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Philosophy Talk 2004-2009
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The first six years of Philosophy Talk can be yours for one low price! For the first time, you can purchase Philosophy Talk 2004-2009, the entire archive of Philosophy Talk's first six years -- over 200 episodes in MP3 format -- for the price of ... more |
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Existentialism
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Being and Nothingness, the for-itself and the in-itself, bad faith, and the existential predicament; these Existentialist concepts were central to the philosophical scene in Europe and America after World War II. Join the Philosophers as they examine ... more |
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Can Science Explain Consciousness?
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Humans are conscious, billiard balls are not, and computers aren't either. But all three are just collections of molecules, aren't they? What is consciousness, and does it go beyond what science can explain? Join John and Ken as they probe the limits ... more |
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Beauty
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Are there objective standards of beauty? Or is beauty in the eye of the beholder? Must art be beautiful to be great art? What is the role of the experience of beauty in a good life?
John and Ken explore the concept of Beauty with Alexander Nehamas ... more |
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Postmodernism
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What are the main hallmarks of the postmodern? How does the "postmodern" differ from the "modern?" Is the postmodern an improvement over the modern?
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Consciousness
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Is the conscious mind just the brain or something more? Can science explain consciousness? How does Ken know that John is a conscious being and not just an automaton programmed to act like a conscious being? Or is John just an automaton?
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Kant
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The categorical imperative, the synthetic a priori, and the Critique of Pure Reason: Immanuel Kant introduced the human mind as an active originator of experience rather than just a passive recipient of perception. How has his philosophy influenced ... more |
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Language and Thought
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You might think our thought simply determine what we say. But maybe the language we speak is what really determines the thoughts we can have. As Wittgenstein famously wrote, "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world." And Benjamin Lee ... more |
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Happiness
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Is happiness a mere psychological state? And if so, what's so important about it? Is there anything more to being happy than just thinking you're happy? Or is happiness a way of life?
John and Ken dig into the nature of happiness with Robert ... more |
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Believing in God
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Some have argued that there aren't any good arguments for believing in God. Is belief in God just an act of faith without reason? Plenty of philosophers would disagree. Why are philosophers so divided on the matter? In this episode Ken and John ... more |
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American Pragmatism
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Pragmatism is perhaps America's most distinctive contribution to philosophy. Developed by Pierce, Dewey, and James in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, pragmatism holds that both the meaning and the truth of any idea is a function of its ... more |
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Nietzsche
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Was Friedrich Nietzsche a mysogynistic Nazi-supporter, or an artistic visionary who sought to set us free from our moralistic chains?
Boring radio is dead as Ken and John discuss everyone's favorite syphilitic philosopher with ... more |
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Descartes
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The 17th Century philosopher René Descartes is often considered the father of modern philosophy. His Meditations are a staple in introductory philosophy courses, and his views on the relation of mind and body have dominated philosophical ... more |
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Is Free Will An Illusion?
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Can the idea of freedom of the will be reconciled with the scientific outlook or is free will an illusion? If we give up on the idea that we have freedom, what follows for our practice of holding people morally responsible for their actions and ... more |
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Hegel
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is without doubt one of the most influential philosophers of all time. He has, however, been largely ignored by American "analytic" philosophers of the twentieth century. John in particular, and Ken to a lesser extent, ... more |
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Aristotle
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Aristotle's philosophical doctrines have permeated and helped shape Western Culture in spheres as disparate as cosmology, biology, ethics, physics, politics, and logic. John and Ken are joined by Chris Bobonich, from Stanford University, author of ... more |
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Ray Kurzweil - The Enlightened Universe
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How do you think about the future? As something long off, far away, “out there”? Think again, as eminent author, inventor and futurist Dr. Ray Kurzweil speaks with ease and eloquence about the challenging task of keeping pace with the ... more |
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Aging and the Well-Lived Life
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Aging is a physical process that will always be with us. But conceptions of aging, views about the contributions older people can make to society, and what society owes them change from era to era and differ from culture to culture. In conjunction ... more |
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Artificial Intelligence
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At least some versions of artificial intelligence are attempts not merely to model human intelligence, but to make computers and robots that exhibit it: that have thoughts, use language, and even have free will. Does this make sense? What would it ... more |
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Hume
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David Hume was a superb essayist, a brilliant philosopher, and a world-class bon vivant. His philosophical views in ethics, epistemology, aesthetics, and the philosophy of religion, though shocking to many in his own time, are enduring touchstones of ... more |
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Karl Marx
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The ideas of Karl Marx vie with those of Rousseau, Locke and Jefferson for shaping the politics of the twentieth century. Are Marx's ideas of real philosophical value and interest, or simply relics of interest only in trying to understand the ... more |
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Personal Identity
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What is necessary for a person to survive over time? Is it the continued existence of the living body? Or is it just the living brain? Or is it one's psychology, which might persist even without one's original brain in a computer or in an entirely ... more |
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Animal Minds
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Do dogs make plans? Do they remember specific events? Do they dream? Do cats recognize their owners as unified wholes, or just as collections of parts, some warm, some capable of providing food? Could it be that whales, dolphins, elephants, and ... more |
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Faith, Reason, and Science
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Does faith obscure reason? Does reason obscure faith?
Or perhaps their subject matters are different. Faith might address one area of our lives and reason and science another. Faith may allow us to see meaning, values, and God, while reason sees ... more |
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