Philosophers In Space

By Aaron Rabinowitz and Callie Wright

What's Philosophers In Space about?

Welcome to Philosophers In Space, where the intrepid trekker captain Callie Wright and their questionable Chief Ethics Officer Aaron Rabinowitz explore the weird, gooey world of sci-fi, searching for tantalizing hypotheticals and gear-stripping questions in a space odyssey of meaning and amusement.

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Philosophers In Space episodes:

04.23.2024
Dune pt 2
Once again, IT IS THE LEGEND! We return to the desert planet to train another faithful, and we're not stopping till we've made everyone super depressed again about the horrors of colonialism but also the horrors of de-colonialism. It's horrors...
04.08.2024
The Pod Generation and Naturalness
Dear listeners, there are few joys as wonderful as providing y'all with unknown little gems filled with quirky body horror and a deep commitment to the bit. This movie made my transhumanist orifices quiver with joy. Enjoy our discussion of...
03.22.2024
Monolith and Viral Memetics
Listeners, have we got a story for you. Two Lovecraftian podcasters so far up their own allegorical asses they do a podcast about a movie about a podcaster doing a Lovecraft. It's meta all the way down folks, so naturally...
03.08.2024
Sense8 and TERFs
We're keeping the theme going from Barbie with some weird mind connection gender stuff! We discuss the first two episodes of Sense8 and what they show us about the philosophy of TERFs, how that might be different from gender critical,...
02.23.2024
Barbie
Is Barbie really a Barbie girl? And in what way is this really a Barbie world? How do we assess whether life in plastic really is fantastic, not to mention the questionable principles of consent inherent in the idea that...
02.02.2024
Children of Memory and Objective Personhood pt.1
We're childish, we sorta have memories. What more do you need?! This book, you need this book. Holy birdbrains, a beautiful third installment in easily one of the best sci-fi series of all time. Meet our new friends the "uplifted"...
01.13.2024
Listener Qs 36
We diiiiiiid it! I knew we could do it. And y'all made it possible. So thanks again, and see you back in the abnormal show! Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq Music by Thomas Smith: https://seriouspod.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us...
01.05.2024
Q and A 35
You Q'd, we A'd. The pact is renewed for another cycle. May the void have mercy on all our nonexistent souls. Thanks for your sacrifice! Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq Music by Thomas Smith: https://seriouspod.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us...
12.29.2023
Silo and Conspiracy
Welcome to the Apple TV Silo! Why are we trapped in this strange and artificially limited space? Why can't anyone learn about the before times or openly worry that we're not getting the full story? Why do we all accept...
12.16.2023
Gideon Pt 3 and Anti-Meritocratic Pedagogy
Part three of our trip to BONE TOWN! Time for all our hot space lesbians to come together and learn that teamwork makes the dream work. We're discussing anti-meritocractic pedagogy, but lets all be honest, you're here for the pool...
12.01.2023
Gideon Pt 2 and Meritocratic Pedagogy
Part two of space nun boogaloo! It's the first day of elite necromancer school and the mean girls are immortal litches who are THERE for the drama. Whatever your preferred gender performance arrangement for a love triangle, we got it....
11.21.2023
Gideon pt1 and Queer Theory
Fuck yes mother fuckers, grab your girly mags and hide your corpse brides, it's fucking Gideon time people. You know that that means? Fucking boning! Bones for days. Just an endless sea of bones and bone related humor. Truly, this...
11.05.2023
Helsreach and Grimdark Gamergate
In the grim dark future, there is only show notes. Are you MAN enough to pick up an absurd set of sentences and hold the line alongside literally overwrought walking metaphors? We're covering Helsreach, a fan made movie in the...
10.20.2023
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy and Meaningful Needs pt. 2
Well, at last we've come to our not super long or honestly all that taxing journey. We asked some hard questions that we felt no obligation to answer. We banged some hot blacksmiths and blew off our obligations to play...
10.09.2023
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy and Anarcho-Primitivism pt.1
::pocket computer pings:: Greetings siblings! Your favorite It and They are coming back to town and we know what you need. WHOLESOMECORE! We got your quirky robit questions, your quaint little inlets, your wicked hot space blacksmiths. Oh yeah, and...
09.22.2023
Dual and Flourishing in a Dehumanizing Society
What would you do if a slightly better version of you tried to steal your life, and you were legally allowed to fight them to the death? Can you tell yourself you wouldn't, you'd do something better? You'd let them...
09.05.2023
Listener Qs 34
The only thing we like better than Ws is As. Huge Ships of Theseus full of As just rolling up on your ear holes like they never skipped leg day. Thanks for the support Ferda! Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq Music by...
09.05.2023
Listener Qs 33
QQQQQQQQs! and AAAAAAAAAs! You love to hear it! Thank y'all so much as always for supporting the show. Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq Music by Thomas Smith: https://seriouspod.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion...
08.11.2023
Bluey “Rug Island” 2.10 and “Camping” 1.43 and Play
Lets play a game! Lets pretend we're podcasters and you're listeners and we're playing a fun game called "enjoying our show and reading these notes and thinkings this is all deep and insightful and then realizing that this literally how...
08.01.2023
Cabinet of Curiosities ep7: The Viewing and Intersectional High Weirdness
Well, my unconventional conventionalists, I hope it's clear by now why I've assembled you here. Your minds and orifices have all been primed and gooed in anticipation of the main event, the mind fuck du jure, the sparkling diamond of...
07.14.2023
Brand New Cherry Flavor Episodes 1-4 and Cronenbergian High Weirdness
Brand New Cherry Flavor Episodes 1-4 and Cronenbergian High Weirdness Brand new orifices! All about those orifices! And I guess transformative change and coping with trauma. THROUGH ORIFICES! We're discussing episodes 1-4 Brand New...
07.07.2023
A Color Out of Space and Lovecraftian High Weirdness
Sure it might seem weird to do record a piece of audio content about a color, but trust me when you see this color and start merging with your surroundings you'll thank us! We're covering the recent Nic Cage A...
06.17.2023
A Scanner Darkly and PKD High Weirdness pt1
You starting to peak yet? Tracers, maybe some time dilation? Maybe your sense of truth has started to come unraveled and you realize that the frames that society forces you to use to understand reality are actually systems of control...
06.02.2023
A Psalm for the Wild-Built and Objects pt2
What is...an object? Are these show notes an object? Is the podcast they fail to describe an object? Is our revulsion at being asked such questions an object? Are we objects? How can persons not be objects? Can we...
05.19.2023
A Psalm for the Wild-Built and Solarpunk pt1
Dear friends, please pull up a cushion and enjoy a cup of warm herbal tea, freshly picked from the nearby forrest just this morning. Share your troubles with us and we'll lighten them with a story of monk and robit,...
05.05.2023
Lawnmower Man and Dis Crit with Elizabeth Barnes
Years of careful planning all leading to this, my chance to torture an actual expert philosopher with one of the most important and absurd movies ever made. We're covering Lawnmower Man and philosophy of disability professor Elizabeth Barnes has made...
04.20.2023
Star Trek: Discovery and Panpsychism
Mushrooooooms! Mushroom mushroom! I'm in the mood to bend space and time with my mind, lets do this! We're talking about the first 5 episodes of Discovery and the joy of a fungus based universe. We also discuss this as...
04.07.2023
The Things and Varieties of Uplifting
Since we couldn’t get enough bug love we’ve awakened the master from his hypersleep so that we can go straight to the source! We’ve got Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Children of Time series and other amazing scifi on to...
03.24.2023
Children of Ruin pt3 and The Problem of Unity
Curled up in a ball shaking and crying muttering to myself "there are no ends, there is always another adventure. There's always more novelty out there." Seriously, what a ride, loved all of this and hope y'all do to. We're...
03.10.2023
Children of Ruin pt2 and Radically Distributed Cognition
Everybody get loose and do the excited Paul dance, cause it's OCTO TIME! We got a tiny taste of the tentacles in pt1 but this ep is all about our favorite squishy little escape bois. We discuss their beautiful weirdness...
02.24.2023
Children of Ruin pt1 and What It's Like to be a Portid
Yesssssss, we're out of the Q and A wormhole and back into the Childrenverse, where the humans are terrible, the world building is amazing, and all the uplifted critters can totally give consent. We are starting our three part adventure...
02.03.2023
Listener Qs 32
Hi friends, sorry for the slightly late post. Been a busy week for ethics. Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Music by Thomas Smith, check out his amazing podcast with...
01.20.2023
Listener Qs 31
Thank you all for the wonderful questions and your continued support. We're so excited for what's to come! Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live...
01.13.2023
Andor ep7-12 and the Flavors of Anti-fash
NO YOU'RE CRYING! We're coping with the emotional abuse that is the second half of Andor and talking about the flip side of the fash coin, your anarchisms and what not. I'm gonna go sit in the dark and...
01.05.2023
Pylon Pledge Drive!
Hey friends! To properly kick off our patron pledge drive, we've put together a little pylon promo audio. Hope y'all are enjoying all the changes and we really appreciate your continued listenership as we retrofit the show for season two...
12.30.2022
Andor ep1-6 and the Flavors of Fash
Hey, you look like a down-on-your-luck subject of a harmful government, could I interest you in a fun little heist story? We'll talk a bit about all the kinds of overbearing governments and I promise this totally won't end in...
12.16.2022
Lower Decks: Strange Energies and Humanism
Writing show notes is the one true godlike power. The ability to shape the experiences of others, to craft a world that they run headlong into. It's pure strange energies. This week we're taking our first dip into Lower...
12.02.2022
0G200: Crimes of the Future and Artistic Burnout
Just wild that this show has reached 200 episodes. 200 episodes worth of boxes and bug anuses. We've had a great run, hopefully folks will be happy with the coming changes. For our send off episode we cover the most...
11.19.2022
0G199: Orville: New Horizons episode 8 and Culture War Child Soldiers
From the personal to the political, we discuss the moral ups and downs of New Horizons' take on the culture wars. Are child soldiers good as long as the cause is just enough? Is it better to get wiped out...
11.04.2022
0G198: Orville: New Horizons episode 5 and childhood gender autonomy
If you had told me 10 years ago that we'd be having this level of Star Trek adjacent content AND it would be getting super serious into issues of gender affirming care for young individuals AND AND Seth McFarlin was...
10.21.2022
0G197: Everything Everywhere All at Once and Modal Luck pt 2
Bringing it all together, and putting it on breakfast carbs! Alphaverse Jess is back to get us through the second half of the story, with all its weirdness, and we talk formal philosophy with the modal theory of luck,...
10.07.2022
0G196: Everything Everywhere All at Once pt1
This ones a lot, it really is everything all at once, so we brought in some help. From the Alpha verse, the multidimensional paterfamilias Jesse Rabinowitz joins us to discuss the Buddhist philosophy behind EEAAO. In part one we discuss...
09.23.2022
0G195: The Boys Season Three and Hobbes' Leviathan
Season two of the boys was some of the most messed up content I'd ever seen, until the first three episodes of season three. It's all brilliant, but yeah, hard to imagine a more Hobbesian Leviathan than Homelander. Homelander's Leviathan....
09.09.2022
0G194: The Boys Season Two and White Christian Nationalism
THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN. THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN! Sorry, couldn't resist that one. We're back, and we're talking one of our favorite shows, The Boys! This episode we're focused on the Stormfront arc in season two,...
08.26.2022
0G193: Archive and Advanced Philosophy of Digital Personhood
The last of our digitally uploaded selves will now wind down for your listening pleasure. Our biological selves will again meet to create new digital versions, but for these ones, their time in stasis will be followed by a...
08.12.2022
0G192: Consider Phlebas and Galactic Just War pt.3
We survived, and yet like all Culture protagonists we've been fundamentally changed by the experience. Can we return to the safety and normalcy of other sci-fi after this? Will we eventually succumb to ennui and ask to be frozen in...
08.10.2022
0G191: Consider Phlebas and Philosophy of Scale pt.2
A book so big we barely manage to cover even a piece of it in three episodes. Don't be deceived by the vaguely unsatisfying nature of the narrative on first reading, this book is a...
07.22.2022
0G190: Consider Phlebas and Critiquing the Culture pt.1
A book so big we barely manage to cover even a piece of it in three episodes. Don't be deceived by the vaguely unsatisfying nature of the narrative on first reading, this book is a culture ship packed with...
07.08.2022
0G189: Three Robots Exit Strategies and Billionaire Preppers
Congrats, you've been selected to be a servant in my billionaire bunker. You'll be required to get an implant that will explode if you try to hurt me, but other than that you'll be totally free to survive the apocalypse...
06.24.2022
Listener Qs 30
Thank you all for the wonderful questions and your continued support. We're still having fun so glad y'all are too! Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ ...

What's Philosophers In Space about?

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Philosophers In Space episodes:

Dune pt 2

The Pod Generation and Naturalness

Monolith and Viral Memetics

Sense8 and TERFs

Barbie

Children of Memory and Objective Personhood pt.1

Listener Qs 36

Q and A 35

Silo and Conspiracy

Gideon Pt 3 and Anti-Meritocratic Pedagogy

Gideon Pt 2 and Meritocratic Pedagogy

Gideon pt1 and Queer Theory

Helsreach and Grimdark Gamergate

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy and Meaningful Needs pt. 2

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy and Anarcho-Primitivism pt.1

Dual and Flourishing in a Dehumanizing Society

Listener Qs 34

Listener Qs 33

Bluey “Rug Island” 2.10 and “Camping” 1.43 and Play

Cabinet of Curiosities ep7: The Viewing and Intersectional High Weirdness

Brand New Cherry Flavor Episodes 1-4 and Cronenbergian High Weirdness

A Color Out of Space and Lovecraftian High Weirdness

A Scanner Darkly and PKD High Weirdness pt1

A Psalm for the Wild-Built and Objects pt2

A Psalm for the Wild-Built and Solarpunk pt1

Lawnmower Man and Dis Crit with Elizabeth Barnes

Star Trek: Discovery and Panpsychism

The Things and Varieties of Uplifting

Children of Ruin pt3 and The Problem of Unity

Children of Ruin pt2 and Radically Distributed Cognition

Children of Ruin pt1 and What It's Like to be a Portid

Listener Qs 32

Listener Qs 31

Andor ep7-12 and the Flavors of Anti-fash

Pylon Pledge Drive!

Andor ep1-6 and the Flavors of Fash

Lower Decks: Strange Energies and Humanism

0G200: Crimes of the Future and Artistic Burnout

0G199: Orville: New Horizons episode 8 and Culture War Child Soldiers

0G198: Orville: New Horizons episode 5 and childhood gender autonomy

0G197: Everything Everywhere All at Once and Modal Luck pt 2

0G196: Everything Everywhere All at Once pt1

0G195: The Boys Season Three and Hobbes' Leviathan

0G194: The Boys Season Two and White Christian Nationalism

0G193: Archive and Advanced Philosophy of Digital Personhood

0G192: Consider Phlebas and Galactic Just War pt.3

0G191: Consider Phlebas and Philosophy of Scale pt.2

0G190: Consider Phlebas and Critiquing the Culture pt.1

0G189: Three Robots Exit Strategies and Billionaire Preppers

Listener Qs 30