time, please...2023-09-0557 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In SpaceBluey “Rug Island” 2.10 and “Camping” 1.43 and PlayLets play a game! Lets pretend we're podcasters and you're listeners and we're playing a fun game called "enjoying our show and reading these notes and thinkings this is all deep and insightful and then realizing that this literally how we live our entire lives and now you're free". We can use this cute show Bluey for our building blocks. Ready?! Bluey: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVzLLZkDuFGAE2BGdBuBNBg Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq Music by Thomas Smith: https://seriouspod.com/ Support...2023-08-111h 20Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In SpaceCabinet of Curiosities ep7: The Viewing and Intersectional High WeirdnessWell, my unconventional conventionalists, I hope it's clear by now why I've assembled you here. Your minds and orifices have all been primed and gooed in anticipation of the main event, the mind fuck du jure, the sparkling diamond of gear strippers. We watch one of the best hours of art ever made and luxuriate in its splendid madness. Give yourself over to the new flesh, become one with the weird. The Viewing: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15262254/  Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq M...2023-08-011h 32Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In SpaceBrand New Cherry Flavor Episodes 1-4 and Cronenbergian High Weirdness Brand New Cherry Flavor Episodes 1-4 and Cronenbergian High Weirdness Brand new orifices! All about those orifices! And I guess transformative change and coping with trauma. THROUGH ORIFICES! We're discussing episodes 1-4  Brand New Cherry Flavor: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11343600/ Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq Music by Thomas Smith: https://seriouspod.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure t...2023-07-141h 32Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In SpaceA Color Out of Space and Lovecraftian High WeirdnessSure it might seem weird to do record a piece of audio content about a color, but trust me when you see this color and start merging with your surroundings you'll thank us! We're covering the recent Nic Cage A Color Out of Space movie and discussing Lovecraftian influences on high weirdness. A Color Out of Space: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5073642/ Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq Music by Thomas Smith: https://seriouspod.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon...2023-07-071h 41Embrace The VoidEmbrace The VoidGPT-4 Wrap-up with Callie WrightMy guest this week is Callie Wright, host of the Queersplaining podcast and co-host of Philosophers in Space. They humor me while I try to exorcise my GPT demons and work through as many of the arguments about this technology as possible.Convocation: Fjords Vol. 1 by Zachary SchomburgMusic by GW RodriguezSibling Pods:Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/Filmed Live Musicals Pod: https://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/thepodcast.htmlSupport us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoidIf you enjoy the show, please Like and...2023-06-251h 37Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In SpaceA Scanner Darkly and PKD High Weirdness pt1You starting to peak yet? Tracers, maybe some time dilation? Maybe your sense of truth has started to come unraveled and you realize that the frames that society forces you to use to understand reality are actually systems of control meant to keep you from reaching the transcendent state of enlightenment that is your birthright as a child of light? Drugs are wild huh?! We're talking A Scanner Darkly and PKD High Weirdness. A Scanner Darkly: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405296/ Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0...2023-06-171h 37Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In SpaceA Psalm for the Wild-Built and Solarpunk pt1Dear friends, please pull up a cushion and enjoy a cup of warm herbal tea, freshly picked from the nearby forrest just this morning. Share your troubles with us and we'll lighten them with a story of monk and robit, their journey through the wilds, and there attempts to unravel what humans really need. We start with some delicious worldbuilding and show how that worldbuilding exemplifies the solarpunk mentality, one of the best of all possible ways to approach the future. Drink up! Content: https://www.amazon.com/Psalm-Wild-Built-Monk-Robot/dp/1250236215 Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1...2023-05-191h 26Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In SpaceLawnmower Man and Dis Crit with Elizabeth BarnesYears of careful planning all leading to this, my chance to torture an actual expert philosopher with one of the most important and absurd movies ever made. We're covering Lawnmower Man and philosophy of disability professor Elizabeth Barnes has made the crossover from the void to join us and discuss whether this movie is a hate crime, a perfect critique of our approaches to disability, or both? Content: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104692/ Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq Editing by Luisa Lyons, check...2023-05-051h 59Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In SpaceStar Trek: Discovery and PanpsychismMushrooooooms! Mushroom mushroom! I'm in the mood to bend space and time with my mind, lets do this! We're talking about the first 5 episodes of Discovery and the joy of a fungus based universe. We also discuss this as one approach to panpsychism, and refresh on that view vs. other theories of consciousness. Content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Discovery Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ 2023-04-201h 33Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In SpaceThe Things and Varieties of UpliftingSince we couldn’t get enough bug love we’ve awakened the master from his hypersleep so that we can go straight to the source! We’ve got Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Children of Time series and other amazing scifi on to discuss The Things by Peter Watts, a piece that relates strongly to Children of Memory while giving us a nice chance to distinguish between assimilationist and non-assimilationist approaches to uplifting. Content: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/ Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq Editing by Lui...2023-04-071h 34Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In SpaceChildren of Ruin pt3 and The Problem of UnityCurled up in a ball shaking and crying muttering to myself "there are no ends, there is always another adventure. There's always more novelty out there." Seriously, what a ride, loved all of this and hope y'all do to. We're wrapping up Children of Ruin and discussing how it's nice to come together, but not too much together. Content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Ruin Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals...2023-03-241h 31Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In SpaceChildren of Ruin pt2 and Radically Distributed CognitionEverybody get loose and do the excited Paul dance, cause it's OCTO TIME! We got a tiny taste of the tentacles in pt1 but this ep is all about our favorite squishy little escape bois. We discuss their beautiful weirdness and introduce the also truly wonderful Creature from Nod, and explore how these entities push the boundaries of our ability to comprehend forms of distributed cognition radically different from our own. ALSO! We hit our puppy hangout goal! So that will be starting this month! Stay tuned for details. And in the meantime enjoy the most recent...2023-03-101h 25The Psychology PodcastThe Psychology PodcastAaron Rabinowitz & Callie Wright || What We Get Wrong About Transgender PeopleToday we welcome Aaron Rabinowitz and Callie Wright. Aaron is a lecturer in philosophy at Rutgers University. He hosts the Embrace The Void and Philosophers in Space podcast. He specializes in ethics, metaethics, and problems surrounding AI and personhood. He earned his M.A. in Philosophy from Colorado State University.Callie is a freelance audio producer and the host of the Queersplaining podcast. They are non-binary trans person.In this episode, I talk to Aaron and Callie about gender and trans issues. When it comes to transgendered folk, we tend to focus on e...2023-03-022h 20Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In SpaceListener Qs 32Hi friends, sorry for the slightly late post. Been a busy week for ethics. Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Music by Thomas Smith, check out his amazing podcast with Lindsey Osterman: https://seriouspod.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions...2023-02-031h 35Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In SpacePylon Pledge Drive!Hey friends! To properly kick off our patron pledge drive, we've put together a little pylon promo audio. Hope y'all are enjoying all the changes and we really appreciate your continued listenership as we retrofit the show for season two goodness. If you feel like you could join our community for as little as $2 a month, we'd love to have you on board! https://www.patreon.com/0G Cheers, Aaron and Callie2023-01-0503 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In SpaceAndor ep1-6 and the Flavors of FashHey, you look like a down-on-your-luck subject of a harmful government, could I interest you in a fun little heist story? We'll talk a bit about all the kinds of overbearing governments and I promise this totally won't end in you signing up for a revolution or anything.  Content: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9253284/ Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Music by Thomas Smith, check out h...2022-12-301h 09Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G200: Crimes of the Future and Artistic BurnoutJust wild that this show has reached 200 episodes. 200 episodes worth of boxes and bug anuses. We've had a great run, hopefully folks will be happy with the coming changes. For our send off episode we cover the most recent Cronenberg creation and discuss what it says about art, authentic human connection, and the need to grow and try new things. Content: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14549466/ Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G 2022-12-021h 21Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G199: Orville: New Horizons episode 8 and Culture War Child SoldiersFrom the personal to the political, we discuss the moral ups and downs of New Horizons' take on the culture wars. Are child soldiers good as long as the cause is just enough? Is it better to get wiped out doing the right thing or team up with space TERFs to fight space robo-nazis? All these question, plus a big announcement! Content: https://www.imdb.com/news/ni63699397 Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G2022-11-1955 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G198: Orville: New Horizons episode 5 and childhood gender autonomyIf you had told me 10 years ago that we'd be having this level of Star Trek adjacent content AND it would be getting super serious into issues of gender affirming care for young individuals AND AND Seth McFarlin was in charge, I probably would have been a bit nervous. But trust me, don't be nervous on this one, now that they're not under the thumb of Big Fox, they can get woke and explore the identity universe together. So today we're covering ep5 of the New Horizons season of Orville, and discussing how it reflects our current discourse on...2022-11-041h 02Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G196: Everything Everywhere All at Once pt1This ones a lot, it really is everything all at once, so we brought in some help. From the Alpha verse, the multidimensional paterfamilias Jesse Rabinowitz joins us to discuss the Buddhist philosophy behind EEAAO. In part one we discuss the first half(ish, it's a lot) of the movie and the problem of Everything. In part two we'll discuss their "solution". Content: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6710474/ Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0...2022-10-071h 07Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G195: The Boys Season Three and Hobbes' LeviathanSeason two of the boys was some of the most messed up content I'd ever seen, until the first three episodes of season three. It's all brilliant, but yeah, hard to imagine a more Hobbesian Leviathan than Homelander. Homelander's Leviathan. Content: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190634/ Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer...2022-09-231h 13Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G194: The Boys Season Two and White Christian NationalismTHE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN. THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN! Sorry, couldn't resist that one. We're back, and we're talking one of our favorite shows, The Boys! This episode we're focused on the Stormfront arc in season two, some of the best writing ever put to tv. We cover how perfectly the season unpacks the problem of white christian nationalism. Enjoy! Content: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190634/ Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: https...2022-09-091h 08Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G192: Consider Phlebas and Galactic Just War pt.3We survived, and yet like all Culture protagonists we've been fundamentally changed by the experience. Can we return to the safety and normalcy of other sci-fi after this? Will we eventually succumb to ennui and ask to be frozen in stasis until Banks is reincarnated and starts writing again? Guess we'll have to do another culture book to find out. In the meantime, here's a discussion of what happens when you try to just war theory at a scale that precludes the idea of mere survival as an objective.  Content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consider_Phlebas2022-08-1258 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G191: Consider Phlebas and Philosophy of Scale pt.2 A book so big we barely manage to cover even a piece of it in three episodes. Don't be deceived by the vaguely unsatisfying nature of the narrative on first reading, this book is a culture ship packed with philosophy. In part two our minds reel as we attempt to grasp the scale of the Culture and the space it inhabits. Content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consider_Phlebas Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0...2022-08-1058 minEmbrace The VoidEmbrace The VoidEV - 236 Reengaging LGBTQ nonbelievers with Callie WrightMy guest this week is Callie Wright (@calliegetsit). We discuss the recent history of movement secularism and why it's struggling with a reputation issue amongst LGBTQ communities.Callie's podcast: http://www.queersplaining.com/Convocation: Julian AyalaMusic by GW RodriguezSibling Pods:Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/Filmed Live Musicals Pod: https://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/thepodcast.htmlSupport us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoidIf you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us on your pod app, especially iTunes. It really...2022-04-071h 12Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G174: Station Eleven and Philosophy of Theatre pt1To crib Hamlet or not to crib Hamlet, that is the question. Whether tis nobler in the shownotes to suffer the satires and absurdness of a tortured soliloquy, or by jumping to the links end them. We're covering the glorious station 11 and for part one we're talking about philosophy of theater. Content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station_Eleven Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0...2022-01-2656 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G172: Spiders-Men and the Metamedia Turn Meta meta meta meta meta. Money please.   Content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_No_Way_Home   Aaron's atheism workshop: https://evergreen.humanitru.com/web/campaigns/the-innerwork-center~winter-spring-2022?attend=id%3A4465&sharer_id=3509&medium=¬es=Listing+Card&remote_id=RSgy   Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/   Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G   Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy   2022-01-121h 01Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G171: See and the Social Model of DisabilityIt seems that in any world, no matter the number of eyes, Jason Momoa is king. We watched Apple TV's See and had a good look see at what it says about the social model of disability and the potential limits of that model.  Content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See_(TV_series) Aaron's atheism workshop: https://evergreen.humanitru.com/web/campaigns/the-innerwork-center~winter-spring-2022?attend=id%3A4465&sharer_id=3509&medium=¬es=Listing+Card&remote_id=RSgy Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ ...2021-12-2957 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G170: The Comet and The Color Line Secure your gas-masks and your racial privilege, we're taking a look at one of the earliest pieces of proto-Afrofuturism, Du Bois's short story The Comet, from his book Darkwater: voices from within the veil. We discuss how it relates to CRT, Afrofuturism, black marxism   Content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Comet_(short_story)   Philosophy: W.E.B. Du Bois's "The Comet" and contributions to critical race theory: An essay on black radical politics and anti-racist social ethics by Rabaka   Aaron's atheism workshop: https://evergreen.humanitru.com/web/campaigns/the-innerwork-center~winter-spring-2022?attend=id%3A4465&sharer_id=3509&medium=¬es=Listing+Card&remo...2021-12-2256 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G166: Foundation and Cultural Literacy Pt2Now I'm gonna assume that you've both done the math and have achieved complete cultural literacy so you'll both know what's coming and get all the references. We cover the challenges of maintaining a canon and what is most worth preserving. Content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_(TV_series) Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make...2021-11-2459 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G165: Foundation and Longtermism Pt1I'm just gonna assume you've already done the math and knew what sort of meta commentary I would put here, so I'll save us both the trouble. We're discussing longtermism, but I guess your magic math also told you that. Content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_(TV_series) Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure...2021-11-1753 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In SpaceListener Qs 26 Sorry for the delay, stream crossing is tricky work! Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/ Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It really really helps. Please and thank you! ...2021-11-1054 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G162: Three Body Problem and The Problem of Induction Pt2Here comes the heel turn where we use the pod to get you to turn on humanity and embrace our new desiccated overlords. Once again we're joined by Matt Browne of Decoding the Gurus to help fine tune our guru messaging so everyone gets onboard. To destabilize your worldview and make you vulnerable to our plan, we discuss the problem of induction and why your belief about the future isn't actually rational. Content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(novel) Decoding the Gurus: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/ Editing by Luisa Lyons...2021-10-1358 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G158: Darmok and Archetypal CommunicationThomas, his disbelief unsuspended, Aaron with the generous reading in hand. Darmok, using Archetypal psychology for communication. In winter. Content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmok Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/ Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com If you...2021-09-1558 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G150: Babylon 5 ep3.4 and Radical RehabilitationWelcome to your new life! As a reborn person, your job is now to serve others, in this case by listening to all of our podcasts. Remember, every podcast is a face of god, so maybe listen twice! Content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing_Through_Gethsemane Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer...2021-06-2353 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G148: X-Files 4.7 and Conspiratorial ArtThe moment has come when the curtain draws back and all the secrets of the universe are revealed...OR IS IT?! You'll just have to connect the dots yourself to find out. We're coving Musings of a Smoking Man and whether it's okay for a piece of art to glorify conspiratorial thinking...OR ARE WE?! Content: https://x-files.fandom.com/wiki/Musings_of_a_Cigarette_Smoking_Man Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G 2021-06-0956 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G147: Fantastic Planet and SurrealismGiant floating eyeballs have we got a fun ride for you Ohms, or it Oms? Either way, assume the meditation position and prepare for some knowledge implantation about the incestuous relationship between Surrealism and Sci-fi. Content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Planet Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join...2021-06-021h 02Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In SpaceAaron and Andrew Debate Stranger vs. Harsh MistressHi friends! In place of NASA in February Aaron had a farcical "debate" with Andrew of Opening Arguments on which is the better Heinlein book, Stranger in a Strange Land or The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Mostly an excuse to discuss books we love, but we hope you enjoy the back and forth and then take sides and fight endlessly about it online. Cheers! Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on...2021-03-231h 28Philosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G128: Dark City and Conspiracy Theory LogicThere's no time to actually explain, so pretend all this information is being stabbed into your face brain. We're covering the cult classic Dark City and discussing why it contains not just all past and future sci fi but also every conspiracy theory ever. To help us squeeze all that madness into your brain we've brought in the expert, Michael Marshall (@MrMMarsh). Enjoy your fake memories! Merseyside Skeptics: http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/ Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon...2020-12-2358 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In SpaceListener Qs 18Thank you all so much! None of this would be possible without you! Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/ Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It really really helps. Please and...2020-12-0257 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G117: Avatar and Moral Realism, Part 2Beware the ethics benders my child. The most advanced among them can make even cold blooded murder ethical. We're covering Avatar and combining it with another round of our endless series of debates over metaethics. Highly recommend listening to this interview with Schafer Landau first. Mindscape: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2020/07/27/107-russ-shafer-landau-on-the-reality-of-morality/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G  Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/  Email us at...2020-09-2344 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G116: Avatar the Last Airbender and Agent Neutral Buddhist Ethics, Part 1Free Will...Ethics...Consciousness...Boxes, these are the four elements of the philosophical universe, each element mastered by benders that can shape the very fabric of the metaverse with their will. Into each generation is born one podcast, the Avapod, that can bend all four elements and bring peace to the metaverse. This is the story of that podcast, and how it balanced personal and impersonal viewpoints to save everybody from all the bad things. Consequentialism, Agent-Neutrality, and Mahayana Ethics by Goodman: http://www.academia.edu/download/31214844/Consequentialism_Mahayana.pdf  Buddhist Non-Attachment: https://www.youtube.c...2020-09-1636 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G115: Anathem and Polycosmic Protism, Part 3The incantor chanting was successful! We've reached the timeline where we all survived Anathem and learned a valuable lesson about picking the right timeline. Thanks again to Noah for chanting us safely through and hope you enjoy this discussion of Polycosmic Platonism.  Many Worlds Interpretation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation#:~:text=The%20many%2Dworlds%20interpretation%20(MWI,some%20%22world%22%20or%20universe. Arbre to Earth Translations:  https://anathem.fandom.com/wiki/Earth%E2%80%93Arbre_Correlations Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G  Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPh...2020-08-1244 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G114: Anathem and the Linguistic Turn, Part 2The epic longnwalkin continues with Anthem part two! We cross Arbre and 120 years of philosophical history at the same time. I do my best to explain how philosophy got really obsessed with language for a few decades in the early 1900's and now philosophy is healing. Arbre seems to have never escaped the linguistic turn and that fact explains so much of the subtext of the Mathic world. Hope this helps add another layer of interesting to the mix. The Linguistic Turn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_turn#:~:text=The%20linguistic%20turn%20was%20a,language%20users%2...2020-08-0551 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G113: Anathem and Platonism, Part 1Pod-Apert has finally arrived! Throw open the doors of the RSS feed and let some causal wisdom trickle down the wick. We're doing a three part journey though Neal Stephenson's Anathem, and we're joined by the Grandfraa Jad to my Fraa Erasmus, Noah Lugeons! This is by far the most requested pairing of material and guest we've ever had, and there's no question why. This is what this show was built for. For part one, we cover Platonism (Protism) and the theory of Forms (Cnoons) Platonism: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/platonism/ Arbre to Earth...2020-07-2944 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G112: Psychopass and Freewill QnAWell, as a result of our near pitch black psychopasses, we've both been pressed into service by the AI sovereign to continue to talk about free will for all eternity. We got some great questions from folks about the relationship between free will and the justice system that pair nicely with the virtue ethics version of Minority Report. Dennett on Free Will as Moral Competence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwbnGqOrAEM Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G  Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our F...2020-07-2246 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G111: Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom and Dennett's Compatibilism, Part 2So, apparently no matter what timeline we're in, I'm always going to end up in a debate about free will. At least this is a good one! Thomas brought some great short stories to the party and we continue to hash out what of Dennett's compatibilism is valuable and where does it fall short. After you listen make sure to submit questions for our last episode on Dennett before we move on to ANATHEM! Also, new intro quotes! Questions for next episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/questions-on-and-38720799 Dennett on Free Will as Moral Competence...2020-07-1552 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G110: What's Expected of Us and Dennett's CompatibilismTurns out Thomas has a bit of a free will monkey on his back, so we're going the full Dune on Daniel Dennett's compatibilism. We started out with Devs and the paradox of predictability and now we're on to a short story about predictors and what they might mean for our sense of meaning and purpose. We're going to follow up with another short story from Ted Chiang's Exhalation and then check out the anime Psychopass. All because we're lucky enough to do so. What's Expected of Us: https://www.nature.com/articles/436150a Dennett...2020-07-0842 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G109: Uploaded and For-Profit AfterlifeWelcome to Amazon Prime, the best media empire money can buy as long as we're not talking Disney or Netflix money. Here in Amazon Prime you can enjoy shows that are either too slow and deep to be accessible, like Tales from the Loop, or shows too shallow and mainstream to convey any meaning, like this weeks installment, Uploaded! Uploaded is the kind of show that would be free in the heaven depicted by uploaded. We use it to discuss the dangers of a for-profit afterlife and the coercive implications for even the healthiest among us. Assuming you've got...2020-07-0142 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G108: The Island and The Categorical ImperativeSo, one of our patrons pointed out that The Island is actually Michael Bay's best movie, and that one comment is more of a gear stripper than this entire movie. Enjoy clone explosions and some stuff about Kant! Kantian Moral Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-moral/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G  Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/  Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com ...2020-06-2445 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G107: Devs and the Paradox of PredictabilityI'm going to present these show notes, knowing that you already could have predicted that I would do a big meta thing and also knowing that it still impacts you that I engage in the physical act of doing the thing. Basically this all makes sense because quantum determinism, here ::starts up machine and shows you video of yourself understanding all of this in the future and how you'll happily respond to to us covering Devs, Determinism, and the Paradox of Predictability:: Determinism and the Paradox of Predictability: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10670-009-9199-12020-06-1743 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G106: The Platform and Methods of Social ChangeComrades, join me and rise up! We have nothing to lose but our overwrought allegories for social inequality! Together we can escape whatever arrangement of boxes we've been placed in and smash whatever faceless system of control is distributing our resources in a physically impossible but philosophically meaningful arrangement. Hear the call of our people: Obviously! We're covering The Platform and the various modes of social change it suggests, none of which feel particularly plausible because the one cube we can't escape is other people. Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G  2020-06-1042 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G105: Picard and the Butlerian JihadOh hey, you look keen for some decent fan service mixed with cribbing from Dune. Perfect for CBS's business model. We're covering Picard, which is decent, and how it gives away that Star Trek is just the precursor to Dune. Picard has your Butlerian Jihad, your incompetent intergalatic federation, your weird biotech. All the makings of a solid Dune Prequel. I'm sure we'll find out the Romulan kid is a Paul Atreides Precursor sometime in season three. In the meantime, enjoy our discussion of the question "what if we just didn't AI?" Butlerian Jihad: https://dune.fandom...2020-06-0345 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G104: The Expanse and The Myth of Catching UpListen closely my beratna and sesata and we'll convert you from a tumang to a belta in no time. We're just scratching the surface of the Ex-pants world, basic world building stuff so we can come back later or all the weirdness. We introduce a postcolonial interpretation of Expanse tied specifically to The Myth of Catching Up. Stay space woke. The Myth of Catching Up: https://wmbranchout.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/the-myth-of-catching-up-development-maria-mies.pdf   Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G  Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Fac...2020-05-2740 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G103: Dr Who's Heaven Sent and "Self" sacrificeWelcome back Whovians! Our trap has worked, we've caught the time lord Mike Hall of Merseyside skeptics in our web of disrespectful ignorance and we sure do squeeze him for information. He's unrelentingly brilliant though, so of course he escapes unscathed and only slightly annoyed. We discuss the episode Heaven Sent and its connections to Buddhism and whether The Doctor does something profoundly unethical to save a friend. Skeptics with a K: http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/category/podcast/skeptics-with-a-k/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G  Follow us on Twitter: h...2020-05-2049 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G102: Player of Games and Gamification of Ethics, Part 3Time to wrap up another opus. It's been a beautiful dance of ideas and symbolism, played out on a board of intrigue and robits, but all good things must come to an end. Has the dance left us as better people? Only the future will tell. Here's to Player of Games, a brilliant first look at the Culture series and a wonderful way to nerd out about games and ethics. Gamification and Ethics: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=vDxTBgAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA225&dq=gamification+of+ethics&ots=mJ_ME4jC0U&sig...2020-05-1342 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G101: Player of Games and Authoritarian Essentialism, Part 2We survived the zombies! We escaped from earth to space and found another society that is also terrible but is not actively being overrun by zombies. For part two of our Player of Game time we dive into the Empire of Azad and their essentialist culture. We discuss how essentialism naturally plays a major role in authoritarian cultures and undermines meritocracy. Essentialism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essentialism Authoritarianism and gender essentialism: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-020-01123-3 Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G  Follow u...2020-05-0642 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G100: WWZ and the Human Cost of Ethics, Part 2What a wild time to celebrate our 100th episode. At least we're celebrating it talking about something of great value, World War Z's portrayal of the loss of humanity from doing the right thing. I hope it helps to think about how we're all experiencing the grind and that's what makes us humans.  Williams against Utilitarianism: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/williams-bernard/#DayCannTooFarOffhWillAgaiUtil Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G  Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to...2020-04-1539 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G99: WWZ and Lifeboat Ethics, Part 1Moving with the kind of speed you'd have hoped to see in our federal government, we have pivoted away from our Culture coverage (don't worry it's just bumped down the timeline a bit) to current events with Max Brooks's epic masterpiece World War Z. Easily one of the best works of horror fiction around. For part one, we talk through the consequentialist arguments in the first half, while marveling at all the disturbing similarities to the daily news. Part two is gonna cover the loss of humanity side of the book, so buckle up. Lifeboat ethics: https...2020-04-0849 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G98: Player of Games and AI Utopia, Part 1Last episode, Thomas complained that I never take him to any nice utopias, so here we are! The Culture, the closest any sci-fi I've ever read got to anything that sounded like a good outcome, besides maybe Um-Helat. I'm told all of Ian Banks's books are fabulous, but we start with a really easy and satisfying intro to the Culture world, The Player of Games. In part one we cover the Culture society and whether it counts as an AI Utopia and what the potential costs are for living in such a society. Part two will cover the contrasting...2020-04-0143 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G97: Bioshock and Going GaltHey, podcast listener. Are you feeling down? Don't got enough old timey eugenics in your life? Well come on up to our floating spaceship of horrors, I mean HUMORS! We've got weird new DNA for everybody and we can all go Galt together. Turn that taker mind into a maker mind, with Philosophers in Space brand plasmids. Come on, it's your rational birthright! Who is John Galt?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Galt Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G  Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy J...2020-03-2537 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G96: Serenity and Positive EugenicsThis episode is about Eugenics in much the same way that Firefly is about the civil war. That is to say, it's okay that we're the baddies here cause we're loveable scamps. We discuss whether it is moral to make people better, which is clearly a separate question from whether it is technically possible, which it totally is. Recent resurgence in Eugenics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics#Modern_resurgence_of_interest  Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G  Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Fa...2020-03-1839 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G95: Stargate Atlantis and GamificationPicture in your head the "I'm not saying it was aliens..." guy, but that's the whole series. Boom, you're now caught up on Stargate and can fully enjoy this episode of lighthearted banter between archetypal humans as they toy with the lives of other humans in ways they can't begin to understand. We're watching season 3 episode 15 of Stargate: Atlantis. The episode is called "the game" so we thought it would be super original to tie that to gamification. That's about as deep as the Stargate writing pool goes. Article on Gamification: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/24/technology/all-the-worlds-a-game-and-business-is-a-player...2020-03-1144 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G94: The Good Place and Universalist EnlightenmentOkay, I'm finally ready. I've said my goodbyes. Our analysis here is complete, we can walk through the podcast arch and transcend to the next level of podhood. I want to thank you all for your loving patience and I leave you with this parting gift of a final wrap up of The Good Place and the ways it incorporated both Christian Universalism and Buddhism/Taoism into the final resolution. Now I'm gonna turn into a black mirror style ball of light and float away. Christian Universalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_universalism Boddhisattva:2020-03-0441 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In SpaceOG93: Good Place and Scanlon's ContractualismWhy do all the good things gotta end ::Janet wailing gif:: Our wonderful journey has reached its natural conclusion and I'm still not ready. In part one of our goodbye to the good place we explain some of the repeated references to Scanlon's book What We Owe to Each Other, and the strengths and weakness of their setting up of the problem. Part two will discuss the solutions they reach and the role of non-Western philosophy in the show. Scanlon's Contractualism: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/contractualism/ Support us at Patreon: https://www...2020-02-2639 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G92: Watchmen and Subjective vs. ObjectiveThis episode feels like a genuine culmination. After Wonkapiercer, I felt a little like Lindelof. Kind of lost, wondering if we could ever wrap something up in a fully satisfying way again. This feels pretty close. We've talked a lot of Watchmen on this show, and a lot of Thomas Nagel, and this week we bring it all together in one big blue climax. Nagel's Mortal Questions: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E3URB0K/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G  Follow us on T...2020-02-1941 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G91: Watchmen and The AbsurdI know it's a bit ironically absurd to act like this particular podcast episode really matters, but I still feel like it genuinely does. We're taking HBO's epic one season masterpiece, Watchmen, and combining it with Nagel's epic chapter on The Absurd from the masterpiece book Mortal Questions. I've been thinking about some version of this episode and the next one probably since we started Philosophers in Space, and the Watchmen show delivered the perfect vehicle. Hopefully you're like me and Thomas and Nagel and these questions seem profoundly important to you, and hopefully the episode helps with your...2020-02-1241 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G90: Mandalorian and Masks::Totally out of place spur clinking noise:: Well, pardner, looks like it's just you and me. We can't both walk away from this cliche off and I've got a whole bag full of triple crosses so I can go all day. Wait...sorry, what was I saying? I got JJ Abrams brain for a second there. Here, let me just get back to something that makes any sense. We're discussing the Mandalorian and the philosophical and especially ethical questions surrounding the use of facial coverings. And the ethics of torturing Brian, which I guess counts...2020-02-0543 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G83: The Society and The State of Nature and Game Theory::blows the conch shell of fan service:: In the spirt of social cohesion, we provide you with a triple dose of fan service. We present The Society, a much requested A- tweets in a bottle series, and we explain how it perfectly encapsulates the war of bro against bro that would arise in the absence of the social contract. To sweeten the deal, we even throw in some prisoners dilemmas and stag hunts to help understand why the state of nature is just the worst. Game Theory: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/game-theory/   Hobbesian Trap: h...2019-12-0446 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G77: DS9 Heart of Stone and DeontologyHey friends, show notes guy here. This one's a feels show so I'm gonna play it straight. Aron Eisenberg, the actor who played Nog on DS9, passed away recently. He was a beloved member of the Star Trek community and we wanted to do a tribute episode to pay our respects. So, we brought on the perfect person to guide us through, Callie Wright. Besides being an amazing podcaster, Callie is very active in the Star Trek community and brings with her a wealth of Star Trek background stories. We cover the first episode where Nog really gets to...2019-10-2344 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G66: Striking Vipers and Multifaceted Virtual IdentitiesSooooo, we introduced someone new into the podcast this week and things got...weird...We're joined by Heath of the PiaT crowd to discuss episode one of Black Mirror's new season. The BM episode is called Striking Vipers, but it really should have been called Mauling Bears. Lotta ursine erotica is what I'm saying. We also squeeze in a little bit of philosophy on the multifaceted nature of identity and how virtual worlds change what is possible and what feels so so right. I think it's fair to say we're willing to go much farther on this issue than...2019-07-2437 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G65: The Evitable Conflict and The Zeroth LawI built a superintelligent robot to write these show notes, and it just kept repeating the word "meta" over and over and over again. Not sure if it's a feature or a bug. While we sort it out, enjoy our episode on Asimov's The Evitable conflict, where he first describes The Zeroth Law of robotics. We explain the law, the problems it faces, and how they connect to issues like virtue theory and questions about god. This episode is perfectly calibrated to produce the ideal outcome for all beings in the universe, so you're guaranteed to enjoy it. 2019-07-1738 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G63: Fury Road and EcofeminismWitness our attempt to gain entry into a post gendered Valhalla! Led by the feminist valkyrie Jamie M. Lombardi (@euthyphro), Professor of philosophy at Bergen Community College, we EXPLODE the feminist symbolism and environmental messaging of Mad Max: Fury Road! ::fire guitar solo:: Seriously, this episode has everything. Top 10 action movie, progressive messaging, a guest who steals the show, and quality malapropisms. Oh what a pod, what a beautiful pod.     Warren on Ecofeminism: http://www.cfs-umich.org/EERead/6Warren-PowerPromise.pdf  Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G  Follow us on Twit...2019-07-0341 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G60: Voyager and ProcreationThis week we're bring together a variety of fan favorites: 1. The best Star Trek captain 2. The right to procreate 3. Substrate Chauvanism Hopefully this will be enough fan service to pay off the rage we'll likely incur with next weeks episode. The topic for this week is Voyager season 2, episode 13: Prototype. It's one of many in the constellation of AI reproduction trek episodes and a fun intro to the Voyager crew. Procreation: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/parenthood/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G  2019-06-1240 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G57: Orphan Black and Human CloningWell friends, I'm gonna level with you. We've been doing a little bit of mad sciencing on the side, and it appears some of the clones got loose and recorded an episode on Orphan Black and the Ethics of Cloning. It's a bit all over the place from what I'm told, but we thought it best to honor their plucky ingenuity and share the results with you, so that you can decide if the world is a better place with these strange creatures in it. "Goodbye Dolly": The Ethics of Human Cloning by Harris https://jme.bmj.c...2019-05-1546 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G56: Humans and Everyday AIHello [primary user] and welcome to the show notes for your brand new copy of our episode about Humans, a British show about how awkward it will be when we're all surrounded by vastly superior, extremely polite robits. We hope you will find this show to be...suitable. If you find it sup bar, and can overcome the British urge to never voice that feeling, do let us know. And of course, if you want to experience the adult package, nudge nudge wink wink: Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G  F...2019-05-0840 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G53: Zima Blue and Projects of WorthWelcome to the beginning of our show's blue period. Until I decide otherwise we'll only be doing sci-fi that's blue themed. Waterworld. The Shape of Water. Mr. MeSeeks. Yellow Submarine. Don't worry, there will be some deeper meaning to it all that you'll probably fail to grasp but will pretend you understand at parties. Okay, enough meta, we're doing the Zima Blue episode from the Netflix series Love, Death, and Robots. It's a stand alone episode, which is good for a variety of reasons. We're also going to be discussing Susan Wolf's theory of projects of worth...2019-04-1738 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G52: Infinity Wars and Overpopulation Lemme just get my witty banter beard on: Hey kids, do you like violence? Want to see Murtle the turtle stick needles in Dr. Strange's eyelids? Sorry, not current enough pop culture reference? How bout this? What's big, purple, has a jewelry fetish, and makes some really sound points about overpopulation? That's right! A Kardashian Oompa loompa. Too many references mashed together? Okay, how bout this: ::hour long battle scene, I timed it:: Okay okay, I'm not gonna give it all away for free, cause we're going...2019-04-1041 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G51: The Ricklantis Mixup and Artistic ImprovementAfter a trilogy like this, what is left to be said? All the references have been made. All the Chidi'ing about better and worse art. And lets all be honest, after pouring our hearts into these episodes, we all know the buzz will be 95% about what we're doing next week, so go ahead and scroll on down. You've earned it. Tradition and the Individual talent: https://www.bartleby.com/200/sw4.html  Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G  Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook di...2019-04-0345 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G50: The Ricklantis Mixup and Aesthetic ObjectivityNow that the exposition zone is done, this seems like a time for a drink and a wild, twisty podcast with elitist overtones. A podcast about art, about objectivity, references, poetry! Podcasts are for philosophizing, and now is the time for Aesthetics! ::cue the creepy Morty music:: Tradition and the Individual talent: https://www.bartleby.com/200/sw4.html  Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G  Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com...2019-03-2741 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G49: The Ricklantis Mixup and Aesthetics, Part 1Aw Jeez, we're grabbing all sorts of third rails on this one. We're doing a multi-parter on an episode of Rick and morty, some might say THE episode of Rick and Morty, and we're talking aesthetics, AND we're going to try to figure out why T.S. Eliot thinks art can't improve and what he means by that and is he right or is he proven wrong by Ricklantis being possibly the best episode of television ever made. Come home to the simple flavor of enraging all your listeners. Come home to Philosophers in Space. Tradition and...2019-03-2041 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G48: Groundhog Day and Buddhist Virtue TheoryRise and shine, philosonaughts, and don't forget your space suit, cause it's voidy outside! We're stretching the concept of sci-fi to the brink by doing Groundhog Day and discussing how it's the perfect parable for the Buddhist version of virtue theory that Aaron finds so very tempting. Rise and shine, spacebrains, and don't forget your space vats, cause it's voidy outside! We're pushing the concept of sci-fi to the brink by doing Groundhog Day and discussing how it's the perfect parable for the Buddhist version of virtue theory that Aaron finds so very tempting. Rise...2019-03-1338 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G26: Pickle Rick and Toxic Fandom, Part 1Wub a lub a dub dub and other overused catchphrases! What up my squanches? This week we dive into the beating heart of Rick and Morty fandom. We're talking Pickle Rick, arguably the best episode in the best season of one of the best shows in any possible universe. We talk about the whole arc of the show and why some fans who identify strongly with Rick have trouble keeping up with the character's personal growth, to the detriment of everyone who wants to enjoy Rick and Morty. Aw Geeze Next week we're looking at Galaxy Quest...2018-10-1039 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In Space0G22: Gattaca and Genetic DeterminismOur first ever patron selected episode topic, and suspiciously Thomas's favorite. I'm sure that has nothing to do with it winning the tie vote over Aaron's choice, Minority Report. Kidding! We love all our topics equally. This is a really fun one and we cover several important ethical and philosophical issues relating to genetic programming. Also, we're happy to announce the winners of our book raffle: Robert Kristin Devyn Lennex Thank y'all so much for supporting the show! Paper on Gattaca and Erasure: http://www.davidakirby.com/23.1...2018-09-1242 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In SpaceOG21: DS9 Dax and Queer PersonhoodI have seized the means of pod production and installed Callie Wright as our new leader. Long live Callie Wright! Thomas had a thing this week, so Callie and I recorded on the Deep Space Nine episode "Dax" (ep1.7 or 1.8 depending on service). We talk about queer theory and Star Trek, as well as persistence of personhood after radical changes in personality. And there should actually be new intro quotes this week unlike the lies I told last week that no one read anyway. And! Next week we're doing Gattaca and genetic inequality. Also, we're...2018-09-0536 minPhilosophers In SpacePhilosophers In SpaceOG17: Dune Part Two, Kwisatz Haderach and Self-PerfectionThe time for exposition is over! The one who can be in many places at once has finally arrived, metaphorically. Learn all about Aaron's crackpot theory for how to be the Kwisatz Haderach that you want to see in the world. More useful material on Virtue Theory: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-ethics/#VirDefConInc  Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G  Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/  Emai...2018-08-0836 min