Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Philosophy discussion • Authors and their works • Historical figures • Ethical and moral questions • Science and technology • Social justice issues • Cultural analysis • Existential and metaphysical themes
This podcast, titled "Philosophy Talk Starters," offers a rich array of discussions that delve into a wide spectrum of philosophical topics. The show is designed to be intellectually stimulating, questioning a variety of fundamental and contemporary concerns without underestimating the intelligence of its audience. Each episode explores a unique subject, often grounded in philosophical thought, moral contemplation, cultural critiques, and the examination of human existence and society.
Listeners can expect episodes that scrutinize historical and modern philosophical figures, their works, and their relevance today. Notable philosophers like Marcus Aurelius, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Immanuel Kant are discussed, as well as less commonly known thinkers such as Elisabeth of Bohemia and Im Yunjidang. These episodes not only explore the philosophies of these figures but also the broader implications of their ideas on virtue, liberation, and rationality.
The podcast also delves into topical and sometimes speculative subjects, examining the ethical and philosophical ramifications of technological advancements, like artificial intelligence and virtual reality, and their impact on human understanding and societal norms. Episodes tackle questions about the nature of consciousness, human-robot interactions, and the potential personhood of robots.
Cultural themes are equally prominent, with episodes that investigate the philosophical underpinnings of pop culture phenomena, such as television series, Shakespearean drama, and even modern social justice through cinema. The philosophical aspects of more abstract sciences such as mathematics, quantum mechanics, and the logic of reasoning are also a recurring theme.
Moreover, the show does not shy away from social and ethical issues, exploring topics such as the dynamics of gender, race, and personhood in different cultural contexts, as well as the role of disinformation in democracy and the philosophical perspectives on age equality and justice.
Overall, "Philosophy Talk Starters" presents a blend of rigorous philosophical examination paired with accessible discussions on a variety of topics that resonate with contemporary and historical issues, making it a valuable resource for anyone interested in the depths of philosophical inquiry.
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Episodes:
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567: What Is Gender?
2024-Jun-23
9 minutes
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540: Righteous Rage
2024-Jun-16
10 minutes
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591: Summer Reading List 2024
2024-Jun-06
15 minutes
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539: Marcus Aurelius
2024-Jun-02
9 minutes
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590: Logic For Everyone
2024-May-21
10 minutes
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532: Akan Philosophy and Personhood
2024-May-19
9 minutes
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589: Mary Wollstonecraft
2024-May-07
11 minutes
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588: Why Is the World So Weird?
2024-Apr-23
9 minutes
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544: What Would Kant Do?
2024-Apr-22
10 minutes
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587: Shakespeare's Outsiders
2024-Apr-14
10 minutes
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538: Could Robots Be Persons?
2024-Apr-07
8 minutes
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586: Mind Sharing
2024-Mar-31
9 minutes
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585: Margaret Cavendish
2024-Mar-20
10 minutes
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536: What Can Virtual Reality (Actually) Do?
2024-Mar-17
9 minutes
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584: The 2024 Dionysus Awards
2024-Mar-05
15 minutes
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535: Should All Ages Be Equal?
2024-Mar-03
10 minutes
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583: Im Yunjidang
2024-Feb-21
10 minutes
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534: The Social Lives of Robots
2024-Feb-18
10 minutes
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195: Lincoln as a Philosopher
2024-Feb-11
10 minutes
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582: Can A.I. Help Us Understand Babies?
2024-Jan-31
9 minutes
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581: 20th Anniversary Quiz Night
2024-Jan-24
17 minutes
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531: The Mysterious Timelessness of Math
2024-Jan-20
10 minutes
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533: Frege and the Language of Reason
2024-Jan-14
10 minutes
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337: Simone de Beauvoir
2024-Jan-07
9 minutes
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580: American Futures (Ken Taylor Memorial Episode)
2023-Dec-31
16 minutes
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579: Impossible Worlds
2023-Dec-14
10 minutes
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525: Nonduality and the Oneness of Being
2023-Dec-10
10 minutes
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578: In Awe of Wonder
2023-Nov-30
11 minutes
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529: Microaggressions
2023-Nov-26
11 minutes
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577: Mary Astell
2023-Nov-16
10 minutes
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576: Zhuangzi—Being One with Ten Thousand Things
2023-Nov-05
11 minutes
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528: Referring to the World – Ken's Final Work
2023-Oct-29
8 minutes
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575: Elisabeth of Bohemia
2023-Oct-17
9 minutes
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524: The Lives and Ideas of the Vienna Circle
2023-Oct-15
8 minutes
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574: Can Architecture Be Political?
2023-Oct-04
10 minutes
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523: Disinformation and the Future of Democracy
2023-Oct-01
9 minutes
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520: What Is Masculinity?
2023-Sep-24
9 minutes
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573: Are We Living in a Simulation?
2023-Sep-14
8 minutes
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453: Adorno and the Culture Industry
2023-Sep-10
11 minutes
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568: Summer Reading List 2023
2023-Sep-03
17 minutes
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93: Georg Hegel
2023-Aug-27
7 minutes
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572: Weird Wants
2023-Aug-16
9 minutes
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571: Making a Better World
2023-Aug-10
10 minutes
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519: What Has Replaced Freud?
2023-Aug-05
10 minutes
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570: Hypatia of Alexandria
2023-Jul-21
10 minutes
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514: The Arts For All?
2023-Jul-16
10 minutes
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569: Mexican Philosophy
2023-Jul-09
9 minutes
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517: Democracy By Numbers
2023-Jul-01
10 minutes
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518: The Rhetoric of Big Tech
2023-Jun-10
10 minutes
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515: Minds and Matter
2023-Jun-04
9 minutes
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566: Can Art Save Us?
2023-May-29
12 minutes
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565: True Contradictions
2023-May-17
10 minutes
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513: Are We All to Blame?
2023-May-14
9 minutes
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213: Søren Kierkegaard
2023-May-07
11 minutes
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564: The Power of Prediction
2023-Apr-25
11 minutes
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511: Why We Hate
2023-Apr-23
9 minutes
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563: Derek Parfit and Your Future Self
2023-Apr-16
9 minutes
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512: What's in a Game?
2023-Apr-08
12 minutes
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543: Why Poetry Matters
2023-Apr-02
10 minutes
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562: The Philosophy of Smell
2023-Mar-22
11 minutes
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510: Science and Skepticism
2023-Mar-19
9 minutes
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561: The 2023 Dionysus Awards
2023-Mar-05
15 minutes
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560: Cancel Culture
2023-Feb-20
10 minutes
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210: The Philosophical Legacy of Darwin
2023-Feb-12
11 minutes
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509: Citizenship and Justice
2023-Jan-29
10 minutes
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559: Why Trust Science?
2023-Jan-20
9 minutes
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508: The Merits of Meritocracy
2023-Jan-15
10 minutes
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507: Can Streets Disciminate?
2023-Jan-08
9 minutes
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558: The Examined Year – 2022
2023-Jan-01
15 minutes
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211: How Relevant Is Jesus?
2022-Dec-25
11 minutes
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551: Effective Altruism
2022-Dec-18
10 minutes
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506: The Ethical Jerk
2022-Dec-11
10 minutes
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557: Thinking Like a Conspiracy Theorist
2022-Dec-05
11 minutes
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499: (Why) Money Matters
2022-Nov-27
9 minutes
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503: Covid Conundrums and Moral Dilemmas
2022-Nov-20
8 minutes
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556: In Search of Proust's Philosophy
2022-Nov-14
9 minutes
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504: Pet Ethics
2022-Nov-06
9 minutes
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555: How to Create Virtuous Leaders?
2022-Oct-31
10 minutes
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498: Philosophy and the Superhero
2022-Oct-23
8 minutes
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554: Liberty and Justice For Who?
2022-Oct-17
10 minutes
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496: Is the Self an Illusion?
2022-Oct-09
11 minutes
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553: Climate Change and Collective Action
2022-Oct-02
10 minutes
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378: Heidegger
2022-Sep-25
10 minutes
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552: Who Owns Culture?
2022-Sep-16
11 minutes
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491: Hobbes and the Ideal Citizen
2022-Sep-11
10 minutes
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548: Summer Reading List – Banned Books Edition
2022-Sep-03
17 minutes
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495: Death of the Sentence
2022-Aug-21
9 minutes
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550: What Is Political Inequality?
2022-Aug-14
10 minutes
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542: The 2022 Dionysus Awards
2022-Aug-07
17 minutes
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449: James Baldwin and Social Justice
2022-Jul-31
10 minutes
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549: Is Optimism Rational?
2022-Jul-22
9 minutes
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505: Walter Benjamin and the Re-Enchanted World
2022-Jul-17
9 minutes
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494: Comedy and the Culture Wars
2022-Jul-03
10 minutes
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547: The Changing Face of Antisemitism
2022-Jun-19
12 minutes
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396: Jean-Paul Sartre
2022-Jun-12
11 minutes
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490: Conscious Machiness
2022-Jun-05
10 minutes
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546: The Scandalous Truth About Memoir
2022-May-30
11 minutes
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489: The Allure of Authoritarianism
2022-May-22
11 minutes
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482: J.S. Mill and the Good Life
2022-May-15
11 minutes
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545: What Is Ideology?
2022-May-06
10 minutes
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492: Sanctuary Cities
2022-May-01
11 minutes
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488: Explanation at Its Best
2022-Apr-24
10 minutes
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485: The Doomsday Doctrine
2022-Apr-03
10 minutes
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487: Changing Minds on Climate Change
2022-Mar-27
10 minutes
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486: Reading the Troubled Past
2022-Mar-13
10 minutes
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541: #MeToo: Retribution, Accountability, and Justice
2022-Mar-07
9 minutes
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484: Is Postmodernism Really to Blame for Post-Truth?
2022-Feb-27
9 minutes
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437: Polyamory
2022-Feb-13
9 minutes
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477: Hacking the Brain – Beyond the Five Senses
2022-Jan-23
10 minutes
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371: The Art of Non-Violence
2022-Jan-17
11 minutes
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537: The Examined Year – 2021
2021-Dec-27
15 minutes
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481: The Limits of Tolerance
2021-Dec-19
11 minutes
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480: What Is Religious Belief?
2021-Dec-05
11 minutes
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479: Is Philanthropy Bad for Democracy?
2021-Nov-21
11 minutes
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237: The Occult Philosophy
2021-Oct-31
9 minutes
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417: John Dewey and the Ideal of Democracy
2021-Oct-17
11 minutes
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476: Immigration and Multiculturalism
2021-Oct-03
11 minutes
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177: Gandhi as a Philosopher
2021-Sep-26
10 minutes
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474: What Do We Owe Future Generations?
2021-Sep-19
11 minutes
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478: Authority and Resistance
2021-Sep-12
10 minutes
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526: (End of) Summer Reading List 2021
2021-Sep-05
16 minutes
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530: The Ethics of Awesomeness
2021-Aug-29
10 minutes
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473: Envy – Vice or Virtue?
2021-Aug-22
10 minutes
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469: The Creative Life
2021-Aug-08
9 minutes
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521: The 2021 Dionysus Awards
2021-Aug-01
16 minutes
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471: Foreign Aid – or Injury?
2021-Jul-18
11 minutes
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527: Your Brain on Literature
2021-Jul-09
10 minutes
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470: Foucault and Power
2021-Jul-04
11 minutes
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468: Does Reputation Matter?
2021-Jun-27
11 minutes
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467: Can Reason Save Us?
2021-Jun-13
11 minutes
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465: The Psychology of Cruelty
2021-May-30
10 minutes
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464: The Athlete as Philosopher
2021-May-16
10 minutes
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461: Radical Markets - Solutions for a Gilded Age?
2021-May-02
11 minutes
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522: Montaigne and the Art of the Essay
2021-Apr-25
10 minutes
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463: The Ethics of Algorithms
2021-Apr-18
11 minutes
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462: Does Science Over-reach?
2021-Apr-04
10 minutes
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458: Repugnant Markets – Should Everything Be For Sale?
2021-Mar-28
11 minutes
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451: Misogyny and Gender Inequality
2021-Mar-14
11 minutes
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459: The Value of Care — Feminism and Ethics
2021-Mar-06
11 minutes
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180: John Rawls
2021-Feb-21
10 minutes
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280: What Is Love?
2021-Feb-14
10 minutes
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80: W.E.B. Du Bois
2021-Feb-06
8 minutes
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455: Trolling, Bullying, and Flame Wars - Humility and Online Discourse
2021-Jan-24
11 minutes
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502: Comforting Conversations (Part 2)
2021-Jan-10
13 minutes
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501: Comforting Coversations (Part 1)
2021-Jan-03
12 minutes
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516: The Examined Year – 2020
2020-Dec-26
18 minutes
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457: Faith and Humiity
2020-Dec-20
12 minutes
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456: Are We Alone?
2020-Dec-06
11 minutes
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389: Spinoza
2020-Nov-22
11 minutes
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454: Monstrous Technologies?
2020-Nov-01
10 minutes
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164: Hannah Arendt
2020-Oct-11
10 minutes
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452: How to Humbly Disagree
2020-Sep-26
11 minutes
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500: Time for Summer Reading
2020-Aug-21
16 minutes
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448: Frantz Fanon and the Violence of Colonialism
2020-Jul-19
11 minutes
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397: White Privilege and Racial Injustice
2020-Jun-06
11 minutes
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354: Machiavelli
2020-May-03
10 minutes
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278: Poetry as a Way of Knowing
2020-Apr-19
10 minutes
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447: Fractured Identities
2020-Apr-05
10 minutes
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446: Philosophy of Retirement
2020-Mar-29
9 minutes
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444: Can Speech Kill?
2020-Mar-22
10 minutes
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497: The 2020 Dionysus Awards
2020-Mar-16
15 minutes
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443: Midlife and Meaning
2020-Mar-08
10 minutes
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442: Philosophy of Trash
2020-Feb-29
10 minutes
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440: The Internet of Things
2020-Feb-16
11 minutes
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439: A World Without Work
2020-Feb-09
10 minutes
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441: Race Matters
2020-Feb-02
10 minutes
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438: Post-Truth Politics
2020-Jan-18
11 minutes
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493: Ken Taylor Tribute
2019-Dec-30
52 minutes
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436: Could the Laws of Physics Ever Change?
2019-Dec-20
11 minutes
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434: Cognitive Bias
2019-Dec-14
11 minutes
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435: Driverless Cars at the Moral Crossroads
2019-Dec-07
12 minutes
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432: Habermas and Democracy
2019-Dec-01
10 minutes
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431: Nonhuman Rights
2019-Nov-24
11 minutes
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430: Should Beliefs Aim at Truth?
2019-Nov-10
9 minutes
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429: The Limits of Medical Consent
2019-Oct-28
10 minutes
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427: The Space-Time Continuum
2019-Oct-11
11 minutes
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426: Knowing What We Know (And What We Don't)
2019-Sep-23
10 minutes
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425: Queerness
2019-Sep-16
10 minutes
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483: Summer Reading (and Misreading)
2019-Sep-01
14 minutes
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424: Freedom of Speech on Campus
2019-Aug-26
10 minutes
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423: Philosophy Behind Bars
2019-Aug-19
10 minutes
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419: The Mystery of the Multiverse
2019-Jul-29
11 minutes
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416: Magical Thinking
2019-Jul-22
10 minutes
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422: Reparations
2019-Jun-30
10 minutes
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421: The Value of a College Education
2019-Jun-17
11 minutes
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418: Matter and Energy: The Dark Side
2019-Jun-03
10 minutes
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414: This Is Your Brain on Art
2019-May-20
11 minutes
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413: The Big Bang – Before and After
2019-May-13
10 minutes
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412: More Than Pun and Games
2019-Apr-08
11 minutes
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409: Radical Democracy
2019-Apr-01
11 minutes
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411: The Mystery of Music
2019-Mar-25
11 minutes
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407: Philosophy of Sleep
2019-Mar-18
10 minutes
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406: Altered States
2019-Mar-04
10 minutes
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408: The Philanthropy Trap
2019-Feb-25
10 minutes
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475: The 2019 Dionysus Awards
2019-Feb-18
7 minutes
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410: Identity Politics
2019-Feb-04
12 minutes
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405: Affirmative Action – Too Little or Too Much?
2019-Jan-21
10 minutes
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404: One Child Too Many
2019-Jan-14
11 minutes
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403: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
2019-Jan-07
10 minutes
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472: The Examined Year – 2018
2018-Dec-31
15 minutes
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399: The Ancient Cosmos – When the Earth Stood Still
2018-Dec-24
11 minutes
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402: Extreme Altruism
2018-Dec-10
11 minutes
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400: The Science of Happiness
2018-Nov-19
12 minutes
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401: Gun Control
2018-Nov-05
11 minutes
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415: Election Special
2018-Oct-29
7 minutes
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398: The Ethics of Debt
2018-Oct-15
10 minutes
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466: The New Golden Age of Television
2018-Oct-01
6 minutes
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391: Your Lying Eyes - Perception, Memory, and justice
2018-Sep-10
11 minutes
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460: Summer Reading List 2018
2018-Aug-20
7 minutes
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390: Will Innovation Kill Us?
2018-Aug-06
10 minutes
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450: The 2018 Dionysus Awards
2018-Jul-30
7 minutes
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388: Living On Through Others
2018-Jun-25
10 minutes
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386: The Logic of Regret
2018-Jun-18
11 minutes
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383: The Ethics of Drone Warfare
2018-May-28
11 minutes
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380: Neuroscience and Free Will
2018-May-18
12 minutes
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387: In Praise of Love – Plato's Symposium Meets Bernstein's Serenade
2018-May-14
11 minutes
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445: The Examined Year - 2017
2017-Dec-27
6 minutes
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363: What's Next? Death and the Afterlife
2017-Dec-25
10 minutes
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368: Diseases of the Mind - Philosophy of Psychiatry
2017-Nov-20
10 minutes
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369: Democracy in Crisis
2017-Nov-13
11 minutes
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433: Summer Reading List 2017
2017-Jul-05
7 minutes
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356: Racial Profiling and Implicit Bias
2017-Jun-19
11 minutes
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353: Babies and the Birth of Morality
2017-May-22
10 minutes
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428: The Phenomenology of Lived Experience
2017-Apr-24
8 minutes
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351: Remixing Reality – Art & Literature for the 21st Century
2017-Apr-17
11 minutes
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350: Captivity
2017-Apr-10
9 minutes
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420: The Examined Year - 2016
2017-Jan-09
4 minutes
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343: The Reality of Time
2017-Jan-01
9 minutes
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342: What Is Color?
2016-Dec-16
10 minutes
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336: Science and Gender
2016-Nov-29
11 minutes
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334: Memory and the Self
2016-Oct-31
10 minutes
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329: Dangerous Demographics - The Challenges of an Aging Population
2016-Aug-29
11 minutes
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326: An Eye for an Eye - The Morality of Revenge
2016-Jul-11
10 minutes
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325: The Limits of Self-Knowledge
2016-Jun-27
11 minutes
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320: Life as a Work of Art
2016-Jun-06
11 minutes
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323: The Moral Lives of Animals
2016-May-31
10 minutes
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327: When Is It Wrong to Save a Life? Lessons from the Trolley Problem
2016-May-16
10 minutes
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321: Memes - Viruses of the Mind?
2016-Apr-26
11 minutes
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317: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times
2016-Apr-18
11 minutes
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319: Finding Meaning in a Material World
2016-Feb-22
10 minutes
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318: Freedom and Free Enterprise
2016-Feb-09
10 minutes
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312: Faith, Reason, and the Art of Living
2016-Feb-02
11 minutes
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316: Nations and Borders
2016-Jan-27
10 minutes
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395 - Dignity Denied: Life and Death in Prison
2016-Jan-11
10 minutes
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394 - The Examined Year: 2015
2015-Dec-31
5 minutes
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393: Taoism – Following the Way
2015-Dec-14
10 minutes
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392: Self and Self-Presentation
2015-Dec-07
10 minutes
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295: The Evolution of Storytelling
2015-Nov-02
9 minutes
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294: Forbidden Words
2015-Nov-02
10 minutes
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293: Prostitution and the Sex Trade
2015-Nov-02
13 minutes
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292: Regulating Bodies
2015-Nov-02
9 minutes
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291: Why Be Moral
2015-Nov-02
11 minutes
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290: The Nature of Wilderness
2015-Nov-02
10 minutes
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289: The Moral Costs of Climate Change
2015-Nov-02
9 minutes
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288: Neuroscience and the Law
2015-Nov-02
11 minutes
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287: Gut Feelings and the Art of Decision-Making
2015-Nov-02
10 minutes
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286: Hypocrisy
2015-Nov-02
10 minutes
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285: Identities Lost and Found in a Global Age
2015-Nov-02
10 minutes
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284: Corporations and the Future of Democracy
2015-Nov-02
11 minutes
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283: What Might Have Been
2015-Nov-02
10 minutes
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282: Summer Reading List 2012
2015-Nov-02
5 minutes
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281: Freedom, Blame, and Resentment
2015-Nov-02
11 minutes
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279: What Are Leaders Made of?
2015-Nov-02
11 minutes
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277: Epicurus and the Good Life
2015-Nov-02
10 minutes
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276: Pantheism
2015-Nov-02
9 minutes
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275: The 2012 Dionysus Awards
2015-Nov-02
8 minutes
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274: Black Solidarity
2015-Nov-02
11 minutes
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273: The Right to Privacy
2015-Nov-02
10 minutes
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272: Is Democracy a Universal Value?
2015-Nov-02
9 minutes
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271: The Examined Year - 2011
2015-Nov-02
5 minutes
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270: Forgive and Forget
2015-Nov-02
10 minutes
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269: The Military – What Is It Good For?
2015-Nov-02
10 minutes
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268: Is Nothing Sacred Anymore
2015-Nov-02
9 minutes
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267: Miracles
2015-Nov-02
11 minutes
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266: Thinking Inside the Box
2015-Nov-02
8 minutes
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265: Cooperation and Conflict
2015-Nov-02
10 minutes
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264: Morality and the Self
2015-Nov-02
10 minutes
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263: Wisdom
2015-Nov-02
8 minutes
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262: Latin-American Philosophy
2015-Nov-02
9 minutes
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261: Deconstructing the College Admissions Rat Race
2015-Nov-02
10 minutes
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260: Time, Space, and Quantum Mechanics
2015-Nov-02
10 minutes
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259: The State of Public Philosophy
2015-Nov-02
9 minutes
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258: Philosophy and Everyday Life
2015-Nov-02
8 minutes
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257: The Psychology of Evil
2015-Nov-02
9 minutes
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256: Atheism and the Well-Lived Life
2015-Nov-01
11 minutes
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255: Whodunit - The Language of Responsibility
2015-Nov-01
11 minutes
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254: Gay Pride & Prejudice
2015-Nov-01
9 minutes
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253: Summer Reading List 2011
2015-Nov-01
9 minutes
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252: Cities, Gentrification, and Inequality
2015-Nov-01
8 minutes
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251: Should Marriage Be Abolished?
2015-Nov-01
9 minutes
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250: The Extended Mind
2015-Nov-01
11 minutes
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249: What Is an Adult?
2015-Nov-01
10 minutes
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248: Is It All Relative?
2015-Nov-01
11 minutes
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247: John Locke
2015-Nov-01
8 minutes
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246: The 2011 Dionysus Awards
2015-Nov-01
7 minutes
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245: Procrastination
2015-Nov-01
9 minutes
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244: Derrida and Deconstruction
2015-Nov-01
10 minutes
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243: Abortion
2015-Nov-01
11 minutes
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242: The Moral Costs of Free Markets
2015-Nov-01
9 minutes
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241: Philosophy for Children
2015-Oct-31
9 minutes
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240: The Power of Thought
2015-Oct-31
8 minutes
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239: Disagreement
2015-Oct-31
10 minutes
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238: Reading, Narrative, and the Self
2015-Oct-31
10 minutes
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236: Bargaining with the Devil
2015-Oct-31
9 minutes
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235: Philosophy and the Alma Mater
2015-Oct-31
8 minutes
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234: Meaning and the Revolution
2015-Oct-31
9 minutes
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233: Philosophy for the Young – Corrupting or Empowering?
2015-Oct-31
9 minutes
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232: Self-Deception
2015-Oct-31
9 minutes
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231: Humanism
2015-Oct-31
9 minutes
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230: Social Reality
2015-Oct-30
9 minutes
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229: Loyalty
2015-Oct-30
10 minutes
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228: Democracy and the Press
2015-Oct-30
10 minutes
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227: What Are Human Rights?
2015-Oct-30
10 minutes
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226: The Corporation as Person
2015-Oct-30
10 minutes
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224: Live Highlights
2015-Oct-30
5 minutes
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223: Mental Illness and Culture
2015-Oct-30
9 minutes
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222: Faces, Feelings, and Lies
2015-Oct-30
9 minutes
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221: The Ethics of Torture
2015-Oct-30
10 minutes
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220: What Is a Wife?
2015-Oct-29
10 minutes
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219: Fear
2015-Oct-29
9 minutes
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218: What Is 'Normal'?
2015-Oct-29
8 minutes
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216: Mind Reading
2015-Oct-29
10 minutes
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215: Philosophy in Fiction
2015-Oct-29
9 minutes
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214: Nihilism and Meaning
2015-Oct-29
9 minutes
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212: Is It Wrong to Wreck the Earth?
2015-Oct-29
10 minutes
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209: From the Minds of Babies
2015-Oct-29
10 minutes
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207: Healthcare – Right or Privilege?
2015-Oct-29
10 minutes
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206: Schizophrenia and the Mind
2015-Oct-29
9 minutes
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205: War, Sacrifice, and the Media
2015-Oct-29
10 minutes
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204: What Are Words Worth?
2015-Oct-29
9 minutes
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203: Philosophy Talk Highlights
2015-Oct-29
8 minutes
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202: The Postmodern Family
2015-Oct-29
8 minutes
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201: Pornography
2015-Oct-29
9 minutes
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200: Money and Morality
2015-Oct-29
10 minutes
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199: The Prison System
2015-Oct-29
9 minutes
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198: Social Networking
2015-Oct-29
10 minutes
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197: Summer Reading List 2009
2015-Oct-29
9 minutes
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196: The Mind and the World
2015-Oct-29
11 minutes
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194: Worship
2015-Oct-29
10 minutes
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193: Beliefs Gone Wild
2015-Oct-29
10 minutes
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192: Desire
2015-Oct-29
9 minutes
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191: Too Much Information
2015-Oct-29
10 minutes
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190: The Root of All Evil?
2015-Oct-29
9 minutes
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189: The Copyright Wars
2015-Oct-29
5 minutes
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188: Challenges to Free Will
2015-Oct-29
11 minutes
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187: Bi-racial Identities
2015-Oct-29
11 minutes
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186: Different Cultures, Different Selves
2015-Oct-29
10 minutes
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185: The Movie Show
2015-Oct-28
10 minutes
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183: Civil Disobedience
2015-Oct-28
10 minutes
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182: Philosophy of History
2015-Oct-28
9 minutes
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181: The Idea of the University
2015-Oct-28
10 minutes
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179: Bodies For Sale
2015-Oct-28
10 minutes
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178: Levels of Reality
2015-Oct-28
10 minutes
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176: William James
2015-Oct-28
10 minutes
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175: Making Decisions
2015-Oct-28
10 minutes
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174: Digital Selves
2015-Oct-28
10 minutes
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173: Overcoming the Terror of Death
2015-Oct-28
10 minutes
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172: The Morality of Food
2015-Oct-28
7 minutes
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171: Utilitarianism
2015-Oct-28
9 minutes
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170: Global Justice and Human Rights
2015-Oct-28
10 minutes
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169: Dualism
2015-Oct-28
9 minutes
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168: Philosophy and Pop Culture
2015-Oct-28
10 minutes
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167: Giving and Keeping
2015-Oct-28
9 minutes
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166: The Luck of the Draw
2015-Oct-28
10 minutes
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165: Altruism
2015-Oct-28
10 minutes
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163: The Problem of Evil
2015-Oct-28
9 minutes
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162: Summer Reading List 2008
2015-Oct-28
10 minutes
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161: Promises
2015-Oct-28
9 minutes
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160: Experimental Philosophy
2015-Oct-28
9 minutes
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159: Varieties of Love
2015-Oct-28
9 minutes
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158: Politics and Cognitive Science
2015-Oct-28
8 minutes
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157: Philosophy of Wine
2015-Oct-28
9 minutes
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156: Apologizing
2015-Oct-28
9 minutes
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155: Science vs. Pseudoscience
2015-Oct-28
9 minutes
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154: Infinity
2015-Oct-28
9 minutes
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153: Connectionism
2015-Oct-28
10 minutes
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152: Paradoxes
2015-Oct-28
10 minutes
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151: Saint Augustine
2015-Oct-28
9 minutes
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150: Persons, Selves, Souls, and Loops
2015-Oct-28
9 minutes
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149: Why Music Matters
2015-Oct-28
9 minutes
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147: Personal Identity
2015-Oct-28
9 minutes
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146: The Concept of God
2015-Oct-28
9 minutes
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145: Political Correctness
2015-Oct-28
9 minutes
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144: Islamic Philosophy
2015-Oct-28
9 minutes
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143: Immigration and Citizenship
2015-Oct-28
10 minutes
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142 Philosophy and Literature
2015-Oct-28
9 minutes
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141: Predicting the Future
2015-Oct-28
9 minutes
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140: Faith, Reason, and Science
2015-Oct-28
9 minutes
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139: Love, Poetry, and Philosophy
2015-Oct-28
8 minutes
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138: Math and the Mind
2015-Oct-28
7 minutes
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137: The Value of Art
2015-Oct-28
5 minutes
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136: Postmodernism
2015-Oct-28
10 minutes
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135: Firting With Philosophy
2015-Oct-28
8 minutes
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134: Philosophy Through Humor
2015-Oct-28
8 minutes
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133: Capital Punishment
2015-Oct-28
8 minutes
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131: Summer Reading List 2007
2015-Oct-28
8 minutes
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130: Aging and the Well-Lived Life
2015-Oct-27
8 minutes
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129: Artificial Intelligence
2015-Oct-27
8 minutes
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128: Science, Ethics, and Censorship
2015-Oct-27
8 minutes
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127: Autonomy
2015-Oct-27
7 minutes
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126: Ethics In Journalism
2015-Oct-27
8 minutes
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125: Can Science Explain Consciousness?
2015-Oct-27
8 minutes
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124: APhilosophical Shout-Out
2015-Oct-27
6 minutes
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123: Skepticism
2015-Oct-27
8 minutes
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122: Immortality and the Afterlife
2015-Oct-27
9 minutes
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120: Ludwig Wittgenstein
2015-Oct-27
8 minutes
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119: The Judiciary in Democracy
2015-Oct-27
8 minutes
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118: Mental Imagery
2015-Oct-27
8 minutes
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117: If Truth Is So Valuable, Why Is There So Much BS?
2015-Oct-27
7 minutes
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116: Legal Ethics
2015-Oct-27
8 minutes
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115: We've Been Framed: How Language Shapes Politics
2015-Oct-27
8 minutes
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114: The Promise and Perils of the New Genomics
2015-Oct-27
8 minutes
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113: Philosophy and Film
2015-Oct-27
8 minutes
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112: Philosophy and Neuroscience
2015-Oct-27
8 minutes
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111: American Pragmatism
2015-Oct-27
9 minutes
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110: What is a Child?
2015-Oct-27
9 minutes
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109: Dreaming
2015-Oct-27
7 minutes
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108: Separation of Powers
2015-Oct-27
7 minutes
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107: Believing in God
2015-Oct-27
8 minutes
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106: Language and Thought
2015-Oct-27
8 minutes
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105: Karl Popper
2015-Oct-27
8 minutes
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104: Jewish Philosophy
2015-Oct-27
8 minutes
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103: Philosophy of Music
2015-Oct-27
7 minutes
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102: War Crimes
2015-Oct-27
6 minutes
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101: Liberty vs. Security
2015-Oct-27
7 minutes
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100: 100th Episode
2015-Oct-26
8 minutes
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99: Language in Action
2015-Oct-26
8 minutes
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98: Athletic Beauty
2015-Oct-26
9 minutes
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97: Race, Class, and Inequality
2015-Oct-26
7 minutes
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96: The Future of Philosophy
2015-Oct-26
7 minutes
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95: Stoicism
2015-Oct-26
8 minutes
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94: Leadership
2015-Oct-26
8 minutes
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92: The Nature Of Imagination
2015-Oct-26
7 minutes
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91: Summer Reading List 2006
2015-Oct-26
7 minutes
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90: Justice Across Boundaries
2015-Oct-26
7 minutes
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89: What Is Art
2015-Oct-26
9 minutes
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88: Philosophy and the Law
2015-Oct-26
8 minutes
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87: The Value of Truth
2015-Oct-26
9 minutes
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85: Suicide
2015-Oct-26
9 minutes
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84: What Are Numbers?
2015-Oct-26
8 minutes
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83: Existentialism
2015-Oct-26
8 minutes
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82: The Science of Humor
2015-Oct-26
8 minutes
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81: Marriage And Monogamy
2015-Oct-26
8 minutes
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79: Legislating Values
2015-Oct-25
8 minutes
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78: Philosophy of Science
2015-Oct-25
8 minutes
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77: Intelligent Design
2015-Oct-25
9 minutes
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76: Progress and the Environment
2015-Oct-25
7 minutes
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75: The Existence of God
2015-Oct-25
8 minutes
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74: Immanuel Kant
2015-Oct-25
7 minutes
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73: Freedom of Speech in Times of War
2015-Oct-25
8 minutes
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72: Friendship
2015-Oct-25
7 minutes
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71: The Language of Fiction
2015-Oct-25
7 minutes
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70: George Berkeley
2015-Oct-25
7 minutes
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69: The Willing Suspension of Disbelief
2015-Oct-25
8 minutes
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68: Reconciliation
2015-Oct-25
8 minutes
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67: The Strange World of Quantum Reality
2015-Oct-25
7 minutes
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66: Ethics in War
2015-Oct-25
5 minutes
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65: The Language of Politics
2015-Oct-25
4 minutes
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64: Saints, Heroes, and Well-Lived Lives
2015-Oct-25
7 minutes
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63: René Descartes
2015-Oct-25
6 minutes
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62: The Indispensable Emotions
2015-Oct-25
8 minutes
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61: Moral Dilemmas and Moral Ambiguity
2015-Oct-25
7 minutes
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60: Zen Buddhism
2015-Oct-25
7 minutes
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59: Global Poverty and International Aid
2015-Oct-25
7 minutes
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58: The Ethics of Identity
2015-Oct-25
8 minutes
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57: Intergenerational Obligations
2015-Oct-25
8 minutes
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56: Evolution of the Human Mind
2015-Oct-25
7 minutes
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55: Prostitution
2015-Oct-25
8 minutes
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54: Confucius
2015-Oct-25
8 minutes
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53: Forgiveness
2015-Oct-25
9 minutes
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52: Propaganda
2015-Oct-25
5 minutes
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51: Genetic Determinism
2015-Oct-25
4 minutes
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50: Schopenhauer
2015-Oct-25
8 minutes
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49: Is Free Will An Illusion?
2015-Oct-25
8 minutes
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48: Neurocosmetology
2015-Oct-25
7 minutes
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47: What Is Beauty?
2015-Oct-25
7 minutes
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46: Religion and the Secular State
2015-Oct-25
8 minutes
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45: David Hume
2015-Oct-25
8 minutes
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44: The Erotic vs The Pornographic
2015-Oct-25
7 minutes
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43: Ethics in Sport
2015-Oct-25
7 minutes
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42: Evil
2015-Oct-25
7 minutes
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41: Aristotle
2015-Oct-25
8 minutes
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40: The Mystery Of Mind
2015-Oct-24
6 minutes
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39: Gender
2015-Oct-24
9 minutes
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299: Unconditional Love
2015-Oct-23
11 minutes
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298: Are Some People Better Than Others?
2015-Oct-23
9 minutes
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297: How Fiction Shapes Us
2015-Oct-23
10 minutes
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296: Economics – Science or Cult?
2015-Oct-23
10 minutes
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38: Nature vs. Nurture
2015-Oct-23
7 minutes
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37: Disability
2015-Oct-23
8 minutes
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36: Love
2015-Oct-23
7 minutes
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35: Truth And Relativism
2015-Oct-23
7 minutes
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34: Time
2015-Oct-23
8 minutes
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33: Is This Any Way to Run a Democracy
2015-Oct-23
7 minutes
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32: Karl Marx
2015-Oct-23
8 minutes
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31: Feminism
2015-Oct-23
8 minutes
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30: The Environment and Global Justice
2015-Oct-23
6 minutes
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29: Corporations
2015-Oct-23
12 minutes
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28: Plato
2015-Oct-23
12 minutes
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27: Happiness
2015-Oct-23
6 minutes
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