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Weâre taking it easy! In episode 103 of Overthink, Ellie and David take a leisurely dive into laziness, discussing everything from couchrotting to the biology of energy conservation. They explore Devon Priceâs idea of the âlaziness lieâ in todayâs hyperproductive society and search for alternatives to work through Paul Lefargueâs 19th century campaign for âthe right to be lazy.â They also look into the racialization of laziness in Ibn Khaldun and Montesquieuâs ideas on the idle tropics, and think through how the Protestant work ethic punishes laziness, even when technology could take care of the work.
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Works DiscussedDevon Price, Laziness Does Not Exist
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Roland Barthes, âLet us dare to be lazyâ
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel
Christine Jeske, The Laziness Myth
Ibn Khaldun, Muqaddimah
Paul Lafargue, The Right to be Lazy
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws
Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
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In episode 102 of Overthink, Ellie and David discuss diverse ideas of racial mixedness, from family-oriented models of mixed race to JosĂ© Vasconcelosâ and Gloria Anzalduaâs idea of the âmestizoâ 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?
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Works DiscussedLinda MartĂn Alcoff, Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self
Gloria AnzaldĂșa, Borderlands/La Frontera
Rosie Braidotti, Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory
Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, âNaomi Osaka on Fighting for No. 1 at the U.S. Openâ
Mariana Ortega, In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the SelfNaomi Osaka, âNaomi Osaka reflects on challenges of being black and Japaneseâ
Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude
Adrian Piper, âPassing for White, Passing for Blackâ
Carlin Romano, âA Challenge for PhilosophyâJosĂ© Vasconcelos, La Raza CĂłsmica
Naomi Zack, Race and Mixed RacePatreon | patreon.com/overthinkpodcast
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Welcome 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 âexistential riskâ 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?
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Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence
Adrian Daub, What Tech Calls Thinking
Virginia Eubanks, Automating Inequality
Mollie Gleiberman, âEffective Altruism and the strategic ambiguity of âdoing goodââ
Matthew Jones and Chris Wiggins, How Data Happened
William MacAskill, What We Owe the Future
Toby Ord, The Precipice
Inioluwa Deborah Raji et al., âThe Fallacy of AI Functionalityâ
Inioluwa Deborah Raji and Roel Dobbe, âConcrete Problems in AI Safety, Revistedâ
Peter Singer, Animal Liberation
Amia Srinivisan, âStop The Robot Apocalypseâ
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Overthink goes meta! In the 100th episode Ellie and David reflect on the podcastâs journey and the origins of its (flawless!) title. They take up the question, âWhat is overthinking?â 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 overthinkingâs 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?
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Works Discussed
John Dewey, How We Think
Max Horkheimer, âThe Social Function of Philosophyâ
Herbert Marcuse, âRemarks on a Redefinition of Cultureâ
Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, âResponses to depression and their effects on the duration of depressive episodesâ
Charles Orbendorf, âCo-Conscious Mentationâ
Suzanne Segerstrom et al., âA multidimensional structure for repetitive thoughtâ
Stephanie Wong et al., âRumination as a Transdiagnostic Phenomenon in the 21st CenturyâPatreon | patreon.com/overthinkpodcast
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Whoâs 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.
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Works Discussed
Ellie Anderson, âDerrida and the Zombieâ
David J. Chalmers, The Conscious Mind
Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow
Descartes, Meditations
Leslie Desmangles, The Faces of the Gods
Daniel C. Dennett, "The Unimagined Preposterousness of Zombies" & Consciousness Explained
Zora Neale Hurston, Tell my Horse
Edgar Allan Poe, âThe Facts in the Case of M. Valdemarâ
Justin Smith-Ruiu, âThe World as a GameâThe 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?
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They 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 Machiavelliâs 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 reputationâs 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?
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Works DiscussedKwame Anthony Appiah, The Honor Code
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Bad Reputation
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Louise Matsakis, âHow the West Got Chinaâs Social Credit System Wrong,â Wired Magazine
Gloria Origgi, Reputation: What It Is and Why It Matters
Gloria Origgi, "Reputation in Moral Philosophy and Epistemology"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Jean-Paul Sartre, The Transcendence of the Ego
Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Jordi Xifra, âRecognition, symbolic capital and reputation in the seventeenth centuryâ
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Ep 28, Cancel Culture
Ep 19, Genius
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The village is aglow! In episode 97 of Overthink, Ellie and David guide you through the ideas that make a metropolis tick. From Platoâs spotless Republic to Saudi Arabiaâs 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?
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Works Discussed
Marshall Berman, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
Don T. Deere, âColoniality and Disciplinary Power: On Spatial Techniques of Orderingâ
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
Jane Jacobs, The Life and Death of Great American Cities
Quill R. Kukla, City Living
Christine de Pizan, City of Ladies
Plato, Republic
Angel Rama, The Lettered City
Georg Simmel, âMetropolis and Mental Lifeâ
Iris Marion Young, "City Life and Difference"
Blade Runner (1982)
Parasite (2019)
Barbie (2023)
Overthink ep. 32, Astrology
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âThey find our bodies repulsive.â 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 bodyâs biological need for nutrition as âfood noiseâ? And what might it take to hear the music of our human bodily diversity?
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Paul Campos, The Obesity Myth
Ancel Keys, et al., âIndices of relative weight and obesityâ
Adolphe Quetelet, On Man and the Development of His Faculties
Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body
Audre Lorde, A Piece of Light
Thomas Nagel, âFree Willâ
Kate Manne, Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
Overthink ep 27. From Body Positivity to Fat Feminism (feat. Amelia Hruby)Follow Dr. Kate Manne on Substack!
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Night 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 â and your hosts are here to make philosophical sense of it all.
Works Discussed
Dave Asprey, Smarter Not Harder
Alison Gopnik, The Philosophical Baby
Mirjam Grewe-Salfeld, Biohacking, Bodies, and Do-It-Yourself
Michel de Montaigne, "Of Experience"
Max More, The Transhumanist Reader
Joel Michael Reynolds, "Genopower: On Genomics, Disability, and Impairment"
Smithsonian Mag, â200 Frozen Heads and Bodies Await Revival at This Arizona Cryonics Facilityâ
Baruch de Spinoza, Ethics
Washington Post, âThe Key to Glorifying a Questionable Diet? Be a tech bro and call it âbiohacking'"
Patricia J. Zettler et. al., âRegulating genetic biohackingâ
Austin Powers (1997)
If Books Could Kill Podcast
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You owe this one a listen. In episode 94 of Overthink, Ellie and David discuss everything debt, from student loans and bank bailouts to the importance of honoring oneâs intellectual forebears. Did Shakespeareâs Antonio really pay Shylock with âa pound of fleshâ? Why does Nietzsche say that the Christian God is a creditor of infinite debt? Who really benefits from bailouts under capitalism today? And might it be time to bring back good old âjubilees,â i.e., sanctioned acts of collective debt cancellation? As they talk through these questions, your hosts explore how debt has structured social, family, and religious bonds across history, from Vedic India, to Platoâs Athens, and how the notion of being âindebtedâ to oneâs cultural past conditions the experience of immigrants in America today.
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Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism
Jeffery R. Di Leo, "Corporate Humanities in Higher Education"
David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings
Geoffery Ingham, The Nature of Money
Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals
Plato, Republic
Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
Shatapatha Brahmana
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
HEROES act
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Tell us who you pity and weâll tell you who you are! In episode 93 of Overthink, Ellie and David guide you through the philosophy behind this âwell-meaningâ emotion. From Aristotleâs account of pity in theater, to problematic portrayals of disability in British charity telethons, pity has had an outsized role our social and cultural worlds. But who is the object of our pity, and why? Your hosts dissect various archetypes of pity, such as Father Mackenzie (a character in Eleanor Rigby by the Beatles) and the elusive Corn Man (a figure invented by Ellie while in Greece!). Where is the line between pity and compassion? How does pity interact with our social responsibilities and power structures? And, is pity a meaningful part of the good life, or is it an emotion we would all be better off without?
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Aristotle, Poetics & Rhetoric
The Beatles, Eleanor Rigby
David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
KristjĂĄn KristjĂĄnsson, âPity: A Mitigated Defenseâ
Martha Nussbaum, âTragedy and Self-Sufficiency: Plato and Aristotle on Fear and Pityâ
Jean-Paul Sartre, Anti-Semite and Jew
Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Joseph Stramondo, âHow an Ideology of Pity is a Social Harm for People With Disabilitiesâ
Bernard Whitley, Mary Kite, and Lisa Wagner, Psychology of Prejudice and DiscriminationPatreon | patreon.com/overthinkpodcast
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Let a thousand flowers bloom! In episode 92 of Overthink, Ellie and David have a panoramic conversation on love beyond monogamy with philosophy professor, podcaster, and author of Why It's OK To Not be Monogamous, Justin L. Clardy. They envision relations of love and special attachment that aren't bound to the notion of sacrifice. They also turn to personal stories and question the role of marriage in consumer capitalism and its nonstop pressure to find the One and Only. Together, they find in non-monogamous pathways to reimagine agency, identity, and community â and a nudge toward a richer philosophy of our relations with the world around us.
Note: Ellie misspeaks when she mentions that married couples have lower satisfaction levels than unmarried ones. The correct claim, based on this study, is that they have fewer social ties. We apologize for the mistake!
Works Discussed
Marina Adshade, "The Origins of the Institutions of Marriage"
Simone de Beauvoir, She Came to Stay
Elizabeth Brake, Minimizing Marriage
Justin Clardy, Why Itâs OK to Not Be Monogamous
Carrie Jenkins, What Love Is
Robert Nozick, "Love's Bond"
Pages The Reading Group
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15. Marriage
16. Monogamy
17. Open Relationships
18. Polyamory
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Is mom still doing your laundry!? In episode 91 of Overthink, Ellie and David explore the twisty world of mommy issues, from the OG mother Mary to todayâs seducing MILFs. They look into psychonalytic theories of the mom-child bond, paying close attention to ways these theories have been challenged and expanded in the 20th century. They also discuss Simone de Beauvoirâs critique of maternal devotion by diving into some its most extreme, and problematic, manifestations. Your hosts ask: Is it true that mothers identify more easily with their children of the same gender? Do macho men and wimpy boys sexualize their mothers in similar ways? And of course: whoâs the biggest mamaâs boy of them all?
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Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex and The Ethics of Ambiguity
Nancy Chodorow, The Reproduction of Mothering
Michelle Dean, "Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter To Be Sick, âŠ"
Jacques Derrida, Reflections on the Mother Tongue
Sigmund Freud, The Freud Reader
Donald Winnicott, The Good Enough Parent
Don Jon (2013)
MILF Manor (2023)Patreon | patreon.com/overthinkpodcast
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Whoâs your daddy? Episode 90 is all about daddy issues. Ellie and David investigate father-child relations and the sexual, emotional, and familial worlds they create. From summer zaddies and sexy dad bods to hero feminist dads, your hosts travel from psychoanalysis all the way to theology to explore the expansive world of father figures. Do we all, as Julia Kristeva says, harbor unconscious fantasies of seeing our fathers âbeatenâ? Could civilization itself, as Freud suggests, be rooted in an archaic act of patricide for which we still feel guilty without realizing it? Ellie and David tackle hard questions about how parenthood, gender, and vulnerability interact. They even wonder whether they might have âdaddy issuesâ of their own!
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Works Discussed
Katherine Angel, Daddy Issues
Sigmund Freud, Totem and Taboo, and "A Special Type of Choice of Object made by Men"
Carl Jung, A Theory of Psychoanalysis
Julia Kristeva, A Father is Being Beaten
Jenn Mann, "Think You Have Daddy Issues?"
Father of the Bride (1991)
The Golden Bachelor (2023)
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No, youâre not hallucinating! In episode 89 of Overthink, Ellie and David investigate the loopy world of psychedelics. Did you know that after doing psychedelics Jean-Paul Sartre went through a âlobster phaseâ during which he hallucinated lobsters everywhere he went? Once paraded as mind-opening gateways to the nature of reality, psychedelics are back in the conversation today as tools of therapy and neuroscience. Your hosts take a crack at the philosophy of these puzzling substances, from their implications for phenomenology and the nature of consciousness, to the ethics of their medicinal use, in light of their risks and long-lasting effects. If a trip can transform our mind and senses, it might be that our everyday perception really is far weirder than we think.
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Works Discussed
Robin Carhart-Harris, et al. âThe Entropic Brain: a theory of conscious states informed by neuroimaging research with psychedelic drugsâ
Alison Gopnik, The Philosophical Baby
Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception
Mike Jay, âSartreâs Bad Tripâ
Chris Letheby and Jaipreet Mattu, "Philosophy and Classic Psychedelics: A review of some emerging themes"
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception
Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind
Anil Seth, Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
Dana G. Smith, âWhat Does Good Psychedelic Therapy Look Like?â
Simeon Wade, Foucault in California
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Ellie and David are serving⊠dinner! In episode 88 of Overthink, your favorite podcasters explore the philosophy of food, discussing everything from Glauconâs plea for fancy meals in the Republic, to the rich ways in which food is intertwined with our individual and cultural identities. They welcome food critic and philosophy professor Shanti Chu for a lively conversation about the gendering of meals, the ethics of food systems (lab-grown meat, anyone?), the future of restaurants, and much more. Bon appetit!
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Works Discussed
Carol J. Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat
Shanti Chu, âNonviolence through Veganismâ and âPublic Philosophy and Food: Foodies, Ethics, and Activismâ
Claude Fischler, "Food, Self, and Identity"
A. Breeze Harper, Sistah Vegan
Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity
Plato, Republic
Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation
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Time to be real! In episode 87 of Overthink, Ellie and David go back and forth about authenticity. They explore its deep roots in existentialist philosophy and Romanticism, and grapple with the paradoxes of being authentic in the era of reality TV, social media, and friendly-branded megacorps. They dive into philosophical critiques of authenticity, and explore how Heideggerâs writings on âEigentlichkeitâ (often translated as âauthenticityâ or âactualityâ) stand up today. Is authenticity the same thing as sincerity? Can you be authentic and insincere, or sincere and inauthentic? Who do we try to be authentic for: ourselves or other people? And might drag queens be the greatest example of postmodern authenticity?
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Taylor Carman, "The Concept of Authenticity"
Skye Cleary, How to Be Authentic
Brit Dawson, âBuying and selling authenticity: a decade of reality TVâ
Alessandro Ferrara, The Critique of Authenticity
Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
Hans-Georg Moeller and Paul DâAmbrosio, You and Your Profile
Lionel Trilling, Sincerity and Authenticity
Charles Taylor, The Ethics of Authenticity
Drag Race Spain S2
The Bachelor
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Give us a listen, and weâll give you the world! In Episode 86 of Overthink, Ellie and David ask: what does it mean to live in a world? From animal spirit masters in Labrador to the foundations of climate science, they discuss why the concept of "world" is so contentious, and even at the brink of collapse. They navigate our entangled concepts of nature, culture, and the idyllic nurturing earth through the work of Hannah Arendt and Arturo Escobar. Is the world of animals the same as our own? And, what could it mean to imagine a world where many worlds fit? In times of deep planetary transformation, philosophizing our place in this world has never been more important.
This episode was produced by Emilio Esquivel Marquez and Aaron Morgan as part of their Summer Undergraduate Research Program at Pomona College.
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Works DiscussedHannah Arendt, The Human Condition and The Origins of Totalitarianism
Mario Blaser, âDoing and undoing Caribou/Atikuâ
Dipesh Chakrabarty, âPlanetary Humanitiesâ
DĂ©borah Danowski and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, The Ends of the World
Arturo Escobar, Pluriversal Politics
Martin Heidegger, Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics
Travis Holloway, How to Live at the End of the World
Bruno Latour, Facing Gaia
Timothy Morton, Hyperobjects
Conservation International, Mother Nature (2015)Patreon | patreon.com/overthinkpodcast
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This episode gets an enthusiastic yes from us. In episode 85 of Overthink, Ellie and David dive into the crux of sexual consent. They work through some of the earliest attempts on the part of American universities at developing a sexual consent policy, before unpacking the fiery debates surrounding consent today â ranging from complex legal cases as well as instances of âgray rape.â They probe the limits of popular understandings of consent with cases involving intense physical pain, and cases which undo the very stability of our idea of consent. (Can one meaningfully consent to oneâs own murder?) They explore Ellieâs own proposal for rethinking our idea of consent. Is consent contractual? Performative? Magic? And, should it really be the central tenet of our sexual ethics?
Content warning: this episode contains graphic discussions of sexual violence and bodily harm.
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Works Discussed
Linda MartĂn Alcoff, Rape and Resistance
Ellie Anderson, âA Phenomenological Approach to Sexual Consentâ and âThe Limits of Consent in Sexual Ethicsâ
Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again
Ann Cahill, Rethinking Rape
Heidi Hurd, âThe Moral Magic of Consentâ
Jonathan Ichikawa, âPresupposition and Consentâ
Joseph Fischer, Screw Consent
Joan McGregor, Is it Rape?
Caleb Ward and Ellie Anderson, âThe Ethical Significance of Being an Erotic Objectâ
Bari Weiss, âAziz Ansari Is Guilty. Of Not Being a Mind Readerâ
Is It Date Rape? (1991 SNL Skit)
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What does it mean to be marginalized? Does marginalization give some people more epistemic authority than others? And, if so, what should we all do with this information? In episode 84 of Overthink, Ellie and David talk about standpoint theory, its complex intellectual history, and its relationship to W. E. B. DuBoisâ concept of double consciousness. They welcome an expert on the subject: Dr. Briana Toole, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College. In their conversation, they chat about how standpoint theory makes sense of electoral politics, educational policy, bizarre reality TV, and much more. They also discuss Corrupt the Youth, a philosophy outreach program founded by Dr. Toole that brings philosophy to high schools in the U.S.
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Briana Toole, âOn Standpoint Epistemology and Epistemic Peerhoodâ and âDemarginalizing Standpoint Epistemologyâ
Kate Chopin, The Awakening
W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk
Jennifer Nash, Black Feminism Reimagined
OlĂșfáșčÌmi O. TĂĄĂwĂČ, Elite Capture
David Foster Wallace, This Is Water
Black. White. (2006)
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