Philosophy, Talk-Radio Style
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Turn on the radio and tune in to "Philosophy Talk" to hear two engaging Stanford philosophers talk about -- what else? -- philosophy. Ken Taylor and John Perry have held forth on the topic on a regular basis since 2004. The "program that questions everything -- except your intelligence" reaches a...
Making Decisions on Philosophy Talk
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Philosophy Talk, the radio show that questions everything... except your intelligence takes on the fraught topic of decision making in the July 25th, 2010 broadcast. When we make decisions we think we're in control, making rational choices. But are we? This is the central question posed by Dan...
Live at the Marsh Berkeley 1/22/12
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- Author: PhilosophyTalkRadio
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Join us for the next two programs in our 2011-12 season of live recordings at the Marsh theater. 12 pm: "Poetry as a Way of Knowing" with award-winning poet Jane Hirshfield 3 pm: "What are Leaders Made of?" with legal scholar Deborah Rhode Don't miss the chance to participate in our live...
Money and Morality
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Does our system of credit and money make upward social mobility possible for anyone willing to work hard? Or is it just a big Ponzi scheme? Are corporations the essential structures necessary to harness the capital, energy, intelligence, and leadership on a scale large enough to make and market...
Abortion
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- Author: PhilosophyTalkRadio
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Nothing stirs up controversy like abortion. To some, it carries the steep moral cost of destroying human life, while to others, it represents an inviolable bastion of women's rights over their own bodies. Despite the polarizing nature of the debate, it covers broad philosophical ground, and...
What is a Wife?
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The concept of a wife has been embedded in cultures, religious practices, social customs and economic patterns of wildly different sorts. Is there a core concept of what it is to be a wife? Is it a good concept, or one that deserves to be thrown on the trash heap of intellectual history because...
Nihilism and Meaning
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The ancients believed in an enchanted universe -- a universe suffused with meaning and purpose. But with the dawn of modernity, philosophy and science conspired together to disenchant the universe, to reveal it as entirely devoid of meaning and purpose. Must any rational and reflective person...
William James
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William James is a great figure, historically important as a philosopher (pragmatism and radical empiricism), a student of religion (author of the monumental Varieties of Religious Experience), and psychology. Ken and John examine the life and ideas of this towering figure with Russell Goodman, a...
John Locke
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Thomas Jefferson identified John Locke as one of "the three greatest men that have ever lived, without any exception." Many debates in modern political theory have their roots in the writings of John Locke, and Locke's work on other philosophical issues, particularly identity and selfhood, have...
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