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Overthink podcast Hosted by your new favorite professors, Ellie Anderson and David Peńa-Guzmán, Overthink offers fresh takes on perennial questions.

Come to us for deep dives on challenging concepts and unexpected connections to everyday life and pop culture.

18/02/2025

Wise breakup advice from Ovid. Want more? Listen to episode 123. Breakups!

16/02/2025

I will die for philosophy memes.

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13/02/2025

No breaking up this Overthink duo! 💞

11/02/2025

💔It’s not you, it’s me… In episode 123 of Overthink, Ellie and David get into the highs and lows of breakups. What, if anything, is valuable about breakups? How do breakups affect our capacity for empathy and our understanding of others? Does society’s emphasis on monogamy affect how we conceptualize the end of relationships? And what do you do if your ex still has your Netflix password? Your hosts discuss everything from breakups in the age of social media and chemical solutions to heartache to what the laws against domestic abuse and stalking can tell us about how society views breakups.

💌Plus, in the bonus, they take a look at Kierkegaard’s love life and discuss whether it’s ever truly possible to breakup with someone for purely altruistic reasons.

🫶Works Discussed:
Brian D Earp et. al, “If I Could Just Stop Loving You: Anti-Love Biotechnology and the Ethics of a Chemical Breakup”
Kelli María Korducki, Hard To Do: The Surprising, Feminist History of Breaking Up
Pilar Lopez-Cantero, “The Break-Up Check: Exploring Romantic Love through Relationship Terminations Martha Mahoney”
Ovid, Remedia Amoris
Deborah Tuerkheimer, “Breakups”
Jennifer Wilson, “The New Business of Breakups”

05/02/2025

✅Check out this awesome philosophy event that Ellie is involved in: So excited to announce the launch of the SPEP webinar series! Our first event is coming up on Feb. 19, easily clickable registration link in Stories :) for those who might not know, SPEP is the largest continental philosophy society in the US, and we’re finally offering some online events!

03/02/2025

Perfect for this podcast 😂😆

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28/01/2025

📝You might want to jot down some notes on this one! In episode 122, Ellie and David explore where writing began, the value of writing, and our reasons for writing. Is the widespread use of generative AI technologies, such as ChatGPT, a threat to creative and academic writing? How did writing originate in cuneiform, and how does Derrida’s deconstruction of logocentrism encourage us to reconsider the privileging of speech over writing? Listen to it all write here, write now!

🧑‍💻Plus, in the bonus, they get into some of our most pernicious myths and misconceptions about writing. They talk about the tortured writer trope, the solitary nature of writing, and the connection of writing to class.

✒️Works Discussed:
David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous
Geoffrey Bennington and Jacques Derrida, Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida, “Freud and the Scene of Writing”
Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology
Jacques Derrida, “Signature Event Context”
Jacques Derrida, Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences
Joan Didion, “Why I write”
Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy
George Orwell, “Why I write”
Plato, The Phaedrus
Alva Noë, The Entanglement, How Art and Philosophy Make Us Who We Are
Peter Salmon, An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida
Andrew Robinson, The Story of Writing

27/01/2025

Want more philosophy content? Watch our two latest YouTube Videos! Ellie and David discuss what philosophy is for and David interviews Dr. Carlos Montemayor about his book The Prospect of a Humanitarian Artificial Intelligence: Agency and Value Alignment (2023) 🧠

26/01/2025

Peeking around the corner at our next episode coming out Tuesday 👀

24/01/2025

David and his book When Animals Dream were featured in Vogue Italia earlier this month. Check it out online!

22/01/2025

Oh my god, it even has a watermark.

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20/01/2025

Mariana Alessandri talks about framing dark moods with a mindset of dignity. Hear this quote and more in our latest episode!

14/01/2025

💡In a world that has developed a collective fear of the dark, how can we navigate the not-so-positive feelings that we experience?

🌑 In episode 121 of Overthink, Ellie and David chat with philosopher Mariana Alessandri about her book, Dark Moods. They talk about how the obsession with light fuels toxic positivity, the ways shame amplifies dark moods, and the harmful effects of associating light with good and darkness with bad. Why does society disregard negative emotions? Does the medical field pathologize grief for good reason? And should we strive to make people feel better when they’re experiencing a dark mood?

⭐️ Plus, in the Patreon bonus, they consider the difficulties of experiencing emotions that lie in a gray area, different types of anger, and whether we need to move away from metaphors of light and darkness entirely.

🕯️Works Discussed:
Mariana Alessandri, Night Vision, Seeing Ourselves Through Dark Moods
Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
Plato, The Republic
Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life

10/01/2025

Sending out love from the Overthink team ❤️

07/01/2025

📖 David just released a book with Rebekah Spera titled Professional Philosophy and Its Myths!

‼️ Use the discount code LXFANDF30 for 30% Discount Offer!

06/01/2025

👥 How do we approach our disagreements? David and Ellie discuss Kathleen Kennedy’s idea of bias that heightens conflict in our latest episode on Disagreement! Listen wherever you get your podcasts :)

04/01/2025

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31/12/2024

😡 From the holiday dinner table to the Twitter fandom wars, disagreements are inescapable.

🔥 In episode 120 of Overthink, Ellie and David talk through different types of disagreement (e.g. disagreements online vs philosophical disagreements) and consider why we have such a tough time dealing with those who don’t see things as we do. Is the format of social media platforms to blame for the bad faith disagreements that occur on them? What role do confidence and conviction play in disagreement? Can we have a world without disagreement, or is disagreement an inevitable feature of our social lives? And how can we navigate the “sh*tstorm” when others refuse agree with us? Prepare to turn on disagreement mode as you listen to two doctors of disagreement reason their way through it all.

🗯️ Plus, in the bonus, they discuss ways of overcoming disagreement, the failure of our education system, and the importance of community in online disagreement.

😾 Works Discussed
Byung Chul Han, In the Swarm
Catherine Elgin, “Persistent Disagreement”
Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism
Kathleen Kennedy, “When Disagreement Gets Ugly, Perceptions of Bias and the Escalation of Conflict”
Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Alex J. Novikoff, The Medieval Culture of Disputation
Brian Ribeiro, “Philosophy and Disagreement”
Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty

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