Descartes Before the Horse

Descartes Before the Horse

By UQ Critical Thinking ProjectSociety & CulturePhilosophy
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Descartes Before the Horse episodes

  • EP7 – Is it immoral to be rude?
    Luke and Liam look at whether disobeying social etiquette is a form of unethical behaviour. They explore some philosophically dense and problematic questions such as ‘are we bad people if we don’t return a shopping trolley to the corral?’, ‘are we obligated to delete someone’s search history?’, and ‘is it rude to leave our headphones on to discourage talking to people?

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    42 min
  • EP6 – Is it okay to laugh at racist jokes?
    Luke and Liam are joined with UQ’s Professor Deborah Brown as they discuss the philosophy of humour. Is it alright to laugh at cringeworthy anti-feminist humour? What makes a joke humorous in the first place? Should anyone find Borat funny? And is the toilet the location of all our best work as a culture?

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    54 min
  • EP5 - Is monogamy still relevant today?
    Liam argues that it’s still best in contemporary societies to have one partner. Luke argues that polyamory is the way of the future. Both agree that the Brady Bunch and the 6 people from FRIENDS were polyamorous relationships.

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    45 min
  • EP3 - Humans should be bred in birthing pods

    Luke argues that we should take the human element out of pregnancy and breed babies in specially made robot wombs, solving any number of social, health and gender issues.

     

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    30 min
  • EP2 – Have aliens been with us for centuries?

     

    Luke and Liam wonder whether Roswell and Area 51 were cover ups, if all sea life and crabs are in fact aliens, and whether biblical encounters with angels were actually close encounters of the third kind.

     

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    43 min
  • EP1 - Was the moon landing faked?
    Luke and Liam look at the evidence against the moon landing occurring, question whether we even had the technology to do so, and question whether President Nixon would’ve lied about it to look strong for the Russians.

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    32 min

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Do you want to approach the world like a philosopher? To be both curious and rational? Dr Luke Zaphir and Dr Liam Miller show you how! Together they discuss issues in contemporary philosophy such…