904 Episodes

  1. PEL Presents PMP/NEM: The Music of Your Youth w/ Jon Lamoreaux

    Published: 11/7/2021

  2. PREMIUM-Ep. 280: Imre Lakatos on Scientific Progress (Part Two)

    Published: 11/1/2021

  3. PEL Presents PMP#108: Board Game Ideology

    Published: 10/28/2021

  4. Ep. 280: Imre Lakatos on Scientific Progress (Part One)

    Published: 10/25/2021

  5. PEL Presents NEM#158: Dar Williams: Songs as Thought Processes

    Published: 10/22/2021

  6. PREMIUM-Ep. 279: Aristotle's "Categories" of Being (Part Two)

    Published: 10/18/2021

  7. Ep. 279: Aristotle's "Categories" of Being (Part One)

    Published: 10/11/2021

  8. PEL Presents Philosophy vs. Improv #14: Action Idealism!

    Published: 10/7/2021

  9. PREMIUM-Ep. 278: Derrick Bell on the Dynamics of Racism (Part Two)

    Published: 10/4/2021

  10. NEM#157: DEVO’s Gerald V. Casale: Guises of Social Critique

    Published: 10/1/2021

  11. Ep. 278: Derrick Bell on the Dynamics of Racism (Part One)

    Published: 9/27/2021

  12. PEL Presents NEM#156: Emma-Jean Thackray's Modern Mix of Jazz, R&B, and More

    Published: 9/26/2021

  13. PEL Presents PMP#105: The Death of Soap Operas (Is Greatly Exaggerated)

    Published: 9/26/2021

  14. PEL Presents (sub)Text: Sex and Tech in "Alien" by Ridley Scott

    Published: 9/25/2021

  15. REISSUE-Ep 36: Hegel on the Social Dimension of Self-Consciousness

    Published: 9/20/2021

  16. REISSUE-Ep 35: Hegel on Self-Consciousness (w/ New Intro)

    Published: 9/13/2021

  17. PEL Presents PMP#104: King Arthur Reigns O'er Pop Culture

    Published: 9/9/2021

  18. PREMIUM-Ep. 277: Hegel on Our Understanding of Physics (Part Two)

    Published: 9/6/2021

  19. Ep. 277: Hegel on Our Understanding of Physics (Part One)

    Published: 8/30/2021

  20. PEL Special: Nightcap Early September 2021

    Published: 8/29/2021

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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.