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Philosophy Talk Starters — 537 episodes · page 3 of 6
280: What Is Love?
455: Trolling, Bullying, and Flame Wars - Humility and Online Discourse
502: Comforting Conversations (Part 2)
501: Comforting Coversations (Part 1)
516: The Examined Year – 2020
457: Faith and Humiity
456: Are We Alone?
454: Monstrous Technologies?
164: Hannah Arendt
452: How to Humbly Disagree
500: Time for Summer Reading
448: Frantz Fanon and the Violence of Colonialism
397: White Privilege and Racial Injustice
354: Machiavelli
278: Poetry as a Way of Knowing
447: Fractured Identities
446: Philosophy of Retirement
444: Can Speech Kill?
497: The 2020 Dionysus Awards
443: Midlife and Meaning
442: Philosophy of Trash
440: The Internet of Things
439: A World Without Work
441: Race Matters
438: Post-Truth Politics
493: Ken Taylor Tribute
436: Could the Laws of Physics Ever Change?
434: Cognitive Bias
435: Driverless Cars at the Moral Crossroads
432: Habermas and Democracy
431: Nonhuman Rights
430: Should Beliefs Aim at Truth?
429: The Limits of Medical Consent
427: The Space-Time Continuum
426: Knowing What We Know (And What We Don't)
425: Queerness
483: Summer Reading (and Misreading)
424: Freedom of Speech on Campus
423: Philosophy Behind Bars
419: The Mystery of the Multiverse
416: Magical Thinking
422: Reparations
421: The Value of a College Education
418: Matter and Energy: The Dark Side
414: This Is Your Brain on Art
413: The Big Bang – Before and After
412: More Than Pun and Games
409: Radical Democracy
411: The Mystery of Music
407: Philosophy of Sleep
406: Altered States
408: The Philanthropy Trap
475: The 2019 Dionysus Awards
410: Identity Politics
405: Affirmative Action – Too Little or Too Much?
404: One Child Too Many
403: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
472: The Examined Year – 2018
399: The Ancient Cosmos – When the Earth Stood Still
402: Extreme Altruism
400: The Science of Happiness
401: Gun Control
415: Election Special
398: The Ethics of Debt
466: The New Golden Age of Television
391: Your Lying Eyes - Perception, Memory, and justice
460: Summer Reading List 2018
390: Will Innovation Kill Us?
450: The 2018 Dionysus Awards
388: Living On Through Others
386: The Logic of Regret
383: The Ethics of Drone Warfare
380: Neuroscience and Free Will
387: In Praise of Love – Plato's Symposium Meets Bernstein's Serenade
445: The Examined Year - 2017
363: What's Next? Death and the Afterlife
368: Diseases of the Mind - Philosophy of Psychiatry
369: Democracy in Crisis
433: Summer Reading List 2017
356: Racial Profiling and Implicit Bias
353: Babies and the Birth of Morality
428: The Phenomenology of Lived Experience
351: Remixing Reality – Art & Literature for the 21st Century
350: Captivity
420: The Examined Year - 2016
343: The Reality of Time
342: What Is Color?
336: Science and Gender
334: Memory and the Self
329: Dangerous Demographics - The Challenges of an Aging Population
326: An Eye for an Eye - The Morality of Revenge
325: The Limits of Self-Knowledge
320: Life as a Work of Art
323: The Moral Lives of Animals
327: When Is It Wrong to Save a Life? Lessons from the Trolley Problem
321: Memes - Viruses of the Mind?
317: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times
319: Finding Meaning in a Material World
318: Freedom and Free Enterprise
312: Faith, Reason, and the Art of Living