269 episodes

Welcome to Philosophers In Space, where the intrepid trekker captain Callie Wright and their questionable Chief Ethics Officer Aaron Rabinowitz explore the weird, gooey world of sci-fi, searching for tantalizing hypotheticals and gear-stripping questions in a space odyssey of meaning and amusement.

Philosophers In Space Aaron Rabinowitz and Callie Wright

    • Society & Culture
    • 4.8 • 214 Ratings

Welcome to Philosophers In Space, where the intrepid trekker captain Callie Wright and their questionable Chief Ethics Officer Aaron Rabinowitz explore the weird, gooey world of sci-fi, searching for tantalizing hypotheticals and gear-stripping questions in a space odyssey of meaning and amusement.

    Monolith and Viral Memetics

    Monolith and Viral Memetics

    Listeners, have we got a story for you. Two Lovecraftian podcasters so far up their own allegorical asses they do a podcast about a movie about a podcaster doing a Lovecraft. It's meta all the way down folks, so naturally we're talking memetics and the ethics of content creation. Enjoy!
    Monolith: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolith_(2022_film)
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    Sibling shows:
    Queersplaining: https://www.queersplaining.com/
    Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/
    Recent appearances:
    We haven't been anywhere recently and we want to be so if you know any good shows you think we should guest on him them up with the suggestion!
    Content Preview: The Pod Generation and Naturalness

    • 1 hr 42 min
    Sense8 and TERFs

    Sense8 and TERFs

    We're keeping the theme going from Barbie with some weird mind connection gender stuff! We discuss the first two episodes of Sense8 and what they show us about the philosophy of TERFs, how that might be different from gender critical, and what the future is that TERFs seem to want. Enjoy!
    Sense8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense8 
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    Sibling shows:
    Queersplaining: https://www.queersplaining.com/
    Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/
    Recent appearances:
    We haven't been anywhere recently and we want to be so if you know any good shows you think we should guest on him them up with the suggestion!
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    • 1 hr 34 min
    Barbie

    Barbie

    Is Barbie really a Barbie girl? And in what way is this really a Barbie world? How do we assess whether life in plastic really is fantastic, not to mention the questionable principles of consent inherent in the idea that you can undress her everywhere. Most importantly, is Barbie feminist, and if so, what kind of feminist? These earworm questions and more on this weeks instalment of Alienating your Audience! Enjoy!
    Children of Memory: https://www.amazon.com/Children-Memory-Adrian-Tchaikovsky/dp/0316466409
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    Sibling shows:
    Queersplaining: https://www.queersplaining.com/
    Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/
    Recent appearances:
    We haven't been anywhere recently and we want to be so if you know any good shows you think we should guest on him them up with the suggestion!
    Content Preview: Sense Eight Episode 1

    • 1 hr 34 min
    Children of Memory and Objective Personhood pt.1

    Children of Memory and Objective Personhood pt.1

    We're childish, we sorta have memories. What more do you need?! This book, you need this book. Holy birdbrains, a beautiful third installment in easily one of the best sci-fi series of all time. Meet our new friends the "uplifted" corvids and learn about the mystery of Imir as we learn about the mystery of personhood and why we're never gonna be done figuring out what it is!
    Children of Memory: https://www.amazon.com/Children-Memory-Adrian-Tchaikovsky/dp/0316466409 
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    Sibling shows:
    Queersplaining: https://www.queersplaining.com/
    Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/
    Recent appearances:
    Aaron and Callie were on The Psychology Podcast to discuss all things trans. Check it out and share it around, we really did try to cover alllllll the bases: https://scottbarrykaufman.com/podcast/aaron-rabinowitz-callie-wright-what-we-get-wrong-about-transgender-people/
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    • 1 hr 30 min
    Listener Qs 36

    Listener Qs 36

    We diiiiiiid it! I knew we could do it. And y'all made it possible. So thanks again, and see you back in the abnormal show!
    Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq
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    Sibling shows:
    Queersplaining: https://www.queersplaining.com/
    Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/
    Recent appearances:
    Aaron and Callie were on The Psychology Podcast to discuss all things trans. Check it out and share it around, we really did try to cover alllllll the bases: https://scottbarrykaufman.com/podcast/aaron-rabinowitz-callie-wright-what-we-get-wrong-about-transgender-people/
    Content Preview: Children of Memory pt1

    • 1 hr 30 min
    Q and A 35

    Q and A 35

    You Q'd, we A'd. The pact is renewed for another cycle. May the void have mercy on all our nonexistent souls. Thanks for your sacrifice!
    Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq
    Music by Thomas Smith: https://seriouspod.com/
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    Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy
    Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/
    Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com
    If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It really really helps. Please and thank you!
    Sibling shows:
    Queersplaining: https://www.queersplaining.com/
    Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/
    Recent appearances:
    Aaron and Callie were on The Psychology Podcast to discuss all things trans. Check it out and share it around, we really did try to cover alllllll the bases: https://scottbarrykaufman.com/podcast/aaron-rabinowitz-callie-wright-what-we-get-wrong-about-transgender-people/
    Content Preview: Listener Qs 36

    • 1 hr 54 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
214 Ratings

214 Ratings

Improbability_42 ,

Sci-fi comfort food

This is intelligent, thoughtful and joyful coverage of some of the best (and worst) in sci-fi media. I’ve discovered material I’d never heard of. I’ve learned some philosophy. The current hosts are a great pairing, with passion for the content and clearly having a lot of fun with the show. It’s one of my favorite feeds.

FloraSara ,

Just the BEST

This is an amazing podcast, and this episode is just
the best

Scarletminded ,

I haven’t listened for awhile, takes 40 minutes to get to the fun philosophy part nowadays

So, the hosts act like Richard Stanley hasn’t done much, yet he has made Hardware, Dust Devil and amazing docs. Then, the hosts put down Wicca when a quick Google search would show the LBRP that Lavinia is doing. I haven’t listened for awhile, has the quality gone down? Plus, there’s more than two POC the film. Podcast needs to fact check. I miss Thomas on here. He was the glue that kept this from off roading too much, IMHO. It takes 40 minutes of ok joking to get to any philosophy and by then, I check out mentally. I barely hung on to the BNCF episode. :(

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