In this episode I sit down with three of my classmates, Aryam, Chandler, and Gino, to discuss fantasy and imagination, focusing in on guided fantasy through the media today. We recorded this episode as a group project for our Imagination class with Professor Kind at CMC, and it came out pretty well! so thought I'd share as a bit of a part two to my conversation with Professor Kind about the Philosophy of Imagination. Enjoy!

In this episode I sit down with Professor Amy Kind of CMC to talk about the philosophy of imagination and how it applies to helping us make our way through life. 

In this episode I sit down with Michael Perrone and Mariah Dekkenga, both painters who live in a church in Vermont that they are converting into an artist residency, to talk about meaning in life!

This episode is part 2 of my talk with Lawrence Wilkinson, where our conversation delves into ideas surrounding the internet, knowledge, and Lawrence's specialty of Scenario Planning. Part 1 is not required listening for part 2!

This episode is part 1 of my talk with Lawrence Wilkinson, where we talk about truth, lies and Trump-era politics, bringing in philosopher Seana Shiffrin's deontological perspective, and Plato's concept of the Noble Lie. 

In this episode I sit down with April Underwood, formerly of Slack and Twitter, for a conversation about gender in the workplace, which flowed into identity and stereotyping within advertising, technology, and politics. 

In this episode I sit down with Professor Alex Rajczi of Claremont McKenna to discuss the aesthetics of music, how it interacts with emotion, and some of the larger themes surrounding how we listen to music today. 

In this episode I sit down with Elliot Behling, a fellow CMC philosophy student and close friend to discuss ideas presented by philosopher/psychologist Paul Bloom, who recently presented a talk at CMC's Athenaeum. (intro and outro music by Quincy Sileo). 

Sitting down with my dad, Ed Sileo, to discuss his Buddhist meditation practice and the connections to Aristotelian virtue ethics (intro and outro music by Quincy Sileo).