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Mark, Wes, Seth, Dylan, and our guest book editor Chris Sunami reflect on a decade and a half doing this podcast and the making of our new book, which you should order exactly on its release date of Thursday, April 25, so we can all drive it up the bestseller list.
The book is a fine way to revisit some classic episodes in a fresh form, and brings together our various celebrity contacts, big-time philosopher author-guests, and treatments of canonically central and marginalized philosophers. Chris’ editor voice is not subtle: He inserts himself as a post-hoc participant to move the dialogue between topics. There are also some supporting essays and lots of great graphics.
Do you remember the three rules for PEL discussion? Do we? Why don’t we actually create transcripts for all our episodes? Can there be a PEL card game? What other ambitions do we have?
If you want to hear some perhaps purer retrospection, minus the book infomercial aspect, check out our 5-year and 10-year episodes of this sort.
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Congrats on another milestone anniversary!
And, a thought:
after noticing the obituary for Daniel Dennett who died just recently, I was wondering aboit other philosophers ( in contrast to text-focusing) whose contemporary impact crossed categories to such a significant effect
Congrats on the book release! Having heard many different podcasts in many fields, I really think there’s something special about PEL. You pitch yourselves as the ‘conversation at the pub after seminar’, but honestly most of the episodes are more productive than most academic seminars I’ve been to. I hope you’re planning on sending out an email reminder that the book launched today!
Thank you! Yes an email reminder is a good idea.
Congratulations guys!
I think the observation that prog rock was just a lame version of fusion rock misses the point that prog was another rock (no pun intended) that Sisphyus had to roll up the hill. Prog picked up fusion and took it to another place – so genius in same way the various philosophers picked up previous works and did something radical to them. It’s hard to call Close to the Edge lame even if you don’t like it.
I’m not sure I recall us saying that in this discussion, but I am a prog fan and not a fusion fan…
Wow, it looks like the paperback version is #1 in Western Philosophy on Amazon and the hardback is #6! Plus, all ratings are five stars! Congratulations guys!!