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2) This Week: Can Money Buy Well-being?
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3) This Week: Narrative and the Meaning of Life
More at https://philosophytalk.org/shows/narrative-and-the-meaning-of-life. Humans are uniquely storytelling creatures who can narrate the events of their own lives. Some argue that our lives derive ...Show More
4) This Week: 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, ...Show More
5) This Week: 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
6) This Week: James 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 promine...Show More
7) This Week: Philippa Foot
More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/philippa-foot. Philippa Foot invented the thought experiment that famously became known as the Trolley Problem. Despite the vast industry of “trolleyology...Show More
8) This Week: Mary Midgley
More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/mary-midgley. Mary Midgley became one of the best known public intellectuals in the UK, and was one of the first philosophers to talk about climate change...Show More
9) This Week: Iris Murdoch
More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/iris-murdoch. Iris Murdoch may be best known for her works of fiction, but her philosophical contributions were equally significant. A moral realist influ...Show More
10) This Week: Judith Jarvis Thomson
More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/judith-jarvis-thomson. Judith Jarvis Thomson is best known for arguing that abortion is morally permissible, even granting the fetus the status of person....Show More