Legislating Values
June 24, 2007
How should we decide what laws to pass? Should majority rule, even when they are…
The Scandalous Truth about Memoir
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A memoir is a personal narrative written about a pivotal time in the author’s life. While the story is told from a particular perspective, the events recounted are supposed to be fact, not fiction. But what exactly counts as truth in memoir? Is the distinction…
Intelligent Design
June 17, 2007
Is there any reason to think the cause or causes of order in the universe…
Summer Reading List 2007
June 10, 2007
Are there philosophers, philosophies, or philosophical issues you want to read up on over the…
Kant
June 3, 2007
Immanuel Kant introduced the human mind as an active originator of experience rather than just…
Autonomy
May 6, 2007
Philosophers call a person autonomous if she is responsible not just for what she does…
Ethics in Journalism
April 29, 2007
Freedom of speech tells us the government shouldn’t restrict the journalist. But should anything restrict…
George Berkeley
April 8, 2007
Berkeley founded and defended idealism, the doctrine that there is not a material world; reality is the…
A Philosophical Shout-Out
April 1, 2007
On this special pledge-week episode, John and Ken open the phones and the inbox to…
Wittgenstein
March 4, 2007
The Austrian/British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein exercised enormous influence over philosophy in the middle third of…
Language of Fiction
February 25, 2007
What are we talking about when we talk about Sherlock Holmes or Santa Claus? Something…
Reconciliation
February 18, 2007
Justice, truth, and identity; race, society, and law—these all come into dramatic play as South…
Confucius
December 31, 2006
Confucius laid down a pattern of thinking followed by more people for more generations than…
Moral Dilemmas and Moral Ambiguity
December 24, 2006
It would be nice if we always knew the morally right thing to do, if…
Philosophy and Film
December 17, 2006
Despite the crass commercialism that drives the production of many movies, there’s no doubt that…
American Pragmatism
December 3, 2006
Pragmatism is perhaps America’s most distinctive contribution to philosophy. Developed by Pierce, Dewey, and James…
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