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"The program that questions everything—except your intelligence." Philosophy Talk began as a weekly one-hour radio series and has been on the air for more than two decades.Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Practical philosophy on ethics, politics, protest, rules, privacy • Mind, consciousness, logic, computation, AI • Well-being, money, habits, virtue, meaning • Profiles of major philosophers, feminism, race, class • Art, literature, myth, music, filmThis podcast is a conversational philosophy show in which host philosophers use interviews, thought experiments, and everyday examples to examine both classic questions and contemporary public concerns. Across recent episodes, it returns often to how we should live—whether in the face of suffering and pessimism, through the cultivation of virtue and leadership, or by reflecting on narrative, habit, privacy, and the ethics of rule-following and rule-breaking. Moral and political philosophy is a recurring focus, with sustained attention to protest and civil disobedience, punishment, representation and who has standing to speak for others, as well as debates about rights, conscience, and social justice.
A major thread is intellectual history and the close reading of influential thinkers, including figures from ancient Greece to modern philosophy of mind, ethics, and pragmatism. The show also highlights a “Wise Women” strand that foregrounds women philosophers and activist-intellectuals from varied traditions and geographies, connecting their work to issues of race, gender, class, education, climate, and liberation.
The podcast regularly bridges philosophy with adjacent disciplines and culture. Some discussions probe logic and argumentation as practical tools, while others explore puzzles at the boundaries of science and metaphysics, such as consciousness, quantum weirdness, and the limits of computation and artificial intelligence. Literature, drama, myth, film, and music also serve as starting points for inquiry into identity, exclusion, value, time, and reality. Periodic year-in-review episodes use current events and public debates as prompts for philosophical analysis.
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Wise Woman: Mary Wollstonecraft2026-Mar-01 51 minutes |
Schopenhauer: Living Your Worst Life2026-Feb-22 51 minutes |
Can Money Buy Well-being?2026-Feb-15 50 minutes |
Logic For Everyone2026-Feb-08 52 minutes |
Wise Woman: Anna Julia Cooper2026-Feb-01 51 minutes |
Diogenes and the Honest Life2026-Jan-25 51 minutes |
Civil Disobedience2026-Jan-18 51 minutes |
William James2026-Jan-11 50 minutes |
Why Is the World So Weird?2026-Jan-04 51 minutes |
The Examined Year: 20252025-Dec-26 52 minutes |
Mind Sharing2025-Dec-21 51 minutes |
Shakespeare's Outsiders2025-Dec-12 51 minutes |
Wise Woman: Im Yunjidang2025-Dec-07 51 minutes |
Gilbert Ryle and the Map of the Mind2025-Dec-01 50 minutes |
Narrative and the Meaning of Life2025-Nov-09 50 minutes |
Robert Musil and Life as Experiment2025-Sep-21 50 minutes |
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Henri Bergson and the Flow of Time 2025-Aug-31 50 minutes |
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Making and Breaking Habits 2025-Aug-22 51 minutes |
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The Value of Music 2025-Aug-10 50 minutes |
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Schopenhauer: Living Your Worst Life 2025-Jul-13 50 minutes |
Private Lives2025-Jun-29 51 minutes |
Philippa Foot2025-Jun-15 51 minutes |
Wise Woman: Mary Midgley2025-May-18 51 minutes |
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Are Rules Meant to Be Broken? 2025-Apr-27 50 minutes |
Wise Woman: Iris Murdoch2025-Apr-13 51 minutes |
Wise Woman: Judith Jarvis Thomson2025-Mar-16 51 minutes |
The 2025 Dionysus Awards2025-Mar-02 52 minutes |
The Philosophical Worlds of Borges2025-Feb-16 51 minutes |
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Alan Turing and the Limits of Computation 2025-Feb-09 51 minutes |
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How to Create Virtuous Leaders 2025-Jan-19 50 minutes |
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Elizabeth Anscombe 2025-Jan-13 50 minutes |
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The Examined Year: 2024 2024-Dec-29 52 minutes |
Crisis and Creativity in Mayan Mythology2024-Dec-15 51 minutes |
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What’s So Special About Humans? 2024-Dec-01 51 minutes |
Wise Woman: Emma Goldman2024-Nov-17 51 minutes |
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Simone Weil 2024-Oct-27 51 minutes |
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Anna Julia Cooper 2024-Oct-06 51 minutes |
Marx and Morality2024-Sep-22 51 minutes |
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How to Do Things With Your Mind 2024-Sep-08 51 minutes |
Hildegard von Bingen2024-Aug-25 51 minutes |
Who Speaks For You?2024-Jul-21 50 minutes |
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Nísia Floresta 2024-Jul-07 51 minutes |
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Daniel Dennett Retrospective 2024-Jun-30 51 minutes |
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Summer Reading List 2024 2024-Jun-09 52 minutes |
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(Late) Summer Reading List 2024 2024-Jun-09 52 minutes |
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Logic For Everyone 2024-May-26 51 minutes |
Mary Wollstonecraft2024-May-12 51 minutes |
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Why Is the World So Weird? 2024-Apr-28 51 minutes |
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Shakespeare’s Outsiders 2024-Apr-14 50 minutes |
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Mind Sharing 2024-Mar-31 50 minutes |
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Margaret Cavendish 2024-Mar-24 51 minutes |
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The 2024 Dionysus Awards 2024-Mar-10 52 minutes |
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Im Yunjidang 2024-Feb-25 50 minutes |
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Can A.I. Help Us Understand Babies? 2024-Feb-04 50 minutes |
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20th Anniversary Quiz Night 2024-Jan-28 60 minutes |
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American Futures (Ken Taylor Memorial Episode) 2023-Dec-31 56 minutes |
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Impossible Worlds 2023-Dec-17 50 minutes |
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In Awe of Wonder 2023-Dec-03 51 minutes |
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Mary Astell 2023-Nov-19 51 minutes |
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Zhuangzi: Being One with Ten Thousand Things 2023-Nov-05 50 minutes |
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Elisabeth of Bohemia 2023-Oct-22 50 minutes |
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Can Architecture Be Political? 2023-Oct-08 50 minutes |
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Are We Living in a Simulation? 2023-Sep-17 50 minutes |
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Weird Wants 2023-Aug-20 50 minutes |
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Making a Better World 2023-Aug-13 51 minutes |
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Hypatia of Alexandria 2023-Jul-23 51 minutes |
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Mexican Philosophy 2023-Jul-09 50 minutes |
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Summer Reading List 2023 2023-Jun-25 52 minutes |
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What Is Gender? 2023-Jun-18 51 minutes |
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Can Art Save Us? 2023-May-28 51 minutes |
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True Contradictions 2023-May-21 50 minutes |
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The Power of Prediction 2023-Apr-30 50 minutes |
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Derek Parfit and Your Future Self 2023-Apr-16 50 minutes |
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The Philosophy of Smell 2023-Mar-26 51 minutes |
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The 2023 Dionysus Awards 2023-Mar-05 51 minutes |
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Cancel Culture 2023-Feb-19 50 minutes |
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Why Trust Science? 2023-Jan-22 48 minutes |
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The Examined Year: 2022 2023-Jan-01 52 minutes |
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Thinking Like a Conspiracy Theorist 2022-Dec-04 51 minutes |
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In Search of Proust’s Philosophy 2022-Nov-13 50 minutes |
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Liberty and Justice for Who? 2022-Oct-16 50 minutes |
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Climate Change and Collective Action 2022-Oct-02 51 minutes |
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Who Owns Culture? 2022-Sep-18 50 minutes |
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Effective Altruism 2022-Aug-28 51 minutes |
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What Is Political Inequality? 2022-Aug-14 51 minutes |
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Is Optimism Rational? 2022-Jul-24 51 minutes |
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Summer Reading List: Banned Books Edition 2022-Jul-10 51 minutes |
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The Changing Face of Antisemitism 2022-Jun-19 51 minutes |
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The Scandalous Truth about Memoir 2022-May-29 51 minutes |
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What Is Ideology? 2022-May-08 50 minutes |
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What Would Kant Do? 2022-Apr-17 51 minutes |
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Why Poetry Matters 2022-Apr-10 50 minutes |
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The 2022 Dionysus Awards 2022-Mar-20 52 minutes |
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#MeToo: Retribution, Accountability, and Justice 2022-Mar-06 50 minutes |
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Righteous Rage 2022-Feb-06 51 minutes |
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Marcus Aurelius 2022-Jan-30 50 minutes |
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Could Robots Be Persons? 2022-Jan-09 54 minutes |
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The Examined Year: 2021 2021-Dec-26 52 minutes |
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What Can Virtual Reality (Actually) Do? 2021-Dec-12 51 minutes |
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Should All Ages Be Equal? 2021-Nov-28 50 minutes |
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The Social Lives of Robots 2021-Nov-14 50 minutes |
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Frege and the Language of Reason 2021-Nov-07 50 minutes |
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Akan Philosophy and Personhood 2021-Oct-24 51 minutes |
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The Mysterious Timelessness of Math 2021-Oct-10 51 minutes |
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The Ethics of Awesomeness 2021-Aug-29 51 minutes |
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Microaggressions 2021-Aug-15 51 minutes |
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Referring to the World: Ken’s Final Work 2021-Jul-25 50 minutes |
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Your Brain on Literature 2021-Jul-11 50 minutes |
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Summer Reading List 2021 2021-Jun-20 51 minutes |
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Nonduality and the Oneness of Being 2021-Jun-06 51 minutes |
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The Lives and Ideas of the Vienna Circle 2021-May-23 50 minutes |
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Disinformation and the Future of Democracy 2021-May-09 50 minutes |
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Montaigne and the Art of the Essay 2021-Apr-25 50 minutes |
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The 2021 Dionysus Awards 2021-Apr-11 52 minutes |
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What Is Masculinity? 2021-Mar-21 50 minutes |
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What Has Replaced Freud? 2021-Feb-28 50 minutes |
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The Rhetoric of Big Tech 2021-Jan-31 51 minutes |
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Democracy By Numbers 2021-Jan-17 50 minutes |
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The Examined Year: 2020 2020-Dec-27 52 minutes |
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Minds and Matter 2020-Dec-13 50 minutes |
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The Arts For All? 2020-Nov-19 50 minutes |
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Are We All to Blame? 2020-Nov-15 51 minutes |
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What’s In a Game? 2020-Oct-25 50 minutes |
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Why We Hate 2020-Oct-18 51 minutes |
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Science and Skepticism 2020-Oct-04 50 minutes |
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Citizenship and Justice 2020-Sep-13 51 minutes |
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The Merits of Meritocracy 2020-Aug-30 50 minutes |
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Can Streets Discriminate? 2020-Aug-09 50 minutes |
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The Ethical Jerk 2020-Jul-26 51 minutes |
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Walter Benjamin and the Re-Enchanted World 2020-Jul-12 50 minutes |
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Pet Ethics 2020-Jun-28 50 minutes |
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Time for Summer Reading 2020-Jun-14 51 minutes |
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Covid Conundrums and Moral Dilemmas 2020-May-31 51 minutes |
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Comforting Conversations, pt.2 2020-May-24 51 minutes |
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Comforting Conversations, pt.1 2020-May-17 51 minutes |
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(Why) Money Matters 2020-Apr-26 51 minutes |
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Philosophy and the Superhero 2020-Apr-12 49 minutes |
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The 2020 Dionysus Awards 2020-Mar-15 52 minutes |
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Is the Self an Illusion? 2020-Feb-23 51 minutes |
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Death of the Sentence 2020-Jan-26 49 minutes |
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Comedy and the Culture Wars 2020-Jan-12 49 minutes |
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Ken Taylor Tribute 2019-Dec-29 52 minutes |
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Sanctuary Cities 2019-Nov-17 51 minutes |
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Hobbes and the Ideal Citizen 2019-Nov-04 51 minutes |
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Conscious Machines 2019-Oct-20 51 minutes |
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The Allure of Authoritarianism 2019-Oct-06 50 minutes |
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Explanation At Its Best 2019-Sep-29 50 minutes |
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Changing Minds on Climate Change 2019-Sep-08 50 minutes |
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Reading the Troubled Past 2019-Aug-11 50 minutes |
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The Doomsday Doctrine 2019-Aug-04 51 minutes |
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Is Postmodernism Really to Blame for Post-Truth? 2019-Jul-14 50 minutes |
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Summer Reading (and Misreading) 2019-Jul-07 52 minutes |
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J.S. Mill and the Good Life 2019-Jun-23 50 minutes |
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The Limits of Tolerance 2019-Jun-09 50 minutes |
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What Is Religious Belief? 2019-May-05 50 minutes |
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Is Philanthropy Bad for Democracy? 2019-Apr-28 50 minutes |
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Authority and Resistance 2019-Apr-21 51 minutes |
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Hacking the Brain: Beyond the Five Senses 2019-Apr-14 51 minutes |
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Immigration and Multiculturalism 2019-Mar-10 51 minutes |
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The 2019 Dionysus Awards 2019-Feb-17 52 minutes |
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What Do We Owe Future Generations? 2019-Feb-10 49 minutes |
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Envy: Vice or Virtue? 2019-Jan-27 50 minutes |
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The Examined Year: 2018 2018-Dec-30 51 minutes |
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Foreign Aid – or Injury? 2018-Dec-16 50 minutes |
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Foucault and Power 2018-Dec-02 51 minutes |
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The Creative Life 2018-Nov-25 51 minutes |
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Does Reputation Matter? 2018-Nov-11 51 minutes |
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Can Reason Save Us? 2018-Oct-21 51 minutes |
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The New Golden Age of Television 2018-Sep-30 52 minutes |
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The Psychology of Cruelty 2018-Sep-16 50 minutes |
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The Athlete as Philosopher 2018-Aug-26 51 minutes |
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The Ethics of Algorithms 2018-Aug-12 50 minutes |
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Does Science Over-reach? 2018-Jul-22 50 minutes |
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Radical Markets: Solutions for a Gilded Age? 2018-Jul-15 50 minutes |
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Summer Reading List 2018 2018-Jul-01 52 minutes |
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The Value of Care: Feminism and Ethics 2018-Jun-10 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-May-06 50 minutes |
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Are We Alone? 2018-Apr-29 50 minutes |
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Trolling, Bullying, and Flame Wars: Humility and Online Discourse 2018-Apr-15 50 minutes |
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Monstrous Technologies? 2018-Apr-08 50 minutes |
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Adorno and the Culture Industry 2018-Mar-25 49 minutes |
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How to Humbly Disagree 2018-Mar-11 51 minutes |
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Misogyny and Gender Inequality 2018-Feb-25 50 minutes |
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The 5th (Mostly) Annual Dionysus Awards 2018-Feb-18 52 minutes |
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James Baldwin and Social Justice 2018-Feb-11 49 minutes |
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Frantz Fanon and the Violence of Colonialism 2018-Jan-28 49 minutes |
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Fractured Identities 2018-Jan-21 50 minutes |
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The Philosophy of Retirement 2018-Jan-07 50 minutes |
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The Examined Year: 2017 2017-Dec-31 51 minutes |
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Can Speech Kill? 2017-Dec-10 50 minutes |
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Midlife and Meaning 2017-Dec-03 51 minutes |
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Philosophy of Trash 2017-Nov-05 49 minutes |
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Race Matters 2017-Oct-29 50 minutes |
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The Internet of Things 2017-Oct-15 50 minutes |
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A World Without Work 2017-Sep-24 51 minutes |
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Post-Truth Politics 2017-Sep-10 48 minutes |
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Polyamory 2017-Aug-27 50 minutes |
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Could the Laws of Physics Ever Change? 2017-Aug-13 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-16 50 minutes |
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Summer Reading List 2017 2017-Jul-02 52 minutes |
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Habermas and Democracy 2017-Jun-25 50 minutes |
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Nonhuman Rights 2017-May-28 51 minutes |
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Should Beliefs Aim at Truth? 2017-May-14 49 minutes |
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The Limits of Medical Consent 2017-May-07 49 minutes |
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The Phenomenology of Lived Experience 2017-Apr-23 50 minutes |
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The Space-Time Continuum 2017-Apr-02 50 minutes |
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Knowing What We Know (And What We Don’t) 2017-Mar-19 49 minutes |
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Queerness 2017-Mar-05 51 minutes |
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Freedom of Speech on Campus 2017-Feb-26 49 minutes |
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Philosophy Behind Bars 2017-Feb-12 49 minutes |
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Reparations 2017-Feb-05 49 minutes |
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The Value of a College Education 2017-Jan-22 51 minutes |
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The Examined Year: 2016 2017-Jan-08 51 minutes |
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The Mystery of the Multiverse 2016-Oct-23 50 minutes |
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Matter and Energy – The Dark Side 2016-Oct-09 49 minutes |
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John Dewey and the Ideal of Democracy 2016-Sep-25 49 minutes |
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Magical Thinking 2016-Sep-18 49 minutes |
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Election Special 2016-Sep-04 52 minutes |
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This Is Your Brain on Art 2016-Aug-21 49 minutes |
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The Big Bang – Before and After 2016-Aug-14 50 minutes |
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More Than Pun and Games 2016-Jul-31 50 minutes |
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The Mystery of Music 2016-Jul-24 51 minutes |
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Identity Politics 2016-Jul-17 50 minutes |
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The Radical Democracy Movement 2016-Jul-03 48 minutes |
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The Philanthropy Trap 2016-Jun-19 49 minutes |
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Philosophy of Sleep 2016-Jun-12 50 minutes |
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Altered States 2016-May-22 49 minutes |
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Affirmative Action: Too Little or Too Much? 2016-May-08 49 minutes |
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One Child Too Many 2016-May-01 50 minutes |
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Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? 2016-Apr-10 51 minutes |
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Extreme Altruism 2016-Apr-03 51 minutes |
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Gun Control 2016-Mar-27 50 minutes |
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The Science of Happiness 2016-Mar-20 50 minutes |
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The Ancient Cosmos – When the Earth Stood Still 2016-Mar-13 50 minutes |
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“Ethics of Whistleblowing” wins Bronze Award for Social Impact at the New York Festivals 2016-Mar-01 52 minutes |
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The Ethics of Debt 2016-Feb-21 50 minutes |
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White Privilege and Racial Injustice 2016-Feb-14 49 minutes |
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Jean-Paul Sartre 2016-Jan-17 49 minutes |
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Dignity Denied: Life and Death in Prison 2016-Jan-10 50 minutes |
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The Examined Year – 2015 2016-Jan-03 52 minutes |
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Taoism: Following the Way 2015-Dec-13 50 minutes |
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Self and Self-Presentation 2015-Dec-06 49 minutes |
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Your Lying Eyes – Perception, Memory, and Justice 2015-Nov-29 51 minutes |
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Will Innovation Kill Us? 2015-Nov-15 49 minutes |
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Spinoza 2015-Nov-08 49 minutes |
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Living On Through Others 2015-Nov-01 50 minutes |
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In Praise of Love: Plato’s Symposium Meets Bernstein’s Serenade 2015-Oct-25 49 minutes |
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The Logic of Regret 2015-Oct-18 50 minutes |
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The Technology of Immortality 2015-Sep-27 51 minutes |
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The Changing Face of Feminism 2015-Sep-20 50 minutes |
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The Ethics of Drone Warfare 2015-Sep-13 50 minutes |
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Leibniz 2015-Aug-16 51 minutes |
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The Power and Peril of Satire 2015-Jul-26 50 minutes |
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Neuroscience and Free Will 2015-Jul-19 50 minutes |
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Edward Snowden and the Ethics of Whistleblowing 2015-Jul-12 52 minutes |
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Heidegger 2015-Jun-28 50 minutes |
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Summer Reading List 2015 2015-Jun-21 51 minutes |
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Science and Politics – Friends or Foes? 2015-Jun-14 50 minutes |
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Why Propaganda Matters 2015-May-31 50 minutes |
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How Words Work: From Noise to Meaning 2015-May-17 50 minutes |
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Reincarnation – Past Lives, Future Selves 2015-May-03 48 minutes |
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When Democracies Torture 2015-Apr-26 50 minutes |
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The Art of Non-Violence 2015-Apr-12 51 minutes |
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Morality in a Godless World 2015-Mar-29 50 minutes |
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Democracy in Crisis 2015-Mar-22 50 minutes |
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Diseases of the Mind: Philosophy of Psychiatry 2015-Mar-08 50 minutes |
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Camus and the Absurd 2015-Mar-01 49 minutes |
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Cyber-Activism 2015-Feb-15 50 minutes |
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Food Justice 2015-Feb-01 42 minutes |
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Anarchy: Utopian Dream or Dystopian Nightmare? 2015-Jan-25 50 minutes |
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What’s Next? Death and the Afterlife 2015-Jan-11 50 minutes |
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The Examined Year – 2014 2015-Jan-04 52 minutes |
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Humanity Violated 2014-Dec-21 50 minutes |
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The Lure of Immortality 2014-Dec-07 49 minutes |
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Transformative Experiences 2014-Nov-16 49 minutes |
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The Fairness Fixation 2014-Nov-02 49 minutes |
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Philosophy as Therapy 2014-Oct-26 50 minutes |
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Racial Profiling and Implicit Bias 2014-Oct-05 50 minutes |
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Second-Guessing Ourselves 2014-Sep-28 51 minutes |
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Machiavelli 2014-Sep-21 48 minutes |
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Babies and the Birth of Morality 2014-Sep-14 50 minutes |
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Intuition a Guide to Truth? 2014-Aug-31 50 minutes |
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Remixing Reality – Art and Literature for the 21st Century 2014-Aug-17 51 minutes |
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Captivity 2014-Aug-10 49 minutes |
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The New Surveillance Society – Big Brother Grows Up 2014-Jul-27 51 minutes |
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Tainted by the Sins of Our Fathers? 2014-Jul-20 50 minutes |
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Anatomy of a Terrorist 2014-Jun-29 51 minutes |
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Art and Obscenity 2014-Jun-15 50 minutes |
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Summer Reading List 2014 2014-Jun-09 50 minutes |
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Am I Alone? 2014-Jun-01 49 minutes |
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The Reality of Time 2014-May-18 50 minutes |
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Seeing Red: The World in Color 2014-May-04 49 minutes |
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Risky Business: The Business of Risk 2014-Apr-27 51 minutes |
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Conspiracy Theories 2014-Apr-20 50 minutes |
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Weapons of Mass Destruction 2014-Mar-30 51 minutes |
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Acting Together 2014-Mar-16 49 minutes |
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Simone de Beauvoir 2014-Mar-09 49 minutes |
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Science and Gender 2014-Mar-02 50 minutes |
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The Legacy of Freud 2014-Feb-09 50 minutes |
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Memory and the Self 2014-Jan-26 50 minutes |
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Moral Luck 2014-Jan-12 49 minutes |
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The Examined Year – 2013 2014-Jan-05 52 minutes |
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Trust and Mistrust 2013-Dec-29 50 minutes |
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Do Religions Deserve Special Status? 2013-Dec-15 48 minutes |
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Dangerous Demographics: The Challenges of an Aging Population 2013-Nov-24 50 minutes |
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The Dark Side of Science 2013-Oct-27 50 minutes |
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When Is It Wrong to Save a Life? Lessons from the Trolley Problem 2013-Oct-20 50 minutes |
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An Eye for an Eye: The Morality of Revenge 2013-Oct-13 49 minutes |
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The Limits of Self-Knowledge 2013-Oct-06 49 minutes |
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Ancient Cynicism 2013-Sep-22 50 minutes |
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The Moral Lives of Animals 2013-Sep-15 49 minutes |
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Tenth Anniversary Special 2013-Sep-01 51 minutes |
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Memes: Viruses of the Mind? 2013-Aug-25 50 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-21 50 minutes |
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Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times 2013-Jul-07 51 minutes |
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Nations and Borders 2013-Jun-23 50 minutes |
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Education and the Culture Wars 2013-Jun-16 50 minutes |
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Physics, Philosophy, and Theology 2013-Jun-09 50 minutes |
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Summer Reading List 2013 2013-May-26 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-05 50 minutes |
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The Demands of Morality 2013-Apr-28 49 minutes |
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Dance as a Way of Knowing 2013-Apr-14 50 minutes |
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Truth and Other Fictions 2013-Mar-31 50 minutes |
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God and the Fine-Tuned Universe 2013-Mar-17 50 minutes |
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The Psychology of Partisan Politics 2013-Mar-10 49 minutes |
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The Self 2013-Feb-24 49 minutes |
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Bioethics: Myths and Realities 2013-Feb-10 50 minutes |
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The Linguistics of Name-Calling 2013-Jan-20 50 minutes |
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The Examined Year – 2012 2013-Jan-06 51 minutes |
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Turbo-Charging the Mind 2012-Dec-30 49 minutes |
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Has Science Replaced Philosophy? 2012-Dec-16 50 minutes |
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Unconditional Love 2012-Dec-09 50 minutes |
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Are Some People Better Than Others? 2012-Dec-02 50 minutes |
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How Fiction Shapes Us 2012-Nov-25 50 minutes |
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Economics – Science or Cult? 2012-Nov-18 50 minutes |
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The Evolution of Storytelling 2012-Nov-04 49 minutes |
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Forbidden Words 2012-Oct-21 51 minutes |
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Prostitution and the Sex Trade 2012-Oct-14 51 minutes |
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Regulating Bodies 2012-Sep-30 49 minutes |
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Why Be Moral? 2012-Sep-16 50 minutes |
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The Nature of Wilderness 2012-Aug-26 50 minutes |
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The Moral Costs of Climate Change 2012-Aug-19 51 minutes |
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Neuroscience and the Law 2012-Aug-12 50 minutes |
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Gut Feelings and the Art of Decision-Making 2012-Jul-22 50 minutes |
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Hypocrisy 2012-Jul-08 51 minutes |
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Identities Lost & Found in a Global Age 2012-Jul-01 50 minutes |
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Corporations and the Future of Democracy 2012-Jun-24 50 minutes |
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What Might Have Been 2012-Jun-10 50 minutes |
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Summer Reading List 2012 2012-May-27 51 minutes |
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Freedom, Blame, and Resentment 2012-May-13 49 minutes |
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What Is Love? 2012-Apr-22 51 minutes |
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What Are Leaders Made of? 2012-Apr-15 49 minutes |
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Poetry as a Way of Knowing 2012-Apr-01 50 minutes |
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Epicurus and the Good Life 2012-Mar-04 50 minutes |
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Pantheism 2012-Feb-26 50 minutes |
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The 2012 Dionysus Awards 2012-Feb-12 53 minutes |
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Black Solidarity 2012-Feb-05 53 minutes |
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The Right to Privacy 2012-Jan-29 50 minutes |
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Is Democracy a Universal Value? 2012-Jan-15 51 minutes |
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The Examined Year: 2011 2012-Jan-08 51 minutes |
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Forgive and Forget 2011-Dec-11 50 minutes |
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The Military: What Is It Good For? 2011-Nov-27 50 minutes |
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Is Nothing Sacred Anymore? 2011-Nov-13 50 minutes |
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Miracles 2011-Nov-06 50 minutes |
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Thinking Inside the Box 2011-Oct-23 51 minutes |
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Cooperation and Conflict 2011-Oct-16 49 minutes |
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Morality and the Self 2011-Oct-02 50 minutes |
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Wisdom 2011-Sep-25 48 minutes |
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Latin-American Philosophy 2011-Sep-18 50 minutes |
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Deconstructing the College Admissions Rat Race 2011-Sep-04 49 minutes |
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Time, Space, and Quantum Mechanics 2011-Aug-14 50 minutes |
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The State of Public Philosophy 2011-Aug-07 50 minutes |
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Philosophy and Everyday Life 2011-Jul-31 49 minutes |
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The Psychology of Evil 2011-Jul-17 50 minutes |
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Atheism and the Well-Lived Life 2011-Jul-10 50 minutes |
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Whodunit: The Language of Responsibility 2011-Jun-12 50 minutes |
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Gay Pride & Prejudice 2011-Jun-05 49 minutes |
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Summer Reading List 2011 2011-May-29 49 minutes |
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Cities, Gentrification, and Inequality 2011-May-08 50 minutes |
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Should Marriage Be Abolished? 2011-May-01 49 minutes |
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The Extended Mind 2011-Apr-17 49 minutes |
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What is an Adult? 2011-Apr-10 50 minutes |
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Is It All Relative? 2011-Mar-20 49 minutes |
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John Locke 2011-Feb-27 49 minutes |
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The 2011 Dionysus Awards 2011-Feb-13 51 minutes |
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Procrastination 2011-Jan-30 49 minutes |
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Derrida and Deconstruction 2011-Jan-16 49 minutes |
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Abortion 2011-Jan-09 49 minutes |
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The Moral Costs of Free Markets 2011-Jan-02 50 minutes |
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Philosophy for Children 2010-Dec-19 50 minutes |
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The Power of Thought 2010-Dec-12 50 minutes |
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Disagreement 2010-Dec-05 49 minutes |
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Reading, Narrative, and the Self 2010-Nov-28 50 minutes |
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The Occult Philosophy 2010-Oct-31 49 minutes |
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Bargaining with the Devil 2010-Oct-24 49 minutes |
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Philosophy and the Alma Mater 2010-Sep-19 48 minutes |
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Meaning and the Revolution 2010-Sep-12 42 minutes |
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Philosophy for the Young – Corrupting or Empowering? 2010-Sep-05 50 minutes |
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Self-Deception 2010-Aug-29 50 minutes |
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Humanism 2010-Aug-22 50 minutes |
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Social Reality 2010-Aug-01 50 minutes |
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What are Human Rights? 2010-Jun-27 49 minutes |
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The Corporation as a Person 2010-Jun-20 49 minutes |
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Summer Reading List 2010 2010-May-23 49 minutes |
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Philosophy Talk “Live” Highlights 2010-May-16 48 minutes |
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The Ethics of Torture 2010-Apr-11 50 minutes |
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What is ‘Normal’? 2010-Mar-14 49 minutes |
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The 2010 Dionysus Awards 2010-Feb-28 50 minutes |
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Mind Reading 2010-Feb-21 50 minutes |
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Philosophy in Fiction 2010-Feb-07 49 minutes |
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Paradoxes 2010-Feb-03 50 minutes |
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Nihilism and Meaning 2010-Jan-24 49 minutes |
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Kierkegaard 2010-Jan-10 49 minutes |
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Is It Wrong to Wreck the Earth? 2010-Jan-03 48 minutes |
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How Relevant Is Jesus? 2009-Dec-20 50 minutes |
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The Philosophical Legacy of Darwin 2009-Dec-06 50 minutes |
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From the Minds of Babies 2009-Nov-29 50 minutes |
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200 and Counting 2009-Nov-15 49 minutes |
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Health Care: Right or Privilege? 2009-Nov-01 50 minutes |
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Schizophrenia and the Mind 2009-Oct-18 49 minutes |
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War, Sacrifice, and the Media 2009-Oct-04 50 minutes |
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What are Words Worth? 2009-Sep-27 51 minutes |
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Philosophy Talk Highlights 2009-Sep-20 51 minutes |
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The Postmodern Family 2009-Sep-13 43 minutes |
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Pornography 2009-Aug-30 49 minutes |
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Money and Morality 2009-Aug-16 49 minutes |
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The Prison System 2009-Jul-26 49 minutes |
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Social Networking 2009-Jul-05 51 minutes |
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Summer Reading List 2009 2009-Jun-14 50 minutes |
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The Mind and the World 2009-Jun-07 50 minutes |
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Lincoln as a Philosopher 2009-May-17 51 minutes |
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Worship 2009-May-10 49 minutes |
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Beliefs Gone Wild 2009-May-03 50 minutes |
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Desire 2009-Apr-12 50 minutes |
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Too Much Information 2009-Apr-05 49 minutes |
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The Root of All Evil? 2009-Mar-29 45 minutes |
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The Copyright Wars 2009-Mar-22 40 minutes |
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Challenges to Free Will 2009-Mar-08 49 minutes |
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Biracial Identities 2009-Mar-01 49 minutes |
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Different Cultures, Different Selves 2009-Feb-22 49 minutes |
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The Movie Show 2009-Feb-08 50 minutes |
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Creativity 2009-Jan-29 49 minutes |
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Civil Disobedience 2009-Jan-18 52 minutes |
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Philosophy of History 2009-Jan-11 52 minutes |
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The Idea of the University 2009-Jan-04 50 minutes |
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John Rawls 2008-Dec-14 49 minutes |
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Bodies For Sale 2008-Dec-07 53 minutes |
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Levels of Reality 2008-Nov-23 49 minutes |
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Gandhi as a Philosopher 2008-Nov-16 49 minutes |
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William James 2008-Nov-09 49 minutes |
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Making Decisions 2008-Nov-02 49 minutes |
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Digital Selves 2008-Oct-19 50 minutes |
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Overcoming the Terror of Death 2008-Oct-12 51 minutes |
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The Morality of Food 2008-Sep-21 42 minutes |
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Utilitarianism 2008-Sep-07 50 minutes |
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Global Justice and Human Rights 2008-Aug-24 49 minutes |
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Dualism 2008-Aug-10 50 minutes |
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Giving and Keeping 2008-Jul-27 51 minutes |
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The Luck of the Draw 2008-Jul-13 50 minutes |
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Altruism 2008-Jun-29 49 minutes |
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Hannah Arendt 2008-Jun-22 50 minutes |
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The Problem of Evil 2008-Jun-08 49 minutes |
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Summer Reading List 2008 2008-Jun-01 49 minutes |
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Promises 2008-May-11 49 minutes |
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Experimental Philosophy 2008-May-04 50 minutes |
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Varieties of Love 2008-Apr-20 50 minutes |
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Politics and Cognitive Science 2008-Apr-13 45 minutes |
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Philosophy of Wine 2008-Apr-06 46 minutes |
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Apologizing 2008-Mar-30 49 minutes |
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Science vs. Pseudo-science 2008-Mar-02 49 minutes |
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Infinity 2008-Feb-24 49 minutes |
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Connectionism 2008-Feb-17 49 minutes |
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Saint Augustine 2008-Jan-27 48 minutes |
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Persons, Selves, Souls, and Loops 2008-Jan-20 |
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Why Music Matters 2008-Jan-13 50 minutes |
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Work 2008-Jan-06 49 minutes |
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Personal Identity 2007-Dec-16 49 minutes |
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Concept of God 2007-Dec-09 50 minutes |
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Political Correctness 2007-Dec-02 49 minutes |
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Islamic Philosophy 2007-Nov-18 49 minutes |
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Immigration and Citizenship 2007-Nov-11 50 minutes |
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Philosophy and Literature 2007-Oct-27 50 minutes |
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Predicting the Future 2007-Oct-21 49 minutes |
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Faith, Reason, and Science 2007-Oct-14 49 minutes |
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Love, Poetry and Philosophy 2007-Sep-30 50 minutes |
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Math and the Mind 2007-Sep-16 47 minutes |
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The Value of Art 2007-Sep-09 39 minutes |
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Postmodernism 2007-Aug-19 49 minutes |
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Flirting with Philosophy 2007-Aug-12 48 minutes |
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Philosophy Through Humor 2007-Jul-22 50 minutes |
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Capital Punishment 2007-Jul-08 49 minutes |
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Where Does Morality Come From? 2007-Jul-01 49 minutes |
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Summer Reading List 2007 2007-Jun-10 49 minutes |
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Aging and the Well-Lived Life 2007-May-27 50 minutes |
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Artificial Intelligence 2007-May-20 49 minutes |
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Science, Ethics, and Censorship 2007-May-13 49 minutes |
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Autonomy 2007-May-06 49 minutes |
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Ethics in Journalism 2007-Apr-29 50 minutes |
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Can Science Explain Consciousness? 2007-Apr-15 48 minutes |
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A Philosophical Shout-Out 2007-Apr-01 46 minutes |
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Skepticism 2007-Mar-25 49 minutes |
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Immortality and the Afterlife 2007-Mar-18 49 minutes |
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Animal Minds 2007-Mar-11 49 minutes |
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Wittgenstein 2007-Mar-04 49 minutes |
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The Judiciary in Democracy 2007-Feb-11 49 minutes |
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Mental Imagery 2007-Feb-04 49 minutes |
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If Truth is so valuable, why is there so much BS? 2007-Jan-28 49 minutes |
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Legal Ethics 2007-Jan-21 50 minutes |
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We’ve Been Framed: How Language Shapes Politics 2007-Jan-14 50 minutes |
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The Promise and Perils of the New Genomics 2007-Jan-07 50 minutes |
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Philosophy and Film 2006-Dec-17 50 minutes |
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Philosophy and Neuroscience 2006-Dec-10 50 minutes |
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American Pragmatism 2006-Dec-03 49 minutes |
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What is a Child? 2006-Nov-19 50 minutes |
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Dreaming 2006-Nov-12 49 minutes |
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Separation of Powers 2006-Nov-05 50 minutes |
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Believing in God 2006-Oct-29 50 minutes |
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Language and Thought 2006-Oct-22 50 minutes |
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Karl Popper 2006-Oct-08 50 minutes |
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Jewish Philosophy 2006-Oct-01 50 minutes |
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The Philosophy of Music 2006-Sep-19 45 minutes |
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War Crimes 2006-Sep-12 40 minutes |
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Liberty vs. Security 2006-Sep-05 54 minutes |
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100th Episode 2006-Aug-29 52 minutes |
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Language in Action 2006-Aug-22 49 minutes |
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Athletic Beauty 2006-Aug-15 50 minutes |
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Race, Class, and Inequality 2006-Aug-08 50 minutes |
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The Future of Philosophy 2006-Aug-01 50 minutes |
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Stoicism 2006-Jul-25 49 minutes |
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Leadership 2006-Jun-27 49 minutes |
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Hegel 2006-Jun-06 49 minutes |
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The Nature of Imagination 2006-May-30 50 minutes |
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A Philosophical Summer Reading List 2006-May-16 52 minutes |
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Justice Across Boundaries 2006-May-09 49 minutes |
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Existentialism 2006-May-07 49 minutes |
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What Is Art? 2006-Apr-25 50 minutes |
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Philosophy and the Law 2006-Apr-11 50 minutes |
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The Value of Truth 2006-Apr-04 42 minutes |
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The Philosophy of Hoops 2006-Mar-28 50 minutes |
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Suicide 2006-Mar-21 50 minutes |
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What Are Numbers? 2006-Mar-14 50 minutes |
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The Science of Humor 2006-Feb-28 50 minutes |
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Marriage and Monogamy 2006-Feb-14 50 minutes |
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W.E.B. Du Bois 2006-Feb-07 49 minutes |
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Legislating Values 2006-Jan-31 49 minutes |
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Philosophy of Science 2006-Jan-24 51 minutes |
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Intelligent Design 2006-Jan-17 50 minutes |
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Progress and the Environment 2006-Jan-03 49 minutes |
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The Existence of God 2005-Dec-20 49 minutes |
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Kant 2005-Dec-13 50 minutes |
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Freedom of Speech in Times of War 2005-Dec-06 50 minutes |
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Friendship 2005-Nov-29 49 minutes |
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Language of Fiction 2005-Nov-22 47 minutes |
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George Berkeley 2005-Nov-01 48 minutes |
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The Willing Suspension of Disbelief 2005-Oct-18 51 minutes |
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Reconciliation 2005-Oct-11 53 minutes |
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The Strange World of Quantum Reality 2005-Oct-04 49 minutes |
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Ethics in War 2005-Sep-27 39 minutes |
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Language of Politics 2005-Sep-20 50 minutes |
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Saints, Heroes, and Well-Lived Lives 2005-Aug-30 49 minutes |
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Descartes 2005-Aug-02 50 minutes |
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The Indispensable Emotions 2005-Jul-26 49 minutes |
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Moral Dilemmas and Moral Ambiguity 2005-Jul-19 49 minutes |
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Zen 2005-Jun-28 50 minutes |
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Global Poverty and International Aid 2005-Jun-21 49 minutes |
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The Ethics of Identity 2005-Jun-14 49 minutes |
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Intergenerational Obligations 2005-Jun-08 48 minutes |
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Evolution of the Human Mind 2005-May-24 49 minutes |
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Prostitution 2005-May-17 48 minutes |
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Confucius 2005-May-10 49 minutes |
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Forgiveness 2005-May-03 49 minutes |
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Propaganda 2005-Apr-26 50 minutes |
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Genetic Determinism 2005-Apr-20 42 minutes |
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Schopenhauer 2005-Apr-05 50 minutes |
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Is Free Will an Illusion? 2005-Mar-29 49 minutes |
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Neurocosmetology 2005-Mar-22 49 minutes |
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What is Beauty? 2005-Mar-15 49 minutes |
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Religion and the Secular State 2005-Mar-08 49 minutes |
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Hume 2005-Mar-01 51 minutes |
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The Erotic vs. The Pornographic 2005-Feb-15 49 minutes |
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Ethics in Sport 2005-Feb-08 48 minutes |
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Evil 2005-Feb-01 50 minutes |
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Aristotle 2005-Jan-25 49 minutes |
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The Mystery of Mind 2005-Jan-11 51 minutes |
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Gender 2005-Jan-04 50 minutes |
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Nature vs. Nurture 2004-Dec-14 50 minutes |
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Disability 2004-Dec-07 49 minutes |
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Love 2004-Nov-30 50 minutes |
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Truth and Relativism 2004-Nov-16 50 minutes |
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Time 2004-Nov-09 50 minutes |
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Is This Any Way to Run a Democracy? 2004-Nov-02 50 minutes |
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Karl Marx 2004-Oct-19 50 minutes |
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Feminism 2004-Oct-12 51 minutes |
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The Environment and Global Justice 2004-Sep-28 49 minutes |
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Corporations 2004-Sep-21 43 minutes |
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Plato 2004-Sep-14 45 minutes |
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Happiness 2004-Aug-31 51 minutes |
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Gambling 2004-Aug-24 51 minutes |
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Affirmative Action 2004-Aug-17 50 minutes |
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Who Owns Ideas? 2004-Jul-20 50 minutes |
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Paternalism and Health 2004-Jul-14 51 minutes |
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Humans: The Irrational Animal 2004-Jun-29 49 minutes |
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Virtue 2004-Jun-15 50 minutes |
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Dignity and the End of Life 2004-Jun-08 51 minutes |
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Terrorism 2004-Jun-01 50 minutes |
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Meaning of Life 2004-May-18 50 minutes |
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Animal Rights 2004-May-11 49 minutes |
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Whose Language Is It? 2004-May-04 51 minutes |
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Baseball 2004-Apr-27 51 minutes |
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Taxation 2004-Apr-14 51 minutes |
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Consciousness 2004-Apr-06 49 minutes |
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Humor 2004-Mar-30 50 minutes |
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Has Science Replaced Religion? 2004-Mar-23 49 minutes |
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Nietzsche 2004-Mar-16 51 minutes |
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Markets and Morality 2004-Mar-09 49 minutes |
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Genetic Engineering and Cloning 2004-Mar-02 49 minutes |
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Drug Legalization 2004-Feb-24 51 minutes |
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The Insanity Defense 2004-Feb-17 50 minutes |
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Patriotism versus Cosmopolitanism 2004-Feb-10 51 minutes |
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Marriage and the State 2004-Feb-02 51 minutes |
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What Is Race? 2004-Jan-28 51 minutes |
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Would You Want to Live Forever? 2004-Jan-20 49 minutes |
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The Bush Doctrine of Preemptive Self-Defense 2004-Jan-13 50 minutes |
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Live Pilot: Is Lying Always Bad? 2003-Aug-20 50 minutes |
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Demo #2: What Is Terrorism? 2003-Jan-01 58 minutes |
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Demo #1: Can Machines Think? 2002-Jan-01 57 minutes |