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Social Reality
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What do money, property, government, and marriage all have in commmon?
Freedom, Blame, and Resentment
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If there's no such thing as free will, does it make sense to resent people for their actions?
What Are Human Rights?
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Are rights universal? God given? Philosophically justified? Or a matter of custom and culture?
Gay Pride and Prejudice
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Why do we panic over issues of human sexuality?
Democracy and the Press
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Can the Press serve its corporate owners and Democracy at the same time?
What Is Love?
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Do you love her because she's loveable, or is she loveable because you love her?
What Are Leaders Made of?
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Is there a set of traits that all great leaders have in common?
Mind Reading
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How is it possible for us to know other people's thoughts, feelings, desires, and intentions?
The Corporation as Person
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Are corporations conscious? Do they remember, reason, or experience guilt and joy?
The Ethics of Torture
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Is torture justifiable if it saves a life? Ten lives? Ten thousand lives?
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In this special episode, John and Ken relive some favorite moments from the Philosophy Talk archives. Listen to cognitive scientist Margaret Boden on creativity, computers, and the emotions, Stanford University's Kara Dansky on the nature of crime and punishment, Georgetown Provost James O'Donnell on the contemporary relevance of Saint Augustine, Stanford's Michele Elam on biracial identities in the age of Obama, and Berkeley psychologist Alison Gopnik on her favorite philosophical movie. Plus selected commentaries from Ian Shoales, the Sixty-Second Philosopher.
In this special episode, John and Ken relive some favorite moments from the Philosophy Talk archives. Listen to cognitive scientist Margaret Boden on creativity, computers, and the emotions, Stanford University's Kara Dansky on the nature of crime and punishment, Georgetown Provost James O'Donnell on the contemporary relevance of Saint Augustine, Stanford's Michele Elam on biracial identities in the age of Obama, and Berkeley psychologist Alison Gopnik on her favorite philosophical movie. Plus selected commentaries from Ian Shoales, the Sixty-Second Philosopher.