CAN YOU PHIL IT?: Recent Episodes
Jeanne Proust & Johnny Nicholson
This is an interdisciplinary podcast which uses a philosophical lens to explore any topic: death, time, consciousness, desire, sex and gender, perception, language, truth, art and beauty, love, friendship, happiness or technology. We will critically decipher philosophical jargon and ideas to help our listeners grasp various contributions to the greatest, or the most seemingly trivial, questions of humankind.
Hosted by Jeanne Proust - https://jeanneproust.github.io/ Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson - https://www.johnnynicholson.co/ Visuals by Pedro Gomes - https://pedrogo.com/
In this episode, we’ll talk about the very thing we try to promote with this podcast, namely, what we might call public philosophy.
Footnotes + food for thought...
John Dewey
John Lachs
Noam Chomsky
Barry Lam / Hi-Phi Nation
Hosted by Jeanne Proust
Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson
Visuals by Pedro Gomes
Please contribute to our podcast on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/canyouphilit
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In this episode, we’ll talk about the very thing we try to promote with this podcast, namely, what we might call public philosophy.
Footnotes + food for thought...
John Dewey
John Lachs
Noam Chomsky
Barry Lam / Hi-Phi Nation
Hosted by Jeanne Proust
Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson
Visuals by Pedro Gomes
Please contribute to our podcast on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/canyouphilit
For one time donations, please visit: https://anchor.fm/canyouphilit/support
This episode wraps up our latest discourse about happiness by addressing how systematically promoting positive attitudes can be done in coercive, and potentially questionable ways.
Footnotes + food for thought...
Aldous Huxley
Karl Marx
Boris Cyrulnik
Martin Seligman
Eva Illouz
Abraham Maslow
Grady Means
Byung Chul Han
Hosted by Jeanne Proust
Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson
Visuals by Pedro Gomes
Please contribute to our podcast on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/canyouphilit
For one time donations, please visit: https://anchor.fm/canyouphilit/support
This episode wraps up our latest discourse about happiness by addressing how systematically promoting positive attitudes can be done in coercive, and potentially questionable ways.
Footnotes + food for thought...
Aldous Huxley
Karl Marx
Boris Cyrulnik
Martin Seligman
Eva Illouz
Abraham Maslow
Grady Means
Byung Chul Han
Hosted by Jeanne Proust
Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson
Visuals by Pedro Gomes
Please contribute to our podcast on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/canyouphilit
For one time donations, please visit: https://anchor.fm/canyouphilit/support
In this episode, we will suggest various kinds of mindsets that might help to lead a happier life...
Footnotes + food for thought...
Stoicism: An interview with Massimo Pigliucci PhD (Audio Addendum)
Otho Campbell - Upside Down: The Fatal Flaw in our Pursuit of Happiness
Aristotle
Epicurus
Stoicism/Epictetus
Descartes’ Ethics
Pascal
Nietzsche
Hosted by Jeanne Proust
Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson
Visuals by Pedro Gomes
In this episode, we will suggest various kinds of mindsets that might help to lead a happier life...
Footnotes + food for thought...
Stoicism: An interview with Massimo Pigliucci PhD (Audio Addendum)
Otho Campbell - Upside Down: The Fatal Flaw in our Pursuit of Happiness
Aristotle
Epicurus
Stoicism/Epictetus
Descartes’ Ethics
Pascal
Nietzsche
Hosted by Jeanne Proust
Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson
Visuals by Pedro Gomes
This episode aims at questioning certain assumptions hidden behind the way we usually conceive happiness.
Footnotes + Food for thought...
Aristotle
Thomas Hobbes
Immanuel Kant
Robert Nozick
Joshua Greene
Felipe De Brigard
David Lykken, Auke Tellegen
Hippocrates and the four humors
Hosted by Jeanne Proust
Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson
Visuals by Pedro Gomes
This episode aims at questioning certain assumptions hidden behind the way we usually conceive happiness.
Footnotes + Food for thought...
Aristotle
Thomas Hobbes
Immanuel Kant
Robert Nozick
Joshua Greene
Felipe De Brigard
David Lykken, Auke Tellegen
Hippocrates and the four humors
Hosted by Jeanne Proust
Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson
Visuals by Pedro Gomes
This episode further explores the concept of normality, by looking at disability theory and eugenics.
Footnotes + food for thought...
- James Watson (and Francis Crick)
- Michael Sandel
- Julian Savulescu
- Arthur L. Caplan
- Clovis Pareiko
Hosted by Jeanne Proust
Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson
Visuals by Pedro Gomes
This episode further explores the concept of normality, by looking at disability theory and eugenics.
Footnotes + food for thought...
- James Watson (and Francis Crick)
- Michael Sandel
- Julian Savulescu
- Arthur L. Caplan
- Clovis Pareiko
Hosted by Jeanne Proust
Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson
Visuals by Pedro Gomes
In this episode, we will explore what the word “normal” means by looking at Canguilhem’s work, and then discuss the relationship between health and disease. What is it to be, and/or to feel normal?
Footnotes + food for thought...
François Broussais (1772 –1838)
Auguste Comte (1798 – 1857)
George Canguilhem (1904 – 1995)
Donna Billick
Hosted by Jeanne Proust
Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson
Visuals by Pedro Gomes
In this episode, we will explore what the word “normal” means by looking at Canguilhem’s work, and then discuss the relationship between health and disease. What is it to be, and/or to feel normal?
Footnotes + food for thought...
François Broussais (1772 –1838)
Auguste Comte (1798 – 1857)
George Canguilhem (1904 – 1995)
Donna Billick
Hosted by Jeanne Proust
Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson
Visuals by Pedro Gomes
In this episode, we will discuss various views that challenge our praising of work over leisure, and the very definition of what leisure is supposed to be.
Footnotes + Food for thought...
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Epicurus
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Blaise Pascal
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Thomas Hobbes
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John Locke
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Adam Smith
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Karl Marx
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Paul Lafargue
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Bertrand Russel
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Byung Chul Han
Hosted by Jeanne Proust
Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson
Visuals by Pedro Gomes
Footnotes + Food for thought...
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Epicurus
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Blaise Pascal
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Thomas Hobbes
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John Locke
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Adam Smith
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Karl Marx
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Paul Lafargue
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Bertrand Russel
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Byung Chul Han
Hosted by Jeanne Proust
Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson
Visuals by Pedro Gomes
This episode explores what has been called « cancel culture », the elements at the root of the arguments for or against online criticism, and the problematic assumptions and misunderstandings behind this ongoing debate.
Footnotes + Food for thought:
- Noam Chomsky
- JK Rowling
- Gloria Steinem
- Jonathan Haidt
- George Yancy
- Joel Jammal
Hosted by Jeanne Proust
Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson
Visuals by Pedro Gomes
This episode explores what has been called « cancel culture », the elements at the root of the arguments for or against online criticism, and the problematic assumptions and misunderstandings behind this ongoing debate.
Footnotes + Food for thought:
- Noam Chomsky
- JK Rowling
- Gloria Steinem
- Jonathan Haidt
- George Yancy
- Joel Jammal
Hosted by Jeanne Proust
Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson
Visuals by Pedro Gomes
This episode is about the definition of friendship, the possible types of friendship, and the ways our friends can deepen our understanding of ourselves.
Food for thought + Footnotes:
- Friendship
- Plato on friendship
- Epicurus
- Cicero
- Seneca
- Plutarch
- Michel de Montaigne
- La Rochefoucauld
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William James
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Gustave Thibon
Hosted by Jeanne Proust
Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson
Visuals by Pedro Gomes
Food for thought + Footnotes:
- Friendship
- Plato on friendship
- Epicurus
- Cicero
- Seneca
- Plutarch
- Michel de Montaigne
- La Rochefoucauld
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William James
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Gustave Thibon
Hosted by Jeanne Proust
Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson
Visuals by Pedro Gomes
Food for thought + Footnotes:
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Jean Paul Sartre; existentialism
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Simone de Beauvoir
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Contingency
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Reification
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Albertine
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Tristan & Isolde
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"Everybody Loves My Baby", also known as "Everybody Loves My Baby, but My Baby Don't Love Nobody but Me", is a famous jazz song composed by Spencer Williams in 1924. Lyrics were written by Jack Palmer. - The version we site in this episode was performed by The Boswell Sisters 1932.
Hosted by Jeanne Proust
Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson
Visuals by Pedro Gomes
Our 'Footnotes' explain certain references, with short biographies of authors we mention along the way, or definitions of key concepts in philosophy.
In this episode, we will discuss some of the origins and effects of love, focusing on both the desire to unite with someone, illustrated by Aristophanes myth in Plato’s symposium, and the qualities we either discover or attribute to the person we love.
Food for thought + Footnotes:
- Aristotle
- Diotima of Mantinea
- Stendhal
- Spinoza
- Schopenhauer
- René Girard
- Marcel Proust
- Thomas Hobbes
- The Agony Of Eros
Hosted by Jeanne Proust
Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson
Visuals by Pedro Gomes
In this episode, we will discuss some of the origins and effects of love, focusing on both the desire to unite with someone, illustrated by Aristophanes myth in Plato’s symposium, and the qualities we either discover or attribute to the person we love.
Food for thought + Footnotes:
- Aristotle
- Diotima of Mantinea
- Stendhal
- Spinoza
- Schopenhauer
- René Girard
- Marcel Proust
- Thomas Hobbes
- The Agony Of Eros
Hosted by Jeanne Proust
Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson
Visuals by Pedro Gomes
In this episode, we will explore various philosophical perspectives on time, focusing on Henri Bergson's conception of duration, but also on scientific approaches to time, in the hopes of shedding some light on this ever elusive concept.
Food for thought + Footnotes:
- Time
- Henri Bergson
- Heraclitus
- Plato
- Augustine
- Metaphysics
- Ontology
- Immanuel Kant
- Fred Hoyle
- Einstein and Time
- A debate between Einstein and Bergson about time...
Hosted by Jeanne Proust
Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson
Visuals by Pedro Gomes
Please contribute to our podcast on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/canyouphilit
For one time donations, please visit: https://anchor.fm/canyouphilit/support
In this episode, we explore various philosophical perspectives on time, focusing on Henri Bergson's conception of duration, but also on scientific approaches to time, in the hopes of shedding some light on this ever elusive concept.
Food for thought + Footnotes:
- Time
- Henri Bergson
- Heraclitus
- Plato
- Augustine
- Metaphysics
- Ontology
- Immanuel Kant
- Fred Hoyle
- Einstein and Time
- A debate between Einstein and Bergson about time...
Hosted by Jeanne Proust
Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson
Visuals by Pedro Gomes