John T Maier
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Interviews at the intersection of therapy and philosophy. Hosted by John T. Maier.
A tarot card on the table, and suddenly you're debating what counts as knowing.
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A careful psychiatry conversation where value, diagnosis, and belief keep pressing against each other.
John T. Meyer uses this conversation with Dr. David Brandel to probe what pragmatism can do inside psychiatry, and the episode keeps circling a stubborn question: when does a psychiatric explanation count as true if its value shows up in the real-world result it helps produce?
A thoughtful exchange about anxiety, wonder, and the ontological reach of moods.
Maria's conversation with John T. Meyer turns on a subtle question: what anxiety and wonder have in common when neither points to a fixed object.
A compact case for philosophy as a tool of independent reflection.
John T. Meyer and Lydia Amir present philosophical practice as philosophy carried into ordinary life, with the discussion circling autonomy, practical wisdom, and the value of seeking counsel in order to recover judgment of one's own.
A patient interview on philosophy as practice, embodiment, and body positivity.
John T. Meyer's conversation with Celine Leboeuf keeps philosophy tied to lived practice, then opens into embodiment, race, gender, and body positivity.
A careful, philosophy-first look at what addiction means and whether the term really names a thing.
The episode spends its time on definitions: what addiction is doing, whether the DSM is naming the thing itself or only circling it, and how dispositional language changes the argument.
A patient conversation about values, responsibility, and how philosophy meets clinical practice.
Shane McLaughlin's interview takes its time, and that patience suits the material. It traces how values turn into action, then follows the hard edge of the discussion into moral relativism and the smaller mechanics of excuse-making, where euphemistic labeling, dehumanization,…
A careful look at diagnosis, bodily limitation, and the philosophical work of naming a contested illness.
Eleanor Byrne treats chronic fatigue syndrome as a hard clinical and philosophical case: a condition known through symptoms, and a reminder that naming illness without a biomarker is never simple. John T.
A careful DSM conversation about objectivity, diagnosis, and the values psychiatry cannot avoid.
The episode treats diagnosis as both a philosophical and practical problem. Anne-Marie Gagne-Julien and John T. Meyer keep the focus on the DSM, social objectivity, and the tension between staying tied to the empirical world and admitting that values shape classification.
Ryan Holiday pairs daily Stoic lessons with long-form guest conversations at his Texas bookstore.
Philosopher Barry Lam turns reported stories — gig algorithms, AI music, vampires — into philosophical inquiry.
Economist Glenn Loury interviews one guest at a time on race, religion, and geopolitics.
Peter Boghossian applies street epistemology to guests debating free speech, immigration, and belief.
Vox's narrative reporting on factory farming, pandemic risk, and its Good Robot AI safety series.
Episode #34 features philosopher Georgi Gardiner discussing tarot's philosophical and theological implications.
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The host opens by framing the podcast as a conversation about philosophy and therapy.
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