E25 Thanks for Listening
This is the last episode of Searching For It that I will be releasing for the foreseeable future. Thank you to those of you who have listened to the s...
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Our search for 'it' will explore the most insightful thoughts from philosophy, literature, and elsewhere that provide a meaning or purpose to our lives. Each episode will uncover a new idea or way of life that brings us closer to transcendence. You don't need to have a degree in philosophy to listen to this podcast - just an open mind and a desire to learn more about the meaning behind human existence.
E24 Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
Today, most scientists agree that the universe began with the "Big Bang". But why did the Big Bang occur in the first place? What gave rise to the con...
E23 GUEST: Sam Rickless on Philosophy and the Meaning of Life
Sam is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, where he’s created a brand new course entitled ‘The Meaning of Life’. In ...
E22 Wolf: Meaningful Lives in a World Devoid of Meaning
Philosophers have spent millennia pondering the question of life's meaning. Kierkegaard grounded the meaning of life in a passionate belief in God, Sa...
E21 Nagel and the Absurd
According to Albert Camus, the absurd is the "one truly serious philosophical problem". In fact, Camus was so concerned by the notion of the absurd th...
E20 The Philosophy of Time Travel
Back to the Future, Interstellar, The Terminator - we've all been guilty of enjoying a good time travel flick at one point or another. But more recent...
E19 Peter Singer on Morality, Meaning, and Cancel Culture
Peter Singer is an Australian philosopher who has dedicated his life and his career to reducing the suffering of animals and tackling global poverty. ...
E18 Life Extension: Cryonics and Mind Uploading
Ancient civilizations all across the world have spent centuries searching for the secret to immortality, launching quests to seek the elixir of life a...
E17 The Fermi Paradox
According to scientists' best estimates, there are likely a great number of intelligent civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy, and many more throughou...
E16 Why We Are Living Inside a Simulation and Why We Should Care
The idea that we are living inside a simulation used to be little more than the brainwave of pot-smoking teenagers and people who took The Matrix a bi...