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- 🇦🇺AU · Philosophy#1275K to 30K
- 🇮🇪IE · Philosophy#176500 to 3K
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The Concept of God
Jun 11, 2026
1h 41m 21s
Legal Injustices
May 26, 2026
1h 24m 50s
The Iran War
Apr 7, 2026
1h 40m 30s
Knowledge in Real Life
Mar 20, 2026
1h 20m 55s
Good and Bad Advice
Jan 27, 2026
1h 05m 31s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 6/11/26 |  The Concept of God | Tell Spencer your thoughts about this episode! Before we can think rigorously about whether God exists, we need to know what "God" is supposed to refer to in the first place. That's the theme of this episode. Perry Hendricks, Nevin Climenhaga, and Steve Kershnar join Spencer Case to interrogate the notion of God. Is God defined by a single property such as "the greatest possible being" or must we say that God describes a being with a special collection of logically unrelated properties (e.g.,... | 1h 41m 21s | ||||||
| 5/26/26 |  Legal Injustices | Tell Spencer your thoughts about this episode! The great Mike Huemer returns to Micro-Digressions to talk about ways in which the American legal system is morally problematic. Topics include plea bargaining and jury nullification. For more discussion of these topics, see Huemer's book, Justice Before the Law. | 1h 24m 50s | ||||||
| 4/7/26 |  The Iran War | Tell Spencer your thoughts about this episode! Craig White, Ben Burgis, and Daniel Kodsi join Spencer Case to discuss--and debate--the Iran War. | 1h 40m 30s | ||||||
| 3/20/26 |  Knowledge in Real Life | Tell Spencer your thoughts about this episode! Gordon Barnes joins Spencer to talk about the issues he discusses in his new book, Applied Epistemology: An Introduction. | 1h 20m 55s | ||||||
| 1/27/26 |  Good and Bad Advice | Tell Spencer your thoughts about this episode! Eric Wiland joins Spencer to discuss his book, Guided by Voices: Moral Testimony, Advice, and Forging a 'We'. In the ensuing discussion, Eric and Spencer cover a wide range of topics, including how moral testimony can generate moral understanding, what sort of responsibility those who give advice have for the actions of those who act on it, and further lessons about standpoint epistemology and collective agency. | 1h 05m 31s | ||||||
| 12/4/25 |  AI Dangers (The Dark Side of Technology, Part 3) | Tell Spencer your thoughts about this episode! Full professor of philosophy at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and sometimes David Cross impersonator Ryan Jenkins returns to Micro-Digressions to discuss the dangers of AI. The conversation covers such matters as the AI-alignment problem and why Chat GPT can't be horny. | 1h 11m 10s | ||||||
| 11/25/25 |  What is Hate Speech? | Tell Spencer your thoughts about this episode! Mark Oppenheimer from Brain in a Vat discusses controversies surrounding hate speech in South Africa. | 59m 19s | ||||||
| 10/24/25 |  Philosophical Horrors | Tell Spencer your thoughts about this episode! Philosophers J.P. Andrew, Mark Oppenheimer, Jason Werbeloff, Nicholas Delon, and Jason Brennan discuss their worst philosophical nightmares. | 1h 21m 53s | ||||||
| 9/16/25 |  On Moderates and Extremists | Tell Spencer your thoughts about this episode! Marcus Arvan returns to MD to talk about his new book, Why It's Ok to be a Moderate, which you can find here: Amazon.com: Why It's OK to Be a Moderate: 9781032613864: Arvan, Marcus: Books | 1h 06m 13s | ||||||
| 8/15/25 |  What is Wokeness? | Tell Spencer your thoughts about this episode! Nathan Cofnas joins Spencer Case to discuss the nature of the political ideology/movement known as "wokeness." Cofnas argues that wokeness follows from accepting environmental differences combined with post-Christian morality. Case partly agrees with this analysis, but places greater emphasis on moral egalitarianism than empirical egalitarianism. Both interlocutors agree that wokeness isn't going away anytime soon, despite wishful thinking to the... | 1h 22m 22s | ||||||
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| 7/23/25 |  Conundrums of Academic Freedom | Tell Spencer your thoughts about this episode! Oliver Traldi challenges the standard conservative model of academic freedom in his article, "Defusing Academic Freedom." Link here: Defusing Academic Freedom Spencer and Oliver discuss. Topics include: does the university have a univocal purpose? Does a truth norm really justify academic freedom as it's ordinarily understood and practiced. | 57m 24s | ||||||
| 6/22/25 |  "You're Under Arrest!" On Ethical Policing | Tell Spencer your thoughts about this episode! Jake Monaghan joins Spencer to discuss his new book, Ethical Policing. The discussion covers such questions as: what makes policing legitimate? What sorts of considerations undermine that legitimacy? How can police appropriately balance order and respect for individual freedom in a non-ideal world? | 1h 31m 40s | ||||||
| 5/19/25 |  Better Arguments for the Existence of God | Tell Spencer your thoughts about this episode! Matthew Adelstein returns to Micro-Digressions to talk about the arguments for the existence of God at the top of his tier list. You can find his complete ranking of arguments for God's existence here: Arguments For God Tier-list - by Bentham's Bulldog | 1h 34m 09s | ||||||
| 3/28/25 |  Free Will and Responsibility: Huemer vs. Kershnar | Tell Spencer your thoughts about this episode! Mike Huemer and His Offensiveness Steve Kershnar join Spencer to discuss free will and moral responsibility. | 1h 06m 09s | ||||||
| 2/24/25 |  Not-So-Great Arguments for the Existence of God | Tell Spencer your thoughts about this episode! Matthew Adelstein, the prolific young writer who posts at "Bentham's Bulldog" on Substack, has recently attracted attention for a tier ranking of philosophical arguments for the existence of God. Matthew and Spencer discuss the arguments at the bottom of his list, ascending from arguments that get an "F" to one in the C tier. | 1h 32m 07s | ||||||
| 1/20/25 |  The Virtuous Gamer | Tell Spencer your thoughts about this episode! Sarah Malanowski and Nicholas Baima join Spencer Case to discuss their book Why it's Ok to be a Gamer. They cover common objections to gaming, such as the claim that gaming is addictive and violent games promote violence. They also consider ways that video games can promote friendships and cultivate virtue. Finally, they debate the supposed vice of being a "tryhard." | 1h 21m 26s | ||||||
| 12/26/24 |  Rant-a-thon 2024! (Part 2) | Tell Spencer your thoughts about this episode! Featuring rants by Matt Lutz (on a priori knowledge and the politicization of the university) Travis Timmerman (on the film "Megalopolis") Spencer Case (on the depraved adulation of Luigi Mangione) and Ben Burgis (on the hypocrisy of "heterodox" liberals on Palestine). | 1h 31m 06s | ||||||
| 12/20/24 |  Rant-a-thon 2024! (Part 1) | Tell Spencer your thoughts about this episode! Featuring rants from Matthew Adelstein (on shrimp welfare), Mark Oppenheimer (on missing the golden age of universities), Craig White (on the folly and immorality of American involvement in Ukraine) David Baker (on the wrongness of peacetime conscription) and Jason Werbeloff (on common misconceptions about AI). | 1h 12m 31s | ||||||
| 11/28/24 |  Progressive Myths about Sex and Gender | Tell Spencer your thoughts about this episode! Michael Huemer returns to the podcast to discuss more of the issues in his self-published book, Progressive Myths (which you can buy on Amazon for a mere $12.50). Mike and Spencer discuss the gender pay gap, the claim that women don't lie about sexual assault, and the sex-gender distinction. | 1h 13m 56s | ||||||
| 10/20/24 |  Progressive Myths | Tell Spencer your thoughts about this episode! Michael Huemer returns Micro-Digressions to discuss his new self-published book, Progressive Myths, which you can purchase here for a mere $12.50: Progressive Myths: Huemer, Michael: 9798332272073: Amazon.com: Books Discussed here: Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and George Floyd cases, as well as some of the general patterns of police violence; the science of climate change and masking (compared with what activists say about these ... | 1h 51m 18s | ||||||
| 9/25/24 |  Nuclear War, Part 2 | Tell Spencer your thoughts about this episode! Dave Baker returns to Micro-Digressions to finish the discussion of nuclear weapons. Topics this time include the development of the hydrogen bomb, the problems with developing missile defense systems, and nuclear proliferation. | 1h 25m 49s | ||||||
| 8/17/24 |  Nuclear War | Tell Spencer your thoughts about this episode! Is the possession of nuclear weapons morally justified? Was it a mistake to invent them to begin with? Dave Baker joins Spencer to discuss these and other questions about nuclear war. (Correction: Joseph Stalin died in 1953, not 1952). | 1h 32m 24s | ||||||
| 7/20/24 |  Come on, man! Debating the Joe Biden presidency | Tell Spencer your thoughts about this episode! You may have heard that there's an election going on in the U.S. A big one in fact. This episode is a debate about the records of one of the candidates, Joe Biden. Matt Lutz, noted error theorist and Biden enthusiast, returns to the podcast to argue that Americans are insufficiently appreciative of Biden's performance on the economy and foreign policy. Spencer provides pushback on Biden's various student loan repayment schemes and immigration. E... | 1h 31m 54s | ||||||
| 6/18/24 |  Consciousness and the self | Tell Spencer your thoughts about this episode! Mike Huemer rejoins Spencer to discuss the nature of consciousness. They consider the reasons for thinking that consciousness can't be physical and some prominent physicalist rejoinders to dualist arguments. Here's a link to Mike's excellent "Fake Nous" substack: Fake Noûs | Michael Huemer | Substack | 1h 24m 29s | ||||||
| 5/22/24 |  Death and Immortality (Thinking About Death Part 2) | Tell Spencer your thoughts about this episode! Come for Spencer's funeral home jokes; stay for the unanticipated discussion of the movie Her. Travis Timmerman and Spencer Case resume their discussion about death. This time they talk about annihilationism, the idea that being annihilated is an intrinsically bad thing for the annihilated person, as well as popular arguments that immortality would be a bad thing for creatures like us. | 1h 20m 20s | ||||||
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Chart Positions
3 placements across 3 markets.
Chart Positions
3 placements across 3 markets.