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Chasing Leviathan

Who thinks that they can subdue Leviathan? Strength resides in its neck; dismay goes before it. It is without fear. It looks down on all who are haughty; it is king over all who are proud. These words inspired PJ Wehry to create Chasing Leviathan. Chasing Leviathan was born out of two ideals: that truth is worth pursuing but will never be subjugated, and the discipline of listening is one of the most important habits anyone can develop. Every episode is a dialogue, a journey into the depths of a meaningful question explored through the lens of personal experience or...

Metamodernism: The Future of Theory | Dr. Jason Ananda Josephson Storm

65 hours 51 mins; March 31, 2026

Hegel, Heidegger, and the Ground of History | Dr. Michael Allen Gillespie

54 mins; March 24, 2026

Balthasar on the Spiritual Senses: Perceiving Splendour | Dr. Mark McInroy

57 mins; March 17, 2026

Why Read Pascal Today? | Dr. Yuval Avnur

57 mins; March 10, 2026

The Door of No Return: Being-As-Black | Dr. Michael E. Sawyer

57 mins; March 03, 2026

God on Trial: Testing for the Divine with Dr. Paul Moser

52 mins; February 24, 2026

Generations of Feeling: A History of Emotions, 600–1700 with Dr. Barbara Rosenwein

57 mins; February 17, 2026

Hegel & Republicanism: Non-Domination, Economics, & Political Participation with Dr. Chris Yeomans

61 hours 59 mins; February 10, 2026

Three Pieces of Glass: Why We Feel Lonely in a World Mediated by Screens with Dr. Eric Jacobsen

56 mins; February 03, 2026

Foundations of Black Epistemology: Knowledge Discourse in Africana Philosophy with Dr. Adebayo Oluwayomi

48 mins; January 27, 2026

Hunting for Justice: The Cosmology of Dike in Aeschylus’s Oresteia with Dr. Kalliopi Nikolopoulou

56 mins; January 20, 2026

Marginality: Solidarity and the Fight for Social Change with Dr. Jin Park

55 mins; January 13, 2026

A Death of the World: Surviving the Death of the Other with Dr. Harris Bechtol

57 mins; January 06, 2026

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Christian Humanism with Dr. Jens Zimmermann

58 mins; December 16, 2025

The Fall and Redemption of Conscience: A Reformed Biblical Theology with Rev. Andrea Ferrari

53 mins; December 09, 2025

Adorno, Heidegger, and the Politics of Truth with Dr. Lambert Zuidervaart

62 hours 29 mins; December 02, 2025

Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist with Dr. David Bather Woods

56 mins; November 25, 2025

Gadamer and the Social Turn in Epistemology with Dr. Carolyn Culbertson

54 mins; November 18, 2025

The Psychology of Parasocial Experiences: Fandom, Hate-Watching & Emotional Connection with Dr. Rebecca Tukachinsky-Forster

45 mins; November 11, 2025

The Logic of the Body: Retrieving Theological Psychology with Dr. Matthew LaPine

60 hours 27 mins; November 04, 2025

Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South with Dr. Jarvis McInnis

63 hours 9 mins; October 28, 2025

How the Great Books Changed My Life & Why They Matter for a New Generation with Dr. Roosevelt Montás

46 mins; October 21, 2025

The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy with Ray Madoff

62 hours 37 mins; October 14, 2025

Every Noise at Once: Spotify, Music Discovery, and Human Connection with Glenn McDonald

65 hours 38 mins; October 07, 2025

From Bismarck to WWII: Lessons from the German Empire with Dr. Roger Chickering

56 mins; September 30, 2025

Richard Hooker, John Locke, and the Ascent of Modern Constitutionalism with Dr. Alexander Rosenthal-Pubul

56 mins; September 23, 2025

Signs from the Future: A Philosophy of Warnings with Dr. Santiago Zabala

63 hours 5 mins; September 16, 2025

The Invention of Infinite Growth with Dr. Christopher F. Jones

64 hours 51 mins; September 09, 2025

Wrongs & Rights Come Apart with Dr. Nicolas Cornell

50 mins; September 02, 2025

A Philosophy of Beauty: Shaftesbury on Nature, Virtue, & Art with Dr. Michael B. Gill

48 mins; August 26, 2025

Security Ethics: Commerce & Crime in a Polycentric World with Dr. Graham McAleer

65 hours 6 mins; August 19, 2025

Heidegger, Daoism, & The Human Experience with Dr. Eric Nelson

57 mins; August 12, 2025

Omnisubjectivity: Exploring God, Emotions, and Subjectivity with Dr. Linda Zagzebski

56 mins; August 05, 2025

Following Nature's Lead: Ancient Ways of Living in a Dying World with Dr. Mark Usher

53 mins; July 29, 2025

Josef Pieper on the Spiritual Life & Human Flourishing with Dr. Nathaniel Adishian

64 hours 42 mins; July 22, 2025

Loving to Know: Covenant Epistemology with Dr. Esther Lightcap Meek

50 mins; July 15, 2025

The Fear of the Lord: Essays on Theological Method with Dr. Michael Allen

50 mins; July 08, 2025

Fewer Rules, Better People: The Case for Discretion with Dr. Barry Lam

67 hours 56 mins; July 01, 2025

The Faithful Executioner in 16th Century Nuremberg with Dr. Joel Harrington

42 mins; June 24, 2025

Irrationality: Elements in Philosophy of Mind with Dr. Ema Sullivan-Bissett

42 mins; June 17, 2025

Where Biology Ends & Bias Begins with Dr. Shoumita Dasgupta

44 mins; June 10, 2025

Aesthetics & the Incarnation in Early Medieval Britain with Dr. Tiffany Beechy

53 mins; June 03, 2025

The Brain Abstracted: History & Philosophy of Neuroscience with Dr. Mazviita Chirimuuta

50 mins; May 27, 2025

The Politics of German Idealism with Dr. Christopher Yeomans

63 hours 39 mins; May 20, 2025

Hegel's Master Trick: Immediacy as the Beginning of Thought with Dr. Thomas Raysmith

39 mins; May 13, 2025

Hegel and the Problem of History with Dr. Thomas Raysmith

46 mins; May 06, 2025

Heidegger on Technology's Danger & Promise in the Age of AI with Dr. Iain Thomson

63 hours 45 mins; April 29, 2025

Human Flourishing: A Natural Law Approach to Ethics & Politics with Dr. Melissa Moschella

55 mins; April 22, 2025

Forming Humanity: Redeeming the German Bildung Tradition with Dr. Jennifer Herdt

54 mins; April 15, 2025

Narrative Identity and the Ethics of Choosing Disability with Dr. Joseph Stramondo

55 mins; April 08, 2025

Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution with Dr. Viren Murthy

57 mins; April 01, 2025

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3 mins; February 11, 2025

Honesty: The Philosophy & Psychology of a Neglected Virtue with Dr. Christian Miller

50 mins; February 04, 2025

The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics & Germany’s 20th Century with Dr. Dagmar Herzog

56 mins; January 28, 2025

How Mexican Philosophy Can Guide us Toward the Good Life with Dr. Carlos Sánchez

54 mins; January 21, 2025

The Genesis of Close Reading Poetry with Dr. Adam Walker

55 mins; January 14, 2025

The Power of Black Excellence: HBCUs & the Fight for American Democracy with Dr. Deondra Rose

52 mins; January 07, 2025

Media Technologies and Practices of Hope with Dr. Jeff Bilbro

51 mins; December 17, 2024

The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God with Justin Brierley

62 hours 24 mins; December 10, 2024

Political Eschatology with Dr. Sean McGrath

56 mins; December 03, 2024

Aquinas and the Early Chinese Masters with Dr. Joshua R. Brown

66 hours 33 mins; November 26, 2024

Heidegger on Thinking with Dr. Lee Braver

56 mins; November 19, 2024

Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science with Dr. Mauricio Suarez

51 mins; November 12, 2024

Loss, Sovereignty, and the Sikh Tradition in Colonial South Asia with Dr. Rajbir Judge

51 mins; November 05, 2024

The Evolution of the Moral Mind with Dr. Victor Kumar

51 mins; October 29, 2024

A Global History of Sport with Dr. Wray Vamplew

42 mins; October 22, 2024

Theological Origins of Modernity with Dr. Michael Allen Gillespie

55 mins; October 15, 2024

The Afterlife of Data with Dr. Carl Öhman

59 mins; October 08, 2024

Anti-Racism and the Right to Opacity with Dr. Eyo Ewara

56 mins; October 01, 2024

The Life of Charles Mills, Radical Philosopher Extraordinaire with Dr. Linda Alcoff

52 mins; September 24, 2024

Psychiatry, Economic Reason, & the Emergence of Pathological Value with Dr. Nima Bassiri

60 hours 43 mins; September 17, 2024

Medicine, Magic, and Literacy in Early Modern England with Dr. Melissa Reynolds

56 mins; September 10, 2024

A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps with Dr. Peter Adamson

64 hours 36 mins; September 03, 2024

Freedom to Fail: Heidegger's Anarchy with Dr. Peter Trawny

52 mins; August 27, 2024

The Politics of Psychoanalysis with Dr. Carolyn Laubender

61 hours 1 min; August 20, 2024

Tolkien, Philosopher of War with Dr. Graham McAleer

68 hours 27 mins; August 13, 2024

Are You Calling Me a Racist? with Dr. Sarita Srivastava

67 hours 50 mins; August 06, 2024

Democracy, Deliberation, & Gadamer's Rehabilitation of Tradition with Dr. Ryan Holston

56 mins; July 30, 2024

The Nature of Truth with Dr. Michael Lynch

56 mins; July 23, 2024

Why Choose the Liberal Arts? with Dr. Mark Roche

66 hours 32 mins; July 16, 2024

The Theological Promise of the Arts with Dr. Jeremy Begbie

56 mins; July 09, 2024

The Nature of Human Persons: Metaphysics & Bioethics with Dr. Jason Eberl

62 hours 31 mins; July 02, 2024

Herman Bavinck: A Philosophy of Revelation with Dr. N. Gray Sutanto

52 mins; June 25, 2024

The Literary Afterlives of Simone Weil: Feminism, Justice, and the Challenge of Religion with Dr. Cynthia Wallace

52 mins; June 18, 2024

Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined with Dr. Amber Musser

61 hours 17 mins; June 11, 2024

Trauma in the Light of Poetry with Ibe Liebenberg

51 mins; June 04, 2024

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe with Dr. Caroline Pennock

56 mins; May 28, 2024

The Trauma Mantras with Dr. Adrie Kusserow

53 mins; May 21, 2024

Guru Nanak: The Origins of Sikhi with Dr. Nikky Singh

57 mins; May 14, 2024

Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales with Dr. Nancy Bradbury

51 mins; May 07, 2024

Sex, Gardening, & Wire Walking: A Philosophy of Rapture with Dr. Christopher Hamilton

67 hours 30 mins; April 30, 2024

Heidegger, German Idealism, & the Fate of Philosophy with Dr. Robert Pippin

53 mins; April 23, 2024

Living Gently in a Violent World with Dr. Stanley Hauerwas

37 mins; April 16, 2024

People and Animals After 1492 with Dr. Marcy Norton

54 mins; April 09, 2024

Aquinas and the Infused Moral Virtues with Dr. Angela Knobel

56 mins; April 02, 2024

AI, Rhetoric, and the Influence of Nonhuman Agents with Dr. Alex Reid

54 mins; March 26, 2024

How Our Stuff Makes Us: Tools, Art, Religion, and Evolution with Dr. Chip Colwell

63 hours 32 mins; March 19, 2024

Technology and the Body in Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine with Dr. Colin Webster

56 mins; March 12, 2024

Making Statistics Understandable For Public Policy with Dr. Jeremy Weber

56 mins; March 05, 2024

How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America with Dr. David Banks

59 mins; February 27, 2024

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