Essays
Essays discussed on the Very Bad Wizards podcast.

On the Sufferings of the World

Essay - Arthur Schopenhauer

Episode 315: Ceaseless Striving (Schopenhauer’s Pessimism)

The Vanity of Existence

Essay - Arthur Schopenhauer

Episode 315: Ceaseless Striving (Schopenhauer’s Pessimism)

A New Refutation of Time

Essay - Jorge Luis Borges

Episode 313: The Spontaneous Eruption of Now

Newcomb’s problem and two principles of choice

Essay - Robert Nozick

Episode 307: What's in the BOX?

Cargo Cult Science

Essay - Richard Feynman

Episode 304: The Planes Don't Land

Against Humility

Essay - Rachel Fraser

Episode 299: Oh the Humility!

Sexual Perversion

Essay - Thomas Nagel

Episode 277: The Merits of Buggery (Nagel's "Sexual Perversion")

The Kekulé Problem

Essay - Cormac McCarthy

Episode 265: Kekulé (Oh Yeah!)

Essay - David Hume

Episode 249: Phlegm and Carelessness (Hume's "The Sceptic")

E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction

Essay - David Foster Wallace

Episode 246: Existential Poker-Face (David Foster Wallace's "E Unibus Pluram")

Why I am leaving academia

Essay - Unknown

Episode 238: I Am Not Ivan Ilyich...Am I?

Of the Standard of Taste

Essay - David Hume

Episode 231: Ideal Critics (Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste")

Essay - David Foster Wallace

Episode 227: A Terrible Master (David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water").

Existentialism is a Humanism

Essay - Jean-Paul Sartre

Episode 222: Choosing Sartre for All Mankind

Chapter 4 Habit

Essay - William James

Episode 205: Making Your Nervous System Your Ally (William James on "Habit")

In Praise of Idleness

Essay - Bertrand Russell

Episode 185: The Devil's Playground

The Will to Believe

Essay - William James

Episode 164: Choosing to Believe

Essay - Thomas Nagel

Episode 126: The Absurd

The myth of Sisyphus, and other essays

Essay - Albert Camus

Episode 126: The Absurd

Two Concepts of Liberty

Essay - Isaiah Berlin

Episode 82: Totalitarian Slide-Rulers