What Is Art?
September 9, 2007
Anything someone wants to call art? Or are there some objective criteria, that not every…
Liberty and Justice for Who?
October 11, 2026
Many democracies are founded on the ideals of 18th- and 19th-Century British Liberalism: the idea that human beings deserve the right to self-government because we are born free, equal, and capable of rationality. Yet Liberalism was used to justify colonialism, which deprived people around the…
The Value of Art
September 9, 2007
An art lover will argue that art brings beauty to our surroundings and provides occasions…
Marriage and Monogamy
September 2, 2007
Monogamy is traditional in most cultures, and it is the law throughout America since Utah…
Existentialism
August 5, 2007
Being and Nothingness, the for-itself and the in-itself, bad faith, and the existential predicament; these…
Philosophy of Science
July 15, 2007
Is philosophy the queen of the sciences, with the job of synthesizing, interpreting and evaluating…
Legislating Values
June 24, 2007
How should we decide what laws to pass? Should majority rule, even when they are…
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…
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