Bad Philosophy

New guest Bryson Rushing joins Kevin, Stephen, and John Elliott to debate the nature of science, the Higgs Boson, and avian progressive rock bands.

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ATLAS, beer, Big Bang, black holes, Brick, Bryson, Buddha, causation, CERN, CMS, correlation, DARPA, Eagle Scout, Einstein, faith, geocentrism, heliocentrism, Higgs Boson, idealism, Inception, induction, internal consistency, John Elliott, Kevin, Large Hadron Collider, LHC, Looper, NeXT, Pascal's Wager, physics, post-structuralism, probability, religion, Russell's Teapot, science, scientific method, Standard Model, statistics, Stephen, structuralism, Texas Tech University, The Internet, The Matrix, Tim Berners-Lee, Tycho Brahe, World Wide Web

Remember back when Bad Philosophy was good? Man, that show had some great moments. Recording in taco joints on a single microphone, losing episodes right and left, and always having the same people on week after week. Boy I tell ya, those were the days… Hmm? Oh yeah, description! This week we decided to talk […]

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8-bit, 9/11, Adventures of Pete and Pete, aesthetics, Atari 2600, Bryan M, Cash Cab, charades, childhood, chiptune music, Clarissa Explains it All, constrained creativity, Dimitri Martin, disco, Dylan Trigg, epistemology, Facebook, fallibilism, Frendle, Friendster, GameBoy, gaming, Grease, Greek, H1N1, Hegel, Hot Tub Time Machine, idealism, Kevin, Large Hadron Collider, Leave it to Beaver, Macintosh, Megaman, memory, Michael Jackson, middle ages, muscle cars, NES, New York City, Nintendo 64, nostalgia, phenomenology, pictionary, progress, psychology, rationality, Reading Rainbow, renaissance fair, retro, ruin, Stephen, StrengthsQuest, structuralism, swine flu, telephone, The Hangover, The Magic School Bus, the plague, time, Twitter, XKCD

Beer. That oh-so-ubiquitous alcoholic beverage. It has been the bane and boon of many a man’s life over the centuries, and now it has finally arrived (officially) here at Bad Philosophy. Local Texas Tech physics student Catherine Chesnutt kindly hosted the show in her back yard shack, where Eric Beutlich, Josh Clemmons, Kevin Saunders and I came together in splendid inebriation to talk causation, epistemology, and much more over some delicious Planters Peanuts. Grab a cold one, settle in, and enjoy…

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Aquinas, Aristotle, beer, C. S. Lewis, Catherine, causality, correlation, Descartes, epistemology, Eric, free will, Freud, God, gravity, Hume, idealism, induction, Josh, Kevin, knowledge, Leibniz, mathematics, multiple realities, New Belgium, peanuts, philosophy of religion, Planters, pragmatism, psychology, quantum physics, reality, Red Dwarf, skepticism, Stephen, teleology, time

Joining us for Kevin’s last live episode was Bryan Mitchell and Numero Uno Fanboy Jed Cummins. We had some audio woes (read: Bryan turned his microphone off) and video stream woes that ruined the opening bit, but through the magic of GarageBand I have made all right with the world. We talked Dollhouse, philosophy of mind, and Swine Flu, leading Kevin to do a classic rant on politics. Relish this episode, everyone, it’s special…

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AIDS, alcohol, anarchocapitalism, anime, autocracy, beer, Bryan, Centers for Disease Control, Congress, consciousness, Cory Doctorow, democracy, Dollhouse, education, Egypt, epidemic, ethics, Family Guy, government, health, Hobbes, human rights, idealism, identity theory, illegal immigration, influenza, Isaac Asimov, Jediah, Jon Stewart, Joss Whedon, Kevin, l33t, Little Brother, Locke, Lubbock, mainstream media, martial law, paranoia, philosophy of mind, political philosophy, pork, rape, rational anarchy, robots, sex, society, South Park, Star Trek, Stephen, swine flu, TASS, Texas Tech University, The Day After Tomorrow, The Happening, The Stand, thermodynamics, This Week in Tech, Three Laws of Robotics, Twitter, UIL, US Constitution, Vietnam, World Health Organization