Emma Goldman
July 5, 2026
Activist and anarchist philosopher Emma Goldman fought for human liberation in every realm of life. While she opposed the women’s suffrage movement, she was a staunch advocate for women’s rights. So why did she think the right to vote was so unimportant? What did she…
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…
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…
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