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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 Much Pop (prettymuchpop.com, covering all media), Nakedly Examined Music (nakedlyexaminedmusic.com, deconstructing songs), Philosophy vs. Improv (philosophyimprov.com, fun with performance skills and philosophical ideas), and (sub)Text (subtextpodcast.com, looking deeply at lit and film). Learn about more network podcasts at partiallyexaminedlife.com.

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Episode 109: Jaspers’s Existentialism with Guest Paul Provenza

Jan 19, 2015
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Precognition of Ep. 109: Karl Jaspers

Jan 18, 2015
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Episode 108: Dangers of A.I. with Guest Nick Bostrom

Jan 6, 2015
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Episode 107: Edmund Burke on the Sublime

Dec 20, 2014
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Not Ep. 107: The 12 Interminable Days of Xmas: A Musical Extravaganza

Dec 20, 2014
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Episode 106: Pyrrhonian Skepticism According to Sextus Empiricus

Dec 4, 2014
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Episode 105: Kant: What Is Beauty?

Nov 15, 2014
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Episode 104: Robert Nozick’s Libertarianism

Oct 27, 2014
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Precognition of Ep. 104: Robert Nozick

Oct 26, 2014
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Episode 103: Thoreau on Living Deliberately

Oct 14, 2014