In this episode, we philosophically review the 2020 horror film, “The Empty Man.” There will be spoilers, so we recommend that you watch the movie first, then listen to the review. The Empty Man is an alien entity that promotes a philosophy of murderous nihilism, and is the very epitome of Nietzsche’s infamous warning, “If…

In this episode, we discuss a paper by Canadian philosopher and fantasy novelist R. Scott Bakker. In his paper, “On Alien Philosophy,” Bakker argues that the evolutionary forces that caused Earth species to develop intelligence and philosophy could likely cause alien species to develop their own intelligence and philosophy. And, like us, their philosophers, “Martian…