This month we're featuring episodes from the archives where John and Ken focus on big thinkers born in May: Niccolò Machiavelli, Søren Kierkeegaard, Karl Marx, and John Stuart Mill. There's also an episode where Josh and Ray question the checkered legacy of Sigmund Freud, asking their colleague Blakey Vermeule "What Has Replaced Freud?"
This Week’s Episode
Logic For Everyone
Logic may seem like a dry, abstract discipline that only the nerdiest of philosophers study. After all, logic textbooks are full of weird symbols and...
Recent Episodes
Akan Philosophy and Personhood
The Akan people of West Africa have developed a system of metaphysics, epistemology, and moral philosophy with a special focus on personhood. For the...
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft is often labeled as a “liberal feminist” because of her concern for women’s rights and conceptions of freedom. But that label...
The Legacy of Freud
Did you really want to eat that last piece of cake, or were you secretly thinking about your mother? Sigmund Freud, who might have suggested the...