Best David Peña Guzmán Podcasts (2025)

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Meritocracy 57:20

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We've all been sold the ideal of meritocracy. The American dream, our education system, and our politics are all based on it. But what if meritocracy is actually impossible--and based on a misunderstanding of how society works? In episode 151 of Overthink, Ellie and David put meritocracy in the spotlight. They think through the inherent inequality …

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Aztec Philosophy with Sebastian Purcell 58:56

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Why are Aztecs often considered pessimists from a philosophical perspective? In episode 150 of Overthink, Ellie and David chat with philosopher Sebastian Purcell about his book The Outward Path: The Wisdom of the Aztecs. They discuss how the Aztecs urge us to take an “outside-in” approach to the self, how their understanding of happiness differs fr…

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Surfing 59:00

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Hang loose! In episode 149 of Overthink, Ellie and David talk about all things surfing. They explore the long history of wave-riding across the globe, from Peru to West Africa, and consider how surfing helps us to reimagine social issues and what surfing reveals about the connection between flow and freedom. Is surfing the pinnacle of human life? H…

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Loneliness 59:23

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How can we explain the rise of loneliness in our world? In episode 148 of Overthink, Ellie and David discuss the difference between loneliness and solitude, how loneliness could help explain the rise of fascism in the US, and the public health implications of loneliness. What is the male loneliness epidemic, and does it truly exist? Does the state …

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Confidence 57:16

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Don’t shy away from this one! In episode 147 of Overthink, Ellie and David discuss confidence. Modernity has created a crisis of confidence, leading to the demand that we all maximize our confidence. But what is confidence? Is it a personality trait or a relational concept? What causes under- and over-confidence? And is instilling confidence an equ…

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Togetherness with Dan Zahavi 58:25

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Can we ever be truly alone? In episode 146 of Overthink, Ellie and David talk with philosopher Dan Zahavi about his book, Being We: Phenomenological Contributions to Social Ontology. They discuss how the increase in communication through screens has shifted what it means to be together, the decline of social bonds in political life, and what phenom…

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AI Chatbots 58:59

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Chat GPT, Gemini, Meta AI, and Grok. In episode 145 of Overthink, David and Ellie talk about AI chatbots. Are relationships between humans and AI valuable? Or should we shame people for using LLMs? And what are we doing when we use these technologies: expanding or outsourcing our cognition? They explore the dangers of using chatbots as romantic par…

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Limerence 59:52

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Why does falling for someone so often feel like a painful obsession? In episode 144 of Overthink, Ellie and David discuss the unspoken difficulties of limerence, or the state of falling in love. What is the difference between love and limerence, and why do we confuse them so frequently? How does social media fuel limerent reactions? And is limerenc…

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Episode #48 (SLO): Iz Slovenije v svet: ASEF zgodbe, ki ustvarjajo prihodnost 48:44

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Posebna epizoda ASEF podkasta - v živo iz Križank Z zadnjo epizodo 4. sezone ASEF podkasta zaključujemo pol leta navdihujočih pogovorov o znanosti, raziskovanju in povezovanju Slovencev po svetu. Tokrat je epizoda nekaj posebnega – posneli smo jo v živo na dogodku Arena Tehnologij v Križankah v Ljubljani! Pogovor je vodil Martin Jurkovič, gostje pa…

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Degrowth 56:20

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Which industries should cease to exist immediately? And what ‘bullshit jobs’ should they take with them? In episode 143 of Overthink, Ellie and David explore the academic and social movement of ‘Degrowth.’ They discuss the imperial mode of living that has become normalized in the Global North, explain how it relates to the ‘iron law’ of capitalism,…

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Natality with Jennifer Banks 52:43

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Femininity 59:35

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Tradwives, the divine feminine, and “that girl” on social media. In episode 141 of Overthink, Ellie and David discuss femininity. They look to Simone de Beauvoir’s famous claim that one is not born but rather becomes a woman, and discuss how the process of feminization is crucial to this becoming. They explore the association between femininity, my…

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Masculinity 58:58

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Performative males, hustle bros, sissies, and manfluencers. In episode 140 of Overthink, Ellie and David discuss masculinity. What does it mean to be a man, and how has the concept of masculinity changed over time? They look at the male loneliness epidemic, the current influx of male influencers spreading right-wing rhetoric on the manosphere, and …

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Neighbors 59:42

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What does it mean to love thy neighbor? And who counts as a neighbor in the first place? In episode 139 of Overthink, Ellie and David talk about neighbors. They think through the parasocial relationships that hold between us and those who live near us, how the values of our neighbors affect our lives, and how neighborly relations blur the public/pr…

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Episode #47 (EN): Attention Schema Theory (Illusion of consciousness) with Michael Graziano 51:59

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In this episode of the ASF Podcast, neuroscientist and Princeton professor Michael Graziano joins host Tanja Janko to unpack his Attention Schema Theory. Graziano explains why consciousness can be understood as a self-model, how our brains construct simplified versions of ourselves and others, and why this illusion is both useful and inevitable. He…

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Black Women's Magic with Lindsey Stewart 54:21

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How did Black Women become magical? In episode 138, Ellie and David talk to Lindsey Stewart about her book, The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women's Magic. They talk about how the concept of ‘conjure’ shifted from its origin in the West African tradition to how it manifests in African American communities …

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Episode #46 (EN): Is the Self an Illusion? Jay Garfield on Buddhist Philosophy 1:00:59

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What does it mean to have a self, and what if it’s an illusion? In this episode of the ASF Podcast, host Tanja Janko speaks with philosopher Jay Garfield, a professor specializing in Tibetan Buddhism, philosophy of mind, cognitive science, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, ethics, and hermeneutics. Garfield explains the Buddhist cr…

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Post-Truth 59:57

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With conspiracy theories, fake news, and anti-science rhetoric everywhere, we are living in an age of post-truth. In episode 137 of Overthink, Ellie and David discuss the meaning of truth in our contemporary political and social landscape and how post-truth has increased in the recent years. How do phenomena like opinion overload, news fatigue, and…

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Epizoda #45 (SLO): Teja Batagelj o priložnostih digitalizacije zdravstva 1:37:42

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🎙️ V zadnji epizodi podkasta ASEF Vertikale zdravstvo se Luka Petravić pogovarja s Tejo Batagelj, v.d. direktorico Direktorata za digitalizacijo v zdravstvu na Ministrstvu za zdravje. Teja ima bogato karierno pot in več kot 20 let izkušenj na področju IT in digitalizacije. V pogovoru razpravljata o digitalizaciji slovenskega zdravstvenega sistema, …

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Burnout 59:38

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What makes burnout different from exhaustion or fatigue? In episode 136 of Overthink, Ellie and David look at the history of the term burnout and its surprising connection to social justice. They also explore Byung-Chul Han’s reading of burnout as a natural consequence of “achievement culture.” How does our mindless scrolling on TikTok and Instagra…

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Episode #44 (EN): Animal Dreams with David Peña-Guzmán: World of Animal Consciousness 1:15:05

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Do animals dream? And if they do, what does it reveal about their minds, and our moral responsibilities toward them? In this episode of the ASF Podcast, host Tanja Janko speaks with philosopher and author David Peña-Guzmán, whose book When Animals Dream explores the emotional, cognitive, and ethical dimensions of animal dreaming. In this conversati…

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Travel 58:50

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Aperol spritzes, ‘Euro summers’, and aesthetic beach pics. In episode 135 of Overthink, Ellie and David discuss all things travel. They discuss the differences how travel changes our relationship to the place where we're from, the difference between travel and tourism, and the place of travel in the history of philosophy. They go from Plato’s views…

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Christian Humanist Profiles 275: Nick Sorensen 1:02:29

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When teachers complain about the ways that schools evaluate our teaching–and we do so with frequency and enthusiasm–one of the common refrains has to do with the measuring instruments and their inability to account for randomness and adjustment to randomness. Many a hallway story involves a moment when a teacher’s plans became irrelevant and the te…

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Epizoda #43 (SLO): Meet the fellows - Lana in Adrian o delu in življenju na Stanfordu 52:09

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Dobrodošli v novi epizodi serije »Meet the Fellows« ASEF podkasta. Voditelj Martin Jurkovič gosti Lano Nastjo Anžur in Adriana Mladenića Grobelnika, ki sta poletje preživela na Univerzi Stanford. Lana je doktorska študentka Varstva okolja in raziskovalka kulturne dediščine (UL), Adrian pa mlajši raziskovalec UI na Inštitutu Jožef Stefan in študent …

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Christian Humanist Profiles 274: Bethany Mannon 1:02:39

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Ask six Americans what the adjective or the noun “evangelical” means, and you’ll get as many answers. Ask six historians, and you might get twelve. But what if you ask a rhetorician? We’re going to find out today as Christian Humanist Profiles welcomes Dr. Bethany Ober Mannon to the show to talk about her book I Grew Up in the Church: How American …

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Weirdness with Eric Schwitzgebel 56:57

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All metaphysical theories are…really weird. In episode 134 of Overthink, Ellie and David chat with Eric Schwitzgebel about his book Weirdness of the World. They think through the difference between weirdness and bizarreness, the nonsensical nature of philosophical theories, and whether we should all just agree with Occam’s razor that the simplest e…

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Christian Humanist Profiles 273: Joy Vaughan 56:07

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Most of the world happens when I’m not in the room. That’s been a guiding principle for me as I’ve read and heard about all kinds of things I’ve never seen. I know some folks prefer David Hume’s assumption that anything that doesn’t resemble closely enough what one has witnessed directly is more likely delusion or deception than real testimony, and…

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Epizoda #42 (SLO): Lokalni Podjetniški Inkubatorji v Sloveniji 58:03

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V tej epizodi ASEF Podcasta se podajamo v svet podjetniških inkubatorjev in podpornega okolja za startupe. V gosteh sta bili Nives Justin, vodja podjetniškega inkubatorja Kovačnica v Kranju, in Sonja Majcen, ki vodi Inkubator Savinjske regije v Celju. Obe že vrsto let pomagata mladim podjetnikom pri prvih korakih, iskanju financiranja, razvoju idej…

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Christian Humanist Profiles 272: Rebekah Spera & David M. Peña-Guzman 1:07:54

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When Amaziah, Priest of the Shrine of Bethel, confronts the prophet Amos for conspiring against King Amaziah, Amos replies with a very specific denial: “I am no prophet, nor a prophet’s son.” And it’s hard to run for president of the United States without insisting early and often that “I’m not a politician.” What about philosophers? What happens w…

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Air 54:11

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Time to take in a breath of fresh air. In episode 133 of Overthink, Ellie and David close out their four-part series on the elements with air. They consider Anaximenes of Miletus’s belief that all things are made of air, Luce Irigaray’s belief that air is feminine, and the modern use of air as a weapon of battle. What can the TV series The Last of …

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Christian Humanist Profiles 271: Rhodri Lewis 1:04:03

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Living among human beings gives an observant person plenty of occasions to think about delusion. Whether one watches the young revolutionary or the aging politician, the conspiracy theorist or the devotee of conventional wisdom, human beings take a peculiar joy in fooling ourselves. And we don’t have to limit ourselves to a single explanation of de…

David Peña Guzmán Podcasts

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Overthink

Ellie Anderson, Ph.D. and David Peña-Guzmán, Ph.D.

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ASEF Podcast

ASEF Podcast

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Christian Humanist Profiles

The Christian Humanists

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Meritocracy 57:20

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Aztec Philosophy with Sebastian Purcell 58:56

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Surfing 59:00

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Loneliness 59:23

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Confidence 57:16

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Togetherness with Dan Zahavi 58:25

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AI Chatbots 58:59

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Limerence 59:52

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Episode #48 (SLO): Iz Slovenije v svet: ASEF zgodbe, ki ustvarjajo prihodnost 48:44

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Degrowth 56:20

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Natality with Jennifer Banks 52:43

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Femininity 59:35

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Masculinity 58:58

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Neighbors 59:42

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Episode #47 (EN): Attention Schema Theory (Illusion of consciousness) with Michael Graziano 51:59

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Black Women's Magic with Lindsey Stewart 54:21

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Episode #46 (EN): Is the Self an Illusion? Jay Garfield on Buddhist Philosophy 1:00:59

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Post-Truth 59:57

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Epizoda #45 (SLO): Teja Batagelj o priložnostih digitalizacije zdravstva 1:37:42

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Burnout 59:38

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Episode #44 (EN): Animal Dreams with David Peña-Guzmán: World of Animal Consciousness 1:15:05

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Travel 58:50

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Christian Humanist Profiles 275: Nick Sorensen 1:02:29

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Epizoda #43 (SLO): Meet the fellows - Lana in Adrian o delu in življenju na Stanfordu 52:09

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Christian Humanist Profiles 274: Bethany Mannon 1:02:39

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Weirdness with Eric Schwitzgebel 56:57

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Christian Humanist Profiles 273: Joy Vaughan 56:07

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Epizoda #42 (SLO): Lokalni Podjetniški Inkubatorji v Sloveniji 58:03

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Christian Humanist Profiles 272: Rebekah Spera & David M. Peña-Guzman 1:07:54

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Air 54:11

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Christian Humanist Profiles 271: Rhodri Lewis 1:04:03