My guest this week is Anthony Magnabosco, co-founder of Street Epistemology International. Street Epistemology is an approach to difficult dialogue aimed at helping individuals better understand why they believe what they believe. Anthony and c

What's Left of Meritocracy with Gil Morejón

Mar 16th, 2024

My guest this week is Gil Morejón, a historian of ideas currently teaching at Grenell college, one of the 4 amazing hosts of the What’s Left of Philosophy? Podcast. We discuss leftist takes on meritocracy, possible alternatives, and the differe

Debating Moral Realism with Chris Kavanagh

Feb 29th, 2024 1h 17m

My guest this week is Chris Kavanagh, cohost of Decoding the Gurus and a cognitive anthropologist working at the psychology department at Rikkyo university in Japan. I have him on to discuss a recent episode of theirs about metaethics and debat

Camp Omni with Megan Pike

Feb 21st, 2024 1h 5m

My guest this week is Megan Pike, director of Camp Omni, formerly Camp West. Megan is a lifetime educator and camp participant. We discuss Camp Omni's developing focus and how the camping world in general is adapting, as well as some pedagogica

The Secular Paradox with Joseph Blankholm

Jan 25th, 2024 1h 3m

My guest this week is Joseph Blankholm, a religious studies scholar and associate professor at UC Santa Barbara. We discuss his recent book The Secular Paradox, where he unpacks several internal conflicts facing secular community organizers. We

Warhammer 40k and Gamergate with Danny Fortuna

Dec 30th, 2023 1h 41m

My guest this week is Danny Fortuna, a Warhammer 40k lore master and founder of the Facebook group Warhammer Heresyposting. Danny founded the group as a space for anti-woke 40k fans after he was banned from several other groups over debates aro

Conspiratorial Thinking and Just World Belief with MRX Dentith

Dec 20th, 2023

My returning guest is M.R.X Dentith, a philosophy professor at BNUZH’s Center for international philosophy, with a focus on conspiracy theories, secrecy, and fake news. They’re also cohost of the podcaster’s guide to the conspiracy and recently

AI in Medicine with Bryce Eakin

Nov 10th, 2023 1h 3m

My guest this week is Bryce Eakin, an AI engineer currently working in the area medical ethics. We discuss the potential risks and benefits of AI in various parts of the medical process and where this technology is likely headed in the next few

Embracing the Manosphere with Debbie Ging

Oct 20th, 2023 46m 51s

My guest this week is Dr. Debbie Ging, Professor of Digital Media and Gender in the School of Communications at Dublin City University. Dr. Ging teaches and researches on gender, sexuality and digital media, with a focus on digital hate, online

Professional Surrogacy with Barbie Dangond

Sep 28th, 2023 1h 3m

My guest this week is Barbie , co-founder of Lift Life Travel and a professional gestational surrogate. We discuss her motivation for helping women experience travel and many parts of the ethics surrounding surrogacy.Convocation: NietzscheLift

Triangle Freethought Society with Matthew Krevat

Sep 8th, 2023 1h 11m

My guest this week is Matthew Krevat, a secular and skeptical organizer with Triangle Freethought Society. We discuss his experiences with local organizing and trying to balance the interests of skeptics and atheists within a single group.Convo

Possible Worlds and Other Stories with Rachel Handley

Aug 9th, 2023 4m 34s

My guest this week is Rachel Handley, a teaching fellow in philosophy at Trinity college Dublin, and author of a recent collection of sci-fi short stories entitled Possible Worlds and Other Stories. The book is a fun exercise in multiverse buil

Heavy Metal Philosophy with David Burke

Jul 27th, 2023 1h 9m

My guest this week is David Burke, a PhD student at Bathe’s Spa University, with a focus on studying the philosophy of heavy metal. He has written on the Neitzchien elements of heavy metal and argues that metal should be taken seriously as a ph

Grassroots Secular Organizing with Devon Graham

Jul 24th, 2023 1h 7m

My guest this week is Devon Graham, one of the Assistant state directors for American Atheists in Florida. We discuss the challenges of secular organizing in deeply red territories and conflicts within movement secularism over the relationship

GPT-4 Wrap-up with Callie Wright

Jun 25th, 2023 1h 37m

My guest this week is Callie Wright, host of the Queersplaining podcast and co-host of Philosophers in Space. They humor me while I try to exorcise my GPT demons and work through as many of the arguments about this technology as possible.Convoc

The Language of Terrorism with Chris Kavanagh

Jun 9th, 2023 1h 16m

My guest this week is Chris Kavanagh (@C_Kavanagh), junior co-host of the Decoding the Gurus podcast and second author on a range of topics related to human behavior. We discuss his recent publications and what they tell us about the risks of s

GPT-4 Alignment with Daniel Schauer

May 26th, 2023 1h 15m

My guest this week is Daniel Schauer, a lifelong computer nerd who currently works at Takeda Pharmaceuticals in their writing department to submit materials to the FDA but is here representing himself as a computer nerd with a bunch of fiddling

GPT-4 with Matt Browne

Apr 28th, 2023 1h 5m

My guest this week is Matt Browne (@ArthurCDent), professor of psychology at central Queensland, Australia, and senior co-host of the Decoding the Gurus podcast. We discuss how GPT-4 is a whole new thing compared to its predecessors, and the na

Ancient Aliens with Fredrik Trusohamn

Apr 14th, 2023 1h 2m

My guest this week is Fredrik Trusohamn (@DUAncientAliens) host of the Digging Up Ancient Aliens podcast, where he recently did a series on Graham Hancock’s Ancient Apocalypse materials on netflix. We discuss the overlaps in our research on Han

Spiritual Emergence with Leah Prime

Mar 31st, 2023 1h 4m

My guest this week is Leah Prime (@leahprime) host of The Invisible Night School, author at sub stack, and working on a project called We Own the Night: The Legacy of Art Bell and Coast to Coast AM. Leah does work in exotic states of conscious

High Weirdness with Erik Davis

Mar 19th, 2023 1h 5m

My guest this week is Erik Davis (@erik_davis), author of High Weirdness and many other worthwhile reads on counterculture topics. We discuss the history of High Weirdness and how it has shaped our modern world for better and for worse.Erik Dav

Conspiracism Leadership with Ben Dow

Mar 3rd, 2023 1h 8m

My guest this week is Ben Dow (@benjaminjdow), a professor of practice at Southern Methodist University with a focus in management studies. He recently sent me several papers he worked on with other folks about conspiracism and leadership, and

Conceptually Engineering Luck with Matthew Cull

Feb 19th, 2023 1h 10m

My guest this week is Matthew Cull (@MaattCuull), a philosopher postdoc at the University of Edinburgh, with an interest in social philosophy, particularly debates around the concept of conceptual engineering. We discuss the debate between clas

Antisemitic Conspiracism with Joshua Stein

Feb 3rd, 2023 1h 9m

My guest this week is Joshua Stein (@thephilosotroll), a postdoc in philosophy at Georgetown. His interests include social ontology, political philosophy, collective responsibility, and today’s topic, antisemitic conspiracism. We discuss Ye's r

Defending the Public with Yassine Meskout

Jan 20th, 2023 1h 12m

My guest this week is Yassine Meskhout (@ymeskhout), a Public defender and infrequent host of The Bailey podcast. Yassine argues for anarchy perspectives also writes on substack and for Jesse Singal’s newsletter on topics related to the crimina