Philosophy Talk

604: Elizabeth Anscombe (feat. Rachael Wiseman)

Philosophy Talk· 2025

602: Crisis and Creativity in Mayan Mythology (feat. Edgar Garcia)

Philosophy Talk· 2024

592: Daniel Dennett Retrospective (feat. Jenann Ismael)

Philosophy Talk· 2024

581: 20th Anniversary Quiz Night (feat. John Perry)

Philosophy Talk· 2024

573: Are We Living in a Simulation? (feat. David Chalmers)

Philosophy Talk· 2023

569: Mexican Philosophy (feat. Manuel Vargas)

Philosophy Talk· 2023

561: The 2023 Dionysus Awards (feat. Jorah Dannenberg & Ray Briggs)

Philosophy Talk· 2023

560: Cancel Culture (feat. Adrian Daub)

Philosophy Talk· 2023

556: In Search of Proust's Philosophy (feat. Joshua Landy)

Philosophy Talk· 2022

547: The Changing Face of Antisemitism (feat. Francesca Trivellato)

Philosophy Talk· 2022

545: What Is Ideology? (feat. Marius Ostrowski)

Philosophy Talk· 2022

544: What Would Kant Do? (feat. Karen Stohr)

Philosophy Talk· 2022

540: Righteous Rage (feat. Myisha Cherry)

Philosophy Talk· 2022

532: Akan Philosophy and Personhood (feat. Ajume Wingo)

Philosophy Talk· 2021

511: Why We Hate (feat. Berit Brogaard)

Philosophy Talk· 2020

509: Citizenship and Justice (feat. Arash Abizadeh)

Philosophy Talk· 2020

502: Comforting Conversations, Pt. 2 (feat. Ge Wang, Laura Wittman, Harry Elam & Antonia Peacocke)

Philosophy Talk· 2020

496: Is the Self an Illusion? (feat. Alison Gopnik)

Philosophy Talk· 2020

491: Hobbes and the Ideal Citizen (feat. Alison McQueen)

Philosophy Talk· 2019

482: J.S. Mill and the Good Life (feat. David Brink)

Philosophy Talk· 2019

461: Radical Markets – Solutions for a Gilded Age? (feat. Glen Weyl)

Philosophy Talk· 2018

454: Monstrous Technologies? (feat. Persis Drell)

Philosophy Talk· 2018

439: A World Without Work (feat. Juliana Uhuru Bidadanure)

Philosophy Talk· 2017

434: Cognitive Bias (feat. Brian Nosek)

Philosophy Talk· 2017

430: Should Beliefs Aim at Truth? (feat. R.A. Briggs)

Philosophy Talk· 2017

425: Queerness (feat. Susan Stryker)

Philosophy Talk· 2017

421: The Value of a College Education (feat. John Hennessy)

Philosophy Talk· 2017

417: John Dewey and the Ideal of Democracy (feat. Melvin Rogers)

Philosophy Talk· 2016

411: The Mystery of Music (feat. Adrian Daub)

Philosophy Talk· 2016

410: Identity Politics (feat. Tommie Shelby)

Philosophy Talk· 2016

406: Altered States (feat. Amanda Feilding)

Philosophy Talk· 2016

396: Jean-Paul Sartre (feat. Thomas Flynn)

Philosophy Talk· 2016

380: Neuroscience and Free Will (feat. Daniel Dennett)

Philosophy Talk· 2015

378: Heidegger (feat. Thomas Sheehan)

Philosophy Talk· 2015

374: How Words Work - From Noise to Meaning (feat. John Searle)

Philosophy Talk· 2015

371: The Art of Non-Violence (feat. Judith Butler)

Philosophy Talk· 2015

370: Morality in a Godless World (feat. John Figdor)

Philosophy Talk· 2015

369: Democracy in Crisis (feat. Francis Fukuyama)

Philosophy Talk· 2015

367: Camus and the Absurd (feat. Robert Zaretsky)

Philosophy Talk· 2015

365: Food Justice (feat. Tim Benton)

Philosophy Talk· 2015

Anarchy: Utopian Dream or Dystopian Nightmare? (feat. James Martel)

Philosophy Talk· 2015

360: The Lure of Immortality (feat. John M. Fischer)

Philosophy Talk· 2014

357: Philosophy as Therapy (feat. David Konstan)

Philosophy Talk· 2014

356: Racial Profiling and Implicit Bias (feat. Linda Alcoff)

Philosophy Talk· 2014

355: Second-Guessing Ourselves (feat. Sherrilyn Roush)

Philosophy Talk· 2014

354: Machiavelli (feat. Maurizio Viroli)

Philosophy Talk· 2014

352: Is Intuition a Guide to Truth? (feat. Alvin I. Goldman)

Philosophy Talk· 2014

350: Captivity (feat. Lori Gruen)

Philosophy Talk· 2014

347: Anatomy of a Terrorist (feat. Martha Crenshaw)

Philosophy Talk· 2014

344: Summer Reading List 2014 (feat. Shannon Stimson, Jason Stanley & Rebecca Newberger Goldstein)

Philosophy Talk· 2014

345: Am I Alone? (feat. Anita Avramides)

Philosophy Talk· 2014

343: The Reality of Time (feat. Julian Barbour)

Philosophy Talk· 2014

337: Simone De Beauvoir (feat. Shannon Mussett)

Philosophy Talk· 2014

335: The Legacy of Freud (feat. Paul Robinson)

Philosophy Talk· 2014

334: Memory and the Self (feat. Stan Klein)

Philosophy Talk· 2014

331: Trust and Mistrust (feat. Jorah Dannenberg)

Philosophy Talk· 2013

328: The Dark Side of Science (feat. Paul Rabinow)

Philosophy Talk· 2013

325: The Limits of Self-Knowledge (feat. Timothy Wilson)

Philosophy Talk· 2013

320: Life as a Work of Art (feat. R. Lanier Anderson)

Philosophy Talk· 2013

318: Freedom and Free Enterprise (feat. Shannon Stimson)

Philosophy Talk· 2013

309: Dance as a Way of Knowing (feat. Alva Noë)

Philosophy Talk· 2013

306: The Psychology of Partisan Politics (feat. Jonathan Haidt)

Philosophy Talk· 2013

305: The Self (feat. Jenann Ismael)

Philosophy Talk· 2013

301: Turbo-Charging the Mind (feat. Anna Salamon)

Philosophy Talk· 2012

300: Has Science Replaced Philosophy? (feat. Massimo Pigliucci)

Philosophy Talk· 2012

297: How Fiction Shapes Us (feat. Joshua Landy)

Philosophy Talk· 2012

296: Economics: Science or Cult? (feat. Alex Rosenberg)

Philosophy Talk· 2012

295: The Evolution of Storytelling (feat. Jonathan Gottschall)

Philosophy Talk· 2012

292: Regulating Bodies (feat. Cécile Fabre)

Philosophy Talk· 2012

291: Why Be Moral? (feat. James Sterba)

Philosophy Talk· 2012

287: Gut Feelings (feat. Gerd Gergenzinger)

Philosophy Talk· 2012

280: What Is Love? (feat. Troy Jollimore)

Philosophy Talk· 2012

279: What Are Leaders Made of? (feat. Deborah Rhode)

Philosophy Talk· 2012

278: Poetry as a Way of Knowing (feat. Jane Hirshfield)

Philosophy Talk· 2012

276: Pantheism (feat. Philip Clayton)

Philosophy Talk· 2012

270: Forgive and Forget (feat. Paul Hughes)

Philosophy Talk· 2011

261: Deconstructing the College Rat Race (feat. Mitchell Stevens)

Philosophy Talk· 2011

260: Time, Space, And Quantum Mechanics (feat. Jenann Ismael)

Philosophy Talk· 2011

258: Philosophy and Everyday Life (feat. Robert Rowland Smith)

Philosophy Talk· 2011

256: Atheism and the Well Lived Life (feat. Louise Anotny)

Philosophy Talk· 2011

251: Should Marriage Be Abolished? (feat. Tamara Metz)

Philosophy Talk· 2011

250: The Extended Mind (feat. George Lakoff)

Philosophy Talk· 2011

248: Is It All Relative? (feat. Paul Boghossian)

Philosophy Talk· 2011

247: John Locke (feat. Bill Uzgallis)

Philosophy Talk· 2011

245: Procrastination (feat. Timothy Pychyl)

Philosophy Talk· 2011

244: Derrida and Deconstruction (feat. Joshua Kates)

Philosophy Talk· 2011

243: Abortion (feat. Cynthia Gorney)

Philosophy Talk· 2011

242: The Moral Costs of Free Markets (feat. Debra Satz)

Philosophy Talk· 2011

238: Reading, Narrative and the Self (feat. Joshua Landy)

Philosophy Talk· 2010

237: The Occult Philosophy (feat. Christopher Lehrich)

Philosophy Talk· 2010

232: Self-Deception (feat. Neil Van Leeuwen)

Philosophy Talk· 2010

226: The Corporation as a Person (feat. Robert a. G. Monks)

Philosophy Talk· 2010

222: Faces, Feelings and Lies (feat. Paul Ekman)

Philosophy Talk· 2010

221: The Ethics of Torture (feat. Nancy Sherman)

Philosophy Talk· 2010

215: Philosophy in Fiction (feat. Rebecca Goldstein)

Philosophy Talk· 2010

214: Nihilism and Meaning (feat. Hubert Dreyfus)

Philosophy Talk· 2010

213: Kierkegaard (feat. Lanier Anderson)

Philosophy Talk· 2010

212: Is It Wrong to Wreck the Earth? (feat. Kathleen Dean Moore)

Philosophy Talk· 2010

211: How Relevant Is Jesus? (feat. Andrew Fiala)

Philosophy Talk· 2009

210: Darwin (feat. Daniel Dennett)

Philosophy Talk· 2009

198: Social Networking (feat. Malcom Parks)

Philosophy Talk· 2009

192: Desire (feat. William Irvine)

Philosophy Talk· 2009

188: Challenges to Free Will (feat. Manuel Vargas)

Philosophy Talk· 2009

181: The Idea of the University (feat. John Etchemendy)

Philosophy Talk· 2009

180: John Rawls (feat. Joshua Cohen)

Philosophy Talk· 2008

177: Gandhi (feat. Akeel Bilgrami)

Philosophy Talk· 2008

173: Overcoming the Terror of Death (feat. Irv Yalom)

Philosophy Talk· 2008

172: The Morality of Food (feat. Micahel Pollan)

Philosophy Talk· 2008

171: Utilitarianism (feat. Wayne Sumner)

Philosophy Talk· 2008

164: Hannah Arendt (feat. Seyla Benhabib)

Philosophy Talk· 2008

151: St. Augustine (feat. James O'Donnell)

Philosophy Talk· 2008

150: Persons, Selves, Souls, And Loops (feat. Douglas Hofstadter)

Philosophy Talk· 2008

148: Work (feat. Al Gini)

Philosophy Talk· 2008

147: Personal Identity (feat. Raymond Martin)

Philosophy Talk· 2007

146: Concept of God (feat. Richard Swinburne)

Philosophy Talk· 2007

142: Philosophy and Literature (feat. Lanier Anderson)

Philosophy Talk· 2007

139: Love, Poetry, And Philosophy (feat. Troy Jollimore)

Philosophy Talk· 2007

138: Math and the Mind (feat. Keith Devlin)

Philosophy Talk· 2007

136: Postmodernism (feat. Gary Aylesworth)

Philosophy Talk· 2007

257: The Psychology of Evil (feat. Simon Baron Cohen)

Philosophy Talk· 2007

132: Where Does Morality Come From? (feat. Alex Miller)

Philosophy Talk· 2007

130: Aging and the Well-Lived Life (feat. Laura Carstensen)

Philosophy Talk· 2007

127: Autonomy (feat. John Christman)

Philosophy Talk· 2007

120: Wittgenstein (feat. Juliet Floyd)

Philosophy Talk· 2007

119: The Judiciary in Democracy (feat. Larry Kramer)

Philosophy Talk· 2007

118: Mental Imagery (feat. Lera Boroditsky)

Philosophy Talk· 2007

115: We've Been Framed: How Language Shapes Politics (feat. Geoffrey Nunberg)

Philosophy Talk· 2007

112: Philosophy and Neuroscience (feat. Patricia Churchland)

Philosophy Talk· 2006

111: American Pragmatism (feat. John McDermott)

Philosophy Talk· 2006

107: Believing in God (feat. Philip Clayton)

Philosophy Talk· 2006

106: Language and Thought (feat. Lera Boroditsky)

Philosophy Talk· 2006

105: Karl Popper (feat. Denis Phillips)

Philosophy Talk· 2006

098: Athletic Beauty (feat. Hans Gumbrecht)

Philosophy Talk· 2006

097: Race, Class, And Inequality (feat. Elisabeth Kiss)

Philosophy Talk· 2006

094: Leadership (feat. Deborah Rhode)

Philosophy Talk· 2006

093: Hegel (feat. Allen Wood)

Philosophy Talk· 2006

089: What Is Art? (feat. Alexander Nehamas)

Philosophy Talk· 2006

088: Philosophy and the Law (feat. Jules Coleman)

Philosophy Talk· 2006

087: The Value of Truth (feat. Simon Blackburn)

Philosophy Talk· 2006

084: What Are Numbers? (feat. Gideon Rosen)

Philosophy Talk· 2006

083: Existentialism (feat. Lanier Anderson)

Philosophy Talk· 2006

081: Marriage and Monogamy (feat. Helen Fisher)

Philosophy Talk· 2006

079: Legislating Values (feat. Anna Eshoo)

Philosophy Talk· 2006

078: Philosophy of Science (feat. Peter Godfrey-Smith)

Philosophy Talk· 2006

076: Progress and the Environment (feat. Terry Tamminen)

Philosophy Talk· 2006

074: Kant (feat. Peter Gilgen)

Philosophy Talk· 2005

072: Friendship (feat. Martha Nussbaum)

Philosophy Talk· 2005

071: Language of Fiction (feat. Joshua Landy)

Philosophy Talk· 2005

063: Descartes (feat. Ron Rubin)

Philosophy Talk· 2005

060: Zen (feat. Robert Sharf)

Philosophy Talk· 2005

058: The Ethics of Identity (feat. Kwame Anthony Appiah)

Philosophy Talk· 2005

052: Propaganda (feat. Orville Schell)

Philosophy Talk· 2005

050: Schopenhauer (feat. Irv Yalom)

Philosophy Talk· 2005

049: Is Free Will an Illusion? (feat. John M. Fischer)

Philosophy Talk· 2005

047: What Is Beauty? (feat. Alexander Nehamas)

Philosophy Talk· 2005

046: Religion and the Secular State (feat. Robert Audi)

Philosophy Talk· 2005

045: Hume (feat. Don Garrett)

Philosophy Talk· 2005

041: Aristotle (feat. Chris Bobonich)

Philosophy Talk· 2005

040: The Mystery of Mind (feat. John Searle)

Philosophy Talk· 2005

037: Disability (feat. Anita Silvers)

Philosophy Talk· 2004

036: Love (feat. Noel Merino)

Philosophy Talk· 2004

035: Truth and Relativism (feat. Helen Longino)

Philosophy Talk· 2004

034: Time (feat. Dave Albert)

Philosophy Talk· 2004

033: Is This Any Way to Run a Democracy? (feat. Josh Ober)

Philosophy Talk· 2004

032: Karl Marx (feat. Jonathan Wolff)

Philosophy Talk· 2004

029: Corporations (feat. Lawrence Mitchell)

Philosophy Talk· 2004

028: Plato (feat. Chris Bobonich)

Philosophy Talk· 2004

027: Happiness (feat. Robert C. Solomon)

Philosophy Talk· 2004

014: Taxation (feat. Barbara Fried)

Philosophy Talk· 2004

013: Consciousness (feat. David Chalmers)

Philosophy Talk· 2004

010: Nietzsche (feat. Brian Leiter)

Philosophy Talk· 2004

009: Markets and Morality (feat. Elizabeth Anderson)

Philosophy Talk· 2004

003: Race (feat. Anthony Appiah)

Philosophy Talk· 2004