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2024-05-26 Logic For Everyone
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Does logic always lead us to the truth?

  • Added: May 27, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
Young Voices Debate Tough Topics: DEI and Climate Change
From: Open to Debate
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Two days. Four questions. Ten judges and high school students participating in the national championship run by Incubate Debate, the U.S.’s fastest...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
2423: Marcus Aurelius, 6/4/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Do you have to be an emperor to lead a Stoic life?

  • Added: May 22, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
2422: Logic For Everyone, 5/28/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Does logic always lead us to the truth?

  • Added: May 22, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
2426: What is Gender?, 6/25/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Is Gender an oppressive system that sorts people into pink and blue boxes, or is it a critical part of people’s identities?

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
2425: Righteous Rage, 6/18/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Where do we draw the line between righteous anger and ruthless revenge?

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
2024-05-19 Akan Philosophy and Personhood
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Mind, soul, body, and breath—how do all of these go together for the Akan people of West Africa?

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KTSW 89.9, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KSKQ, KMUN and more


  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
2424: Summer Reading List, 6/11/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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This summer, how about a philosophical take on popular culture?

  • Added: May 17, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
The Pursuit of Happiness: Virtue or Pleasure?
From: Open to Debate
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Happiness is a complex emotion and mental state that can be achieved through virtue or pleasure. But should it be for the good of the individual or...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
240517: Fighting Fossil Fuels in the Courts and on the Ballot, 5/17/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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At age 9, Nalleli Cobo, suffering headaches, heart palpitations, nosebleeds, and body spasms, became an activist, driven to fighting to close the l...

  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
2024-05-12 Mary Wollstonecraft
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How does inequality distort our personalities and relationships?

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  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
How Should We Respond To Climate Change?
From: Casey Walker
Series: Energy Switch
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Dr. Steve Koonin, a former U.S. Secretary of Science, and Dr. Michael Greenstone, Director of the Energy Policy Institute at University of Chicago,...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 26:02
  • Purchases: 1
MOCK TRIAL: Should the Courts Restrict Access to the Abortion Pill?
From: Open to Debate
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The Supreme Court will soon decide on a case surrounding a medication used for abortion, mifepristone, and whether the drug should continue to be a...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
2421: Akan Philosophy and Personhood, 5/21/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Mind, soul, body, and breath—how do all of these go together for the Akan people of West Africa?

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
2420: Mary Wollstonecraft, 5/14/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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How does inequality distort our personalities and relationships?

  • Added: May 07, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
2024-05-05 The Legacy of Freud
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Sigmund Freud was born May 6, 1856.

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  • Added: May 06, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Should Elite Universities Reinstate the SAT?
From: Open to Debate
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Many colleges during the pandemic decided to make their applications test-optional, but new research has elite colleges rethinking that policy. Tho...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KUNM, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: May 02, 2024
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 4
2419: The Legacy of Freud, 5/7/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Did you really want to eat that last piece of cake, or were you secretly thinking about your mother?

  • Added: Apr 30, 2024
  • Length: 53:58
2024-04-28 Why Is the World So Weird?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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No matter how you slice it, our universe is a strange place.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ, KTSW 89.9, WLPR , and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 29, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
Is Free Speech Threatened on Campus?
From: Open to Debate
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Tensions have been ramping up at universities across the country as students continue to protest the war in Gaza. Reports of antisemitism, islamoph...

Bought by WMUU-LP and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Apr 25, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
2418: Why Is the World So Weird?, 4/30/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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No matter how you slice it, our universe is a strange place.

  • Added: Apr 25, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
2024-04-21 What Would Kant Do?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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This year marks the 300th anniversary of Immanuel Kant, born April 22, 1724.

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 10
Regulation
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week on World Ocean Radio we're discussing a recent trip to Lisbon, Portugal to attend the Economist Ocean Summit. One such conversation we pa...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 19, 2024
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 1
Ban the Box: Should We Banish the Criminal History Check Box from Job Applications?
From: Open to Debate
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Former criminal offenders in the United States face challenges reentering the job market after incarceration and so-called “Ban the Box” policies a...

Bought by WMUU-LP and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
2417: What Would Kant Do?, 4/23/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Is it really possible to base your moral values on reason?

  • Added: Apr 15, 2024
  • Length: 53:59

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