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2023-07-23 Hypatia of Alexandria
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What was so revolutionary and dangerous about Hypatia’s philosophical ideas?

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  • Added: Jul 21, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
Is the FDA Too Cautious?
From: Open to Debate
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While the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) needs to approve safe and effective drugs as quickly as possible to patients who need them, it must al...

Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 20, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
2332: What Has Replaced Freud?, 8/8/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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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
2023-07-16 The Arts for All?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Can art be broadly accessible without sacrificing quality? Can it be cognitively challenging without being elitist?

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  • Added: Jul 17, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
2329: The Arts for All?, 7/18/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Can art be broadly accessible without sacrificing quality? Can it be cognitively challenging without being elitist?

  • Added: Jul 16, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
Is Elon Musk Killing Twitter?
From: Open to Debate
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These days, the bird’s the word. Since shelling out $44 billion for Twitter, critics say Elon Musk is knocking the social media giant off its perch...

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  • Added: Jul 13, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
2023-07-02 Democracy By Numbers
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is it mathematically (im)possible to create a true democracy?

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  • Added: Jul 03, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
Jeffrey Funk and the New Agrarian School
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week’s guest is Jeffrey Funk, a blacksmith from Bigfork, Montana, who’s been crafting public sculpture and architectural metalwork for over 30...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 14, 2023
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 1
2023-06-11 The Rhetoric of Big Tech
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What do Ayn Rand, Martin Heidegger, and Samuel Beckett have to do with Silicon Valley?

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  • Added: Jun 12, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 14
The Business of Broadway with Curt Olds
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week’s guest is Curt Olds, internationally renowned singer, opera and musical theater director and entrepreneur. Curt has performed on Broadwa...

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  • Added: May 31, 2023
  • Length: 28:09
  • Purchases: 1
2323: Minds and Matter, 6/6/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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What can we learn about human consciousness from the minds of animals?

  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
2322: Can Art Save Us?, 5/30/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Can art help us fall in love with a wounded world?

  • Added: May 24, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2023-05-21 True Contradictions
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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This sentence is false—does that mean it’s also true?

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  • Added: May 22, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
2023-05-14 Are We All to Blame?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Do we all contribute to big, systemic problems like racism and climate change?

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  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11
2320: Are We All To Blame?, 5/16/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Can we be held responsible for things that aren't in our direct control?

  • Added: May 08, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
Is Carbon Capture Essential to Fighting Climate Change?
From: Open to Debate
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When it comes to carbon dioxide, 2022 was a record year. So...what can be done? One potential method is called carbon capture and storage, a techno...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WNED Buffalo, and KUNM


  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Muslim Americans in the Media: From Islamophobia to Power
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Dangerous stereotypes around Muslim Americans persist, with very real consequences for Muslim  people and American democracy at large. Even in Cong...

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  • Added: May 03, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
2023-04-30 The Power of Prediction
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is your brain a camera that records the world, or a projector that imposes pictures on it?

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  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Poetry Bug
From: melodically challenged
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Warmer weather brings us sunshine, flowers, trips to the beach, picnics, and BUGS, BUGS, BUGS!!!! And this week, we’ll have bugs: spiders, bees, f...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:06
2023-04-23 Why We Hate
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is hatred ever morally justified, or does hate just breed more hate?

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2023
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 13
US Poet Laureate Ada Limón
From: New Letters on the Air
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For National Poetry Month, we'll hear early work by our current U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón. The author of six poetry books, including the 2022 c...

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
2023-04-16 Derek Parfit and Your Future Self
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What's wrong with caring more about your future self than other future people?

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
2316: Derek Parfit and Your Future Self, 4/18/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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What's wrong with caring more about your future self than other future people?

  • Added: Apr 14, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
Montana’s Freshwater with Wendy Weaver
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week’s guest is Wendy Weaver, executive director of Montana Freshwater Partners, an organization dedicated to restoring, enhancing and preserv...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
I&I — Why don’t we trust the media?
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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It is pledge week here at Montana Public Radio. So, this week’s episode is a special edition of Incentives & Instincts with economist and friend Br...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 29, 2023
  • Length: 35:31
  • Purchases: 1

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