Dr Louie Savva & Dr Matthew Smith
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For episode 62 we chat to comedian, performance artist and self-styled Funniest Nihilist, Elisha Shapiro. Elisha joins us from LA to chat about a variety of topics, including telling us about the Nihilist Olympics and his unsuccessful president
For episode 61 we continue our travels into pain and the misery of existence. We are joined by special guest, psychologist Brock Bastian, who chats with us about how pain may be the forgotten secret to happiness, and how striving for endless pl
Here we are at episode 60 and we are yet again joined by another special guest, this time academic and writer, Francis O’Gorman. Francis chats with us about his book, Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History. As well as discussing worrying in
For episode 59 we are joined by another special guest, clinical psychologist Martin Seager. Martin chats with us about a recent article he has published in The Psychologist magazine, which covers a number of interesting and relevant topics inc
Here we are at episode 58, and we’re joined by another special guest, cognitive scientist and freelance writer, Matt Colborn. Matt chats with us about a variety of topics including his PhD research into bees and the application to machine learn
For episode 57 we are joined by psychologist Dr Kate Sweeny. We got Kate on the podcast to chat to us about a recent article she wrote on the downside to positive thinking and the upside to pessimism! As usual we cover a range of topics includi
For episode 56 we are joined by psychologist Dr Krissy Wilson. Krissy is interested in why people believe in the paranormal (amongst other things) and is generally a skeptic of extraordinary claims. A former member of the APRU at Goldsmiths Uni
For episode 55 we are joined by writer and academic Dr Andy Martin. Andy is a regular contributor to a variety of newspapers and has written a number of books, including an excellent account of the relationship between Camus and Sartre (The Box
For this episode we are joined by philosopher and existential psychotherapist Emmy van Deurzen. Emmy has not only written a whole host of books, but is also Principal of the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling at the Existential Academy
Today we cover a controversial topic with special guest Jeff Schaler. Jeff is a psychology professor and existential analyst. Ostensibly we invited Jeff on to chat about Thomas Szasz, and his book “The Myth of Mental Illness”. Jeff was a close
In episode 52 we are joined by psychologist and parapsychologist Cal Cooper. Cal joins us to chat about, amongst other things, his PhD research looking at bereavement and ghosts, and the role of hope (crossing over into positive psychology). Yo
For episode 51 we are joined by former academic, now science writer Graham Farmelo, to chat about his wonderful biography of physicist Paul Dirac. The nature of the universe is something we like to chat about here on The Existential Files, and
Well here we are at episode 50! For this milestone we are joined by another special guest, author Matthew Alper. Matthew has written two fascinating books: The God Part of the Brain outlines his theory that religion is an evolved adaptation to
For this episode we are joined again by sceptical blogger and fellow podcaster, Hayley Stevens. Hayley started out as a believer in the paranormal, but found her way to the dark side of disbelief and spends much of her time looking for the nonp
After the head hurting topic of the last episode, it seems like a good idea to return to something a little less serious. For this episode we are joined by sceptical blogger and fellow podcaster, Hayley Stevens. Hayley started out as a believer
We are joined for this episode by a very special guest, philosopher Arthur Witherall. Arthur has published a book and a number of papers on the fundamental question of why the universe exists and he chats with us about some of the metaphysical
We are joined for this episode by PhD student Ann Winsper. Ann is an old buddy from the parapsychology days, and joins us to chat about a variety of topics including ghost hunting, parapsychology, paranormal experiences, and electronic voice ph
In this episode we chat about Terrence Malick’s movie The Tree of Life. The movie is ostensibly about existence, and we debate some of our interpretations about what the film is trying to convey to the audience.
In this episode we are joined again by a very special guest, philosophy professor and self-confessed nihilist John Marmysz. In this episode we chat about John’s book, The Nihilist: A Philosophical Novel. And we also have an extensive discussion
In this episode we are joined by a very special guest, philosophy professor and self-confessed nihilist John Marmysz. John joins us to discuss amongst other things, what nihilism is, and his book Laughing at Nothing: Humour as a Response to Nih
Ah. Sweet 42. [We really didn’t schedule these podcast episodes in advance, otherwise this would be a more special episode than it is!] Continuing on from Episode #41, we are joined by our not-so-special guest, who is just a listener of the pod
A different type of episode for this one. Today we are joined by a not-so-special guest, somebody who is just a listener of the podcast (maybe our only one), to chat with us about how the podcast has been going so far. We talk about a variety o
In this episode we continue our previous discussion on the essay by Louie entitled 'Misery in the Brain of the Earth Ape' (which can be found on his blog everythingispointless.com). We chat about a variety of topics, including freewill and dete
In this episode we discuss an essay by written by Louie entitled 'Misery in the Brain of the Earth Ape' (which can be found on his blog everythingispointless.com). We debate some of the ideas of the essay including the importance of biology to
In this episode we chat between ourselves about existential crises, nihilism and secular humanism.
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