Philosophy Talk Starters Podcast
1) Wise Women: Elisabeth of Bohemia
More at https://philosophytalk.org/shows/elisabeth-bohemia. Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia is best known for her correspondence with René Descartes. In her letters, she articulated a devastating criti...Show More
2) Zhuangzi: Being One With Ten Thousand Things
More at https://philosophytalk.org/shows/zhuangzi. Zhuangzi, the 4th-century BCE Chinese philosopher, was arguably the most important figure in Taoism. He believed that a person’s ideal relationship ...Show More
3) Robert Musil and Life as Experiment
More at https://philosophytalk.org/shows/robert-musil. Robert Musil (1880-1942) was an Austrian novelist, famous for The Man Without Qualities. Set in Austria just before the start of World War I, it...Show More
4) Wise Women: Hildegard von Bingen
More at https://philosophytalk.org/shows/hildegard-of-bingen. Hildegard von Bingen was a 12th century mystic, polymath, and composer whose work spanned visionary theology, philosophy, cosmology, medi...Show More
5) Can Architecture Be Political?
It’s common to judge a piece of architecture based on its functional and aesthetic values, and how the two might complement or compete with one other. It’s less common to judge architecture based on i...Show More
6) Henri Bergson and the Flow of Time
More at https://philosophytalk.org/shows/henri-bergson-and-the-flow-of-time. Many people think of time as a series of events, like successive frames in a movie. But French philosopher Henri Bergson (...Show More
7) Are We Living in a Simulation?
More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/are-we-living-simulation. With rapid advances in Virtual Reality technology and the like, it’s now possible for us to become absorbed in completely made-up...Show More
8) Wise Women: Hypatia of Alexandria
More at https://philosophytalk.org/shows/hypatia-alexandria. Hypatia of Alexandria, late antiquity public figure and scholar, made significant contributions to mathematics, philosophy, and astronomy. ...Show More
9) What Is Music?
More at https://philosophytalk.org/shows/what-is-music. From classical concerts to commercial jingles, music fills our lives every day. But philosophers disagree about what exactly music is and why i...Show More
10) Jams Baldwin and Social Justice
More at https://philosophytalk.org/shows/james-baldwin-and-social-justice. Sometimes, we struggle to tell the truth—especially when it’s the truth about ourselves. Why did James Baldwin, a prominent C...Show More