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CAN YOU PHIL IT?
Jeanne Proust & Johnny Nicholson
25 episodes
4 days ago
This is an interdisciplinary podcast which uses a philosophical lens to explore any topic: death, time, consciousness, desire, sex and gender, perception, language, truth, art and beauty, love, friendship, happiness or technology. We will critically decipher philosophical jargon and ideas to help our listeners grasp various contributions to the greatest, or the most seemingly trivial, questions of humankind. Hosted by Jeanne Proust - https://jeanneproust.github.io/ Please contribute to our podcast on Patreon, so we can create more! https://www.patreon.com/canyouphilit
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This is an interdisciplinary podcast which uses a philosophical lens to explore any topic: death, time, consciousness, desire, sex and gender, perception, language, truth, art and beauty, love, friendship, happiness or technology. We will critically decipher philosophical jargon and ideas to help our listeners grasp various contributions to the greatest, or the most seemingly trivial, questions of humankind. Hosted by Jeanne Proust - https://jeanneproust.github.io/ Please contribute to our podcast on Patreon, so we can create more! https://www.patreon.com/canyouphilit
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Episodes (20/25)
CAN YOU PHIL IT?
Public Philosophy + Barry Lam

In this episode, we’ll talk about the very thing we try to promote with this podcast, namely, what we might call public philosophy.


Footnotes + food for thought...

John Dewey

John Lachs

Noam Chomsky

Barry Lam / Hi-Phi Nation


Please contribute to our podcast on Patreon, so we can get better, and create more!

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Hosted by Jeanne Proust

Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson

Visuals by Pedro Gomes




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4 years ago
49 minutes 14 seconds

CAN YOU PHIL IT?
Footnotes: Public Philosophy + Barry Lam

In this episode, we’ll talk about the very thing we try to promote with this podcast, namely, what we might call public philosophy.


Footnotes + food for thought...

John Dewey

John Lachs

Noam Chomsky

Barry Lam / Hi-Phi Nation


Please contribute to our podcast on Patreon, so we can get better, and create more!

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Hosted by Jeanne Proust

Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson

Visuals by Pedro Gomes


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4 years ago
2 minutes 14 seconds

CAN YOU PHIL IT?
Positive x Tyranny

This episode wraps up our latest discourse about happiness by addressing how systematically promoting positive attitudes can be done in coercive, and potentially questionable ways.


Footnotes + food for thought...

Aldous Huxley

Karl Marx

Boris Cyrulnik

Martin Seligman

Eva Illouz

Abraham Maslow

Grady Means

Byung Chul Han


Please contribute to our podcast on Patreon, so we can get better, and create more!

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Hosted by Jeanne Proust

Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson

Visuals by Pedro Gomes


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4 years ago
48 minutes 8 seconds

CAN YOU PHIL IT?
Footnotes: Positive x Tyranny

This episode wraps up our latest discourse about happiness by addressing how systematically promoting positive attitudes can be done in coercive, and potentially questionable ways.


Footnotes + food for thought...

Aldous Huxley

Karl Marx

Boris Cyrulnik

Martin Seligman

Eva Illouz

Abraham Maslow

Grady Means

Byung Chul Han


Please contribute to our podcast on Patreon, so we can get better, and create more!

⁠https://www.patreon.com/canyouphilit⁠

Hosted by Jeanne Proust

Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson

Visuals by Pedro Gomes


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4 years ago
4 minutes 1 second

CAN YOU PHIL IT?
Descartes + Desires

In this episode, we will suggest various kinds of mindsets that might help to lead a happier life...


Footnotes + food for thought...

Stoicism: An interview with Massimo Pigliucci PhD (Audio Addendum)

Otho Campbell - Upside Down: The Fatal Flaw in our Pursuit of Happiness

Aristotle

Epicurus

Stoicism/Epictetus

Descartes’ Ethics

Pascal

Nietzsche


Please contribute to our podcast on Patreon, so we can get better, and create more!

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Hosted by Jeanne Proust

Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson

Visuals by Pedro Gomes

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4 years ago
38 minutes 23 seconds

CAN YOU PHIL IT?
Footnotes: Descartes + Desire

In this episode, we will suggest various kinds of mindsets that might help to lead a happier life...


Footnotes + food for thought...

Stoicism: An interview with Massimo Pigliucci PhD (Audio Addendum)

Otho Campbell - Upside Down: The Fatal Flaw in our Pursuit of Happiness

Aristotle

Epicurus

Stoicism/Epictetus

Descartes’ Ethics

Pascal

Nietzsche


Please contribute to our podcast on Patreon, so we can get better, and create more!

⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/canyouphilit⁠⁠

Hosted by Jeanne Proust

Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson

Visuals by Pedro Gomes

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4 years ago
5 minutes 47 seconds

CAN YOU PHIL IT?
Happiness + Nozick

This episode aims at questioning certain assumptions hidden behind the way we usually conceive happiness.


Footnotes + Food for thought...

Aristotle

Thomas Hobbes

Immanuel Kant

Robert Nozick

Joshua Greene

Felipe De Brigard

David Lykken, Auke Tellegen

Hippocrates and the four humors


Please contribute to our podcast on Patreon, so we can get better, and create more!

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Hosted by Jeanne Proust

Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson

Visuals by Pedro Gomes

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4 years ago
32 minutes 29 seconds

CAN YOU PHIL IT?
Footnotes: Happiness + Nozick

This episode aims at questioning certain assumptions hidden behind the way we usually conceive happiness.


Footnotes + Food for thought...

Aristotle

Thomas Hobbes

Immanuel Kant

Robert Nozick

Joshua Greene

Felipe De Brigard

David Lykken, Auke Tellegen

Hippocrates and the four humors


Please contribute to our podcast on Patreon, so we can get better, and create more!

⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/canyouphilit⁠⁠

Hosted by Jeanne Proust

Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson

Visuals by Pedro Gomes

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4 years ago
5 minutes 39 seconds

CAN YOU PHIL IT?
Disability + Eugenics

This episode further explores the concept of normality, by looking at disability theory and eugenics.


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Footnotes + food for thought...

- James Watson (and Francis Crick)

- Michael Sandel

- Julian Savulescu

- Arthur L. Caplan

- Clovis Pareiko


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Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson

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4 years ago
32 minutes 21 seconds

CAN YOU PHIL IT?
Footnotes: Disability + Eugenics

This episode further explores the concept of normality, by looking at disability theory and eugenics.


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Footnotes + food for thought...

- James Watson (and Francis Crick)

- Michael Sandel

- Julian Savulescu

- Arthur L. Caplan

- Clovis Pareiko


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Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson

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4 years ago
2 minutes 43 seconds

CAN YOU PHIL IT?
Canguilhem + Normal

In this episode, we will explore what the word “normal” means by looking at Canguilhem’s work, and then discuss the relationship between health and disease. What is it to be, and/or to feel normal?


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Footnotes + food for thought...

François Broussais (1772 –1838)

Auguste Comte (1798 – 1857)

George Canguilhem (1904 – 1995)

Donna Billick


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Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson

Visuals by Pedro Gomes

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4 years ago
32 minutes 48 seconds

CAN YOU PHIL IT?
Footnotes: Canguilhem + Normal

In this episode, we will explore what the word “normal” means by looking at Canguilhem’s work, and then discuss the relationship between health and disease. What is it to be, and/or to feel normal?


Please contribute to our podcast on Patreon, so we can get better, and create more!

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Footnotes + food for thought...

François Broussais (1772 –1838)

Auguste Comte (1798 – 1857)

George Canguilhem (1904 – 1995)

Donna Billick


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Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson

Visuals by Pedro Gomes

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4 years ago
1 minute 53 seconds

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Leisure / Work

In this episode, we will discuss various views that challenge our praising of work over leisure, and the very definition of what leisure is supposed to be.


Footnotes + Food for thought...

- Epicurus

- Blaise Pascal

- Thomas Hobbes

- John Locke

- Adam Smith

- Karl Marx

- Paul Lafargue

- Bertrand Russel

- Byung Chul Han


Please contribute to our podcast on Patreon, so we can get better, and create more!

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Hosted by Jeanne Proust

Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson

Visuals by Pedro Gomes

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4 years ago
28 minutes 58 seconds

CAN YOU PHIL IT?
Footnotes: Leisure / Work

Please contribute to our podcast on Patreon, so we can get better, and create more!

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Footnotes + Food for thought...

- Epicurus

- Blaise Pascal

- Thomas Hobbes

- John Locke

- Adam Smith

- Karl Marx

- Paul Lafargue

- Bertrand Russel

- Byung Chul Han


Hosted by Jeanne Proust

Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson

Visuals by Pedro Gomes

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4 years ago
6 minutes 59 seconds

CAN YOU PHIL IT?
Cancel + Culture

This episode explores what has been called « cancel culture », the elements at the root of the arguments for or against online criticism, and the problematic assumptions and misunderstandings behind this ongoing debate.


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Footnotes + Food for thought:

- Noam Chomsky

- JK Rowling

- Gloria Steinem

- Jonathan Haidt

- George Yancy

- Joel Jammal


Hosted by Jeanne Proust

Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson

Visuals by Pedro Gomes

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4 years ago
37 minutes 36 seconds

CAN YOU PHIL IT?
Footnotes: Cancel + Culture

This episode explores what has been called « cancel culture », the elements at the root of the arguments for or against online criticism, and the problematic assumptions and misunderstandings behind this ongoing debate.


Please contribute to our podcast on Patreon, so we can get better, and create more!

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Footnotes + Food for thought:

- Noam Chomsky

- JK Rowling

- Gloria Steinem

- Jonathan Haidt

- George Yancy

- Joel Jammal


Hosted by Jeanne Proust

Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson

Visuals by Pedro Gomes

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4 years ago
2 minutes 52 seconds

CAN YOU PHIL IT?
Montaigne + Friendship

This episode is about the definition of friendship, the possible types of friendship, and the ways our friends can deepen our understanding of ourselves.


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Food for thought + Footnotes:

- Friendship 

- Plato on friendship

- Epicurus

- Cicero

- Seneca

- Plutarch

- Michel de Montaigne

- La Rochefoucauld

- William James

- Gustave Thibon


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Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson

Visuals by Pedro Gomes

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4 years ago
36 minutes

CAN YOU PHIL IT?
Footnotes: Montaigne + Friendship

Please contribute to our podcast on Patreon, so we can get better, and create more!

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Food for thought + Footnotes:

- Friendship

- Plato on friendship

- Epicurus

- Cicero

- Seneca

- Plutarch

- Michel de Montaigne

- La Rochefoucauld

- William James

- Gustave Thibon


Hosted by Jeanne Proust

Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson

Visuals by Pedro Gomes

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4 years ago
6 minutes 24 seconds

CAN YOU PHIL IT?
Footnotes: Sartre + Love

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Food for thought + Footnotes:

- Jean Paul Sartre; existentialism

- Simone de Beauvoir

- Contingency

- Reification

- Albertine

- Tristan & Isolde

- "Everybody Loves My Baby", also known as "Everybody Loves My Baby, but My Baby Don't Love Nobody but Me", is a famous jazz song composed by Spencer Williams in 1924. Lyrics were written by Jack Palmer. - The version we site in this episode was performed by The Boswell Sisters 1932.

Hosted by Jeanne Proust

Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson

Visuals by Pedro Gomes

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4 years ago
3 minutes 34 seconds

CAN YOU PHIL IT?
FYI: Footnotes

Our 'Footnotes' explain certain references, with short biographies of authors we mention along the way, or definitions of key concepts in philosophy.


Please contribute to our podcast on Patreon, so we can get better, and create more!

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4 years ago
29 seconds

CAN YOU PHIL IT?
This is an interdisciplinary podcast which uses a philosophical lens to explore any topic: death, time, consciousness, desire, sex and gender, perception, language, truth, art and beauty, love, friendship, happiness or technology. We will critically decipher philosophical jargon and ideas to help our listeners grasp various contributions to the greatest, or the most seemingly trivial, questions of humankind. Hosted by Jeanne Proust - https://jeanneproust.github.io/ Please contribute to our podcast on Patreon, so we can create more! https://www.patreon.com/canyouphilit