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Review of Iris Murdoch's The Nice and the Good

14

Mar 2015

This is a review of Iris Murdoch's novel, The Nice and the Good (1968).

Blog Archive

2023

March

Olfactory Philosophy

February

Cancelling in Public and Private

January

Why (Not) Trust Science?

2022

December

2022: The Year in Sound

What Is It Like to See Conspiracies in Everything?

November

Why Read Proust in 2022?

October

Do Good People Make Good Leaders?

Liberalism and Self-Government

September

Climate as a Collective Action Problem

Culture, Appropriated

August

Doing Good, Effectively

Political vs. Economic Inequality

July

Humans, the Optimistic Animal?

June

Antisemitism, Then and Now

May

Memoir, Truth, and Self

Ideology and Belief

April

Kant's Guide to Morality

The Staying Power of Poetry

March

Mourning a Lost Culture

Tackling Sexual Violence

February

The Value of Anger

Who Wants to Be a Stoic?

January

Digital Persons?

2021

December

2021: The Year in Sound

Virtual Reality, Real Feelings

Age, Ageism, and Equality

November

Socially Intelligent Robots

A Question of Frege

October

Persons, Community, and the Akan

Why Is Math So Useful?

August

Is Facebook Morally Responsible?

Microaggressions and Intention

July

The Slow Miracles of Thought

June

Summer Dylan Reading

May

Unnecessary Necessities

The Philosophy of the Vienna Circle

Cracking Down on Disinformation

April

What Montaigne Knew

Is Meritocracy Possible? (A Solution)

March

What Makes A Man?

#FrancisOnFilm: Judas and the Black Messiah

February

Replacing Freud

#FrancisOnFilm: The Mole Agent

January

Is Meritocracy Possible? (Pt. I)

The Mathematics of Democracy

When Do False Beliefs Exculpate? (Pt. II)

Gaining Knowledge without Learning

2020

December

2020: The Year in Poetry

Are “Human” Embryos Human?

Finding Minds in a Material World

When Do False Beliefs Exculpate? (Pt. I)

November

Should the Arts Be for All?

Say it Enough, They’ll Believe It

Whose Fault Is It Anyway?

Why We Argue About Fiction

October

What Would We Lose If We Had No Art?

Why Games Matter

Reasons to Hate

Abortion and Humanity

Skepticism and Trust in Science

September

Philosophy for the Apocalypse

Who Gets to be a Citizen?

Why Do People Argue about Fiction?

August

Does Meritocracy Have Merit?

Another Reason Zoom Is So Draining

Kant on Lying to Robots, Part II

Discriminating Streets

Abortion and Dehumanization

July

On Ethicists and Jerks

The Value of Metaphor in a Pandemic

Benjamin and Modern Enchantment

June

The Ethics of Pet Keeping

Celebrating Our 500th Episode

Covid and the Veil of Ignorance

Your Racist Mental Habits

Demonizing Black Men

May

Listener Covidundrums

Puzzle 3: Kant on Lying to Robots

Can Philosophy Help in a Crisis?

Narrative Burnout

A Pandemic of Dreams

More Money Matters

April

#FrancisOnFilm: Crip Camp

Proust and Social Distance

Puzzle 2: What is an Identity?

Philosophy and the Superhero

Trying to Let Go of the Past

Thinking and Mental Action

March

Game Theory and COVIDiocy

Puzzle 1: Are Beliefs Voluntary?

Viral Xenophobia

#FrancisOnFilm: Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Sorry, Critics: Parasite is a Good Movie

February

Anti-Sacred Spaces

Is the Self Real?

Am I in Everything I Imagine?

What Is Good Philosophy?

#FrancisOnFilm: Dionysus for Docs

January

Is the Sentence Becoming Passé?

What Is a “Vivid” Mental Image?

Comedy on the Edges

What the Future Holds

2019

December

Ken’s Unfinished Project

2019: The Examined Year

How Much Thought Is Inactive?

Human, Subhuman, or Both?

A Tribute to Ken Taylor

November

Nonhuman Persons, Nonhuman Rights

#Francis-on-Film: Parasite

Sanctuary Cities

Why Not Change Your Core Self? Part II

A Puzzle About Sacred Values Part II

Hobbes and the Absolute State

October

Why Not Change Your Core Self?

Machine Consciousness

#FrancisOnFilm: Downton Abbey

Should We Trust Polls?

The Appeal of Authoritarianism

Music as a Way of Knowing

September

Explanation at Its Best

What's In a Picture?

Changing Deniers' Minds

Against Introspection

August

A Puzzle About Sacred Values Part I

#FrancisOnFilm: Once Upon a Time...

How Do Decisions Ever Get Made?

Should We Abandon the Canon?

Self Knowledge on Trial

The Doomsday Doctrine

July

A Simple Test for Fake News

#FrancisOnFilm: Last Black Man in SF

Postmodernism: The Decline of Truth

How to Think Two Thoughts at Once

June

JS Mill and the Good Life

Does Thinking Help Stop Fake News?

Reader’s Block and Bad Philosophy

Letting Go of Human Nature

Tolerance and Radical Disagreement

#FrancisOnFilm: I Am Mother

A Licentious Lannister?

May

Working for Faith

What Is Reading?

Anti-Semitism is Racism

#FrancisOnFilm: Shazam!

April

Philanthropy vs. Democracy

Authority and Resistance

Wanting to Want for Its Own Sake

Hacking Our Sense Perceptions

Ken's Big Announcement

March

#FrancisOnFilm: Green Book

Your Question: Integrate or Assimilate?

Controversy About Climate Denial

Immigration and Multiculturalism

There’s Taste... Then There’s Taste

February

#FrancisOnFilm: Minding the Gap

Five Types of Climate Change Deniers

Finding Yourself in a Virtual Fiction

What Do We Owe Future Generations?

#FrancisOnFilm: Aquaman

The Puzzle of the Unconscious

January

Is Envy Always a Vice?

#FrancisOnFilm: Brexit

Getting Clear on the Replication Crisis

How (Not) to Fall Asleep

Freud's Philosophical Challenges

2018

December

The Examined Year: 2018 – Uncut

On Morally Condemning the Past

Why Should We Give Foreign Aid?

Subway Spreading and Personal Space (Part II)

Philosophical Freud

Foucault on Power

November

The Creative Life

Does Reputation Matter?

Subway Spreading and Personal Space (Part I)

Anti-Semitism 101

October

The Wrong Abortion Question

How #MeToo Helps Men

Can Reason Save Us?

They’re Only Lobsters

September

The Philosophy of Westworld

Do They Believe in God?

The Psychology of Cruelty

Puzzle About Conspiracy Theorists (Part II)

Lessons from Lobsters

August

Athletics and the Philosophical Life

Should Algorithms Decide?

A Puzzle About Conspiracy Theorists (Part I)

Failing Successfully

#FrancisOnFilm: Mission Impossible

July

Does Science Over-reach?

The Truly Beautiful Game

[VIDEO] Philosophers' World Cup

Radical Ideas about Markets

Enlightenment Peddlers

Who Is a “Criminal”?

The Ethics of Homeschooling

June

One Person, One Vote?

#FrancisOnFilm: The Rachel Divide

Puppet Philosophers

Why America is not a Nation

Distortion in Philosophy

Philosophers and the Meaning of Life

The Ethics of Care

Should Robots Be Caregivers?

Are We Slaves to Technology?

How a Glitch Caused a Crisis

An Antidote to Bullshit

Repugnant Markets

May

Is Kanye a Philosopher?

The Twilight Zone and the Human Condition

What is it Like to Lose Your Identity?

Against Marriage

The Morality of Big Business

On Deepities and Bullshit

Consciousness Deniers?

Is there a Right to Sex?

Faith and Humility

Happy 200th, Karl Marx!

May the Fourth Be With You

Dark Knowledge: A User’s Guide

Is There Life on Mars?

April

Toppling the Dehumanization Thesis

Are We Really All Equals?

Stop Silencing Sex Workers

The “Complicated” Causes of Gun Death (Part II)

The Not-So-Goodness of Liberalism?

Who Gets To Decide the Truth?

Trolling, Bullying, and Flame Wars

A Case for Conservative Universities

Self Help, Nietzsche, and the Patriarchy

Can Technologies Be Monstrous?

The End of Privacy

Technology Ethics

An Egalitarian Case for the SAT

Does Race Have Any Scientific Basis?

March

The Irreverent Peter Sloterdijk

Is Every Idea Worth Engaging?

Dark Knowledge?

Is 'The Will of the People' Sacred?

Adorno and the Culture Industry

From Pessimism to Nihilism

Is Alexa a Setback for Feminism?

Racist Algorithms and Fair Sentencing

Humble Disagreement

The “Complicated” Causes of Gun Death (Part I)

Philosophy for Prisoners

Moral Philosophy and The Good Place

Stories To Think With

Is Killmonger to Blame?

#FrancisOnFilm: The Shape of Water

Is Punishment Wrong?

February

[VIDEO] Baldwin on the American Dream

Misogyny and Gender Inequality

What Makes a Monster?

Sexism Versus Misogyny

What Makes a Film Philosophical?

The Temptation to Feel Baffled

Is Yoda a Stoic?

Is There a Case for Bullshit?

Baldwin and Racial Justice

Millennials and Social Media, a Deadly Mix?

A Comic Book for 17th-Century Philosophy

#FrancisOnFilm: Three Billboards

Fatal Attraction

The Urbanist Delusion

Reasons to Donate to Philosophy

January

Stranger Feelings

Gender Fluidity & Social Construction

Fanon, Violence, and the Struggle Against Colonialism

Is there a real you?

What props up morality?

Fractured Identities

Do Victims Have Obligations?

[VIDEO] The Slippery Slope

The Art of Non-Violence

The Puzzle of Possibility

How to Keep Your 2018 Resolutions

Thoughts on Retirement

2017

December

In Praise of Affirmative Consent

An Argument for Regulating Automation

Can Words Kill?

Buddhism, Science, and the West

Of Philosophy and Basketball

The Midlife Crisis

The Odyssey in Plain English

November

Scrap Thanksgiving?

Do Scientists Need Philosophers?

#FrancisOnFilm: Thor Ragnarok

Feminism and Philosophy's Future

Two Models of Hypocrisy

Favorites in Continental Philosophy

The World’s Greatest Country?

The Curious Lives of Octopuses

When Democracy Runs Wild

Basketball: Myths and Puzzles

Achieving a Measure of Insanity

Philosophy of Trash

Compromise and Slavery

October

Philosophy and Shelley's Frankenstein

Why Race Matters

To Retract or Not to Retract

Chomsky vs Foucault [VIDEO]

A Moral Case for Meat

#FrancisOnFilm: Battle of the Sexes

Decolonizing Philosophy

Privacy and the Internet of Things

Harmful Jobs, Net Impact

Frege: The Invisible Anti-Semite

Your Comment: A World Without Work

How does Consciousness Happen?

On Our Cosmic Insignificance

Getting Rid of "Racism"

Your Question: A World Without Work

September

Should Hate Speech be Protected?

Are Americans All Nationalists?

The Limits of Free Speech

Is “Fascism” a Useful Word?

Automation and the Future of Work

How Will Racism Be Eradicated?

Should You Fear AI?

Women in Philosophy

Transitions in Philosophy Talk

Theodor Adorno [VIDEO]

Can We Have Our Truth Back, Please?

Is Neoliberalism Destroying the Earth?

Credibility and Gender

Are Bosses Like Dictators?

Hate! Hate! Hate!

August

[VIDEO] Are You Living in a Simulation?

Your Question: Changing Physical Laws

The Best of Analytic and Continental Philosophy

Creativity and Character

Which Statues Should Go?

Flexitarian vs. Vegetarian

Dennett vs. Papineau on Consciousness

Is James Franco Rescuing Philosophy?

Could the Laws of Physics Change?

Can the Laws of Physics Change?

Mental Health and Assisted Suicide

#FrancisOnFilm: Dunkirk

Philosophy of the Midlife Crisis

Robots and Sexthics

Superpredators Old and New

When Driverless Cars Must Choose

July

Fast Lane Ethics

Rumor, Suspicion, and Misinformation

The Offensive Peter Singer

In Praise of Reading

Sex and Global Consequences

Is Philosophy Just Harder Than Science?

How is the Internet Changing Friendships?

D'oh! Philosophy in The Simpsons

To Game or Not to Game

Philosophy Majors: Unexpectedly Employable

Should Sex-Identity Be on Birth Certificates?

[AUDIO] Is Taste Really Subjective?

Reality TV: Ethics or Entertainment?

June

Your Question: Habermas and Factions

Habermas, Rationality, and Democracy

#FrancisOnFilm: Is Wonder Woman a Feminist Movie?

The Unnatural is the Political

[AUDIO] Time Biases

Habermas and the Fate of Democracy

Racial Profiling and Implicit Bias

[AUDIO] How Important is Privacy?

Why Do We Work 40 Hours a Week?

#FrancisOnFilm: Guardians of the Galaxy 2

Psychopathy and Evil

Conceptual Penises and Failed Hoaxes

Should Philosophers Get Political?

Truth and Progress in Philosophy

Ai Weiwei: How Censorship Works

[VIDEO] What Makes for a Good Life?

A Deep Dive into Democracy

May

Nietzsche, Schmitt, and the Alt-Right

The Lifespan of a Genre

[AUDIO] When Driverless Cars Go Wrong

Does Work Give Our Lives Meaning?

Envisioning Eastern Hegemony

[COMIC] Postmodernism Attacks!

Can Free Speech Exclude?

Should Belief Aim at Truth?

Because You Are, I Am

Watered-down Philosophy for Tech Bros

Nozick, Libertarianism, and Philosophy

The Limits of Medical Consent

[AUDIO] What Constitutes Consent?

Defense of Transracialism Goes Awry

Is Human Monogamy Genetic?

All Machine and No Ghost

Slower Reading for Better Philosophy

April

Why We Need Public Philosophy

#FrancisOnFilm: Cezanne et Moi

[AUDIO] Political Utopias: Just Wishful Thinking?

Art, Origins, and the Fearless Girl

Tricks for Political Persuasion

[AUDIO] Can a Riot be Justifiable?

Are Taxes Fair?

Is This Still the End of History?

A Virtual Walden's Pond

[VIDEO] What Is Metaethics?

Transcending Intersectionality

Foucault's Concept of Power

Aesthetics for Dogs?

Muscles and Marxism

[VIDEO] Is it OK to Kill Animals for Food?

Some Thoughts on Problematic Arguments

Nobel Laureate Angus Deaton on Politics and White Poverty

#FrancisOnFilm: Get Out

Getting from Space and Time to Space-time

Space, Time, and Space-time

March

Should White Artists Paint the Body of Emmett Till?

[COMIC] Philosophical Conflicts at the Poker Table

Cruelty in American Politics

Descartes, Elisabeth, and My Left Foot

All We Need to Solve Inequality is a Plague

Take the Mirror Test

Queer and Christian?

[VIDEO] Contrastivism—A Revolution in Philosophy?

Is Consciousness an Illusion?

Knowing What We Know—And What We Don't Know

[VIDEO] What is Neoliberalism?

Feel like Democracy is Crumbling? So Did Plato

[VIDEO] So You Think You Can Know?

What are Crony Beliefs?

Do Philosophy For Its Own Sake, Not for a Job

Art and Obscenity

To 'Get' a Piece of Art? Maybe 20 Minutes

[AUDIO] Art and Morality

The Mind-Body Problem, Part 1: Substance Dualism

A Country is a Country

Why Is Analytic Philosophy Dominant?

We Don't Decide Who We Love

[AUDIO] What is a Woman?

February

#FrancisOnFilm: I Am Not Your Negro

Is Milo Really a Conservative?

Free Speech on Campus

Are Self-Help Books Useless?

The Responsibility of Intellectuals

The Philosophical Dimensions of Reparations

[AUDIO] Why is Free Speech Important? (Ask a Comedian)

Arendt on Totalitarianism

[VIDEO] What is the Straw Man Fallacy?

Is Postmodernism to Blame for Post-Truth?

How to Honor Black History Month

Philosophy Behind Bars

[AUDIO] Love Is on the Air

In Defense of Polyamory

[VIDEO] What Is Evil?

Why Teach Prisoners?

The Case For (and Against) Reparations

RIP Bharati Mukherjee

The Emperor Has No Philosophy

Deadly Thought Experiments

[AUDIO] What Role Should Anger Play in Our Lives?

Is it Okay to Punch Nazis?

[LIVE VIDEO] Philosophy Conference on Trump

#FrancisOnFilm: Sundance - It's a Wrap!

[AUDIO] Black History Month: A Playlist

January

Confessions of a Cassandra

#FrancisOnFilm: Authenticity at Sundance

[AUDIO] Do the Privileged Have Special Obligations?

#FrancisOnFilm: Art Manifestos at Sundance

#FrancisOnFilm: What is a Documentary?

Stanley Cavell and Public Philosophy

#FrancisOnFilm: Al Gore at Sundance - Truth to Power

Ta-Nehisi Coates Reflects on Obama

Hail to the Chief of Philosophy

Outrage or Pity?

The Value of a College Education

Time To Take Off The Tinfoil Hat!

Teaching Philosophy: The Answer to Automation?

#FrancisOnFilm: The Highs and Lows of 2016

Extended Q&A at De Anza High School

Empathy for Deplorables?

Introducing: Francis on Film

R.I.P. Derek Parfit

2016

December

The Examined Year 2016: Triumph and Defeat

Is Donald Trump Lying or Bullshitting?

October

The Mystery of the Multiverse

The Dark Side of the Cosmos

September

Trust and Mistrust

Dewey's Democracy

Magical Thinking

Do Religions Deserve Special Status?

Election Special 2016 – Uncut

August

Dangerous Demographics

Neuroaesthetics - Your Brain on Art

A Big Bang Blog

July

The Philosophy of Puns

The Mystery of Music

Identity Politics

The Morality of Revenge

June

Struggles of Democracy

The Limits of Self Knowledge

Stagehands in the Theatre of Life

The Philanthropy Trap

Sleeping, Dreaming, and the Well-Lived Life

Dream Incubation Instructions

Life as a Work of Art

May

The Moral Lives of Animals

Altered States of Consciousness

Lessons from the Trolley Problem

Affirmative Action – Too Little or Too Much?

April

How Many Children?

Memes and the Evolution of Culture

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times

Why Does Anything Exist?

Oneness is a Mystery

Extreme Altruism

March

People with Guns

Freedom, rights and technology (Why Free Software is Important)

The Science of Happiness

The Ancient Cosmos

February

Simone de Beauvoir

The Debt Crisis

Are we a white supremacist nation?

Finding Meaning in a Material World

Justice Scalia and Judicial Diversity

Is White Privilege a Distraction?

Freedom and Free Markets

January

Religion and the Art of Living

Nations and Borders

The Divine Shape Shifter

Sartre's Existentialism

Life and Death in Prison

The Politics of Illusion: From Socrates and Psychoanalysis to Donald Trump

The Examined Year: 2015 - Uncut

2015

December

Truth & Other Fictions

Good, Evil, and the Divine Plan

Two Concepts of Safe Space

Self and Self-Presentation

Gun violence, advocacy, and the NRA

November

Perception, Memory, and Justice

The Demands of Morality

Will Innovation Kill Us?

The Culture Wars: Phase 2?

Why Rubio Is Wrong about Philosophy in 150 Words

A Nietzschean Defense of Ben Carson

Collective Immortality: Living on Through Others

October

What is Cultural Appropriation?

In Praise of Love - Plato's Symposium meets Bernstein's Serenade

The Logic of Regret

Social media, knowledge of others, and self-knoweldge

Bioethics – Myths and Realities

September

Dance as a Way of Knowing

Technological Immortality

What is a Culture of Victimhood?

The Changing Face of Feminism

Ashley Madison, accommodation, and silencing

The Ethics of Drone Warfare

Has Science Replaced Philosophy?

August

Education and the Culture Wars

Are Some People Better than Others?

The Last "Universal Genius"

The Fine-Tuning Argument for God

Left Lanes, Right Lanes, & Medians

July

Does Science Advance?

The Power and Perils of Satire

Does Neuroscience Threaten Free Will?

The Ethics of Whistleblowing

June

Science and Politics: Friends or Foes?

Should the ethics of Presidential candidates matter?

The Paradoxes of Ideology

Why Propaganda Matters

May

How Do We Get From Noise to Meaning?

Unconditional Love

April

When Democracies Torture

The Bone that Changed China

A new multi-level hierarchy of ethics and morality

The Nature of Wilderness

March

The McDonalds-ification of Education

If God Is Dead, Why Isn't Everything Permitted?

Mental “Disorder”: Do You Miss the Mountains?

Democracy in Crisis

Watch Where You Point That Thing

Review of Iris Murdoch's The Nice and the Good

Forbidden Words

Ethical Relativism

Philosophy Meets Literacy Through Positive Coaching

Disorders of the Mind - The Philosophy of Psychiatry

Obituary for Stanford Professor Emeritus David S. Nivison

The More Good the Better?

Why Philosophize?

Can Studying Philosophy Make You a Better Person?

February

Camus and Absurdity

The Evolution of Storytelling

Political Activism in the Digital Age

The Psychology of Climate Change Denial

Regulating Bodies

January

Could Race be in Your Genes?

Is Anarchy Possible?

Categorizing Humans

Is There Life (or Anything) After Death?

2014

December

Violating the Humanity of Others

Immortality: Hume and Boswell

November

The Moral Costs of Climate Change

Transformative Experiences

Identities Lost and Found in a Global Age

The Philosophy of Humor (And the Humor of Philosophy)

Intuitions Are a Guide to…Look Here!

The Fairness Fixation

October

Philosophy as Therapy

Freedom, Blame, and Resentment

Corporations and the Future of Democracy

September

Theological Correctness Part II: An Answer

Second-Guessing Ourselves

Babies and the Birth of Morality

Neuroscience and the Law

August

Is Intuition a Guide to Truth?

Does Language Affect Thought?

What Might Have Been!

Remixing Reality: Art and Literature for the 21st Century

The Race Delusion

July

Theological Correctness Part I: The Question

Privacy and The New Surveillance Society

Tainted by the Sins of Our Fathers?

June

Anatomy of a Terrorist

'Human' is an honorific title (video)

Gods, Psychology, and Occam’s Razor

May

The Problem of Other Minds

Being Human is Like Being Here

The Reality of Time

The Metaphysics of Color

April

Risk and Rationality

Is Being Human More Like Being a Weed than Like Being Water?

What's on your summer reading list for 2014?

Conspiracy Theories

March

Weapons of Mass Destruction

Acting Together

Science and Gender

February

Inspiration for Evil

The Legacy of Freud

January

Memory and the Self

2013

December

Welcome to Philosophy Talk's Community of Thinkers

An Anti-Determinist Argument

Confessions of a Conflicted Carnivore

The Ethics of Soda

Tennis as a Way of Knowing

Why Science Will Never Replace the Humanities

Do Natural Laws Prove That God Exists? A New Wrinkle on an Old Problem

October

The Dark Side of Science

September

Latin-American Philosophy

Diogenes the Cynic

June

Richard Fletcher, Historian

My Discovery of the X-Files

Science, Philosophy, and Theology

May

The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum

April

Teaching Philosophy

'Anybody Need a Kidney?' or 'What Are the Moral Limits of Markets?'

What is philosophy?

March

The Psychology of Partisan Politics

February

January

The Linguistics of Name Calling

2012

December

Turbo-charging the Mind

November

How Fiction Shapes Us

Economics: Cult or Science?

April

What Is (This Thing Called) Love?

What Are Leaders Made of?

March

Poetry As a Way of Knowing

Epicurus and the Good Life

February

On Being Normal

The 2012 Dionysus Awards

Black Solidarity

January

The Right to Privacy

Philosophy in Fiction

Is Democracy a Universal Value?

The Examined Year: 2011

2011

December

Nihilism and Meaning

What would Jesus do?

What’s to be done? A Blog for Christmas

Is it wrong to wreck the earth?

To Forgive and Forget

November

The Military: What is it Good for?

Is Nothing Sacred Anymore?

October

Thinking Inside the Box

Cooperation and Conflict

From the Minds of Babies

September

Morality and the Self

War, Sacrifice, and the Media

Deconstructing the College Admissions Rat Race

August

Schizophrenia and the mind

Health Care – is it a right or a privilege

Time, Space, and Quantum Mechanics

The State of Public Philosophy

July

Philosophy and Everyday Life

What Are Words Worth?

Atheism and the Well-Lived Life

Lincoln as a Philosopher

June

The Language of Responsibility

Gay Pride and Prejudice

May

Summer Reading 2011

The Prison System

Beliefs Gone Wild

Cities, Gentrification, and Inequality

April

Should Marriage Be Abolished?

The Extended Mind

What is an adult?

Social Networking

March

Is it All Just Relative?

February

A dialogue on Biracial Identity

Lights! Camera! Think!

Too Much Information?

January

Procrastination

Different Cultures, Different Selves

Derrida and Deconstruction

The Moral Costs of Markets

2010

December

The Philosophy of History

Nominations open for the Third Annual Dionysus Awards!

Children as Philosophers

The Power of Thought

November

Reading, Narrative, and the Self

Civil Disobedience

Levels of Reality

The Idea of a University

October

Comments Will be Moderated, beginning immediately.

The Occult Philosophy

Bargaining with the devil

Philosophy Talk Live at The Marsh SF this Sunday

September

The terror of death, and how to overcome it

Gandhi as Philosopher

Philosophy for the Young: Corrupting or Empowering?

Why Self-Deception Research Hasn’t Made Much Progress

August

Bodies for Sale

William James and the Squirrel Example

July

The Irrationality of Human Decision Making

Rawls on Justice

Democracy and the Press

June

What are Human Rights?

Corporations as Persons

Psychological vs. Biological Altruism

May

Philosophy Talk's Fifth Annual Philosophical Summer Reading List

Culture and Mental Illness

April

Faces, Feelings and Lies

The Ethics of Torture

On Being a Wife

What is a Wife?

March

Food and Philosophy: Live at the Marsh

Science and Pseudo-science

Infinity: A Dialogue

February

The Second Annual Dionysus Awards

New Blog Policy

2009

December

Move Over Letterman: A Philosophical Top 10 LIst for the 21st Century

The Philosophical Legacy of Charles Darwin

November

200 and Counting!

September

Does Postmodernism Mean Moral Relativism?

Am I a Postmodernist

The Post-Modern Family Values: Open Blog Entry

Work and the Self

August

Comment on Pornography by Rae Langton

Pornography: Open Thread

July

Is Online Social Networking Changing the Way People Relate to Each Other?

May

April

Philosophical Wife Swapping

Powerless . . . but Enlightened

March

Inside Money: The Shadow Banking System

Philosophy Talk and the Ignorant NEH Panelist: A Rant!

Two Skeptical Arguments

The Place of Scepticism and Sceptical Arguments

February

Thoughts on the Reader

The Dionysus Awards: Join in the Fun.

January

Philosophy Talk and the Paradoxical Facebook Contest

The First Annual Dionysus Awards

Philosophy and history

2008

December

Welcome Valley Public Radio Listeners

Why not buy and sell kidneys?

November

Emergence: Live Blogging

August

Separation of Powers and the Charismatic Presidency

Dualism Strikes Back? Live Blogging!

July

More on the Luck of the Draw

The Luck of the Draw: Live Blogging!

Philosophy and Film: Live Blogging

March

The Meanings of Spitzer’s Apology

Open Thread on Apologies

January

Saint Augustine

Why Music Matters: Open Thread!

2007

December

Rename that Radio Show??

November

Political Correctness and the Speech Fashion War

What We've Been Up To, lately!

Philosophy Talk Holiday Treats Coming Soon!

October

Poetry, Philosophy, Truth

September

Why we Charge for Downloads

August

Suscribe to the Phiosophy Talk Download Service!!

Playful Intentions and the Problem of the Hypno-Flirt

Flirting as a two-step dance

July

Where Does Morality Come From?

June

Check us out Wednesday and Thursday in Portland

What's on your Summer Reading list?

May

Science, Censorship and Subsidy

Sixty-Seconds -- Really?

April

Journalistic Ethics?

March

A Philosophical Shout Out

Wanting More Life

Why I am not a Wittgensteinian

February

Democracy and the Judiciary

January

Truth and Bullshit

American Pragmatism

2006

November

Children as a Philosophical Problem

October

Clayton's Afterthoughts

How Can Smart People Still Believe in God?

September

Music, Meaning, and Emotion

August

100 and Counting

"Beautiful" and the Metaphysics of Beauty

The Future of Philosophy

July

Why I am not a Stoic!

Philosophy Talk Moves to Sunday

June

May

What the Imagination is For

My summer reading

April

Does Truth Matter?

March

Strange Behavior (Or: On Watching Sports—a follow-up to Tuesday’s show on basketball)

February

We need your help!

Educated Insolence

Not so deep thoughts about humor

Thoughts on the Doubling of Consciousness

January

Legislating Values: A Reprise

Science: The Big Kahuna

The Best of Philosophy Talk Podcast

The Nature of Science and the ID Debate

The First Ever Online Philosophy Conference

God, Design and Science

Self-Deception and the Problem with Religious Belief Formation

2005

December

God had a Technical Difficulty

Why Believe (or Disbelieve) in God?

The Dark Allure of Idealism

November

Storytelling Creatures

What's to be Done?

The Philosophy Talk Magical Mystery Tour

October

Fiction and Imaginative Resistance

We’re All Crazy (Prelude to Tuesday’s show “Art and the Suspension of Disbelief”/follow-up to John’s most recent blog)

Fiction and Belief

Backstage Live with Philosophy Talk

The Costs of War

September

The Language of Politics

Saints, Heroes, and Schmucks Like Me

August

Was Lance Armstrong Self-Deceived?

Beyond the Cartesian Moment?

July

Emotions, Judgments, and Mattering

Self-Deception and Moral Dilemmas

Greetings from Down Under!

June

Improving the World vs Improving my Country

Negotiating Identities: The Crash Solution

Intergenerational Obligations and the Rope of Lives

May

Evolutionary Psychology: A Defense -- Sort of!

Sex, Prostitution, and Well-lived Lives

Confucianism: Intelligent kindness

Kjellberg to Guest Blog

Forgiveness Deserved, not Demanded

Forgiveness - the discussion continued....

To blog is to forgive?

Griswold to Guest Blog on Forgiveness

April

How to be a Relativist

Propaganda and the Human Mind

Do Genes Make the Person?

Philosophers' Carnival, Number Twelve

Naturalism and Value

Steroids and Baseball

Meaning from Meaninglessness

Earlier Birth and Later Death

The Only Mattering Worth Caring About

Schopenhauer and Prozac

March

Mohan's Question

Freedom, Responsibility and Martian Anthropology

Responsibility and "The Actual Sequence"

Reverence for the Given? Further Thoughts on Cosmetic Neurology

On the so-called "Wisdom of Nature"

Neurocosmetology

Beauty that Haunts

Beauty: Skin-Deep, in the Eye of the Beholder and Valuable?

On the Absence of Dogmatism

Nehamas to Guest Blog

The Experience of Beautiful Things

Beauty and subjectivity

Random Thoughts on Religion and the State

Respecting Religious Belief

Hello from Ian Shoales

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