Welcome to Philosophers In Space, where the intrepid trekker captain Callie Wright and their questionable Chief Ethics Officer Aaron Rabinowitz explore the weird, gooey world of sci-fi, searching for tantalizing hypotheticals and gear-stripping questions in a space odyssey of meaning and amusement.
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True Stories of The Lives of Queer and Trans People
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Welcome friends, to a podcast for a darker timeline. Maybe the darkest of all timelines. Definitely not one of the good timelines. Maybe it’s always been a dark timeline, maybe the Hadron collider screwed us over. Science may never know. What we do know is that we live in the void. The void, a place where a chittering mass of void crabs can infest a person suit and win the presidency. The void, a place where we're just clever enough to know that climate change is happening, but not quite cle ...
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Omg, next set of listener Q and As is gonna get us to the big 40. Love you listeners! Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/ Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com If you have time, please write us a review…
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Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements with Joan Braune
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My guest this week is Joan Braune, a Lecturer in Philosophy at Gonzaga University. We discuss her recently published book Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements: From Void to Hope, which seems increasingly relevant by the day, so enjoy! Understanding and Countering Fascism: https://www.routledge.com/Understanding-and-Countering-Fascist-Move…
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My guest this week is Mark Green, a professional environmental activist and a member of the atheopagan society council. He’s the author of three books, most recently Round We Dance: Creating Meaning through Seasonal Rituals. We discuss the challenges and benefits with his approach to secular paganism. Round We Dance: https://www.amazon.com/Round-We…
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Yussssss! Y'all went hard on us this time that's what we's appreciates about you. Thanks so much for all the support! Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq Music by Thomas Smith: https://seriouspod.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy J…
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Spiderhead (2022) and Emotional Regulation
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If there's two words you'd associate with our show, I hope they would be spider and head. We're doing a 2/3rds excellent 1/3rd deeply flawed movie that hits a lot of our sweet spots but ultimately fails to get that final gold star. And we're talking about the nature of emotions and whether it would be better if we could control them, and also testi…
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My guest this week is Lance Bush, host of the Lance Independent YouTube channel. Lance has a PhD in psychology and an MA in philosophy, with a particular interest in metaethics and experimental philosophy, so you can guess what we're talking about. Enjoy! Lance Independent: https://www.lanceindependent.com/ Music by GW Rodriguez Editing by Adam Wik…
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One pod. One post. One shtick. One hole. One golden take on masculinity. (it's a kind of madness) One shaft shaped sword that shows the way. No moral man would want to play. (it's a kind of madness) That bs misogyny inside your mind. Is just patriarchy making you blind. (it's a kind of madness) Getting woke takes an eternity. With shit like Highlan…
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What is there to say about Men? A movie so pregnant with ideas it's practically bursting at the orifices with symbols coated in fresh nightmare fuel. Been sitting on this gem a long time and the bear vs. men discourse gave us the perfect context. So, get ready for the most us content ever as we discuss Schrodinger's rapist and social dominance orie…
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My guest this week is RJ, host of the youtube channel Absolute Optimist. We chatted a year ago about God in a never to be released recording and he reached out recently to let me know his views have changed on the subject. So I invited him on to talk about how and why his views have changed. Enjoy! Absolute Optimist: https://www.youtube.com/channel…
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Fallout and Laboratories of Democracy
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Welcome to the Void Vault, the best of all possible vaults! You're so lucky you were born into this vault, especially because you can't leave. But why would you, everything in this vault is totally fine, you are absolutely NOT a test subject for some undisclosed social psychology experiment, especially not an experiment involving the development of…
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Man Bear Discourse with Callie Wright
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My guest this week is Callie Wright, cohost of the Philosophers in Space podcast and the only person I want to be parsing bear discourse with. We discuss the recent dust up around the hypothetical "would you prefer to encounter a man or a bear in the woods". We discuss why people are having such different responses on the hypothetical and whether t…
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If you think about it, on the downsizing principles this is like a years worth of content, and two sentences is endless show notes. Or something, I dunno, the scaling doesn't really make any sense, much like the conceptual map surrounding altruism. Enjoy! Downsizing: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1389072/ Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtri…
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Once again, IT IS THE LEGEND! We return to the desert planet to train another faithful, and we're not stopping till we've made everyone super depressed again about the horrors of colonialism but also the horrors of de-colonialism. It's horrors all the way down folks! Enjoy, and stay tuned for Dune Messiah! Dune Two: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du…
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Dear listeners, there are few joys as wonderful as providing y'all with unknown little gems filled with quirky body horror and a deep commitment to the bit. This movie made my transhumanist orifices quiver with joy. Enjoy our discussion of the extremely mid concept that is "naturalness". The Pod Generation: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15768848/ Li…
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Street Epistemology with Anthony Magnabosco
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My guest this week is Anthony Magnabosco, co-founder of Street Epistemology International. Street Epistemology is an approach to difficult dialogue aimed at helping individuals better understand why they believe what they believe. Anthony and co recently released a website called Navigating Beliefs, an easy way to learn how to do Street Epistemolog…
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Listeners, have we got a story for you. Two Lovecraftian podcasters so far up their own allegorical asses they do a podcast about a movie about a podcaster doing a Lovecraft. It's meta all the way down folks, so naturally we're talking memetics and the ethics of content creation. Enjoy! Monolith: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolith_(2022_film) L…
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My guest this week is Gil Morejón, a historian of ideas currently teaching at Grenell college, one of the 4 amazing hosts of the What’s Left of Philosophy? Podcast. We discuss leftist takes on meritocracy, possible alternatives, and the differences between doing politics and ethics. Enjoy! What's Left of Philosophy: https://www.leftofphilosophy.com…
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We're keeping the theme going from Barbie with some weird mind connection gender stuff! We discuss the first two episodes of Sense8 and what they show us about the philosophy of TERFs, how that might be different from gender critical, and what the future is that TERFs seem to want. Enjoy! Sense8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense8 Listener Survey…
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Debating Moral Realism with Chris Kavanagh
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My guest this week is Chris Kavanagh, cohost of Decoding the Gurus and a cognitive anthropologist working at the psychology department at Rikkyo university in Japan. I have him on to discuss a recent episode of theirs about metaethics and debate the case for moral realism. Plus we talk about their recent free will episode in the VIP segment. Enjoy!…
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Is Barbie really a Barbie girl? And in what way is this really a Barbie world? How do we assess whether life in plastic really is fantastic, not to mention the questionable principles of consent inherent in the idea that you can undress her everywhere. Most importantly, is Barbie feminist, and if so, what kind of feminist? These earworm questions a…
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My guest this week is Megan Pike, director of Camp Omni, formerly Camp West. Megan is a lifetime educator and camp participant. We discuss Camp Omni's developing focus and how the camping world in general is adapting, as well as some pedagogical nerdery. Enjoy! Camp Omni: https://www.campomni.org/ Music by GW Rodriguez The Paradox of Secularism: ht…
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Children of Memory and Objective Personhood pt.1
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We're childish, we sorta have memories. What more do you need?! This book, you need this book. Holy birdbrains, a beautiful third installment in easily one of the best sci-fi series of all time. Meet our new friends the "uplifted" corvids and learn about the mystery of Imir as we learn about the mystery of personhood and why we're never gonna be do…
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The Secular Paradox with Joseph Blankholm
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My guest this week is Joseph Blankholm, a religious studies scholar and associate professor at UC Santa Barbara. We discuss his recent book The Secular Paradox, where he unpacks several internal conflicts facing secular community organizers. We get into the nature of religion, the secular mindset, and how movement secularism might be able to grow p…
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We diiiiiiid it! I knew we could do it. And y'all made it possible. So thanks again, and see you back in the abnormal show! Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq Music by Thomas Smith: https://seriouspod.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilos…
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You Q'd, we A'd. The pact is renewed for another cycle. May the void have mercy on all our nonexistent souls. Thanks for your sacrifice! Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq Music by Thomas Smith: https://seriouspod.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter…
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