859 Episodes

  1. PEL Presents PMP#122: Maus as Tragic Comics

    Published: 5/6/2022

  2. PEL Presents NEM#171: Ben Vaughn's Primitive Fever Dreams

    Published: 5/4/2022

  3. PREMIUM-Ep. 292: Langer on Symbolic Music (Part Two)

    Published: 5/2/2022

  4. Ep. 292: Langer on Symbolic Music (Part One)

    Published: 4/25/2022

  5. PEL Presents PMP#121: Protesting Protest Songs

    Published: 4/20/2022

  6. PREMIUM-Ep. 291: Cassirer and Langer on Myth and Ritual (Part Two)

    Published: 4/18/2022

  7. Ep. 291: Cassirer and Langer on Myth and Ritual (Part One)

    Published: 4/11/2022

  8. PEL Presents PMP#120: Dexter the Loveable Serial Killer

    Published: 4/7/2022

  9. PEL Presents PvI#29: Personal Panpsychism w/ Jack Symes

    Published: 4/5/2022

  10. PREMIUM-Ep. 290: Susanne Langer on Our Symbol-Making Nature (Part Two)

    Published: 4/4/2022

  11. PEL Presents NEM#169: Wesley Stace (aka John Wesley Harding) Likes Words

    Published: 4/1/2022

  12. Ep. 290: Susanne Langer on Our Symbol-Making Nature (Part One)

    Published: 3/28/2022

  13. PEL Presents PMP#119: Disgraced Artists Like Cosby

    Published: 3/23/2022

  14. PEL Presents NEM#168: Clive Nolan (Arena, Pendragon, etc.) Moves Forward Relentlessly

    Published: 3/22/2022

  15. PREMIUM-Ep. 289: Aesthetic Sense Theory: Hume (Part Two)

    Published: 3/21/2022

  16. Ep. 289: Aesthetic Sense Theory: Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hume (Part One)

    Published: 3/14/2022

  17. PEL Presents Philosophy vs. Improv #28: Enhanced Interrogation w/ Adal Rifai

    Published: 3/11/2022

  18. PEL Presents PMP#118: Adapting Agatha Christie

    Published: 3/9/2022

  19. PREMIUM-Ep. 288: Scruton on Ethical Art (Part Two)

    Published: 3/7/2022

  20. PEL Presents NEM#167: David Christian (Comet Gain) Sings for the Awkward and the Wayward

    Published: 3/5/2022

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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.