Hello and welcome to Overthink.

The podcast were two experts on disagreeing, that is philosophers, tell you what we and others think about big and important topics.

I'm Ellie Anderson.

And I'm David Peña Guzman.

Ellie, one of our listeners' favorite things is when you and I disagree.

They find our disagreements really productive, and we often get comments asking for more of that.

Absolutely.

And it's so funny because we have found over the four years of doing this podcast that we actually find it pretty hard to disagree on the topics that we choose.

Like we agree on a lot of things, which I guess is

unsurprising because we're longtime friends. We went through the same philosophical training.

I think a lot of our commitments and values are similar. A lot of what we believe to be true

is similar. So we're often looking for things we disagree about when we're thinking about our

episode topics and trying to find ways that we diverge on particular ideas.

Yeah, especially on substantive issues, which did happen when our difference became obvious over regret, like the ethics of regret.

And also our debate, our infamous debate over cancel culture.

I think it's only infamous for us, but I do think like the biggest disagreement that's come

up between us, which is related to our old cancel culture episode, at least the biggest

disagreement between us, philosophically speaking, is whether you can

separate the art from the artist. And we were recently asked to host an online event on philosophical

disagreement. And I had the, might I say, brilliant idea to actually stage a debate between us and then

have us pick it apart together in front of the audience afterward to see what moves we had made in the debate. Right. So to like have a debate and then have us pick it apart together in front of the audience afterward to see what moves we

had made in the debate, right? So to have a debate and then to reflect on the debate and kind of

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