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Philosophers In Space

Aaron Rabinowitz and Callie Wright

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Welcome to Philosophers In Space, where the intrepid trekker captain Callie Wright and their questionable Chief Ethics Officer Aaron Rabinowitz explore the weird, gooey world of sci-fi, searching for tantalizing hypotheticals and gear-stripping questions in a space odyssey of meaning and amusement.
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Another late month but rest assured we'll catch up. We're taking a break in June but will be back up in July. Listen and vote: CLICK HERE TO VOTE Vote before Sunday 6/11. The five winners will go on to the next episode. The rest will be canceled. Join us for a dual screening, both Frequency 101 and Channel 101 at 8:00 PM Pacific time this Sunday Ja…
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What is...an object? Are these show notes an object? Is the podcast they fail to describe an object? Is our revulsion at being asked such questions an object? Are we objects? How can persons not be objects? Can we throw objects at philosophers until they stop talking about objects? Find out all this and more! Content: https://www.amazon.com/Psalm-W…
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Dear friends, please pull up a cushion and enjoy a cup of warm herbal tea, freshly picked from the nearby forrest just this morning. Share your troubles with us and we'll lighten them with a story of monk and robit, their journey through the wilds, and there attempts to unravel what humans really need. We start with some delicious worldbuilding and…
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Years of careful planning all leading to this, my chance to torture an actual expert philosopher with one of the most important and absurd movies ever made. We're covering Lawnmower Man and philosophy of disability professor Elizabeth Barnes has made the crossover from the void to join us and discuss whether this movie is a hate crime, a perfect cr…
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Hey hey, this thing is still pumping out new creators and new shows monthly. Get involved now so you can say you were there before it got big. Listen and vote: CLICK HERE TO VOTE Vote before Saturday 5/6. The five winners will go on to the next episode. The rest will be canceled. Join us at 1:01 PM Pacific time this Saturday May 6th live on Twitch …
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Mushrooooooms! Mushroom mushroom! I'm in the mood to bend space and time with my mind, lets do this! We're talking about the first 5 episodes of Discovery and the joy of a fungus based universe. We also discuss this as one approach to panpsychism, and refresh on that view vs. other theories of consciousness. Content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S…
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Since we couldn’t get enough bug love we’ve awakened the master from his hypersleep so that we can go straight to the source! We’ve got Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Children of Time series and other amazing scifi on to discuss The Things by Peter Watts, a piece that relates strongly to Children of Memory while giving us a nice chance to distin…
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Another month another... long time before the episode came out... This is an odd time of the year for sure. Get your submissions in early for the April screening. There might be a sliver of time to make them, or maybe there won't. We'll see. Listen and vote: CLICK HERE TO VOTE Vote before Saturday 4/8. The five winners will go on to the next episod…
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Curled up in a ball shaking and crying muttering to myself "there are no ends, there is always another adventure. There's always more novelty out there." Seriously, what a ride, loved all of this and hope y'all do to. We're wrapping up Children of Ruin and discussing how it's nice to come together, but not too much together. Content: https://en.wik…
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Everybody get loose and do the excited Paul dance, cause it's OCTO TIME! We got a tiny taste of the tentacles in pt1 but this ep is all about our favorite squishy little escape bois. We discuss their beautiful weirdness and introduce the also truly wonderful Creature from Nod, and explore how these entities push the boundaries of our ability to com…
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Yesssssss, we're out of the Q and A wormhole and back into the Childrenverse, where the humans are terrible, the world building is amazing, and all the uplifted critters can totally give consent. We are starting our three part adventure through book two of the Children of Time series. PLEASE READ CHILDREN OF TIME FIRST! And ideally go back and list…
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Hey look we've been redeemed! 5 new pilots! Now we're cookin. Listen and vote: CLICK HERE TO VOTE Vote before Saturday 2/25. The five winners will go on to the next episode. The rest will be canceled. Join us at 1:01 PM Pacific time this Saturday the 25th live on Twitch @ www.twitch.tv/channel101official The day before is the Channel 101 screening,…
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Hi friends, sorry for the slightly late post. Been a busy week for ethics. Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Music by Thomas Smith, check out his amazing podcast with Lindsey Osterman: https://s…
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Hey ho! Land ho! Rake hoe! And other hos! We got a short one for ya! Light on submissions but that's okay because next month is going to be competitive I know it. Listen to the shows that are your competition and try to beat them out of primetime! Listen and vote: CLICK HERE TO VOTE Vote before Sunday 1/29. The five winners will go on to the next e…
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Thank you all for the wonderful questions and your continued support. We're so excited for what's to come! Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Music by Thomas Smith, check out his amazing podcast …
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NO YOU'RE CRYING! We're coping with the emotional abuse that is the second half of Andor and talking about the flip side of the fash coin, your anarchisms and what not. I'm gonna go sit in the dark and think about the monologues from episode 12 and wonder what's a functional version of bricking a fash. Content: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9253284/…
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Hey friends! To properly kick off our patron pledge drive, we've put together a little pylon promo audio. Hope y'all are enjoying all the changes and we really appreciate your continued listenership as we retrofit the show for season two goodness. If you feel like you could join our community for as little as $2 a month, we'd love to have you on bo…
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Hey, you look like a down-on-your-luck subject of a harmful government, could I interest you in a fun little heist story? We'll talk a bit about all the kinds of overbearing governments and I promise this totally won't end in you signing up for a revolution or anything. Content: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9253284/ Listener Survey: https://rutgers…
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Writing show notes is the one true godlike power. The ability to shape the experiences of others, to craft a world that they run headlong into. It's pure strange energies. This week we're taking our first dip into Lower Decks, arguably the best of all Star Trek shows. we're covering season 2, episode 1, "Strange Energies", and exploring the humanis…
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Just wild that this show has reached 200 episodes. 200 episodes worth of boxes and bug anuses. We've had a great run, hopefully folks will be happy with the coming changes. For our send off episode we cover the most recent Cronenberg creation and discuss what it says about art, authentic human connection, and the need to grow and try new things. Co…
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From the personal to the political, we discuss the moral ups and downs of New Horizons' take on the culture wars. Are child soldiers good as long as the cause is just enough? Is it better to get wiped out doing the right thing or team up with space TERFs to fight space robo-nazis? All these question, plus a big announcement! Content: https://www.im…
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If you had told me 10 years ago that we'd be having this level of Star Trek adjacent content AND it would be getting super serious into issues of gender affirming care for young individuals AND AND Seth McFarlin was in charge, I probably would have been a bit nervous. But trust me, don't be nervous on this one, now that they're not under the thumb …
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Eb and Flow, the natural order of things. Coming off a weak month with 1 submission, we have a monster of a show here. Enjoy, and sorry for the delay, it was worth it. Listen and vote: CLICK HERE TO VOTE Vote before Friday 11/4. The five winners will go on to the next episode. The rest will be canceled. Join us at 1:01 PM Pacific time this Friday l…
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Bringing it all together, and putting it on breakfast carbs! Alphaverse Jess is back to get us through the second half of the story, with all its weirdness, and we talk formal philosophy with the modal theory of luck, and pick up some previous show threads on cultural literacy and the view from nowhere. Content: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6710474…
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This ones a lot, it really is everything all at once, so we brought in some help. From the Alpha verse, the multidimensional paterfamilias Jesse Rabinowitz joins us to discuss the Buddhist philosophy behind EEAAO. In part one we discuss the first half(ish, it's a lot) of the movie and the problem of Everything. In part two we'll discuss their "solu…
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Season two of the boys was some of the most messed up content I'd ever seen, until the first three episodes of season three. It's all brilliant, but yeah, hard to imagine a more Hobbesian Leviathan than Homelander. Homelander's Leviathan. Content: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190634/ Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Liv…
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Woah! What happened? the short month threw all the primetimers off their game and everyone turned in their shows late! Well maybe not everyone. Listen and vote: CLICK HERE TO VOTE Vote before Saturday 9/24. The five winners will go on to the next episode. The rest will be canceled. Join us at 1:01 PM Pacific time this Saturday live on Twitch, Satur…
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THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN. THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN! Sorry, couldn't resist that one. We're back, and we're talking one of our favorite shows, The Boys! This episode we're focused on the Stormfront arc in season two, some of the best writing ever put to tv. We cover how perfectly the season unpacks the problem of white christian nationalism. Enjoy…
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The last of our digitally uploaded selves will now wind down for your listening pleasure. Our biological selves will again meet to create new digital versions, but for these ones, their time in stasis will be followed by a brief flash of existence before a return to the long dark. We discuss Archive and all the weird Frankensteiny possibilities and…
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