July 1, 2026 Dr. Thomas Ferguson
Episode 5: Defining Art Breaks Its Definition
A philosophy professor and a physics student spend an hour trying to define art and leave less certain than when they started — which turns out to be the point.
Theo and Dr. Ferguson spend an hour trying to pin down what art actually is, and keep failing. They start with tables, move to Banksy, detour through Japanese city pop and genre taxonomy, argue about whether Bohemian Rhapsody was created or discovered, compare the attempt to abstract algebra, and arrive at the same place Socratic dialogue always arrives: less certain than when they started.