The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Discussing Michel de Montaigne's Essays: "That to Philosophize is to Learn to Die," "Of Experience," "Of Cannibals," "Of the Education of Children," and "Of Solitude" (all from around 1580) with some discussion of "Apology for Raymond Sebond."

Discussing Martin Heidegger's Being and Time (1927), mostly the intro and ch. 1 and 2 of Part 1.

Discussing Edmund Husserl's Cartesian Meditations (1931).

Discussing Arthur Schopenhauer's On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, published in 1847 (as an expansion of his doctoral thesis from 1813).

On Soren Kierkegaard's "The Sickness Unto Death" (1849). With guest Daniel Horne.

Discussing Goodman's Ways of Worldmaking (1978). With guest painter Jay Bailey .

Primarily discussing "Reasoning: The Sixty Stanzas" and "Emptiness: The Seventy Stanzas," by the 2nd century Indian Buddhist Nagarjuna. With guest Erik Douglas.

Discussing Freud's Civilization and its Discontents (1930). Get the full episode at partiallyexaminedlife.com. For Wes Alwan's summary of this book, go here ).

Discussing Spinoza's the Ethics, Books II through V.

Discussing Spinoza's Ethics (1677), books 1 and 2.

Discussing Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse in Inequality (1754) and book 1 of The Social Contract (1762).

Discussing William James's "The Will to Believe".

Discussing articles by Alan Turing, Gilbert Ryle, Thomas Nagel, John Searle, and Dan Dennett. With guest Marco Wise.

On Pragmatism (1907) by William James and "The Fixation of Belief" (1877) and "How to Make Our Ideas Clear" (1878) by Charles Sanders Peirce.

Discussing Immanuel Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (1783). With guest Azzurra Crispino.

Discussing Plato's Theatetus and Meno.

On David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748).

Discussing three essays by Arthur Danto from The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art (1986): the title essay, "The Appreciation and Interpretation of Works of Art," and "The End of Art."

Discussing G.W.F Hegel's Introduction to the Philosophy of History (1837). Get this and every episode ad-free by becoming a PEL supporter at partiallyexaminedlife.com/support .

Discussing Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince (1532) and Ch. 1-20 of The Discourse on the First Ten Books of Titus Livy. Get this and every episode ad-free by becoming a PEL supporter at partiallyexaminedlife.com/support .

On Werner Heisenberg's Physics and Philosophy. Dylan Casey's first appearance (as a guest). Get this and every episode ad-free by becoming a PEL supporter at partiallyexaminedlife.com/support .

On the Chuang Tzu, Chapters 2, 3, 6, 18, and 19. With guest Erik Douglas. Get this and every episode ad-free by becoming a PEL supporter at partiallyexaminedlife.com/support .

Discussing The Genealogy of Morals (mostly the first two essays) and Beyond Good and Evil Ch. 1 (The Prejudices of Philosophers), 5 (Natural History of Morals), and 9 (What is Noble?). Get this and every episode ad-free by becoming a PEL supporter at partiallyexaminedlife.com/support .

Discussing Fundamental Principles (aka Groundwork) of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785).

Discussing Jeremy Bentham's An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation chapters 1-5, John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism, and Peter Singer's "Famine, Affluence, and Morality." Get this and every episode ad-free by becoming a PEL supporter at partiallyexaminedlife.com/support .