Recorded 3/16, with a little genetic testing talk, then teaching/audience interaction things we have considered doing. We look forward to Avicenna and an Indian philosophy episode, consider Emily Dickenson, and talk more about our parameters re. what to cover in light of the fun we had with Lear, which was both a secondary source (bad) and basically a third Plato episode in a row (also bad).
Ep 140/141 Aftershow on Simone De Beauvoir’s “Ethics of Ambiguity” feat. Jennifer Hansen
Mark and Danny Lobell welcome St. Lawrence University’s Jennifer Hansen to follow up on our episodes 140 and 141. Was Beauvoir really a Kantian? Do we find her description for founding ethics persuasive? Featuring PEL listeners Luke, Alex, Tiffany, Brittany, and Ken. Recorded 6/26/16.
Ep 134/135 Aftershow on Hegel’s “Logic” feat. Chris Yeomans
Host Danny Lobell joins Mark to welcome Purdue’s Chris Yeomans for a discussion of our two episodes (starting with 134) on G.F.W.’s Science of Logic and Encyclopedia Logic. PEL listeners on the call include Alan Cook, Michael Burgess, Carey Hillman, and Preston Price.
Ep 130/131 Aftershow on Aristotle’s “De Anima” feat. Rebecca Goldner
Host Danny Lobell joins Wes to welcome St. John’s Annapolis tutor Rebecca Goldner to help folks understand Aristotle’s De Anima. Also featuring Michael Burgess, Nick Halme, Erik Weissengruber, Chase Fiorenza, and Scott Anderson. Recorded 1/31/16.
Ep 121/122 Aftershow on Augustine feat. James Wetzel
Haven’t had enough Augustine? Danny Lobell and Wes Alwan welcome Augustine scholar James Wetzel and PEL Citizens Terra Leigh Bell, Amogh Sahu, and Scott Anderson to discuss our Augustine episodes, covering humility, love, desire, grief, sex, misogyny, degrees of reality, and how love of God fits with relating to other people.
This was recorded today (9/6/15), and posted with minimal editing. Let us know if you want us to do more of these, or if enough Augustine is enough!
Ep 119 Aftershow: Nietzsche (Featuring Greg Sadler)
Seth Paskin and Danny Lobell were joined by Dr. Gregory B. Sadler, David Buchanan, Erik Weissengruber, Tom Kirdas, Ken Presting, and Bill Coe. Recorded July 26, 2015.
Ep 118 Aftershow: Songwriting (Featuring Ex-Camper Chris Molla)
To follow up on our ep. 118, we scored our third (former) member of Camper van Beethoven, plus Warren Fischer from Fischerspooner, singer/songwriter Chase Fiorenza, rapper/electronicker Maxx Bartko, tech guy and anarchist musician Michael Patrick Wilson, classical musician Adrian Cho, plus your hosts Danny Lobell and Mark Linsenmayer. Recorded 7/12/15.
Ep 117 Aftershow: Antigone
Featuring Danny Lobell, Wes Alwan, David Buchanan, Daniel Cole, Erik Weissengruber, Frank Marcopolos, and Terra Leigh Bell. We talked a little about how to distinguish acting on principle from acting out of personal pride (and whether these can be distinguished); whether Creon is just drunk with power or believes he’s doing the right thing; and about a whole host of other marginally related things, including race and Rachel Dolezal.
Recorded 6/25/15.
Ep 116 Aftershow: Freud and Dream Interpretation
Featuring Danny Lobell, Wes Alwan, Bjorn Dahlby, Ken Presting, Chase Fiorenza, Michael deCamp, Terra Leigh Bell, and Sam Baguley. Recorded June 7, 2015. Our discussion focused less on dreams than on Freud and everything else we happened to want to talk about, from psychedelic drugs to the female lioness’ “ambivalence” about mating.
Ep 115 Aftershow: Schopenhauer and Music
Featuring Danny Lobell, Mark Linsenmayer, Jonathan Segel, Dave Buchanan, David Prentiss, Kevin Peffley, Kevin Middleton, Anthony Durity, Todd Costa, and Sebastian Roll. Recorded May 18, 2015,
Ep 114 Aftershow: Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics
Featuring new host Danny Lobell, Seth Paskin, and Tara Leigh Bell. Recorded May 3, 2015.
Ep 113 Aftershow: Jesus’s Parables
Featuring Michael Burgess, Ken Presting, Nik Burlew, and a tired Mark Linsenmayer. Recorded April 20, 2015.
Ep 112 Aftershow: Paul Ricoeur
Featuring Stephen West, Wes Alwan, Michael Burgess, Law Ware, Daniel Cole, and Ken Presting. Recorded March 22, 2015.
Ep 111 Aftershow: Gadamer’s Hermeneutics
Featuring Stephen West, Seth Paskin, Michael Burgess, Erik Weissengruber, Amogha Sahu, Everett Reed, Peter Forbes, and Cezary. Recorded March 8, 2015.
Featuring a vigorous discussion of what “interpretation” amounts to for Gadamer that spent quite a bit of time on art, going into areas that we did not on the podcast.
Ep 110 Aftershow: Whitehead on Nature
Featuring Stephen West of the Philosophize This! podcast, Dylan Casey, David Buchanan, and (eventually) Amogha Sahu. Recorded February 15, 2015.
Ep 109 Aftershow: Karl Jaspers
Our first Aftershow! Host Stephen West of the the Philosophize This! podcast is joined by Mark Linsenmayer, Alan Cook, Nick Halme, Kam Gill, Amogh Sahu, and Aaron Watson. Recorded January 25, 2015.