SIO298: Is Life Pointless? More from the Journal of Controversial Ideas
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
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🗓️ 15 June 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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with special guest Aaron Rabinowitz! You know him from Embrace the Void and Philosophers in Space, but today he's here to philosophize at us. A paper on pointlessness was published in the first issue of the Journal of Controversial ideas. How good is it? How controversial? Find out!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Serious Inquiry's only thing. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello and welcome to Serious Inquiry's only. I'm Thomas and with me is always his |
| 0:33.1 | Garth. How's it going Dr. Lindsay Ostriman? Fine I guess. |
| 0:37.5 | A brother from another podcast, Aaron Rebenowitz, host of Embrace the Void, and of |
| 0:43.0 | course philosophers in space. How are you doing today? I mean, what's the point |
| 0:48.8 | right? Yeah. That was my feeling. Yeah. Well, this podcast is justified by |
| 0:55.2 | stuff around it. So we could we could have a point for this podcast episode. |
| 1:00.7 | That's true. There are things that are external to the podcast. So everything |
| 1:05.2 | is on that apparently. This podcast has everyday meaning, but we should be |
| 1:09.6 | very sad while we do it because it doesn't have any ultimate meaning. |
| 1:12.7 | Correct. Yeah. These jokes and references brought to you by the forward. |
| 1:22.8 | Look, if you didn't do the reading before class, you're just going to have to, you |
| 1:26.4 | know, be confused in the aces. Well, I was bad. Don't don't blame our fine |
| 1:30.3 | listeners for not knowing. I didn't tell them for sure, which which we read |
| 1:35.0 | ultimate meaning. We don't have it. We can't get it. And we should be very, very |
| 1:39.0 | sad in the journal of controversial ideas. And you know, I'm looking at it now. |
| 1:44.4 | This seems like one that very much could have been published anywhere or |
| 1:48.9 | nowhere, because it's worth it. But anyway, also, I don't think that so that's |
| 1:54.4 | not a pseudonym. Also, this is an actual. Yeah. Yeah. And someone with like |
| 1:59.8 | a decent position as far as I can tell in terms of like has done a fair |
| 2:03.8 | number of publications around these kinds of issues, but also around like |
| 2:08.8 | reproductive ethics. Yeah. So I mean, we can talk about the broader notion of |
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