Jul 6

PEL Presents #200: Hollywood Studio Antics (feat. The Studio and Erica Spyres)

In immediate reaction to the Apple TV+ Seth Rogan show The Studio, we talk about Hollywood's obsession with itself and how studio dynamics interfere with what exactly we all get to see. Also, what's with the fascination with old Hollywood? What's the appeal of Hollywood gossip? E ... Show More

57m 55s

Jul 7

Ep. 370: Christine Korsgaard on the History of Ethics (Part Two)

We dive further into the text of lectures 1 and 2 of The Sources of Normativity (1996). We give Korsgaard's account of the idea of reflective endorsement through Hume and Bernard Williams to get to her own view. When you come to know the origins of your moral sentiments, do you s ... Show More

49m 24s

Jun 29

PEL Presents NEM#233: Jorma Kaukonen (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna) Is Not Taking This for Granted

This famed finger-style guitarist broke through with Jefferson Airplane's seven albums from 1966-1972, recorded eight with Hot Tuna 1970-1976 (with subsequent reunions by both bands), recorded his first solo album in 1974 and then 10 more from 1981-2025, and has collaborated with ... Show More

1h 13m

Sep 2011

HoP 044 - The Goldilocks Theory - Aristotle's Ethics

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics on happiness and virtue

20m 23s

Feb 2011

HoP 019 - Know Thyself - Two Unloved Platonic Dialogues

Virtue and knowledge in Plato's Charmides and Euthydemus

18m 23s

Sep 2022

Ep 148: Memetics

Rational and anti-rational memes. Static and dynamic societies. Diversity of ideas and individuality. Credit: "The Beginning of Infinity" by David Deutsch

6m 50s

May 2011

HoP 031 - Wings of Desire - Plato's Erotic Dialogues

Love, friendship and philosophy in the Symposium, Phaedrus and Lysis

21m 59s

Oct 2010

HoP 003 - Created In Our Image - Xenophanes Against Greek Religion

The gods in Homer and Hesiod, and the critique of Xenophanes

19m 18s

Sep 2011

HoP 046 - Dominic Scott on Aristotle's Ethics

Dominic Scott discusses Aristotle's method in his Nicomachean Ethics

28m 31s

Nov 2022

Virtue Ethics and The Quest for Character

Massimo Pigliucci, philosophy professor and author, joins Breht once again, this time to discuss his newest book "The Quest for Character: What the Story of Socrates and Alcibiades Teaches Us about Our Search for Good Leaders". Topics include: Ethical theories in philosophy, stoi ... Show More

1h 5m

Jun 2011

HoP 036 - A Principled Stand - Aristotle's Epistemology

Knowledge according to Aristotle's Posterior Analytics

20m 14s

Feb 2024

85: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, pt. 1 - Thales, Anaximander, Heraclitus

Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks is one of the more obscure texts in Friedrich Nietzsche’s corpus. There are many good reasons for this: it is unfinished, and ends abruptly; it was never published; and it concerns subject matter that is not as immediately accessible as ... Show More

1h 26m

Dec 1999

Episode 1 - Part 2

مقدمة السيرة النبوية

26m 4s

PREMIUM-Episode 24: Spinoza on God and M...