Phi Fic

By 'Philosophical Fiction' from The Partially Examined Life

Dicussions of literature from a philosophical perspective.... more

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Phi Fic episodes:

December 06, 2009 Episode 12: Chuang Tzu’s Taoism: What Is Wisdom?
On the "Chuang Tzu," Chapters 2, 3, 6, 18, and 19. With guest Erik Douglas.
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1h 51min
November 10, 2009 Episode 11: Nietzsche’s Immoralism: What Is Ethics, Anyway?
Discussing The Genealogy of Morals (mostly the first two essays) and Beyond Good and Evil Ch. 1 (The Prejudices of Philosophers), 5 (Natural History of Morals), and 9 (What is Noble?).
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1h 52min
October 19, 2009 Episode 10: Kantian Ethics: What Should We Do?
Discussing Fundamental Principles (aka Groundwork) of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785).
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2h 6min
September 18, 2009 Episode 9: Utilitarian Ethics: What Should We Do?
Discussing Jeremy Bentham’s An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation chapters 1-5, John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism, and Peter Singer's "Famine, Affluence, and Morality."
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1h 60min
September 04, 2009 Episode 8: Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (and Carnap): What Can We Legitimately Talk About?
Continuing last ep's discussion of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus with some Rudolph Carnap from his 1935 book Philosophy and Logical Syntax.
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1h 38min
August 19, 2009 Episode 7: Wittgenstein’s Tractatus: What Is There and Can We Talk About It?
Discussing the beginning (through around 3.1) of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
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1h 41min
July 31, 2009 Episode 6: Leibniz’s Monadology: What Is There?
Discussing Liebniz's Monadology.
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1h 40min
July 16, 2009 Episode 5: Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics
Discussing Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Books I and II.
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1h 42min
June 22, 2009 Episode 4: Camus and the Absurd
Discussing Camus's "An Absurd Reasoning" and "The Myth of Sisyphus" (1942).
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1h 38min
June 07, 2009 Episode 3: Hobbes’s Leviathan: The Social Contract
Discussing Hobbes's Leviathan, Chapters 13-15.
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1h 39min

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How many episodes does Phi Fic have?

The podcast currently has 554 episodes available.