346: Pizza Wheel
From Robot or Not? by John Siracusa and Jason Snell
May 11, 2026 · 2 min · Episode 346
About this episode
The episode explores the philosophical question of what defines a knife through the lens of a pizza wheel.
Listener Ed doesn’t keep his pizza wheel in his knife, but it’s got a blade and cuts things. What makes a knife a knife?...
People in this episode
Hosts: John Siracusa, Jason Snell
Topics covered
- pizza
- kitchen tools
- philosophy of objects
- cutting instruments
- definitions
Keywords
- pizza wheel
- knife
- cutting
- kitchen
- philosophy
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