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Exploring philosophical ideas and how they relate to every day life! Follow to stay updated! New episode every Sunday! If you'd like to support the show, you can Buy Me...
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Exploring philosophical ideas and how they relate to every day life!
Follow to stay updated! New episode every Sunday!
If you'd like to support the show, you can Buy Me a Coffee here
For more philosophical content, follow @philosofra_ on Instagram. You'll find book recommendations, quotes, mini-articles, and so much more!
You can also find the article version of the episodes on my website, here
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Follow to stay updated! New episode every Sunday!
If you'd like to support the show, you can Buy Me a Coffee here
For more philosophical content, follow @philosofra_ on Instagram. You'll find book recommendations, quotes, mini-articles, and so much more!
You can also find the article version of the episodes on my website, here
Thank you for listening to Cogito Ergo Podcast. Feel free to comment and share your thoughts!
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16 MAR 2025 · In this episode we dive into one of the fundamental philosophical debates: are we free, or are all our choices predetermined?
We examine the key points of the debate and the more recent studies that can offer some fresh insight.
Books mentioned in this episode:
- Pierre-Simone Laplace - "A Philosophical Essay on Probability"
To read more about the study with AI mentioned in the episode, you can read about it https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-agents-simulate-1052-individuals-personalities-with-impressive-accuracy
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9 MAR 2025 · In this episode we talk about the stoic philosophy and its vague resemblance to the phenomenon of "toxic positivity", with insights from neuroscience to discover the importance of our emotions.
Books mentioned in this episode:
- Antonio Damasio "Descartes' Error"
- Whitney Goodman "Toxic Positivity"
- Martha Nussbaum "The Cosmopolitan Tradition"
- Ryan Holiday "Introduction to Stoicism" (The Daily Stoic)
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2 MAR 2025 · Why do some people think life has meaning, and others don't?
In this episode we talk about why some people gravitate towards an explanation or another, how our feelings shape our beliefs, and cognitive bias.
Mentioned in this episode:
- William James "The Will to Believe"
Further reading:
- Daniel Kahneman, "Thinking, fast and slow"
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23 FEB 2025 · In this episode we take a look at “The Myth of Sisyphus” by Albert Camus to try to find out how we should live in a universe devoid of meaning.
Content Warning: This episode briefly mentions the topic of suicide in a philosophical context. While there are no graphic details, listener discretion is advised.
Mentioned in this episode:
- Albert Camus “The Myth of Sisyphus”
Further reading:
- Philosophy Now: Existentialism
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16 FEB 2025 · In this episode, we talk about how we shape our identity, how other people can influence it, and what Sartre really meant by “Hell is other people”.
Mentioned in this episode:
- Jean-Paul Sartre, “No Exit” https://archive.org/details/NoExit
- Jean-Paul Sartre, “Being and Nothingness”
Further reading:
- Philosophy Now magazine, The Ultimate Guide, issue six: Existentialism.
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9 FEB 2025 · What if you had to relive your choices forever?
In this episode, we explore Nietzsche's idea of the Eternal Return, and how it relates to our daily struggle of making choices.
The words I'm trying to pronounce are "Wissenschaft" and "Naturewissenschaften"
Mentioned in this episode:
- Milan Kundera, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
- Friedrich Nietzsche, "The Gay Science" (passage 341)
Further reading
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Exploring philosophical ideas and how they relate to every day life! Follow to stay updated! New episode every Sunday! If you'd like to support the show, you can Buy Me...
show more
Exploring philosophical ideas and how they relate to every day life!
Follow to stay updated! New episode every Sunday!
If you'd like to support the show, you can Buy Me a Coffee here
For more philosophical content, follow @philosofra_ on Instagram. You'll find book recommendations, quotes, mini-articles, and so much more!
You can also find the article version of the episodes on my website, here
Thank you for listening to Cogito Ergo Podcast. Feel free to comment and share your thoughts!
show less
Follow to stay updated! New episode every Sunday!
If you'd like to support the show, you can Buy Me a Coffee here
For more philosophical content, follow @philosofra_ on Instagram. You'll find book recommendations, quotes, mini-articles, and so much more!
You can also find the article version of the episodes on my website, here
Thank you for listening to Cogito Ergo Podcast. Feel free to comment and share your thoughts!
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| Author | Philosofra |
| Organization | Philosofra |
| Categories | Philosophy , Self-Improvement , History |
| Website | www.philosofra.com |
| filosofra@gmail.com |
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