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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?

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
Is Objectivity Essential to Journalism?
From: Open to Debate
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For decades, objectivity has been cited as journalism's gold standard, promising that journalists would stick “to the facts" and deliver both sides...

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
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?

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  • 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
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?

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  • Added: Jul 31, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
2331: The 2023 Dionysus Awards, 8/1/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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What movies from last year challenged your assumptions and made you think about things in new ways?

  • Added: Jul 20, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
2330: Hypatia of Alexandria, 7/25/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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What was so revolutionary and dangerous about Hypatia’s philosophical ideas?

  • Added: Jul 18, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2328: Mexican Philosophy, 7/11/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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What does philosophy look like if you're standing in Mexico City rather than Munich?

  • Added: Jul 09, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
2327: Democracy By Numbers, 7/4/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Is it mathematically (im)possible to create a true democracy?

  • Added: Jun 29, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2324: The Rhetoric of Big Tech, 6/13/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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What do Ayn Rand, Martin Heidegger, and Samuel Beckett have to do with Silicon Valley?

  • Added: Jun 07, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
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
2318: The Power of Prediction, 5/2/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Is your brain a camera that records the world, or a projector that imposes pictures on it?

  • Added: Apr 26, 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
2315: What's in a Game?, 4/11/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Are games just a fun pastime, or is there something more important about them?

  • Added: Apr 09, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
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
2308: Cancel Culture, 2/21/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Is there a difference between getting criticized and getting cancelled?

  • Added: Feb 14, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2023-02-12 The Philosophical Legacy of Darwin
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Charles Darwin (born February 12, 1809) fundamentally changed our understanding of human life—for better or for worse?

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  • Added: Feb 13, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
2307: The Philosophical Legacy of Darwin, 2/14/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Charles Darwin (born February 12, 1809) fundamentally changed our understanding of human life—for better or for worse?

  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
2023-01-22 Why Trust Science?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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When the truths of science are always shifting, why should we still trust it?

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  • Added: Jan 23, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
2304: Why Trust Science?, 1/24/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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When the truths of science are always shifting, why should we still trust it?

  • Added: Jan 22, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
The 2022 Year in Review
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Patti and Doug discuss the top ten environmental issues of the year, with excerpts of guests from past shows.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
2023-01-06 Molly Wood on Tech, Money and Survival
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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After a 20-year career as a tech reporter for CNET, the New York Times, and the public radio program Marketplace, Molly Wood has come to see the cl...

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10