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Welcome to the Season Finale! Join Wholesome and Heathen as they consider whether life has any meaning at all! Enter the joys of Nihilism. Well, at least they try to bring some joy to it. Who are Nietzsche, Camus, and Nagel, and what can they teach us about Nihilism and the much more comically named Absurdism. And what do Deadpool, Rick and Morty, and the Big Lebowski have to do with all of it? Contemplate the meaning of existence with us at wholesomeandheathen.com, and let us know our many intense but endearing failings at contact@wholesomeandheathen.com
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Welcome to the Season Finale! Join Wholesome and Heathen as they consider whether life has any meaning at all! Enter the joys of Nihilism. Well, at least they try to bring some joy to it. Who are Nietzsche, Camus, and Nagel, and what can they teach us about Nihilism and the much more comically named Absurdism. And what do Deadpool, Rick and Morty, and the Big Lebowski have to do with all of it? Contemplate the meaning of existence with us at wholesomeandheathen.com, and let us know our many intense but endearing failings at contact@wholesomeandheathen.com
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David Edmonds (Uehiro Centre, Oxford University) and Nigel Warburton (freelance philosopher/writer) interview top philosophers on a wide range of topics. Two books based on the series have been published by Oxford University Press. We are currently self-funding - donations very welcome via our website http://www.philosophybites.com
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Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Pizarro), who share a love for ethics, pop culture, and cognitive science, and who have a marked inability to distinguish sacred from profane. Each podcast includes discussions of moral philosophy, recent work on moral psychology and neuroscience, and the overlap between the two.
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Defining Diego is the story of one Guatemalan adoptee and his mother, a reporter who documented their journey from his earliest steps, as they try to understand how international adoption boomed and busted, and what it all means for families like theirs, with feet in two worlds. When Laurie Stern set out to adopt a baby from Guatemala in 1999, she thought the process would be pretty straightforward. Lots of people were doing it. But the adoption was held up just as she went to Guatemala to g ...
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