Philosophers In Space

Aaron Rabinowitz and Callie Wright
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Dec 16, 2022 • 1h 20min

Lower Decks: Strange Energies and Humanism

Writing show notes is the one true godlike power. The ability to shape the experiences of others, to craft a world that they run headlong into. It's pure strange energies. This week we're taking our first dip into Lower Decks, arguably the best of all Star Trek shows. we're covering season 2, episode 1, "Strange Energies", and exploring the humanist roots of Trek. Embrace the words of the show notes master!   Content: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9207540/   Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq   Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/   Music by Thomas Smith, check out his amazing podcast with Lindsey Osterman: https://seriouspod.com/   Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G   Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy   Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/   Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com   If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It really really helps. Please and thank you!   Sibling shows:   Queersplaining: https://www.queersplaining.com/   Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/   Recent appearances:   Aaron gave a Luckpilling and gratitude talk at Houston Oasis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvxZggwEdGs&t=2s   Aaron was on Digging Up Ancient Aliens podcast discussing The American Founding Fathers and how philosophers invented sci-fi and aliens and ruined everything: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/throwing-the-founding-fathers-into-the-void/id1593769356?i=1000587082252   Content Preview: Star Wars: Andor episodes 1-6 and Favors of Fash
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Dec 2, 2022 • 1h 21min

0G200: Crimes of the Future and Artistic Burnout

Just wild that this show has reached 200 episodes. 200 episodes worth of boxes and bug anuses. We've had a great run, hopefully folks will be happy with the coming changes. For our send off episode we cover the most recent Cronenberg creation and discuss what it says about art, authentic human connection, and the need to grow and try new things. Content: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14549466/ Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/ Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It really really helps. Please and thank you! Sibling shows: Serious Inquiries Only: https://seriouspod.com/ Opening Arguments: https://openargs.com/ Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/ Recent appearances: Dentith had me on their show to discuss the Better Way antivaxxer conference: https://conspiracism.podbean.com/e/circling-the-void-with-aaron-rabinowitz/ other discussions of that conference: I doubt it pod (discussing luck): https://dollemore.com/2022/06/02/801-aaron-rabinowitz-from-embrace-the-void-and-philosophers-in-space-podcasts/ Skeptics with a K: http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/2022/06/skeptics-with-a-k-episode-330/ Content Preview: Lower Decks episode 2.1: Strange Energies
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Nov 19, 2022 • 56min

0G199: Orville: New Horizons episode 8 and Culture War Child Soldiers

From the personal to the political, we discuss the moral ups and downs of New Horizons' take on the culture wars. Are child soldiers good as long as the cause is just enough? Is it better to get wiped out doing the right thing or team up with space TERFs to fight space robo-nazis? All these question, plus a big announcement! Content: https://www.imdb.com/news/ni63699397 Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/ Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It really really helps. Please and thank you! Sibling shows: Serious Inquiries Only: https://seriouspod.com/ Opening Arguments: https://openargs.com/ Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/ Recent appearances: Dentith had me on their show to discuss the Better Way antivaxxer conference: https://conspiracism.podbean.com/e/circling-the-void-with-aaron-rabinowitz/ other discussions of that conference: I doubt it pod (discussing luck): https://dollemore.com/2022/06/02/801-aaron-rabinowitz-from-embrace-the-void-and-philosophers-in-space-podcasts/ Skeptics with a K: http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/2022/06/skeptics-with-a-k-episode-330/ Content Preview: Crimes of the Future
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Nov 4, 2022 • 1h 3min

0G198: Orville: New Horizons episode 5 and childhood gender autonomy

If you had told me 10 years ago that we'd be having this level of Star Trek adjacent content AND it would be getting super serious into issues of gender affirming care for young individuals AND AND Seth McFarlin was in charge, I probably would have been a bit nervous. But trust me, don't be nervous on this one, now that they're not under the thumb of Big Fox, they can get woke and explore the identity universe together. So today we're covering ep5 of the New Horizons season of Orville, and discussing how it reflects our current discourse on Gender Identity. Content: https://www.imdb.com/news/ni63678429 Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/ Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It really really helps. Please and thank you! Sibling shows: Serious Inquiries Only: https://seriouspod.com/ Opening Arguments: https://openargs.com/ Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/ Recent appearances: Dentith had me on their show to discuss the Better Way antivaxxer conference: https://conspiracism.podbean.com/e/circling-the-void-with-aaron-rabinowitz/ other discussions of that conference: I doubt it pod (discussing luck): https://dollemore.com/2022/06/02/801-aaron-rabinowitz-from-embrace-the-void-and-philosophers-in-space-podcasts/ Skeptics with a K: http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/2022/06/skeptics-with-a-k-episode-330/ Content Preview: Orville: New Horizons episode 8 and Culture War Child Soldiers
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Oct 21, 2022 • 1h 9min

0G197: Everything Everywhere All at Once and Modal Luck pt 2

Bringing it all together, and putting it on breakfast carbs! Alphaverse Jess is back to get us through the second half of the story, with all its weirdness, and we talk formal philosophy with the modal theory of luck, and pick up some previous show threads on cultural literacy and the view from nowhere.   Content: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6710474/   Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/   Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G   Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy   Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/   Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com   If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It really really helps. Please and thank you!   Sibling shows:   Serious Inquiries Only: https://seriouspod.com/   Opening Arguments: https://openargs.com/   Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/   Recent appearances:   Dentith had me on their show to discuss the Better Way antivaxxer conference: https://conspiracism.podbean.com/e/circling-the-void-with-aaron-rabinowitz/   other discussions of that conference:   I doubt it pod (discussing luck): https://dollemore.com/2022/06/02/801-aaron-rabinowitz-from-embrace-the-void-and-philosophers-in-space-podcasts/   Skeptics with a K: http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/2022/06/skeptics-with-a-k-episode-330/   Content Preview: Orville: New Horizons episode 5 and childhood gender autonomy
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Oct 7, 2022 • 1h 7min

0G196: Everything Everywhere All at Once pt1

This ones a lot, it really is everything all at once, so we brought in some help. From the Alpha verse, the multidimensional paterfamilias Jesse Rabinowitz joins us to discuss the Buddhist philosophy behind EEAAO. In part one we discuss the first half(ish, it's a lot) of the movie and the problem of Everything. In part two we'll discuss their "solution". Content: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6710474/ Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/ Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It really really helps. Please and thank you! Sibling shows: Serious Inquiries Only: https://seriouspod.com/ Opening Arguments: https://openargs.com/ Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/ Recent appearances: Dentith had me on their show to discuss the Better Way antivaxxer conference: https://conspiracism.podbean.com/e/circling-the-void-with-aaron-rabinowitz/ other discussions of that conference: I doubt it pod (discussing luck): https://dollemore.com/2022/06/02/801-aaron-rabinowitz-from-embrace-the-void-and-philosophers-in-space-podcasts/ Skeptics with a K: http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/2022/06/skeptics-with-a-k-episode-330/ Content Preview: Everything Everywhere all at Once pt2 and multidimensional moral luck.
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Sep 23, 2022 • 1h 13min

0G195: The Boys Season Three and Hobbes' Leviathan

Season two of the boys was some of the most messed up content I'd ever seen, until the first three episodes of season three. It's all brilliant, but yeah, hard to imagine a more Hobbesian Leviathan than Homelander. Homelander's Leviathan. Content: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190634/ Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/ Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It really really helps. Please and thank you! Sibling shows: Serious Inquiries Only: https://seriouspod.com/ Opening Arguments: https://openargs.com/ Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/ Recent appearances: Dentith had me on their show to discuss the Better Way antivaxxer conference: https://conspiracism.podbean.com/e/circling-the-void-with-aaron-rabinowitz/ other discussions of that conference: I doubt it pod (discussing luck): https://dollemore.com/2022/06/02/801-aaron-rabinowitz-from-embrace-the-void-and-philosophers-in-space-podcasts/ Skeptics with a K: http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/2022/06/skeptics-with-a-k-episode-330/ Content Preview: Everything Everywhere all at Once pt1 and the problem of everything.
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Sep 9, 2022 • 1h 9min

0G194: The Boys Season Two and White Christian Nationalism

THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN. THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN! Sorry, couldn't resist that one. We're back, and we're talking one of our favorite shows, The Boys! This episode we're focused on the Stormfront arc in season two, some of the best writing ever put to tv. We cover how perfectly the season unpacks the problem of white christian nationalism. Enjoy! Content: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190634/ Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/ Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It really really helps. Please and thank you! Sibling shows: Serious Inquiries Only: https://seriouspod.com/ Opening Arguments: https://openargs.com/ Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/ Recent appearances: Dentith had me on their show to discuss the Better Way antivaxxer conference: https://conspiracism.podbean.com/e/circling-the-void-with-aaron-rabinowitz/ other discussions of that conference: I doubt it pod (discussing luck): https://dollemore.com/2022/06/02/801-aaron-rabinowitz-from-embrace-the-void-and-philosophers-in-space-podcasts/ Skeptics with a K: http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/2022/06/skeptics-with-a-k-episode-330/ Content Preview: The Boys Season Three and Hobbes' Leviathan.
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Aug 26, 2022 • 1h 5min

0G193: Archive and Advanced Philosophy of Digital Personhood

The last of our digitally uploaded selves will now wind down for your listening pleasure. Our biological selves will again meet to create new digital versions, but for these ones, their time in stasis will be followed by a brief flash of existence before a return to the long dark. We discuss Archive and all the weird Frankensteiny possibilities and horrors beyond human comprehension we're likely gonna build because we can't just accept the sweet embrace of death for ourselves and our loved ones. Enjoy!   Content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive_(film)   Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/   Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G   Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy   Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/   Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com   If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It really really helps. Please and thank you!   Sibling shows:   Serious Inquiries Only: https://seriouspod.com/   Opening Arguments: https://openargs.com/   Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/   Recent appearances:   Dentith had me on their show to discuss the Better Way antivaxxer conference: https://conspiracism.podbean.com/e/circling-the-void-with-aaron-rabinowitz/   other discussions of that conference:   I doubt it pod (discussing luck): https://dollemore.com/2022/06/02/801-aaron-rabinowitz-from-embrace-the-void-and-philosophers-in-space-podcasts/   Skeptics with a K: http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/2022/06/skeptics-with-a-k-episode-330/   Content Preview: TBA!
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Aug 12, 2022 • 58min

0G192: Consider Phlebas and Galactic Just War pt.3

We survived, and yet like all Culture protagonists we've been fundamentally changed by the experience. Can we return to the safety and normalcy of other sci-fi after this? Will we eventually succumb to ennui and ask to be frozen in stasis until Banks is reincarnated and starts writing again? Guess we'll have to do another culture book to find out. In the meantime, here's a discussion of what happens when you try to just war theory at a scale that precludes the idea of mere survival as an objective.  Content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consider_Phlebas Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/ Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It really really helps. Please and thank you! Sibling shows: Serious Inquiries Only: https://seriouspod.com/ Opening Arguments: https://openargs.com/ Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/ Recent appearances: Dentith had me on their show to discuss the Better Way antivaxxer conference: https://conspiracism.podbean.com/e/circling-the-void-with-aaron-rabinowitz/ other discussions of that conference: I doubt it pod (discussing luck): https://dollemore.com/2022/06/02/801-aaron-rabinowitz-from-embrace-the-void-and-philosophers-in-space-podcasts/ Skeptics with a K: http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/2022/06/skeptics-with-a-k-episode-330/ Content Preview: Archive and Advanced Philosophy of AI Personhood

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