Stephen West

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🇺🇸 Seattle, King County, Washington, United States

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Philosophize This! #245, “The Rival Moral Approaches of the Modern World - Alasdair Macintyre”
2026
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Philosophize This! #244, “After Virtue - Alasdair Macintyre (Why Moral Conversations Feel Unsatisfying)”
2026
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Philosophize This! #243, “Hamlet - William Shakespeare”
2025
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Philosophize This! #242, “Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare”
2025
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Philosophize This! #241, “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare”
2025
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Lives Well Lived, Series 3, #11, “Transformation Through Philosophy”
Peter Singer, Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek & Stephen West
2025
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Philosophize This! #240, “Varieties of Religion Today (Charles Taylor)”
2025
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Philosophize This! #239, “Authenticity and the History of the Self. (Charles Taylor)”
2025
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Philosophize This! #238, “Frankenstein - Mary Shelley”
2025
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Philosophize This! #237, “The Stoics Are Wrong - Nietzsche, Schopenhauer”
2025
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Philosophize This! #236, “Meditations - Marcus Aurelius”
2025
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Philosophize This! #235, “The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism - Byung Chul Han”
2025
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Philosophize This! #234, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera”
2025
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Philosophize This! #233, “A philosophy of self-destruction. (Dostoevsky, Bataille)”
2025
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Philosophize This! #232, “Byung Chul Han - The Crisis of Narration”
2025
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Philosophize This! #231, “The Late Work of Wittgenstein - Language Games”
2025
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Philosophize This! #230, “Hope as an Existentialism (Ernst Bloch)”
2025
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Philosophize This! #229, “Kafka and Totalitarianism (Arendt, Adorno)”
2025
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Philosophize This! #228, “Albert Camus - Kafka and the Fall”
2025
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Philosophize This! #227, “Albert Camus - On Exile”
2025
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Philosophize This! #226, “Albert Camus - The Rebel”
2025
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Philosophize This! #225, “Albert Camus - The Plague”
2025
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Philosophize This! #224, “Albert Camus - The Stranger”
2025
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Philosophize This! #223, “Kyoto School, Part 3: Religion and the Duck-Rabbit”
2025
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Philosophize This! #222, “Dostoevsky - Love in the Brothers Karamazov”
2025
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Philosophize This! #221, “Dostoevsky - The Idiot”
2025
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Philosophize This! #220, “Dostoevsky - Demons”
2025
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Philosophize This! #219, “Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment”
2024
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Philosophize This! #218, “Dostoevsky - Notes From Underground”
2024
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Philosophize This! #217, “Religion and Nothingness - Kyoto School, Part 2 - Nishitani”
2024
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Philosophize This! #216, “The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism - Kyoto School, Part 1 - Nishitani”
2024
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Philosophize This! #215, “How Mysticism Is Missing in Our Modern Lives. (Critchley, Heidegger)”
2024
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Philosophize This! #214, “Framing Our Being in a Completely Different Way. (Heidegger)”
2024
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Philosophize This! #213, “Deleuze Interprets Nietzsche (Difference, Joy, Affirmation)”
2024
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Philosophize This! #212, “Nietzsche and Critchley on the Tragic Perspective. (Amor Fati, Part 2)”
2024
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Philosophize This! #211, “Nietzsche Returns With a Hammer!”
2024
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Philosophize This! #210, “The Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paulo Freire, Education)”
2024
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Philosophize This! #209, “Improving Our World Through Applied Ethics. (Peter Singer, Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek)”
2024
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Philosophize This! #208, “The Moral Evolution of a Philosopher. (Peter Singer)”
2024
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Philosophize This! #207, “Fear Is Toxic to a Democracy. (Martha Nussbaum)”
2024
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Philosophize This! #206, “Capitalism Is Dead. This Is Technofeudalism. (Yanis Varoufakis)”
2024
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Philosophize This! #205, “Why a Meritocracy Is Corrosive to Society. (Michael Sandel)”
2024
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Philosophize This! #204, “The Importance of Philosophy, Justice and the Common Good. (Michael Sandel)”
2024
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Philosophize This! #203, “Why the Future Is Being Slowly Cancelled. - Postmodernism (Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism)”
2024
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Philosophize This! #202, “Why We Can't Think Beyond Capitalism. - Neoliberalism (Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism)”
2024
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Within Reason #70, “A Beginner's Guide to Philosophy”
Alex O'Connor with Philosophize This!
2024
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Philosophize This! #201, “Resistance, Love, and the Importance of Failure. (Zizek, Byung Chul Han)”
2024
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Philosophize This! #200, “The Postmodern Subject and "Ideology Without Ideology" (Zizek, Byung Chul Han, Marx)”
2024
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Philosophize This! #199, “A Conservative Communist's Take on Global Capitalism and Desire. (Zizek, Marx, Lacan)”
2024
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Philosophize This! #198, “The Truth Is in the Process. - Zizek Pt. 3 (Ideology, Dialectics)”
2024
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Philosophize This! #197, “New Atheists and Cosmic Purpose Without God (Zizek, Goff, Nagel)”
2024
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Philosophize This! #196, “The Improbable Slavoj Zizek, Part 1”
2024
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Philosophize This! #195, “Could Anarcho-Capitalism Be the Solution to Our Problems? Anarchism Part 4 (Rothbard, Friedman, Malice)”
2024
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Philosophize This! #194, “Do We Really Need the Police? Anarchism Part 3 (Gelderloos, Security)”
2024
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Philosophize This! #193, “The Chief Export of the Western World Is Trash. Anarchism Part 2 (Bookchin, Social Ecology)”
2024
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Philosophize This! #192, “Should We Overthrow the Government Tomorrow? Anarchism Part 1 (Chomsky, Malatesta)”
2023
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Philosophize This! #191, “The Modern Day Concentration Camp and the Failure of Human Rights. (Giorgio Agamben)”
2023
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Philosophize This! #190, “Are Emotions a Waste of Time? Neo-Stoicism (Martha Nussbaum)”
2023
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Philosophize This! #189, “Everything That Connects Us Is Slowly Disappearing. Byung Chul Han Part 2”
2023
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Philosophize This! #188, “Achievement Society and the Rise of Narcissism, Depression and Anxiety - Byung-Chul Han”
2023
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Philosophize This! #187, “How Much Freedom Would You Trade for Security? (Foucault, Hobbes, Mill, Agamben)”
2023
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Philosophize This! #186, “Are We Heading for a Digital Prison? Panopticon (Foucault, Bentham, Cave)”
2023
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Philosophize This! #185, “Should We Prepare for an AI Revolution?”
2023
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Philosophize This! #184, “Is Artificial Intelligence Really an Existential Risk?”
2023
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Philosophize This! #183, “Is ChatGPT Really Intelligent?”
2023
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Philosophize This! #182, “What If Free Will Is an Illusion?”
2023
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Philosophize This! #181, “What If Consciousness Is an Illusion?”
2023
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Philosophize This! #180, “What If Everything Is Consciousness? Phillip Goff on Panpsychism”
2023
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Philosophize This! #179, “Why Is Consciousness Something Worth Talking About?”
2023
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Philosophize This! #178, “Susan Sontag - How Much Is Your View of Everything Affected by Metaphors?”
2023
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Philosophize This! #177, “Susan Sontag - Do You Speak the Language of Pictures and Videos?”
2023
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Philosophize This! #176, “Susan Sontag - Do You Criticize Yourself the Way You Criticize a Movie?”
2023
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Philosophize This! #174, “Simone Weil - The Mathematician”
2023
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Philosophize This! #175, “Simone Weil - Vessels of God”
2023
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Philosophize This! #173, “Simone Weil - The Need for Roots”
2023
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Philosophize This! #172, “Simone Weil - Attention”
2022
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Philosophize This! #171, “Guy Debord - The Society of the Spectacle”
2022
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Philosophize This! #170, “Albert Camus - The Fall”
2022
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Philosophize This! #169, “Bruno Latour - We Have Never Been Modern”
2022
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Philosophize This! #168, “Introduction to an Ethics of Care”
2022
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Philosophize This! #167, “Jose Ortega - Revolt of the Masses”
2022
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Philosophize This! #166, “Jose Ortega - Circumstance”
2022
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Philosophize This! #165, “Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature and Other Things”
2022
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Philosophize This! #164, “Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self Reliance”
2022
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Philosophize This! #163, “The Creation of Meaning - Escape From Evil”
2022
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Philosophize This! #162, “The Creation of Meaning - The Denial of Death”
2022
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Philosophize This! #161, “Karl Popper - The Open Society and Its Enemies”
2022
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Philosophize This! #160, “The Creation of Meaning - Kierkegaard - Silence, Obedience and Joy”
2022
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Philosophize This! #159, “The Creation of Meaning - Nietzsche - Amor Fati”
2021
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Philosophize This! #158, “The Creation of Meaning - Nietzsche - The Ascetic Ideal”
2021
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Philosophize This! #157, “The Creation of Meaning: Beauvoir”
2021
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Philosophize This! #156, “Emil Cioran, Part 2 - Failure and Suicide”
2021
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Philosophize This! #155, “Emil Cioran - Absurdity and Nothingness”
2021
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Philosophize This! #154, “Pragmatism and Truth”
2021
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Philosophize This! #153, “The Frankfurt School: Walter Benjamin, Part 2: Distraction”
2021
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Philosophize This! #152, “The Frankfurt School: Walter Benjamin, Part 1”
2021
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Philosophize This! #151, “The Frankfurt School: Erich Fromm on Freedom”
2021
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Philosophize This! #150, “The Frankfurt School: Erich Fromm on Love”
2021
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Philosophize This! #149, “On Media, Part 2: Marshall McLuhan”
2021
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Philosophize This! #148, “On Media, Part 1: Manufacturing Consent”
2020
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Philosophize This! #147, "Being and Becoming”
2020
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Philosophize This! #146, “Bergson on Laughter, Part 2: Vitalism”
2020
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Philosophize This! #145, “Bergson on Laughter, Part 1: History”
2020
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Philosophize This! #144, "Max Weber: Iron Cage”
2020
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Philosophize This! #143, “Jürgen Habermas, Part 1: The Public Sphere”
2020
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Philosophize This! #142, “Richard Rorty”
2020
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Philosophize This! #141, “Isaiah Berlin, Part 2: Pluralism and Culture”
2020
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Philosophize This! #140, "Isaiah Berlin, Part 1: Pluralism”
2020
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Philosophize This! #139, “Friedrich Von Hayek - The Road to Serfdom”
2020
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Philosophize This! #138, “Robert Nozick - The Minimal State”
2020
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Philosophize This! #137, “John Rawls - A Theory of Justice”
2019
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Philosophize This! #136, “Hannah Arendt - The Banality of Evil”
2019
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Philosophize This! #135, "Leo Strauss: Ancients Vs. Moderns"
2019
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Philosophize This! #134, “Consequences of Reason”
2019
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Philosophize This! #132, “Carl Schmitt on Liberalism, Part 1”
2019
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Philosophize This! #133, “Carl Schmitt on Liberalism, Part 2”
2019
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Philosophize This! #131, “Gramsci: Cultural Hegemony”
2019
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Philosophize This! #130, “Dewey and Lippman on Democracy”
2019
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Philosophize This! #128, “Gilles Deleuze, Part 4: Flows”
2019
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Philosophize This! #129, “Gilles Deleuze, Part 5: Difference”
2019
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Philosophize This! #127, “Gilles Deleuze, Part 3: Anti-Oedipus”
2019
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Philosophize This! #126, “Gilles Deleuze, Part 2: Immanence”
2018
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Philosophize This! #125, “Gilles Deleuze, Part 2: What is Philosophy?”
2018
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Philosophize This! #124, “Simulacra and Simulation”
2018
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Philosophize This! #122, “Michel Foucault, Part 2: The Order of Things”
2018
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Philosophize This! #123, “Michel Foucault, Part 3: Power”
2018
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Philosophize This! #121, “Michel Foucault, Part 1”
2018
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Philosophize This! #120, “Logical Positivism”
2018
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Philosophize This! #119, “Derrida and Words”
2018
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Philosophize This! #118, “A Basic Look At Postmodernism”
2018
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Philosophize This! #116, “Structuralism and Mythology, Part 1”
2018
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Philosophize This! #117, “Structuralism and Mythology, Part 2”
2018
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Philosophize This! #115, “Structuralism and Context”
2018
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Philosophize This! #114, “The Frankfurt School, Part 7: The Great Refusal”
2017
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Philosophize This! #113, “The Frankfurt School, Part 6: Art As A Tool For Liberation”
2017
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Philosophize This! #112, “The Frankfurt School, Part 5: Civilization”
2017
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Philosophize This! #111, “The Frankfurt School, Part 4: Eros”
2017
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Philosophize This! #110, “The Frankfurt School, Part 3: The Culture Industry”
2017
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Philosophize This! #109, “The Frankfurt School, Part 2: The Enlightenment”
2017
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Philosophize This! #108, “The Frankfurt School, Part 1: Introduction”
2017
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Philosophize This! #107, “Simone De Beauvoir, Part 3: Responsibility”
2017
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Philosophize This! #106, “Simone De Beauvoir, Part 2: The Ethics of Ambiguity”
2017
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Philosophize This! #105, “Sartre and Camus, Part 6: The Self”
2017
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Philosophize This! #104, “Sartre and Camus, Part 5: Consciousness is Freedom”
2017
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Philosophize This! #103, “Sartre and Camus, Part 4: The Quest For Certainty”
2017
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Philosophize This! #102, “Heidegger, Part 3: Authenticity”
2017
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Philosophize This! #101, “Heidegger, Part 2: Science and Technology”
2017
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Philosophize This! #100, “Heidegger, Part 1: Phenomenology and Dasein”
2017
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Philosophize This! #99, “Schopenhauer, Part 2: Ethics”
2017
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Philosophize This! #98, “Schopenhauer, Part 1: Metaphysics and Love”
2017
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Philosophize This! #97, “Wittgenstein. Part 1”
2017
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Philosophize This! #96, “Is Ayn Rand A Philosopher?”
2017
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Philosophize This! #95, “Are You Living in a Simulation?”
2016
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Philosophize This! #94, “A Look at Suffering”
2016
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Philosophize This! #93, “Nietzsche, Part 4: Love”
2016
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Philosophize This! #92, “Nietzsche, Part 3: Thus Spoke Zarathustra”
2016
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Philosophize This! #91, “Nietzsche, Part 2: The Will to Power”
2016
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Philosophize This! #90, “Nietzsche, Part 1: God Is Dead and So Is Captain Morgan”
2016
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Philosophize This! #89, “Simone De Beauvoir: The Second Sex”
2016
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Philosophize This! #88, “Sartre and Camus, Part 3: The Great Debate”
2016
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Philosophize This! #87, “Sartre and Camus, Part 2”
2016
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Philosophize This! #86, “Sartre and Camus, Part 1: Freedom”
2016
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Philosophize This! #85, “Peter Singer on Effective Altruism”
2016
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Philosophize This! #84, “William James on Truth”
2016
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Philosophize This! #83, “Henry David Thoreau”
2016
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Philosophize This! #82, “Austrians and Marx”
2016
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Philosophize This! #81, “Capitalism vs. Communism”
2016
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Philosophize This! #80, "Feuerbach on Religion”
2016
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Philosophize This! #79, “Kierkegaard on Anxiety”
2016
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Philosophize This! #78, “Marx and Kierkegaard on Religion, Part 2”
2016
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Philosophize This! #77, “Marx and Kierkegaard on Religion, Part 1”
2016
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Philosophize This! #76, “Hegel's God”
2015
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Philosophize This! #75, “How to Win an Argument, Part 2”
2015
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Philosophize This! #74, “Hegel Returns”
2015
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Philosophize This! #73, “How To Win An Argument, Part 1”
2015
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Philosophize This! #72, “Insecurity”
2015
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Philosophize This! #71, “Is Killing Animals For Food Morally Justifiable?”
2015
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Philosophize This! #70, “Off Moodiness”
2015
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Philosophize This! #69, “An Appeal to Reason”
2015
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Philosophize This! #68, “On Moodiness”
2015
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Philosophize This! #67, “What Hegel Was Saying!”
2015
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Philosophize This! #66, “Hegel, Part 1: Introduction”
2015
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Philosophize This! #65, "Mary Wollstonecraft”
2015
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Philosophize This! #64, “Interpreting Interpretations”
2015
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Philosophize This! #63, “Kant, Part 8: Limits of Knowledge”
2015
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Philosophize This! #62, “Kant, Part 7: Suicide”
2015
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Philosophize This! #61, “Kant, Part 6: What is Enlightenment?”
2015
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Philosophize This! #60, “Kant, Part 5: The Sublime”
2015
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Philosophize This! #59, “Kant, Part 4: Categorical Trolley Cars”
2015
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Philosophize This! #58, “Kant, Part 3: Deontology vs Consequentialism”
2015
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Philosophize This! #57, “Kant, Part 2: The Actual Introduction”
2015
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Philosophize This! #56, “Kant, Part 1: An Introduction to the Introduction”
2015
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Philosophize This! #55, “Interview on Hume with Massimo Pigliucci”
Stephen West with Massimo Pigliucci
2015
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Philosophize This! #54, “David Hume, Part 4: Art”
2015
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Philosophize This! #53, “David Hume, Part 3: Custom”
2015
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Philosophize This! #52, “David Hume, Part 2: Design”
2015
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Philosophize This! #51, “David Hume, Part 1”
2015
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Philosophize This! #50, “Are You Left or Right?”
2015
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Philosophize This! #49, “Adam Smith, Part 2 - The Tip of the Iceberg of Wealth”
2015
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Philosophize This! #48, “Adam Smith, Part 1 - Specialization”
2015
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Philosophize This! #47, “Rousseau, Part 3 - The General Will”
2015
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Philosophize This! #46, “Rousseau, Part 2 - Democracy, Aristocracy or Monarchy?”
2015
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Philosophize This! #45, “Rousseau, Part 1 - Government”
2014
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Philosophize This! #44, “Slavery”
2014
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Philosophize This! #43, “Tolerance”
2014
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Philosophize This! #42, “Optimism”
2014
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Philosophize This! #41, “Belief”
2014
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Philosophize This! #40, “Superstition”
2014
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Philosophize This! #39, “The Limits of Empiricism”
2014
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Philosophize This! #38, “Leibniz, Part 2 - The Best of All Possible Worlds”
2014
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Philosophize This! #37, “Leibniz, Part 1 - A Million Points of Light”
2014
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Philosophize This! #36, “John Locke, Part 2 - The Blank Slate”
2014
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Philosophize This! #35, “John Locke, Part 1”
2014
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Philosophize This! #34, “Spinoza, Part 2 - Force of Nature”
2014
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Philosophize This! #33, “Spinoza, Part 1 - From Baruch to Benedicto”
2014
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Philosophize This! #32, “Blaise Pascal, Part 2 - +EV Your Way to Success!!”
2014
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Philosophize This! #31, “Pascal's Wager”
2014
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Philosophize This! #30, “Descartes, Part 3 - God Exists”
2014
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Philosophize This! #29, “Descartes, Part 2”
2014
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Philosophize This! #28, “Rene Descartes, Part 1 - Context”
2014
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Philosophize This! #27, “Thomas Hobbes, Part 2”
2014
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Philosophize This! #26, “Thomas Hobbes, Part 1 - The Social Contract”
2014
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Philosophize This! #25, “A Scientific Method for Your Life!”
2014
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Philosophize This! #24, “Montaigne”
2014
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Philosophize This! #23, “Machiavelli”
2014
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Philosophize This! #22, “Blast Off to the Renaissance!”
2014
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Philosophize This! #21, “One God - St. Thomas Aquinas”
2014
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Philosophize This! #20, “Two Medieval Approaches to God”
2014
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Philosophize This! #19, “Three Islamic Truths”
2014
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Philosophize This! #18, “Avicenna”
2014
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Philosophize This! #17, “Boethius”
2014
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Philosophize This! #16, “Saint Augustine”
2014
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Philosophize This! #15, “A Period of Transition - Plotinus”
2014
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Philosophize This! #14, “The Hellenistic Age, Part 5 - A Race to the Dark Ages”
2014
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Philosophize This! #13, “The Hellenistic Age, Part 4 - Skepticism”
2014
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Philosophize This! #12, “The Hellenistic Age, Part 3 - Hallmarks of Stoic Ethics”
2013
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Philosophize This! #11, “The Hellenistic Age, Part 2 - The Early Stoa and the Cynics”
2013
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Philosophize This! #10, “The Hellenistic Age, Part 1 - Epicurus”
2013
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Philosophize This! #9, “The Buddha”
2013
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Philosophize This! #8, “Confucianism”
2013
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Philosophize This! #7, “Daoism”
2013
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Philosophize This! #6, “Aristotle, Part 2”
2013
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Philosophize This! #5, “Aristotle, Part 1”
2013
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Philosophize This! #4, “Plato”
2013
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Philosophize This! #3, “Socrates and the Sophists”
2013
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Philosophize This! #2, “Presocratic Philosophy - Italian”
2013
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Philosophize This! #1, “Presocratic Philosophy - Ionian”
2013