Philosophy Talk

Coming up: If other animals have language, thought, and culture, then what's so special about humans? Josh and guest-host Alison Gopnik roam the Earth with Peter Godfrey-Smith from the University of Sydney, author of "Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousnesses, and the Making of the World."

🎧 Sunday at 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco & https://www.kalw.org/show/philosophy-talk/2024-11-29/whats-so-special-about-humans

Ahead of our next episode, we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter, Sarah Lai Stirland, to learn about the amazing (if not special) ways that humpback whales and other animals communicate.

🎧 Catch the complete broadcast this Sunday at 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco & online at kalw.org.

Got summer reading suggestions for this fraught historical moment? Send them to [email protected].

TODAY: Why should anyone read—let alone write—a memoir? Josh and Ray take a trip down memory lane with Helena de Bres from Wellesley College, author of "Artful Truths: The Philosophy of Memoir."

🎧 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco & https://www.kalw.org/show/philosophy-talk/2022-05-27/the-scandalous-truth-about-memoir

Wellesley College Philosophy Club

Coming up this weekend, we revisit our episode with Helena de Bres from Wellesley College, author of "Artful Truths: The Philosophy of Memoir."

Ahead of the broadcast, we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter, Shereen Adel, to ask three memoirists about truth in memoir: Tom McAllister, author of "Bury Me in My Jersey"; Kathleen Rooney, author of "Live N**e Girl"; and Meredith Clark, author of "Lyrebird."

For our episode in 2019, we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter, Holly J. McDede, to ask Shira Tarrant from CSU Long Beach about an area where individual liberty and the collective interest often seem to be in conflict.

KALW John Stuart Mill

We're so excited to record How Do We Learn? LIVE at Stanford TOMORROW with Catherine Hartley, Director of the Hartley Lab at NYU, a program generously sponsored by the Symbolic Systems Program.

We learned recently that K-pop group BTS (방탄소년단) have added a third (!) Stanford concert taking place at the same time as our event. This will make parking on campus challenging, so we encourage everyone to carpool, take public transit, or find alternative means of transportation. More information is available at https://transportation.stanford.edu/news/stanford-transportation-impacts-during-bts-concert.

Some helpful hints:
• Enter campus from the SW side, either via Junipero Serra Boulevard or from Sand Hill Road through Stock Farm Road to Campus Drive.
• Avoid east campus and anywhere near the stadium including El Camino/Embarcadero/Galvez/Palm streets.
• Here is the road closure map in/around campus for reference:https://storage.googleapis.com/stanford-prod/2026/05/11/I7oZk5YpzJ0JfaV4LnnZ6Lkk1XZ73AMuHjNq3MQG.pdf