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PEL Nightcap Mid October 2021

October 17, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

In the aftermath of Aristotle, Seth (who did the reading but missed the discussion) gives his impressions, and we look over the wide and strange range of texts attributed to Aristotle. We look forward to philosophy of science and more Aristotle (and Badiou) and think about our next potential celebrity philosopher and circle around yet again how many modern vs. historical  Continue Reading …

PEL Nightcap Late September 2021

September 19, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer 3 Comments

Recorded 9/2/21. We talk about drugs: psychedelic experiences, microdosing, CBD, plus the drug of reading fiction (literary vs. popular). Then we talk about Alien (that Wes just recorded on for subText). Mackie on moral error theory. We anticipate our Aristotle's Categories episode. Plus vaccination and sorryantivaxxer.com.  Continue Reading …

PEL Nightcap Early September 2021

September 6, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer 2 Comments

Recorded 8/16/21. Seth thinks about how to continue reading Hegel and some initial political ranting about Texas and gerrymandering ensues. We think about what to read in aesthetics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of sport. (Update: the sport episode is not happening soon.) For the main event, we try to see what we can remember about the philosophy of emotions.  Continue Reading …

PEL Nightcap Late August 2021

August 22, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Recorded 8/6/21. Mark and Wes hear about Dylan's tick-encounter, discuss whether Wes can break his Hegel habit when we're done ready this, and whether we should have Robert Brandom come on the podcast. Update: I have reached out for him, but he did not reply. A listener reminds you all that Mark writes helpful summaries for each of the episodes on the website, so maybe you  Continue Reading …

PEL Nightcap Late May 2021

May 31, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer 2 Comments

Recorded on 5/14/21. We anticipate our German idealism discussions, starting with a two-session run on Fichte's The Vocation of Man. Here's the Stanford article if you want a Fichte overview. Then we talk Apocalypse Now. Wes' (sub)Text podcast recorded on this, presumably right after their most recent release, the book on which it was based. We talk about the appeal of  Continue Reading …

PEL Nightcap Mid May 2021

May 17, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer 6 Comments

Recorded on 4/27/21. Seth is late, causing us to question Slack as a mode of communication a la Postman and Nightcap as a worthwhile creation. But then we go ahead and have a pretty darn interesting conversation that started with audio books, went through improv comedy, and then thought about how improv techniques could apply to doing philosophy. Finally Seth grouses about  Continue Reading …

PEL Nightcap Early May 2021

May 2, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer 2 Comments

Recorded on April 16 after our Neil Postman discussion. We start by talking about discussion options on our sites (read Jason's post that prompted this). Discord will be coming for all Citizens (when we get to it)! We then reflect on (half of us) having read Avicenna and whether we're ever going to finish even a minimal treatment of the Middle Ages (we will!). Should we  Continue Reading …

PEL Nightcap Late April 2021

April 18, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer 20 Comments

Recorded on March 30, after Avicenna but not at all reflecting back on that. Dylan starts us by telling us about Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal by Mark Bittman, which turns to all of our attitudes toward nutrition and dieting. Seth covers is kale shard with a side of cigar. Then a question from Seth for the group: How do our  Continue Reading …

PEL Nightcap Early April 2021

April 4, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer 21 Comments

Recorded on March 16, after recording on Jonathan Lear. We start off with some genetic testing talk, then chat about the kinds of comments we receive and what we can and can't reasonably respond to. This leads to some recounting of our various engagement attempts over the years and what we might we willing to do in terms of seminars or course offerings, so long as we can  Continue Reading …

PEL Nightcap Late March 2021

March 22, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer 4 Comments

Recorded on March 2, after Phaedo and before our upcoming episode on Jonathan Lear. You might want to get ahold of his book Open Minded: Working Out the Logic of the Soul. We read chapters 1, 10, 7, and 4, in that order; they all concern Plato. Dylan tells us about Wim Hof, and then we talk about death! No, that argument that we shouldn't fear death because either a) it's  Continue Reading …

PEL Nightcap Early March 2021

March 7, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer 3 Comments

Recorded on Feb. 21 after our Timaeus discussion, we start with Seth's tales of Austin with no power, which is why he missed that discussion. Dylan was traveling in the northwest and was also affected. But this is not just all about the weather. We fill Seth in on what he missed and look forward to the Phaedo, and later, Avicenna with Peter Adamson, and we're looking at  Continue Reading …

PEL Nightcap Late February 2021

February 21, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer 6 Comments

Recorded on Feb. 5 after the Lise Van Boxel discussion, we engage in some focused post-gaming on that: How did people like PEL covering a secondary source in this way? How did you like our having two guests; was it just as good as having the four of us on? We also consider a potential future episode on Alain Badiou, who's been often requested. Should we invite a scholar  Continue Reading …

PEL Nightcap Early February 2021

February 8, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer 3 Comments

Recorded on Jan. 28, we first consider the question "what are the dumbest ideas in philosophy?" The particular Philosophers' Zone episode that our questioner pointed us to was this one on "The Worst Argument in the World." We consider again the Angela Davis episode idea as a way of getting into a discussion of our coverage or inclusion of controversial or even criminal  Continue Reading …

PEL Nightcap Late January 2021

January 24, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

Recorded on Jan. 14, we give some off-the-cuff updates to our take on the pandemic (see ep. 241), including our coping strategies. Also, an update on the PEL book (which you will not see soon), and relatedly, should we do an Angela Davis (Are Prisons Obsolete?) episode for black history month? (Looks like this is not going to happen, but probably later.) Finally, our transcript  Continue Reading …

PEL Nightcap Early January 2021

January 4, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer 4 Comments

Recorded on Dec. 22, 2020 after our final Locke recording, this is our extra-long year-end edition. Granted, a lot of what we ALWAYS do in Nightcap is talk about what we might want to read in the future, and we really don't plan specifically more than a few episodes ahead, but here we lay out at least how we're feeling right now about how things might go in the coming year:  Continue Reading …

PEL Nightcap Mid December 2020: New Intro to ep. 37 Locke on Political Power (Citizens Only)

December 14, 2020 by Mark Linsenmayer 2 Comments

Recorded on Nov. 30 after Locke II, we try a new format for this Nightcap: Relevantly to our current series on Locke, we re-listened to our first visit with the learned gentleman back in 2011: Ep. 37 on his Second Treatise on Government (1690). Seth couldn't join us for this one, but that's OK, because he was on that original episode, whereas Wes and Dylan were not, so here  Continue Reading …

PEL Nightcap Late November 2020 (Citizens Only)

November 29, 2020 by Mark Linsenmayer 4 Comments

Recorded on Nov. 13 after our first Locke recording (so we're back in sync!), we talk a little more about Locke's overall purpose and use this to respond to listener criticisms about the "spin" of various episodes and whether we should have guests on just to make sure that de rigueur attitudes are reflected. Should we talk about politics? It looks like we'll have an  Continue Reading …

PEL Nightcap Mid November 2020 (Citizens Only)

November 16, 2020 by Mark Linsenmayer 2 Comments

Recorded on Oct. 22 (post Sun Tzu, pre Kropotkin), we start off with a possible new segment: Verbal Correctness Corner. What words are we using wrong, are we pronouncing them correctly, are we transliterating foreign names and words correctly? Mark is the only one who enjoys this segment, so maybe it'll be a one-time thing. We then move to email: Should you go to school for  Continue Reading …

PEL Nightcap Early November 2020 (Citizens Only)

November 1, 2020 by Mark Linsenmayer 2 Comments

Recorded on Oct. 7 as we were prepping for Sun Tzu, we talk about guest dynamics: How did things work with Sandel? How much should we let the author-guest talk? Should we keep them on for part two, or would that be insulting to them if part two is paywalled? If we were to do an episode on trans issues, who should we get as a guest? Contrapoints won't answer our emails, sorry.  Continue Reading …

PEL Nightcap Late October 2020 (Citizens Only)

October 19, 2020 by Mark Linsenmayer 3 Comments

Recorded on 9/22 within the week after our Leibniz recording. HEAR Dylan recount his real-life Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance experience. MARVEL at the listener-requested musings on why we left academia and whether we regret it. LAUGH at stories of Wes and Mark being TAs together. CRY when Seth has to drop off after 15 minutes. SYMPATHIZE with more PANDEMIC COPING.  Continue Reading …

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