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Further podcasts by Danny O'Donnell & Dr. Michael Alsford
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Episode 203: Existentialism Part 5 from 2023-11-29T08:01:18
Yes dear listener, we have returned to continue our exploration of Existentialism. This time we focus on the depths of despair as we look at the absurdness of existence! Danny and Dr. Mike will ...
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Episode 202: Existentialism Part Four from 2023-11-08T06:07:48
To not make a choice is still a choice have some good faith and tune into the final part of Danny and Dr Mike's Existentialism discussion! They chat about the return of philosophy to schools and...
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Episode 201: Existentialism Part Three from 2023-10-25T05:24:19
Once again you have made the correct choice! This week in their continuing chat on Existentialism, Danny and Dr. Mike turn to Kierkegaard and the different stages of life. Are you still in the t...
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Episode 200: Existentialism Part Two from 2023-10-11T04:37:26
This week Danny and Dr. Mike find themselves on the stage of life continuing their discussion on Existentialism by asking are we more than just decision makers? Do we bring more to the table the...
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Episode 199: Existentialism Part One from 2023-09-27T04:11:55
Congratulations! You have chosen wisely to listen to this podcast! This week Danny and Dr. Mike tackle Existentialism. Stroke your beards, adjust your berets and light up your Gauloises as you l...
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Episode 198: Holiday Time 'Leisure' special! from 2023-07-05T08:04:31
Yes its holiday time in Philosophy? WTF?? world! Open up your deck chair, unscrew a bottle of ambre solaire lay back and listen as Mike muses on the purpose of leisure time!
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Episode 197: AI - Episode Three from 2023-06-14T04:26:17
Danny and Dr. Mike conclude their discussion on AI with a wider chat on who gets the keys to the social media platforms we all use and the fallibility of the humans that are in charge of them. A...
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Episode 196: AI - Episode Two from 2023-05-31T05:21:34
This week gasp in suspense and delight as Danny and Dr Mike, without any computer assisted aides whatsoever, tightrope walk across the twin philosophical concepts of the Turning Test and the Chi...
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Episode 195: AI - Episode One from 2023-05-17T04:36:38
Join us this week as Dr Mike and Danny get super topical and chat ChatGPT! That's right, PhilosophyWTF has caught up with the 21st Century and is getting to grips with cutting edge thought! List...
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Episode 194: A Chat with Hunter: Final Part from 2023-05-03T04:26:13
Welcome listeners to the final part of the talk with Hunter! As Danny's and Mike's chat with Hunter winds down, inevitably the chat turns to politics and Science Fiction! Also we have a chance t...
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Episode 193: A Chat With Hunter Part 3 from 2023-04-18T20:25
This week Danny, Hunter and Mike have had enough of the breakneck speed of technology and discuss whether we should destroy ChatGPT and 'go back to the 50s'. Then, listen in horror as Danny rais...
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Episode 192: A Chat With Hunter Part 2 from 2023-04-05T04:41:49
Welcome back to part two of our chat with Hunter. This week we talk nation and identity and ask ourselves: 'are we where we come from?', 'How much of ourselves do we take with us when we travel?...
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Episode 191: A Chat With Hunter from 2023-03-22T05:15:08
In this week's episode Danny and Mike have a cosy chat with American friend-of-the-pod Hunter Campbell Royall! With a focus on our relationship to the land, Identity and culture we ask who we re...
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Episode 190: World Tour of Philosophy: Wittgenstein Special! Part 3 from 2023-03-08T05:18
With one day left in Austria and with a 'craving for generality' and an 'anthropological turn' Danny, Mike and Neso finish up on that 'grumpy sod' Wittgenstein. In this episode we really get to ...
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Episode 189: World Tour of Philosophy: Wittgenstein Special! Part 2 from 2023-02-22T05:37:05
Welcome back dear listeners to our Wittgenstein special in which Danny has been let loose and fanboy gush over his favourite thinker. This week Danny discusses Wittgenstein's lesser known though...
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Episode 188: World Tour of Philosophy: Wittgenstein Special! from 2023-02-08T05:26:06
Yes, Danny's moment has finally come! Our travellers have reached Austria and Danny seizes his chance to drag Nesso and Mike down to the Wittgenstein museum, pull the ladder away talk all thing...
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Episode 187: World Tour of Philosophy: On the Road Part 4 from 2023-01-25T05:43:23
Join us this week for the big reunting event as Mike and Danny finally hook up in Germany. Grimace with barely suppressed irritation as you hear Mike, as over excited as an existentialist in dis...
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Episode 186: World Tour of Philosophy: On The Road Part 3 from 2023-01-11T05:37:34
As Mike thunders down the autobahn on his way to meet Danny in Germany, our philosophical duo do a good thing and talk Altruism - or are they ultimately being selfish really for doing so? Is the...
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Episode 185: World Tour of Philosophy: On the Road part 2 from 2022-12-28T06:05:27
This week the philosophy podcast is well and truly 'on the road' as the chat is conducted via radio mic. That's right, Mike is racing toward Danny, navigating the European motorways and still ma...
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Episode 183: World Tour of Philosophy: On the Road from 2022-12-14T05:47:17
This week our intrepid duo finally catch up! Well almost. Listen in with joy as Mike boots away the kickstand on his Harley to race from France to Germany filling in the blanks of his French exp...
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Episode 182: World Tour of Philosophy: Germany Part 6 from 2022-11-30T18:18:50
Once more we head to Germany for a last serving of Nietzsche with Danny and Nesso! Find and follow your bliss as you become Niezschean and go beyond good and evil! Also as a bonus, listen with f...
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Episode 181: World Tour of Philosophy: Germany Part 5 from 2022-11-16T05:44:47
Don't feel guilty for listening to this week's episode! Reevaluate all values and listen to Danny and Nesso as they convince you rise above the slave morality! Yes, we're still in Germany and th...
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Episode 180: World Tour of Philosophy: Germany Part Four from 2022-11-02T05:18:56
Welcome back to Germany as the discussion turns to Nesso's old friend Nietzsche! The man with the difficult to spell name features heavily as the discussion takes in David Bowie, Free spirits an...
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Episode 179: World Tour of Philosophy: Germany Part Three from 2022-10-19T04:41:58
Welcome folks once again as Danny and Nesso will you to take in another serving of German thought! This time Schopenhauer is on the menu along with a side order of Eastern thinking. Sit back and...
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Episode 178: World Tour of Philosophy: Germany Part Two from 2022-10-05T04:41:19
Fasten your berets and make sure the means of production have been secured because Venessa and Danny are talking Marx this week! Yes, hitherto Mike, Danny and Venessa have only interpreted the w...
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Episode 177: World Tour of Philosophy: Germany from 2022-09-21T04:49:11
As the Philosophy World Tour recommences we find our hosts divided! Danny stumbles his way into Munich, meets up with an old friend to discuss who is the best German philosopher over a tall Okto...
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Episode 176: Taking a Short Break from 2022-08-10T04:41:02
It looks like Danny and Doctor Mike have had too much fine French Cuisine and have been knocking back too much wine. They'll be resting under some trees for a while to recover. Please join them ...
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Episode 175: Philosophy World Tour: France Part 5 from 2022-07-27T04:46:05
This week join Danny and Mike as they get down and dirty with Diderot. Listen as they risk the wrath of the divine being as they delve into deism and the designed world - is that a watch I see o...
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Episode 174: Philosophy World Tour: France Part 5 from 2022-07-13T04:17:21
This week join us for Rousseau style selfies by the river and manipulate your image for the sake of social success and recognition. But what is the cost to our innocence as we abandon the state ...
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Episode 173: World Tour of Philosophy: France Part 4 from 2022-06-29T04:02:57
This week, join Mike and Danny as they discuss beards and public perception. Yes, we are still in France and Montaigne and the crew are living large. Extreme philosophy is the name of the game a...
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Episode 172: World Tour of Philosophy: France part 3 from 2022-06-15T04:08:25
This week join Danny and Mike as they tuck in to a baguette packed with succulent slices proto-phenomenological goodness. Yes, it’s not even lunch time in France and we are already 2 bottles of ...
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Episode 171: World Tour of Philosophy: France Part 2 from 2022-06-01T04:39:29
This week join Mike and Danny as they settle into cafe society and sip red wine on the banks of the Seine. Yes in France they philosophise on main street, he said ruefully. So, adjust your beret...
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Episode 170: World Tour of Philosophy: France from 2022-05-18T04:12:27
This week join Mike and Danny as they unlimber their accordions, put on their berets and pour themselves a large glass of Calvados. Yes, we have made it to France and you can feel the angst lite...
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Episode 169: World Tour of Philosophy: Italy Part 5 from 2022-05-04T04:10:14
This week, feel the clammy hand of dread upon your shoulders as we suggest the inconceivable notion of the Vitruvian Spider! (Yes, just picture that and try and sleep again!). Join Danny, Nesso ...
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Episode 168: World Tour of Philosophy:Italy Part 4 from 2022-04-20T04:55:30
This week join Danny, Nesso and Dr Mike as they explore patronage, the nature of art and the melting point of ice cream. Yes, we are on the prowl looking for sweet, sweet patronage. Let’s face i...
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Episode 167: World Tour of Philosophy: Italy Part 3 from 2022-04-06T04:39:37
This week join us as we plot each other's downfall with...with...I don't know, some sort of devious political strategy designed to gain support by unscrupulous means while, and at the same time,...
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Episode 166: World Tour of Philosophy: Italy part 2 from 2022-03-23T05:25:44
This week, join Mike, Danny and Nesso amongst the smell of burning libraries and the acrid taste of scorched scrolls. Alexandria, Constantinople, the local high street, what exactly is lost when...
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Episode 165: World Tour of Philosophy: Italy from 2022-03-09T05:35:29
This week join Mike and Danny as they jump aboard their lambrettas and say “ciao” to the rebirth of Classical Greek antiquity. Yes, over the next few weeks follow our instructions and list of in...
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Episode 164: World Tour of Philosophy: Leaving Greece from 2022-02-23T06:21:53
This week join Mike and Danny as they take a final bus tour of philosophical Greece. Yes friends, this is the big one, for a mere €100 each we hit the road and take in the authentic sights of an...
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Episode 163: World Tour of Philosophy: Greece Part 4 from 2022-02-16T05:30:09
This week join Mike and Danny in duty free as they stock up on cheap booze and last minute tacky gifts and souvenirs. Danny picks up a rather jolly statuette of Apollo made entirely out of shell...
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Episode 162: World Tour of Philosophy: Greece Part 3 from 2022-02-09T05:22:41
This week, knowledge is power, ignorance is bliss and the truth will set you free. Let’s face it, who knows? Clearly Mike, Danny and Vanessa have no clue. Yes, we are still in Greece meeting wit...
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Episode 161: World Tour of Philosophy: Greece Part 2 from 2022-02-02T05:28:37
Ok, we get it, it's not your fault. You're getting on with your life, right? You stumble across this podcast, you have no idea about its character or background, you have very limited informatio...
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Episode 160: World Tour of Philosophy: Greece from 2022-01-26T05:31:49
This week, join Mike and Danny in shock and surprise as we, entirely by accident, and with no forward planning, bump into Nesso the Australian philosopher, wine drinker and all round top Sheila....
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Episode 159: World Tour of Philosophy Trailer from 2022-01-19T05:22:34
This week join Mike and Danny as they take to the skies on the start of their much anticipated world tour. Yes, come fly with us, let's fly, let’s fly away. If you can use some exotic philosophy...
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Episode 158: Essence and Identity Part 6 from 2021-12-29T05:45:52
Ok, it’s the last cast of the year, you all know the drill, I’m not sure I can be bothered this week so I’m just going to phone this one in if that’s ok with the rest of you? Right, so welcome, ...
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Episode 156: Essence and Identity Part 5 from 2021-12-22T05:42:34
This week, as we approach that festive time of the year, join Mike and Danny as they invite a few friends over for drinks and nibbles. Listen in as de Beauvoir tries to bogart all the vol-au-ven...
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Episode 155: Essence and Identity Part 4 from 2021-12-15T05:16:59
This week, join Mike and Danny here in our bodies where we feel safest of all, we can lock all the doors, it’s the only way to live in bodies… or is it? Certainly Merleau Ponty would agree. Yes,...
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Episode 154: Essence and Identity Part 3 from 2021-12-08T06:03:32
This week Mike confuses Danny with someone else, after all, how is Danny to be distinguished from anyone else? One needs to be tolerant of each other, right? Or perhaps, as Popper tells us, the ...
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Episode 153: Essence and Identity Part 2 from 2021-12-01T05:15:44
This week Mike and Danny get down to essentials but where do they take us? What is a good Danny? Who is it that decides on the “Danniness” of a thing? Yes we are coming after you Plato, we have...
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Episode 152: Essence and Identity from 2021-11-24T05:17:36
This week join Mike and Danny in the Philosopher’s Kitchen as they seek to impress the judges with their philo-culinary delights. Will the guest diners enjoy Danny’s Wittgenstein soufflé or will...
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Episode 151: Evil Special Part 4 from 2021-11-17T05:38:08
This week join Mike and Danny and their new band 'The Nasty, Brutish and Short’ as they lay down some more wicked beats to scandalise and appal you all. How, I hear you cry, can we keep such evil u...
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Episode 150: Evil Special Part 3 from 2021-11-10T05:22:12
This week Danny reveals himself to be evil but only as a junior operative, queue jumping for sure but nothing truly irredeemable. Yes, we are back on the highway to hell but with the breaks on and ...
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Episode 149: Evil Special Part 2 from 2021-11-03T05:31:07
This week, shiver in unbridled horror as Mike and Danny dig around amongst unholy things long buried and best forgotten. Join them as they stand shoulder to shoulder with Nietzsche shaking their fi...
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Episode 148: Evil Special Part 1 from 2021-10-27T04:49:58
This week join us for the glorious return of Danny, mostly recovered but sadly converted to the cause of PURE EVIL! Yes, it’s that time of year once again when all the evil things in the word have ...
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Episode 147: Philosophy is Where You Find it! Part 6 from 2021-10-20T04:33:13
This week join Mike and Danny as they attempt to build a scale model of Danny from bits of information gleaned by rummaging through his bins during the hours of darkness. Is it possible to creat...
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Episode 146: Philosophy is Where You Find it! Part 5 from 2021-10-13T04:30:16
This week, who knows what’s going on because we certainly don’t. Danny has been struck down by the virus (he’s fine and recovering so don’t pander to him, he’s just looking for attention) and Mi...
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Episode 145: Philosophy Is Where You Find It! Part 4 from 2021-09-29T04:21:19
This week join Mike and Danny as they get just what they deserve. Yes, who are you and what do you want? Is there an ontology behind consumerism? What do we need to own in order to be complete? ...
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Episode 144: Philosophy is Where You Find it! Part 3 from 2021-09-22T04:17:46
This week join us as Mike and Danny bunk off school to hide behind the bike sheds and talk lifestyles. Yes, you heard right, we’re bucking the system and biting the very hand that feeds us. List...
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Episode 143: Philosophy is Where You Find It! Part 2 from 2021-09-15T04:20:36
This week, join Mike and Danny as they delve into the depths of the fridge, behind the the milk, cheese and other fresh dairy products to rummage amongst the fetid remains of dinners past. Yes, ...
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Episode 142: Philosophy is Where You Find It! Introduction from 2021-09-08T04:28:54
This week join Mike and Danny as they scavenge through the philosophical skips and bins in search of discarded gold. Yes, we are up-cycling preowned and well used ideas that others have simply t...
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Episode 141: How to Build a Philosophy Part 7 from 2021-09-01T04:26:43
This week join Mike and Danny simply because they tell you too. Yes, that’s right, you can trust us, we’re reliable, when have we ever steered you wrong? I mean, who else are you going to believ...
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Episode 140: How to build a Philosophy Part 6 from 2021-08-25T05:07:02
This week join Mike and Danny as they question your life style, yes YOURS! After all, who are you people to come in here with your uniqueness, strutting your difference around like it was no thi...
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Episode 139: How to Build a Philosophy Part 5 from 2021-08-18T04:43:30
This week; being here, being there, being neither one thing or another, being in, being out, being real, being fake. To be, or not to be and bebop a Lula, she's my baby. Yes, it's ontology week ...
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Episode 138: How to Build a Philosophy Part 4 from 2021-08-11T04:49:33
This week join Mike and Danny as they dare to tug at the knicker elastic that alone holds up the underwear of Reality. Will the boxer shorts of infinity be found to be adequately supported or wi...
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Episode 137: How to Build a Philosophy Part 3 from 2021-08-04T04:38:58
This week, join Mike and Danny as they examine the very foundations of reality because it looks like there are some nasty cracks appearing in your plaster work. What’s it all built on, eh? What ...
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Episode 136: How to Build a Philosophy Part 2 from 2021-07-28T04:28:16
This week join Mike and Danny, back in the lab again, as they tentatively extract dangerous metaphysic from the safety of its lead lined container. Have they instituted all necessary safety prot...
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Episode 135: How to Build a Philosophy. from 2021-07-21T04:29:10
This week join Mike and Danny as they lay out their tools and scavenged resources and commence construction. Yes, what, exactly is required to build a philosophy? The toe bone's connected to the...
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Episode 134: Coming up. from 2021-07-14T04:37:37
This week something unnatural stalks the corridors of WTF Mansions. Join Mike and Danny as they set themselves against the gods in a mad bid to create a philosophy from nothing but spare parts a...
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Episode 133: A Well-earned Break from 2021-07-07T04:58:59
This week, take your pick and join Danny down in the WTF mines digging for pure philosophy or leave your pick behind and take your leave with Mike by the seaside. Yes, it's Morlocks and Eloi at ...
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Episode 132: Philosophy and Theatre p5 from 2021-06-30T04:28:59
This week join Mike and Danny - but not the same Mike and Danny as you joined last week by any means - as they grow a beard, change their look and adopt posher accents. Yes, it's time to flip th...
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Episode 131: Philosophy and Theatre Part 4 from 2021-06-23T04:34:54
This week Danny tells us about Wittgenstein’s penchant for gumshoe detective magazines and films. Join Mike and Danny on a dark and stormy night as they hit the streets playing the hunches and coll...
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Episode 130: Philosophy and Theatre Part 3 from 2021-06-16T04:41:11
Saturday night at the movies, who cares what picture you see? Yes, Mike and Danny are talking too loudly in the cinema again and pissing everybody off. Join us this week as we plot spoil and commen...
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Episode 129: Philosophy and Theatre Part 2 from 2021-06-09T04:39:27
This week listen in as Mike and Danny order up a mess of popcorn and broccoli and head to the movies. But who do we find protesting outside? Yes it’s Plato waving a “Down with This Sort of Thing” p...
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Episode 128: Philosophy and Theatre from 2021-06-02T04:35:27
There’s no business like show business, there’s no business I know! Yes, this week listen in as Mike and Danny strut and fret their hour upon the stage. Are we nothing but wastrels, slatterns and n...
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Episode 127: Aristotle Eudaimonia and Virtue p4 from 2021-05-26T04:27:26
This week you say potato and I say er...potato (no it doesn't really work when written down does it?). Yes, who is to say which one of us is right? This week Danny and Mike pitch their stall in the...
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Episode 126: Aristotle, Eudaimonia and Virtue p.3 from 2021-05-19T04:40:14
This week listen in as Mike and Danny give up and simply do what works. Yes, it’s enlightened self interest time here where what is right plays second fiddle to what happens to do the job. Yes, it’...
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Episode 125: Aristotle, Eudaimonia and Virtue Part 2 from 2021-05-12T04:26:39
Join us as Danny presents his virtue for all to see. Go on, have a good long look, take a photo, it will last longer. Meanwhile, and across town, Mike is prepared to settle for simply appearing vir...
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Episode 124: Ep.136 Aristotle, Eudaimonia and Virtue. from 2021-05-05T04:27:20
This week, listen in as Mike finally confesses to delusions of godhood and his complicity in a slew of failed student relationships. How many cooks does it really take to spoil the broth? Who actua...
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Episode 123: A Small Interval from 2021-04-28T04:45:05
This week join Mike and Danny as they ... well, just hang out, nothing more than that really. I mean, Danny pops down the shops for a few bits but other than that nothing much to see this week. Ser...
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Episode 122: Ep. 135 Permanence and Change p5 from 2021-04-21T05:04:17
This week join Mike and Danny as they throw their past selves under the bus. No, that’s not me, it might look vaguely reminiscent (apart from the hair) but other than that I have never set eyes on ...
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Episode 121: Ep.134 Permanence and Change p.4 from 2021-04-14T05:16:15
This week, what happens when worlds collide? Do they both erupt in twin fire balls spinning off into the void as a sleek silver space ship cuts its way through the darkness on its way to a new home...
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Episode 120: Ep.133 Permanence and Change P.3 from 2021-04-07T05:17:21
"What kind of fool do you think I am? You think I know nothing of the modern world? Well, this week, let Danny and Mike prove you wrong! Join us as we ask the question - do we really need to change...
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Episode 119: Ep. 132 Permanence and Change part 2 from 2021-03-31T05:16:03
This week, what have the gods ever done for us? Join Mike and Danny in Thales hot tub where everything is water but full of bubbles and not always the good kind. Yes, it’s time to get back to basic...
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Episode 118: Ep.131 The Pre-Socratics: Permanence and Change from 2021-03-24T06:07:49
This week everything changes, or does it? Is change inevitable? What do we build on that might provide a solid foundation for our identity and understanding of the world? Join Mike and Danny as the...
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Episode 118: Ep.131 The Pre-Socratics: Permanence and Change from 2021-03-24T06:07:49
This week everything changes, or does it? Is change inevitable? What do we build on that might provide a solid foundation for our identity and understanding of the world? Join Mike and Danny as the...
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Episode 117: Ep.130 Alternative Lifestyles Part 4 from 2021-03-17T05:19:23
This week we are just never satisfied are we? There is always some itch that needs scratching, some desire yet to be fulfilled, some patch of grass just ever so slightly more green. Never fear, joi...
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Episode 116: Ep129 Alternative Lifestyles P.3 from 2021-03-10T06:01:34
This week join Danny and Mike. That’s it, just join Danny and Mike, nothing more, just hangout in the world we have carved out for ourselves. Sacrifices will have to be made, you will have to ditch...
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Episode 115: Ep. 128 Alternative Lifestyles P2 from 2021-03-03T06:21:31
This week, what is our ultimate destination? Join Mike and Danny as they set out along the path of natural order to identify our individual fate. But wait, who says we can’t stop and smell the rose...
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Episode 114: p. 127 Alternative Lifestyles from 2021-02-24T05:51:48
This week Danny is fed up and miserable but the sun is starting to shine and a new day is dawning! Tune in and join Mike and Danny, the merry philosonauts, on a magical mystery through the realms o...
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Episode 113: Ep. 126 Family Part 5 from 2021-02-17T05:36:39
This week, join Mike and Danny, after a year of lockdown, as they stare into the face of the other and ask “who the hell are you people?” Yes, what do we do with the other after so long with only t...
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Episode 112: EP. 125 Family Part 4 from 2021-02-10T05:58:39
This week we are family, I got all my siblings with me! Yes join Mike and Danny as they continue their exploration into the murky depths of family life. Should Danny beat his children? Would this c...
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Episode 111: Ep.124 Family Part 3 from 2021-02-03T06:39:03
This week, we didn’t ask to be born, right? Who is responsible for dragging us into this whole situation? Listen with mounting existential dread as Mike and Danny inform you that this is not your f...
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Ep.42 The Two Doctors or How Did You Get Into Philosophy? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week Danny and Dr. Mike travel far beyond the fields we know. Hear Danny as he cries out "Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground: long heath, brown furze, any...
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Episode 3 Can We Make Philosophy More Interesting? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
With the drinks still flowing, Danny & Mike discuss how philosophy can be made more interesting. From Science Fiction & Comic books to Soap Operas, they argue modern culture can be used to 'sweeten...
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Episode 2 What Does A Philosopher Look Like? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
As another round is ordered, Danny and Dr. Mike ask: what does a philosopher look like? - Is a pipe and a quizzical look compulsory, must you wear all black? Join Our Facebook group: https://www.fa...
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Episode 1 What Is Philosophy? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In between drinks, Danny and Mike get to grips with what philosophy actually is. What use is it? Can anyone do it? Will it make your life better, or will it turn you into a miserable old git? Join ...
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Ep. 116 Monsters! Part 3 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week join us in humble thanks as we celebrate the triumphant return of Danny. Hear him utter the word “Wittgenstein” and rejoice! Also this week, the fearsome threat of … WOMEN! Yes friends, b...
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Ep.115. Monsters! Part 2 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week, from the non-euclidean nightmare that is WTF, oozes a podcast that should never be. Listen in unbridled terror as you witness the hideous mass heave itself from the pit to confront the h...
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Ep. 114 Monsters! from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
It’s close to midnight, something evil’s lurkin’ in the dark. Under the moonlight you see a sight that almost stops your heart. You try to scream. Yes, you better run as Danny and Mike shamble from...
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Ep. 75 And Once More... from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Get ready for the philosophical conflicts of the day by cramming a years worth of intellectual activity into our handy 20min TRAINING MONTAGE! (Cue the Rocky music). Yes, why put in serious effort ...
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Ep.74 One more time... from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week Danny and Mike invite you to reinterpret your understanding of the cosmos by way of radical paradigm transformation. Join us in the new world order where up is down, black is white and ri...
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Ep. 73 So, to recap... from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week Mike and Danny help you prepare for the beginning of year examination. What have you learned over the previous year? Have you diligently kept to your studies, done the background reading ...
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Ep. 54 Locke, Hobbes and Hume from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week we ask the question, “what do we bring to the party?” If Danny brings bottles of beer does he simply bring the shape, weight and the number of bottles and then leaves me to do all the hea...
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Episode 110: Ep. 123 Family Part 2 from 2021-01-27T06:29:14
This week listen in as Mike and Danny tell you that you aren’t bringing your kids up properly. Yes, in this offensive episode we upset both parents and the entire education industry by suggesting t...
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Episode 109: Ep. 122 Philosophy and Family from 2021-01-20T06:25:02
It’s 2021 and we are back to bring philosophy to the masses! Join Mike and Danny as they emerge blinking from the darkness of 2020 bloated with the excesses of the festive season. Listen in with m...
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Episode 108: Happy New Year 2021 from 2021-01-01T10:34:49
2020 has finally gone away. Thank you for all your support last year! Let's celebrate 2021 with some New Year chat with Danny and Dr. Mike!
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Episode 104: Ep. 121 Humanity Part 5 from 2020-12-09T05:58:40
This week join Mike and Danny as they seek to establish their unique identities in the world. Marvel as Mike admits to bizarre restaurant based existential choices. Is anything enough for Danny? Do...
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Episode 103: Ep. 120 Humanity Part 4 from 2020-12-02T05:47:53
This week join Mike and Danny as they strip humanity down to its boxers to see what is left of its identity. Are we nothing more than the sum of our memories and if that is true what effect does it...
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Episode 102: Ep. 119 Humanity Part 3 from 2020-11-25T05:41:35
This week join Danny and Mike as they subject subjectivity to the subjective gaze. Is one person's meat really another’s poison? Is there no accounting for taste? Is beauty in the eye of the behold...
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Ep. 118 Humanity Part 2 from 2020-11-18T06:26:17
This week join Mike and Danny as they play "Plato’s Republic the Role Playing Game”! Yes, join in the fun and excitement of living in a utopian society but first you need to roll a character. Grab ...
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Ep. 117 Humanity Part 1 from 2020-11-11T06:07:29
This week join Danny and Mike as they indulge their animal appetites to see just how far they can go before compromising their essential humanity. What, exactly, is a human being? Are you one? How ...
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Ep.113 Knowledge Wars Part 4 from 2020-10-14T05:09:57
This week join our know-it-all podcast as Mike and Danny once more don the vestments of the epistemological priesthood and lead you, but only if you are truly repentant, into the light of clear and...
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Ep.112 Knowledge Wars Part 3 from 2020-10-07T04:43:58
This week listen in as Mike provides entirely the wrong blurb for this episode! Blink in disbelief and confusion as that blurb mysteriously vanishes to be replaced by this one. Did the original blu...
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Ep.111 Knowledge Wars Part 2 from 2020-09-30T04:58:17
This week join Mike and Danny as they draw data from the physical world thus challenging the gods themselves! Listen in as they assault the very heavens armed with nothing more than a doughnut and ...
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Ep.110 Knowledge Wars Part 1 from 2020-09-23T04:52:26
This week, knowing me, knowing you! Listen in as Mike and Danny ask the question “Do you know enough?” Look on in mild amusement as we feverishly search for the instruction manual to the thrownness...
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Ep.109 Kant Vs. Bentham The Final from 2020-09-16T05:29:59
This week we come to the end of the Kant/Bentham rumble. Who will be judged victorious and who will have to swallow the bitter dregs of defeat? Listen in as Kant delivers his signature “categorical...
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Ep. 108. Kant Vs. Bentham Part 4 from 2020-09-09T05:20:30
This week - do we really want the truth? What would we do with it? Better a comfortable lie, right? Consider, if you will, the existential anguish of the “extensive menu” - do we get incapacitated ...
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Ep.107 Kant Vs. Bentham Part 3 from 2020-09-02T06:03:55
This week, if you’re happy and you know it please contact Mike and Danny with details. Yes, it’s the greatest happiness for the greatest number folks. Join Mike and Danny as they decide on the mini...
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Ep.106 Kant Vs. Bentham Part 2 from 2020-08-26T05:24:35
This week join Dr Mike as he gives a mad axeman Danny’s exact postal address and contact details, just in case. Listen carefully and take extensive notes as Mike and Danny consider what the untest...
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Ep. 105 Philosopher Cage Fight! Kant Vs. Bentham Part 1 from 2020-08-19T06:12:08
Join Mike and Danny this week as they pull up at the traffic lights and start revving the engine to show off to their mates. Stick with them as the lights change, they drop the clutch, release the ...
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Ep. 94 Postmodernism Part 4 from 2020-06-03T05:55:09
This week listen in with all due deference as Danny and Mike … no, hang on, I’m not doing this. Why should I impose a narrative on you? The cast is out there now, you make of it what you will. Look...
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Ep. 93 Postmodernism Part 3 from 2020-05-27T05:04:53
Pst, hey, kids, do you want some po-mo? Don’t sweat it brah, this is the good stuff won’t make you go blind or nothing. No this is quality stuff and the best of it is the first hit is absolute free...
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Ep. 91 Postmodernism Part 2 from 2020-05-20T05:34:11
This week, Mike succumbs to the pressures of the time and mentions Wittgenstein before Danny does. Listen in with mounting disappointment as Danny makes the obvious Lyotard gag - low hanging fruit ...
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Ep. 90 Postmodernism from 2020-05-13T04:58:28
This week the pressures of lockdown start to get to Danny and Mike. Listen in as their narratives begin to unravel and they appear to waffle on about anything that comes into their heads under the ...
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Ep. 89 Wittgenstein Part 4 from 2020-05-06T05:17:18
This week listen with your head cocked to one side, in a bemused and slightly suspicious way, as Mike confesses that while he loves fish and chips he has no desire to sleep with them. Raise your ha...
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Ep. 88 Wittgenstein Part 3 from 2020-04-29T05:46:37
This week join us as Wittgenstein kicks over his Tractatus and storms out of the room declaring that he doesn't want to play that stupid game any more because it's dumb and we are all stupid and du...
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Ep. 87 Wittgenstein Part 2 from 2020-04-22T05:24:49
This week agonise with Danny as he tries to get to the end of the Tractatus without interruptions. Do Mike and Danny LOOK like they have meaning but in actual fact make no logical sense? Are we sim...
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Ep. 86 Wittgenstein Part 1 from 2020-04-15T05:23:46
This week, listen in slack jawed amazement as Danny talks about the Tractatus for over 30 mins without mentioning Wittgenstein once. That’s right, not once but a gazillion times! This is it folks, ...
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Ep. 85 Phenomenology Part 6 from 2020-04-08T06:00:35
This week FREEDOM! But do we really want it? Listen with care as Sartre warns us that freedom can make us a little queasy. Do we always have choices? Can I choose to have Sugar Puffs for breakfast ...
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Ep. 84 Phenomenology Part 5 from 2020-04-01T05:27:58
This week we grab hold of stuff and make it ours, not yours, ours… well… mine actually. How much of the world you live in is authentically ready-to-hand? Consider that, you spectator, as Heidegger ...
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Ep.83 Phenomenology Part 4: Inauthenticity from 2020-03-25T06:11:48
This week DON’T join Mike and Danny - seriously, stay away, keep your distance - as they lock themselves down in the WTF bunker to wait for everything to blow over. Listen in (from a remote and saf...
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Ep.82 Phenomenology Pt 3: Heidegger and Sartre from 2020-03-18T05:33:43
This week Mike and Danny are there, no not just there but THERE. Listen in as Heidegger throws us all into a party we never signed up for. Will we enjoy it? Will it have decent snacks? What will th...
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Ep. 81 Phenomenology Part 1: Husserl Part 2 from 2020-03-11T05:46:53
Join Mike and Danny this week as they put a lasagne through a Star Trek transporter. What will come out the other side? Will the essence of the lasagne be preserved or will we be confronted by a so...
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Ep. 80 Phenomenology Part 1: Husserl from 2020-03-04T05:40:36
This week join us as we look at something for a really long time to see what it is…no, much longer than that…longer…longer…okay, there it is! Yes, Danny and Dr Mike are going all phenomenological o...
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Ep. 79 Nietzsche Part 4 from 2020-02-26T05:40:11
This week we start the big clean-up after the Nietzsche party. Listen in as Danny sweeps up the fragments of a delicate metaphysic that was carelessly pushed off the mantlepiece. Shake your head in...
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Ep. 78 Nietzsche Part 3 from 2020-02-19T05:53:52
This week the choice is yours, join the herd, be one with the collective or strike out with the force of your own will and join with…er….others who are doing likewise and form a different more powe...
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Ep. 77 Nietzsche Part 2 from 2020-02-12T05:51:15
This week, there is a party in the Abyss and everyone is invited! Mike and Danny have put you all on the list for the access all areas event of the entire Wednesday! DJ Dionysus will be blasting ou...
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Ep. 76 Nietzsche Part 1 from 2020-02-05T05:51:46
This week we drop the N bomb! That’s right, a philosopher so hip and down with the kids that Danny and Mike feel ill equipped to take him on unaided. Yes, this week calls for skill, daring, panache...
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Ep. 72 Kierkegaard Part 4 from 2019-12-11T05:50:43
This week Kierkegaard tells us that we really wouldn’t enjoy wealth, fame, power and glory …no, seriously, you’ll hate it so don’t even try. Giving it all away to the needy isn’t going to help eith...
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EP.71 Kierkegaard Part 3 from 2019-12-04T05:35:04
This week, for your delectation and delight Danny and Mike bring you love, yes love, spelt L-O-V-E. Listen in as Kierkegaard - you know, that dude who kicked his girlfriend to the curb for the sake...
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Ep.70 Kierkegaard Part 2 from 2019-11-27T05:38:53
This week Danny gets caught speeding and has to do a speed awareness course - why is Kierkegaard there? How fast is an existential decision? As the Dane puts his foot hard down and leaves Hegel at ...
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Ep. 69 Kierkegaard from 2019-11-20T06:53:08
This week, listen in as the salon doors swing open and Kierkegaard enters the room sporting black eyeliner and listening to Cradle of Filth. Be amazed as he deliberately sits in Hegel’s seat and ch...
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Ep. 68 Hegel Part 5 from 2019-11-13T05:34:13
This week, listen in shocked disgust as Danny shamelessly runs with scissors while Mike looks on wondering whether or not he ought to intervene. Do we want what is best for us? Do we need a powerfu...
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Ep. 67 Hegel Part 4 from 2019-11-06T05:35:29
This week Hegel reveals his true colours as he seeks to assimilate our biological and cultural distinctiveness into his own. Raise your shields in hopeless defiance as dialectical inevitability cut...
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Ep. 66 Hegel Part 3 from 2019-10-30T05:52:21
This week Danny and Mike watch in mild amusement as Hegel argues that his is bigger than anyone else's and he’ll fight anyone who says otherwise. Listen with mounting concern as Georg starts soundi...
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Ep. 65 Hegel Part 2 from 2019-10-23T04:59:29
This week Mike and Danny discover how fraught with danger it is to synthesize a new drink out of two more familiar ones. Do two wrongs make a right? Are we more individual in combination with other...
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Ep. 64 Hegel Part 1 from 2019-10-16T04:42:37
This week we take off the stabilisers and go absolute! Ooo and aaah as Mike lies through his teeth to Danny assuring him that he is still holding on tight and that all Danny has to do is peddle. Li...
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Ep.63 Fitche and German Idealism Part 3 from 2019-10-09T04:35:58
This week Mike and Danny help Fichte to pack his bags after a very pleasant visit. Fichte tells us not to fuss as he'd far rather do his own packing because activity helps develop his consciousness...
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Ep.62 Fichte and German Idealism Part 2 from 2019-10-02T05:49:31
This week Mike and Danny witness the ego walk into Fichte's bar and tell everyone that they are unconscious. Listen in total astonishment as the not-ego stands up and accuses the ego of spilling it...
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Ep. 61 Fichte and German Idealism Part 1 from 2019-09-25T04:40:21
This week Mike and Danny abandon the world of sense experience for the inner recesses of human consciousness. While the material world was rather more robust the ideal world of the ego seemed to ha...
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Ep. 60 Kantian Ethics Part 2 from 2019-09-18T05:38:51
This week Mike and Danny are still at the Kant party but the snacks are running out and the slow music is on the turntable. Was it a good party? Would we come again? Danny didn’t much care for it b...
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Ep. 59 Kantian Ethics from 2019-09-11T04:36:24
This week Danny and Mike launch themselves head first into the whirling maelstrom of Ka...
Ep. 58 Kant Part 2 from 2019-09-04T05:45:57
This week we allow the manifold of sense experience to influence your perceptions while...
Ep. 57 Kant from 2019-08-28T17:16:32
This week we introduce the man with the plan, the man who can … the man called Kant. Im...
Ep. 56 Locke, Hobbes and Hume Part 3 from 2019-08-21T06:15:53
In this weeks cast ... as with the previous 55 but by no means establishing it in any w...
Ep. 55 Locke, Hobbes and Hume Part 2 from 2019-08-14T06:02:58
This week join us as Locke teaches us how to make a unicorn in the comfort of our own heads. How certain are we of our certainties? Listen, or don’t, your choice, as Mike and Danny wave a stick at ...
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Ep.53 Spinoza and Leibniz Part 4 from 2019-07-24T05:10:30
This week Danny and Mike confront the fearful menace of ... THE MONADS! Flee in stark unreasoning fear as Leibniz directs his monad army to isolate us from all we hold dear! Shiver in bone chilling...
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Ep. 52 Spinoza and Leibniz Part 3 from 2019-07-17T04:14:33
This week Danny and Mike move a grain of sand and change the world, do they create an alternate reality or just a very small sand-pit? Join us as we play the game "stick the name god on things in t...
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Ep. 51 Spinoza and Leibniz part 2 from 2019-07-10T05:41:24
This week Danny and Mike look at each other and ask the question “Is that the face of god?” As the sun continues to shine we take a walk along the beach with William Paley and go looking for accide...
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Episode 50: Spinoza and Leibniz from 2019-07-03T05:48:32
This week, the 'boys' of post Cartesian rationalism are back in town! Watch with envy as the cool kids, Spinoza and Leibniz, click their way menacingly down the main street of Western Enlightenment...
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Ep. 49 History of Philosophy: Descartes Part 3 from 2019-06-26T04:33:46
This week join Mike and Danny as the wander through the Cartesian garden. Sniff the delightful fragrance of the ontological orchid, walk bare foot through the foliage of certainty while delving int...
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Ep. 48 History of Philosophy: Descartes Part 2 from 2019-06-19T04:42:57
This week, who knows? Perhaps we will lie to you, perhaps we will tell you the truth and you will not hear it properly. It could be that Danny and Mike are evil beings messing with your sense of re...
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Ep. 47 History of Philosophy: Descartes from 2019-06-12T04:40:45
Yes, it’s starting to feel like summer and Mike and Danny have decamped to the beer garden but it is still business as usual. Words? What are they good for? How reflexive is that question? This wee...
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Ep.46 History of Philosophy: The Renaissance, Humanism and the Rise of Science Part 4 from 2019-06-05T04:34:45
This week the Enlightenment swaggers into a bar with its shirt unbuttoned to the chest and a big old medallion on the go, “Check me out guys!” it says. Is its brazen confidence justified or when th...
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Ep.45 History of Philosophy: The Renaissance, Humanism and the Rise of Science Part 3 from 2019-05-29T05:48:32
This week hear Mike and Danny sing Sinatra’s classic “My Way” on the grounds that it is the theme tune to the Enlightenment*. Where is the centre of the cosmos? How do we find out? Copernicus, a br...
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Ep.44 History of Philosophy: The Renaissance, Humanism and the Rise of Science Part 2 from 2019-05-22T04:39:34
This week, enjoy the spectacle of Danny trying to say the word “consciously”. As god’s job is put in jeopardy by the nascent Enlightenment where can we look for certainty? What does Machiavelli hav...
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Ep.43 History of Philosophy:The Renaissance, Humanism and the Rise of Science from 2019-05-15T04:31:23
In this week's cast Danny and Dr Mike keep a close eye on Western thought as it claims to be moving out of it parents place and finding it’s own digs. Can setting fire to a library actually precipi...
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Ep. 41 The History Of Philosophy: Augustine, Anselm and Aquinas Part 5 from 2019-04-24T04:44:47
This week, has Danny got an honest face? Would you trust him to sell you a used car? Augustine isn’t so sure. Also this week does everything make sense when you are part of the club? Is it good to ...
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Ep.40 History of Philosophy: Augustine, Anselm and Aquinas Part 4 from 2019-04-17T06:13:08
This week WAR! What is it good for? Who can we do it to and why? Augustine leads the charge but only against the bad guys. Also in this exciting episode Danny and Mike try and understand belief. Do...
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Ep. 39 HIstory of Philosophy: Augustine, Anselm and Aquinas Part 3 from 2019-04-10T06:08:29
This week, we watch in mute admiration as Augustine welds the front end of a nascent Semitic monotheistic religion to the back end of a neo-platonic dualism. How will this hybrid perform at speed? ...
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Ep.38 History of Philosophy: Augustine, Anselm and Aquinas Part 2 from 2019-04-03T04:42:35
In this weeks cast we raise the issue of… well… we kind of talk about…er… that is to say Mike and Danny have a frank discussion on the subject of … well, you know, do we have to spell it out for yo...
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Ep.37 History of Philosophy: Augustine, Anselm and Aquinas from 2019-03-27T05:28:56
This week look on in shock as Mike and Danny lift up the robes of Augustine only to find Plato lurking beneath whistling nonchalantly as the great Saint smuggles him into Western Christendom. How g...
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Ep.36 History of Philosophy: Epicurus, Stoics and Cynics Part 4 from 2019-03-20T05:42:18
This weeks cast is all about us and we make no apology for that! Listen in total lack of surprise as Danny introduces Wittgenstein into the discussion without any thought for other people. Do the S...
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Ep. 35 History of Philosophy: Epicurius, Stoics and Cynics Part 3 from 2019-03-13T05:42:05
This week why not attempt to swim against the tide as Mike and Danny seek to convince you to accept your Stoic destiny and listen once again to their podcast. Consider, with a sense of calm resigna...
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Ep. 34 History of Philosophy: Epicurus, Stoics and Cynics Part 2 from 2019-03-06T06:50:48
This week we defy you not to shed a tear as Mike reminisces about Terry O’Conner and the thwarting of teenage desire. Listen in mute disbelief as Danny regales you with tales of Diogenes the Cynic ...
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Ep. 33 History of Philosophy: Epicurus, Stoics and Cynics from 2019-02-27T05:45:26
This week Mike and Danny adopt a stiff upper lip in the face of all adversity. Listen in mild, but in no way extreme, disgust as Mike snarfs down a slice of carrot cake in a noisy and self indulgen...
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Ep. 32 History of Philosophy: Aristotle Part Three from 2019-02-20T07:15:15
In this week's cast Mike and Danny abandon their off the peg Platonic souls in favour of a bespoke Aristotelian alternative painstakingly hand sown from pieces of lived experience. Who or what is t...
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Ep.31 History of Philosophy: Aristotle Part Two from 2019-02-13T05:58:48
This week Mike attempts to conform to the ideal while Danny seeks to understand the world in all its variety and empirical particularity. Is the world made up of clear and logical distinctions? Are...
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Ep.30 History of Philosophy: Aristotle from 2019-02-06T07:13:08
This week be amazed as Aristotle teaches us that as all men are mortal and Danny is a man so all men are Danny. Take comfort in the fact that to be a philosopher it is perfectly acceptable to simpl...
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Ep.29 History of Philosophy: Plato and the Republic Part 3 from 2019-01-30T06:42:59
This week the podcast pulls no punches as it sticks it to Santa, the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny as examples of the noble lie. Is Danny objectively beautiful in any absolute sense or is it ju...
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Ep. 28 History of Philosophy:Plato and The Republic Part 2 from 2019-01-23T06:55:41
In this week's thrilling podcast Danny and Mike haggle over who should be in charge of the ideal podcast. Danny maintains that his editing abilities make him best suited to the task but Mike counte...
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Ep.27. History of Philosophy: Plato and the Republic Part One from 2019-01-16T06:58:39
Blinking and stumbling from the very back of Plato’s cave and struggling all the way Danny and Mike are back groping towards the light. As Danny refuses to acknowledge the eternal forms, preferring...
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Episode 26. History of Philosophy: Socrates Part 2 from 2018-12-19T06:42:49
In this final cast of the year we invite Socrates to the party and he promptly brings us all down by asking “is this really the good life?”. While we are all getting rather excited over the prospec...
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Ep. 25 History of Philosophy: Socrates from 2018-12-12T06:42:11
This week we return to Greece to say lots and lots about someone we know very little about. Enjoy, once more, Dr Mike and Danny mispronouncing the name of a revered philosophical figure for comedy ...
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Ep.18 History of Philosophy:The Pre-Socratics p.2 from 2018-10-31T08:24:48
This week Dr Mike and Danny go back to the beginning and talk a great deal about people we know very little about. What is more important, fire or water? In a fair race who would win over 100 meter...
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Ep.17 The History of Philosophy:The Pre-Socratics from 2018-10-26T07:57:10
This week listen to Mike and Danny try to pronounce Anaximenes! Marvel at Danny’s sharp intake of breath as he realises that the Milesian philosophers came from Turkey and not Greece. Encounter cos...
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Episode 16 Believe! from 2018-10-10T06:54:45
In a final look at god and religion, Dr. Mike and Danny ask 'Do we really need to prove the existence of god?'
UPDATE! Check out our recent article about the podcast here! Get into Mike an...
Episode 15 You want proof? from 2018-10-03T08:30:04
This week: Danny and Dr. Mike tackle the various proofs for the existence of God. Also Dr. Mike reviews the Freudian heavy 'Forbidden Planet'! Also: Herbert Marcuse and the 'Resistance Fighter'! Jo...
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Episode 14 Getting Emotional! from 2018-09-26T09:15:21
This week: Dr. Mike and Danny talk Reason Vs the Emotions, Polytheism Vs Monotheism, Buddhism and Shintoism, Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Apollo and Dionysus! Plus a special interview with Dr. Sally abo...
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Episode 13 The Needs of the Many... from 2018-09-19T08:20:32
This week, Dr. Mike and Danny ask 'do we need a god to be ethical?' They throw a light on Jeremy Bentham, Utilitarianism, the Hedonic Calculus and Kant's 'Ought to'. Also:the Enigma Code and the WW...
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Episode 12 Don't mention the 'G' word from 2018-09-12T08:09:15
In this week's episode Danny and Dr. Mike try very hard to talk about things that can't be expressed. Included in the chat: Early Japanese history and Christianity. Kant, Wittgenstein and Polyani a...
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Episode 11 Where is your god now? from 2018-09-05T09:10:53
In this near blasphemous episode, Mike and Danny ask the question 'Do we really need a God to be religious?', talk about 'religion-less Christianity' and discuss whether or not Jesus might have bee...
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Episode 10 Do we need the real world? from 2018-07-31T22:41:57
Recorded in Danny's sprawling Oxford mansion, the old dudes sip Pina Coladas and ask the question: can the virtual world replace the real world?
Also: Fate and the Will of the universe, the Enl...
Episode 9 Philosophy & Religion from 2018-07-25T23:38:20
This week Danny and Mike are looking for meaning, pinning the beard on cosmic consciousness, believing a bunch of stuff that they can't prove and wondering how philosophy is different to religion. ...
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Episode 8 Where is our Humanity? from 2018-07-18T08:31:40
Is Danny losing his empathy or was it just a bad pork pie? In this dehumanising episode, Dr. Mike and Danny discuss what it means to lose our humanity. Among the topics discussed: frustrating fight...
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Episode 7 Are we really free? from 2018-07-11T10:19:50
It's time for a lock in! Are you being socially conditioned to read this? Are you really free? Danny and Mike try to answer this question entirely of their own volition. Also: Hume and throwing kit...
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Episode 6 Am I a Robot? from 2018-07-04T18:58:32
A little the worse for wear, Danny and Mike ask the question:
Is Danny a robot or just a collection of meat and water with consciousness attached?
Also in this week's episode: AI, androids ...
Episode 5 What is the 'Self' Part 2 from 2018-06-27T14:20:18
Open up the crisps and put them in the middle of the table! Mike and Danny continue their discussion on the Self. Among the topics mentioned: Mind and body dualism, the psychology of the self, Nie...
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Episode 4 What is the 'Self'? from 2018-06-20T21:26:55
Another round! In this selfish episode, Mike and Danny turn their attention to what's important: themselves. What makes 'me', 'me'?
Also, Love Island gets some vigorous philosophical exam...