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Terrifying Questions

Terrifying Questions


Terrifying Questions

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Length:
50 episodes
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

Description

Eric Kaplan, a comedy writer (Futurama, Big Bang Theory) and doctor of philosophy, and Taylor Carman (Barnard College, Columbia University), a distinguished but humble authority on matters of existence and existentialism, host a philosophy podcast that addresses the most unsettling questions concerning human life and the nature of things and finds a path to courage using comedy, imagination, and far-ranging intellectual philosophical investigation. Along the way they grapple with the deep uncanniness of being.
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

Episodes1 - 10 of 50 episodes

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Episode 43: Can You Learn Anything Important from Somebody Else?

Eric and his temporary co-host, Tao Ruspoli (filmmaker, co-founder of the Bombay Beach ...

61 minutes
Mar 08, 2024

Episode 42: Are There Human Beings Worthy of Worship? With Geoff Dyer

Tao and Eric are joined by author Geoff Dyer to question whether certain individuals ar...

60 minutes
Feb 29, 2024

Episode 41: Is Entertainment a Seductive Lie?

Eric Kaplan and Tao Ruspoli ask about how entertainment may or may not be "true". Tao s...

53 minutes
Feb 23, 2024

Episode 40: Is Food Art?

This week Julia Moskin, Pulitzer Prize winning food reporter for the New York Times, jo...

71 minutes
Feb 11, 2024

Episode 15: Is There Any Such Thing as the Self?

Another chestnut. Am I a self? Am I myself? Am I yourself? And if there is no such thin...

49 minutes
Feb 06, 2024

Episode 12: Are We Our Bodies?

A command performance of a classic. Are we our bodies? Do we have sould? Do we have min...

48 minutes
Jan 30, 2024

Episode 39: Is Faith Good?

Can we build a meaningful life on the shifting sands of irrational belief? Or if we ref...

61 minutes
Jan 22, 2024

Episode 8: Do We Need Other People?

Another command performance. (Okay, rerun.) Are we utterly dependent on others or shoul...

53 minutes
Jan 15, 2024

Episode 38: Is Justice Possible?

Some things are obviously horribly bad and wrong. Is it possible to make them right? Do...

54 minutes
Jan 07, 2024

Episode 37: Is It Okay to Be Fat?

Do we owe it to anyone (even ourselves) to be thin? Is being thin always healthier, sex...

57 minutes
Dec 31, 2023