What is philosophy? What is science? What should the relationship between the two be? This episode explores these topics as well as others such as the appreciation of life in light of death, the capability we all have to philosophize, and a rough framework for how we might lead more engaged, happier lives using both science and, inevitably, philosophy.

Some Sources/Further Reading:

• The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully by Frank Ostaseski
• The Deepest Human Life: An Introduction to Philosophy for Everyone by Scott Samuelson
• Live Like You Were Dying by Tim McGraw
• Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
• Lottery Winners and Accident Victims: Is Happiness Relative? in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
• Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500-1700 by Peter Dear
• A Little History of Science by William Bynum
• Knowledge Is Power: How Magic, the Government and an Apocalyptic Vision Helped Francis Bacon to Create Modern Science by John Henry
• What is Political Philosophy? by Leo Strauss
• The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience by Lee McIntyre

Tarek Zaher is a PhD student studying political philosophy. You can find him on Twitter @Zaher_Tarek