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Storytime

Call me old-fashioned, but here’s how I think about my choice for president: I ask myself who’s going to fix the serious problems confronting us here in the US and in the world. Problems like—the 25% of people in my home state of Texas who have no health insurance. The mess in Iraq, the looming [...]

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Clare Carlisle on Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling

What is faith? Are human beings capable of it? What part does reason play in life? Carlisle discusses on Philosophy Bites.
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Nigel Warburton Talks to Ray Monk on Philosophy and Biography

Can understanding the biographical context of a philosopher and the type of person that they were help us understand their philosophical writing?
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What Does Humanism Mean?

Nigel Warburton asks Andrew Copson. One thing it’s not is some sort of quasi-religion.
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On-Line Philosophical Conference on Consciousness in the Works

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