Overthink

By: Ellie Anderson Ph.D. and David Peña-Guzmán Ph.D.
  • Summary

  • The best of all possible podcasts, Leibniz would say. Putting big ideas in dialogue with the everyday, Overthink offers accessible and fresh takes on philosophy from enthusiastic experts. Hosted by professors Ellie Anderson (Pomona College) and David M. Peña-Guzmán (San Francisco State University).

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Episodes
  • Black Consciousness with Lewis Gordon
    Nov 19 2024

    Do you need black skin to be Black? How might concepts such as white privilege be limiting our understanding of how racism works? In Episode 117 of Overthink, Ellie and David chat with philosopher Lewis Gordon about his book, Fear of Black Consciousness. They talk through the history of anti-Black racism, the existential concept of bad faith, why Rachel Dolezal might have Black consciousness, and Frantz Fanon’s experience of being called a racial slur by a white child on a train. From the American Blues to the Caribbean movement of Negritude, this episode is full of insight into Black liberation and White centeredness. In the bonus, Ellie and David go into greater detail about how Black liberation is connected to love.

    Check out the episode's extended cut here!

    Works Discussed:
    Steve Bantu Biko, I Write What I Like
    W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
    Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
    Edouard Glissant, Introduction à une Poétique du Divers
    Jane Anna Gordon, “Legitimacy from Modernity’s Underside: Potentiated Double Consciousness”
    Lewis Gordon, Bad Faith and Antiblack racism
    Lewis Gordon, Fear of Black Consciousness
    Rebecca Tuvel, “In Defense of Transracialism”

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Extinction
    Nov 5 2024

    Dinosaurs, mammoths, ibexes, frogs: a great deal of animals have gone the way of the dodo. Are we next? And would the world be better off without us? In Episode 116 of Overthink, Ellie and David talk about extinction, from Christian eschatology, to the perils of Anthropocene, to cutting-edge de-extinction technology. They turn to animal ethics and scientific dilemmas in search of the ethical approaches that might equip us to think about the extinction of animals, and perhaps even our own. Plus, in the bonus, they talk love, cyborgs, tech bros, and the ethics of the future.

    Check out the episode's extended cut here!

    Works Discussed
    Thom Van Dooren, Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
    Todd May, Should We Go Extinct?
    Jacob Sherkow and Henry Greely, “What if Extinction is not Forever?”
    Émile Torres, Human Extinction: A History of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation
    Children of Men (2006) dir. Alfonso Cuarón
    Episode 46. Anti-Natalism

    Support the show

    Patreon | patreon.com/overthinkpodcast
    Website | overthinkpodcast.com
    Instagram & Twitter | @overthink_pod
    Email | dearoverthink@gmail.com
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    1 hr
  • Hope
    Oct 22 2024

    It’s the one you’ve been hoping for. In episode 115 of Overthink, Ellie and David discuss the meaning of hope, from casual travel plans, to electoral optimism, to theological liberation. They discuss how hope motivates action, and how its rosy tint might be paralyzing. They explore Kant’s ambitions for perpetual peace, and discuss the Marxian imperative to transform the world. They ask, is it rational to hope? How does hoping relate to desire and expectation? And should we hope for what seems realistic, or reach for impossible utopias? Plus, in the bonus, they discuss chivalry, the future, agency, tenure, burritos, and capitalist realism.

    Check out the episode's extended cut here!

    Works Discussed
    Augustine, Enchiridion on Faith, Hope and Love
    Ernst Bloch, The Principle of Hope
    Joseph J. Godfrey, A Philosophy of Human Hope
    Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason, Religion Within The Limits of Reason Alone, Perpetual Peace
    Jonathan Lear, Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation
    John Lysaker, Hope, Trust, and Forgiveness: Essays in Finitude
    Adrienne Martin, How We Hope: A Moral Psychology
    Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach
    Anthony Steinbock, Moral Emotions: Reclaiming the Evidence of the Heart
    Baruch Spinoza, Short Treatise
    Katja Vogt, “Imagining Good Future States: Hope and Truth in Plato’s Philebus”

    Support the show

    Patreon | patreon.com/overthinkpodcast
    Website | overthinkpodcast.com
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    Email | dearoverthink@gmail.com
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    59 mins

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