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Embrace The Void

Embrace The Void

Welcome friends, to a podcast for a darker timeline. Maybe the darkest of all timelines. Definitely not one of the good timelines. Maybe it’s always been a dark timeline, maybe the Hadron collider screwed us over. Science may never know. What we do know is that we live in the void. The void, a place where a chittering mass of void crabs can infest a person suit and win the presidency. The void, a place where we"re just clever enough to know that climate change is happening, but not quite clever

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01:34:26

Biology and Bigotry with Ed Buckner

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2025/01/24

My guest this week is Ed Buckner, a secular organizer, former president of American Atheists. Ed is the author of the book In Freedom We Trust: An Atheist Guide to Religious Liberty, as well as the Substack blog Letters to a Free Country,where he recently posted a piece responding to my article “Biology is not Ethics” about the conflict around FFRF and Jerry Coyne's piece "Biology is not Bigotry". We discuss Ed's objections to my accusing Coyne of arguing for bigotry and discrimination, his refusal

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01:10:22

Trans Activism in Secular Spaces with Kat Grant

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2025/01/20

My guest this week is Kat Grant a Wisconsin based attorney, activist, legal educator, and author of the new blog TransingBoundaries, which focuses on the intersections of law, politics, religion, and queerness. Kat recently finished up an Equal Justice Works Fellowship at the Freedom From Religion Foundation, where they exclusively worked on the White Christian nationalist attack on LGBTQIA+ rights. Tragically and ironically, their fellowship was sort of capped off with a revealing debacle

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00:56:18

A Disease of Affluence with Toby Buckle

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2025/01/14

Back to our normal format with returning guest Toby Buckle of the Political Philosophy Podcast. We discuss his recent Liberal Currents article "A Disease of Affluence", where he argues that MAGA is a result of lack of precarity rather than economic anxiety, combined with the human need to feel superior or dominant over others. We also discuss social dominance theory and my recent article on men and the meaning making crisis.Political Philosophy Podcast: https://www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/A

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01:55:04

Luckpilled Chapter Four: Pedagogy of Luck

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2025/01/02

Episode five of our luckpilled series! We discuss the final chapter of my dissertation on pedagogy of luck. We work through the old pedagogy of luck and how it crashes the educational commons, before discussing how to do luckpilling generally and how to integrate it with three other progressive pedagogies: Mindfulness, social-emotional learning, and critical social justice pedagogy.Sarah's Bio: https://creatoraccountabilitynetwork.org/about/leadership/Music by GW RodriguezEditing by Adam WikSibling

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02:07:03

Luckpilled Chapter Three: Politics of Luck

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2024/12/02

Episode four of my luckpilling series, where I'm once again joined by Sarah Tulien, executive director of the Creator Accountability Network. We discuss chapter three of my dissertation, which covers the politics of luck, particularly the way that meritocracy dominates modern politics and suppresses social progress by making people appear to deserve their lot in life. I also present an outline of the lucktopian society I think we should be moving towards and an argument for why it is not illiberal

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02:07:01

Luckpilled Chapter Two: Psychology of Luck

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2024/10/24

Episode three of my luckpilling series, where I'm once again joined by Sarah Tulien, executive director of the Creator Accountability Network. We discuss chapter two of my dissertation, which covers the psychology of luck, particularly the role of luck in how we explain the events in our lives, and the legitimizing myths of the just-world illusion cluster.Sarah's Bio: https://creatoraccountabilitynetwork.org/about/leadership/Music by GW RodriguezEditing by Adam WikSibling Pod:Philosophers in Space:

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01:44:06

Luckpilled Chapter One: Philosophy of Luck

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2024/10/12

Episode two of my luckpilling series, where I'm once again joined by Sarah Tulien, executive director of the Creator Accountability Network. We discuss chapter one of my dissertation, which covers the philosophy of luck, particularly why the (lack of) control account of luck is the best account and why it follows that everything is luck.Sarah's Bio: https://creatoraccountabilitynetwork.org/about/leadership/Music by GW RodriguezEditing by Adam WikSibling Pod:Philosophers in Space:

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01:23:46

Luckpilled: A New Pedagogy of Luck Introduction

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2024/09/20

Hi friends! As promised, I'm back from "sabbathical" with a (five?) part series on my dissertation. Accompanying me in this journey is Sarah Tulien, executive director of the Creator Accountability Network. She's here to save me from the horrors of monologuing and keep me on track and accountable, as well as to discuss the links between luckpilling and the restorative justice principles that CAN is based on. This first episode covers introductions all around. Enjoy!Sarah's Bio:

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01:01:05

Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements with...

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2024/08/03

My guest this week is Joan Braune, a Lecturer in Philosophy at Gonzaga University. We discuss her recently published book Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements: From Void to Hope, which seems increasingly relevant by the day, so enjoy!Understanding and Countering Fascism: https://www.routledge.com/Understanding-and-Countering-Fascist-Movements-From-Void-to-Hope/Braune/p/book/9780367696986Music by GW RodriguezEditing by Adam WikSibling Pod:Philosophers in Space:

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00:55:40

Round We Dance with Mark Green

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2024/07/15

My guest this week is Mark Green, a professional environmental activist and a member of the atheopagan society council. He’s the author of three books, most recently Round We Dance: Creating Meaning through Seasonal Rituals. We discuss the challenges and benefits with his approach to secular paganism.Round We Dance:

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01:08:05

Moral Antirealism with Lance Bush

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2024/06/17

My guest this week is Lance Bush, host of the Lance Independent YouTube channel. Lance has a PhD in psychology and an MA in philosophy, with a particular interest in metaethics and experimental philosophy, so you can guess what we're talking about. Enjoy!Lance Independent: https://www.lanceindependent.com/Music by GW RodriguezEditing by Adam WikSibling Pod:Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoidIf you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us

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01:09:00

Universal Salvationism with RJ

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2024/06/01

My guest this week is RJ, host of the youtube channel Absolute Optimist. We chatted a year ago about God in a never to be released recording and he reached out recently to let me know his views have changed on the subject. So I invited him on to talk about how and why his views have changed.Enjoy!Absolute Optimist: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUnBXHg3M6AZ6z-PLLyAmAQ/featuredMusic by GW RodriguezEditing by Adam WikSibling Pod:Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/Support us at

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01:07:50

Man Bear Discourse with Callie Wright

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2024/05/07

My guest this week is Callie Wright, cohost of the Philosophers in Space podcast and the only person I want to be parsing bear discourse with. We discuss the recent dust up around the hypothetical "would you prefer to encounter a man or a bear in the woods". We discuss why people are having such different responses on the hypothetical and whether this is a particularly cursed discourse, or just normal level cursed discourse. Enjoy!Man or Bear Know Your Meme:

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01:48:46

Street Epistemology with Anthony Magnabosco

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2024/03/27

My guest this week is Anthony Magnabosco, co-founder of Street Epistemology International. Street Epistemology is an approach to difficult dialogue aimed at helping individuals better understand why they believe what they believe. Anthony and co recently released a website called Navigating Beliefs, an easy way to learn how to do Street Epistemology. We discuss the evidence for the effectiveness of Street Epistemology, ongoing research on its effects, and concerns with the approach.Street

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What's Left of Meritocracy with Gil Morejón

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2024/03/16

My guest this week is Gil Morejón, a historian of ideas currently teaching at Grenell college, one of the 4 amazing hosts of the What’s Left of Philosophy? Podcast. We discuss leftist takes on meritocracy, possible alternatives, and the differences between doing politics and ethics. Enjoy!What's Left of Philosophy: https://www.leftofphilosophy.com/Gil's Website: https://gilmorejon.wordpress.com/about/Music by GW RodriguezSibling Pods:Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/Support us

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01:17:11

Debating Moral Realism with Chris Kavanagh

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2024/02/29

My guest this week is Chris Kavanagh, cohost of Decoding the Gurus and a cognitive anthropologist working at the psychology department at Rikkyo university in Japan. I have him on to discuss a recent episode of theirs about metaethics and debate the case for moral realism. Plus we talk about their recent free will episode in the VIP segment. Enjoy!Decoding the Gurus: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/Music by GW RodriguezSibling Pods:Philosophers in Space:

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01:05:58

Camp Omni with Megan Pike

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2024/02/21

My guest this week is Megan Pike, director of Camp Omni, formerly Camp West. Megan is a lifetime educator and camp participant. We discuss Camp Omni's developing focus and how the camping world in general is adapting, as well as some pedagogical nerdery. Enjoy!Camp Omni: https://www.campomni.org/Music by GW RodriguezThe Paradox of Secularism: https://nyupress.org/9781479809523/the-secular-paradox/Sibling Pods:Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/Support us at

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01:03:44

The Secular Paradox with Joseph Blankholm

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2024/01/25

My guest this week is Joseph Blankholm, a religious studies scholar and associate professor at UC Santa Barbara. We discuss his recent book The Secular Paradox, where he unpacks several internal conflicts facing secular community organizers. We get into the nature of religion, the secular mindset, and how movement secularism might be able to grow past this seeming paradox.Music by GW RodriguezThe Paradox of Secularism: https://nyupress.org/9781479809523/the-secular-paradox/Sibling Pods:Philosophers

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01:41:03

Warhammer 40k and Gamergate with Danny Fortuna

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2023/12/30

My guest this week is Danny Fortuna, a Warhammer 40k lore master and founder of the Facebook group Warhammer Heresyposting. Danny founded the group as a space for anti-woke 40k fans after he was banned from several other groups over debates around female space marines and other identity politics issues. We discuss whether 40k is satire, whether female space marines are compatible with 40k lore, whether the lore should change if they're not, and the argument around "go woke, go broke". Enjoy!Music by

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Conspiratorial Thinking and Just World Belief with...

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2023/12/20

My returning guest is M.R.X Dentith, a philosophy professor at BNUZH’s Center for international philosophy, with a focus on conspiracy theories, secrecy, and fake news. They’re also cohost of the podcaster’s guide to the conspiracy and recently published a spicy article called “I know it when I see it”- Motivating examples in the social psychology of conspiracy theory theory. They frequently provide nuanced criticism of the research on these issues in ways I find very compelling, so I’m excited to

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