Archive for January, 1970
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Thursday, January 1st, 1970
When I was a graduate student at Cornell, Saint Augustine wasn’t required reading. Years later I became responsible for teaching the Winter quarter of a freshman class at Stanford, where the books were selected from a "Core Reading List". I somewhat reluctantly put Saint Augustine’s Confessions on the list. The structure of the Core […]
Why Music Matters: Open Thread!
Thursday, January 1st, 1970 posted by Ken Taylor
I’m in the airport at Tucson. I’m listening online to our episode on “Why Music Matters” which we recorded in front of live audience at a locale in San Francisco. David Harrington, of the world famous Kronos Quartet is our guest. Since […]
Work and the Self
Thursday, January 1st, 1970posted by Ken Taylor
Today’s episode was on Work. Our guest was Al Gini from Loyola University of Chicago. He’s a philosopher by trade, the author of a number of books about work and the self, and the resident philosopher at WBEZ public radio in Chicago.
The episode was recorded a couple of months ago, […]
Rename that Radio Show??
Thursday, January 1st, 1970 posted by Ken Taylor
Believe it or not, program directors, the gate-keepers of public radio, almost universally hate ‘Philosophy Talk’ — whatever they think of Philosophy Talk. They hate both the ‘talk’ part of our name and the ‘Philosophy’ part of our name. But they particularly hate the […]
Political Correctness and the Speech Fashion War
Thursday, January 1st, 1970posted by Ken Taylor
It’s been awhile since I’ve done this — awakened at a god-awful hour on Sunday morning, to write a blog about an upcoming show. I hope I’m lucid.
Today’s show is about the political correctness. Our guest is Leonard Steinhorn, author of a rousing defense of the baby boom generation, […]
What We’ve Been Up To, lately!
Thursday, January 1st, 1970 posted by Ken Taylor
Obviously, this blog hasn’t been buzzing with activity recently. That’s mainly because life and work have been incredibly, incredibly busy for both John and me. And it seems harder and harder to get our on-air guests to take us up on our invitations to guest blog. […]
Philosophy Talk Holiday Treats Coming Soon!
Thursday, January 1st, 1970On Monday, November 26th, just in time for the holidays, we at Philosophy Talk will offer our listeners some holiday treats, including:
THE COMPLETE PHILOSOPHY TALK
Starting Monday and until the end of the 2007, you will be able to purchase The Complete Philosophy Talk , the entire archive of Philosophy Talk to date […]
Holiday Treats Coming!
Thursday, January 1st, 1970 On Monday, November 26th, just in time for the holidays, we at Philosophy Talk will offer our listeners some holiday treats, including:
THE COMPLETE PHILOSOPHY TALK
Starting Monday and until the end of the 2007, you will be able to purchase the complete archive of Philosophy Talk to date, all 142 (and […]
The Meanings of Spitzer’s Apology
Thursday, January 1st, 1970Nick Smith, J.D. and Ph.D., author of I Was Wrong: The Meanings of Apologies (Cambridge University Press,
2008)
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of New Hampshire
nick.smith@unh.edu
Elliot Spitzer’s recent statements
accompanying his resignation as governor of New York provide an occasion to reflect on the
meanings of apologies. I find apologies dizzyingly complex social rituals and
in I Was Wrong: The […]
Open Thread on Apologies
Thursday, January 1st, 1970 Dear Listener:
You probably have notice the lightness of blogging recently. But things are about to change. Today’s guest, Nick Smith, has agreed to blog about today’s topic of Apologizing. And to get things started, I thought I’d start an open thread and invite listeners to contribute their […]