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2403: Frege and the Language of Reason, 1/16/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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What is—or should be—the relationship between logic and thought?

  • Added: Jan 08, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
Revisiting The Halloween Documents
From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio
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The Halloween documents refer to a series of confidential Microsoft memoranda on potential strategies relating to open source software and Linux th...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2023
  • Length: 03:40
SEEKING PEACE ON EARTH: A Peace Talks Radio Special (2023)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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It's a compendium of highlights from just one season in the long-running award-winning PEACE TALKS RADIO series. You'll hear clips from our series ...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Dec 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Part 2: Unholy Alliance
From: GBH News
Series: The Big Dig
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In the early 1970s a radical idea took shape: tearing down Boston’s elevated downtown highway, and rebuilding it underground.

  • Added: Nov 21, 2023
  • Length: 53:57
Part 1: We Were Wrong
From: GBH News
Series: The Big Dig
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There is a strange irony behind the Big Dig: the most expensive highway project ever built in America began with a man who hated highways.

  • Added: Nov 21, 2023
  • Length: 53:57
2023-11-19 Mary Astell
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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The life and thought of the "first English feminist."

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


  • Added: Nov 20, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
2347: Mary Astell, 11/21/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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The life and thought of the "first English feminist"

  • Added: Nov 17, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
National Writers Series: Heather Cox Richardson
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Five
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Detroit Free Press columnist Neal Rubin talks with historian and author Heather Cox Richardson.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 1
Colette Pichon Battle on Climate Justice Reparations
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Climate change isn’t looming, it’s here. We have crossed what some call the change horizon. Can it also be a liberation horizon? “There’s beautifu...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Radio Catskill, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 8
2023-11-05 Zhuangzi: Being One With Ten Thousand Things
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What if I’m just a butterfly dreaming that I’m a philosopher?

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


  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
2345: Zhuangzi: Being One with Ten Thousand Things, 11/7/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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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
Open Spaces, October 20, 2023
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Open Spaces
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Today on the show, the Endangered Species Act became law 50 years ago. Since then, hundreds of species have been put under its protection. Wyoming ...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 50:22
2023-10-22 Elisabeth of Bohemia
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How did a 17th-century princess challenge Descartes' mind-body dualism?

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


  • Added: Oct 23, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
2343: Elisabeth of Bohemia, 10/24/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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If the mind and body are distinct substances, how could they ever interact?

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
Emergent Strategies for Abolition: Andrea J. Ritchie’s Toolkit for Activists
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In “Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies”, movement lawyer and organizer Andrea J. Ritchie has written a toolkit for organizers...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, KWMR, and WNYE


  • Added: Oct 18, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
2023-10-15 The Lives and Ideas of the Vienna Circle
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Wouldn’t it be great if our society were based on sound logical principles instead of outdated superstition?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KICI Iowa City, GCR (Global Community Radio), KTSW 89.9, KMUN and more


  • Added: Oct 16, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
2342: The Lives and Ideas of the Vienna Circle, 10/17/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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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
National Writers Series: Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Five
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Benjamin Busch talks with journalists Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson about their book "American Gun."

Bought by Michigan Radio and WKAR


  • Added: Oct 07, 2023
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 2
A Pennsylvania man saw the true power of Atomic Annie
From: WITF
Caption: Tom Lambert
70 years ago, Tom Lambert witnessed the only time a nuclear device was fired from a cannon

  • Added: Sep 28, 2023
  • Length: 13:07
World in Progress 21/09/23
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: The troubling trend looming over Cairo's City of the Dead. Who gets to decide the best way to make space in a city? Officia...

Bought by WFHB, Troy Public Radio, and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Catastrophic Capitalism in 2023: The Invisible Causes of Economic Inequality
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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To commemorate the 15th anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis, we explore the consequences of “capital bias”, or prioritizing wealth and the wea...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN and more


  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
The First 9-11
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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A year after SCOTUS banished abortion rights, millions of American women and girls face dire threats to their health and emotional well-being. Twen...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2023
  • Length: 56:42
World in Progress 08/24/23
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week, an emotional outpouring in Argentina over the return of an aircraft used during Argentina's military dictatorship for the notorious "dea...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and WFHB


  • Added: Aug 24, 2023
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
2336: (End of) Summer Reading List 2023, 9/5/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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What new books should thoughtful people read this summer?

  • Added: Aug 16, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
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

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