I Learned Nothing
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I Learned Nothing
A philosophy podcast for curious idiots, by curious idiots.
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ILN EP 164: Twin Earth
Pat was feeling unique so Ben blasts his precious little perspective right out of the water by introducing him to the Twin Earth thought experiment. I...
ILN EP 163: G. E. M. Anscombe
Pat was feeling murderous so Ben tamps that rage with the devout moral reasoning of near-canonized Catholic saint and Wittgenstein acolyte Gertrude El...
ILN 160: Islamic Philosophy, Part I
Pat was feeling haram, so Ben sat his infidel ass down and explained to him the groundbreaking philosophical developments unleashed by the Islamic wor...
ILN EP 158: Qualia
Pat was feeling pretty self-conscious so Ben explains it's because of all his damn Qualia, stupid! Qualia is a concept in philosophy of mind referring...
ILN EP 152: The Beetle In The Box
Pat was feeling trapped so Ben tuned him on to the wacky linguistic thought experiment developed by Ben's Main Man Ludwig Wittgenstein. Are humans cap...
ILN EP 151: Accelerationism
Pat was feeling sluggish so Ben ramps him up to accept the new outrun philosophy of Accelerationism all over his face. The WisdomBois begin with a qui...
ILN EP 148: Utilitarianism, Part I
Pat was feeling shrewd so Ben clued him in on the HOTTEST ethical theory of the past 3 centuries: Utilitarianism! That's right folks. Ben and Pat are...
ILN EP 147: The Liar Paradox
Pat once trusted the bedrock reliability of logic so Ben went ahead and shattered that nonsense by teaching him about The Liar's Paradox, the oldest,...
BONUS PATREON EPISODE 4!!! ILN PAT-REON EP 83: The Saga of The Dolphin House
Folks! Put on some sunscreen and pull out your floaties because Pat & Ben are taking you on a tropical, aquatic adventure! We're releasing one of our...
ILN EP 144: Philosophy of Religion, Part I
Pat was feeling epiphanic so Ben brings him into the fold. The Religious Fold, that is! Don't worry. We haven't gone religious. But Pat couldn't help...
ILN EP 143: The Ethics of AI, Part II
Pat was feeling empathetic so Ben continues to interrogate Pat about his thoughts on Artificial Intelligence and their capacity to feel. Do androids d...
ILN EP 141: Rudolf Steiner
Pat was feeling esoteric so Ben's coming in hot with a spiritual alternative to the dry, academic Western philosophy he's been torturing Pat with for...
ILN EP 140: Panpsychism
Pat was feeling self-conscious so Ben opens his eyes to the wild and wonderful world of universal consciousness. In our latest episode, Ben teaches Pa...
ILN EP 139: Jean-Paul Sartre, Part II
Pat was feeling inauthentic so he calls on Benjamin C. Cholok, sygil of authenticity himself, to summon the horny spirit of Jean Paul Sartre once agai...
ILN EP 138: Jean-Paul Sartre, Part I
Pat was feeling existential AGAIN so Ben brings out the big guns: the stinkiest, most wall-eyed Frenchman this side of the 20th Century, Jean-Paul Sar...
ILN EP 137: Time Travel Paradoxes
Pat was feeling asynchronous so Ben sets his ass straight with a few mINd BeNdInG TIME TRAVEL PARADOXES. Hoo boy, is this one a doozy. Thanks for list...
ILN EP 136: Antinatalism
Pat was feeling despondent so Ben perks him up with the cheery, not-at-all-controversial philosophy of antinatalism. In a nutshell, this theory argues...
ILN EP 135: Grue
Pat was feeling KINDA BLUE so Ben floors him with the absolutely jazzy color theory of hep cat/philosopher Nelson Goodman and his controversial theory...
BONUS PATREON EPISODE 3!!! ILN PAT-REON EP 47: The Great Emu War of 1932
Folks! We're releasing YET ANOTHER free Pat-reon Bonus Episode, piping hot and fresh from the vault!! Pat was feeling a little “down under” so he flip...
ILN EP 132: G. E. Moore
Pat was feeling gaslit, so Ben clears the air by introducing philosophy's savior of common sense: G. E. Moore. As one third of the Triumvirate of anal...
ILN EP 130: Evil
Pat was feeling naughty so Ben tempts him with a comprehensive discussion of the ancient concept of Evil. Evil as a moral or ethical notion has plague...
ILN EP 129: Roko's Basilisk
Pat was feeling pretty satisfied with himself on his precious little birthday so Ben decides to dash his spirits with the Internet 2.0's hottest new m...
ILN EP 128: JL Austin
Pat was feeling loquacious as usual so Ben takes this opportunity to lay out the nuanced and penetrating philosophy of British nerd/superspy JL Austin...
ILN EP 127: The Sleeping Beauty Problem
Pat was feeling sleepy so Ben regales him with one of the most infuriating thought experiments of all time: The Sleeping Beauty Problem. Concocted by...
ILN EP 126: Giorgio Agamben
Pat and Ben were both feeling sad, confused, and powerless, so Ben drives that feeling home by discussing the troubling and disheartening political ph...
BONUS PATREON EPISODE 2!!! ILN PAT-REON EP 30: The Air-Buddies w/ Avery Moore
We're releasing a free Pat-reon, putos!! Pat had laryngitis a while back so Ben invites friend of the show, comic extraordinaire, and host of Avery an...
ILN EP 124: Ecce Homo w/ Lando Shepard
Pat was feeling saucy so Ben tantalizes him with a stirring discussion of podcast favorite Friedrich Nietzsche's self-effacing autobiography Ecce Homo...
ILN EP 123: Sex and Power
Pat was feeling socially distanced so Ben keeps him company as they take a dip in a rather steamy topic: Sex AND Power. As the world reels from the Gr...
ILN EP 122: Albert Camus w/ Derek Kopswa
Pat was feeling nihilistic so Ben calls for back up. Who does he call? Well he's forced to call the Kopswa of course! In these absurd, trying times, B...
ILN EP 120: Louis Althusser
Pat was feeling interpellated so Ben briefs him on the updated Marxist philosophy of the EXTREMELY cancelled French theorist Louis Althusser. Ben spil...
ILN EP 119: Rights
Pat was feeling privileged so Ben dives into the nebulous concept that makes Our Country Great: our God-given Rights. Turns out this talk couldn't hav...
ILN EP 118: William of Ockham
Pat was feeling parsimonious so Ben clues him into the cutting edge philosophy of Medieval thinker/virgin William of Okham. Known primarily for his ep...
ILN EP 117: The Repugnant Conclusion
Pat was feeling forward-thinking so Ben dashes all hopes of that with a survey of one of the simplest yet confounding thought experiments in recent ph...
ILN EP 115: The Anthropic Principle
Pat was feeling like the center of the Universe so Ben validates that feeling by teaching him about the controversial Anthropic Principle. As if balki...
ILN EP 112: Philosophy of Mathematics
Pat was feeling quantifiable so Ben comes in hot with some theories about numbers, and boy is Pat peeved. In what might be the yelliest episode of I L...
ILN EP 111: Frantz Fanon
Pat was feeling chauvinistic so Ben sets him straight with the revolutionary existentialism of post-colonial philosopher Frantz Fanon. Born in the ove...
BONUS PATREON BITCH EPISODE!!! ILN PAT-REON EP 9: Emperor Norton I
Pat AND Ben were feeling generous so they've unleashed a Patreon episode on the world for FREE! Ep. 9 of our Pat-Treon Experiment is now free to the p...
ILN EP 110: William James
Pat was feeling pragmatic so Ben teaches him the All-American philosophy of William James. James' prolific career and work spanned many diverse topics...
ILN EP 109: Judith Butler w/ Victoria Tyler
Pat was feeling misogynistic (again) so Ben had to even the scales by bringing in Gender Studies expert and Pat's certifiably insane roommate Victoria...
ILN EP 106: Dirty Hands
Pat was feeling conflicted so Ben sorts him out by analyzing the Problem of Dirty Hands. If you’ve ever seen an episode of 24, you’ll be more than fam...