LUNA's road trip in philosophy
Ol and Val, two Australian philosophers in Paris - and their lucky guests - get into a lively discussion about how to make modern philosophy work - how to get it to work to make sense out of life nowadays.
LUNA's road trip in philosophy
Latest Episodes
Episode 21 in which Ol and Val confuse tequila and traffic with Spinoza on the human body
Episode 20 in which Ol, Val and special guest Daniel Yslas investigate the human mind via Spinoza
In our 20th episode we go back to our original orientation and ask the kind of questions that suit an introduction to philosophy, and that are found in Part 2 of Spinoza's Ethics.How can the human mind be just the idea of the body, as Sp...
Episode 19 in which Ol and Val get into a tiff about fictional ideas and the mind of God
On Part II of Spinoza's Ethics, Propositions 7 through 10.
Episode 18 - Spinoza's Ethics Part Two in which Luna encounters the mind of God and Val gets a strawberry cupcake
Ol and Val get methodical with Spinoza's construction of human minds and the mind of God.
Episode 17 in which Val, Ol and guest Jasper Lear all melt into one whilst interpreting Part I of Spinoza's Ethics
We explore Spinoza's absolute rationalism, his love of causal explanation, his arguments against multiple substances and how - going against our theological prejudices - he conceptualises an immanent God.
