
This month we're featuring thinkers who were born in February, beginning with a recent episode in our Wise Women series about French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil (born February 3, 1909). Born almost exactly a century earlier on February 12, 1809, Charles Darwin was the subject of a bicentennial episode with late Daniel Dennett in 2009. A year before that, John and Ken explored the life and thought of one of the most influential political philosophers of the 20th century, John Rawls (born February 21, 1921). Nearly sharing a birthday with Rawls is Arthur Schopenhauer (born February 22, 1788), subject of a 2005 episode with novelist-psychiatrist Irv Yalom. A central figure in the establishment of Black History Month itself, scholar-activist W.E.B. Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868. And rounding out the list of February babies is the inventor of the philosophical essay, Michel de Montaigne (born February 28, 1588).
Februarians
Episode Title | Guest | Related Content | ||
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![]() | Simone Weil | Rebecca Rozelle-Stone, Professor of Philosophy & Ethics, University of North Dakota | Looking, Listening, Liberating | |
![]() | The Philosophical Legacy of Darwin | Daniel Dennett, Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University. | The Philosophical Legacy of Charles Darwin | |
![]() | John Rawls | Joshua Cohen, Professor of Political Science, Philosophy, and Law, Stanford University | Rawls on Justice | |
![]() | Schopenhauer | Irv Yalom, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Stanford University | The Only Mattering Worth Caring About | |
![]() | W.E.B. Du Bois | Lucius Outlaw, Professor of Philosophy and Associate Provost of Undergraduate Education, Vanderbilt University | Thoughts on the Doubling of Consciousness | |
![]() | Montaigne and the Art of the Essay | Cécile Alduy, Professor of French Literature and Culture, Stanford University | What Montaigne Knew |