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2024-04-21 What Would Kant Do?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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This year marks the 300th anniversary of Immanuel Kant, born April 22, 1724.

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 10
2417: What Would Kant Do?, 4/23/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Is it really possible to base your moral values on reason?

  • Added: Apr 15, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
2414: Mind Sharing, 4/2/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Do you exaggerate your gestures when other people are around?

  • Added: Mar 25, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
2024-02-18 The Social Lives of Robots
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Can social intelligence be taught to non-social beings?

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  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 12
2344: Referring to the World: Ken's Final Work, 10/31/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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The Philosophy Talk co-founder would have been 69 years old on November 4.

  • Added: Oct 22, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
RESCUE, part 27: How to Advance Ocean Literacy
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week on World Ocean Radio we continue the RESCUE series with recommendations to further protect the ocean--by building ocean literacy into eve...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2023
  • Length: 05:06
2321: True Contradictions, 5/23/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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This sentence is false—does that mean it’s also true?

  • Added: May 17, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
2317: Why We Hate, 4/25/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Is hatred ever morally justified, or does hate just breed more hate?

  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 53:58
2023-03-26 The Philosophy of Smell
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Can our sense of smell tell us things that our other senses can’t?

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
2313: The Philosophy of Smell, 3/28/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Can our sense of smell tell us things that our other senses can’t?

  • Added: Mar 22, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
2023-02-19 Cancel Culture
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is there a moral difference between “cancelling” public figures and “cancelling” ordinary folks who get caught on tape behaving badly?

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  • Added: Feb 20, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
2022-08-21 Death of the Sentence
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is the internet destroying language?

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  • Added: Aug 22, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
2022-07-24 Is Optimism Rational?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Do you have to expect the best if you're going to get through the worst?

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  • Added: Jul 24, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
2219: What Is Ideology?, 5/10/2022
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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How is ideology different from dogma?

  • Added: May 05, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
2020-08-07 Billion Dollar Burger
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Long before the coronavirus began disrupting America’s trillion-dollar meat industry, lab-grown proteins were upending the way we consume chicken, ...

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  • Added: Aug 06, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 8
2020-07-26 The Ethical Jerk
From: Philosophy Talk
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Could studying moral philosophy make us more moral — or more of a jerk?

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  • Added: Jul 27, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 3
It's a Great Time to Be a Citizen Scientist
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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There has never been a better time to become a citizen scientist: curious individuals interested in collecting data to build toward solutions, expa...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2019
  • Length: 04:49
Is Philanthropy Bad for Democracy?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What’s the difference between charitable giving from ordinary people and philanthropic giving from the very wealthy?

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  • Added: Apr 29, 2019
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 9
Affirmative Action: Too Little or Too Much?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Does affirmative action undermine the achievements of those who are supposed to benefit from it?

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  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Derek Bok: The View from the Top (Excerpt)
From: Open Source
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Derek Bok is the only two-time president of Harvard University, which is to say he has twice reinvented the management of the oldest, richest, mayb...

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  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
Sebastian Thrun: MOOCs, Angry Birds, and Lifelong Learning
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We’re speaking with a hot name in disruptive innovation, Sebastian Thrun. He’s part of our conversation on hacking higher education. He’s the foun...

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  • Added: May 26, 2014
  • Length: 11:54
  • Purchases: 1
Hacking Higher Ed
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Continuing our series on higher ed, we're hacking our way to a better model; call it New U. There won't be a football team or a building and ground...

  • Added: May 23, 2014
  • Length: 58:36
Thomas Frank on What's the Matter With College (Excerpt)
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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How did higher education, in general, turn from the days of the GI Bill — and the land grant colleges long before that — to being a trap for sevent...

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  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 1