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Philosophy Talk The program that questions everything... except your intelligence – Sundays at 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco & online at www.kalw.org.

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Subscribe: www.philosophytalk.org/get-the-podcast Philosophy Talk seeks to bring the richness of philosophical thought to a broad public. The show has been on the air since January 2004. It is currently broadcast on more than 100 public radio stations nationwide and can also be heard in international markets. Philosophy Talk is also a travel ro

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09/04/2026

Coming up: Josh and Devon talk to the authors of recent books that speak to our dangerous times:

• Christopher Star from Middlebury College, editor of "How to Face the End of the World: An Ancient Guide for Apocalyptic Times"
• Christian Miller from Wake Forest University, author of "The Honesty Crisis: Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest World"
• Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of "The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us"

🎧 Sunday at 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco & online at kalw.org.

As featured on our year-end special, PBS North Carolina announced that it will air and distribute "The Bowl," a document...
09/02/2026

As featured on our year-end special, PBS North Carolina announced that it will air and distribute "The Bowl," a documentary that follows a team of high school students competing in a national ethics competition.

Check out Josh and Ray's conversation with the film's director, Eli Yetter-Bowman: https://youtu.be/R5aeL_Lr8AI

Josh and Ray talk to Eli Yetter-Bowman, Founder of Ethereal Films a...

Welcome to September. This month will mark the 25th anniversary of 9/11, so for This Month's Playlist we've gathered som...
09/01/2026

Welcome to September. This month will mark the 25th anniversary of 9/11, so for This Month's Playlist we've gathered some our earliest episodes that questioned assumptions about the post-9/11 world—LISTEN: https://philosophytalk.org/playlist/9-11-25-years-on

This month marks a quarter-century since the attacks of September 11, 2001. The program was very much born in the wake of that transformative event (and some of its overheated rhetoric): one of John and Ken’s early demos explored what we call terrorism and why, and the first regularly-scheduled br...

08/29/2026

John Locke was the favorite philosopher of our Founding Fathers. For our episode in 2011, we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter to explore his life & thought with one of his biggest living fans, Stanford historian Jack Rakove, author of "Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution."

08/28/2026

Can reasonable people—specifically, parents and teenagers—still disagree? Ahead of our next broadcast, we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter, Sarah Lai Stirland, to find out with the help of teen family therapist Janet Edgette, author of "Therapeutic Conversations with Adolescents."

08/27/2026

Dialectic... Zeitgeist... The end of history... Happy 256th, Hegel!

More at philosophytalk.org/shows/hegel

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