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A new year offers an opportunity to reflect on the significant events of the previous year. But what ideas and events that took shape over the past twelve months have prompted us to question our assumptions and to think about things in new ways? What significant events – in politics, in science, and in philosophy itself – have called into question our most deeply-held beliefs? Join John, Ken, and their special guests as they celebrate the examined year with a philosophical look back at 2011.
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A new year offers an opportunity to reflect on the significant events of the previous year. But what ideas and events that took shape over the past twelve months have prompted us to question our assumptions and to think about things in new ways? What significant events – in politics, in science, and in philosophy itself – have called into question our most deeply-held beliefs? Join John, Ken, and their special guests as they celebrate the examined year with a philosophical look back at 2011.
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