All Episodes

Episode 50 - The Concept Of Digital Natives

Episode 49: The Practice Of Taking A Pause, Whether "Stoic" Or Not

Episode 48: Not Making Judgements About Philosophy Based On "Vibes"

Episode 47 - The One Single Thing I'd Like Most To Stress About Ethics

Episode 46 - Thinking About Why One Takes Offense From A Philosopher

Episode 45 - An Often Lacking But Sorely Needed Skill

Episode 44 - Back To Recording In My Office And Lessons Learned From My Fall And Surgery

Episode 43 - Why I Like Teaching Cicero's On The Nature Of The Gods

Episode 42 - Reflections From A Walk Among The Flowers In Milwaukee

Episode 41 - Taking The More Scenic Route In Your Studies

Episode 40: Why Using AI To Study Philosophy Is A Foolish Idea

Episode 39 - Why Academics Enjoy Going To Conferences

Episode 38 - Getting Angry Over Important Ideas Not Being Taught

Episode 37 - Carrying Out "Philosophical Detective Work"

Episode 36: Worries About Wasting Time And Effort Studying Philosophical Works

Episode 35: Reflecting On People Finding Flaws With A Philosophy

Episode 34 - Plural Perspectives On Or Criteria Of Truth

Episode 33: Plutarch On The Mistake Of Thinking You Can Have It All.

Episode 32 - Discovering One Of My First Philosophy Teachers Died 15 Years Ago.

Episode 31: A Conversation With Alasdair MacIntyre That Revealed Character

Episode 30 - Kindness In Ethics, Educating Through Kindness, and Obstacles To Being Kind

Episode 29: Philosophical Practices, Scriptural Passages, and The Emotion Of Anger.

Episode 28 - Doing The Good You Can Do Even In Bad Organizations Or Societies

Episode 27 - A Few Bits Of Advice About Platonic Dialogues

Episode 26 - Converting Theoretical Ideas Into Philosophical Practices (With Two Examples)

Episode 25 - Productivity, Prioritization, And A Sense Of Proportion

Episode 24 - A Memory and Reflections On How Matters Could Have Gone Very Differently

Episode 23 - Accommodating Students' Needs But Only To Certain Limits

Episode 22 - Pulling Back The Curtain On Work And Thought Designing My Classes

Episode 21 - Back To Aristotle's Poetics With Musings About Reading Rich Texts

Episode 20 - Completion, Fulfillment, and Perfection Applied To Philosophical Projects

Episode 19 - Considering How You Would Describe Aspects Of Your Life To Other People

Episode 18 - Cicero's Discussions of Grief As A Kind Of Existential Philosophy

Episode 17 - Achieving Work/Life Balance And Realizing Its Value

Episode 16 - The Things We Hold On To Perhaps Unnecessarily

Mind & Desire Episode 15 - Coming At You From The New Office

Mind & Desire Episode 14 - Which Philosophers Will Still Be Read And Studied?

Episode 13 - Giving Philosophical Texts And Authors The Time You Need To Understand Them Well

Mind & Desire Episode 12 - Rene Descartes' Solicitation and Inclusion Of Objections

Mind & Desire Episode 11 - Mind and Body in Descartes' Sixth Meditation

Mind & Desire Podcast Episode 10 - Rene Descartes On What A Thinking Thing Is

Mind & Desire Episode 9 - Personifying The Laws In Plato's Crito

Episode 8 - Judging Vs Being Judgy or Judgmental

Episode 7 - Taking A Trip To Wyoming Stoic Camp

Mind & Desire Episode 6 - Consistency, Expertise, and Moral Values In Plato's Crito

Mind & Desire Episode 5 - A Similitude Between Picking Black Raspberries and Studying Philosophy

Mind & Desire Podcast Episode 4 - Choice, Mind, and Desire

Mind & Desire Podcast Episode 3 - Stoic Advice About Grieving For Lost Friends

Mind & Desire Podcast Episode 2 - Epictetus On Philosophy's Beginning

Mind & Desire Podcast Episode 1: An introduction to the Podcast