HBS Season 1

Episode 5: One Year with COVID

The HBS hosts consider the last year living through the COVID-19 pandemic. What can we not believe that we did before COVID? What can’t we wait to get back to doing? What do we hope we never go back to doing? Today’s episode offers a look back on a year of the COVID 19 pandemic….

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Episode 4: Origins

For Episode 4, the HBS hosts look into the stories we tell, whether or not they are true, and what happens when those stories fall apart. Specifically, they discuss the various ways that origins are grounded in myths, documents, and self-narratives. By way of access into these problems, they take on the new Netflix series, Murder…

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Episode 3: Leigh M. Johnson on Technology

Leigh M. Johnson is in the hot seat to explain why philosophers should be thinking more about emergent technologies. Co-hosts Shannon and Ammon make her seat hotter with questions about what counts as “intelligence,” how close we are to the Singularity, whether robots will have feelings or should have rights, and which emergent technologies we…

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Episode 2: Ammon Allred on Art

Ammon Allred is in the hot seat to explain how thinking about aesthetic experience more seriously can free us from the hold of normativity. Co-hosts Leigh and Shannon make his seat hotter by forcing him to listen and respond to an atonal polka rendition of The National Anthem and then asking questions about what counts…

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Episode 1: Shannon Mussett on Freedom

     

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