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Mind & Desire — 57 episodes
Episode 57 - Writers For Whom Religion Just Made Matters More Complicated
Episode 56: Designing A Class On Love, Friendship, Sexual Desire, and Pleasure
Episode 55 - Does Socrates Really Know Only That He Knows Nothing?
Episode 54 - The Limits Of Philosophers' Conceptions Or Imaginations
Episode 53 - An Occasional Compliment From Authors I Interview
Episode 52: A Practice For Getting Back To Sleep When Your Mind Is Active
Episode 51 - When What Other People Do Just Doesn't Make Sense
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