Overthinking Eurovision 2017: All Things Flow
Can Francesco Gabbani reconcile western materialism with eastern spirituality in Italy’s 2017 entry in the Eurovision Song Contest?
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Philosophy on Overthinking It
Episode 446: They Look Like Clocks and Candles but They Can Actually Sing and Dance
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we determine whether life has a purpose. Or not.
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Episode 428: Check Your Starfleet Privilege
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Star Trek.
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Is Pokémon Go a Malevolent, Superintelligent Artificial Consciousness from the Future?
My sources say yes.
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Existentialism at the End of the World
Fallout Shelter, Walking Dead, and the failed absurdism of postapocalyptic fiction
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The Impossibility of Recovering: Guilt as Fuel in Daredevil
In its second season, Daredevil turns inward, examining the causes, effects, and paradoxes of guilt
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Do Olivia Pope’s Ends Justify Her Means? The Moral Philosophy of Scandal
Would Machiavelli approve of the political strategies on display in Scandal?
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Episode 348: They Are Not The Hell Your Whales
The Overthinkers tackle the passing of Leonard Nimoy, the philosophical implications of #TheDress, and whether Leslie Knope lives in the Frank Underworld.
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You Can’t Have All the Answers: Lost and the Problem of Induction
Unsatisfied with the end of Lost? Good. That was the point.
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P-Zombies, Zero-Sum Videogames, and the Problem of Free Will
How does “The Walking Dead” solve the conundrum of narrative vs. freedom in games?
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