Philosophiraga: The Video Games and Philosophy Podcast
Philosophiraga: The Video Games and Philosophy Podcast
Latest Episodes
M3E2: We're All Just Dreamed Up By A Fish (Immaterialism and Link's Awakening)
If reality were just a dream, how could we tell? Are tables perfect? Why bother waking up a fish? Why did a dictionary maker kick a rock?All these questions and more will be... maybe answered, or maybe just alluded to, in this episode o...
M3E1: Ali-ontology 101 (Saint's Row IV and an Intro to Ontology)
What's even real anyway, dude? Like, does the world even exist, yo?These, albeit perhaps not phrased in quite the same way, are big questions in philosophy, and this episode is an introduction to ontology: the study of being and existen...
M2E5: Final Fantasy: Fallacy Nova Contrapositus (Logical Fallacies)
Logic is weird and fuzzy. Fortunately, understanding logical fallacies can help us to cut through some of the fuzziness... as long as we're careful how we use them. This episode is an introduction to a few useful fallacies, illuminated with exa...
Interview with My Other Half
It's a special interview episode: my guest is none other than my other half, Hannah!We discuss her gaming history, why she wants her games to be colourful and not boring, and how she feels about philosophy. Her views on philosophy might...
M2E4: OBJECTION! (Ace Attorney and Empiricism)
It's another episode of Philosophiraga, the bite-sized deep-dive into video games and philosophy.This time, we're looking at empiricism: the view that we know stuff through experience, and no other way. Phoenix Wright and co will help u...
