Bad Philosophy

We’re back! Pardon the week off. We had to deal with a rather unexpected chainsaw-wielding polar bear invasion, but all is good now… except for Kevin’s leg … Anyway! This week BF took a trip to the movies, grilling Hollywood’s latest Oscar fetish, Slumdog Millionaire with first-time guest Eric Braden. We also delved into the realm of free will vs. determinism, where Eric and I pulled no punches in our quest to disprove the other. Oh, and the audio was FRAKKING AMAZING if I do say so myself. Enjoy, peeps!

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24, Adaptation, Al Qeada, Albert Einstein, American Dream, Batman, Beauty and the Beast, Best Picture, Bill Clinton, causation, charity, Charlie Kaufman, Christopher Nolan, Dan Brown, Danny Boyle, destiny, determinism, education, epistemology, Eric Braden, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, ethics, evolutionary psychology, fatalism, fate, Forrest Gump, free will, Frost/Nixon, God, guilt, Harry Potter, Heath Ledger, Hollywood, Jack Nicholson, Joker, Kevin, LEGOs, Leibniz, LOST, love, memes, metaphysics, MIA, Milk, multiple universes, Mumbai, neoconservatives, Nietzsche, Occam's Razor, Oscars, Patrick Swayze, Peter Travers, Pixar, poverty, Pulp Fiction, quantum mechanics, reality, Richard Dawkins, Roadhouse, Robert Wright, Slumdog Millionaire, Star Wars, Stephen, string theory, Ted Stevens, The Big Lebowski, The Coen Brothers, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Reader, Titanic, Trainspotting, Wall-E, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Wikipedia, Woody Allen

It’s here, people! We’re inching our way ever closer to becoming bona fide, honest to goodness procasters. We’re back in the DMS and managed to rig up their spiffy, expensive microphones into the best audio configuration we’ve had yet. Julie Meadows joins us this episode for a finagled foray into copyright, Mickey Mouse, and sneezing… among many other decidedly BF things. So pull up an ideal chair and get ready for the audio bliss that is Episode 18…

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ABC, ASL, audio, audiobooks, blinking, books, burping, Catholicism, Chris Smith, Congress, copyright, Cory Doctorow, Craphound.com, Creative Commons, Disney, divorce, DNA, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, East India Trading Company, education, Europe, Facebook, fair use, fascism, FCC, Gatorade, Gettysburg Address, Godwin's Law, Grapevine, happy birthday, hats, intellectual property, iPhone, Japan, Julie, Kevin, Korea, Little Brother, lobbying, Matt, metaphysics, Mickey Mouse, Monoprice.com, Native Americans, ownership, Palm OS, patent, personal identity, Philip Glass, philosophy of mind, piano, Pixar, Pokemon, Powerade, private property, privatization, public domain, RadioShack, Romeo and Juliet, science fiction, Shakespeare, Ship of Theseus, sneezing, Someone Comes to Town Someone Leaves Town, Steamboat Willy, Stephen, The Simpsons, theater, Tracy Olman Show, trade, trademarks, Wall-E, Walt Disney, Western culture, wills

Technology is a tricky thing. When it works, it’s wonderful, and when it doesn’t… heads explode. For the most part, BF’s first foray into high-tech recording went swimmingly. We did have a couple of complications, but despite having to crowd around a single AKG condenser microphone, our intrepid panel managed to record one of the […]

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aliens, Alvin Plantinga, antimatter, ants, beavers, biology, brains, Cars, cats, certainty, Christianity, circularity, civilization, cogito ergo sum, consistency, contradiction, culture, David Brin, dinosaurs, DNA, dogs, dolphins, Dr. Mark Webb, Dreamworks, dualism, elephants, Enterprise, environmentalism, epistemology, ethics, evolution, extinction, fallibilism, G. E. Moore, Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, good and evil, Harold and Kumar, Heroes, J. J. Abrams, John Hawthorne, Jurassic Park, Karel Capek, Kevin, knowledge, limits, logic, mammoths, mathematics, matter, natural selection, nature, nomos, objectivity, original sin, originality, Over the Hedge, physicalism, Pixar, probability, Ratatouille, rationality, religion, Rene Descartes, Rossum's Universal Robots, science, science fiction, Shrek, significant self-support, skepticism, speculative fiction, Star Trek, Stargate, Startide Rising, Steaz, Stephen, Stickam, suffering, supernatural, Sylar, technology, telekinesis, The Matrix, Toy Story, trees, truth, USDA organic, Wall-E, war, War and Peace, whales, wizards, World of Warcraft, zoos