Philosophers In Space

Everything is gender! And Also nothing is gender! Everything is a prison, but also freedom! The universe is absurd and yet we can still somehow fill it with meaning. All this and more in one of the bleakest and most uplifting takes on The Absurd that we've ever looked at. We discuss all the existentialist elements of this fascinating book. Support us at Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/0G Join ou...

These really are the best episodes ever, thank y'all so much for all the fun! Support us at Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/0G Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join):  https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/ Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It really really helps. Please and thank you...

Fresh As, hot off the presses! Thank you all so much as always for your support and for all the wonderful questions! Support us at Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/0G Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join):  https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/ Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It re...

Okay, so I've got a very specific ax to grind, but this is a wonderful wetstone to grind it on! So often I get the question "if you think morality is real, are you saying it would apply to super weird aliens?!" and I'm here to say yessssssssssss with examples! Enjoy! The Final Architecture Series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Architecture Support us at Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/...

We made it! We traversed the creepiest of unspaces to deliver unto you the wonders of the cosmos. The real question is whether your unaugmented grey matter can absorb all this vast amazingness. For part one we'll be discussing advanced arguments on the topic of eugenics. Enjoy! Shards of Earth: https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/adrian-tchaikovsky/shards-of-earth/9781529051902 Support us at Patr...

Welcome to the weirdly specific booniverse! Where all boons are perfectly tailored to you in a way that feels pretty creepy, like someone is writing the life you're living. This time it's Ursa's turn to feel both seen and attacked as we explore this very on point story about the nature of social progress as portrayed by space train hopping pirate queens. Enjoy! Space Pirate Queen of the Ten Billio...

Welcome back friends! I just know you're going to love today's adventure, because if you don't that would be sad, and I don't like sad things and will prevent them from happening by any means necessary. Hopefully a super fun show about the horror of being known by others will be sufficient, because my back up options get very messy and not in the fun after dark way! So, without further adieu, we a...

The boxes are back, and this time it's personal! No one box vs. two box this time, just the one box and no good options! We're discussing The Measure and how it measures up and of course what's the right amount of foreknowledge. Enjoy! The Measure: https://chevaliersbooks.com/book/9780063204218 Support us at Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/0G Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answ...

Oh yeah! Nothing dominates like a mecha-punchy-shrimp! The only thing better than a mecha-punchy-shrimp is one that has feels! But just the right amount of feels. This episode we get into two question near and dear to my heart 1) Can you have honor culture without dominance mindsets and 2) Do some people need the looming threat of punchy shrimp to not act terrible? Let's get that honor boys, lets...

Welcome children to our glorious new Eden, where composite entities of all kinds are free to roam and enjoy all the extremely niche experiences available to them! This weirdness is all part of my divine plan, the purpose for which I crafted this entire cosmos! Come and bask in the intelligence of my design and don't think too hard about the weirdness! Punchy shrimp!!! Children of Strife: https://w...

Welcome to woke space school! All the lens flare of a AAA reboot with 20% more queer than a Discovery Lower Deck. We're discussing episode 5 in particular, Series Acclamation Mil, and the ethics of creating people for a purpose. Support us at Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/0G Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join):  https://www.facebook.com/groups/9858280...

Here it is, the smolderiest piece of Sci-Fi this year. Get absolutely absorbed by an all time greatest pilot episode and then settle in for the grinding horror of being a self-hating person living in a narcissist's wet dream. Then we'll save you from the horror by breaking down how incoherent The Other's ethics are and what it says about the inconsistencies in our own ethics. Plus, unsurprisingly,...

Truly, these are the best, thank you all so so much! Support us at Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/0G Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join):  https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/ Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It really really helps. Please and thank you! Music by Thomas Smith: ...

Ugh, this was such a fun one, we've missed these Q and A's bad! Thanks again folks for all your support, hope y'all enjoy the A's as much as we did the Q's! Support us at Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/0G Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join):  https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/ Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com If you have time, p...

Gideon is back bitches! We finally fucking got there, and all the glorious grab-ass that entails! Truly, we've had a blast working through every mind splintering detail of this book, it was not at all a sacrifice and we remain as always your loyal philosophical cavaliers. Enjoy! Harrow the Ninth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrow_the_Ninth Support us at Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/0G Join...

Ah yes, part two, where things really get cooking, as it were. We're back with more Harrows, more confusingly named characters, and some proper sizzle! RESPECTFULLY! We also talk about how the unreliability of our own understanding impacts how we do ethics. Enjoy! Harrow the Ninth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrow_the_Ninth Support us at Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/0G Join our Facebook d...

We finally made it! Got it in before Alecto comes out, so you gotta give us credit for that! Truly, this is a labor of love. No after dark, just going extra long for everyone, the way Gideon would have wanted it. Enjoy! Harrow the Ninth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrow_the_Ninth Support us at Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/0G Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the ques...

Once again, I want to open with "I'm sorry" for all of this. If you're considering condemning us to content creator hell for our takes, first consider the question: What Would Charlie Do? Charlie would say, despite our worst takes, we are still redeemable! So, we're doing the first two seasons of Hazbin Hotel and doing a 200 level discussion on universalism about salvation and why it may be the be...

Hell yeah, been fixing to do cover this new hotness since the moment I saw it. Now that it's widely available we can talk about all the ways it messes with the color line, what it says about solidarity politics, how it sets up the invention of bluegrass, and what the vampires really represent! Plus, keep your eyes out for a very related NASA! Sinners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinners_(2025_fi...

Here we are at the end of our interminable journey! Millions of years in the blink of many hours. Seen some unbelievable stuff (4d space) and some super believable stuff (gender essentialism) and in the end we've really seen what happens when we stretch the scale of ethics to the breaking point. So, finally, we look at what this all says about Chinese philosophy, particularly what it means to be a...

Well friends, all good things must come to an end, including death apparently! We're covering the final installment in the Rememberance of Earths Past trillogy. For this one we ask the most important of all questions, who did nothing wrong?! Anyone? Everyone? Can you even assess wrongness on a large enough scale? Come find out! Death's End: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%27s_End Support us at...

The darker the forest, the brighter the philosophy! Despite all odds, we press on against the horrors of both the fictional and our real universe to talk about what happens when you try to do sociology AT SCCCCCCAAAAAAALLLLLLEEEEEE! Besides parsing the end of the book, we parse the precepts of Dark forest and whether it holds water, what are plausible objections, and what does this tell us about t...

More Space Opera! We're back it with the Three Body Problem series, talking about the second book in the series. For part one, we're covering the nature of the wallfacer project and how to approach a threat that's 400 years away. Part two will be all about cosmic sociology and the dark forest theory! The Dark Forest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Forest Support us at Patreon:  https://www...

Coming out of our Silo and we're not doing fine! The air is still toxic and we're losing our minds! We're back at it with season two of Silo, and we're discussing the ethics and practicality of maintaining a system like this, as well as discussing the ableist implications of a common trope. Silo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silo_(TV_series) Support us at Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/0G Join...

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