Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

The Partially Examined Life is a podcast by some guys who were at one point set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it. Each episode, we pick a short text and chat about it with some balance between insight and flippancy. You don't have to know any philosophy, or even to have read the text we're talking about to (mostly) follow and (hopefully) enjoy the discussion. For links to the texts we discuss and other info, check out www.partiallyexaminedlife.com. We also feature episodes from other podcasts by our hosts to round out your partially examined life, including Pretty...

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Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey

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Society

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6 de jul de 2026

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Episódios

PREMIUM-Episode 18: Plato: What Is Knowledge? 21.04.2010

Discussing Plato's Theatetus and Meno .

PREMIUM-Episode 17: Hume's Empiricism: What Can We Know? 29.03.2010

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

PREMIUM-Episode 16: Danto on Art 04.03.2010

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."

Episode 15: Hegel on History 24.02.2010

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 .

Episode 14: Machiavelli on Politics 07.02.2010

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 .

Episode 13: What Are the Metaphysical Implications of Quantum Physics? 03.01.2010

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 .

Episode 12: Chuang Tzu's Taoism: What Is Wisdom? 06.12.2009

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 .

Episode 11: Nietzsche's Immoralism: What Is Ethics, Anyway? 10.11.2009

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 .

Episode 10: Kantian Ethics: What Should We Do? 19.10.2009

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

Episode 9: Utilitarian Ethics: What Should We Do? 18.09.2009

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 .

Episode 8: Wittgenstein's Tractatus (and Carnap): What Can We Legitimately Talk About? 04.09.2009

Continuing last ep's discussion of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus with some Rudolph Carnap from his 1935 book Philosophy and Logical Syntax . Get this and every episode ad-free by becoming a PEL supporter at partiallyexaminedlife.com/support .

Episode 7: Wittgenstein's Tractatus: What Is There and Can We Talk About It? 19.08.2009

Discussing the beginning (through around 3.1) of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus  (1921). Get this and every episode ad-free by becoming a PEL supporter at partiallyexaminedlife.com/support .

Episode 6: Leibniz's Monadology: What Is There? 31.07.2009

Discussing Gottfried Wilhelm Liebniz's Monadology  (1714). Get this and every episode ad-free by becoming a PEL supporter at partiallyexaminedlife.com/support .

Episode 5: Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics 16.07.2009

Discussing Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics , Books I and II. Get this and every episode ad-free by becoming a PEL supporter at partiallyexaminedlife.com/support .

Episode 4: Camus and the Absurd 22.06.2009

Discussing Camus's "An Absurd Reasoning" and "The Myth of Sisyphus" (1942). Get this and every episode ad-free by becoming a PEL supporter at partiallyexaminedlife.com/support .

Episode 3: Hobbes's Leviathan: The Social Contract 07.06.2009

Discussing Hobbes's Leviathan , Chapters 13-15. Get this and every episode ad-free by becoming a PEL supporter at partiallyexaminedlife.com/support .

Episode 2: Descartes's Meditations: What Can We Know? 14.05.2009

On Descartes's Meditations 1 and 2. Get this and every episode ad-free by becoming a PEL supporter at partiallyexaminedlife.com/support .

Episode 1: "The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living." 13.05.2009

Discussing Plato's "Apology." Does studying philosophy make you a better person? No. Get this and every episode ad-free by becoming a PEL supporter at partiallyexaminedlife.com/support .

Episode 0: Introduction to the Podcast 11.05.2009

What are we trying to do here? Why should you bother to listen to us?

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