Embrace The Void

For this weeks episode we welcome on Alonzo Fyfe, a philosopher and proponent of Desirism. We discuss this ethical model and how it relates to morality.

References:
Desirism Facebook
Atheist Ethicist
Desirism

Opening Invocation:
Ben Thompson

Hero of the Week:
​​​​​​​John McCain

This episode could also be named, "Aaron and GW try to pronounce peoples names". We dive into this question about art going too far. Getting into the weeds of what constitutes too far objectively, and how that relates to our subjective opinions of too far.

Reference Material:
https://www.therichest.com/shocking/15-performance-artists-who-took-their-art-way-too-far/

Opening Invocation:
Grosse Pointe Blank

Hero of the Week:
Another Octopus

Today we're joined by the lovely ladies from Delightful Bitchcraft and Secular Soup Podcast. We talk about everything from kids and bullying, the mormon church, and how the womb is your first apartment.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/opinion/climate-change-parenting.html

Opening Invocation:
Natural History Museum

Hero of the Week:
Joe Radinovich
Anonymous

Another installment of Better Know A Philosopher. This time we're diving into David Hume. During out conversation we even go into the weeds of some ways philosophers talk and argue, and why slave owners suck.

Opening Invocation:
The Animatrix

Hero of the Week:
Susan Unterberg

Today we're joined with Eran Segev, the president of Australian Skeptics. We talk about what the organization does, their convention coming up in October, and the lovely anti-vaccination movement.

Opening Invocation
Muppets (Thanks to @Ghostwoods @MichaelToole @camgarrity)

Hero of the Week:
Anonymous

What is a Staw-man (or as we call it Staw-bot) fallacy? What about a Steel-bot? We dive into both of these types or arguments and dig into the importance of Steel-boting and why we do it.

Opening Invocation:
Jesse Rabinowitz from Zen Buddhism

Hero of the Week:
Bo Burnham (film Eighth Grade)

Today we're joined by fellow podcaster Stephanie Lepp of Reckonings podcast. This wonderful podcast interviews people who've had a major life changing moment or moments that altered their ideology or belief of something. 

Opening Invocation
Jesse Rabinowitz Source: Zen Buddhism

Hero of the Week
Anonymous

We kick off our first official Better Know A Philosopher with John Rawls. Essentially the father of modern liberalism. Aaron takes us through a bit of his life and we dive deep into his main argument.

Opening Invocation
listener: Petra Partake

Hero of the Week
Speakers of Nexus 2018

In this episode we talk with Stephen Stich, a Philosophy professor at Rutgers University about his career, addressing moral/ethical issues in the classroom, and much more.

Opening Invocation
Norse Mythology

Information provide by Stephen Stich:

Here is a link to our Templeton "Geography of Philosophy" Project website:

https://www.geographyofphilosophy.com/

And here's a link to a Templeton site based on an interview with my co-PI, Edouard Machery:

https://www.templeton.org/grant/the-geography-of-philosophy-an-interdisciplinary-cross-cultural-exploration-of-universality-and-diversity-in-fundamental-philosophical-concepts

There is more information on the book I was plugging here:

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/epistemology-for-the-rest-of-the-world-9780190865085?cc=us&lang=en&#

and here:

https://www.amazon.com/Epistemology-Rest-World-Stephen-Stich-ebook/dp/B07DFP8XY5/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1530988099&sr=8-1&keywords=epistemology+for+the+rest+of+the+world

There is information about the new Intro text that I wrote with Tom Donaldson here:

https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/philosophy-9780199329960?cc=us&lang=en&

This is our grand 50th episode of Embrace The Void! Aaron and GW do a little VoidNews and then launch into a new segment called, "Get to know a Philosopher".

Opening Invocation
@atheist_house

Hero of the Week
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez