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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. 

The host-professors bring clarity, depth, and humor to everyday topics that are lofty (Truth, Beauty, Justice), arresting (Terrorism, Intelligent Design, Suicide), and engaging (Baseball, Love, Happiness). This is not a lecture or a college course; it's philosophy in action! 

From timeless philosophical questions about the ultimate nature of things to contemporary social and political issues, as well as our most fundamental beliefs about science, morality, and the human condition, Philosophy Talk invites you to challenge your assumptions and think about things in new ways.


Episode Date
What Is Addiction?
Mar 15, 2026
Who Speaks For You?
Mar 08, 2026
Wise Woman: Mary Wollstonecraft
Mar 01, 2026
Schopenhauer: Living Your Worst Life
Feb 22, 2026
Can Money Buy Well-being?
Feb 15, 2026
Logic For Everyone
Feb 08, 2026
Wise Woman: Anna Julia Cooper
Feb 01, 2026
Diogenes and the Honest Life
Jan 25, 2026
Civil Disobedience
Jan 18, 2026
William James
Jan 11, 2026
Why Is the World So Weird?
Jan 04, 2026
The Examined Year: 2025
Dec 26, 2025
Mind Sharing
Dec 21, 2025
Shakespeare's Outsiders
Dec 12, 2025
Wise Woman: Im Yunjidang
Dec 07, 2025
Gilbert Ryle and the Map of the Mind
Dec 01, 2025
Narrative and the Meaning of Life
Nov 09, 2025
Robert Musil and Life as Experiment
Sep 21, 2025
Henri Bergson and the Flow of Time
Aug 31, 2025
Making and Breaking Habits
Aug 22, 2025
The Value of Music
Aug 10, 2025
Schopenhauer: Living Your Worst Life
Jul 13, 2025
Private Lives
Jun 29, 2025
Philippa Foot
Jun 15, 2025
Wise Woman: Mary Midgley
May 18, 2025
Are Rules Meant to Be Broken?
Apr 27, 2025
Wise Woman: Iris Murdoch
Apr 13, 2025
Wise Woman: Judith Jarvis Thomson
Mar 16, 2025
The 2025 Dionysus Awards
Mar 02, 2025
The Philosophical Worlds of Borges
Feb 16, 2025
Alan Turing and the Limits of Computation
Feb 09, 2025
How to Create Virtuous Leaders
Jan 19, 2025
Elizabeth Anscombe
Jan 13, 2025
The Examined Year: 2024
Dec 29, 2024
Crisis and Creativity in Mayan Mythology
Dec 15, 2024
What’s So Special About Humans?
Dec 01, 2024
Wise Woman: Emma Goldman
Nov 17, 2024
Simone Weil
Oct 27, 2024
Anna Julia Cooper
Oct 06, 2024
Marx and Morality
Sep 22, 2024
How to Do Things With Your Mind
Sep 08, 2024
Hildegard von Bingen
Aug 25, 2024
Who Speaks For You?
Jul 21, 2024
Nísia Floresta
Jul 07, 2024
Daniel Dennett Retrospective
Jun 30, 2024
Summer Reading List 2024
Jun 09, 2024
(Late) Summer Reading List 2024
Jun 09, 2024
Logic For Everyone
May 26, 2024
Mary Wollstonecraft
May 12, 2024
Why Is the World So Weird?
Apr 28, 2024
Shakespeare’s Outsiders
Apr 14, 2024
Mind Sharing
Mar 31, 2024
Margaret Cavendish
Mar 24, 2024
The 2024 Dionysus Awards
Mar 10, 2024
Im Yunjidang
Feb 25, 2024
Can A.I. Help Us Understand Babies?
Feb 04, 2024
20th Anniversary Quiz Night
Jan 28, 2024
American Futures (Ken Taylor Memorial Episode)
Dec 31, 2023
Impossible Worlds
Dec 17, 2023
In Awe of Wonder
Dec 03, 2023
Mary Astell
Nov 19, 2023
Zhuangzi: Being One with Ten Thousand Things
Nov 05, 2023
Elisabeth of Bohemia
Oct 22, 2023
Can Architecture Be Political?
Oct 08, 2023
Are We Living in a Simulation?
Sep 17, 2023
Weird Wants
Aug 20, 2023
Making a Better World
Aug 13, 2023
Hypatia of Alexandria
Jul 23, 2023
Mexican Philosophy
Jul 09, 2023
Summer Reading List 2023
Jun 25, 2023
What Is Gender?
Jun 18, 2023
Can Art Save Us?
May 28, 2023
True Contradictions
May 21, 2023
The Power of Prediction
Apr 30, 2023
Derek Parfit and Your Future Self
Apr 16, 2023
The Philosophy of Smell
Mar 26, 2023
The 2023 Dionysus Awards
Mar 05, 2023
Cancel Culture
Feb 19, 2023
Why Trust Science?
Jan 22, 2023
The Examined Year: 2022
Jan 01, 2023
Thinking Like a Conspiracy Theorist
Dec 04, 2022
In Search of Proust’s Philosophy
Nov 13, 2022
Liberty and Justice for Who?
Oct 16, 2022
Climate Change and Collective Action
Oct 02, 2022
Who Owns Culture?
Sep 18, 2022
Effective Altruism
Aug 28, 2022
What Is Political Inequality?
Aug 14, 2022
Is Optimism Rational?
Jul 24, 2022
Summer Reading List: Banned Books Edition
Jul 10, 2022
The Changing Face of Antisemitism
Jun 19, 2022
The Scandalous Truth about Memoir
May 29, 2022
What Is Ideology?
May 08, 2022
What Would Kant Do?
Apr 17, 2022
Why Poetry Matters
Apr 10, 2022
The 2022 Dionysus Awards
Mar 20, 2022
#MeToo: Retribution, Accountability, and Justice
Mar 06, 2022
Righteous Rage
Feb 06, 2022
Marcus Aurelius
Jan 30, 2022
Could Robots Be Persons?
Jan 09, 2022
The Examined Year: 2021
Dec 26, 2021
What Can Virtual Reality (Actually) Do?
Dec 12, 2021
Should All Ages Be Equal?
Nov 28, 2021
The Social Lives of Robots
Nov 14, 2021
Frege and the Language of Reason
Nov 07, 2021
Akan Philosophy and Personhood
Oct 24, 2021
The Mysterious Timelessness of Math
Oct 10, 2021
The Ethics of Awesomeness
Aug 29, 2021
Microaggressions
Aug 15, 2021
Referring to the World: Ken’s Final Work
Jul 25, 2021
Your Brain on Literature
Jul 11, 2021
Summer Reading List 2021
Jun 20, 2021
Nonduality and the Oneness of Being
Jun 06, 2021
The Lives and Ideas of the Vienna Circle
May 23, 2021
Disinformation and the Future of Democracy
May 09, 2021
Montaigne and the Art of the Essay
Apr 25, 2021
The 2021 Dionysus Awards
Apr 11, 2021
What Is Masculinity?
Mar 21, 2021
What Has Replaced Freud?
Feb 28, 2021
The Rhetoric of Big Tech
Jan 31, 2021
Democracy By Numbers
Jan 17, 2021
The Examined Year: 2020
Dec 27, 2020
Minds and Matter
Dec 13, 2020
The Arts For All?
Nov 19, 2020
Are We All to Blame?
Nov 15, 2020
What’s In a Game?
Oct 25, 2020
Why We Hate
Oct 18, 2020
Science and Skepticism
Oct 04, 2020
Citizenship and Justice
Sep 13, 2020
The Merits of Meritocracy
Aug 30, 2020
Can Streets Discriminate?
Aug 09, 2020
The Ethical Jerk
Jul 26, 2020
Walter Benjamin and the Re-Enchanted World
Jul 12, 2020
Pet Ethics
Jun 28, 2020
Time for Summer Reading
Jun 14, 2020
Covid Conundrums and Moral Dilemmas
May 31, 2020
Comforting Conversations, pt.2
May 24, 2020
Comforting Conversations, pt.1
May 17, 2020
(Why) Money Matters
Apr 26, 2020
Philosophy and the Superhero
Apr 12, 2020
The 2020 Dionysus Awards
Mar 15, 2020
Is the Self an Illusion?
Feb 23, 2020
Death of the Sentence
Jan 26, 2020
Comedy and the Culture Wars
Jan 12, 2020
Ken Taylor Tribute
Dec 29, 2019
Sanctuary Cities
Nov 17, 2019
Hobbes and the Ideal Citizen
Nov 04, 2019
Conscious Machines
Oct 20, 2019
The Allure of Authoritarianism
Oct 06, 2019
Explanation At Its Best
Sep 29, 2019
Changing Minds on Climate Change
Sep 08, 2019
Reading the Troubled Past
Aug 11, 2019
The Doomsday Doctrine
Aug 04, 2019
Is Postmodernism Really to Blame for Post-Truth?
Jul 14, 2019
Summer Reading (and Misreading)
Jul 07, 2019
J.S. Mill and the Good Life
Jun 23, 2019
The Limits of Tolerance
Jun 09, 2019
What Is Religious Belief?
May 05, 2019
Is Philanthropy Bad for Democracy?
Apr 28, 2019
Authority and Resistance
Apr 21, 2019
Hacking the Brain: Beyond the Five Senses
Apr 14, 2019
Immigration and Multiculturalism
Mar 10, 2019
The 2019 Dionysus Awards
Feb 17, 2019
What Do We Owe Future Generations?
Feb 10, 2019
Envy: Vice or Virtue?
Jan 27, 2019
The Examined Year: 2018
Dec 30, 2018
Foreign Aid – or Injury?
Dec 16, 2018
Foucault and Power
Dec 02, 2018
The Creative Life
Nov 25, 2018
Does Reputation Matter?
Nov 11, 2018
Can Reason Save Us?
Oct 21, 2018
The New Golden Age of Television
Sep 30, 2018
The Psychology of Cruelty
Sep 16, 2018
The Athlete as Philosopher
Aug 26, 2018
The Ethics of Algorithms
Aug 12, 2018
Does Science Over-reach?
Jul 22, 2018
Radical Markets: Solutions for a Gilded Age?
Jul 15, 2018
Summer Reading List 2018
Jul 01, 2018
The Value of Care: Feminism and Ethics
Jun 10, 2018
Repugnant Markets: Should Everything Be For Sale?
Jun 03, 2018
Faith and Humility
May 06, 2018
Are We Alone?
Apr 29, 2018
Trolling, Bullying, and Flame Wars: Humility and Online Discourse
Apr 15, 2018
Monstrous Technologies?
Apr 08, 2018
Adorno and the Culture Industry
Mar 25, 2018
How to Humbly Disagree
Mar 11, 2018
Misogyny and Gender Inequality
Feb 25, 2018
The 5th (Mostly) Annual Dionysus Awards
Feb 18, 2018
James Baldwin and Social Justice
Feb 11, 2018
Frantz Fanon and the Violence of Colonialism
Jan 28, 2018
Fractured Identities
Jan 21, 2018
The Philosophy of Retirement
Jan 07, 2018
The Examined Year: 2017
Dec 31, 2017
Can Speech Kill?
Dec 10, 2017
Midlife and Meaning
Dec 03, 2017
Philosophy of Trash
Nov 05, 2017
Race Matters
Oct 29, 2017
The Internet of Things
Oct 15, 2017
A World Without Work
Sep 24, 2017
Post-Truth Politics
Sep 10, 2017
Polyamory
Aug 27, 2017
Could the Laws of Physics Ever Change?
Aug 13, 2017
Driverless Cars at the Moral Crossroads
Jul 30, 2017
Cognitive Bias
Jul 16, 2017
Summer Reading List 2017
Jul 02, 2017
Habermas and Democracy
Jun 25, 2017
Nonhuman Rights
May 28, 2017
Should Beliefs Aim at Truth?
May 14, 2017
The Limits of Medical Consent
May 07, 2017
The Phenomenology of Lived Experience
Apr 23, 2017
The Space-Time Continuum
Apr 02, 2017
Knowing What We Know (And What We Don’t)
Mar 19, 2017
Queerness
Mar 05, 2017
Freedom of Speech on Campus
Feb 26, 2017
Philosophy Behind Bars
Feb 12, 2017
Reparations
Feb 05, 2017
The Value of a College Education
Jan 22, 2017
The Examined Year: 2016
Jan 08, 2017
The Mystery of the Multiverse
Oct 23, 2016
Matter and Energy – The Dark Side
Oct 09, 2016
John Dewey and the Ideal of Democracy
Sep 25, 2016
Magical Thinking
Sep 18, 2016
Election Special
Sep 04, 2016
This Is Your Brain on Art
Aug 21, 2016
The Big Bang – Before and After
Aug 14, 2016
More Than Pun and Games
Jul 31, 2016
The Mystery of Music
Jul 24, 2016
Identity Politics
Jul 17, 2016
The Radical Democracy Movement
Jul 03, 2016
The Philanthropy Trap
Jun 19, 2016
Philosophy of Sleep
Jun 12, 2016
Altered States
May 22, 2016
Affirmative Action: Too Little or Too Much?
May 08, 2016
One Child Too Many
May 01, 2016
Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
Apr 10, 2016
Extreme Altruism
Apr 03, 2016
Gun Control
Mar 27, 2016
The Science of Happiness
Mar 20, 2016
The Ancient Cosmos – When the Earth Stood Still
Mar 13, 2016
“Ethics of Whistleblowing” wins Bronze Award for Social Impact at the New York Festivals
Mar 01, 2016
The Ethics of Debt
Feb 21, 2016
White Privilege and Racial Injustice
Feb 14, 2016
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jan 17, 2016
Dignity Denied: Life and Death in Prison
Jan 10, 2016
The Examined Year – 2015
Jan 03, 2016
Taoism: Following the Way
Dec 13, 2015
Self and Self-Presentation
Dec 06, 2015
Your Lying Eyes – Perception, Memory, and Justice
Nov 29, 2015
Will Innovation Kill Us?
Nov 15, 2015
Spinoza
Nov 08, 2015
Living On Through Others
Nov 01, 2015
In Praise of Love: Plato’s Symposium Meets Bernstein’s Serenade
Oct 25, 2015
The Logic of Regret
Oct 18, 2015
The Technology of Immortality
Sep 27, 2015
The Changing Face of Feminism
Sep 20, 2015
The Ethics of Drone Warfare
Sep 13, 2015
Leibniz
Aug 16, 2015
The Power and Peril of Satire
Jul 26, 2015
Neuroscience and Free Will
Jul 19, 2015
Edward Snowden and the Ethics of Whistleblowing
Jul 12, 2015
Heidegger
Jun 28, 2015
Summer Reading List 2015
Jun 21, 2015
Science and Politics – Friends or Foes?
Jun 14, 2015
Why Propaganda Matters
May 31, 2015
How Words Work: From Noise to Meaning
May 17, 2015
Reincarnation – Past Lives, Future Selves
May 03, 2015
When Democracies Torture
Apr 26, 2015
The Art of Non-Violence
Apr 12, 2015
Morality in a Godless World
Mar 29, 2015
Democracy in Crisis
Mar 22, 2015
Diseases of the Mind: Philosophy of Psychiatry
Mar 08, 2015
Camus and the Absurd
Mar 01, 2015
Cyber-Activism
Feb 15, 2015
Food Justice
Feb 01, 2015
Anarchy: Utopian Dream or Dystopian Nightmare?
Jan 25, 2015
What’s Next? Death and the Afterlife
Jan 11, 2015
The Examined Year – 2014
Jan 04, 2015
Humanity Violated
Dec 21, 2014
The Lure of Immortality
Dec 07, 2014
Transformative Experiences
Nov 16, 2014
The Fairness Fixation
Nov 02, 2014
Philosophy as Therapy
Oct 26, 2014
Racial Profiling and Implicit Bias
Oct 05, 2014
Second-Guessing Ourselves
Sep 28, 2014
Machiavelli
Sep 21, 2014
Babies and the Birth of Morality
Sep 14, 2014
Intuition a Guide to Truth?
Aug 31, 2014
Remixing Reality – Art and Literature for the 21st Century
Aug 17, 2014
Captivity
Aug 10, 2014
The New Surveillance Society – Big Brother Grows Up
Jul 27, 2014
Tainted by the Sins of Our Fathers?
Jul 20, 2014
Anatomy of a Terrorist
Jun 29, 2014
Art and Obscenity
Jun 15, 2014
Summer Reading List 2014
Jun 09, 2014
Am I Alone?
Jun 01, 2014
The Reality of Time
May 18, 2014
Seeing Red: The World in Color
May 04, 2014
Risky Business: The Business of Risk
Apr 27, 2014
Conspiracy Theories
Apr 20, 2014
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Mar 30, 2014
Acting Together
Mar 16, 2014
Simone de Beauvoir
Mar 09, 2014
Science and Gender
Mar 02, 2014
The Legacy of Freud
Feb 09, 2014
Memory and the Self
Jan 26, 2014
Moral Luck
Jan 12, 2014
The Examined Year – 2013
Jan 05, 2014
Trust and Mistrust
Dec 29, 2013
Do Religions Deserve Special Status?
Dec 15, 2013
Dangerous Demographics: The Challenges of an Aging Population
Nov 24, 2013
The Dark Side of Science
Oct 27, 2013
When Is It Wrong to Save a Life? Lessons from the Trolley Problem
Oct 20, 2013
An Eye for an Eye: The Morality of Revenge
Oct 13, 2013
The Limits of Self-Knowledge
Oct 06, 2013
Ancient Cynicism
Sep 22, 2013
The Moral Lives of Animals
Sep 15, 2013
Tenth Anniversary Special
Sep 01, 2013
Memes: Viruses of the Mind?
Aug 25, 2013
Life as a Work of Art
Aug 18, 2013
Finding Meaning in a Material World
Aug 04, 2013
Freedom and Free Enterprise
Jul 21, 2013
Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times
Jul 07, 2013
Nations and Borders
Jun 23, 2013
Education and the Culture Wars
Jun 16, 2013
Physics, Philosophy, and Theology
Jun 09, 2013
Summer Reading List 2013
May 26, 2013
Faith, Reason, and the Art of Living
May 19, 2013
Good, Evil, and the Divine Plan
May 05, 2013
The Demands of Morality
Apr 28, 2013
Dance as a Way of Knowing
Apr 14, 2013
Truth and Other Fictions
Mar 31, 2013
God and the Fine-Tuned Universe
Mar 17, 2013
The Psychology of Partisan Politics
Mar 10, 2013
The Self
Feb 24, 2013
Bioethics: Myths and Realities
Feb 10, 2013
The Linguistics of Name-Calling
Jan 20, 2013
The Examined Year – 2012
Jan 06, 2013
Turbo-Charging the Mind
Dec 30, 2012
Has Science Replaced Philosophy?
Dec 16, 2012
Unconditional Love
Dec 09, 2012
Are Some People Better Than Others?
Dec 02, 2012
How Fiction Shapes Us
Nov 25, 2012
Economics – Science or Cult?
Nov 18, 2012
The Evolution of Storytelling
Nov 04, 2012
Forbidden Words
Oct 21, 2012
Prostitution and the Sex Trade
Oct 14, 2012
Regulating Bodies
Sep 30, 2012
Why Be Moral?
Sep 16, 2012
The Nature of Wilderness
Aug 26, 2012
The Moral Costs of Climate Change
Aug 19, 2012
Neuroscience and the Law
Aug 12, 2012
Gut Feelings and the Art of Decision-Making
Jul 22, 2012
Hypocrisy
Jul 08, 2012
Identities Lost & Found in a Global Age
Jul 01, 2012
Corporations and the Future of Democracy
Jun 24, 2012
What Might Have Been
Jun 10, 2012
Summer Reading List 2012
May 27, 2012
Freedom, Blame, and Resentment
May 13, 2012
What Is Love?
Apr 22, 2012
What Are Leaders Made of?
Apr 15, 2012
Poetry as a Way of Knowing
Apr 01, 2012
Epicurus and the Good Life
Mar 04, 2012
Pantheism
Feb 26, 2012
The 2012 Dionysus Awards
Feb 12, 2012
Black Solidarity
Feb 05, 2012
The Right to Privacy
Jan 29, 2012
Is Democracy a Universal Value?
Jan 15, 2012
The Examined Year: 2011
Jan 08, 2012
Forgive and Forget
Dec 11, 2011
The Military: What Is It Good For?
Nov 27, 2011
Is Nothing Sacred Anymore?
Nov 13, 2011
Miracles
Nov 06, 2011
Thinking Inside the Box
Oct 23, 2011
Cooperation and Conflict
Oct 16, 2011
Morality and the Self
Oct 02, 2011
Wisdom
Sep 25, 2011
Latin-American Philosophy
Sep 18, 2011
Deconstructing the College Admissions Rat Race
Sep 04, 2011
Time, Space, and Quantum Mechanics
Aug 14, 2011
The State of Public Philosophy
Aug 07, 2011
Philosophy and Everyday Life
Jul 31, 2011
The Psychology of Evil
Jul 17, 2011
Atheism and the Well-Lived Life
Jul 10, 2011
Whodunit: The Language of Responsibility
Jun 12, 2011
Gay Pride & Prejudice
Jun 05, 2011
Summer Reading List 2011
May 29, 2011
Cities, Gentrification, and Inequality
May 08, 2011
Should Marriage Be Abolished?
May 01, 2011
The Extended Mind
Apr 17, 2011
What is an Adult?
Apr 10, 2011
Is It All Relative?
Mar 20, 2011
John Locke
Feb 27, 2011
The 2011 Dionysus Awards
Feb 13, 2011
Procrastination
Jan 30, 2011
Derrida and Deconstruction
Jan 16, 2011
Abortion
Jan 09, 2011
The Moral Costs of Free Markets
Jan 02, 2011
Philosophy for Children
Dec 19, 2010
The Power of Thought
Dec 12, 2010
Disagreement
Dec 05, 2010
Reading, Narrative, and the Self
Nov 28, 2010
The Occult Philosophy
Oct 31, 2010
Bargaining with the Devil
Oct 24, 2010
Philosophy and the Alma Mater
Sep 19, 2010
Meaning and the Revolution
Sep 12, 2010
Philosophy for the Young – Corrupting or Empowering?
Sep 05, 2010
Self-Deception
Aug 29, 2010
Humanism
Aug 22, 2010
Social Reality
Aug 01, 2010
Loyalty
Jul 18, 2010
Democracy and The Press
Jul 04, 2010
What are Human Rights?
Jun 27, 2010
The Corporation as a Person
Jun 20, 2010
Summer Reading List 2010
May 23, 2010
Philosophy Talk “Live” Highlights
May 16, 2010
Mental Illness and Culture
May 09, 2010
Faces, Feelings, and Lies
Apr 18, 2010
The Ethics of Torture
Apr 11, 2010
What Is a Wife?
Apr 04, 2010
Fear
Mar 28, 2010
What is ‘Normal’?
Mar 14, 2010
The 2010 Dionysus Awards
Feb 28, 2010
Mind Reading
Feb 21, 2010
Philosophy in Fiction
Feb 07, 2010
Paradoxes
Feb 03, 2010
Nihilism and Meaning
Jan 24, 2010
Kierkegaard
Jan 10, 2010
Is It Wrong to Wreck the Earth?
Jan 03, 2010
How Relevant Is Jesus?
Dec 20, 2009
The Philosophical Legacy of Darwin
Dec 06, 2009
From the Minds of Babies
Nov 29, 2009
200 and Counting
Nov 15, 2009
Health Care: Right or Privilege?
Nov 01, 2009
Schizophrenia and the Mind
Oct 18, 2009
War, Sacrifice, and the Media
Oct 04, 2009
What are Words Worth?
Sep 27, 2009
Philosophy Talk Highlights
Sep 20, 2009
The Postmodern Family
Sep 13, 2009
Pornography
Aug 30, 2009
Money and Morality
Aug 16, 2009
The Prison System
Jul 26, 2009
Social Networking
Jul 05, 2009
Summer Reading List 2009
Jun 14, 2009
The Mind and the World
Jun 07, 2009
Lincoln as a Philosopher
May 17, 2009
Worship
May 10, 2009
Beliefs Gone Wild
May 03, 2009
Desire
Apr 12, 2009
Too Much Information
Apr 05, 2009
The Root of All Evil?
Mar 29, 2009
The Copyright Wars
Mar 22, 2009
Challenges to Free Will
Mar 08, 2009
Biracial Identities
Mar 01, 2009
Different Cultures, Different Selves
Feb 22, 2009
The Movie Show
Feb 08, 2009
Creativity
Jan 29, 2009
Civil Disobedience
Jan 18, 2009
Philosophy of History
Jan 11, 2009
The Idea of the University
Jan 04, 2009
John Rawls
Dec 14, 2008
Bodies For Sale
Dec 07, 2008
Levels of Reality
Nov 23, 2008
Gandhi as a Philosopher
Nov 16, 2008
William James
Nov 09, 2008
Making Decisions
Nov 02, 2008
Digital Selves
Oct 19, 2008
Overcoming the Terror of Death
Oct 12, 2008
The Morality of Food
Sep 21, 2008
Utilitarianism
Sep 07, 2008
Global Justice and Human Rights
Aug 24, 2008
Dualism
Aug 10, 2008
Philosophy and Pop Culture
Aug 03, 2008
Giving and Keeping
Jul 27, 2008
The Luck of the Draw
Jul 13, 2008
Altruism
Jun 29, 2008
Hannah Arendt
Jun 22, 2008
The Problem of Evil
Jun 08, 2008
Summer Reading List 2008
Jun 01, 2008
Promises
May 11, 2008
Experimental Philosophy
May 04, 2008
Varieties of Love
Apr 20, 2008
Politics and Cognitive Science
Apr 13, 2008
Philosophy of Wine
Apr 06, 2008
Apologizing
Mar 30, 2008
Science vs. Pseudo-science
Mar 02, 2008
Infinity
Feb 24, 2008
Connectionism
Feb 17, 2008
Saint Augustine
Jan 27, 2008
Persons, Selves, Souls, and Loops
Jan 20, 2008
Why Music Matters
Jan 13, 2008
Work
Jan 06, 2008
Personal Identity
Dec 16, 2007
Concept of God
Dec 09, 2007
Political Correctness
Dec 02, 2007
Islamic Philosophy
Nov 18, 2007
Immigration and Citizenship
Nov 11, 2007
Philosophy and Literature
Oct 27, 2007
Predicting the Future
Oct 21, 2007
Faith, Reason, and Science
Oct 14, 2007
Love, Poetry and Philosophy
Sep 30, 2007
Math and the Mind
Sep 16, 2007
The Value of Art
Sep 09, 2007
Postmodernism
Aug 19, 2007
Flirting with Philosophy
Aug 12, 2007
Philosophy Through Humor
Jul 22, 2007
Capital Punishment
Jul 08, 2007
Where Does Morality Come From?
Jul 01, 2007
Summer Reading List 2007
Jun 10, 2007
Aging and the Well-Lived Life
May 27, 2007
Artificial Intelligence
May 20, 2007
Science, Ethics, and Censorship
May 13, 2007
Autonomy
May 06, 2007
Ethics in Journalism
Apr 29, 2007
Can Science Explain Consciousness?
Apr 15, 2007
A Philosophical Shout-Out
Apr 01, 2007
Skepticism
Mar 25, 2007
Immortality and the Afterlife
Mar 18, 2007
Animal Minds
Mar 11, 2007
Wittgenstein
Mar 04, 2007
The Judiciary in Democracy
Feb 11, 2007
Mental Imagery
Feb 04, 2007
If Truth is so valuable, why is there so much BS?
Jan 28, 2007
Legal Ethics
Jan 21, 2007
We’ve Been Framed: How Language Shapes Politics
Jan 14, 2007
The Promise and Perils of the New Genomics
Jan 07, 2007
Philosophy and Film
Dec 17, 2006
Philosophy and Neuroscience
Dec 10, 2006
American Pragmatism
Dec 03, 2006
What is a Child?
Nov 19, 2006
Dreaming
Nov 12, 2006
Separation of Powers
Nov 05, 2006
Believing in God
Oct 29, 2006
Language and Thought
Oct 22, 2006
Karl Popper
Oct 08, 2006
Jewish Philosophy
Oct 01, 2006
The Philosophy of Music
Sep 19, 2006
War Crimes
Sep 12, 2006
Liberty vs. Security
Sep 05, 2006
100th Episode
Aug 29, 2006
Language in Action
Aug 22, 2006
Athletic Beauty
Aug 15, 2006
Race, Class, and Inequality
Aug 08, 2006
The Future of Philosophy
Aug 01, 2006
Stoicism
Jul 25, 2006
Leadership
Jun 27, 2006
Hegel
Jun 06, 2006
The Nature of Imagination
May 30, 2006
A Philosophical Summer Reading List
May 16, 2006
Justice Across Boundaries
May 09, 2006
Existentialism
May 07, 2006
What Is Art?
Apr 25, 2006
Philosophy and the Law
Apr 11, 2006
The Value of Truth
Apr 04, 2006
The Philosophy of Hoops
Mar 28, 2006
Suicide
Mar 21, 2006
What Are Numbers?
Mar 14, 2006
The Science of Humor
Feb 28, 2006
Marriage and Monogamy
Feb 14, 2006
W.E.B. Du Bois
Feb 07, 2006
Legislating Values
Jan 31, 2006
Philosophy of Science
Jan 24, 2006
Intelligent Design
Jan 17, 2006
Progress and the Environment
Jan 03, 2006
The Existence of God
Dec 20, 2005
Kant
Dec 13, 2005
Freedom of Speech in Times of War
Dec 06, 2005
Friendship
Nov 29, 2005
Language of Fiction
Nov 22, 2005
George Berkeley
Nov 01, 2005
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief
Oct 18, 2005
Reconciliation
Oct 11, 2005
The Strange World of Quantum Reality
Oct 04, 2005
Ethics in War
Sep 27, 2005
Language of Politics
Sep 20, 2005
Saints, Heroes, and Well-Lived Lives
Aug 30, 2005
Descartes
Aug 02, 2005
The Indispensable Emotions
Jul 26, 2005
Moral Dilemmas and Moral Ambiguity
Jul 19, 2005
Zen
Jun 28, 2005
Global Poverty and International Aid
Jun 21, 2005
The Ethics of Identity
Jun 14, 2005
Intergenerational Obligations
Jun 08, 2005
Evolution of the Human Mind
May 24, 2005
Prostitution
May 17, 2005
Confucius
May 10, 2005
Forgiveness
May 03, 2005
Propaganda
Apr 26, 2005
Genetic Determinism
Apr 20, 2005
Schopenhauer
Apr 05, 2005
Is Free Will an Illusion?
Mar 29, 2005
Neurocosmetology
Mar 22, 2005
What is Beauty?
Mar 15, 2005
Religion and the Secular State
Mar 08, 2005
Hume
Mar 01, 2005
The Erotic vs. The Pornographic
Feb 15, 2005
Ethics in Sport
Feb 08, 2005
Evil
Feb 01, 2005
Aristotle
Jan 25, 2005
The Mystery of Mind
Jan 11, 2005
Gender
Jan 04, 2005
Nature vs. Nurture
Dec 14, 2004
Disability
Dec 07, 2004
Love
Nov 30, 2004
Truth and Relativism
Nov 16, 2004
Time
Nov 09, 2004
Is This Any Way to Run a Democracy?
Nov 02, 2004
Karl Marx
Oct 19, 2004
Feminism
Oct 12, 2004
The Environment and Global Justice
Sep 28, 2004
Corporations
Sep 21, 2004
Plato
Sep 14, 2004
Happiness
Aug 31, 2004
Gambling
Aug 24, 2004
Affirmative Action
Aug 17, 2004
Who Owns Ideas?
Jul 20, 2004
Paternalism and Health
Jul 14, 2004
Humans: The Irrational Animal
Jun 29, 2004
Virtue
Jun 15, 2004
Dignity and the End of Life
Jun 08, 2004
Terrorism
Jun 01, 2004
Meaning of Life
May 18, 2004
Animal Rights
May 11, 2004
Whose Language Is It?
May 04, 2004
Baseball
Apr 27, 2004
Taxation
Apr 14, 2004
Consciousness
Apr 06, 2004
Humor
Mar 30, 2004
Has Science Replaced Religion?
Mar 23, 2004
Nietzsche
Mar 16, 2004
Markets and Morality
Mar 09, 2004
Genetic Engineering and Cloning
Mar 02, 2004
Drug Legalization
Feb 24, 2004
The Insanity Defense
Feb 17, 2004
Patriotism versus Cosmopolitanism
Feb 10, 2004
Marriage and the State
Feb 02, 2004
What Is Race?
Jan 28, 2004
Would You Want to Live Forever?
Jan 20, 2004
The Bush Doctrine of Preemptive Self-Defense
Jan 13, 2004
Live Pilot: Is Lying Always Bad?
Aug 20, 2003
Demo #2: What Is Terrorism?
Jan 01, 2003
Demo #1: Can Machines Think?
Jan 01, 2002