Philosophy vs. Improv
Mark Linsenmayer (host of The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast) and Bill Arnett (head of the Chicago Improv Studio) each try to teach each other their crafts via conversation, sketches, and what can only be called performance art. No taking turns!
- Website
- https://philosophyimprov.com
- Description
- Philosophy vs. Improv
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-04-19 18:57
- last episode published
- 2024-04-18 17:19
- publication frequency
- 13.65 days
- Contributors
- Mark Linsenmayer
- Author
- Mark Linsenmayer
- Owner
- mark@philosophyimprov.com (Mark Linsenmayer)
- Managing editor
- Explicit
- true
- Number of Episodes
- 75
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture Philosophy Comedy Improv
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-04-18 | David is co-host of the excellent Overthink podcast, popular among the young people today, and so we have him monologue to children as an anti (?) drug speaker. How can drugs change us, our sense of self, and the ways we see the world? Can some drugs b... |
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| 2024-03-26 | The co-host of the Those Who Aunt podcast joins Mark and Bill to joke about the family as the fundamental political unit and its special place in ethics. On the flip side, what questions should you ask yourself about your character at the start of a sc... |
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| 2024-03-12 | It's another TEAM PLAY episode, with our returning champions, star of improv stages and podcasts Chris and College of Southern Nevada philosophy prof Cole receiving NOT THE INFORMATION THEY EXPECT and gettin' all rational and such when consoling a frie... |
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| 2024-02-19 | If people would be uniquely healed by your blood, how much would you charge for it? Would it make a difference if they were wealthy vampires? Bill entices Mark to join a cult. Mark philosophizes at partiallyexaminedlife.com. Bill improvises (and teache... |
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| 2024-02-05 | Jonny taught philosophy at Oxford, wrote the international bestseller Mini Philosophy, and now writes for Big Think. We talk Kierkegaard and act out some scenes about scouting and military recruitment. Do we have to live within labels? Does one have to... |
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| 2024-01-21 | Katie is the co-artistic director of Chicago's IO theater and used to do Comedy Sports improv with Bill. She also took a lot of classes in philosophy and religion, so we talk some about cults, Kierkegaard, tolerance, and more. In our scenes, a family c... |
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| 2024-01-15 | It's our office holiday party, where we engage in chit-chat then enter into a few holiday scenes. Is there any philosophy content in this one at all? We do talk a bit about status and authority. Was there any particular improv lesson? We forgot to actu... |
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| 2023-12-20 | Sukaina teaches philosophy at U. of Pennsylvania, combining work from ancient Greek, contemporary moral, and feminist philosophy. She lets Mark and Bill know about critiques by feminist philosophers of the idea of consent. We talk a bit about moral age... |
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| 2023-12-04 | Kevin is the creator and host of the storytelling podcast RISK! and is the alphabetically foremost member of the MTV-televised, newly reformed, celebrity-infested sketch comedy troupe The State. But can he improvise? Mark and Bill surprise Kevin into a... |
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| 2023-11-15 | Recorded on 9/11 (a date not known primarily for its improv activities), only now making its way to you, this discussion between Mark and Bill talk child deification, pop philosophy vs. pop improv, foreign accents, and guns in schools in the hands of i... |
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