Philosophers In Space

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 podcasting scores ever get to hear this show. You're here because you earned it. Congrats! Today we'll be discussing the overall concept of the show "The Good Place" (no spoilers) and how it relates to Justice and Mercy. Forking Awesome! Primary source mate...

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 can use artificial entities to help humans be better, or is it doomed to make us worse? We'll fail to answer these questions and more in our thrilling conclusion to our Westworld two parter. Primary source material: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics book...

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, though it may not always be clear why at the time. At this step in the maze, we discuss the rapey origins of Westworld and why they could never get the park insured. Primary source material: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics book 2  http://www.perseus.tuf...

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 the philosophy of death:  https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/death/#ImmMis   One article on the myths of immortality:  http://www.senescence.info/physical_immortality_myths.html   One pop culture survey of reasons not to bring people back from the d...

Podcast genome editing complete. Newly synthesized entity contains: Beta level paper on Genetic Determinism:  https://peh-med.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1747-5341-1-9   Beta Plus level paper on Genetic Engineering and Virtue Theory:  http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.desklight-c188f72b-ddd2-4f3e-ae0b-552fb8e64aee/c/6_kraj.pdf   Alpha Plus level reminder to offer up intr...

Oh Brave New Podcast, that has such accessible philosophies in it! Solid Animated Synopsis:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raqVySPrDUE   Hilariously bad live action version:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek5vse2_Aq0   There are more things in Heaven and Earth Horatio than are dreamed of in your Utilitarianism. Whether tis nobler to be a pig satisfied or a Socrates dissatisfied. Aye, there's t...

Podcast Delivery Contents: 1 mediocre Philip K. Dick adaptation by Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Philip-K-Dicks-Electric-Dreams/dp/B075NTXMN9    1 Brilliant Philip K. Dick short story that you need to read:   https://archive.org/stream/galaxymagazine-1955-11/Galaxy_1955_11#page/n71/mode/2up   2 Philosophical readings on the risks of AI: https://nickbostrom.com/ethics/ai.html https://hackernoon.co...

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 problem. Weekly reading:  https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dualism/   Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G   Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to jo...

Incoming Alien Language Translation: (Event-Podcast-Source Material-Arrival Film) (Idea-Topic-Sapir/Whorf-Language-Experience) (After Dark-Free Will-Sexy Timelessness) End of Translation. (This would have been much easier if Thomas would have just let me teach y'all Heptapod B) Weekly reading:  http://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/whorf.scienceandlinguistics.pdf   Supplemental readings:  https://www.smi...

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 personally alternating with answering your in depth patron questions on episodes 1-5. For those we didn't get to yet, we will definitely do more of these so please keep posting your questions and help us find more patrons so we can do more bonus conte...

Imagine a premise so implausible, it makes you question the very nature of personhood. Now imagine a thought experiment so implausible, it makes you question your own mind. The Twilight Zone ep1.7 The Lonely and the Chinese Room, they go together like Rob'ts and consciousness.  Weekly reading:  cogprints.org/7150/1/10.1.1.83.5248.pdf  Weekly video:  https://vimeo.com/141205172  Support us at Patre...

Philosopher's log, showdate 02272018. We've encountered Season 2, Episode 9 of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and are currently studying it for clues to the nature of artificial personhood. Attempts to address the subject have failed, so we've turned to a thought experiment from 20th century earth; the Turing Test.  Weekly reading:  https://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/471/papers/turing.pdfhttps://e...

Good news, everyone! On this weeks episode we're diving into Futurama and into Fry himself. We're breaking down ep3.4 Parasites Lost and discussing the classic philosophical problem, the Ship of Theseus. After Dark, we rally sympathy for symbiote rights. #AllWormsMatter Weekly reading:  https://io9.gizmodo.com/humans-with-amplified-intelligence-could-be-more-powerf-509309984 https://en.wikipedia.o...

Source material: Rick and Morty season 1 episode 8 Rixty Minutes Ooooweeee, this week we're breaking down some Rick and Morty and how the multiverse is really the ravings of a lunatic. Plus, after hours we convince all you versers to believe in god. Oh geez.   Weekly Readings: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/possible-worlds/ (especially section 2.1)       https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/qu...

Source material: Black Mirror Season 4 Episode 1: USS Callister We break down one of the most popular episodes of Black Mirror and consider our first great thought experiment, Nozick's experience machine. Then, after hours, Thomas breaks out the wet blankets for everyone.   Weekly Readings: http://rintintin.colorado.edu/~vancecd/phil3160/Nozick1.pdf   Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com...