The 2024 Dionysus Awards
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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…
Karl Popper
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Karl Popper is a landmark figure in the philosophy of science. His notion of “falsifiability”…
20th Anniversary Quiz Night
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Philosophy Talk made its radio debut on August 20, 2003 with a live pilot on…
Righteous Rage
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Stoic philosopher Seneca wrote that anger is a form of madness. Other philosophers share this…
Akan Philosophy and Personhood
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The Akan people of West Africa have developed a system of metaphysics, epistemology, and moral…
The Legacy of Freud
May 5, 2024
Did you really want to eat that last piece of cake, or were you secretly…
What Would Kant Do?
April 21, 2024
German idealist and moral philosopher Immanuel Kant is probably best known for his “Categorical Imperative,”…
Could Robots Be Persons?
April 7, 2024
As we approach the advent of autonomous robots, we must decide how we will determine…
What Can Virtual Reality (Actually) Do?
March 17, 2024
VR transports users into all kinds of different realities, some modeled on the real world,…
Should All Ages Be Equal?
March 3, 2024
Age determines a lot about your position in society—what activities you can do, what benefits…
The Social Lives of Robots
February 18, 2024
Machines might surpass humans in terms of computational intelligence, but when it comes to social…
Lincoln as a Philosopher
February 11, 2024
More than any other President, Abraham Lincoln is known for his words, from the Lincoln-Douglass…
The Mysterious Timelessness of Math
January 21, 2024
Math is a really useful subject—at least, that’s what your parents and teachers told you.…
Frege and the Language of Reason
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At the end of the 19th Century, the German philosopher Gottlob Frege invented a new…
Simone de Beauvoir
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Simone de Beauvoir is often cast as only a novelist or a mere echo of…
The Ethics of Awesomeness
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The word “awesome” once meant inspiring extreme fear or dread. Nowadays it’s mostly used as…
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