Relevant Episodes:

1. E2 - Road House

2. E18 - Hypnosis

3. E27 - Reiki & Alternative Medicine

Course Readings:

1. Epictetus's Enchiridion.

2. Hilgard, E.R. & Hilgard, J.R. (1994). Hypnosis in the Relief of Pain (selections).

3. The weird power of the placebo effect, explained | Vox 

Relevant Episodes:

Course Readings:

1. Schwitzgebel, E. (2002). "Why did we think we dreamed in black and white?" Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.

2. MacFarquhar, L. (2025). "Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound," The New Yorker.

3. Mitchell-Yellin, B. & Fischer, J. M. (2014). "The Near-Death Experience Argument Against Physicalism: A Critique," Journal of Consciousness Studies.

4. Goff, P. (2010). "Ghosts and Sparse Properties: Why Physicalists Have More to Fear from Ghosts than Zombies," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

5. Bayne, T. (2007). "Hypnosis and the unity of consciousness," In Hypnosis and Conscious States: The cognitive neuroscience perspective.

Relevant Episodes:

1. E17 - Biohacking

2. E19 - Ghosts & Hauntings

3. E21 - Prehistory

Course Readings:

1. Conee, E. & Sider, T. (2014). Riddles of Existence: A Guided Tour of Metaphysics, Ch. 3.

2. Fritts, M. (2023). "Arresting Time's Arrow: Death, Loss, and the Preservation of Real Union."

3. Eliade, M. (2019). The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History, Ch. 4.

Relevant Episodes:

1. E2 - Bigfoot

2. E13 - Near Death Experiences

3. E19 - Ghosts & Hauntings

Course Readings:

1. Naish, D. (2017). Hunting Monsters: Cryptozoology and the Reality Behind the Myths, Ch. 4.

2. Habermas, G.R. (2018). "Evidential Near-Death Experiences." In The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism.

3. Nagel, J. (2014). Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction, Ch. 6.

Relevant Episodes:

1. E22 - Past Life Memories

2. E28 - The Mandela Effect

Course Readings:

1. White, C., Kelly, R., & Nichols, S. (2016). "Remembering Past Lives," In Advances in Religion, Cognitive Science, and Experimental Philosophy.

2. Prasad, D. & Bainbridge, W. A. (2002). "The Visual Mandela Effect as Evidence for Shared and Specific False Memories Across People," Psychological Science.

Relevant Episodes:

1. E20 - Astrology

2. E23 - The Enneagram

3. E27 - Reiki & Alternative Medicine

4. E6 - Extra-Terrestrial Life

Course Readings:

1. Popper, K. (1962). Science: Conjectures and Refutations (selections).

2. Grim, P. (1982). Philosophy of Science and the Occult.

3. Kidd, I. J. (2016). "Why did Feyerabend Defend Astrology? Integrity, Virtue, and the Authority of Science," Social Epistemology.

4. Kukla, A. (2001). "SETI: On the prospects and pursuitworthiness of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence," Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.

Relevant Episodes:

1. E6 - Extra-Terrestrial Life

2. E8 - The Fermi Paradox

Course Readings:

1. Ćirković, M. (2009). "Fermi's paradox: The last challenge for copernicanism?," Serbian Astronomical Journal

2. Rare Earth hypothesis: Why we might really be alone in the universe 

Relevant Episodes:

Course Readings:

1. Principe, L. (2012). The Secrets of Alchemy.

2. Linden, S.J. (2003). The Alchemy Reader: From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton. 

Relevant Episodes:

1. E17 - Biohacking

2. AE6 - Virtual Minds

Course Readings:

1. Kagan, S. (2012). Is Death Bad for You?, Chronicle of Higher Education

2. Fritts, M. (2023). "Arresting Time's Arrow: Death, Loss, and the Preservation of Real Union"

3. Chalmers, D. (2014). "Mind Uploading: A Philosophical Analysis" 

Relevant Episodes:

1. E10 - Alcohol

2. A4 - Demonic Possession

3. E29 - The Prophecies of Nostradamus

4. E14 - Luck

Course Readings:

1. Stohr, K. (2022). Choosing Freedom: A Kantian Guide to Life, Ch. 19

2. Guthrie, S. (2022). How Not to Object to Demonic Realism, Religions, sect. 4.

3. Cahn, S. (2019). "David Foster Wallace and the Challenge of Fatalism", The Blog of the APA

4. Nagel, T. (1979). "Moral Luck," Mortal Questions.

Relevant Episodes:

1. E24 - The Illuminati: Bavarian Order

2. E25 - The Illuminati: Conspiracy Theories

3. E28 - Mandela Effect

Course Readings:

1. Neugebauer-Wölk, M. (2008). Illuminaten. In W. J. Hanegraaff (ed.), The Brill Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism Online.

2. Boudry, M. (2023). "Why We Should Be Suspicious of Conspiracy Theories: A Novel Demarcation Problem," Episteme.

3. Levy, N. (2019. “Is Conspiracy Theorising Irrational?” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective.

Relevant Episodes:

Course Readings:

1. Wiland, E. (2018). "Should Children Have the Right to Vote?." In The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy.

2. Schwitzgebel, E. (2023). "The Coming Robot Rights Catastrophe," The Blog of the APA.

3. Schwitzgebel, E. & Garza, M. (2015), "Defense of the Rights of Artificial Intelligences," Midwest Studies In Philosophy.

Relevant Episodes:

Course Readings:

1. Copson, A. (2019) Secularism: A Very Short Introduction

2. Jones, B. (2022). Apocalypse without God Apocalyptic Thought, Ideal Politics, and the Limits of Utopian Hope

Relevant Episodes:

1. E15 - Myths, Pt. 1

2. E16 - Myths, Pt. 2

3. E4 - Polytheism

Course Readings:

1. Powell, B. (2002). A Short Introduction to Classical Myth.

2. Leonard, S. A., & McClure, M. (2004). Myth and Knowing: An introduction to world mythology.

3. Tuggy, D. (2017). On Counting Gods. TheoLogica: An International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology.

Relevant Episodes:

Course Readings:

1. Dell’Olio, A. J. (2010). "Do near-death experiences provide a rational basis for belief in life after death?", Sophia

2. Chalmers, D. (2014). "Mind Uploading: A Philosophical Analysis"