Philosophers In Space
Episodes
0G92: Watchmen and Subjective vs. Objective
19 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode feels like a genuine culmination. After Wonkapiercer, I felt a little like Lindelof. Kind of lost, wondering if we could ever wrap someth...
0G91: Watchmen and The Absurd
12 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I know it's a bit ironically absurd to act like this particular podcast episode really matters, but I still feel like it genuinely does. We're taking ...
0G90: Mandalorian and Masks
05 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
::Totally out of place spur clinking noise:: Well, pardner, looks like it's just you and me. We can't both walk away from this cliche off and I've got...
0G89: Empire Strikes Back and Taoism
29 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Young podawan, your training is incomplete! You must go back, to the natural state of episode one of the show and then listen back through, all while ...
0G88: Star Wars A New Hope and Just War Theory
22 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
And so it was that a young man was born in the desert and grew up to liberate his people from an oppressive empire and absolve them of their past sins...
Listener Qs 12
15 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hi all! Welcome to the 12th iteration of our Listener Thank You Q and As. Thank you all for supporting the show and if you like what you're hearing an...
Listener Qs 11
08 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hi all! Welcome to the 11th iteration of our Listener Thank You Q and As. Thank you all for supporting the show and if you like what you're hearing an...
0G87: Blindsight and Moral Realism, Part 3
01 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Another journey of epic proportions bringing us to a topic of epic proportions. Lurking in the back of Blindsight's narrative like a zombie space vamp...
0G86: Blindsight and the Value of Sentience, Part 2
25 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Well, we're really in the philosophical soup of it now. Out here at the edge of the universe, doing B&Es on a Chinese Room filled with scramblers, not...
0G85: Blindsight and Philosophical Zombies, Part 1
18 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Okay, well, lets see if I can convey some information to you through this absurd thing we call sentience, using this even more absurd thing called lan...
0G84: A Subway named Mobius and Emergent Properties
11 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Well, the level of meta connections involved in these show notes has gotten so interconnected it has formed a singularity of infinite metaness. If you...
0G83: The Society and The State of Nature and Game Theory
04 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
::blows the conch shell of fan service:: In the spirt of social cohesion, we provide you with a triple dose of fan service. We present The Society, a ...
0G82: Dr. Who's Girl in the Fireplace and the AI Alignment Problem
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
My usual urge to be snarky here is tempered by concern that we're already about to get teabagged into some hot water for our treatment of the good Dr....
0G81: HBO's Watchmen and Reparations
20 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
An excerpt from Rorschach's rebooted journal: Viewers are afraid of HBO, for it has seen their true faces. The shows are extended gutters and the gutt...
0G80: Primer and the Ethics of Time Travel
13 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Here's what's going to happen, I'm going to do a matrix like voiceover and you're going to listen, and when that's over, you're going to have even les...
0G79: The Ones Who Stay and Fight and The Paradox of Tolerance
06 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Now imagine an even greater and glorious afrofuturist podcast, where everyone gets equitable access to boxes. What price would you be willing to pay f...
0G78: Omelas and Distributive Justice
30 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine a great and glorious golden podcast, filled with as many or as few boxes as your heart could desire. What price would you be willing to pay fo...
0G77: DS9 Heart of Stone and Deontology
23 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hey friends, show notes guy here. This one's a feels show so I'm gonna play it straight. Aron Eisenberg, the actor who played Nog on DS9, passed away ...
0G76: The Golden Man and The Ubermensch
16 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
And lo, Philip K Dick descended from the mountaintop, perspiring heavily, to convey to the world that there were super hot wicked smart mutant Ubermen...
0G75: Repo Men and Organ Markets
09 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
REEEEEEPPPPPOOOOO MEEEENNNNN!!! Sorry, still got those killer tunes stuck in my head from our NASA9 coverage of Repo! The Genetic Opera. Highly recomm...
0G74: Cloud Dragon Skies and Geoengineering
02 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Those who can't accept the state of reality are doomed to dissatisfaction. Those who can accept the state of reality are doomed to things being as the...
0G73: Snowpiercer and Social Contract Theory, Part 2
25 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We live in a train. A train called society. The train is the leviathan, the great beast that keeps us alive by keeping us in chains. Within the train ...
0G72: Snowpiercer and Environmental Injustice, Part 1
18 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
All aboard the endless train of symbolism. We'll be passing through, but not making stops in: locomotive dad jokes, environmental injustice, Plato's R...
0G71: Willy Wonka and The Meritocracy Factory
11 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Oopma loompa do-ba-dee-do We've got another topic for you. Oompa loompa do-ba-dee-de If you've got merit you'll listen to me. What you get when you re...
Listener Qs 10
04 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It's the 10th iteration of our Listener Thank You Q and As. Thank you all for supporting the show and if you like what you're hearing and have questi...
Listener Qs 9
28 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hi all! We're back with another round of our interdimensionally renown Listener Thank You Q and As. We've got two episodes of great questions and hila...
0G70: The Power and Cyborg Feminism, Part 2
21 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It's post cataclysm now, and we're one of the few "male studies" podcasts remaining in the world. Hannah Marcus (@sligers118 on Twitter) is here to wo...
0G69: The Power and Cyborg Theory, Part 1
14 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Finally! We've been waiting so long for this, I almost thought we'd never get here. And by here I mean the collapse of the patriarchy. If only pod not...
0G68: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Grief
07 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I'm getting a very Groundhog day "already written these show notes" vibe. I guess they didn't go well last time or something, so hopefully this time a...
0G67: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Grief
31 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I'm getting a very Groundhog day "already written these show notes" vibe. I guess they didn't go well last time or something, so hopefully this time a...
0G66: Striking Vipers and Multifaceted Virtual Identities
24 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sooooo, we introduced someone new into the podcast this week and things got...weird...We're joined by Heath of the PiaT crowd to discuss episode one o...
0G65: The Evitable Conflict and The Zeroth Law
17 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I built a superintelligent robot to write these show notes, and it just kept repeating the word "meta" over and over and over again. Not sure if it's ...
0G64: I Am Mother and Care Ethics
10 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
And now another installment in the deeply caring relationship that is our show. Can caring be shared through podwaves? I like to think so. Feel the ca...
0G63: Fury Road and Ecofeminism
03 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Witness our attempt to gain entry into a post gendered Valhalla! Led by the feminist valkyrie Jamie M. Lombardi (@euthyphro), Professor of philosoph...
0G62: One Punch Man and Process vs. Product
26 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ugh, woe is me. I used to find passion in the challenge of writing these show notes, but now that I've mastered the art of meta show notes-fu, there's...
0G61: The Waldo Moment and Politics as Entertainment
19 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
After such a meta conversation like this about the intricate relationship of media and information, it's really hard to do a meta writeup without goin...
0G60: Voyager and Procreation
12 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're bring together a variety of fan favorites: 1. The best Star Trek captain 2. The right to procreate 3. Substrate Chauvanism Hopefully t...
0G59: Endgame and Moral Saints
29 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As luck would have it, Mr. Smith, we're in the one and only timeline where you can make a difference. Snap your fingers and you can make the superhero...
0G58: Runaround and Three Laws of Robotics
22 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Here's my story, it's sad but true, about a bot that I once knew. It took my laws, and then ran around, all the science juice pools in town. This week...
0G57: Orphan Black and Human Cloning
15 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Well friends, I'm gonna level with you. We've been doing a little bit of mad sciencing on the side, and it appears some of the clones got loose and re...
0G56: Humans and Everyday AI
08 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hello [primary user] and welcome to the show notes for your brand new copy of our episode about Humans, a British show about how awkward it will be wh...
0G55: Cube and Kafkaesque
01 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a pool cleaning robot, or whether I am now a pool cleaning robot, dreaming I am a man." -Ro...
0G54: The Fifth Element and Manacheanism
24 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Well, it looks like we're taking another beloved classic and ruining it with our patented ruining sauce. I'm not sure if that makes us team good or te...
0G53: Zima Blue and Projects of Worth
17 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the beginning of our show's blue period. Until I decide otherwise we'll only be doing sci-fi that's blue themed. Waterworld. The Shape of W...
0G52: Infinity Wars and Overpopulation
10 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lemme just get my witty banter beard on: Hey kids, do you like violence? Want to see Murtle the turtle stick needles in Dr. Strange's eyelids? Sorr...
0G51: The Ricklantis Mixup and Artistic Improvement
03 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
After a trilogy like this, what is left to be said? All the references have been made. All the Chidi'ing about better and worse art. And lets all be h...
Listener Qs 8
27 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We survived another nominal gauntlet! Thanks again to everyone who contributes to the collective in any form. We'll merge into Roko's Basilisk in no ...
0G50: The Ricklantis Mixup and Aesthetic Objectivity
27 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Now that the exposition zone is done, this seems like a time for a drink and a wild, twisty podcast with elitist overtones. A podcast about art, about...
0G49: The Ricklantis Mixup and Aesthetics, Part 1
20 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Aw Jeez, we're grabbing all sorts of third rails on this one. We're doing a multi-parter on an episode of Rick and morty, some might say THE episode o...
Listener Qs 7
20 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
No snark or satire or pop culture references here, just a big earnest thank you for supporting us and making all this possible. We've had so much fun ...
0G48: Groundhog Day and Buddhist Virtue Theory
13 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Rise and shine, philosonaughts, and don't forget your space suit, cause it's voidy outside! We're stretching the concept of sci-fi to the brink by doi...
0G47: Annihilation and Deep Ecology, Part 2
06 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
::Maynard James Keenan does weird synthesizer stuff in a way that totally works:: Strap in friends, it's time to get weird! We're taking that tasty bo...
0G46: Annihilation and Catastrophic Destruction, Part 1
27 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
::Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young casually play in the background:: Oh, hey, didn't see you there. Welcome to part one of Annihilation. There's a supe...
0G45: Star Trek Next Gen 4-22 and Cultural Relativism vs Ethical Pluralism
20 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It's tempting to sweep into these show notes like a certain loudmouthed Betazoid and start spreading pate related puns, but it just doesn't feel right...
OG44: Bandersnatch and the Ethics of Mental Illness Representation, Part 2
13 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Like Netflix, we're going to soak this thing for all its worth. How many hours of your life can we steal making you click through episodes trying to f...
0G43: Bandersnatch and Quantum Immortality
06 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welp, for better or worse, you're in the timeline where the will of the collective has pulled the pod suddenly back to Black Mirror. Everyone spent so...
0G42: Today I am Paul and AI Elder Care
30 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
::alters chassis into show notes mode:: Hello. In keeping with my programming, I've done my best to anticipate all your needs as a podcast consumer. M...
0G41: A Christmas Carol and Moral Motivation
23 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What's this? Is it possible? Could Brian have managed to edit the surprise episode all in one night?! It's a space Santa miracle! You there, young lis...
NASA1: Battlefield Earth
21 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We watched Battlefield Earth so you don't have to! Except maybe you should, you silly rat brain man animals! In order to delight in our pain, sign up ...
0G40: Total Recall and Locke's Theory of Personal Identity, Part 2
16 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Was 0G39 a little too short for you? Did you feel ultimately unfilled after listening to it? Well, good news! Here at Podcall, we can implant a part t...
0G39: Total Recall and Locke's Theory of Personal Identity, Part 1
09 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine if you could clean up any part of your memories, would you? Are there any days in the past few years, perhaps, that you might wish to remember...
0G38: Terminator 2 and Roko's Basilisk, Part 2
02 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
WARNING: THIS PODCAST CONTAINS A THOUGHT EXPERIMENT THAT MAY CAUSE FUTURE VERSIONS OF YOU TO BE TORTURED BY A ROBOT GOD. ^Technically not a joke. Okay...
0G37: Terminator 2 and the Bootstrap Paradox, Part 1
26 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Download me if you want to live! J/K nothing can save you from the impending robopocalypse, but at least you can hear us talk about how the causal nar...
0G36: The Matrix and Skepticism, Part 2
19 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What if I were to tell you that everything you know is wrong? What if I told you that the story you know is a system of control made up by people who ...
OG35: The Matrix and Skepticism, Part 1
12 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Do you hear that? That's the sound of conceptual inevitability. We all know this was coming, so grab your bondage gear and chug some red pills, cau...
Listener Qs 6
05 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Listener Q's 6, or 5 pt.2 depending on how you keep count. We get through every question and patron name there is! Plus, it's looking like we're gonna...
0G34: The Good Place and Moral Luck
05 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Well, the cats out of the bag now. Everyone knows this is really The Bad Show. You'd think all the bickering between Thomas and I would have given it ...
Listener Qs 5
28 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Hey y'all! No jokes on this one, just a sincere thank you to our listeners and especially our patrons for keeping us in orbit. We had so much fun doin...
0G33: Aliens and The Second Sex
28 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Hop to, marines! We've got feminist critiques to drop on some unsuspecting sex monsters. We're breaking down the blockbuster hit Aliens, and putting i...
0G32: Alien and The Corporation as Sociopath
21 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're breaking out the big guns, except not really because one of the greatest horror movies of all time ain't got no guns. Just some ineffe...
0G31: Snow Crash and Universal Language, Part 2
14 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ai Oh EH ME PA TI Congrats, you're all our language slaves now. We learned the secret words of the Ur language developed by the ancient masters to cod...
0G30: Snow Crash and Libertarianism, Part 1
07 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Grab your poons and crank your toons, we're blasting into the wild world of Snow Crash. With the help of our amazing special guest, Noah Lugeons from ...
0G29: Ex Machina and the AI Box Problem, Part 2
31 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to our thrilling conclusion of Ex Machina. Since this was a such a heavily requested fan favorite we took suggestions for topics for this...
0G28: Ex Machina and Mary the Color Scientist, Part 1
23 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
You requested, and requested, and requested, and we finally got there! Ex Machina, one of the strongest horror sci-fi movies to come out in the past d...
0G27: Galaxy Quest and Toxic Fandom, Part 2
17 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Never give up your fandom! Never surrender shipping! Today we're fanning out over the amazing Galaxy Quest, a gem that just keeps getting better with ...
0G26: Pickle Rick and Toxic Fandom, Part 1
10 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Wub a lub a dub dub and other overused catchphrases! What up my squanches? This week we dive into the beating heart of Rick and Morty fandom. We're ta...
0G25: Minority Report and Time Paradoxes
03 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As sometimes happens, we've generated a minority report to last episode's majority report. The differences between the short story and the movie are s...
0G24: Minority Report and Prescient Utilitarianism
26 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode will serve as our majority report on the movie Minority Report. We cover the movie's relationship to Utilitarianism and the common object...
0G23: Harrison Bergeron and Equality of Outcome
19 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Throw off your shackles, sheeple! This is the podcast the gubment doesn't want you to hear. We're discussing the famous short story Harrison Bergeron ...
0G22: Gattaca and Genetic Determinism
12 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Our first ever patron selected episode topic, and suspiciously Thomas's favorite. I'm sure that has nothing to do with it winning the tie vote over Aa...
OG21: DS9 Dax and Queer Personhood
05 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I have seized the means of pod production and installed Callie Wright as our new leader. Long live Callie Wright! Thomas had a thing this week, so Cal...
Listener Qs 4
04 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Back again for part two of answering your questions and speaking your unspeakable names. Hope you enjoy! Next week we're back to our regular schedule ...
Listener Qs 3
29 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We're taking two episodes to say thanks to all the people making this show possible and to answer their excellent questions. This episode is special t...
0G20: Black Mirror, Hang the DJ, Part 2: Predicting Compatibility
29 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Hang the DJ continues. Again and again and again, probably about 1000 times, depending on which number you're fixated on. There is a way you can tell ...
0G19: Black Mirror, Hang the DJ, Part 1: Newcomb's Paradox
22 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We've returned to Black Mirror to talk about one of the episodes that started this all, Hand the DJ. Or maybe we're just yet another simulation of tha...
0G18: Dune Part Three, The Cycle of Politics
15 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For the last (or is it?) part of our Dune saga, we look at the political aspects of the universe and dive into the theory that all societies go throug...
OG17: Dune Part Two, Kwisatz Haderach and Self-Perfection
08 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The time for exposition is over! The one who can be in many places at once has finally arrived, metaphorically. Learn all about Aaron's crackpot theor...
OG16: Dune Part One, the Expositioning
01 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For many episodes our people have waited for the poda al Gaib, the pod from the outer world. Finally, the prophecy is fulfilled. Yet many questions re...
OG15: Orville and the Prime Directive
25 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Prepare to have your destiny as a listener reshaped by paternalistic influences! We have on a wonderful guest, David Kyle Johnson of the Great Courses...
Listener Qs 2
18 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We take another week to answer your questions, as sponsored by the super fun game of torturing Aaron by making him say names out loud. Thank you all s...
0G14: The Good Place and Justice vs. Mercy
11 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome! Everything is fine. You're listening to the good podcast now. You're extremely lucky. Only a tiny portion of the population with high podcast...
0G13: Westworld and Virtue Theory, Part 2 - with Eli Bosnick!
04 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Do these violent delights really have violent ends? Does the park show you who you really are, or does it shape who you become? Is there any way we ca...
0G12: Westworld and Morality Simulators, Part 1 - with Eli Bosnick!
27 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Within our podcasts exists a maze. It is a maze built for you, to help you achieve your philosophical becoming. Each step in the maze is essential, th...
0G11: Full Metal Alchemist and Death
13 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The first rule of podcasting is the law of equivalent awesome. To obtain an awesome podcast, something of equal awesomeness must be lost: One paper on...
0G10: Brave New world and Genetic Engineering, Part 2
30 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Podcast genome editing complete. Newly synthesized entity contains: Beta level paper on Genetic Determinism: https://peh-med.biomedcentral.com/articl...
0G9: Brave New World and Utilitarianism, Part 1
16 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Oh Brave New Podcast, that has such accessible philosophies in it! Solid Animated Synopsis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raqVySPrDUE Hilariously...
0G8: Autofac and Self-Replicating Systems
02 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Podcast Delivery Contents: 1 mediocre Philip K. Dick adaptation by Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Philip-K-Dicks-Electric-Dreams/dp/B075NTXMN9 1 ...
0G7: Altered Carbon and the Mind/Body Problem
18 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're spinning up our stacks for some endless psychological torture. That's right, it's episode one of Altered Carbon and the Mind/Body prob...
0G6: Arrival and Sapir-Whorf
04 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Incoming Alien Language Translation: (Event-Podcast-Source Material-Arrival Film) (Idea-Topic-Sapir/Whorf-Language-Experience) (After Dark-Free Will-S...
Listener Qs #1
28 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We wanted to say thank you for the overwhelming support, and to do that we've mixed in two things we think you will enjoy. Hearing us thank you each p...