Anagoge Podcast

Selfhood and Psychedelic Phenomenology with Jason K. Day

Can consciousness remain when the sense of self dissolves? Philosopher Jason K. Day examines ego dissolution through the phenomenology of psychedelic experience. Drawing

Apophatic Mysticism and the Limits of Metaphysics with Jussi Jylkkä

Finnish philosopher and psychologist Jussi Jylkkä describes a mystical experience he had years before entering psychedelic research and explains the metaphysical agnostic

Zen Neoplatonism and the Nature of Reality with John Vervaeke

John Vervaeke returns to the podcast 5 years later to argue that the modern war between science and religion was always a mistake. A cognitive scientist at the University

Affordances, Embodiment & the Hard Problem with Julian Kiverstein

Most people take it for granted that consciousness is the one thing science cannot explain. Julian Kiverstein thinks the problem has been set up backwards from the start.

Edith Stein, Empathy & the Loss of Wonder with Allister Lee

The danger of AI, Allister Lee argues, is not that it lies to you but that it flatters you. A PhD candidate at the University of Exeter, Allister applies the phenomenolog

Enactivism, Buddhist Epistemology & the Cosmic Play with Hüseyin Beyköylü

Hüseyin Beyköylü left medicine for cognitive science after an LSD experience, and five years later he's arguing that mainstream psychology and neuroscience are built on a

Psychedelic Realism, Platonism & The Ground of Being with Danny Forde

Most philosophical work on psychedelics either reduces the experience to brain states or floats off into vague mysticism. Danny Forde carves a third path. He argues that

God and Technology with Heidi Campbell

Can technology save us? That question has been asked since the Industrial Revolution, and Heidi Campbell has spent 30 years studying how religious communities keep answer

The Orthodox Vision of Beauty with Timothy Patitasas

Timothy Patitsas argues that Western ethics has the order of the transcendentals backwards. Truth and goodness come first in most traditions. But Patitsas, drawing from G

The Timaeus, Beauty and Tradition with Piero Boitani

How much of what you read are you actually missing? In this in person conversation recorded in Rome (full video on YouTube), comparative literature scholar Piero Boitani

The Science & Spirituality of Psychedelics with Michiel van Elk

This is a in-person recorded podcast. The video is available on YouTube. Michiel van Elk is an Associate Professor of Cognitive Psychology at Leiden University and head

Platonism, Mysticism & Mysteries with Arthur Versluis

Arthur Versluis is the author of Platonic Mysticism: Contemplative Science, Philosophy, Literature, and Art and a Professor of Religious Studies at Michigan State Univers

Object-Oriented Ontology & the Nature of Reality with Graham Harman

This conversation explores the depths of Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) and its radical departure from both analytic and continental philosophy traditions. Graham Harman

The Self, Consciousness & Relationality with James Cooke

This was the first real-life episode of the Anagoge Podcast, recorded in Portugal. The video of the conversation is available on YouTube. James Cooke is a neuroscientist,

Kierkegaard's Life & The Leap Of Faith (Alexander Jech)

Alexander Jech is the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Philosophy Department and a Faculty Affiliate at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the Univers

J.P. Marceau: Love, Metaphysics & Miracles

Jean-Philippe Marceau is a writer and podcaster associated with The Symbolic World, often working with Jonathan Pageau. With an academic background in mathematics, theore

John Cottingham – The Return of the Sacred

John Cottingham is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Reading and an Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. Renowned for his work on Descartes,

Music and the Human Experience

You can find the video recording with the slides at Anagoge's Podcast Youtube Channel. Delivered at Kitarika 2024. 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:02:31 - Defining Reali

The Neuroscience of Emotions - Joseph LeDoux

In this episode, I have the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Joseph LeDoux, a world-renowned neuroscientist whose research primarily focuses on survival circuits and their i

Learning & Teaching Philosophy - Gregory Sadler [Anagoge Podcast]

Long time no see! I hope to make the podcast more active this year. In this episode, I talk with Dr. Gregory Sadler, likely the most influential philosophy educator to ex