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The End of the Starters
Schopenhauer: Living Your Worst Life
Can Money Buy Well-being?
Logic For Everyone
Wise Woman: Anna Julia Cooper
Diogenes and the Honest Life
Civil Disobedience
William James
Why Is the World So Weird?
The Examined Year: 2025
Mind Sharing
Shakespeare's Outsiders
Wise Women: Im Yunjidang
Gilbert Ryle and the Map of the Mind
Can A.I. Help Us Understand Babies?
Wise Women: Margaret Cavendish
Narrative and the Meaning of Life
Impossible Worlds
Wise Women: Mary Astell
In Awe of Wonder
Making and Breaking Habits
Wise Women: Elisabeth of Bohemia
Zhuangzi: Being One With Ten Thousand Things
Robert Musil and Life as Experiment
Wise Women: Hildegard von Bingen
Can Architecture Be Political?
Henri Bergson and the Flow of Time
Are We Living in a Simulation?
Wise Women: Hypatia of Alexandria
The Value of Music
James Baldwin and Social Justice
572: Weird Wants
607: The 2025 Dionysus Awards
Schopenhauer—Living Your Worst Life
571: Making a Better World
613: Private Lives
569: Mexican Philosophy
612: Philippa Foot
567: What Is Gender?
566: Can Art Save Us?
565: True Contradictions
611: Mary Midgley
563: Derek Parfit and Your Future Self
610: Are Rules Meant to Be Broken?
609: Iris Murdoch
487: Changing Minds on Climate Change
562: The Philosophy of Smell
556: In Search of Proust's Philosophy
557: Thinking Like a Conspiracy Theorist
608: Judith Jarvis Thomson
559: Why Trust Science?
607: The 2025 Dionysus Awards
80: W.E.B. DuBois
606: The Philosophical Worlds of Borges
605: Alan Turing and the Limits of Computation
554: Liberty and Justice For Who?
553: Climate Change and Collective Action
555: How to Create Virtuous Leaders?
604: Elizabeth Anscombe
552: Who Owns Culture?
603: The Examined Year—2024
550: What Is Political Inequality?
602: Crisis and Creativity in Mayan Mythology
549: Is Optimism Rational?
601: What's So Special About Humans?
389: Spinoza
600: Emma Goldman
580: American Futures (Ken Taylor Memorial Episode)
599: Simone Weil
417: John Dewey and the Ideal of Democracy
545: What Is Ideology?
598: Anna Julia Cooper
560: Cancel Culture
597: Marx and Morality
596: How To Do Things With Your Mind
591: Summer Reading List 2024
595: Hildegard von Bingen
541: #MeToo: Retribution, Accountability, and Justice
584: The 2024 Dionysus Awards
449: James Baldwin and Social Justice
105: Karl Popper
594: Who Speaks For You?
581: 20th Anniversary Quiz Night
593: Nísia Floresta
592: Daniel Dennett Retrospective
540: Righteous Rage
539: Marcus Aurelius
590: Logic For Everyone
532: Akan Philosophy and Personhood
589: Mary Wollstonecraft
588: Why Is the World So Weird?
544: What Would Kant Do?
587: Shakespeare's Outsiders
538: Could Robots Be Persons?
586: Mind Sharing
585: Margaret Cavendish
536: What Can Virtual Reality (Actually) Do?
535: Should All Ages Be Equal?
583: Im Yunjidang
534: The Social Lives of Robots