Bad Philosophy

Theatre Alert! Trey Parker and Matt Stone (of South Park infamy) recently launched a Broadway musical that’s getting the exact opposite flavor of attention their work usually garners. Praise is sweeping across the play from all directions. However, we love our dirt here at BF, so in this episode we explored the ‘dark’ side of […]

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Africans, Amy, Austin, Avenue Q, Baltimore, broadway, David Simon, drugs, education, epistemology, Jackass, Johnny Knoxville, Kevin, Matt Stone, Mormonism, NPR, post-colonialism, racism, sound, South Part, Special Olympics, Stephen, synesthesia, Texenza, The Book of Mormon, The Ringer, The Wire, Tony Awards, transcription, Trey Parker, Uganda

At any given moment thousands of people around the world are praying (and since it’s Easter today you can probably tack a few more zeroes onto that estimate). Whether it’s praying for the destruction of sinful local businesses or just a little tsunami from God to show the world He’s still awake at the control […]

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Aperture Science, ASMR, Buddha, Buddhism, Catholicism, Christianity, consequentialism, deontology, Dr. Webb, Eleanor Stump, existentialism, God, harm, incest, Islam, J. Crew, Jeopardy!, Judaism, Kiki, Leisure Suit Larry, mantra, meditation, memes, nature, nurture, personality, philosophy of religion, placebo effect, prayer, problem of petitionary prayer, religion, Repent Amarillo, Richard Dawkins, science, Socrates, Stephen, synesthesia, Texas Tech University, The Daily Show, worship, Zagzebsky

It’s easy to take our perceptions for granted. Colors, shapes, smells, and so forth are for the most part universal. But some people have this kickass condition called synesthesia, where their wires get crossed and their perceptions get… interesting. BF was privileged to get a man who sees letters and numbers as colors on the […]

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alphabet, Aristotle, biochemistry, color, Cyrillic, disabilities, Dr. Webb, drugs, dyslexia, geometry, Google, Greek, Jediah, kanji, Kevin, Office Space, philosophy of mind, Sanskrit, Shawn, Stephen, suicide, Swingline, synesthesia, The Giver, The Man Who Tasted Shapes, theology, wavelength

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