How to Humbly Disagree
September 27, 2020
People like to argue, especially Philosophy Talk listeners! But no matter how hard we try…
Hildegard von Bingen
September 20, 2026
Hildegard von Bingen was a 12th century mystic, polymath, and composer whose work spanned visionary theology, philosophy, cosmology, medicine, botany, and music. Her extraordinary intellectual accomplishments belie her humble claim to be “just a woman”. Was her humility justified in the face of the divine,…
Time for Summer Reading
August 23, 2020
When John and Ken began shopping around their idea for a philosophy-on-the-radio show nearly 20…
Frantz Fanon and the Violence of Colonialism
July 19, 2020
Frantz Fanon is a thinker who has inspired radical liberation movements in places ranging from…
The 2020 Dionysus Awards
July 5, 2020
What movies of the past year challenged our assumptions and made us think about things…
White Privilege and Racial Injustice
June 7, 2020
“White privilege” has become a buzzword in discussions about racial inequality and racial justice. The…
Machiavelli
May 3, 2020
Niccolò Machiavelli is best known for arguing that people in power should use deception, force,…
Poetry as a Way of Knowing
April 19, 2020
What is poetry? Mere word play? A pretty, or at any rate striking, way of…
Fractured Identities
April 5, 2020
Despite tremendous strides made towards civil and political rights in the United States, discrimination and…
The Philosophy of Retirement
March 29, 2020
Many of us look forward to retirement, that time in life when we stop working…
Can Speech Kill?
March 22, 2020
Free speech is one of the core tenets of our democracy. We’re inclined to think…
Midlife and Meaning
March 8, 2020
At some point or another, the midlife crisis comes for us all. But what is…
Philosophy of Trash
March 1, 2020
“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure,” or so the saying goes. But what makes…
The Internet of Things
February 16, 2020
Smart TVs, refrigerators, cars, and entire houses—the internet of things refers to the networking of…
A World Without Work
February 9, 2020
Work: a lot lot of people do it, and a lot of people don’t seem…
Race Matters
February 2, 2020
Started in the wake of George Zimmerman’s 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin,…
Post-Truth Politics
January 19, 2020
You’ve probably heard about the dangerous effects of fake news, and the spread of sensational…
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