HBS Season 1

The HBS hosts evaluate the first 100(ish) days of the Biden Presidency.

Episode 14 of Hotel Bar Sessions Podcast is on shame. What do we mean when we talk about shame? Is it a moral feeling? Is shame harmful or are their productive uses of it? Is shame an appropriate propaedeutic tool to educate children into being virtuous or does it only cause negative feelings of self?…

The HBS hosts talk about their successes and failures in the classroom.

The HBS hosts talk about mysteries as both a literary and philosophical form.

Is privacy dead? How should we draw the boundaries of our secret lives?

What is love? Baby, don’t hurt me.

The HBS hosts take a look at the much (and rightly) maligned “Philosophical Canon.” Who should stay in? Who should be cut? Is it time to get rid of the Canon altogether?

The HBS hosts chat about our impending doom. Is the apocalypse nigh? Will it be environmental, political, technological, or biological? Can we imaging human beings existing in 50 years? 100 years? 5000 years? This week, Leigh, Ammon, and Shannon tackle the fascinating and terrifying hypotheses concerning the Apocalypse(s). Students seem to be more pessimistic about…

The HBS hosts take a look at the political, philosophical, cultural, and personal dimensions of nostalgia. This week, Leigh, Ammon and Shannon reminisce about the good old days. What is nostalgia? Why does the pull of a past-that-never-was exert such a strong influence on the human psyche? The American political climate has been largely dominated…

The HBS hosts take a look at the pros and cons of several metrics by which we are rated and ranked. We talk about grading, student evaluations, the Philosophical Gourmet Report (ranking professional Philosophy programs), social media algorithms, China’s social credit systems, and others. We also delve into some of Cathy O’Neal’s arguments in *Weapons…