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Our Self, Our Reality and Waking Up to The Ground of Being: Dr. Fred Cooper

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Riding Backwards on an Ox One May Enter the Buddha Hall

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Wheel Within Wheels and The Deep Breath of The Universe

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Your Very Own Mind/Body Problem: A Philosophical Analysis of Exercise

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Waking Up From History with Raj Dev: Africa, AI and the Way Forward

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I Saw Three Ships Come Sailin' In

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Old Farmers Never Die, They Just Go To Seed

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Resenting The Benefactor or How Brian Became An Old Korean Man

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How can we be two places at once when we're not anywhere at all?

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When Bad Therapy Happens to Good People

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The Mother Ditch of The Common Good

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Soulmates or Cellmates? The Enigma of Intimate Relationships

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Whispers from The Universe and The Pachenko Machine of Souls

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Take Your Time: Deconstructing Patience 104

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Who Are You? All About Character Typing

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Fanning the Flames of Philosophy's Hearth

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Speaking the Tao With Kenneth Leong

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Happy Happy Joy Joy 100

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Thinking About Thinking, with an INTP

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Between the Beasts and The Gods

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One Elephant Theory and The Conscious Middle

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Thinking about The Odyssey

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Erez Levin: Taboos and Hacking The Body Politic

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Speaking the Tao with Dr. David Marshall 94

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Mental Health, Materialism and Tripping Balls

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Slicing Up The Pepperoni Of Time

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Pornographic Playing Cards, Philosophy and Nietzsche 91

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Dr, Stephen Hicks: Science, Objectivity, Truth and the Whole She-bang

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Who's Your Daddy? Orphans Discuss Fatherhood

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Money, money, money and a bit about Magic Spells 88

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What About Eating Animals? 87

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Krishnan Venkatesh: Sauntering into the Unknown: Thoreau & Basho

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James Hartree: Philosophy For Screenagers 85

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Allowing Being To Be: Gelassenheit 84

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Mountaintops, Views, and More Heidegger 83

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Can Philosophy Repair The World? Shaking Off The Still-Life 82

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Gadamer, Levinas and a Magical Kind of Ping Pong 81

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Heidegger and The Ontological Goo 80

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Is Heaven All Up In Our Head? 79

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Rich Rubino 2025 Retrospective 78

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Paul Fenn: Liberty, Democracy, Localism and The Bloody Rhinoceros Head

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Frogs in The Maelstrom and The Big We 76

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Category Confusion and The Slippery Fish of The Self 75

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The Rabbi and The Atom: Fusing Torah and Physics

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The Missing Piece: The One Thing Books Can't Teach You 73

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#72 The Dance of The Plover and The Chronosynclastic Infundibulum

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#71: Larry Shapiro: Why Science Needs Philosophy

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#70: Implications of Forgiveness

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#69: On Belonging, Oedipus, and the Psychopomp

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#68: Michael Wolfe: Polish the Heart

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#67: Steven Nadler: Virtue is its Own Reward

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#66: Hope, Will, and Purpose

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#65: Madness

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#64: Glenna Gerard: Dialogue and the Ineffable

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#63: Master and Emissary

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#62: Justice and the Nature of Evil

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#61: The Ladder Goes Both Ways

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#60: The Search for Truth

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#59: The Second Coming (WB Yeats)

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#58: What is Anger?

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#57: Brian's Teachers

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#56: Krishnan Venkatesh: A Love of Impartiality

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#55: It's All About the Hats

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#54: Brian's Been Thinkin' 'Bout Crypto

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#53: The Self is a Fortune Cookie

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#52: Psychology and Ideology

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#51: Fruitfulness

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#50: Perfectionism and Play

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#49: Geoffrey Moore: Pattern Recognition

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#48: Hitler: A Phenomenological Sortie

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#47: Allison Gerrard: Moral Courage

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#46: An Antidote to Fragmentation

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#45: Dire Wolves and Ethics

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#44: The Wrench and the Paintbrush

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#43: Healthy, Healthy, Dead

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#42: On the Mountain, a Tree (Consulting the Oracle)

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#41: Paul Fenn: The Reason We Are Mad

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#40: Before You Feed the Beast

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#39: Bridging Cultures

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#38: We Assemble the World

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#37: Discourse on the Finite and Infinite

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#36: Extensions of Mankind

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#35: Silly Shit Ain't New

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#34: Letting The Stranger In with Claudia Hauer

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#33: What Then Must We Do?

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#32: A Merging of Horizons

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#31: All Learning is Experiential

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#30: Gang Aft Agley

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#29: En Arche en ho Logos

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#28: God Made the Food and the Devil Made the Cooks

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#27: Claudia Hauer: It's Time for a New Ethics

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#26: Instant Karma's Gonna Get You

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#25: Justice and Paradigm Shift

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#24: What Is Post-Modernism?

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#23: Intuition (What Is It Good For?)

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#22: Whole Body Like Dogs P**** (Why Martial Arts Matter)

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#21: A Brief History of Western Thought

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#20: La Maravilla Del Mundo

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#19: Patriotism and Perspective

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#18: Here Comes Everyone