If reality were just a dream, how could we tell? Are tables perfect? Why bother waking up a fish? Why did a dictionary maker kick a rock?All these questions and more will be... maybe answered, or maybe just alluded to, in this episode on Bishop

M3E1: Ali-ontology 101 (Saint's Row IV and an Intro to Ontology)

Sep 25th, 2020 13m 17s

What's even real anyway, dude? Like, does the world even exist, yo?These, albeit perhaps not phrased in quite the same way, are big questions in philosophy, and this episode is an introduction to ontology: the study of being and existence. Stay

M2E5: Final Fantasy: Fallacy Nova Contrapositus (Logical Fallacies)

Jul 31st, 2020 29m 24s

Logic is weird and fuzzy. Fortunately, understanding logical fallacies can help us to cut through some of the fuzziness... as long as we're careful how we use them. This episode is an introduction to a few useful fallacies, illuminated with exa

Interview with My Other Half

Jun 19th, 2020 1h 4m

It's a special interview episode: my guest is none other than my other half, Hannah!We discuss her gaming history, why she wants her games to be colourful and not boring, and how she feels about philosophy. Her views on philosophy might not be

M2E4: OBJECTION! (Ace Attorney and Empiricism)

May 22nd, 2020 16m 30s

It's another episode of Philosophiraga, the bite-sized deep-dive into video games and philosophy.This time, we're looking at empiricism: the view that we know stuff through experience, and no other way. Phoenix Wright and co will help us to thi

M2E3: Cogito Ergo You Died (Dark Souls and Rationalism)

Apr 24th, 2020 19m 15s

In this episode of Philosophiraga, the gaming and philosophy podcast, we take a look at rationalism. How can we know things without experiencing them? Rationalism has a few suggestions.Speaking of things we know without having experienced them,

M2E2: Not A Coronavirus Episode (World of Warcraft and Making Inferences)

Mar 21st, 2020 21m 7s

In this... slightly out-of-schedule episode of Philosophiraga, we take a look at something that happened in World of Warcraft many years ago, and discuss whether it's relevant to things happening in the real world today.One correction: I said i

Interview with The Well-Red Mage

Feb 21st, 2020 1h 4m

Moses Norton, the Well-Red Mage himself, is my guest for this interview episode of Philosophiraga. We talk right and wrong, Batman, truffle oil, parenthood, the difference between academic philosophy and just sort of doing philosophy out in the

M2E1: It's Super Effective! (Pokémon and Justified True Belief)

Jan 24th, 2020 16m 4s

Module two episode one!What is knowledge? How do we know when we know something? How do we know whether we know that we know anything? To answer all these questions and more (or just to wonder about them and form no conclusions whatsoever), Phi

M1E4: The Unbearable Lightness of Keying (Kingdom Hearts and Meta-Ethics)

Dec 20th, 2019 21m 12s

What even is good, or bad, or whatever? When we say 'this is good', to what are we actually referring?These are some questions which, if we're being honest, sound like they might be slightly meaningless. Fortunately, Philosophiraga takes weird

M1E2: Incredibly Wicked, BioShockingly Evil and Vile, or: Shadow of the Consequentialism (BioShock and Utilitarianism)

1 Nov 23rd, 2019 15m 13s

Part two of Philosophiraga's look at moral philosophy, in which we discuss utilitarianism. Are quantitative calculations the best way to go when deciding the right thing to do? Do we murder little girls for superpowered sea slugs, or... not? An

Episode Zero: LeChucking Knowledge At Ya (Monkey Island and an Introduction)

1 Nov 23rd, 2019 16m

We're launching Philosophiraga! This is a pre-episode of sorts explaining the format and giving well-owed thanks.Find me on Twitter: @overthinkery1 (and The Well-Red Mage @TheWellRedMage)Discuss Philosophiraga on Reddit at The Well-Reddit PageC

M1E3: Kant Theft Auto (Grand Theft Auto and Kant's Deontological Ethics)

1 Nov 23rd, 2019 18m 42s

It's probably fair to say that the player characters in Grand Theft Auto aren't the best people, but how do we establish this? What should compel them to be better? And shouldn't we do more to be nice to fictional characters?Find me on Twitter:

M1E1: You're Gonna Have A Bad Time (Undertale and Virtue Ethics)

1 Nov 23rd, 2019 16m 17s

Module one episode one, baybay!Our first big topic is moral philosophy; in this very first episode, we discuss indie darling Undertale and Aristotle's conception of what it means to be a good person.Find me on Twitter: @overthinkery1 (and The W

Trailer

The Video Games and Philosophy Podcast Launch and Giveaway

1 Nov 22nd, 2019 2m 14s

Philosophiraga launches with its first four episodes TOMORROW.Something else you'll hear in this episode, possibly of EVEN MORE INTEREST, is that we're giving away free stuff to celebrate. Listen now to find out how to win.Support the show (htt

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Philosophiraga: Still Coming Soon.

1 Nov 14th, 2019 1m 7s

November 23rd, people. That's not far away.In this second advert, I point out some of the things which will almost definitely make Philosophiraga a beloved hit: it's got games, it's got philosophy, it's got a soundtrack, it's got a sexy logo. W

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Philosophiraga: Coming Soon.

1 Oct 29th, 2019 1m 6s

Wanna know what Philosophiraga is? Wanna know when it's out?For answers to all these questions AND MORE (well, not really), check out our first teaser for the show.This is an advert that will take you less than two minutes to listen to, and it