CAN YOU PHIL IT?

In this episode, we’ll talk about the very thing we try to promote with this podcast, namely, what we might call public philosophy.

Footnotes + food for thought...

In this episode, we’ll talk about the very thing we try to promote with this podcast, namely, what we might call public philosophy.

Footnotes + food for thought...

This episode wraps up our latest discourse about happiness by addressing how systematically promoting positive attitudes can be done in coercive, and potentially questionable ways.

Footnotes + food for thought...

This episode wraps up our latest discourse about happiness by addressing how systematically promoting positive attitudes can be done in coercive, and potentially questionable ways.

Footnotes + food for thought...

In this episode, we will suggest various kinds of mindsets that might help to lead a happier life...

Footnotes + food for thought...

In this episode, we will suggest various kinds of mindsets that might help to lead a happier life...

Footnotes + food for thought...

This episode aims at questioning certain assumptions hidden behind the way we usually conceive happiness.

Footnotes + Food for thought...

This episode aims at questioning certain assumptions hidden behind the way we usually conceive happiness.

Footnotes + Food for thought...

This episode further explores the concept of normality, by looking at disability theory and eugenics.

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This episode further explores the concept of normality, by looking at disability theory and eugenics.

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In this episode, we will explore what the word “normal” means by looking at Canguilhem’s work, and then discuss the relationship between health and disease. What is it to be, and/or to feel normal?

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In this episode, we will explore what the word “normal” means by looking at Canguilhem’s work, and then discuss the relationship between health and disease. What is it to be, and/or to feel normal?

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In this episode, we will discuss various views that challenge our praising of work over leisure, and the very definition of what leisure is supposed to be.

Footnotes + Food for thought...

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This episode explores what has been called « cancel culture », the elements at the root of the arguments for or against online criticism, and the problematic assumptions and misunderstandings behind this ongoing debate.

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This episode explores what has been called « cancel culture », the elements at the root of the arguments for or against online criticism, and the problematic assumptions and misunderstandings behind this ongoing debate.

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This episode is about the definition of friendship, the possible types of friendship, and the ways our friends can deepen our understanding of ourselves.

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Last time we explored Aristophanes' speech in Plato’s Symposium; in this episode, we will dig further into the nature of love : this time we’ll look closely at an excerpt from Jean Paul Sartre’s masterpiece, Being and Nothingness (L'Être et le Néant). In this text, Sartre tries to describe what a lover really expects from the person they love.

Food for thought + Footnotes:

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Our 'Footnotes' explain certain references, with short biographies of authors we mention along the way, or definitions of key concepts in philosophy.

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In this episode, we will discuss some of the origins and effects of love, focusing on both the desire to unite with someone, illustrated by Aristophanes myth in Plato’s symposium, and the qualities we either discover or attribute to the person we love.

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In this episode, we will discuss some of the origins and effects of love, focusing on both the desire to unite with someone, illustrated by Aristophanes myth in Plato’s symposium, and the qualities we either discover or attribute to the person we love.

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In this episode, we will explore various philosophical perspectives on time, focusing on Henri Bergson's conception of duration, but also on scientific approaches to time, in the hopes of shedding some light on this ever elusive concept.

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In this episode, we explore various philosophical perspectives on time, focusing on Henri Bergson's conception of duration, but also on scientific approaches to time, in the hopes of shedding some light on this ever elusive concept.

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