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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What’s the difference between the merely surprising and the truly impossible?
- Added: Dec 13, 2023
- Length: 53:58
If Brahman is all and all is Brahman, is there still room for stuff like tables, chairs, and wombats?
- Added: Nov 30, 2023
- Length: 53:59
Is there a purpose to our sense of wonder, or is it gloriously useless?
- Added: Nov 30, 2023
- Length: 54:00
What’s the difference between a rude comment and outright hate speech?
- Added: Nov 20, 2023
- Length: 54:00
The life and thought of the "first English feminist"
- Added: Nov 17, 2023
- Length: 54:00
How do writers and filmmakers exploit our cognitive biases to surprise and delight us?
- Added: Nov 06, 2023
- Length: 54:00
If you dream that you're a butterfly, how can you be sure you're not a butterfly dreaming you're a person when you wake up?
- Added: Nov 02, 2023
- Length: 53:59
The Philosophy Talk co-founder would have been 69 years old on November 4.
- Added: Oct 22, 2023
- Length: 54:00
If the mind and body are distinct substances, how could they ever interact?
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 54:00
Wouldn’t it be great if our society were based on sound logical principles instead of outdated superstition?
- Added: Oct 15, 2023
- Length: 54:00
How can a building express a political viewpoint?
- Added: Oct 06, 2023
- Length: 54:00
Anti-vaxxers, Q-Anon devotees, 9/11 truthers — should people this deluded really be allowed to report the news or hold elected office?
- Added: Sep 27, 2023
- Length: 53:59
Ideals of manhood differ across times and cultures—why think there’s any one thing it means to be a man?
- Added: Sep 19, 2023
- Length: 54:00
How would we even tell the real world from a simulated one?
- Added: Sep 18, 2023
- Length: 53:59
- Added: Sep 05, 2023
- Length: 53:58
What new books should thoughtful people read this summer?
- Added: Aug 16, 2023
- Length: 53:59
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born August 27, 1770.
- Added: Aug 16, 2023
- Length: 53:59
Is it weird to want to do things that are bad for us?
- Added: Aug 16, 2023
- Length: 54:00
Can moral philosophy make us better people?
- Added: Aug 10, 2023
- Length: 54:00
Freud may have laid the groundwork for a science of the unconscious, but didn’t he get most of it wrong?
- Added: Jul 20, 2023
- Length: 54:00
