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UC Berkeley Graduate Council Lectures (Audio) — 100 episodes
The Moment of Decision
The Decision in History
What is a Decision?
The Constitutional Right to Transition: Reconstruction and the Political History of Transphobia
Is This Your Only Life?
Three Ages and Three Intelligences: Exploit Explore Empower with Alison Gopnik
Can a Liberal Polity Survive the Politics of Grievance?
The Squiggly Line with Katelyn Jetelina
The Soul – Spirit is My Altar with Marta Moreno Vega
Public Health: How to Make the Invisible Visible with Katelyn Jetelina
Evolution and Animal Minds with Peter Godfrey-Smith
The Times of Possibility
Times of Change: Possibility Virtue and a Democratic Politics of Time
Seas the Day: A New Narrative for the Ocean
Science in the White House: Integrating Solutions to the Triple Crises of Climate Change Loss of Biodiversity and Inequality/Inequity
Subjects and Citizens: The Possibility Condition Law and Democracy
The Moral Economy of Resource Extraction and the Future of Industrialization
Forging a New Political System 2024 and Beyond
The Arc of Energy Justice: A Pursuit to Ensure Affordable Reliable and Clean Energy for All
Do Cash Transfers Save Lives?
The Search for Paradise
Character and Agency
The Deadly Trade in Oil and Gas
American Thanatocracy vs Abolition Democracy: On Cops Capitalism and the War on Black Life
Minority Rule in the United States
U.S. Majorities vs. U.S. Institutions
American Democracy and the Crisis of Majority Rule
'I' and Self-Consciousness
Policies to Restore the American Dream with Raj Chetty
The Science of Economic Opportunity: New Insights from Big Data with Raj Chetty
A Conversation with Ezra Klein about Liberalism
How Modern Slavery Touches Everyone
How Modern Slavery Impacts the Environment with Kevin Bales
Constructing a Republican Executive with Michael McConnell
21st Century Global Health Priorities with Christopher Murray
The Social Safety Net as an Investment in Children with Hilary Hoynes
The Status Quo Loves To Say No: Disability Rights and the Battle Against Structures of Exclusion with Judith Heumann
Metrics in Action: Lessons Learned from 30 Years of the Global Burden of Disease Study with Christopher Murray
The Demarcation Problem for Philosophy
A New Measure: The Revolutionary Quantum Reform of the Modern Metric System
Time Einstein and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe
Counterfactuals Compatibilism and Rational Choice
Weaponizing Narratives: Why America Wants Gun Control But Doesn’t Have It
Deep Soul: Twentieth-Century African American Freedom Struggles and the Making of the Modern World with Waldo Martin
On Uncertainty: Wittgenstein: Habits of Thought and Thoughts of Habit
Prison Abolition and a Mule with Paul Butler
The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives are No Substitute for Good Citizens
Progress in the Sciences and in the Arts
Shaping a 21st Century Workforce – Is AI Friend or Foe?
Evolution and Creationism as Science and Myth
Why Do People Reject Good Science?
Texting Etiquette Varies by Generation
Souls in Other Selves and the Immortality of the Body
Defending Liberty in the Age of Trump: Lessons from the Front
American Identity in the Age of Trump with George Packer
The Language of Friendship: The Role of Talk in an Understudied Relationship
Conversations on the Small Screen: Talking over Social Media
Strangers in Their Own Land: Challenges Climbing the Empathy Wall
Hello Food Industry Meet Food Activists
Cicero’s De Officiis – Stoic Ethics for Non-Stoics
Food Politics and the Twenty-First Century Food Movement with Marion Nestle
The Cost of Color: The Health and Social Consequences of Skin Color for People Today
The Real 'Skin in the Game': The History of Naked Sweaty and Colorful Skin in the Human Lineage
Can We Create Good Institutions?
Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
Embodied Souls - Lessons from Neurology with V.S. Ramachandran
The Intrigue of Wine Gold and California Today with Frances Dinkelspiel
Why We Have Effective Agreements to Protect the Ozone Layer But Not to Stabilize Climate
Contemporary Climate Change as Seen Through Measurements
Immortality - An Egyptian Dream
Imagine America without Los Angeles: Applying Science to Understand the Vulnerability of Modern Society to Natural Disasters
The Challenges of Science Communication: What Does Storytelling Have to do with Climate Change?
The Switch: Reinventing American Freedom with John Fabian Witt
The Creative City: Can Cities Remain the Catalysts of Creativity?
The Generic City: Can the 21st Century Ever Build Special Places?
Federalism Localism and the Shape of Constitutional Conflict
Women's Work in the World Economy: A Personal and Political Perspective from Laura Tyson
The Philosophy of As If with Kwame Anthony Appiah
The Children of the Revolution
Were the Framers Right About Constitutional Design? The US Constitution in Comparative Perspective
A Neanderthal Perspective on Human Origins - 2014
The Theoretical Impulse in Plato and Aristotle
The First U.S. ‘War on Terror’: The 1798 Sedition Act and Constitutional Politics in the Age of Jefferson
Why White People are Called Caucasian (Illustrated)
The Anatomy of a Scientific Discovery: Telomeres and Telomerase - Past Present and Future
How Can Telomeres Cause Age-Related Disease?
The Elephant in the Room: The Psychology of Innuendo and Euphemism
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The Quest for Heaven is Local: How Spiritual Experience is Shaped by Social Life
Island Landscapes or Sauer Among the Polynesians
Fulbright and the Importance of International Education
Reason Genealogy and the Hermeneutics of Magnanimity with Robert Brandom
Considering Dogs with Alexandra Horowitz
Do Babies Matter? Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower with Mary Ann Mason
Income Inequality: Evidence and Implications with Emmanuel Saez
A Passion for Waiting: Messianism History and the Jews with Leon Wieseltier
Intelligence and Machines: Creating Intelligent Machines by Modeling the Brain with Jeff Hawkins
Intelligence and the Brain: Recent Advances in Understanding How the Brain Works with Jeff Hawkins
Happiness and Ultimate Good with Peter Singer
Obama the Tea Party and the Future of American Politics with Theda Skocpol