A surprising number of people google “partially examined life.” And then we get quite a bit of traffic from searches like “philosophy podcast” and “wittgenstein podcast.” But we also get hits from “grandpa bought a rubber.” Here are few more of my favorites:
And last but most:
"I’ve never before heard my work discussed like that, and rarely as intelligently ... I listened to the whole podcast, and felt exalted afterward." -- Arthur Danto
The Partially Examined Life is a philosophy podcast by some guys who were at one point set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it. Each episode, we pick a text and chat about it with some balance between insight and flippancy. You don't have to know any philosophy, or even to have read the text we're talking about to (mostly) follow and (hopefully) enjoy the discussion. Discuss episodes and provide feedback here or via our Facebook group. You can also e-mail comments to mark@marklint.com or wesalwan@gmail.com.
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#1 by Sina on March 11, 2010 - 2:59 am
LoL! It’s very good that you’ve got quite a bit of relevant hits! Because Most of my traffic is through people who google bullshit!
#2 by Mark Linsenmayer on March 11, 2010 - 10:00 am
Google has become the new way to not bother to actually type in a URL. On my iphone, I think I sometimes type “partially…” (which then prompts me, because I’ve entered it before, with the full name), and use that to get to our URL instead of typing “partiallyexaminedlife.com” or using a bookmark as would be sensible. I imagine others are listening to an ep off of iTunes and, obeying our every verbal command, go look us up when we tell them we have a site. (Though I guess I have evidence that people DON’T obey all of our “suggestions,” as those T-shirts are not selling well…)
-Mark