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  • The Philosophy Talk Magical Mystery Tour

    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.

  • Kjellberg to Guest Blog

    We at Philosophy Talk are pleased to announce that Paul Kjellberg who will be our…

  • Forgiveness – the discussion continued….

    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.

  • Beauty: Skin-Deep, in the Eye of the Beholder and Valuable?

    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.

  • Nehamas to Guest Blog

    We here at Philosophy Talk:  The Blog are please to announce our first guest blogger,…