Overthinking

Overthink

Ellie Anderson, Ph.D. and David Peña-Guzmán, Ph.D.

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Education

4.7 • 549 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Overthink goes meta! In the 100th episode Ellie and David reflect on the podcast’s journey and the origins of its (flawless!) title. They take up the question, “What is overthinking?” Is it a kind of fixation on details or an unwanted split in the normal flow of ideas? Then, they turn to psychology to make sense of overthinking’s highs and lows, as the distracting voice inside your head and a welcome relief from traumatic memories. Through the philosophies of John Dewey and the Frankfurt School, they look at different ways to understand the role of overthinking in philosophy and the humanities. Is overthinking a damper on good decisions, or perhaps the path to preserving the possibility of social critique?

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Works Discussed

John Dewey, How We Think
Max Horkheimer, “The Social Function of Philosophy”
Herbert Marcuse, “Remarks on a Redefinition of Culture”
Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, “Responses to depression and their effects on the duration of depressive episodes”
Charles Orbendorf, “Co-Conscious Mentation”
Suzanne Segerstrom et al., “A multidimensional structure for repetitive thought”
Stephanie Wong et al., “Rumination as a Transdiagnostic Phenomenon in the 21st Century”

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Overtink.
0:13.7	The podcast where you get to hear your two favorite thinkers, well, overthinking a lot of stuff all the time.
0:21.0	I'm Dr. Ellie Anderson.
0:23.0	And I'm Dr. David Peña Guzman.
0:25.5	And David, we made it.
0:27.3	It is our 100th episode.
0:29.5	I feel like I would always think about podcasts having 100 episodes and feel, I would think that
0:34.1	that meant that they'd been going on for so long.
0:37.2	And it doesn't feel like it's actually been that long. I'm kind of in shock that it's been 100 episodes, to be honest. I know. I'm so excited about reaching this milestone. I'm over here like, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do imagining little trumpets and confetti flying around. But it does feel like we haven't been doing this all that much. But I have to say
0:57.0	by the standards of the world of podcasting, we are in the minority because most podcasts sort of
1:03.0	bail out when they hit like the double digits of episodes. So by now we are a longstanding
1:09.8	podcast in the community of podcasting, and it feels really good.
1:15.2	Which I think has translated, you know, in terms of our listenership and how people are engaging with us as hosts, you know, like the ways that people know what overthink is.
1:25.4	It's so exciting. And it's been really fun, I think,
1:28.3	from my perspective, to have a creative outlet in this way and also to be able to learn about
1:33.7	so many different areas of philosophy because a lot of times, you know, we're reading new
1:39.7	articles or books for episodes. And I feel like it's just also broadened my horizons of what kinds of things
1:45.8	I'm thinking about, what kinds of interlocutors I have in mind and so on. Well, I would add another
1:50.7	point to that, which is that not only are we learning a lot about all these areas that we decide to take
1:55.7	on as episodes, but we've also gained a lot of insight into each other as thinkers and as friends also.
2:03.8	Because one of the things that I really look forward to whenever we settle on a topic, often is what ideas am I going to have?
2:11.2	But also how is Ellie going to surprise me with the ideas that she's also going to bring to the table?
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