23 January 2010
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
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
22 October 2009
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
We hear a lot of talk these days about “Integrity,” and how it’s all good to have and such. But what does it even mean to have integrity? In this episode BF took a trip to Curzertown (the realm of Texas Tech philosophy professor Dr. Howard Curzer) to find out the answer. Ad-hoc philosopher Michael […]
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acting, Aristotle, authenticity, Barbie, Bernard Williams, Cheshire Calhoun, consistency, counter-culture, democracy, espionage, ethics, existentialism, generalism, healthcare, Hegel, honesty, Howard Curzer, identity, integrity, James Joyce, leadership, love, marriage, meta, Michael H, Nietzsche, Plato, politics, power, rational anarchy, Rene Descartes, sci-fi, Socrates, Star Wars, Stephen, StrengthsQuest, Texas Tech University, truthfulness, virtue, Wikipedia
06 October 2009
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Input, Achiever, Restorative, Deliberative… to many these are but a few odd-sounding words, but to those of us here at BF they are the vocabulary of success and self-knowledge itself. They are Strengths, as defined by the Gallup Organization’s StrengthsFinder assessment. This past weekend Jay Killough of Texas Tech University Career Services joined us to […]
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beer, Chip Anderson, Don Clifton, Facebook, Gallup, hope, horoscopes, Jay Killough, Jediah, Kevin, Martin Siligman, mathematics, nature, Ning, nurture, Plato, psychology, Punk IPA, Rackspace, skill, sociology, Socrates, statistics, Stephen, StrengthsQuest, success, talent, Texas Tech University, Warren Ellis, weakness
