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After months of pestering YouTuber Dominic Noble to start a podcast, Reginald has up and disappeared! Luckily guests from far and wide have been more than happy to fill in and join Dom to talk about their favorite books.
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What is your second-life? Living Philosophy is dedicated to exploring the inspiring second lives of people who have successfully made significant changes to their careers and lives through self-reflection, insight, and practice. Listen also to our Public Philosophy podcasts, which you can find by topic and the bespoke logo artwork. Hosted by Dr Todd S. Mei, former Head of Philosophy at the University of Kent (UK), and founder, consultant, and freelance author at Philosophy2u.com.
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That bug...it couldn't be...but Reginald was in this bed last night!? Oh well, while we unravel that existential nightmare, special guest and horror YouTuber Ryan Hollinger is here to help Dom discuss The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. This podcast, like Dom’s videos, sometimes touches on the foul language, violence, assaults, and murders in the boo…
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Content Warning: The Dog Dies Reginald is off, somewhere, we guess, luckily Dom found podcaster Lucas to fill his spot! They talk about American school traumatizer Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls. This podcast, like Dom’s videos, sometimes touches on the foul language, violence, assaults, and murders in the books we read. Treat it like a T…
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Don't get too lost in the gamer experience Reginald! Ah well, at least we have Calluna here to talk about Vivian Vande Velde's Heir Apparent! This podcast, like Dom’s videos, sometimes touches on the foul language, violence, assaults, and murders in the books we read. Treat it like a TV-14 show. For the full episode with video, and bonus content, c…
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They're taking Reginald to Isengard! Luckily we've got some good company to kill time on the journey, as Red from Overly Sarcastic Productions joins Dom on the pod to talk about J.R.R. Tolkein's The Fellowship of the Ring, among other LOTR lore. This podcast, like Dom’s videos, sometimes touches on the foul language, violence, assaults, and murders…
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Podcasts, the final content format. This is the story of one Reginald...wait, where's Reginald? Ah well, forget his intro then, this episode Dom welcomes Jessie Gender, Trek-tuber and all around cool person on the pod to talk about A Stitch in Time by Andrew Robinson. This podcast, like Dom’s videos, sometimes touches on the foul language, violence…
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Ready your troops, at dawn we...wait where's Reginald? Ahh well, at least Dom won't be engaging with Red Rising by Pierce Brown alone! He's joined by Luke aka Rocked to discuss all the drama, action, and intrigue of this sci fi thrill ride. This podcast, like Dom’s videos, sometimes touches on the foul language, violence, assaults, and murders in t…
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Content Warning: Gun Violence Who walked away from Omelas? Reginald apparently! Luckily Dom is joined by YouTuber Suede to discuss LeGuin's short story, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas. This podcast, like Dom’s videos, sometimes touches on the foul language, violence, assaults, and murders in the books we read. Treat it like a TV-14 show. For th…
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Blue of Overly Sarcastic Productions is covering Reginald today (sneaky bugger is off doing who knows what!) and he's ready to talk with Dom all about the ancient Greek literary tradition with the Clouds! This podcast, like Dom’s videos, sometimes touches on the foul language, violence, assaults, and murders in the books we read. Treat it like a TV…
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Reginald is nowhere to be found but luckily Erin aka LittleBogWitch is here to talk about her very own novel, Tales of Airethia! This podcast, like Dom’s videos, sometimes touches on the foul language, violence, assaults, and murders in the books we read. Treat it like a TV-14 show. For the full episode with video, and bonus content, check out Dom’…
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Once more Reginald has made himself scarce, luckily, Princess Weekes is here to fill in and talk with Dom about House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson! This podcast, like Dom’s videos, sometimes touches on the foul language, violence, assaults, and murders in the books we read. Treat it like a TV-14 show. For the full episode with video, and bonus con…
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Reginald is gonna be mad he missed this one! While our namesake plays hooky, Dom is joined by author and railroad owner George R.R. Martin! He's here to discuss Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny, and spin some fun tales from his storied career! This podcast, like Dom’s videos, sometimes touches on the foul language, violence, assaults, and mur…
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Has anyone seen Reginald? No? Oh well, guess we'll just have to listen to Jamie aka Rantasmo and Dom talk about Neverwhere! This podcast, like Dom’s videos, sometimes touches on the foul language, violence, assaults, and murders in the books we read. Treat it like a TV-14 show. For the full episode with video, and bonus content, check out Dom’s Pat…
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That darn Reginald, still MIA. Luckily, Tim Hickson aka Hello Future Me is here to chat with Dom about Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. This podcast, like Dom’s videos, sometimes touches on the foul language, violence, assaults, and murders in the books we read. Treat it like a TV-14 show. For the full episode with video, and bonus content, …
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Reginald is missing! Hopefully this won't become a trend...luckily, editor and host of Moviestruck, the Overly Sarcastic Podcast, and Rolling with Difficulty Sophia Ricciardi was happy to take his place and talk about the dino-dig western thriller Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton! This podcast, like Dom’s videos, sometimes touches on the foul langu…
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Believe it or not, the saying “You are what you eat” reveals what we’ve got wrong about our approach to eating and living well. Why? It tends to take an overly narrow focus on ourselves without consideration of other values, histories, and species. Dr. Kelly Donati (William Angliss Institute, Australia) discusses the finer points of gastronomy, its…
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Grasping what it means to be disabled is more complex than you might think. But doing so is key to understanding how we might treat people with impairments as equals with respect to justice, rights, and ethics. Prof Chris Riddle (Utica University) specializes in political philosophy, applied ethics, and the philosophy of disability. He has been an …
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One of the great insights from the philosophy of technology is that the more our devices become integrated with our lives, the more they reframe our relationships to others, the world, and even our purposes. In other words, technological devices tend to carry us away, for better or for worse. Dominic Smith (Associate Professor, University of Dundee…
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Valerie Noble is a senior literary agent at the Donaghy Literary Group, where she works primarily within the genre of science fiction. She discusses the challenges she faced while completing a degree in food science, only to find how one of her primary means of escape offered a potential career in working with authors and publishing houses. Along t…
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We tend to react to the issue of the right to abortion according to moral, religious, or political convictions. But what we often tend to overlook is that the debate surrounding Roe v. Wade is primarily a legal one. So according to the US constitution, is the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade legally sound? Prof Jay Mootz (Univers…
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Traumatic experiences are those which involve significant and terrible events on emotional, mental, and bodily levels. Their effects can often go unnoticed or can be dismissed as being purely subjective or emotional. A more balanced and holistic approach to understanding trauma examines healing in relation to the mind and body. Dr Anna Westin (St M…
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Kat Batchelor is a classically trained violinist who transitioned to the fiddle and playing folk music. She shares her insights into life, teaching, and performance that derive from her time spent performing at classical and public venues, busking, and interacting with the public on the city streets of Wales, England, and Scotland. Living Philosoph…
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What if the key to respecting and appreciating non-human animals resided in understanding our human selves better? Thinking about animals and our relation to them might then involve trying to grasp the ways in which our current social, economic, and moral systems skew our perceptions and practices. Prof. Alice Crary (The New School for Social Resea…
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Do crytpocurrencies and blockchain technology figure substantially in the possibility of financial freedom for those who currently are lacking in wealth? Or does the hype really just indicate that all things crypto are based on a speculative bubble and Ponzi schemes? Prof. Sebastian Purcell (SUNY, Cortland) discusses the legal, technological, and p…
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Is translation really just a problem of finding the right words in one language to fit the words in another language? Or, is there much more than meets the ear? Lisa Foran, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin (Ireland), discusses the ways in which translation can be problematic as well as constructive, not just with the a…
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Medicine involves more than science and evidence-based experiments. In today’s health climate—where there seems to be a conflict of interest between health care, on the one hand, and pharmaceutical companies and the privatization of medicine, the other hand—it is easy to overlook a more holistic approach that understands how illness is causally lin…
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Hillary Hutchinson is a career coach and change strategist at Transitioning Your Life. She has helped professionals understand who they are in order to make significant changes to their careers. She reflects on how events in her own life put her in a place to better understand the nuances and complications of change and how it can affect us in both…
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Arvind Gupta is a genetic engineer and venture capitalist whose approach to investment is driven by trying to better the planet, yet without the use of moral arguments and platforms. Instead, his approach to business draws on his personal experience with mortality and behavioral insights into how people can and cannot be convinced of a need for cha…
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We see it every day—the problem of misunderstanding and misreading meaning and intentions. It can be the cause of frustration, hurt, and even violence. Hermeneutics is the branch of philosophy interested in how the interpretation of language, symbols, texts, and even the nature of existence requires a nuanced and open-minded approach. It can potent…
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Charlie Undershaw (Carlos Marin de Miguel) is a Spanish jazz musician whose recent album “Agora” has been hitting the airwaves in Spain and on Spotify. He shares how Brazilian jazz and philosophy have shaped his life, his academic teaching, and his views on how to weather the obstacles and worries about our mortality. Living Philosophy is brought t…
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It seems more than ever that our present era is one of misunderstanding others—their motives, their reasons, their practices, and their beliefs. Is there a quick remedy to this, such as being more objective? Is objectivity even possible, especially given how incomplete our knowledge of others is? Constantine Sandis (University of Hertfordshire, UK)…
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Hans Florine is a world-renowned climber, best known for holding the record for the fastest ascent of the Nose on El Capitan (Yosemite) with Alex Honnold in 2012. The record remained until 2018. Hans has spent his life learning from competition and the application of different models of thinking in order to problem solve and be as efficient as poss…
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Dr Todd Mei discusses closing thoughts and reflections on the year which explore the prospect of social cohesion through the task of posing questions. Topics discussed: Stoicism Tolerance Hermeneutics Philosophical questioning Social Cohesion Unity through difference Sponsors: Philosophy2u.com Hillary Hutchinson, Career and Change Coach at Transiti…
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Paula Leach is an executive leadership coach and former executive herself, with over 25 years of experience within the public and corporate sectors. She recently made the decision to start her own consultation business, Vantage Points Consulting, with an eye to promoting a new style of leadership training based on traits we normally don’t associate…
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We live within time, but apart from it passing or lingering too long, how much do we understand the extent to which it pervades our lives? And what should we make of the claim based on physics that time does not pass, and therefore, that our experience of it doing so is really an illusion? Graeme A. Forbes (University of Kent) is a metaphysician of…
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We are familiar with practice as a method for getting better at something. But what if this idea was only one part of the importance of practice? What if a key aspect of practice was learning how to fail? Professors Anna Mudde and Robert Piercey (University of Regina) discuss what practices are and how they are essential in renewal and innovation, …
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Brendan, a classically trained saxophonist and composer, discusses how he transitioned from a love of bebop jazz to house music. He reflects on his perseverance and success as a multi-faceted musician, especially in view of the pandemic, when lockdown conditions forced the performing arts to shut down. He also considers what the authenticity of mus…
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Ashna Sen is a best-selling author and former academic in geophysics and mathematics. In her recent book, Re-Imagining Mathematics: Learning through the Magic of Nature, the Arts and Friendship, Sen explores our natural relation to mathematics and how current pedagogies and methods of teaching us about the subject miss the mark. If you live in fear…
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What is the difference between fake news and fiction? While we tend to deplore fake news, we often enlist fiction in the forms of stories, films, and literature to provide entertainment as well as moral and aesthetic edification. And yet, we also associate fake news with powerful political narratives. Prof. Hannah Kim (Macalester College) discusses…
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Geoffrey Moore is a best-selling author and internationally renowned consultant for high-tech business. He’s also a former academic in the humanities and has recently turned to reflecting on what evolution can teach us about being ethical in his book The Infinite Staircase: What the Universe Tells Us About Life, Ethics, and Mortality. Moore present…
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Negative emotions—such as fear, anger, and envy—are often seen as the kinds of things that impede our abilities to lead the kind of life we wish—the good life. Given the proliferation of violence and interminable arguments fueled by negative emotions, we might think that we need to eliminate them from our lives or suppress them. Prof. Krista Thomas…
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Are there any prerequisites for claiming a right or liberty? Vexation over personal liberties may be caused by a fundamental misunderstanding about what a right is and how it works. Dr. David Utsler (North Central College, Texas) discusses how our identities are formed by the environment and how recognition of individual identities is a key require…
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Appropriate ways of appreciating nature may not be as straightforward as you think. They involve a variety of difficult scientific, moral, and psychological factors. Prof. Martin Bunzl (Rutgers) discusses how our relation to nature and our views towards climate change need to face some difficult realities about our habits, psychology, and facts abo…
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Might an education for children featuring philosophy be one of the keys to developing a more civil society? Prof. Amy Reed-Sandoval (UNLV) discusses how wonder is integral to philosophy and how this complements a child’s natural inclination to know more about the world and others. But Philosophy for Children is not just about children. Adults can l…
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Tina Rath, a former professor in the creative arts, decided to make a significant career change in 2015 by pursuing her artwork in jewelry and drawing. She is founder of Requiem, which is a ritualized grief project and interactive ceremony that acknowledges those who have died from COVID-19 and celebrates their lives. Living Philosophy is brought t…
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Lazy Dancer Tips was co-founded in 2016 by Alessia Lugoboni and Iacopo Di Luigi. Alesssia trained and performed as a professional ballerina, and Iacopo was a special effects artist for cinema and television. Both decided to make a bold career change in view of a more fulfilling life by creating Lazy Dancer Tips as a way of helping others re-discove…
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Francesca Catlow is a singer, songwriter, and dancer whose songs, choreography, and dancing featured in the closing ceremonies of the 2012 Olympics. With the onset of the pandemic, she turned her creativity to writing romance novels. Her first novel, The Little Blue Door, is due for publication on June 28, 2021. Francesca shares what she has learne…
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Joe Smart is the Head of Training and Organisational Development for the Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust, which is part of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS). When it comes to working with people, Joe is all about innovation and compassion. In this episode, he shares his wisdom and experiences in view of how organizations and businesses …
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Zara Davis is one of the biggest names in windsurfing when it comes to speed. She was the only windsurfer to hold simultaneously the records for the 500m distance and the outright nautical mile until Antoine Albeau accomplished the same feat more recently. As a windsurfer and osteopath, Zara is no stranger to overcoming mental and physical barriers…
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