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2023-10-01 Disinformation and the Future of Democracy
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Anti-vaxxers, Q-Anon devotees, 9/11 truthers — should people this deluded really be allowed to report the news or hold elected office?

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  • Added: Oct 02, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 13
2340: Disinformation and the Future of Democracy, 10/3/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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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
2023-09-24 What Is Masculinity?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Ideals of manhood differ across times and cultures—why think there’s any one thing it means to be a man?

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 18
2339: What Is Masculinity?, 9/26/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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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
I&I- This is Wildfire
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week is the August edition of Incentives & Instincts, a recurring series in which Justin speaks with economist and friend Bryce Ward about som...

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2023
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 1
Jeff Batton on voting with your investment dollars
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week's guest is Jeff Batton, a principal at HomeStake, a fund that pursues a variety of business models, all designed around connecting more l...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 23, 2023
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 1
2335: Hegel, 8/29/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born August 27, 1770.

  • Added: Aug 16, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
Conversations: Michael Stein, MD
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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Physician, public health professor, and author Michael Stein speaks about his recent book Me vs. Us: A Health Divided, which explores the differenc...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2023
  • Length: 49:38
Retrospective from departing UM Provost Pardis Mahdavi
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week's guest is Dr. Pardis Mahdavi, an Iranian-American professor, administrator, outgoing provost at the University of Montana, and the newly...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 16, 2023
  • Length: 28:22
  • Purchases: 1
2023-08-27 Hegel
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born August 27, 1770.

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  • Added: Aug 16, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
2023-08-13 Making a Better World
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Can moral philosophy make us better people?

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  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Does Color Blindness Perpetuate Racism?
From: Open to Debate
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Color blindness has long been presented by some as a philosophy to help improve relations between racial groups. Those who support it say it promot...

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  • Added: Aug 10, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
2333: Making a Better World, 8/15/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Can moral philosophy make us better people?

  • Added: Aug 10, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2023-08-06 What Has Replaced Freud?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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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?

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  • Added: Aug 07, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 10
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...

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  • 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
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...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • 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
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