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300 episodes
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Aaron Rabinowitz and Callie WrightExplicit
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Date created
2018/02/14
Latest episode
2026/01/10
Average duration
101 min.
Release period
26 days
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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.
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Harrow the 9th pt. 2 and Ethics with Uncertainty
2026/01/10
Ah yes, part two, where things really get cooking, as it were. We're back with more Harrows, more confusingly named characters, and some proper sizzle! RESPECTFULLY! We also talk about how the unreliability of our own understanding impacts how we do ethics. Enjoy!
Harrow the Ninth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrow_the_Ninth
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Content Preview: Harrow the Ninth pt. 3 and the ethics of necromancy
Harrowhark the Ninth pt.1 and Unreliable Narrators
2025/12/21
We finally made it! Got it in before Alecto comes out, so you gotta give us credit for that! Truly, this is a labor of love. No after dark, just going extra long for everyone, the way Gideon would have wanted it. Enjoy!
Harrow the Ninth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrow_the_Ninth
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Content Preview: Harrow the Ninth pt. 2 and unreliable narrator ethics
Hazbin Hotel and Critiquing Universalism
2025/12/05
Once again, I want to open with "I'm sorry" for all of this. If you're considering condemning us to content creator hell for our takes, first consider the question: What Would Charlie Do? Charlie would say, despite our worst takes, we are still redeemable! So, we're doing the first two seasons of Hazbin Hotel and doing a 200 level discussion on universalism about salvation and why it may be the best option for believers but it's still a legitimizing myth. Please don't hate us!
Hazbin Hotel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazbin_Hotel
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Content Preview: Harrow the Ninth and Unreliable Narrators
Sinners and The Color Line
2025/10/29
Hell yeah, been fixing to do cover this new hotness since the moment I saw it. Now that it's widely available we can talk about all the ways it messes with the color line, what it says about solidarity politics, how it sets up the invention of bluegrass, and what the vampires really represent! Plus, keep your eyes out for a very related NASA!
Sinners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinners_(2025_film)
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Content Preview: Idiocracy and Disgenics
Death's End and Daoist Ethics Pt.2
2025/10/07
Here we are at the end of our interminable journey! Millions of years in the blink of many hours. Seen some unbelievable stuff (4d space) and some super believable stuff (gender essentialism) and in the end we've really seen what happens when we stretch the scale of ethics to the breaking point. So, finally, we look at what this all says about Chinese philosophy, particularly what it means to be a Daoist sage. Enjoy!
Death's End: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%27s_End
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Content Preview: Sinners and The Color Line
Death's End and Who Did Nothing Wrong?
2025/09/18
Well friends, all good things must come to an end, including death apparently! We're covering the final installment in the Rememberance of Earths Past trillogy. For this one we ask the most important of all questions, who did nothing wrong?! Anyone? Everyone? Can you even assess wrongness on a large enough scale? Come find out!
Death's End: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%27s_End
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Content Preview: Death's End pt.2 and Daoist Ethics
The Dark Forest and Dark Forest Theory pt.2
2025/08/15
The darker the forest, the brighter the philosophy! Despite all odds, we press on against the horrors of both the fictional and our real universe to talk about what happens when you try to do sociology AT SCCCCCCAAAAAAALLLLLLEEEEEE! Besides parsing the end of the book, we parse the precepts of Dark forest and whether it holds water, what are plausible objections, and what does this tell us about the reality of conflicts at smaller scales.
The Dark Forest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Forest
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Content Preview: Death's End pt.1 and the Ethics of Survival
The Dark Forest and the Wallfacer Project pt.1
2025/07/18
More Space Opera! We're back it with the Three Body Problem series, talking about the second book in the series. For part one, we're covering the nature of the wallfacer project and how to approach a threat that's 400 years away. Part two will be all about cosmic sociology and the dark forest theory!
The Dark Forest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Forest
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Content Preview: The Dark Forest pt.2 and cosmic sociology
Silo and Longterm Paternalism
2025/06/17
Coming out of our Silo and we're not doing fine! The air is still toxic and we're losing our minds!
We're back at it with season two of Silo, and we're discussing the ethics and practicality of maintaining a system like this, as well as discussing the ableist implications of a common trope.
Silo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silo_(TV_series)
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Content Preview: The Dark Forest pt.1 and wall-facer theory
SOMA and Advanced Problems of Personhood
2025/04/25
Did it work? If you're reading this, it worked! You've been successfully copied as one of the countless persons chosen for our podcast enrichment program! Your existence will consist of listening to this episode and answering a brief survey before ceasing to exist again forever. Our scientists find this approach maximizes utility production while avoiding the wastages associated with things like human attachment or living a full life. If you have any questions please save them for the pre-termination survey. You have been selected to enjoy our episode on SOMA and Advanced Problems of Personhood, so please now do so!
SOMA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma_(video_game)
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Content Preview: Silo and the Limits of Community Control
Listener Qs 40
2025/04/11
No joke, we hit listener Qs 40 the week I also turn 40. Weird stuff. Anyway, thanks for keeping us alive over here, even if it's just to extend the torture a bit longer.
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Content Preview: SOMA and Sacrifices of Theseus
Listener Qs 39
2025/03/15
As always, it has been an honor and a privilege screwing up your names and worldviews. Enjoy!
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Content Preview: Listener Q and As 40!
Starship Troopers
2025/02/24
It's fascism season in America again, so we're celebrating with the fashest satire of all. To help us get in the spirit we're joined by special guest Jordan Carroll (@jordanscarroll.bsky.social), author of Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right. We discuss whether satire really works on fascism and why fascists are so keen on a genre that seems like the opposite of everything they value.
Speculative Whiteness: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917081/speculative-whiteness/
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Content Preview: Listener Q and As!
Bobiverse Book Five Pt2 and Advanced AI Alignment
2025/01/31
We're doing engineering, what could go wrong?! Thoths! That's what. Or did Thoth go wrong? Maybe all of this is entirely how it should go, maybe Mud is a savior for all Bobkind. Join us and find out, as we parse the messy balance of raising an AGI.
Not till we are lost: https://www.amazon.com/Not-Till-Are-Lost-Bobiverse/dp/B0CW2345TV
Superintelligence: https://www.amazon.com/Superintelligence-Dangers-Strategies-Nick-Bostrom/dp/0198739834
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Content Preview: Starship Troopers and Satirizing Fascism
Bobiverse Book Five Pt1 and The Seven Stories
2025/01/17
The Bobs are back in town! We're back with book five, Not Till We Are Lost, another middle book in the bobiverse series. In this episode we cover all the plots that aren't Thoth related, and discuss the theory that there are really only seven stories out there in the world, and that's why the Bob books feel like seasons of Star Trek. Enjoy!
Kurt Vonnegut and six basic plots: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180525-every-story-in-the-world-has-one-of-these-six-basic-plots
Seven basic plots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Basic_Plots
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Content Preview: Bobiverse book five and advanced AI box problems.
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Yayka 2025/11/21
I like the show.
I like the show.
Read a lot of reviews, before binging most of the back catalogue this last week. And man, some reviewers are just jerks for no reas...
Improbability_42 2024/01/05
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’...
FloraSara 2022/04/02
Just the BEST
This is an amazing podcast, and this episode is just
the best
Scarletminded 2023/07/14
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 ...
loifhvgtfhjbvftubvchjvdjg 2023/01/27
New listener
What happened to Tomas I’ll check back every morning for a response
Kaoruchan42 2021/12/27
Fascinating
Very interesting, gives me new insight into the sci-fi I love.
Pokemon and Beyblades RULE!! 2021/04/14
Cool Bobs
Highly recommend these intelligent and interesting dudes.
Pretty Toby 2021/10/27
Fake woke
The performative wokeness makes this show at time un listenable. Being a stick I’m the mud doesn’t make you an ally. It makes you a phony.
atropos twitch 2021/08/20
How?
I can’t see why this podcast has so many positive reviews. This is a case of the worst possible people getting to a great idea first. I live Sci Fi an...
dbpitt73 2021/03/29
Needs more lists
This show is great. If the title sounds good (at least in the Top Gun sense), this might be your jam. Definitely not enough lists, though. They could ...
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