Ep. 365: Scheler on Love (Part Two)

Continuing on Consciousness Explained (Ch. 5, 12). We talk about appearance vs. judgment and whether Dennett's denial of this distinction makes sense or just holds for very short time-scales, as in the phi-phenomenon experiment. Does the rejection of appearances and rejection of ...  Show more

Future co-host philosophy Jenny joins past co-host improviser Bill along with the usual Mark and Mary for some tag-team mud swimming, hot takes about The Odyssey, and discussion and play about Bill's return to school, Maslow's hierarchy, gamified syllabi, some math stuff, and aca ...  Show more

Today we look at the concept of love from several different angles in an attempt to better understand our own thoughts on love. Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/phil ...  Show more

How did love – this thing that's supposed to be beautiful, magical, transformative – turn into a neverending slog? We went searching for answers, and we found them in surprising places. On today's show: a time-hopping, philosophical journey into the origins of modern love. (This ...  Show more

this week, i have a veryyy in-depth, insightful and (painfully) honest conversation with Lave Gallo, about the pleasures and sorrows of romantic love. we talk about the inherent incompatibilities between cis-het men and women. we talk about the tension between desire and stabi ...

in this episode, we talk about modern love and all the ways it intersects with politics. we explore the age-old question "is love political?" we talk about all the things that sustain love, as well as the things that undermine it. we differentiate between healthy love and unhe ...