Things You Can Do

Hi, philosophriends, I just wanted to post this cool little segment I did for Matthias over at LOTRAMAPOD - he wanted to know how something could proceed from something else if there was no time (and therefore no cause and effect!). I put together this little segment, which also includes a brand new sting for "Explain it Like I'm 5!"

In this first of a four-part series on AI and ethics, we’re going to talk about the kinds of things that we just might be. Are we souls? Or minds? Or rights-havers? Or sentient AI bodybuilders sent from the future to terminate the leader of the human resistance? 11:30 | Jennifer S. Light, "When Computers Were Women," 463. 15:10 | “Alcibiades” in Plato, ed. By John M. Cooper, 575. 23:50 | John Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 318. 39:05 | Edmund Husserl, Ideas I, paragraph 29;...

Lee Adama's speech in the trial of Gaius Baltar from the show Battlestar Galactica leads us to reconsider what it is that makes someone guilty, and what guilt really is. We'll consult some good German philosophers - Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, and Karl Jaspers - to see if we can't find a good answer to that question. Thanks to Matthias Austin and Producer of the Show Meg for their voice talents on this episode! 18:45 | Metaphysics of Morals, in Practical Philosophy, p. 529. 27:05 | The ...

Content Warning: In this episode I’m going to be talking about the recent investigative report by CNN into the traffic and activity on a website called Motherless.com. While the episode’s focus is not sexual assault itself, there still will be frank conversation about it, and about the harm done by men who prey on others for their own gratification. If that’s not something you’re looking to hear about in a podcast, I totally understand. You can just skip it, or come back to it when you feel r...

In this inaugural "Great Speeches in Ethics," we'll reflect on how Mal Reynolds's resolve to speak for others represents a mode of speech in classical antiquity that French philosopher Michel Foucault calls "fearless speech." 6:15 | Fearless Speech, 18. 9:05 | Who am I -- Alfie Boe (Les Miserables in Concert -The 25th Anniversary) 10:10 | Ramin Karimloo - Valjean's Soliloquy - Broadway - 2014 11:05 | Ibid. 12:45 | Fearless Speech, 13-14. 21:05 | "Touchstone, Metallurgy." 21:1...