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2402: Simone de Beauvoir, 1/9/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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The French feminist philosopher was born January 9, 1908.

  • Added: Dec 31, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2023-12-24 The Ethics of Awesomeness
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Isn’t it awesome when someone breaks with social conventions and creates opportunities for people to come together and express themselves?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KICI Iowa City, KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio), WNYO and more


  • Added: Dec 25, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11
2352: The Ethics of Awesomeness, 12/26/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Isn’t it awesome when someone breaks with social conventions and creates opportunities for people to come together and express themselves?

  • Added: Dec 18, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2023-12-17 Impossible Worlds
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What’s the difference between the merely surprising and the truly impossible?

Bought by KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 18, 2023
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 3
2351: Impossible Worlds, 12/19/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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What’s the difference between the merely surprising and the truly impossible?

  • Added: Dec 13, 2023
  • Length: 53:58
Will AI Kill the Future of the Creative Arts?
From: Open to Debate
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From AI-generated paintings to writing scripts and novels, AI is challenging our endeavor to create, innovate, and connect. Will the human touch be...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, WMUU-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Dec 07, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
2023-11-19 Mary Astell
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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The life and thought of the "first English feminist."

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 20, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
2347: Mary Astell, 11/21/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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The life and thought of the "first English feminist"

  • Added: Nov 17, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2023-11-12 Your Brain on Literature
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How do writers and filmmakers exploit our cognitive biases to surprise and delight us?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WLPR , KICI Iowa City, KSKQ, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Nov 13, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11
2346: Your Brain on Literature, 11/14/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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How do writers and filmmakers exploit our cognitive biases to surprise and delight us?

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2345: Zhuangzi: Being One with Ten Thousand Things, 11/7/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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If you dream that you're a butterfly, how can you be sure you're not a butterfly dreaming you're a person when you wake up?

  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
2023-10-22 Elisabeth of Bohemia
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How did a 17th-century princess challenge Descartes' mind-body dualism?

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  • Added: Oct 23, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
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
2023-10-15 The Lives and Ideas of the Vienna Circle
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Wouldn’t it be great if our society were based on sound logical principles instead of outdated superstition?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KICI Iowa City, GCR (Global Community Radio), KTSW 89.9, KMUN and more


  • Added: Oct 16, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
2342: The Lives and Ideas of the Vienna Circle, 10/17/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Wouldn’t it be great if our society were based on sound logical principles instead of outdated superstition?

  • Added: Oct 15, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2338: Are We Living in a Simulation?, 9/19/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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How would we even tell the real world from a simulated one?

  • Added: Sep 18, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
2023-09-17 Are We Living in a Simulation?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How would we even tell the real world from a simulated one?

Bought by KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 18, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
2023-09-10 Adorno and the Culture Industry
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Theodor Adorno was born September 11, 1903.

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  • Added: Sep 11, 2023
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 11
2337: Adorno and the Culture Industry, 9/12/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Theodor Adorno was born September 11, 1903.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
  • Length: 53:58
2023-09-03 (End of) Summer Reading List 2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What books should thoughtful people have been reading this summer?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN, KSKQ, KTSW 89.9, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Sep 04, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
2023-08-20 Weird Wants
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is it weird to want to do things that are bad for us?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio), KFCF FM, KSKQ, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
2336: (End of) Summer Reading List 2023, 9/5/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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What new books should thoughtful people read this summer?

  • Added: Aug 16, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
2334: Weird Wants, 8/22/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Is it weird to want to do things that are bad for us?

  • Added: Aug 16, 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
2023-07-30 The 2023 Dionysus Awards
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What movies of the past year challenged your assumptions and made you think about things in new ways?

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KMUN, KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KSKQ


  • Added: Jul 31, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5