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2024-01-14 Frege and the Language of Reason
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What is—or should be—the relationship between logic and thought?

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


  • Added: Jan 15, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 12
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
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
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Wouldn’t it be great if our society were based on sound logical principles instead of outdated superstition?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
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
My Iron Lung
From: Radio Diaries
Caption: Martha Lillard in an iron lung in the 1950s., Credit: Courtesy of Martha Lillard
Martha Lillard is one of the last two people in the United States who depend on an iron lung to breathe.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 12:41
  • Purchases: 2
Keepers of the Flame
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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Follow the money that props up racist science, and you'll find it all leads back to one man.

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 01:03:24
2307: The Philosophical Legacy of Darwin, 2/14/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Charles Darwin (born February 12, 1809) fundamentally changed our understanding of human life—for better or for worse?

  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
2022-10-09 Is the Self an Illusion?
From: Philosophy Talk
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Is the self just a fiction we create to make sense of a complicated world?

Bought by KMUN and WVTF


  • Added: Oct 10, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
National Writers Series: Dr. Benjamin Gilmer
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Four
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April Baer talks with doctor and author Benjamin Gilmer.

Bought by WNMU-FM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Oct 10, 2022
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 3
2022-06-28 Leibniz
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What made Gottfried Leibniz the last so-called "universal genius?"

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


  • Added: Jun 27, 2022
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 5
2021-10-31 The Occult Philosophy
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What led some of the greatest minds in Europe believe in the Occult?

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio), KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KSKQ and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
Toronto Business Journal: Michael Cremo, alternative archeologist and Vedic scholar, discusses Human Devolution
From: Ray Samuels
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Michael Cremo, alternative archeologist and Vedic scholar, discusses Human Devolution

  • Added: Jun 02, 2021
  • Length: 01:46:29
S2 Ep 8: Needle exchanges and harm reduction
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season Two
Caption: David Venes (right) poses at the Tacoma Needle Exchange van with his dog, Ethel, and outreach worker, Laura Reynolds., Credit: Amber Cortes
In this episode we look at the idea of harm reduction and focus specifically on needle exchanges. Those are hundreds of places across the US that h...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2020
  • Length: 22:21
Treating America’s Opioid Addiction Part 3
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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Searching for Meaning in Kensington

  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 55:22
Treating America’s Opioid Addiction: Part 1
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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The Narcotic Farm and the Promise of Salvation

  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 32:11
Randall Fuller, author of "The Book That Changed America"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Bob Kustra interviews Randall Fuller who's written an historical take on how Darwin's Theory of Evolution ignited leaders and thinkers in the US in...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Oct 22, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Intimate Bond -- Groks Science Show 2016-01-20
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Brian Fagan discusses how animals have shaped our history and how our conception of them has changed over time.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KPIP-LP, and WYAP


  • Added: Jan 20, 2016
  • Length: 22:57
  • Purchases: 3
Historical Speech Acoustics
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Pericles' Funeral Oration., Credit: Philipp von Foltz/1852
How did historical leaders once address crowds of thousands, unaided by modern amplification

Bought by KENW and WLPR


  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Eruption that Changed the World -- Groks Science Show 2014-10-01
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Gillen D’Arcy Wood discusses the eruption of Mount Tambora.

Bought by WYAP, KPVL, and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Oct 01, 2014
  • Length: 35:00
  • Purchases: 3
Did a WWII nuclear experiment make the U of C radioactive?
From: WBEZ
Series: Curious City
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Um, No. But did the Manhattan Project’s Enrico Fermi consider the risk to Chicago?

Bought by XRAY.fm, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 19, 2013
  • Length: 10:03
  • Purchases: 3
Return to Sender -- Groks Science Show 2013-06-05
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Ken Weiss discussed the controversy surrounding the Yanomami blood samples.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KPVL, and WRNC-LP


  • Added: Jun 06, 2013
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Second Chances: The Story of Fergus Falls State Hospital
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
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In the late 19th century, insane asylums were built across the country in response to a national outcry over the treatment of the mentally ill. Mor...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KVSC, and KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 27:34
  • Purchases: 3
Paleofantasies -- Groks Science Show 2013-04-17
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
'Based on a true story' isn't a phrase that only applies to books and movies. It also applies to our conceptions of the past. We're constantly co...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KPVL


  • Added: Apr 18, 2013
  • Length: 27:32
  • Purchases: 2