Bad Philosophy

Matt Legler joins Stephen and Kevin to look back at our prediction Wins and Fails for 2013, then look ahead at what’s in store for 2014

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Anchorman, Arrested Development, Austin, Austin City Limits, Black Mirror, Bradley Cooper, cable, CastAR, Coin, Colorado, Czech, Edge of Tomorrow, Fund Anything, Godzilla, Google Fiber, Google Glass, Her, house of cards, Husbands, Inside Llewyn Davis, Jawbone Up, Jeff Jarvis, Kevin, Kickstarter, Manos: The Hands of Felt, Matt, MYO, Netflix, Nymi, Orange is the New Black, Pacific Rim, Paradise Lost, Patreon, patronage, Paul Walker, Planet of the Apes, Quicksilver, Red vs. Blue, Skulpt Aim, STARLING Eyewear, Stephen, TED Talks, The Stand, The West Wing, The Wolf of Wall Street, Transcendence, TV, Uber, Your Whole Entire Life, Zach Braff, ZipCar

Kevin and Stephen fight a Story War and discuss Honest Trailers, PoMo theatre, the Monomyth, and much more on this week’s free-flowing F-isode.

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A New Kind of Science, Boing Boing, Breaking Bad, Cabin in the Woods, Community, complexity, Dan Harmon, Disney, feminism, FEZ, Flatland, Hercules, Honest Trailers, horror, Indie Game: The Movie, James Woods, Joseph Campbell, Kevin, Netrunner Android, Norman Leary, Orange is the New Black, racism, sexism, Steam, Stephen, Stephen Wolfram, Story War, Suzan-Lori Parks, The America Play, The Hero's Journey, The West Wing, theatre, TV, Valve, Weeds, XKCD, You're Next

We could be wrong, but we think you’ll love this episode on fallibilism, featuring Kevin, Stephen, and our least favorite philosopher Dr. Mark Webb.

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business, cartography, Dr. Webb, education, empiricism, epistemology, Eric Ries, fallibilism, FOX News, Graham Priest, Guide to Online Schools, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, John Hawthorne, John Maynard Keynes, Kevin, navigation, Pittsburgh University, poststructuralism, prostitution, religion, skepticism, Spain, Spanish, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stephen, Texas Tech University, The Grammar of Meaning, The Lean Startup, The West Wing, Tim Kreider, Total Recall, uncertainty, William Sellers

WOW! Another year is upon us. The world didn’t end in 2012, even though it gave us an extra day to contemplate our doom. So once again we’re back for our annual retrospective / prediction-fest. Kevin joined me to welcome newcomer and fellow philosopher Oso Perez to the show. This episode may not shock you, but it might move you to reflect, resolve, and predict a bit for yourself. Leave your own New Years thoughts in the comments! Hope y’all enjoy our first episode of 2013…

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2012, 2012 apocalypse, 2013, 3D, 48fps, A Good Day to Die Hard, Aaron Sorkin, Alamo Drafthouse, Apple, AppleBee's, Arrested Development, Austin, Avatar, Barack Obama, Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome, Breaking Bag, Car2Go, CES, Chilantro BBQ, Chinese, Cloud Atlas, crowd funding, economics, emoji, Everything is a Remix, Facebook, fiscal cliff, FitBit, food trucks, Franklin Barbecue, FTL: Faster Than Light, Galaxy Moviehouse, Game of Thrones, Godspell, Google, Gourdough's, HFR, Homeland, Homestuck, house of cards, Hunger Games, IndieGoGo, Japanese, Jawbone Up, Jesus Christ Superstar, Kevin, Kickstarter, Lark, Leap of Faith, Mandarin, Moneyball, Movie Grill, Netflix, New Years, Newsies, Nike Plus Fuelband, Once, Oso, Parker, PBS, Peep Show, perception, politics, Project Glass, retrospective, Rosetta Stone, Rush Hour, science fiction, Sight, special effects, Star Wars, Stephen, Steve Jobs, The Dark Knight Rises, The Dark Tower, The Hobbit, The Newsroom, The Social Network, The Thing, The West Wing, The Woman Who Died a Lot, theatre, Thor, Tony Awards, Ulysses, Walter Isaacson, wearable technology, ZipCar