The Dawdler's Philosophy

I love this show, especially the emergence episode of it. It’s a good, humorous discussion about a topic that definitely needs more airtime. Excited to hear more.

I found the podcast by searching for “spandrels” so episode 2 where they talk about Gould and Lewontin was my first episode. I think they did a excellent job at explaining the paper and would be interested in more topics discussing these “intellectual dark web” clowns. The field of evolutionary psychology seems to have many of the same problems the spandrels paper is talking about (i.e. just so stories) so that might be a cool idea for a future episode! Looking forward to listening to the rest of the catalog.

The Dawdlers do a great job of taking their time to chew on big ideas. By not letting each other or ideas off the hook easily, but also keeping things light enough for this history teacher to follow, they get to the core of big questions. They’ll entertain you while you listen, and give you something to think about long after you’re done.

Harland and Ryan are always worth listening to for fresh takes on interesting philosophical topics as well as occasional investigations of the margins. Check it out!