Embrace The Void

My guest this week is Angel Eduardo (@StrangelEdweird), a writer, musician, photographer, and designer in NYC who has been published in Aero, CFI, and Newsweek. In part one we discuss his articles on starmanning, selfishness, and merit. In part two we'll cover his article on the power of words and his article on the Harper's Letter.

Convocation: Rock and Roll Suicide by Bowie

Angel's website: http://angeleduardo.com/

Starmanning: https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/how-to-star-man-arguing-from-compassion/

Selfishness: https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/the-virtue-of-selfishness/

Race and Merit: https://www.newsweek.com/why-calling-merit-racist-erases-people-color-opinion-1575196

Power of words: https://areomagazine.com/2020/11/02/words-dont-hurt-ideas-do/

Harper's Letter: https://areomagazine.com/2020/07/18/im-a-nobody-the-harpers-letter-was-for-me/

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

Music by GW Rodriguez

Sibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/

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Recent Appearances: Here's pt2 of my debate with Casey Petersen on Trump's CRT EO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB2DC-l0U3E

Next week: Speech and the Harper's Letter with Angel Eduardo pt.2

My guest this week is Joshua Blanchard (@philoshua), a visiting assistant professor in philosophy at Oakland University with a focus in ethics, epistemology, and philosophy of religion. We discuss his paper "The Problem of Unwelcome Epistemic Company" and how it might bear on our internet lives.

Convocation: Patricia Highsmith

Joshua's Website: https://www.joshuablanchard.net/

Problem of Unwelcome Epistemic Company: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/episteme/article/abs/problem-of-unwelcome-epistemic-company/822494319DA6C6336E22B9C20F1F63E4 

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

Music by GW Rodriguez

Sibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/

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Recent Appearances: Here's pt2 of my debate with Casey Petersen on Trump's CRT EO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB2DC-l0U3E

Next week: Starmanning with Angel Eduardo

My guest this week is Matthew Remski (@matthewremski), an expert in cults and cohost of the Conspirituality podcast. We discuss how cults have evolved radically in the online world and what it means for culture war, politics, and our own little ironic cult.

Convocation: Anonymous

Matthew's Website: http://matthewremski.com/wordpress/

Conspirituality's Website: http://conspirituality.net/

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

Music by GW Rodriguez

Sibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/

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If you enjoyed this and want to discuss more, start a conversation with me here: https://letter.wiki/AaronRabinowitz/conversations

Recent Appearances: Here's pt2 of my debate with Casey Petersen on Trump's CRT EO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB2DC-l0U3E

Next week: Unwelcome Epistemic Company with Boshua J'lanchard

My guest this week is Stephen Dause (@StephenDause), host of the You Might Have a Point podcast and blog. We discuss moderate conservatism and dive into a few examples of "wokeness run amok".

Stephen's Website: https://www.youmighthaveapoint.com/

Convocation: William Gladstone

Princeton Letter: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfPmfeDKBi25_7rUTKkhZ3cyMICQicp05ReVaeBpEdYUCkyIA/viewform

Princeton analysis: https://paw.princeton.edu/article/faculty-members-propose-anti-racism-agenda

Middlebury demilitarization of white bodies: https://www.middlebury.edu/events/event/middleburys-opportunity-facilitate-demilitarization-white-bodies

Woke Elementary School Activity: https://christopherrufo.com/woke-elementary/

David French on Critical Theory: https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/on-the-use-and-abuse-of-critical

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

Music by GW Rodriguez

Sibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/

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If you enjoyed this and want to discuss more, start a conversation with me here: https://letter.wiki/AaronRabinowitz/conversations

Recent Appearances: Here's pt2 of my debate with Casey Petersen on Trump's CRT EO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB2DC-l0U3E

Next week: Modern Culting with Matt Remski

My guest this week is Jay Shapiro (@jay_shapiro), host of the Dilemma podcast documentary filmmaker Islam and the Future of the Tolerance. We discuss wokeness on college campuses, conspiracy theories in the IDW, and how to de-escalate the culture wars.

Jay's Website: https://whatjaythinks.com/

Convocation: James Baldwin

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

Music by GW Rodriguez

Sibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/

Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid

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If you enjoyed this and want to discuss more, start a conversation with me here: https://letter.wiki/AaronRabinowitz/conversations

Recent Appearances: Here's pt2 of my debate with Casey Petersen on Trump's CRT EO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB2DC-l0U3E

Next week: Moderate Conservatism with Stephen Dause

My guest this week is Oliver Traldi (@olivertraldi), a philosophy PhD student at Notre Dame Spencer who frequently publishes at ArcDigi and Heterdox academy. We discuss a range of topics from the role of the objective/subjective divide in the culture wars to the vagaries of conspiracy theories on the right and left.

Website: https://olivertraldi.weebly.com/

Convocation: Culture War Rap by @Matt_Allan78

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

Music by GW Rodriguez

Sibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/

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Recent Appearances: I debated former guest Casey Petersen about Trump's Critical Race Theory Executive Order. Here's part 1, pt 2 should be out soon: https://twitter.com/ETVPod/status/1360923952705638405?s=20

Next week: Pragmatic Christianity with Hayden Bruce

My guest this week is Spencer Bradley (@CafeSinister), a public defender with a background in critical legal theory. We discuss the origins of CLT, its relationship to the more famous Critical Race Theory, and how we can apply it in free speech debates.

Spencer's comment on Free Speech Absolutism: https://ideas.dickinsonlaw.psu.edu/dlr/vol123/iss2/6/

Convocation: Aaron's free expression

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

Music by GW Rodriguez

Sibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/

Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid

If you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us on your pod app, especially iTunes. It really helps!

If you enjoyed this and want to discuss more, start a conversation with me here: https://letter.wiki/AaronRabinowitz/conversations

Recent Appearances: I debated former guest Casey Petersen about Trump's Critical Race Theory Executive Order. Here's part 1, pt 2 should be out soon: https://twitter.com/ETVPod/status/1360923952705638405?s=20

Next week: Culture War Metaphysics with Oliver Traldi

My guest this week is Joey Tuminello, an assistant professor of philosophy at McNeese State University, a program coordinator for the nonprofit orgs Farm Forward and Better Food Foundation, and one of my very closest IRL philosophy brothers. We talk food, drugs, applied ethics, really all that is good in life.

Joey's website: https://josephtuminello.academia.edu/

DefaultVeg: https://defaultveg.org/

2021 Jonathan Safran Foer Virtual Visit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GNSTLP2

Convocation: Oliver Markus Malloy, Bad Choices Make Good Stories

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

Music by GW Rodriguez

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If you enjoyed this and want to discuss more, start a conversation with me here: https://letter.wiki/AaronRabinowitz/conversations

Recent Appearances: I was on Daniel Schauer's podcast discussing pod life and failing to identify my own microphone https://www.dsmagic.us/democratizing-music-podcast-episodes/zon9318xu1tlzzvsqia4qjh0g0nybg

Next week: Critical Legal Theory with Cafésinister

My returning guest this week is Donnchadh O' Conaill, a post-doc at University of Fribourg in Switzerland, where he does work on metaphysics of the self. We try to explain what metaphysics and why you need it in your life.

Donnchadh's Website: www.donnchadhoconaill.com

Donnchadh's letterwiki with Naomi Thompson on carving reality at the joints: https://letter.wiki/conversation/723 

Referenced materials:

David Armstrong is Universals: An Opinionated Introduction (Westview Press, 1989)

The one by G.J. Warnock is English Philosophy Since 1900 (OUP, 1969) 

Donnchadh's article on Monism - Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Peter Strawson's Individuals

Convocation: Aristotle's Metaphysics

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

Music by GW Rodriguez

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If you enjoyed this and want to discuss more, start a conversation with me here: https://letter.wiki/AaronRabinowitz/conversations

Recent Appearances: I was on Daniel Schauer's podcast discussing pod life and failing to identify my own microphone https://www.dsmagic.us/democratizing-music-podcast-episodes/zon9318xu1tlzzvsqia4qjh0g0nybg

Next week: Farm Forward/Better Food with Joseph Tuminello 

My guest this week is Rabbi Josh Yuter (@JYuter), my interlocutor in a letterwiki on secular and religious ethics. We discuss Josh's experiences with Jewish orthodoxy and how it contrasts with secular ethics. The letterwiki is a valuable companion piece but necessary to enjoy the episode.

Josh's website: https://joshyuter.com/

Our Letter Exchange: https://letter.wiki/conversation/832

Convocation: Hillel the Elder

Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.html

Music by GW Rodriguez

Sibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/

Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid

If you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us on your pod app, especially iTunes. It really helps!

If you enjoyed this and want to discuss more, start a conversation with me here: https://letter.wiki/AaronRabinowitz/conversations

Recent Appearances: I was on Daniel Schauer's podcast discussing pod life and failing to identify my own microphone https://www.dsmagic.us/democratizing-music-podcast-episodes/zon9318xu1tlzzvsqia4qjh0g0nybg

Next week: Metaphysics with Donnchadh O' Conaill