I will be teaching a remote class core texts in philosophy this spring starting mid-January

and I'd love you to join me for details please see partially examined life.com slash

class. This is Bill Arnet a the audience get something out of it as well.

My name is Bill Arnett, a philosophical

crow magnan yet an improvised homo sapien.

My name is Mark Linson Meyer.

I would say I'm an improv homo sapien, but as for philosophy, I'm some sort of advanced creature of pure energy. I've evolved beyond the norm, and you're just going to have to learn to deal with that.

Hi, I'm Sakana Herji, I'm an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania,

and I am terrified of improv. I'm not a fan of improv, so I think this is going to be a really interesting.

Okay Mark what did I say episode one that is you've already been improvising

You didn't play in this conversation it's true true. You know, I actually, it's funny, I've been working through with some of my feelings about

improv leading up to this recording because I actually is quite anxiety-inducing for me.

Don't even talk about improv much let's do improv.

But I actually, I listened to a couple of episodes,

I've been sort of thinking about my feelings about improv,

and I was actually teaching a class last week

where I used improv as an example to illustrate

so I feel like you already can you reproduce can you reproduce something of what how you

use improv as an example to teach actually students?

So I teach this an undergraduate course called the philosophy of love and sex, so it's sort of ethical issues

around romantic relationships and sexual relationships.

And we were talking about the limits of using the concept of consent to think about

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