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LUNA's road trip in philosophy

LUNA's road trip in philosophy

By: Oliver Feltham and Valentin Cartillier
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Ol and Val, two Australian philosophers in Paris - and their lucky guests - get into a lively discussion about how to make modern philosophy work - how to get it to work to make sense out of life nowadays.

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Episodes
  • Episode 17 in which Val, Ol and guest Jasper Lear all melt into one whilst interpreting Part I of Spinoza's Ethics

    Episode 17 in which Val, Ol and guest Jasper Lear all melt into one whilst interpreting Part I of Spinoza's Ethics
    Jun 28 2026

    We explore Spinoza's absolute rationalism, his love of causal explanation, his arguments against multiple substances and how - going against our theological prejudices - he conceptualises an immanent God.

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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Episode 16 in which Spinoza throws Luna into the indivisible and indistinguishable infinite

    Episode 16 in which Spinoza throws Luna into the indivisible and indistinguishable infinite
    Jun 18 2026

    Luna ventures out into absolute substance, learning to equate a depersonalised God with Nature, Nature as the necessary unfolding of an intricate causal nexus. Val tries out the bad pantheistic hippy German idealistic reading of Spinoza but Luna rescues him because she is not a hippy but a punk.
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Episode 15 in which Luna 'deliminates' Spinoza's project to liberate us from all prejudice

    Episode 15 in which Luna 'deliminates' Spinoza's project to liberate us from all prejudice
    May 16 2026

    Ol and Val find a back door into Book I of Spinoza's Ethics, making everything a lot easier with some context: the Appendix to Book I where Spinoza critiques our theological prejudices which lead us to imagine God as some kind of super human being.

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    1 hr and 2 mins
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