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2420: Mary Wollstonecraft, 5/14/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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How does inequality distort our personalities and relationships?

  • Added: Apr 30, 2024
  • Length: :00
2419: The Legacy of Freud, 5/7/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Did you really want to eat that last piece of cake, or were you secretly thinking about your mother?

  • Added: Apr 30, 2024
  • Length: 53:58
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
2416: Shakespeare's Outsiders, 4/16/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Do Shakespearean dramas have more in common with modern-day soap operas than we think?

  • Added: Apr 05, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
Riding the waves of feminism: a conversation with scholar Bettina Aptheker
From: Suki Wessling
Series: The Babblery
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Noted feminist scholar Bettina Aptheker explores the dawning of her feminist consciousness in waves. Daughter of a communist, Aptheker had to throw...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
2413: Margaret Cavendish, 3/26/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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What would it mean to believe in the radical equality of all things—humans, animals, trees, even rocks?

  • Added: Mar 21, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
EE 24-10: The future of food according to Alicia Kennedy, 3/8/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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In her new book No Meat Required, food writer Alicia Kennedy looks at vegetarian movements of the past and shares her low-tech vision for the futur...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
2024-02-25 Im Yunjidang
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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The life and thought of the first Confucian feminist.

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


  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Debate: Coleman Hughes and Jamelle Bouie on Color Blindness for Black History Month
From: Open to Debate
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During Black History Month, we reflect on a debate that confronts America’s complex history with racial and social inequality. How can we ensure fa...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 5
2409: Im Yunjidang, 2/27/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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The life and thought of the 18th-century Korean philosopher.

  • Added: Feb 21, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
2407: Lincoln as a Philosopher, 2/13/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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The 16th President of the United States was born February 12, 1809.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
2024-02-11 Lincoln as a Philosopher
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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The 16th President of the United States was born February 12, 1809.

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


  • Added: Feb 11, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
2405: 20th Anniversary Quiz Night, 1/30/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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How does your philosophical trivia knowledge stack up against host emeritus John Perry's?

  • Added: Jan 29, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
248: Democracy v. Plutocracy: Breaking Up is Hard to Do, 2/7/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Thom Hartmann, Stacy Mitchell and Maurice B.P. Weeks
From local communities and states to federal policy, antitrust movements to dismantle monopolies are challenging the system that can be summed up a...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
2024-01-14 Frege and the Language of Reason
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What is—or should be—the relationship between logic and thought?

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


  • Added: Jan 15, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 12
The Strat is 70
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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2024 is a year of many anniversaries and one big birthday. The Fender Stratocaster is 70 years old. We will look at the history and why it contin...

Bought by KTRL, KHNS, KWIT, WOUB, KECG and more


  • Added: Jan 14, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
2403: Frege and the Language of Reason, 1/16/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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What is—or should be—the relationship between logic and thought?

  • Added: Jan 08, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
Concert Movies
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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With Beyonce and Taylor Swift setting records with their two new concert films, we decided to offer up some other concert films for you to enjoy th...

Bought by KHNS, The Bear 91.3, KUCA-FM, KWIT, KSRQ, KECG and more


  • Added: Dec 10, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
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
National Writers Series: Heather Cox Richardson
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Five
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Detroit Free Press columnist Neal Rubin talks with historian and author Heather Cox Richardson.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 1
Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This week is an interview with authors Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel about their new book, Bob Dylan: Mixing up the Medicine. I ask them about t...

Bought by KSRQ, KHNS, KWIT, KECG, WOUB and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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
Open Spaces, October 20, 2023
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Open Spaces
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Today on the show, the Endangered Species Act became law 50 years ago. Since then, hundreds of species have been put under its protection. Wyoming ...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 50:22
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?

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


  • Added: Oct 23, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5