Self Tagged Episodes

February 26, 2023

French thinker Michel de Montaigne invented a whole new genre in which to do philosophy:…

November 27, 2022

Money, they say, does not buy happiness; but having none can make life extraordinarily hard.…

June 27, 2021

We think about about our own reputation all the time, and we constantly reference the…

September 15, 2019

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual… it is safe to say that new ideas of gender…

October 30, 2016

Ever since John Locke, philosophers have wondered about memory and its connection to the self.…

June 26, 2016

Descartes considered the mind to be fully self-transparent; that is, he thought that we need…

December 6, 2015

We craft personal brands or images to accompany or represent ourselves in various situations. These…

September 27, 2015

Some futurists believe we are not far from a time when technology and medicine will…

May 3, 2015

According to Buddhist tradition, all people must suffer illness, aging, and death. Yet the universe…

November 9, 2014

Throughout human history, people have tended to live and die in the place they’re born.…

April 7, 2013

Reading is a lot of fun, especially narrative fiction – everyone loves a good story.…

January 27, 2013

Thomas Jefferson identified John Locke as one of “the three greatest men that have ever…

September 2, 2012

Socrates was executed for corrupting the youth. In America, youth below college age are usually…

March 18, 2012

The Supreme Court recently decided that corporations had the right of free speech under the…

February 19, 2012

What does it mean to be normal? And abnormal? Who gets to decide, and what…

October 10, 2010

Second Life and dozens of other online adventures involve creating digital selves, and millions of…