Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Ethics and moral psychology • Women philosophers and feminist thought • Politics, liberalism, markets, inequality • Technology: AI, robots, VR, driverless cars • Science, knowledge, cosmology, space-time
This podcast presents accessible, interview-driven conversations that “question everything,” using philosophy as a tool for clarifying ideas and probing what follows from them. Across the episodes, the hosts take up big-picture questions about how we should live and govern together, what we can know, and how emerging technologies and scientific theories reshape longstanding debates.
A major through-line is moral and political philosophy applied to contemporary life. The discussions examine well-being and economic policy, global poverty and foreign aid, markets and what should (or should not) be for sale, and the tensions within liberal ideals when they’re entangled with empire, exclusion, and inequality. Related episodes explore threats to democratic stability, the evolution of antisemitism, and the ethical demands of public discourse, especially when disagreement, bias, or online anonymity undermine intellectual humility.
Another prominent theme is recovering and interpreting influential thinkers—particularly women philosophers and public intellectuals from antiquity through the twentieth century—placing their arguments in historical context while connecting them to current work in ethics, action theory, mind, education, feminism, religion, and social criticism.
The show also frequently bridges philosophy with psychology, literature, art, architecture, and mythology, asking how culture shapes identity, status, and moral imagination, and whether artistic practices can reframe problems such as environmental crisis. On the science-and-technology side, it addresses scientism and the limits of scientific authority, perception and language (including smell), social cognition, and the philosophical implications of AI, robots, virtual reality, and autonomous vehicles. It also ventures into philosophy of physics and cosmology, investigating space-time, changing laws, dark matter, multiverse hypotheses, the Big Bang, and the perennial question of why anything exists at all.
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Episodes:
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2026-Mar-01
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Can Money Buy Well-being?
2026-Feb-14
51 minutes
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Anna Julia Cooper
2026-Jan-30
52 minutes
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This Week: Mind Sharing
2025-Dec-21
51 minutes
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Shakespeare's Outsiders
2025-Dec-13
51 minutes
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Im Yunjidang
2025-Dec-06
51 minutes
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Margaret Cavendish
2025-Nov-15
51 minutes
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Mary Astell
2025-Oct-25
51 minutes
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Elisabeth of Bohemia
2025-Oct-04
51 minutes
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Hildegard von Bingen
2025-Sep-13
51 minutes
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Hypatia of Alexandria
2025-Aug-16
51 minutes
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Philippa Foot
2025-Jun-05
51 minutes
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Mary Midgley
2025-May-08
51 minutes
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Iris Murdoch
2025-Apr-11
51 minutes
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Judith Jarvis Thomson
2025-Mar-08
51 minutes
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Elizabeth Anscombe
2024-Dec-19
51 minutes
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Crisis and Creativity in Mayan Mythology
2024-Dec-14
51 minutes
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Emma Goldman
2024-Nov-13
52 minutes
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American Futures (Ken Taylor Memorial Episode)
2024-Nov-02
56 minutes
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Simone Weil
2024-Oct-20
51 minutes
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Nísia Floresta
2024-Jun-11
51 minutes
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Mary Wollstonecraft
2024-May-06
52 minutes
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Could Robot Be Persons?
2024-Apr-11
54 minutes
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20th Anniversary Quiz Show
2024-Jan-20
60 minutes
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Can Architecture Be Political?
2023-Oct-12
51 minutes
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Can Art Save Us?
2023-Jun-09
51 minutes
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The Philosophy of Smell
2023-Mar-20
51 minutes
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Liberty and Justice For Who?
2022-Oct-21
51 minutes
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The Changing Face of Antisemitism
2022-Jun-18
51 minutes
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What Can Virtual Reality (Actually) Do?
2021-Dec-12
51 minutes
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The Social Lives of Robots
2021-Nov-13
51 minutes
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Time for Summer Reading
2020-Jun-14
51 minutes
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Ken Taylor Tribute
2019-Dec-29
52 minutes
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Foreign Aid – or Injury?
2018-Dec-16
50 minutes
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Does Science Over-reach?
2018-Jul-17
50 minutes
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Radical Markets: Solutions for a Gilded Age?
2018-Jul-15
50 minutes
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Repugnant Markets: Should Everything Be For Sale?
2018-Jun-03
50 minutes
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Faith and Humility
2018-Apr-23
50 minutes
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Are We Alone?
2018-Apr-20
50 minutes
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Trolling, Bullying, and Flame Wars: Humility and Online Discourse
2018-Apr-12
50 minutes
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How To Humbly Disagree
2018-Mar-04
50 minutes
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Could the Laws of Physics Ever Change?
2017-Aug-08
50 minutes
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Driverless Cars at the Moral Crossroads
2017-Jul-30
50 minutes
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Cognitive Bias
2017-Jul-09
51 minutes
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Knowing What We Know (And What We Don't)
2017-Mar-07
51 minutes
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The Space-Time Continuum
2017-Feb-21
51 minutes
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The Mystery of the Multiverse
2016-Sep-29
51 minutes
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Matter and Energy: The Dark Side
2016-Sep-27
50 minutes
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The Big Bang: Before and After
2016-Jul-26
52 minutes
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Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
2016-Mar-21
51 minutes
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The Ancient Cosmos: When the Earth Stood Still
2016-Mar-04
51 minutes
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Living On Through Others
2015-Oct-28
50 minutes
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The Technology of Immortality
2015-Sep-15
51 minutes
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Reincarnation: Past Lives, Future Selves
2015-Apr-27
49 minutes
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What's Next? Death and the Afterlife
2015-Jan-09
50 minutes
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The Lure of Immortality
2014-Dec-05
49 minutes
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Life as a Work of Art
2013-Aug-18
50 minutes
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Finding Meaning in a Material World
2013-Aug-04
51 minutes
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Freedom and Free Enterprise
2013-Jul-20
50 minutes
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Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times
2013-Jul-07
51 minutes
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Physics, Philosophy, and Theology
2013-Jun-08
50 minutes
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Faith, Reason, and the Art of Living
2013-May-19
50 minutes
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Good, Evil, and the Divine Plan
2013-May-04
50 minutes
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The Demands of Morality
2013-Apr-28
49 minutes
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God and the Fine-Tuned Universe
2013-Mar-16
50 minutes
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The Self
2013-Feb-23
49 minutes
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Unconditional Love
2012-Dec-06
50 minutes
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Freedom, Blame, and Resentment
2012-May-12
49 minutes
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Pantheism
2012-Feb-25
50 minutes
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Forgive and Forget
2011-Dec-10
50 minutes
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Miracles
2011-Nov-05
50 minutes
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Wisdom
2011-Sep-24
48 minutes
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Time, Space, and Quantum Mechanics
2011-Aug-13
50 minutes
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The Mind and the World
2009-Jun-07
50 minutes
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Worship
2009-May-09
49 minutes
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Challenges To Free Will
2009-Mar-07
49 minutes
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Creativity
2009-Jan-24
49 minutes
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Dualism
2008-Aug-08
50 minutes
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Altruism
2008-Jun-29
49 minutes
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The Problem of Evil
2008-Jun-06
49 minutes
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Saint Augustine
2008-Jan-27
49 minutes
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The Concept of God
2007-Dec-09
50 minutes
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Faith, Reason, and Science
2007-Oct-13
49 minutes
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