
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
The Partially Examined Life is a podcast by some guys who were at one point set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it. Each episode, we pick a short text and chat about it with some balance between insight and flippancy. You don't have to know any philosophy, or even to have read the text we're talking about to (mostly) follow and (hopefully) enjoy the discussion. For links to the texts we discuss and other info, check out www.partiallyexaminedlife.com. We also feature episodes from other podcasts by our hosts to round out your partially examined life, including Pretty Much Pop (prettymuchpop.com, covering all media), Nakedly Examined Music (nakedlyexaminedmusic.com, deconstructing songs), and (sub)Text (lit, film, psychoanalysis). Learn about more network podcasts at partiallyexaminedlife.com.
Episodes

Ep. 257: Locke Against Innate Ideas (Part One)
Nov 23 2020 • 3200 MIN
On Book I of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689). How do we know things? Locke though all knowledge comes from experience, and this might seem uncontroversial, but what are the...

PEL Presents NEM#136: Mark Bingham: To and In New Orleans
Nov 23 2020 • 61 MIN
Mark got signed as a teen in 1966, left to play theatrical prog jazz in Indiana during college, had a spell in a "no wave" band in New York, and finally settled down in the '80s as an in demand pro...

PEL Presents PMP#69: Story Songs w/ Rod Picott
Nov 17 2020 • 2854 MIN
Plenty of songs try to tell stories, but do the pop song format and narrative really mix? Songwriter and short story author Rod Picott joins Mark, Erica, and Brian to talk about classics by Bob Dyl...

PREVIEW-Ep. 256: Kropotkin's Anarchist Communism (Part Two)
Nov 16 2020 • 457 MIN
Mark, Wes, Dylan, Seth get into specific points and textual passages from Peter Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread (1892). In this preview, we start by considering that Kropotkin is right that mutua...

Ep. 256: Kropotkin's Anarchist Communism (Part One)
Nov 9 2020 • 3121 MIN
On Peter Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread (1892). If we want an egalitarian society, do we need the state to accomplish this? Kropotkin says no, that in fact the state inevitably serves the intere...

PEL Presents (sub)Text: The American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby"
Nov 8 2020 • 84 MIN
We all know this story, in part because it captures a period that will always have a special place in the American imagination. Prosperous and boozy, the Jazz Age seemed like one great party, held ...
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