A VBW exclusive report! For years David and Tamler have been a little dismissive of fears about...
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A VBW exclusive report! For years David and Tamler have been a little dismissive of fears about...
01:35:04
Episode 262: Supposing Truth is a Woman (Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil")
David and Tamler dive into the first two parts of Nietzsche’s Beyond and Good and Evil which...
01:28:47
Episode 261: Death of the Author
What’s the meaning of a work of art? Does the text mean just what the author intends it to mean?...
01:22:31
Episode 260: The Scream That Never Found a Voice (Murakami's "Sleep")
David and Tamler take the first excursion into the work of Haruki Murakami and talk about his...
01:29:11
Episode 259: Losing Time ("Tár" with Paul Bloom)
The great Paul Bloom returns to the show to explore the many mysteries of Todd Field’s 2022 film...
01:56:37
David and Tamler talk about William James’ chapter on mysticism from his book "Varieties of...
01:33:41
David and Tamler deliver a PODCAST episode, one of many that comes from the INTERNET, that you’ll...
01:39:38
Episode 256: The Right to Punish?
Here’s an episode with something for both of us – a healthy serving of Kantian rationalism for...
01:36:49
Episode 255: Beloved Child of the House (Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi")
David and Tamler get lost in the world of Susanna Clarke’s "Piranesi," a hauntingly beautiful and...
01:43:51
Tamler’s earlier self committed to doing an episode on Parfit, and David holds his current self...
01:19:49
Episode 253: Tarkovsky's Starchild
It’s the episode that Tamler has been waiting for – a long deep dive into Andrei Tarkovsky’s...
02:08:14
David and Tamler dive into Seneca’s “On the Happy Life” and stoicism, the topic selected by our...
01:34:09
Episode 251: First Order, Then Chaos
David and Tamler wind their way through another Borges story - "The Immortal"- about a Roman...
01:34:08
Episode 250: Metaphors All the Way Down
We often think of metaphors as poetic flourishes, a nice way to punctuate your ideas and make...
01:30:41
Episode 249: Phlegm and Carelessness (Hume's "The Sceptic")
David and Tamler gild and stain David Hume’s essay “The Sceptic” with their sentiments. If...
01:25:01
Episode 248: Checkmate, Grasshopper
In this podcast we examine a recent argument for the view that chess is not, in fact, a game. We...
01:23:11
Episode 247: Open the Pod, Dave (with Sam Harris)
David and Tamler welcome Sam Harris back to the show for a deep dive into Stanley Kubrick’s...
02:34:30
Episode 246: Existential Poker-Face (David Foster Wallace's "E Unibus Pluram")
We dive into David Foster Wallace’s sprawling 1993 essay “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S....
01:46:19
Episode 245: Pragmatically Speaking
David and Tamler take their first real look at pragmatism via Richard Rorty’s “Solidarity or...
01:31:45
Episode 244: Thanks for the Memories? (Borges' "Funes the Memorious)
David and Tamler return to Borges land to get lost in the infinite, this time with his legendary...
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