Happy 60th birthday to @davidchalmers.bsky.social of NYU, who joined us most recently on the program to ask "Are We Living in a Simulation?"

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Daniel Dennett Retrospective A look at one of the most well-known American philosophers, who passed away two years ago this Sunday.

TODAY: On the second anniversary of his passing, Josh and Ray listen back to past conversations with the late Daniel Dennett and learn more about his life and work from Jenann Ismael of @jhu.edu.

🎧 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco & www.kalw.org/show/philoso... #PhilSky #philosophy

Coming up: This Sunday marks two years since Dan Dennett's passing, so tune in as Josh & Ray are joined by Jenann Ismael from @jhu.edu to listen back to some of Dennett’s past appearances on the program.

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

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Our next episode will air on the second anniversary of Dan Dennett's passing, so we'll be rebroadcasting the special episode we produced at the time. In the meantime check out his last appearance on the program, recorded live at Pacific University in 2015: philosophytalk.org/shows/neuros... #PhilSky

Around this time back in 2004...

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Clones, Classics, and Collective Consciousness: The 2026 Dionysus Nominees - Philosophy Talk This year’s Dionysus Awards movie special came together a little too late to serve as...

Check them all out in this week's blog: philosophytalk.org/blog/clones-...

#PhilSky #Companion #Mickey17 #Hamnet #Frankenstein #Severance #Pluribus

For each of the Dionysus Award nominees in this week's movie special, there's a past PT related to the philosophical issues that run through that film or TV show. For instance, our 2014 episode "Am I Alone?" explores the problem of other minds as in #Plur1bus: philosophytalk.org/shows/am-i-a...

It's almost a relief to watch him tell a relatively straightforward lie that even his otherwise demented, Dunning-Kruger character can't possibly believe.

Tune in to find out this Sunday at 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco as @profjoshlandy.bsky.social and guest co-host Jorah Dannenberg present our annual Dionysus Awards for the most philosophically-compelling movies of the past year.

More at philosophytalk.org/shows/the-20... #PhilSky #movies

Last month Chloé Zhao's #Hamnet was up for 8 Oscars, with Jessie Buckley winning for Best Actress. But how well does it fare against @realgdt.bsky.social's #Frankenstein for "Best Tweak on a Classic that Raises Questions about Parents and Children?" vimeo.com/1180281846?f... @amycoplan.bsky.social

The 2026 Dionysus Awards - Philosophy Talk With the Oscars dust settled, it’s time to think about what movies of the past year challenged our assumptions and made us think about things in new ways. Josh and guest co-host Jorah Danenberg presen...

Catch the complete broadcast this Sunday at 11 am on @kalwradio.bsky.social 91.7 FM in San Francisco & online at kalw.org. More info at philosophytalk.org/shows/the-20....

The 2026 Dionysus Awards: Best TV Show That Blows Up All Your Theories of Personal Identity YouTube video by Philosophy Talk

Coming up this weekend it's the Dionysus Awards, our annual celebration of the most thought-provoking #movies (and, increasingly, #TV shows) of the past year. In this segment, the philosophers consider two of TV's best extended thought experiments on personal identity: youtu.be/NU39I_TzNDA #PhilSky

Hobbes and the Ideal Citizen Podcast Episode · Philosophy Talk · 5 April · 51min

ICYMI Yesterday's not-at-all nasty, brutish, or short broadcast on political philosopher Thomas #Hobbes is now available for download: podcasts.apple.com/rs/podcast/h... #PhilSky

TODAY: On his 438th anniversary, revisit the thought of the influential 17th century philosopher with Stanford political scientist @aejm.bsky.social, author of "Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times."

🎧 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco & www.kalw.org/show/philoso... #PhilSky

We were sad to learn of the recent passing of @vanderbilt.edu philosopher Charles Scott, who joined us on the program back in 2010: philosophytalk.org/shows/what-n...

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Hobbes and the Ideal Citizen - Philosophy Talk Seventeenth century philosopher Thomas Hobbes believed that without government to control our worst impulses, life would be ‘solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.’ Consequently, he thought that a...

Catch the complete broadcast this Sunday—Hobbes' 438th anniversary—at 11 am on @kalwradio.bsky.social 91.7 FM in San Francisco & kalw.org. More at philosophytalk.org/shows/hobbes....

Hobbes and the Ideal Citizen: Roving Philosophical Report YouTube video by Philosophy Talk

Ahead of our next episode, "Thomas #Hobbes and the Ideal Citizen," we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter, Shereen Adel, to ask Josh Ober and Emilee Chapman of Stanford how ideals of #citizenship have evolved from ancient Athens to modern America: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zca3... #PhilSky

April Arrivals - Philosophy Talk April is National Poetry Month and also the birth month of the late poet and Nobel laureate Louise Glück, who joined Josh and Ray back in 2022 to ask Why Poetry Matters. Check out that episode along w...

April is National #Poetry Month and also the birth month of the late poet and Nobel laureate Louise Glück, who joined Josh & Ray in 2022 to ask Why Poetry Matters. Check out that episode along with others focused on notable thinkers born in April—more at philosophytalk.org/playlist/apr... #PhilSky

Coming up: When does thinking become an action? Josh and guest-host Blakey Vermeule do things in the mind of their Stanford colleague Antonia Peacocke, author of "Mental Means."

🎧 Sunday at 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco & www.kalw.org/show/philoso....

#PhilSky #philosophy #mind

How to Do Things With Your Mind - Philosophy Talk We all engage in mental actions of various kinds, whether it’s planning the coming week, trying to remember the lyrics of a song, or imagining what we’d look like with a different haircut. These thoug...

More at philosophytalk.org/shows/how-do... @kalwradio.bsky.social

How to Do Things With Your Mind: Roving Philosophical Report YouTube video by Philosophy Talk

Is it possible to improve the quality of your thinking? Ahead of our next episode, we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter, Sarah @laistirland.bsky.social, to find out how #meditation can help us control our thoughts: youtu.be/yEmebVYmf98

#philSky #philosophy #zenbuddhism

For this final week of #WomensHistoryMonth, KALW's Bay Made will be featuring episodes from our #WiseWomen series.

🎧 11:30 am Mon-Thu on 91.7 FM in the SF Bay Area for the wisdom of Hildegard of Bingen, Margaret Cavendish, Emma Goldman, and Iris Murdoch.

More at kalw.org/show/bay-made #PhilSky

Wise Woman: Nísia Floresta Podcast Episode · Philosophy Talk · 22 March · 51m

ICYMI Yesterday's broadcast with @nastassjapugliese.bsky.social from the @ufrjoficial.bsky.social is now available for download: podcasts.apple.com/rs/podcast/w...

#PhilSky #WiseWomen #WomensHistoryMonth

What Is Addiction? - Philosophy Talk People who are addicted to substances display a puzzling behavior: they keep using even when it causes harm and distress to them and the people in their lives. Why would someone do this? Is it the res...

BDP Hanna Pickard chats with the hosts of the @philtalkradio.bsky.social podcast to unpack the question: "What is addiction?" Listen to the full episode here:

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Nísia Floresta - Philosophy Talk Nísia Floresta was a 19th-century writer and translator known as “the Brazilian Mary Wollstonecraft.” She published the first book on women’s rights in South America, when Brazil was gaining independe...

More at philosophytalk.org/shows/nisia-... #WiseWomen @nehgov.bsky.social

Nísia Floresta: Roving Philosophical Report YouTube video by Philosophy Talk

Nísia Floresta, subject of our next episode, is often called "the Brazilian Mary Wollstonecraft." We sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter to find out how accurate that label is with Maria Lúcia Pallares-Burke from @clascam.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyE9...

#PhilSky #WomensHistoryMonth

#WomensHistoryMonth continues as Josh and Ray explore the life & thought of 19th century Brazilian feminist Nísia Floresta with @nastassjapugliese.bsky.social from @ufrjoficial.bsky.social.

🎧 Sunday 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco & www.kalw.org/show/philoso....

#PhilSky #WiseWomen #Brazil

Elizabeth Anscombe: Roving Philosophical Report YouTube video by Philosophy Talk

Elizabeth #Anscombe was born otd in 1919. For our episode last year, we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter to learn more about her life & times from another #Oxford philosopher, Roger Teichmann, who met Anscombe as a child: www.youtube.com/watch?v=38mP...

#PhilSky #WiseWomen #WomensHistoryMonth

What Is Addiction? Podcast Episode · Philosophy Talk · 15 March · 51m

ICYMI Yesterday's broadcast with Hanna Pickard from @jhu.edu, author of "What Would You Do Alone in a Cage with Nothing but Cocaine? A Philosophy of #Addiction" is now available for download: podcasts.apple.com/rs/podcast/w...

#PhilSky @jhuartssciences.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social

The Academy has spoken, now for the philosophers: The Dionysus Awards, celebrating movies of the past year that challenged our assumptions and made us think about things in new ways.

Coming April 12 to KALW. More at philosophytalk.org/shows/the-20....

#PhilSky #philosophy #movies #film #Oscars