The Partially Examined Life

We've started releasing episodes for month two of our treatment of Hegel on Spirit, now moving into how culture invades our brains: partiallyexaminedlife.com/2026/03/30/ep-…

More Nakedly Examined Music...

Check out recent #PhilosophyVsImprov episodes on memory, picking your battles, atheism (with prof Elijah Dann), and using music to accompany improv (with Jerome Kurtenbach): philosophyimprov.com/pvi110-memory/, philosophyimprov.com/pvi113-pick-yo…, philosophyimprov.com/pvi111-religio…, philosophyimprov.com/pvi112-musical…

Check out recent #PrettyMuchPop episodes on South Park, Hamnet, and Oscar-nominated black films: prettymuchpop.com/2026/02/03/pmp…, prettymuchpop.com/2026/02/17/pmp…, prettymuchpop.com/2026/03/05/pmp…. All featuring Mark, Al Baker, Sarahlyn Bruck, and @law_writes.

An oldie but a goodie from the PEL archives: Edmund Burke on political conservatism - partiallyexaminedlife.com/2016/11/07/ep1…

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ICYMI: From the PEL Blog, a recap of all our content in February - partiallyexaminedlife.com/2026/03/06/par…

We're starting a multi-episode treatment of the "Spirit" chapter in Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit." partiallyexaminedlife.com/2026/03/02/ep3…

Check out Part Two of our interview with Graham Harman: partiallyexaminedlife.com/2026/02/22/ep3…

We have now released the first half of our interview with Graham Harman, talking about his latest book, "Waves and Stones," and answering our question about his object-oriented ontology: partiallyexaminedlife.com/2026/02/16/ep3…

New on the PEL Blog - When a Fallacy Ain't a Fallacy: The Naturalistic Fallacy partiallyexaminedlife.com/2026/02/27/whe…

Thanks to John S. Hall @omgitsjsh of King Missile fame for joining me on #NakedlyExaminedMusic to talk about his plentiful poetry: nakedlyexaminedmusic.com/nem247-john-s-…

Thanks to @RobertDeeble for joining me on #NakedlyExaminedMusic to discuss his mellow, poetic tunes: nakedlyexaminedmusic.com/nem246-robert-…

We begin our treatment of Graham Harman's Object-Oriented Ontology: partiallyexaminedlife.com/2026/01/25/ep3…

Thanks to Darren Michael Boyd @TheDarrenBoyd for joining me on #NakedlyExaminedMusic to discuss his spicy guitar instrumentals: nakedlyexaminedmusic.com/nem245-darren-…

New on the PEL Blog: We know two types of reasoning pass muster with Hume. One is found in logic and the other in experience. But what if there's a third? @PhilosopherJoeC explains (link below).

Thanks to @RichBakerActor for joining me and Mary on #PhilosophyVsImprov to talk about failure, plus Robo-Carson, Steaks You Deserve, digital gravestones, and more: philosophyimprov.com/pvi109-failure…

We've got some zydeco on #NakedlyExaminedMusic with @coreyledet: nakedlyexaminedmusic.com/nem243-corey-l…

Check out our series on Freud's "Group Psychology"; we've just released part 3 out of 4. Start here: partiallyexaminedlife.com/2025/12/22/ep-…