Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) From the Minds of Babies Consciousness, morality, meaning and truth have perplexed and puzzled generations upon generations of philosophers. But could it be that we have been looking in all the wrong places to solve these imponderable mysteries? Could …
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Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) Morality and the Self Social psychologists have discovered that our self-images play a surprising role in our thinking about everyday moral matters. People who feel they have already proven themselves to be morally good feel less pressure to do …
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The Occult Philosophy The occult is routinely dismissed in our times as the province of quacks, the irrational, and the superstitious. But during the Renaissance, many of the best minds in Europe studied the philosophy and science of the occult. The period witnessed an outpouring of systematic philosophical and scientific …
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Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) Wisdom Philosophy is the love of wisdom – or is it? Is this traditional definition outmoded? Is wisdom an anachronism, an elitist concept deployed by old learned people with nothing of practical value to say? Do the professors of …
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Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) Latin-American Philosophy Latin American Philosophy began centuries before anything of much philosophical consequence happened in North America. Yet in our own time, Latin American Philosophy is undergoing a protracted identity crisis. Is it just transplanted European philosophy? A reaction …
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Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) War, Sacrifice, and The Media The media often present a sanitized and one sided narrative of war, torture and other forms of violence that blots out the faces and silences the voices of many of the main victims: the …
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Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) Deconstructing The College Admissions Rat Race America’s elite colleges and universities spend millions of dollars to generate thousands of applicants, the vast majority of whom they reject. High school students – and their parents – work hard to gain …
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Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) Schizophrenia and The Mind To be human, philosophers have often said, is to be rational. But many people, for biological reasons, are clearly not rational. Schizophrenia is not only a malady, it is also a window on how the …
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Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) Health Care: Right or Privilege? Do we have a right to healthcare, and to good high quality healthcare, in any precise and defensible sense? Or is the “right to healthcare” just a nice way to say it would be …
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Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) Time, Space, and Quantum Mechanics Quantum physics is regarded by many as the most powerful predictive theory science has produced. But there is no interpretation of what the theory means that all knowledgeable scientists and philosophers agree on. For …
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Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) Is Nothing Sacred Anymore? Tribal societies lived in a world of the sacred and profane, ritual and taboo. Is there anything left of this structure in the modern world? Is anything really taboo, or are things just inadvisable, problematic, …
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Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) Philosophy and Everyday Life Philosophy isn’t just about cosmic issues. Every day is full of events that raise philosophical questions: why do we eat the things we eat, work the way we work, go to the places we go? What …
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Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) What Are Words Worth? How do words shape our minds? Do the French suffer because they have no word for berry or cozy? Do we suffer because we have no word for schadenfreude? Why do we adopt new words, …
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Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) The Psychology of Evil True evil seems easy to recognize: the killing of innocent children; assigning whole populations to death by gassing, or napalm, or aerial bombing. These acts go beyond the criminal, the mean, the bad. But what …
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