Philosophiraga: The Video Games and Philosophy Podcast
Philosophiraga is an audio presentation in the Well-Red Mage family of content. Each episode, I look at a big idea from the history of philosophy and discuss how it relates to the world of video games. It's sort of like an introductory philosophy course mashed up with gaming culture, which (I like to think) makes it a bit more interesting. If you've already studied philosophy, you're unlikely to learn anything new from Philosophiraga... but I hope you might be able to enjoy listening anyway.
Episodes
17 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...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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13:00
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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13:17
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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29:24
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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1:04:41
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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16:30
M2E3: Cogito Ergo You Died (Dark Souls and Rationalism)
In this episode of Philosophiraga, the gaming and philosophy podcast, we take a look at rationalism. How can we know things without experiencing them? Rationalism has a few suggestions.Speaking of things we know without having experienc...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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19:15
M2E2: Not A Coronavirus Episode (World of Warcraft and Making Inferences)
In this... slightly out-of-schedule episode of Philosophiraga, we take a look at something that happened in World of Warcraft many years ago, and discuss whether it's relevant to things happening in the real world today.One correction: ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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21:07
Interview with The Well-Red Mage
Moses Norton, the Well-Red Mage himself, is my guest for this interview episode of Philosophiraga. We talk right and wrong, Batman, truffle oil, parenthood, the difference between academic philosophy and just sort of doing philosophy out in the...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:04:12
M2E1: It's Super Effective! (Pokémon and Justified True Belief)
Module two episode one!What is knowledge? How do we know when we know something? How do we know whether we know that we know anything? To answer all these questions and more (or just to wonder about them and form no conclusions ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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16:04
M1E4: The Unbearable Lightness of Keying (Kingdom Hearts and Meta-Ethics)
What even is good, or bad, or whatever? When we say 'this is good', to what are we actually referring?These are some questions which, if we're being honest, sound like they might be slightly meaningless. Fortunately, Philosophiraga take...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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21:12
