Best Jack Symes | Andrew Horton Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 129, Talking about Existence (Part I - Out of Nothing) 1:03:10

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‘The clouds are grey, the sun obscured and you are walking through the countryside in the overcast of winter. Passing from field to woodland, the trees shed coats of frosty bark to celebrate the passing of another icy season. It feels too early for spring, but echoes of swallows in the canopies sing songs of new beginnings. You pause to catch a gli…

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Episode 128, ‘Domestic Labour’ with Paulina Sliwa & Tom McClelland (Part II - Further Analysis and Discussion) 32:53

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‘The kitchen needs cleaning, but only one of us seems to notice. I mean, he looked straight at the dishes in the sink…and just stacked his dish on top of them. How high does this precarious tower of crockery have to be until he decides to wash the dishes or, more likely, they collapse into an unrepairable heap? I suppose I’ll have to wash them. The…

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Episode 128, ‘Domestic Labour’ with Paulina Sliwa & Tom McClelland (Part I - Affordance Perception) 32:09

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‘The kitchen needs cleaning, but only one of us seems to notice. I mean, he looked straight at the dishes in the sink…and just stacked his dish on top of them. How high does this precarious tower of crockery have to be until he decides to wash the dishes or, more likely, they collapse into an unrepairable heap? I suppose I’ll have to wash them. The…

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Episode 127, ‘The Pursuit of Happiness’ with Jeffrey Rosen (Part II - Further Analysis and Discussion) 34:45

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Alongside life and liberty, the Declaration of Independence marked the pursuit of happiness as the foundation of American democracy. Yet, as the history of philosophy has taught us, understanding happiness is no easy task. Pursuing happiness as the cessation of desire, a feeling of perpetual pleasure, or as a state of human flourishing are very dif…

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Episode 127, ‘The Pursuit of Happiness’ with Jeffrey Rosen (Part I - The Founding Fathers) 36:37

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Alongside life and liberty, the Declaration of Independence marked the pursuit of happiness as the foundation of American democracy. Yet, as the history of philosophy has taught us, understanding happiness is no easy task. Pursuing happiness as the cessation of desire, a feeling of perpetual pleasure, or as a state of human flourishing are very dif…

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Episode 126, ‘Playfulness Versus Epistemic Traps’ with C. Thi Nguyen (Part II - Further Analysis and Discussion) 39:06

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There’s great pleasure to be found in make-believe. Instantly shifting our perspectives and belief systems gives rise to new possibilities – possibilities that are unavailable to the serious and sober-minded. Yet, as time passes, so does our desire to play. Adults – and, perhaps more so, philosophers – are instructed to ‘grow up’, to build their li…

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Episode 126, ‘Playfulness Versus Epistemic Traps’ with C. Thi Nguyen (Part I - The Ideal Thinker) 38:31

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There’s great pleasure to be found in make-believe. Instantly shifting our perspectives and belief systems gives rise to new possibilities – possibilities that are unavailable to the serious and sober-minded. Yet, as time passes, so does our desire to play. Adults – and, perhaps more so, philosophers – are instructed to ‘grow up’, to build their li…

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Episode 125, The Christmas Special (Part III - Further Analysis and Discussion) 26:57

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Days grow shorter, rain turns to sleet, and nature’s creatures are forced into hibernation. Winter is here; when the world wages war on us, through darkness, danger, and impending depression. But from the clouds of winter’s despair, therein shines a light: gatherings among families and friends, spirits of fellowship and forgiveness, and scenes of f…

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Episode 125, The Christmas Special (Part II - The Nativity Continued) 35:34

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Days grow shorter, rain turns to sleet, and nature’s creatures are forced into hibernation. Winter is here; when the world wages war on us, through darkness, danger, and impending depression. But from the clouds of winter’s despair, therein shines a light: gatherings among families and friends, spirits of fellowship and forgiveness, and scenes of f…

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Episode 125, The Christmas Special (Part I - The Nativity) 39:03

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Days grow shorter, rain turns to sleet, and nature’s creatures are forced into hibernation. Winter is here; when the world wages war on us, through darkness, danger, and impending depression. But from the clouds of winter’s despair, therein shines a light: gatherings among families and friends, spirits of fellowship and forgiveness, and scenes of f…

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Episode 124, ‘Narrative Critique’ with Rachel Fraser (Part II – Further Analysis and Discussion) 42:03

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Two people can encounter the same state of affairs – a crime, a book, a building – and yet their attention, interests, and emotional responses can be radically different. The perspectives of others are closed off from us, and our perspectives are closed off from them … that is until we share our stories. In recent years, social and political moveme…

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Episode 124, ‘Narrative Critique’ with Rachel Fraser (Part I – Disrupting Ideology) 37:30

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Two people can encounter the same state of affairs – a crime, a book, a building – and yet their attention, interests, and emotional responses can be radically different. The perspectives of others are closed off from us, and our perspectives are closed off from them … that is until we share our stories. In recent years, social and political moveme…

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Episode 123, ‘The Building Blocks of Reality’ with Donnchadh O'Conaill (Part II - Further Analysis and Discussion) 41:08

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What is the underlying nature of reality? For Thales, the essence of the world was water; for the Stoics, it was Logos; for Heraclitus, the universe consisted, fundamentally, of fire, life-energy, or the ‘thinking faculty’. The search for the building blocks of our world has a rich philosophical history and, today is intertwined with cutting-edge r…

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Episode 123, ‘The Building Blocks of Reality’ with Donnchadh O'Conaill (Part I - Substance) 41:39

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What is the underlying nature of reality? For Thales, the essence of the world was water; for the Stoics, it was Logos; for Heraclitus, the universe consisted, fundamentally, of fire, life-energy, or the ‘thinking faculty’. The search for the building blocks of our world has a rich philosophical history and, today is intertwined with cutting-edge r…

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Episode 122, ‘Justice for Animals’ with Martha Nussbaum (Part II - Further Analysis and Discussion) 45:01

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Whaling, poaching, factory farming: we know they’re wrong. Yet, most of us do nothing about them. In fact, for each trip around the sun, we satisfy our collective tastebuds with over seventy billion land animals and seven trillion sea creatures. Still, one might ask, what is it that’s wrong with how we treat our fellow creatures? This is the centra…

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Episode 122, ‘Justice for Animals’ with Martha Nussbaum (Part I - The Capabilities Approach) 38:52

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Whaling, poaching, factory farming: we know they’re wrong. Yet, most of us do nothing about them. In fact, for each trip around the sun, we satisfy our collective tastebuds with over seventy billion land animals and seven trillion sea creatures. Still, one might ask, what is it that’s wrong with how we treat our fellow creatures? This is the centra…

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Episode 121, The Philosophy of Privacy (Part III - Further Analysis and Discussion) 46:58

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Introduction 'I was sold a story about the modern world. I was told that I could connect with friends for free and that I could have everything conveniently tailored to my tastes. I was also promised I’d be kept safe from those who wished to attack me and my values. All in all, I was told I would be empowered to live my life as I saw fit. In time, …

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Episode 121, The Philosophy of Privacy (Part II - Privacy in Peril) 57:12

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Introduction 'I was sold a story about the modern world. I was told that I could connect with friends for free and that I could have everything conveniently tailored to my tastes. I was also promised I’d be kept safe from those who wished to attack me and my values. All in all, I was told I would be empowered to live my life as I saw fit. In time, …

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Episode 121, The Philosophy of Privacy (Part I - Privacy is Power) 53:40

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Introduction 'I was sold a story about the modern world. I was told that I could connect with friends for free and that I could have everything conveniently tailored to my tastes. I was also promised I’d be kept safe from those who wished to attack me and my values. All in all, I was told I would be empowered to live my life as I saw fit. In time, …

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Episode 120, The Mystery of Existence (Part II - Further Analysis and Discussion) 54:25

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Introduction This episode features Jack Symes in conversation with four of the biggest names in philosophy: Richard Dawkins (representing science and atheism), Jessica Frazier (on Hinduism), Silvia Jonas (speaking on Jewish philosophy), and Richard Swinburne (defending Christianity). With over six-hundred people registering for tickets, we were abs…

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Episode 120, The Mystery of Existence (Part I - The Debate) 55:53

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Introduction This episode features Jack Symes in conversation with four of the biggest names in philosophy: Richard Dawkins (representing science and atheism), Jessica Frazier (on Hinduism), Silvia Jonas (speaking on Jewish philosophy), and Richard Swinburne (defending Christianity). With over six-hundred people registering for tickets, we were abs…

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Episode 119, ‘Perfect Me’ with Heather Widdows (Part II - Further Analysis and Discussion) 39:50

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Beauty is nothing trivial. We get up in the morning, look in the mirror, and ask ourselves: ‘How do I look?’ The thinner, firmer, smoother, and younger we seem, the better our self-image and prospects. If you are not improving the way that you look, then you’re doing something wrong. Do not let yourself go, focus on self-care, and put the work in. …

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Episode 119, ‘Perfect Me’ with Heather Widdows (Part I - The Beauty Ideal) 37:39

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Beauty is nothing trivial. We get up in the morning, look in the mirror, and ask ourselves: ‘How do I look?’ The thinner, firmer, smoother, and younger we seem, the better our self-image and prospects. If you are not improving the way that you look, then you’re doing something wrong. Do not let yourself go, focus on self-care, and put the work in. …

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Episode 118, Romantic Love (Part IV - Further Analysis and Discussion) 47:48

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Introduction I was told not to think too much about love. Obsess over it, let it dye the very fabric of my being: but do not think about it. Why, after all, would I want to overanalyse the magic and mystery? Would this not reduce a storybook to words and pages? I was told that I was incomplete and was to search for another who would make me whole. …

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Episode 118, Romantic Love (Part III - Sad Love) 44:56

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Introduction I was told not to think too much about love. Obsess over it, let it dye the very fabric of my being: but do not think about it. Why, after all, would I want to overanalyse the magic and mystery? Would this not reduce a storybook to words and pages? I was told that I was incomplete and was to search for another who would make me whole. …

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Episode 129, Talking about Existence (Part I - Out of Nothing) 1:03:10

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Episode 128, ‘Domestic Labour’ with Paulina Sliwa & Tom McClelland (Part II - Further Analysis and Discussion) 32:53

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Episode 128, ‘Domestic Labour’ with Paulina Sliwa & Tom McClelland (Part I - Affordance Perception) 32:09

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Episode 127, ‘The Pursuit of Happiness’ with Jeffrey Rosen (Part II - Further Analysis and Discussion) 34:45

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Episode 127, ‘The Pursuit of Happiness’ with Jeffrey Rosen (Part I - The Founding Fathers) 36:37

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Episode 126, ‘Playfulness Versus Epistemic Traps’ with C. Thi Nguyen (Part II - Further Analysis and Discussion) 39:06

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Episode 126, ‘Playfulness Versus Epistemic Traps’ with C. Thi Nguyen (Part I - The Ideal Thinker) 38:31

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Episode 125, The Christmas Special (Part III - Further Analysis and Discussion) 26:57

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Episode 125, The Christmas Special (Part II - The Nativity Continued) 35:34

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Episode 125, The Christmas Special (Part I - The Nativity) 39:03

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Episode 124, ‘Narrative Critique’ with Rachel Fraser (Part II – Further Analysis and Discussion) 42:03

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Episode 124, ‘Narrative Critique’ with Rachel Fraser (Part I – Disrupting Ideology) 37:30

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Episode 123, ‘The Building Blocks of Reality’ with Donnchadh O'Conaill (Part II - Further Analysis and Discussion) 41:08

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Episode 123, ‘The Building Blocks of Reality’ with Donnchadh O'Conaill (Part I - Substance) 41:39

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Episode 122, ‘Justice for Animals’ with Martha Nussbaum (Part II - Further Analysis and Discussion) 45:01

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Episode 122, ‘Justice for Animals’ with Martha Nussbaum (Part I - The Capabilities Approach) 38:52

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Episode 121, The Philosophy of Privacy (Part III - Further Analysis and Discussion) 46:58

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Episode 121, The Philosophy of Privacy (Part II - Privacy in Peril) 57:12

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Episode 121, The Philosophy of Privacy (Part I - Privacy is Power) 53:40

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Episode 120, The Mystery of Existence (Part II - Further Analysis and Discussion) 54:25

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Episode 120, The Mystery of Existence (Part I - The Debate) 55:53

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Episode 119, ‘Perfect Me’ with Heather Widdows (Part II - Further Analysis and Discussion) 39:50

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Episode 119, ‘Perfect Me’ with Heather Widdows (Part I - The Beauty Ideal) 37:39

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Episode 118, Romantic Love (Part IV - Further Analysis and Discussion) 47:48

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Episode 118, Romantic Love (Part III - Sad Love) 44:56

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