Hello and welcome to Overthink, the podcast.
Where two philosophers have fun with big ideas.
I'm Dr.
Ellie Anderson.
And I'm Dr.
David Pena Guzman.
Fun is exceptionally hard to define.
There are all these concepts that are closely related to it, such as play, leisure, humor, and pleasure.
But there is not a lot out there about fun specifically.
Yeah, we decided to do this episode topic before we looked into the literature.
And then once we looked into the literature, we were like, oh, wow, okay.
There actually isn't very much of it.
And that is for reasons that we will unpack over the course of the episode.
We also did find some fun research.
Some fun, fun research.
So stay tuned for that.
But I found myself in looking into this topic doing what Socrates says is the wrong way to define something,
which is instead of giving a definition, just pointing to all the things that are fun.
Right.
Like, going to an amusement park is fun.