The Partially Examined Life is a podcast and downloadable audio series about philosophy.

The most frequent participants are Mark Linsenmayer, Seth Paskin, Wes Alwan, and Dylan Casey.

Mark, Seth, and Wes had been classmates at the University of Texas while earning their master's degrees in Philosophy.

The first full episode, "The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living," aired (became downloadable) on May 12, 2009.

The podcasters have also released music, pre-episodes ("Precognitions"), and other non "official episode" media.