Fantastic Friends and Where to Find Them

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In this episode we talk to Professor Jim Okapal (who suggested the title of this episode) about Aristotle, friendship, science fiction, and fantasy. In our discussion Jim elaborates on some of the ideas he developed in his essay “’In Search of …’ Friendship: What We Can Learn from Androids and Vulcans” (in The Ultimate Start Trek and Philosophy: The Search for Socrates edited by Kevin S. Decker and Jason T. Eberl).

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Honey, the Computer Is Trying to Take over the World Again!

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ITTIF is back with season 4 (episodes released weekly). In this episode we discuss technological dystopias (along with some good old fashioned run of the mill quotidian dystopias).

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“Attack of the Mole Men” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Spoiler Alert! (It’s an Episode about the Philosophy of Spoilers)

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In this final episode of Season Three we discuss Richard’s new book, which is on the philosophy of spoilers. After four episodes of interviews from the annual meeting of the Pop Culture Association, we are back to our regular format: we have a listener musing and discuss what we’ve been liking of late in Pop Culture (one astute viewer called this segment Siskel and Q*Bert).

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“Attack of the Mole Men” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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New Discussion Page

We now have a place where listeners can discuss things that come up in the episodes. To access the discussion page, click on the “Discussion-Topics” link above or go here

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From the PCA: What The Orville gets Right

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In this episode we are again coming “live” from the annual meeting of the Popular Culture Association (this is the final installment of a four-part series). We talk to some prominent scholars of philosophy and pop culture (David Kyle Johnson, Mike Berry, and Chris Ketcham) about some of their favorite intersections of philosophy and pop culture. We discuss (among other things) The Orville, consciousness, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. We also make a really bad pun about Orville Wright in the title.

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“Attack of the Mole Men” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Spoiler Alert! is now out.

Richard’s new book Spoiler Alert! (It’s a Book about the Philosophy of Spoilers) is now available wherever fine books are sold. We’ll be doing an episode on the philosophy of spoilers in a couple of weeks.
You can order it here.

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From the PCA: The Purple Replicant of Cairo

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In this episode we are again coming “live” from the annual meeting of the Popular Culture Association (this is the third of a four-part series). We talk to some prominent scholars of philosophy and pop culture (Leigh Rich, Jim Okapal, Corey Horn, and Seth Walker) about some of their favorite intersections of philosophy and pop culture. We discuss (among other things) The Cairo Trilogy, how differing philosophical traditions find common ground in pop culture, public philosophy, and remix. We also make some pretty significant announcements.

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“Attack of the Mole Men” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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From the PCA: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Good Place

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In this episode we are again coming “live” from the annual meeting of the Popular Culture Association (this is the second of a four-part series). We talk to some prominent scholars of philosophy and pop culture (Steve Benko, Andrew Pavelich, Gwendolyn Dolske, and Rebecca Shearer) about some of their favorite intersections of philosophy and pop culture. We discuss (among other things) The Good Place, the philosophy of comedy, and some of their upcoming projects.

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“Attack of the Mole Men” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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From the PCA: If Thou Gaze Long into a Black Mirror, the Black Mirror will also Gaze into Thee

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In this episode we are coming “live” from the annual meeting Popular Culture Association. We talk to some prominent scholars of philosophy and pop culture (Jason Eberle, George Dunn, and David Kyle Johnson) about some of their favorite intersections of philosophy and pop culture. We discuss (among other things) Battlestar Galactica, Westworld and Black Mirror, and some of their upcoming projects.

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“Attack of the Mole Men” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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