This is Philosophy versus Improv, where two sages try to teach each other a thing or two,

and maybe you, the audience, gets something out of it as well.

This is Mark Linson-Myer, giving you a little dose of philosophy today.

And this is Mary Hines, bringing the improvisational energy.

And we are joined by...

Me? Oh, Elijah Dan. Yes. You! Thank you.

And an actual philosophy professor in Canada? Are you still there? Or are you retired from there?

Well, I'm just teaching. I wanted to keep my foot in the door teaching because it's really the

lifeblood. I love teaching I've thought for 35 years or so.

The nice thing about it is I'm teaching at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. It's for the

seniors department. Those are specifically for people who are 55 years or older. You can be younger.

And the nice thing about it is they let me teach whatever I want to teach.

My students love it, and over the years I've taught some great courses that I've been able to tailor for myself, and there's been great interest in it.

I just finished teaching a course on critical thinking, but it wasn't just critical thinking.

I thought we need something a little bit more robust these days.

So the course was entitled, A Guide to Critical Thinking in an Age of Conspiracies, Ideology, and Assorted Woo-Woo.

And, yeah, the registration was filled the first day, and they want me to teach it again in a couple more months.

So, yeah, we had a lot of fun.

So I like to keep my courses as current as possible and as topical as possible.

And I see your list of books that you started writing your dissertation on Richard Rorty,

but mostly have had fairly publicly accessible sorts of things, an introduction of philosophy,

but then a lot of stuff about God and ethics, and this one that you're promoting now,

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