Bad Philosophy

Is consumer capitalism played-out? Why is Roberto Unger so angry? And could cats save us all? Kevin and I ponder these questions and more.

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activism, Alton Brown, Android, anger, Barack Obama, breast cancer, capitalism, CCC, charity, Civil Rights Movement, consequentialism, Cory Doctorow, CSR, deontology, extrinsic value, FDR, Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, Google, Great Depression, healthcare, idealism, Infinite Cat Project, intrinsic value, Kevin, Marxism, minimum income, PBS Idea Channel, pessimism, Philosophy Bites, Planet Money, podcasts, power, protest, RadioLab, realism, Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Rosa Parks, RSA, schizophrenia, slacktivism, socialism, Spider Robinson, Stephen, The Cold Equations, Theodore Sturgeon, Tumblr, United States, WPA, Zoom

Kevin and Stephen attempt to construct a solid introduction to post-structuralism and deconstruction… in STEREO.

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C. S. Lewis, class, consequentialism, deconstruction, deontology, Derrida, epistemology, games, gender, government, hope, identity, Imperialism, Judith Butler, Kevin, Lacan, Marxism, mathematics, meaning, metaphysics, Plato, postmodernism, poststructuralism, power, race, Saussure, science, society, soul, spiritualism, Stephen, structuralism, subjectivism, value, Wittgenstein

One of BF’s largest panels ever dives into the moral choices in contemporary video games like The Old Republic and Skyrim.

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2012 Election, 2012 Olympics, Aaron Sorkin, Arrested Development, beer pong, Beyond Good and Evil, Blackberry, Britton, consequentialism, darts, debate, deontology, dreidel, ethics, Fatal Frame, GameBoy, games, golf, Humble Bundle, Jedi, Joss Whedon, Kevin, Kiki, Kindle, Knights of the Old Republic, KOTOR, Laughing Squid, law, Major League Dreidel, masturbation, Microsoft, Mists of Pandaria, MMORPG, morality, Pokemon, Pokemon Snap, Quidditch, racism, Runescape, Simon, Sith, Skyrim, soccer, sports, Sports Night, Star Wars, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Stephen, storytelling, video games, witches, World of Warcraft, WoW

So in case you hadn’t heard, a few weeks ago we shot some guy in the eye and dumped him in the ocean, then cheered exuberantly about it for a few days. With this hefty moral conundrum we began our first ever all-Formsqueeze episode, answering a slew of YOUR questions from our Formspring account.We covered […]

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A&W Root Beer, Afghanistan, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Audible, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Coke Zero, consequentialism, death penalty, deontology, drugs, Epicurus, ethics, Formspring, Geraldo Rivera, Glee, God, Heart Attack Grill, Hitler, Hopdoddy, Joan of Arc, Jonathan Coulton, Joss Whedon, Kevin, KFC Double Down, Kiki, Kinect, Man vs. Food, Mark Hamill, moon landing, Mystery Men, Netflix, Osama Bin Laden, Pakistan, Pandora's Star, Peter F. Hamilton, porn, Reanimator, retributivism, sci-fi, SeaQuest, slash fiction, Stargate, Stargate Universe, Startide Rising, Stephen, Syfy, The Daily Show, theatre, transcription, Triple Double Oreo, Uplift Saga, war, Welch's Grape Soda, Wishbone, Xbox