Egg Timer Philosophy

The topic for this episode is how to morally evaluate cases where a person has a 'do not resuscitate tattoo' and is brought to a hospital in need of life saving medical interventions but is unable to verbalize or outwardly express their wishes.  What's a doctor to do?   Send over your questions, comments, or ideas for future episodes to eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com 

The focus of this egg timer will be John Locke's thoughts about tacit consent and the role it plays in justifying the legitimacy of government.   Send your Comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes over to eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com Image Attribution: By Godfrey Kneller - 1. Unknown source2. derivate work of File:Godfrey Kneller - Portrait of John Locke (Hermitage).jpg (from artherm...

Consent is the topic for this egg timer.  Along with thinking about the role of consent within an ethical system focus will also be given to the various types of consent that philosophers often focus upon: direct, tacit, and hypothetical.   Send over your comments, thoughts, or suggestions for future episodes to: eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com Image Attribution: By US Army - https://media....

This episode of the egg timer explores Karl Marx's idea of false consciousness.  Marx suggested that many people/workers are radically wrong about what is in their best interest.  How could this be true?  Tune in to learn more about this provocative idea. Send over your thoughts, questions, or ideas for future shows to eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com Image Attribution: By John Jabez Ed...

This episode of the egg timer focuses on Karl Marx's thoughts about relative deprivation.  Special focus will be given to how relative deprivation relates with the principle of 'equal pay for equal work'. Send your questions, comments, or ideas for future episodes to eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com Image Attribution: By (Photo courtesy of Frans de Waal.) - Powell K: Economy of the Mind. PLoS Bio...

This episode of the egg timer considers the topic of governmentally imposed vaccine mandates.  Specific attention is given to the types variables that ought to be considered when the government sets policy surrounding harms and risk. Send your questions, comments, or ideas for future episodes to eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com Image Attribution: By Photo Credit: James GathanyContent Providers(s)...

Does freedom require alternative possibilities?  That's the question for this episode of the egg timer.  Tune in as Harry Frankfurt's enduring answer to this question is cracked open.   Send over your thoughts, questions or ideas for future episodes to: eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com Image Attribution: By Enoch Lai at the English language Wikipedia, CC  BY-SA 3.0, https://commons...

For Today's episode of the Egg Timer Justin McBrayer discusses ideas related with his book, 'Beyond Fake News: Finding the Truth in a World of Misinformation'.  Listen in as Justin discusses the increasingly prominent problem of navigating the media in an environment of disinformation and falsehoods.   For further information about Justin's book you can check out his webpage about his bo...

On this episode of the egg timer the topic is Charles Horton Cooley's looking glass self.  Cooley offers a fascinating and dynamic social interpretation of the self.  Tune in to find out more. Send over your thoughts, questions or ideas for future episodes to: eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com Image attribution: By Unknown photographer - 1902 Michiganensian, page 8, Public Domain, https://com...

On today's episode of the egg timer the topic is William Paley's watchmaker analogy to prove the existence of God.  Paley suggests that a person who finds a watch on a beach is right to think that someone designed the watch.  And likewise by analogy someone who realizes the complexity of a person is right to think that people are designed and that their designer is God.  Does this a...

This episode of the egg timer delves into the topic of harm.  Harm is often treated is a purely comparative way by asking if a person has been made 'worse off' than they were before the harm.  But as we'll see this idea is not nearly so iron clad as it is often treated.   Send over your thoughts, questions or ideas for future episodes to: eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com Image Attributi...

On this episode of the egg timer the topic is the bootstrapping problem within the empirical sciences.  In particular, the question of what reasons do we have to think that vision is a reliable and true representation of reality will be discussed.  Often answers to this question double down on using vision as an answer to this question, but as we'll discover that answer just gets caught...

What role should luck play in our moral assessments?  If a person intends to harm another but as luck would have it is not able to do so should we morally assess their action the same as if they had succeeded in harming another?  Tune in as those and other questions related with moral luck are discussed on this episode of the egg timer. Send over your thoughts, questions or ideas for fut...

On this last episode of the Nietzsche Summer Series the topic will be Nietzsche and The Arts.  Tune in to learn more about the forces of Greek Tragedy that helped to carve out Nietzsche's artistic and philosophical views.   Send over your thoughts, questions or ideas for future episodes to: eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com Art Attribution: Art Attribution: Edvard Munch, Public domain, via Wi...

On this fourth installment of the Nietzsche Summer Series the topic will be Nietzsche's ideas and nihilism.  Nietzsche is sometimes mistakenly treated as a nihilist and this episode of the egg timer seeks to be better clarify his position toward questions of value.   Send over your thoughts, questions or ideas for future episodes to: eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com Art Attribution: Art Attr...

Today on the egg timer we are joined by guest host Martin Bunzl.  Join in as Dr. Bunzl discusses his new book, Thinking While Walking: Reflections on the Pacific Crest Trail.   Send over your thoughts, questions or ideas for future episodes to: eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com

On this third installment of the Nietzsche Summer Series the topic will be Nietzsche's Ubermensch.  Join in for an episode that takes a look how Nietzsche developed this vexing idea. Check out details about the Nietzsche Summer Series at eggtimerphilosophy.com Send over your thoughts, questions or ideas for future episodes to: eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com Art Attribution: Art Attribution: Edv...

In the second Nietzsche summer series episode the topic will be the Will to Power with specific focus on the text 'Beyond Good and Evil'.  The Will to Power played a critical role in Nietzsche's thoughts and he considered it to be a more basic aspect of humanity than even self preservation.  Tune in to find out just how Nietzsche thought that conventional morality was little more than a...

On today's episode the topic is the non-identity problem which has become central in many bioethics debates surrounding the beginning of life. Send over your thoughts, questions or ideas for future episodes to: eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com Image Attribution: By Carin Araujo, http://www.prtc.net/~carin - Stock.xchng #197853, Copyrighted free use, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3808...

On this episode of the egg timer, and the first in the Nietzsche Summer series, we explore Nietzsche 1873 essay 'On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense'.  Special attention is given to the strong connection that Nietzsche makes between conventional notions of truth and the formation of metaphor.  Check out details about the Nietzsche Summer Series at eggtimerphilosophy.com Send over your...

Over the course of the Summer the egg timer will be having a Summer podcast series covering the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche.  See release dates below for episodes topics in the series and also check out the egg timer website at eggtimerphilosophy.com for associated readings for each episode. June 11, 'Truth and Perspectivism': June 25, 'Will To Power': July 9, 'Ubermensch': July 23, 'Nihilis...

Under what conditions should people living without a government agree to form a government?  On this episode of the egg timer we see the answer that Thomas Hobbes gave nearly four hundred years ago to this long standing question among political philosophers. Send over your thoughts, questions or ideas for future episodes to: eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com Art Attribution: By Unknown author - ht...

On today's episode the topic will be Emile Durkheim's treatment of religion with special emphasis given to the distinction between the sacred and the profane. Send over your thoughts, questions or ideas for future episodes to: eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com Image Attribution: By Unknown author - https://www.clicksociologico.com/2017/03/emile-durkheim.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.or...

This episode of the egg timer is devoted to taking a critical look at the Communist Manifesto or more formally titled 'Manifesto of the Communist Party'.  Specifically the topics of history and power as well as the definition that Marx and Engels give to communism will be explored. Send over your thoughts, questions or ideas for future episodes to: eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com Image Attributi...

On this episode of the egg timer the topic will revolve around questions concerning what constitutes the body as well how advanced technology will force people to rethink the rights that protect the body. Send over your thoughts, questions or ideas for future episodes to: eggtimerphilosophy@gmail.com Image Attribution: By David Buckley - Shadow Robot Company Ltd. From our contract engineering gall...