09 February 2013
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
It’s a nice day to start again, folks. The end of January marked the beginning of the first Coursera MOOC purely focused on the venerable phield of philosophy. In this first application of the first week of material (what I meant but forgot to call “Coursera Diaries Part I”), Kevin and I test out Dave Ward’s […]
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Africa, Arrested Development, broadcasting, Canada, cell phones, Charlie Brooker, Choose Your Own Adventure, Contact, Coursera, David Ward, definition, Doctor Who, etymology, Halo 2, Hamlet, Hitler, house of cards, I Love Bees, Kevin, Leverage, Memento, metaphilosophy, mobile payments, My Little Pony, Netflix, Network, Oxford Dictionary, Philosophy Bites, Phineas and Ferb, Ryan North, Sherlock. radio serial, Stephen, structural dramaturgy, television, The Guild, The Hub, theatre, To Be or Not to Be: That is the Adventure, TV, University of Edinburgh, YouTube
30 December 2012
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Is Doctor Who a religion? Kevin and Stephen respond to Idea Channel and ruminate on Facebook, memory and identity
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atheism, authenticity, censorship, Christianity, Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, cosmology, David Tennant, definition, Doctor Who, Emile Durkheim, Facebook, history, identity, Instagram, journalism, Kevin, Matt Smith, memory, My Little Pony, obscenity, Pastafarianism, PBS Idea Channel, poststructuralism, PRI, Prometheus, radio, RadioLab, religion, religious exclusivism, Richard Dawkins, science, science fiction, scientology, Star Trek, Star Wars, Stephen, This American Life, truth
16 September 2009
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Stop me if you’ve heard this one… a pianist, a mathematician, and a crab walk into a bar. No wait… I forget how the rest goes. Anyway, this week Julie Meadows, now back from the future, joined me alongside sneezing philosopher Michael Hayslip and spaghetti extraordinaire Kevin Saunders to talk about some music. I think […]
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aesthetics, Amadeus, art, Bach, Beethoven, definition, Glenn Gould, John Cage, Johnny Cash, Julie, Kevin, meta, Michael H, motion capture, Mozart, music, Nine Inch Nails, Philip Glass, philosophy of language, philosophy of music, piano, post-modernism, Socrates, sound, Stephen, Susan Langer, synesthesia, theater, Tom and Jerry, Vladimir Horowitz, William Westney