Merleau-Ponty, The Philosopher and His Shadow: Ellie Anderson and David Peña-Guzmán Overthink Podcast 2024-10-18 | Dr. Ellie Anderson and Dr. David Peña-Guzmán, philosophy professors and co-hosts of Overthink podcast, discuss Maurice Merleau-Ponty's essay, “The Philosopher and his Shadow" from his book Signs. They discuss Merleau-Ponty's reflection on Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology, and on what it means to inaugurate a tradition. They break down Merleau-Ponty's metaphor of the shadow and ask how it help us think about the legacy and influence of school-founding thinkers. How does Merleau-Ponty identify ambiguity within phenomenology and attempt to develop those unresolved questions in his own work on intentionality, intersubjectivity, and embodiment?Graphics and editing by Aaron MorganEnjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
114. Friendship Overthink Podcast 2024-10-08 | Episode 114. FriendshipEven with endless social scripts around romance, we hardly know what it means to be a good friend. In episode 114 of Overthink, Ellie and David reflect on the highs and lows of their own friendship, and investigate Montaigne’s intimate connection to Étienne de La Boétie. From Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics to today’s loneliness epidemic, they question what friends do, how they hold each other accountable, and the deep ways in which our vices and virtues are shaped by our friends. Plus, in the bonus, they talk Ralph Waldo Emerson, intimacy, dyadic relationships, high school friends, and… pluralectics?Overthink is a philosophy podcast hosted by your new favorite professors, Ellie Anderson (Pomona College) and David Peña-Guzmán (San Francisco State University). Check out our episodes for deep dives into concepts such as existential anxiety, empathy, and gaslighting.Support Overthink on Patreon here: patreon.com/overthinkpodcast Works DiscussedAristotle, Nichomachean EthicsFrancis Bacon, “Of Friendship”Lydia Denworth, Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life’s Fundamental BondElijah Milgram, “Aristotle on Making Other Selves”Michel de Montaigne, “Of Friendship”Lawrence Thomas, “The Character of Friendship”Enjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
Exploding binaries and the nature of things: Lao Tzes philosophical aphorism Overthink Podcast 2024-09-27 | Dr. Ellie Anderson and Dr. David Peña-Guzmán, philosophy professors and co-hosts of Overthink podcast, discuss aphorism 36 by Lao Tze from the Tao Te Ching. They close-read the aphorism and discuss Lao Tze's dialectical subversion and playful explosion of binaries. What does he mean by the "perception of the nature of things"? How does one shrink before expanding, or strengthen before weakening? Why must fish stay in deep waters? Graphics and editing by Aaron MorganEnjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
113. Awkwardness with Alexandra Plakias Overthink Podcast 2024-09-24 | Episode 113. Awkwardness with Alexandra PlakiasClogged toilets, odious jokes, difficult condolences… awkward moments are everywhere you look. In episode 113 of Overthink, Ellie and David invite philosopher Alexandra Plakias to talk through her research on awkwardness. They discuss everything from hasty clean-ups to snap decisions, from oversharing online to uncomfortable silences, as they explore the ways that awkwardness is bound up with power, morality, and the core scripts of our social expectations. Where does cringe end and awkwardness begin? Are we living through especially awkward times? Who gets to decide what is awkward? And, what if awkward people… don’t exist at all? Plus, in the bonus, they discuss The Office, weddings, weird eye contact, and more.Overthink is a philosophy podcast hosted by your new favorite professors, Ellie Anderson (Pomona College) and David Peña-Guzmán (San Francisco State University). Check out our episodes for deep dives into concepts such as existential anxiety, empathy, and gaslighting.Support Overthink on Patreon here: patreon.com/overthinkpodcast Works DiscussedSara Ahmed, The Promise of HappinessAdam Kotsko, AwkwardnessAlexandra Plakias, Awkwardness: A Theory & “Awkward? We’d Better Own it”Thomas J. Spiegel, “Cringe”YouGov poll, "Awkwardness"Enjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
112. Hyperreality Overthink Podcast 2024-09-10 | Episode 112. HyperrealityWhy is there a Parthenon… in Nashville? Jean Baudrillard might have the answer. In Episode 112 of Overthink, Ellie and David pick apart hyperreality: the provocative suggestion that our reality today is so inundated by signs that the gap between reality and simulation has all but broken down. Your hosts talk through the history and experience of hyperreality, from its presence in Superman and Bridgerton to its uncanny role in legitimizing presidential power. And they wonder: does the idea of hyperreality motivate political action, or does it slide into complacent provincialism?Overthink is a philosophy podcast hosted by your new favorite professors, Ellie Anderson (Pomona College) and David Peña-Guzmán (San Francisco State University). Check out our episodes for deep dives into concepts such as existential anxiety, empathy, and gaslighting.Support Overthink on Patreon here: patreon.com/overthinkpodcast Works DiscussedJean Baudrillard, AmericaJean Baudrillard, Simulacra and SimulationDaniel Boorstin, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in AmericaDon DeLillo, White NoiseUmberto Eco, Travels in HyperrealitySusan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of OthersSadie Plant, The Most Radical GestureGuy Debord, The Society of the SpectacleAn American Family (1973)Superman (1978)Love Island (2023)Bridgerton (2005)Enjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
A stoic attitude to peace and acceptance: Epictetus philosophical aphorism Overthink Podcast 2024-09-06 | Dr. Ellie Anderson and Dr. David Peña-Guzmán, philosophy professors and co-hosts of Overthink podcast, discuss an aphorism by Epictetus from “The Art of Living." They close-read the aphorism in the context of stoicism and the concept of ataraxia, and discuss how Epictetus presents the virtue of accepting things as they happen. What does he mean when he says that acceptance is necessary for peace to be possible? How does this stoic attitude connect to contemporary mindfulness and meditation practices?Graphics and editing by Aaron MorganEnjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
Philosophical Aphorisms: Nietzsche on Dealing with Virtues Overthink Podcast 2024-08-30 | Dr. Ellie Anderson and Dr. David Peña-Guzmán, philosophy professors and co-hosts of Overthink podcast, discuss aphorism 160 from Friedrich Nietzsche's “The Gay Science." They close read the aphorism in the context of Nietzsche's critique of Christian morality, and discuss how Nietzsche subverts our expectations about morality and virtue: can one have an excess of virtue? What does Nietzsche mean when he writes: "in dealing with a virtue, too, one can lack dignity and fawn"?Graphics and editing by Aaron MorganEnjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
111. Envy Overthink Podcast 2024-08-27 | Episode 111. IntensityWhy are you so obsessed with me!? In episode 111 of Overthink, Ellie and David untangle envy, jealousy, and admiration, in everything from Sigmund Freud to Regina George. They think through the role of envy in social media and status regulation alongside Sara Protasi's The Philosophy of Envy, and investigate the philosophical lineage of this maligned emotion. Does the barrage of others’ achievements on social media lead to ill-will or competitive self-improvement? Why do we seek to deny our own envies? And how might Freud's questionable theory of 'penis envy' betray the politics of how we assign and deflect desire?Overthink is a philosophy podcast hosted by your new favorite professors, Ellie Anderson (Pomona College) and David Peña-Guzmán (San Francisco State University). Check out our episodes for deep dives into concepts such as existential anxiety, empathy, and gaslighting.Support Overthink on Patreon here: patreon.com/overthinkpodcast Works DiscussedAristotle, RhetoricBasil of Caesarea, On EnvyChristine de Pizan, City of LadiesJustin D'arms, Envy in the Philosophical TraditionSigmund Freud, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, “Analysis Terminable and Interminable”Luce Irigaray, This Sex Which is Not OnePlato, PhilebusPlutarch, Moralia, “Of Envy and Hatred”Sara Protasi, The Philosophy of EnvyMax Scheler, RessentimentGenesis 4, Exodus 20Snow White (1937)Mean Girls (2004)Overthink epiosdes60. Influencers82. Regret98. ReputationEnjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
Normative Male Alexithymia: a conversation with Ronald F. Levant Overthink Podcast 2024-08-23 | Dr. Ellie Anderson interviews Dr. Ronald F. Levant, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Akron and former President of the American Psychological Association. They discuss one of his most important contributions to psychology, normative male alexithymia—a concept that has been a big influence on Ellie's work on hermeneutic labor—as well as his recent book, Assessing and Treating Emotionally Inexpressive Men (2024, Routledge). They break down the concept of normative male alexithymia and dive into many related questions: how is gender socially constructed and historically contingent? How do omnipresent gender norms impact child development? How can men learn to understand and change their relationship to their emotional life?You can check out Dr. Levant's book here: routledge.com/Assessing-and-Treating-Emotionally-Inexpressive-Men/Levant-Pryor/p/book/9781032444697?srsltid=AfmBOoovCzf_Vnf9KpQIe1i3v62B3cYLcm2wNt13vGTL1HIiTMAv35n2Graphics and editing by Aaron MorganEnjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
The Edge of Sentience: a conversation with Jonathan Birch Overthink Podcast 2024-08-16 | In this video, Dr. David Peña-Guzmán interviews Jonathan Birch, Professor of Philosophy and Principal Investigator (PI) on the Foundations of Animal Sentience project, about his new book THE EDGE OF SENTIENCE: RISK AND PRECAUTION IN HUMANS, OTHER ANIMALS, AND AI. Among other things, they discuss the meaning of the precautionary principle and its application to complex moral issues related to the status of fetuses, nonhuman animals, and artificial intelligence systems. This book is open access, meaning that people can download a free PDF version. Visit www.edgeofsentience.com for more information.Graphics and editing by Aaron MorganEnjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
110. Intensity Overthink Podcast 2024-08-13 | Episode 110. IntensityWhat do skydiving, guitar-playing teenagers, and deep-seated psychic states have in common? They're all intense! In episode 110 of Overthink, Ellie and David untangle the role of intensity in shaping our aspirations, cultural tropes, and political goals. They trace the concept’s history from its tricky roots in Aristotle's theory of change, passing through medieval science and princely romanticism, to the thrills of skydiving and breathwork today. They turn to Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze’s accounts of consciousness and emotion to explore how intensity looks beyond the scientistic impulse to categorize and quantify, and question if intensity is of any help in addressing capitalist acceleration today.Overthink is a philosophy podcast hosted by your new favorite professors, Ellie Anderson (Pomona College) and David Peña-Guzmán (San Francisco State University). Check out our episodes for deep dives into concepts such as existential anxiety, empathy, and gaslighting.Support Overthink on Patreon here: patreon.com/overthinkpodcast Works DiscussedAristotle, CategoriesZygmunt Bauman, Liquid LifeHenri Bergson, Time and Free WillGilles Deleuze, Difference and RepetitionGustav Theodor Fechner, Elements of PsychophysicsTristan Garcia, The Life Intense: A Modern ObsessionMary Beth Mader, “Whence Intensity? Deleuze and the Revival of a Concept”Benjamin Noys, The Persistence of the NegativeNick Srnicek & Alex Williams, “#Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics”The BacheloretteInside Out 2 (2024)Mentioned Overthink episodes61 - Self Knowledge32 - Paradox107 - OrganismsEnjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
Han, In the Swarm: Ellie Anderson and David Peña-Guzmán Overthink Podcast 2024-08-02 | Dr. Ellie Anderson and Dr. David Peña-Guzmán, philosophy professors and co-hosts of Overthink podcast, discuss Byung-Chu Han's book, “In the Swarm." They discuss: how does Han’s concept of Homo Digitalis respond and relate to Arendt’s political philosophy? What is “the swarm,” as opposed to “the crowd,” according to Han, and how are swarms and crowds similar or different as political agents? And is our society still characterized by the domination of the ruling class, or are we today, in the digital world of swarms, exploited through self-domination?Graphics and editing by Aaron MorganEnjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
109. Predictive Brain with Andy Clark Overthink Podcast 2024-07-30 | Episode 109. Predictive Brain with Andy ClarkPhantom phone buzzes? Painless mosquito bites? Toy masks flipped inside-out? It might be your brain bringing order to its complex world. In episode 109 of Overthink, Ellie and David interview cognitive philosopher Andy Clark, whose cutting-edge work on perception builds off theories of computation to offer an intriguing new model of mind and experience. He explains why the predictive processing model promises a healthier relation to neurodiversity, and they all explore its real-world applications across placebos, road safety, chronic pain, anxiety, and even the accidental success of ‘positive thinking.’ Plus, in the bonus, Ellie and David discuss depression, plasticity, qualia, zombies, and what phenomenologists can bring to the cognitive table.Overthink is a philosophy podcast hosted by your new favorite professors, Ellie Anderson (Pomona College) and David Peña-Guzmán (San Francisco State University). Check out our episodes for deep dives into concepts such as existential anxiety, empathy, and gaslighting.Support Overthink on Patreon here: patreon.com/overthinkpodcast Works DiscussedThomas Bayes, An Essay Towards Solving a Problem in the Doctrine of ChancesAnjali Bhat, et al., "Immunoceptive inference: why are psychiatric disorders and immune responses intertwined?"Andy Clark, The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape RealitySarah Garfinkel, et al., "Knowing your own heart: distinguishing interoceptive accuracy from interoceptive awareness"Hermann von Helmholtz, Treatise on Physiological OpticsDavid Hume, A Treatise of Human NatureAlva Nöe, Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of ConsciousnessAnil Seth, Being YouThis Might Hurt (2019)Enjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
108. Success Overthink Podcast 2024-07-16 | Episode 108. SuccessCooked, slayed, delivered, ate. In episode 108 of Overthink, Ellie and David break down what it means to succeed, and why this sneaky word pervades our society today - in everything from the ambitions of classic American stage figures, to the refined effortlessness in Zhuangzi’s tales, to the corporate world of buzzwords. Your hosts discuss party planning, tenure tracks, inspirational quotes, haters, why science seems so successful, and the pitfalls of thinking we’ve got it all figured out. Plus, in the Patreon bonus, they reflect on the interpersonal tensions of sharing successes, and making the best of our mishaps.Overthink is a philosophy podcast hosted by your new favorite professors, Ellie Anderson (Pomona College) and David Peña-Guzmán (San Francisco State University). Check out our episodes for deep dives into concepts such as existential anxiety, empathy, and gaslighting.Support Overthink on Patreon here: patreon.com/overthinkpodcast Works DiscussedSimone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of AmbiguityHenri Bergson, Matter and MemoryWilliam Desmond, “Philosophy and Failure”Ralph Waldo Emerson, What is Success?Arthur Miller, Death of a SalesmanHilary Putnam, Mathematics, Matter and MethodThomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific RevolutionsArthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and RepresentationTim Wu, “In Praise of Mediocrity”Zhuangzi, “The Secret of Caring for Life”Enjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
Cassirer and Heidegger in Davos: a conversation with Simon Truwant Overthink Podcast 2024-07-13 | Dr. David Peña-Guzmán interviews Simon Truwant, Professor of Philosophy at KU Leuven. They discuss his book, Cassirer and Heidegger in Davos (Cambridge UP, 2022). What happened during and before this (in)famous public meeting between two German philosophers, Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger? How have Cassirer's neo-Kantianism and Heidegger's existential phenomenology come to represent the split between analytic and continental philosophy? Finally, how do their two philosophies give divergent answers to similar questions, and how might we think them together on topics such as the task of philosophy and the human condition?You can check out Truwant's book here: cambridge.org/core/books/cassirer-and-heidegger-in-davos/6DAFC14689B19027FA30FB07B920E6F4Graphics and editing by Aaron MorganEnjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
107. Organisms Overthink Podcast 2024-07-02 | Episode 107. OrganismsIn episode 107 of Overthink, David and Ellie take up a philosophical perspective on biology’s squirmiest concept: the organism. From Kant’s distinction between organisms and mechanisms, to Deleuze and Guattari’s infamous call for ‘bodies without organs,’ they uncover and question the ontological and metaphorical baggage behind the concept. Their exploration takes them from the bottom of Sea of Naples to the heights of Romantic Idealism, passing through the tensions of contemporary genetics. Plus, in the Patreon bonus, they discuss the unexpected relations between organisms, politics, and reason through the thought of Lukács and Canguilhem.Overthink is a philosophy podcast hosted by your new favorite professors, Ellie Anderson (Pomona College) and David Peña-Guzmán (San Francisco State University). Check out our episodes for deep dives into concepts such as existential anxiety, empathy, and gaslighting.Support Overthink on Patreon here: patreon.com/overthinkpodcast Works DiscussedGeorges Canguillhem, Knowledge of LifeGilles Deleuze, Difference and RepetitionDeleuze & Guattari, A Thousand PlateausImmanuel Kant, Critique of the Power of JudgmentGeorg Lukács, The Destruction of ReasonJennifer Mensch, Kant’s Organicism: Epigenesis and the Development of Critical PhilosophyFriedrich Schelling, First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of NatureLewis Thomas, The Medusa and the SnailD. M. Walsh, Organisms, Agency, and EvolutionEnjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
What Is Public Philosophy? Overthink Podcast 2024-07-01 | Note: this video was re-edited and re-uploaded on Jul 1 due to a file switch-up that affected video and sound quality.Dr. Ellie Anderson and Dr. David Peña-Guzmán, Philosophy professors and co-hosts of Overthink podcast, discuss a topic close to their hearts: what is public philosophy? What are the potential problems with the idea of "public" philosophy? What are the institutional economic structures involved with both public and what might be critically called "private" philosophy?Graphics and editing by Aaron MorganEnjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
106. Fun Overthink Podcast 2024-06-18 | Episode 106. FunEven philosophers need downtime. In episode 106 of Overthink, Ellie and David take a break and chase down fun’s place in today’s world — from its aesthetic opposition to the highbrow realm of beauty, to its peculiar absence from philosophical discourse. What role does fun play in the good life? How does fun relate to art, play, and ritual? Can you really have fun by yourself? And what happens when the lines blur between the fun and the political?Overthink is a philosophy podcast hosted by your new favorite professors, Ellie Anderson (Pomona College) and David Peña-Guzmán (San Francisco State University). Check out our episodes for deep dives into concepts such as existential anxiety, empathy, and gaslighting.Support Overthink on Patreon here: patreon.com/overthinkpodcast Works DiscussedTheodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of EnlightenmentRey Chow, The Age of the World TargetErna Fergusson, Dancing GodsMichel Foucault, The History of MadnessPierre Hadot, Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Plato to FoucaultJohan Huizinga, Homo LudensImmanuel Kant, Critique of the Power of JudgmentLawrence W. Levine, Highbrow/LowbrowAlan McKee, Fun!: What Entertainment Tells Us About Living a Good LifeDavid Peña-Guzmán and Rebekah Spera, "The philosophical personality"Jen D’Angelo & Mariana Uribe, Mamma Mia! But DifferentEnjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
Hope, Trust, and Forgiveness: a conversation with John Lysaker Overthink Podcast 2024-06-14 | Dr. Ellie Anderson interviews Dr. John Lysaker, Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. They discuss his recent book Hope, Trust, and Forgiveness: Essays in Finitude (University of Chicago Press, 2023). They delve into the questions: what does the practice of philosophy really do with language, argumentation, and dialogue? How does hope connect the present and the past through possibility? What does the idea of a "world" mean when thinking about ethical life?You can check out Johal's book here: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo205547565.htmlGraphics and editing by Aaron MorganEnjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
Butler, Senses of the Subject: Ellie Anderson and David Peña-Guzmán Overthink Podcast 2024-06-07 | Dr. Ellie Anderson and Dr. David Peña-Guzmán, philosophy professors and co-hosts of Overthink podcast, discuss Judith Butler’s lesser-known essay, “"HOW CAN I DENY THAT THESE HANDS AND THIS BODY ARE MINE?".” Titled after a quote from Descartes' Meditations, Butler's essay draws out contradictions within Descartes' famous project of radical doubt. Ellie and David discuss how Butler uses their analysis of Descartes to respond to question about social constructivism and the relationship between the body and language. Does discursive constructivism imply that the body is entirely produced by or made up of language? What might construction, or deconstruction mean otherwise?Graphics and editing by Aaron MorganEnjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
105. Civil Disobedience with Noëlle McAfee Overthink Podcast 2024-06-04 | Episode 105Do political subjects have a default obligation to obey the law? In episode 105 of Overthink, Ellie and David discuss civil disobedience in the present context of university activism for divestment from genocide in Gaza. They chart the genealogy of the concept of disobedience in political theory, from Thoreau and MLK through to today. Together with guest Noëlle McAfee, Chair of the Philosophy Department at Emory University, they reflect on the relation of activist disobedience to negotiation and dialogue, and think through its key role as part of a healthy democracy. Focusing on the psychoanalytic concept of ‘breakdown’, McAfee describes the logic behind the disproportionate administrative and militarized crackdown on this disobedience today.Overthink is a philosophy podcast hosted by your new favorite professors, Ellie Anderson (Pomona College) and David Peña-Guzmán (San Francisco State University). Check out our episodes for deep dives into concepts such as existential anxiety, empathy, and gaslighting.Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham JailJulia Kristeva, Powers of HorrorNoëlle McAfee, Fear of Breakdown: Politics and PsychoanalysisNoëlle McAfee, Democracy and the Political UnconsciousJohn Rawls, A Theory of JusticeHenry David Thoreau, Resistance to Civil GovernmentDonald Winnicott, “Fear of Breakdown”Iris Marion Young, “Activist Challenges to Deliberative Democracy”Enjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
O My Friends, There is No Friend: a conversation with Am Johal Overthink Podcast 2024-05-25 | Dr. Ellie Anderson interviews Am Johal, director of the Vancity Office of Community Engagement and co-director of the Community Engaged Research Initiative at Simon Fraser University. They discuss his recent book O My Friends, There is No Friend: The Politics of Friendship at the End of Ecology (Columbia UP, 2024). How should we read the (often misattributed) quote "O my friends, there is no friend", particularly in conversation with the tradition of the philosophy of friendship? How can friendship and activism shape the process of writing and reading theory and philosophy? Finally, how can "the sweetness of life" be found in capitalism's unceasing political and ecological crises?You can check out Johal's book here: transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-7026-4/o-my-friends-there-is-no-friendGraphics and editing by Aaron MorganEnjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
104. Reading Overthink Podcast 2024-05-21 | Episode 104. ReadingThis is one for the books. In episode 104 of Overthink, Ellie and David consider what makes reading so rewarding, and, for many people today, so challenging! How did society shift toward inward silent reading and away from reading aloud in the Middle Ages? How have changes in teaching phonics and factors of classism, accessibility, and educational justice made it harder for the young to read? Why is reading philosophy so hard, and how can we increase our reading stamina?Overthink is a philosophy podcast hosted by your new favorite professors, Ellie Anderson (Pomona College) and David Peña-Guzmán (San Francisco State University). Check out our episodes for deep dives into concepts such as existential anxiety, empathy, and gaslighting.Works DiscussedMarcel Proust, Journée des LecteursSimone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful DaughterJulie Andrews, MandyAdam Kotsko, “The Loss of Things I Took for Granted,” SlateAlberto Manguel, A History of ReadingDavid Abram, The Spell of the SensuousMaryanne Wolf, Proust and the SquidEnjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
William James on the Features of Mystical Experiences Overthink Podcast 2024-05-17 | Dr. David Peña-Guzmán, Philosophy professor and co-host of the Overthink podcast, discusses psychologist and philosopher William James and his account of mystical experience from his book The Varieties of Religious Experience. In the fourth video in our new series of video lectures on mind, consciousness, and self, David outlines the four features of mystical experience that James describes and discusses how James' account is relevant to contemporary work in philosophy of mind, particularly for research on psychedelics and altered states of consciousness. Graphics and editing by Aaron MorganEnjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
Visual Phenomenology: a conversation with Dr. Michael Madary Overthink Podcast 2024-05-15 | In this video, Dr. David M. Peña-Guzmán interviews Dr. Michael Madary (University of the Pacific) about his recent book Visual Phenomenology (MIT Press, 2016). They discuss the nature of visual experience and visual content, and talk about how different experts have conceptualized and modeled vision in the 20th and 21st centuries. Is vision a bottom-up process of perception, or is it a top-down phenomenon that blurs the distinction between perception and cognition? Do we really see what "is there", or is visual experience driven by our own predictions and expectations? Finally, how does a theory of vision grounded in phenomenology explain our visual experience of other people and thus the so-called "problem of other minds"?You can check out Madary's book here: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549936/visual-phenomenology/.Graphics and editing by Aaron MorganEnjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
103. Laziness Overthink Podcast 2024-05-07 | Episode 103. LazinessWe’re taking it easy! In episode 102 of Overthink, Ellie and David take a leisurely dive into laziness, discussing everything from couchrotting to the biology of energy conservation. They explore Devon Price’s idea of the ‘laziness lie’ in today’s hyperproductive society and search for alternatives to work through Paul Lefargue’s 19th century campaign for ‘the right to be lazy.’ They also look into the racialization of laziness in Ibn Khaldun and Montesquieu’s ideas on the idle tropics, and think through how the Protestant work ethic punishes laziness, even when technology could take care of the work.Overthink is a philosophy podcast hosted by your new favorite professors, Ellie Anderson (Pomona College) and David Peña-Guzmán (San Francisco State University). Check out our episodes for deep dives into concepts such as existential anxiety, empathy, and gaslighting.Works DiscussedDevon Price, Laziness Does Not ExistBarthes, “Let us dare to be lazy”Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal ExperienceJared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and SteelChristine Jeske, The Laziness MythIbn Khaldun, MuqaddimahPaul Lefargue, The Right to be LazyKarl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist ManifestoMontesquieu, The Spirit of the LawsMax Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of CapitalismEnjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
Confucian Ethics: a conversation with Dr. Jing Iris Hu Overthink Podcast 2024-04-26 | Dr. Ellie Anderson, Philosophy professor and co-host of Overthink podcast, sits down with philosopher Dr. Jing Iris Hu to have a conversation about Confucianism and Confucian ethics. They discuss concepts of self-cultivation and interdependence as they inform and shape Confucian accounts of moral life. Ellie and Dr. Hu also dig into questions such as: What is the Confucian tradition, and why is it (or should it be) called "Confucianism" in the first place? How did ancient Confucian women philosopher Ban Zhao theorize social roles, particularly relationships between women, mothers-in-law, and their families? How did concepts of influence and vulnerability shape Confucian ethical and political philosophy?Graphics and editing by Aaron MorganEnjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
102. Mixed-Race Identity Overthink Podcast 2024-04-23 | In episode 102 of Overthink, Ellie and David discuss diverse ideas of racial mixedness, from family-oriented models of mixed race to José Vasconcelos’ and Gloria Anzaldua’s idea of the ‘mestizo’ heritage of Mexican people. They work through phenomenological accounts of cultural hybridity and selfhood, wondering how being multiracial pushes beyond the traditional Cartesian philosophical subject. Is mestizaje or mixed-race an identity in its own right? What are its connections to the history of colonialism and contemporary demographic trends? And, how can different relations to a mixed heritage lead to flourishing outside of white supremacist categories?Overthink is a philosophy podcast hosted by your new favorite professors, Ellie Anderson (Pomona College) and David Peña-Guzmán (San Francisco State University). Check out our episodes for deep dives into concepts such as existential anxiety, empathy, and gaslighting.Works DiscussedLinda Martín Alcoff, Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the SelfGloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La FronteraRosie Braidotti, Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, “Naomi Osaka on Fighting for No. 1 at the U.S. Open”Mariana Ortega, In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the SelfNaomi Osaka, “Naomi Osaka reflects on challenges of being black and Japanese”Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of SolitudeAdrian Piper, “Passing for White, Passing for Black”Carlin Romano, “A Challenge for Philosophy”José Vasconcelos, La Raza CósmicaNaomi Zack, Race and Mixed RaceEnjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
William James on Religious Conversion Overthink Podcast 2024-04-22 | Dr. David Peña-Guzmán, Philosophy professor and co-host of the Overthink podcast, discusses psychologist and philosopher William James and his account of religious conversion from his book The Varieties of Religious Experience. In the third video in our new series of video lectures on mind, consciousness, and self, David outlines how James theorizes the nature of religious conversion and how he categorizes conversions into two kinds: conversions by surrender and conversions by volition. How do these two forms of religious conversions shape our realities differently, and how might they help explain the split between religion and philosophy?Graphics and editing by Aaron MorganEnjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: a conversation with Eli Burnstein Overthink Podcast 2024-04-12 | Dr. Ellie Anderson, Philosophy professor and co-host of Overthink podcast, sits down with humor writer and former philosopher Eli Burnstein about his recent book, Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning. They discuss why one should care about subtle shades of meaning, Burnstein's distinction between ethics and morality, and some philosophy of language along the way. Check out Burnstein's book here: unionsquareandco.com/9781454952350/dictionary-of-fine-distinctions-by-eli-burnstein/.Graphics and editing by Aaron MorganEnjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
101. AI Safety with Shazeda Ahmed Overthink Podcast 2024-04-09 | Episode 101. AI SafetyWelcome your robot overlords! In episode 101 of Overthink, Ellie and David speak with Dr. Shazeda Ahmed, specialist in AI Safety, to dive into the philosophy guiding artificial intelligence. With the rise of LLMs like ChatGPT, the lofty utilitarian principles of Effective Altruism have taken the tech-world spotlight by storm. Many who work on AI safety and ethics worry about the dangers of AI, from how automation might put entire categories of workers out of a job to how future forms of AI might pose a catastrophic “existential risk” for humanity as a whole. And yet, optimistic CEOs portray AI as the beginning of an easy, technology-assisted utopia. Who is right about AI: the doomers or the utopians? And whose voices are part of the conversation in the first place? Is AI risk talk spearheaded by well-meaning experts or investor billionaires? And, can philosophy guide discussions about AI toward the right thing to do?Overthink is a philosophy podcast hosted by your favorite new professors, Ellie Anderson (Pomona College) and David Peña-Guzmán (San Francisco State University). Check out our episodes for deep dives into concepts such as existential anxiety, empathy, and gaslighting.Nick Bostrom, SuperintelligenceAdrian Daub, What Tech Calls ThinkingVirginia Eubanks, Automating InequalityMollie Gleiberman, “Effective Altruism and the strategic ambiguity of ‘doing good’”Matthew Jones and Chris Wiggins, How Data HappenedWilliam MacAskill, What We Owe the FutureToby Ord, The PrecipiceInioluwa Deborah Raji et al., “The Fallacy of AI Functionality”Inioluwa Deborah Raji and Roel Dobbe, “Concrete Problems in AI Safety, Revisted”Peter Singer, Animal LiberationAmia Srinivisan, “Stop The Robot Apocalypse”Enjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
William James on Once- vs. Twice-born Believers Overthink Podcast 2024-04-08 | Dr. David Peña-Guzmán, Philosophy professor and co-host of the Overthink podcast, discusses psychologist and philosopher William James and the concept of the once- and twice-born believers from his book The Varieties of Religious Experience. In the second video in our new series of video lectures on mind, consciousness, and self, David outlines how James' figures, the once- and twice-born believers, reveal the condition of the divided self. How can both figures become pathological? What is the mystical truth of human existence, according to James? Graphics and editing by Aaron Morgan Enjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
100. Overthinking Overthink Podcast 2024-03-26 | Episode 100. OverthinkingOverthink goes meta! In the 100th episode Ellie and David reflect on the podcast’s journey and the origins of its (flawless!) title. They take up the question, “What is overthinking?” Is it a kind of fixation on details or an unwanted split in the normal flow of ideas? Then, they turn to psychology to make sense of overthinking’s highs and lows, as the distracting voice inside your head and a welcome relief from traumatic memories. Through the philosophies of John Dewey and the Frankfurt School, they look at different ways to understand the role of overthinking in philosophy and the humanities. Is overthinking a damper on good decisions, or perhaps the path to preserving the possibility of social critique?Overthink is a philosophy podcast hosted by your favorite new professors, Ellie Anderson (Pomona College) and David Peña-Guzmán (San Francisco State University). Check out our episodes for deep dives into concepts such as existential anxiety, empathy, and gaslighting. Works DiscussedJohn Dewey, How We ThinkMax Horkheimer, “The Social Function of Philosophy”Herbert Marcuse, “Remarks on a Redefinition of Culture”Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, “Responses to depression and their effects on the duration of depressive episodes”Charles Orbendorf, “Co-Conscious Mentation”Suzanne Segerstrom et al., “A multidimensional structure for repetitive thought”Stephanie Wong et al., “Rumination as a Transdiagnostic Phenomenon in the 21st Century” Enjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
William James on Religion and the Sense of Reality Overthink Podcast 2024-03-23 | Dr. David Peña-Guzmán, Philosophy professor and co-host of the Overthink podcast, discusses psychologist and philosopher William James and the concept of the "sense of reality" from his book The Varieties of Religious Experience. In this first video in our new series of video lectures on mind, consciousness, and self, David breaks down James' pragmatist analysis of religion and his rejection of both medical and theological accounts of the meaning of religious experience. How should we account for religious experience in our philosophical understandings of reality? What kinds of experiences are properly religious, and how do they change or stretch our common notions of reality?Graphics and editing by Aaron Morgan Enjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
Announcement: Public Zoom Event (March 27 6-7pm PT) Overthink Podcast 2024-03-13 | ATTENTION OVERTHINKERS: if you want to virtually hang out with Ellie and David, ask them any questions you might have, and engage in discussion with other listeners and thinkers, come to our public Zoom event on March 27 at 6-7pm PT! Use the link below to register in advance for this meeting:pomonacollege.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEsdumrpjsuGdOQe0IQMiUApaTlY37o0vnwAfter registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Enjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
99. Zombies Overthink Podcast 2024-03-12 | Episode 99. ZombiesWho’s afraid of zombification? Apparently not analytic philosophers. In episode 99 of Overthink, Ellie and David talk all about zombies and their unfortunate legacy in the thought experiments of academic philosophy. Their portrait as brain-eating and consciousness-lacking mobs is a far cry from their origins in the syncretic sorcery at the margins of Haitian Voodoo. This distance means that the uncanny zombie raises provocative questions about the problematic ways philosophy integrates and appropriates nonwestern culture into its canon. Your hosts probe beyond limits of the tradition when they explore zombification in animals, in reading, in Derrida, and beyond.Overthink is a philosophy podcast hosted by your favorite new professors, Ellie Anderson (Pomona College) and David Peña-Guzmán (San Francisco State University). Check out our episodes for deep dives into concepts such as existential anxiety, empathy, and gaslighting.Support Overthink on Patreon here: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWorks DiscussedEllie Anderson, “Derrida and the Zombie”David J. Chalmers, The Conscious MindWade Davis, The Serpent and the RainbowDescartes, MeditationsLeslie Desmangles, The Faces of the GodsDaniel C. Dennett, "The Unimagined Preposterousness of Zombies" & Consciousness ExplainedZora Neale Hurston, Tell my HorseEdgar Allan Poe, “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar”Justin Smith-Ruiu, “The World as a Game”The Last of Us (2023)Night of the Living Dead (1968)Get Out (2017)Overthink, Continental Philosophy: What is it, and why is it a thing?Enjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
Beauvoir and Contemporary Dating (with Dr. Ellie Anderson) Overthink Podcast 2024-03-08 | Dr. Ellie Anderson, Philosophy professor and co-host of the Overthink podcast, discusses her work on Simone de Beauvoir and contemporary feminist philosophy, social psychology, and sociology, mostly drawing from her 2017 conference paper "Beauvoir's 'Woman in Love' on the Millenial Dating Scene". While some of Beauvoir's work in The Second Sex might now seem dated, Ellie discusses how much of her analysis resonates with contemporary social science of love and dating. "Woman dreams of reconciling independence and love," Beauvoir writes—Ellie breaks down how this is as far from reality for women today as it was for the women Beauvoir was writing about in 1949. Check out the full paper, "Beauvoir's 'Woman in Love' on the Millenial Dating Scene": https://www.academia.edu/38941504/Beauvoirs_Woman_in_Love_on_the_Millennial_Dating_SceneGraphics and editing by Aaron Morgan Enjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
98. Reputation Overthink Podcast 2024-02-27 | Episode 98. ReputationThey say this one is the real deal. In Episode 98 of Overthink, Ellie and David untangle the philosophy behind the way we compare, judge, and defend our reputations. From Machiavelli’s advice to despots looking to stay popular, to disgruntled students venting on their professors online, reputation can glide you to victory or trigger your fall from grace. Exploring concepts like the Matthew effect, the homo comparativus, and informational asymmetry, your hosts ask: Why do both Joan Jett and Jean-Jacques Rousseau refuse reputation’s fickle pleasures? Does David actually have a good work-life balance, or is everyone else hoodwinked? And, what is the place of quantified reputation in an increasingly digital world?Overthink is a philosophy podcast hosted by your favorite new professors, Ellie Anderson (Pomona College) and David Peña-Guzmán (San Francisco State University). Check out our episodes for deep dives into concepts such as existential anxiety, empathy, and gaslighting.Support Overthink on Patreon here: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWorks DiscussedKwame Anthony Appiah, The Honor CodeJoan Jett & The Blackhearts, Bad ReputationNiccolo Machiavelli, The PrinceLouise Matsakis, “How the West Got China’s Social Credit System Wrong,” Wired MagazineGloria Origgi, Reputation: What It Is and Why It MattersGloria Origgi, “Reputation in Moral Philosophy and Epistemology”Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary WalkerJean-Paul Sartre, The Transcendence of the EgoAdam Smith, The Theory of Moral SentimentsJordi Xifra, “Recognition, symbolic capital and reputation in the seventeenth century”Enjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
The Boundaries of Philosophy Overthink Podcast 2024-02-24 | Dr. Ellie Anderson and Dr. David Peña-Guzmán, Philosophy professors and co-hosts of Overthink podcast, discuss perhaps their biggest (and most meta) question yet: what is philosophy? Specifically, what are the boundaries of the discipline of philosophy, and how is it separated from other disciplines in the modern academy? Can we use a set of necessary and sufficient conditions to create an inclusive and exclusive definition of philosophy? If we can't, what are the consequences?Graphics and editing by Aaron Morgan Enjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
97. Cities Overthink Podcast 2024-02-13 | Episode 97. CitiesThe village is aglow! In episode 97 of Overthink, Ellie and David guide you through the ideas that make a metropolis tick. From Plato’s spotless Republic to Saudi Arabia’s futuristic The Line, they talk the foul and the vibrant of what it means to live in a city. Why are there so few public plazas in Brasilia? Why did David lose his wallet in Mexico City? How do gridded street layouts reflect colonial fantasies? And how did a medieval woman writer, Christine de Pizan, beat Greta Gerwig to the punch in imagining a Barbie-like City of Ladies?Overthink is a philosophy podcast hosted by your favorite new professors, Ellie Anderson (Pomona College) and David Peña-Guzmán (San Francisco State University). Check out our episodes for deep dives into concepts such as existential anxiety, empathy, and gaslighting.Support Overthink on Patreon here: patreon.com/overthinkpodcast Works DiscussedMarshall Berman, All That Is Solid Melts Into AirDon T. Deere, “Coloniality and Disciplinary Power: On Spatial Techniques of Ordering”Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the EarthJane Jacobs, The Life and Death of Great American CitiesQuill R. Kukla, City LivingChristine de Pizan, City of LadiesPlato, RepublicAngel Rama, The Lettered CityGeorg Simmel, “Metropolis and Mental Life”Iris Marion Young, "City Life and Difference"Blade Runner (1982)Parasite (2019)Barbie (2023)Overthink ep. 32, AstrologyEnjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
Hermeneutic Labor: The Gendered Burden of Interpretation (with Dr. Ellie Anderson) Overthink Podcast 2024-02-09 | Dr. Ellie Anderson, Philosophy professor and co-host of the Overthink podcast, discusses her work on hermeneutic labor, mostly drawing from her 2023 paper "Hermeneutic Labor: The Gendered Burden of Interpretation in Intimate Relationships between Women and Men". Building on Hochschild's famous work on emotional labor, as well as more recent interventions from Feminist Love Studies, Ellie lays out the argument she makes in her paper to define a new kind of exploited labor, hermeneutic labor, that cisgender women perform more than men in intimate heterosexual relationships. Check out the full episode of Overthink on the topic, Emotional Labor: open.spotify.com/episode/3VSDvAtJ3vbs82CvZEuGoyGraphics and editing by Aaron Morgan Enjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
96. Fatphobia with Kate Manne Overthink Podcast 2024-01-30 | “They find our bodies repulsive.” On episode 96 of Overthink, Ellie and David bring on Dr. Kate Manne, philosopher and author of Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia. She explains the moral failures and biomedical perils of our fatphobic culture and its misleading imperative to diet. This look at the politics of fat, fatness, and fatphobia in the philosophical canon and beyond to reveal rich links to questions of accessibility, justice, and intimacy. Should we trust the BMI (Body Mass Index) as a measure of health? Is the future in Ozempic? Why are we encouraged to see our body’s biological need for nutrition as “food noise”? And what might it take to hear the music of our human bodily diversity?Overthink is a philosophy podcast hosted by your favorite new professors, Ellie Anderson (Pomona College) and David Peña-Guzmán (San Francisco State University). Check out our episodes for deep dives into concepts such as existential anxiety, empathy, and gaslighting.Support Overthink on Patreon here: patreon.com/overthinkpodcast Works DiscussedPaul Campos, The Obesity MythAncel Keys, et al., “Indices of relative weight and obesity”Adolphe Quetelet, On Man and the Development of His FacultiesSabrina Strings, Fearing the Black BodyAudre Lorde, A Piece of LightThomas Nagel, “Free Will”Kate Manne, Unshrinking: How to Face FatphobiaOverthink ep 27. From Body Positivity to Fat Feminism (feat. Amelia Hruby)Follow Dr. Kate Manne on Substack!Enjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
Where to start reading Simone de Beauvoir 📚 #philosophy #overthinkpodcast #books Overthink Podcast 2024-01-29 | ...
Book rec: Bachelard’s “The Poetics of Space”🧠🏡 #phenomenology #architecture #philosophy Overthink Podcast 2024-01-26 | ...
Ellie and David: Who is Better at X? Overthink Podcast 2024-01-23 | Dr. Ellie Anderson and Dr. David Peña-Guzmán, Philosophy professors and co-hosts of Overthink podcast, play a variation of the "newlywed" game. Find out who is the better cook, who has the better fashion, and even... who is the best Overthink host??Graphics and editing by Aaron Morgan Enjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
Montaigne, friendship, and the invention of the essay ✍🏻 #philosophy #overthinkpodcast Overthink Podcast 2024-01-20 | ...
95. Biohacking Overthink Podcast 2024-01-16 | Episode 95. BiohackingNight vision. Superhuman strength. And… kale salad? In episode 95 of Overthink, Ellie and David explore the weird world of biohackers, who leverage science and technology to optimize their bodies. The movement raises rich philosophical questions, from the blurry ethics of self-experimentation, to the consequences of extreme Cartesian dualism, to the awkward tension in our technological nostalgia for a pastoral paradise. If biohacking taps into the basic human desire to experience and investigate, it perhaps also pushes too far toward transcending our bodies. The stakes are political, metaphysical, and ethical — and your hosts are here to make philosophical sense of it all.Overthink is a philosophy podcast hosted by your favorite new professors, Ellie Anderson (Pomona College) and David Peña-Guzmán (San Francisco State University). Check out our episodes for deep dives into concepts such as existential anxiety, empathy, and gaslighting.Support Overthink on Patreon here: patreon.com/overthinkpodcast Works DiscussedDave Asprey, Smarter Not HarderAlison Gopnik, The Philosophical BabyMirjam Grewe-Salfeld, Biohacking, Bodies, and Do-It-YourselfMichel de Montaigne, "Of Experience"Max More, The Transhumanist ReaderJoel Michael Reynolds, "Genopower: On Genomics, Disability, and Impairment"Smithsonian Mag, “200 Frozen Heads and Bodies Await Revival at This Arizona Cryonics Facility”Baruch de Spinoza, EthicsWashington Post, “The Key to Glorifying a Questionable Diet? Be a tech bro and call it ‘biohacking'"Patricia J. Zettler et. al., “Regulating genetic biohacking”Austin Powers (1997)If Books Could Kill PodcastOverthink ep 31. Genomics feat. Joel Michael ReynoldsEnjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
Montaigne, On Friendship: Ellie Anderson and David Peña-Guzmán Overthink Podcast 2024-01-10 | Dr. Ellie Anderson and Dr. David Peña-Guzmán, philosophy professors and co-hosts of Overthink podcast, discuss Michel de Montaigne’s famous essay, “On Friendship”. Ellie and David give some context for the text through Montaigne's friendship with Étienne de la Boétie and how la Boétie's death shaped Montaigne’s creation of the essay form. They attempt to answer some questions that arise from the text: do love and friendship require or follow reason? Can one be platonically polyamorous—have more than one true friend? How does Montaigne’s theory of friendship diverge from Aristotle’s, and how does it form a critique of universalism in ancient philosophy more broadly?Graphics and editing by Aaron MorganEnjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: givecampus.com/fj0w3vJoin our Patreon for exclusive episode segments, monthly Zooms, and more: patreon.com/overthinkpodcastWebsite: overthinkpodcast.comFacebook: facebook.com/Overthink-podcast-105420885026249Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthink/id1538249280Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHTDz5vrc78DyjFg66Buzzsprout RSS: feeds.buzzsprout.com/1455199.rss Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at @overthink_pod
