Why did human beings develop traditions of storytelling? Of course, any answer to this question is going to be speculative. But it might be reasonable to assume that the capacity for imagination is adaptive (I need to be able to predict what is going to happen as a result of different courses of action), and that engagement with fictions helps to hone the relevant skills.
The Philosophy Talk team just finished a brief stint “on the road.” On October 27th, we taped a show in front of about 200 Stanford Alums up in Sacramento on behalf of the Stanford Alumni Club of Sacramento. The topic was “Progress and the Environment.” Our guest was Terry Tamminen, formerly head of California’s Environmental Protection Agency and currently Cabinet Secretary (Chief of Staff, roughly) to our beloved Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
On Sunday, November 6th, 11:30 – 1:30, we will be produce an episode of Philosophy…
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We at Philosophy Talk are pleased to announce that Paul Kjellberg who will be our…
Many thanks to all of you who called during Tuesday’s Philosophy Talk (May 3). We very much appreciated your interest! There are a number of fascinating issues we touched upon, and some we did not. Among the latter is the relationship between interpersonal forgiveness and political forgiveness.
We at Philosophy Talk are pleased to announce that Charles Griswold, our guest for today’s…
You might want to check out the twelfth edition of the recurring Philosophers’ Carnival, a…
There is such a thing as beauty that is only skin-deep. It is the beauty of appearance, what we call “looking good.” It has little to do with personality, character, wit or morality, and that is because anything that applies to how things look is not a reliable guide to many of their other qualities.
We here at Philosophy Talk: The Blog are please to announce our first guest blogger,…