Elisabeth of Bohemia
October 5, 2025
Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia is best known for her correspondence with René Descartes. In her letters,…
Epistemology Tagged Episodes
Is Postmodernism Really to Blame for Post-Truth?
February 27, 2022
Postmodernism is often characterized by its rejection of concepts championed by the Enlightenment, like meaning,…
How to Humbly Disagree
September 27, 2020
People like to argue, especially Philosophy Talk listeners! But no matter how hard we try…
Science and Politics – Friends or Foes?
March 4, 2018
The ideal of science is objectivity in the service of advancing knowledge. We tend to…
Why Propaganda Matters
February 4, 2018
Governments and other political institutions employ propaganda to sway public opinion, instill ideas, and exert…
Intuition a Guide to Truth?
December 17, 2017
Turns out that Galileo was right and Aristotle was wrong: in a vacuum, a feather…
Conspiracy Theories
December 4, 2016
Some claim that the collapse of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 was actually…
The Technology of Immortality
September 27, 2015
Some futurists believe we are not far from a time when technology and medicine will…
Regulating Bodies
February 8, 2015
Most countries allow their citizens to smoke cigarettes, get intoxicated, and eat unhealthy food –…
What Might Have Been
August 24, 2014
When we make claims about things that could have been—what philosophers call counterfactual statements—we are,…
Miracles
January 19, 2014
Religions rely on miracles to demonstrate the authenticity of figures thought to have supernatural powers. …
Levels of Reality
November 14, 2010
Are there levels of reality, with each level emerging from the other in a way…
Hume
March 1, 2005
David Hume was a superb essayist, a brilliant philosopher, and a world-class bon vivant. His…
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