• 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
  • Episode 14 in which LUNA meets Spinoza, free-thinking lens-grinder and working class hero
    May 7 2026

    Ol and Val try to figure out why Luna chose to travel just up the road from The Hague to Amsterdam to meet Spinoza and read his book The Ethics.

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    51 mins
  • Episode 13 in which Ol, Val and Eloise get embroiled in a royal situationship between Descartes and Elizabeth of Bohemia
    Apr 30 2026

    Elizabeth of Bohemia, member of a world-historical family, diplomat, philosopher, convent-founder, friend of religious dissidents, refuser of a compromised marriage, finds a massive problem in Descartes Meditations and thereby founds the modern philosophy of mind and its troubles.

    Episode 13 features a special guest, Eloise Mignon, who works in and between theatre and philosophy.

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Episode 12 in which LUNA finally makes her way to the very end of Descartes' Meditations
    Apr 25 2026

    Led astray by impostors of Mr Pleasure and Miss Pain LUNA finds that her body can betray her and tell her to do things which are bad for it: is there any remedy?

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Episode 11 in which Ol & Val meet Professor Nature and her two teaching assistants, Pleasure and Pain
    Apr 17 2026

    Descartes takes Luna back to nature and nature's teachings so as to secure the foundations of our knowledge of the properties of external material bodies - and of "light, sound and pain"!

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    57 mins
  • Episode 10 in which Val complains of all the forks in Descartes's argument but still nothing solid to eat
    Apr 11 2026

    LUNA ventures out into the material world, edging out along the argument from sense-perception, holding herself on a cliff edge over the ocean waves, asking herself where all these unwanted untidy sense-perceptions come from...

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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Episode 9 on Meditation 6 in which LUNA tentatively steps out onto a shaky bridge to the material world
    Apr 4 2026

    LUNA explores the 1st section of Descartes' Meditation 6 on the powers of the imagination and its probable origin in the material world - can LUNA ever make it back to certain knowledge of her everyday reality, where she was perfectly happy before she began this journey into philosophy? Will we find out in this episode?

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    35 mins
  • Episode 8 Ol and Val prove the existence of God a second time, meditate on triangles, and ward off sweaty goats
    Mar 27 2026

    LUNA continues her travels through Meditation 5 of Descartes' Meditations in which Descartes attempts to secure certain knowledge of material things and ends up happy talking to triangles.

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    56 mins