Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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The program that questions everything... except your intelligence.
Philosophy Talk celebrates the value of the examined life. Our philosophers invite listeners to join them in conversations about variety of issues from popular culture to our most deeply held beliefs about science, morality and the human condition. Philosophy Talk challenges listeners to identify and question their assumptions, and to think about things in new ways.
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Philosopher, political economist, and civil servant.John Stuart Mill was born May 20, 1806.
- Added: May 13, 2022
- Length: 54:01
How is ideology different from dogma?
- Added: May 05, 2022
- Length: 54:00
What rights should undocumented immigrants have?
- Added: Apr 25, 2022
- Length: 53:59
Is the most elegant explanation always the best one?
- Added: Apr 21, 2022
- Length: 54:00
Is it really possible to base your moral values on reason?
- Added: Apr 12, 2022
- Length: 53:59
Are poems valuable because they do something for us, or are they gloriously useless?
- Added: Apr 05, 2022
- Length: 54:00
How do we justify keeping so many nuclear weapons—and continually threatening to use them?
- Added: Apr 03, 2022
- Length: 54:00
What could we possibly still say to people who don't believe that human activity is destabilziing the global climate?
- Added: Mar 23, 2022
- Length: 53:59
What movies of the past year challenged our assumptions and made us think about things in new ways?
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 54:00
What should we do with literature and philosophy from a discredited moral past?
- Added: Mar 13, 2022
- Length: 54:00
Is trial by Twitter mob a substitute for justice?
- Added: Mar 11, 2022
- Length: 53:59
Did postmodernism merely predict cynicism about the facts, or did it actually promote it?
- Added: Feb 28, 2022
- Length: 54:00
Mind, soul, body, and breath—how do all of these go together for the Akan people of West Africa?
- Added: Feb 18, 2022
- Length: 54:00
If you don't have only one friend at a time, why have only one lover at a time?
- Added: Feb 13, 2022
- Length: 54:00
Where do we draw the line between righteous anger and ruthless revenge?
- Added: Feb 02, 2022
- Length: 54:00
Do you have to be an emperor to lead a Stoic life?
- Added: Jan 31, 2022
- Length: 54:00
If you could have another sense beyond the normal five, what would it be?
- Added: Jan 18, 2022
- Length: 53:59
In a violent world, what can nonviolence really achieve?
- Added: Jan 11, 2022
- Length: 53:59
What would it mean to assign legal or moral responsibility to algorithms in human form?
- Added: Jan 10, 2022
- Length: 53:59
