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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).
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Blog Archive
2023
March
Olfactory Philosophy
Women Talking
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
On Awesomeness
Is Facebook Morally Responsible?
Microaggressions and Intention
July
The Slow Miracles of Thought
Literary Minds
June
Summer Dylan Reading
Nonduality
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
What Tech Says
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
A Cat's Life
The Value of Metaphor in a Pandemic
Benjamin and Modern Enchantment
June
The Ethics of Pet Keeping
Celebrating Our 500th Episode
Naïve Racism
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
Money Matters
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
Rough Humor
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
Real Horror
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
Sexy Beasts
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
Mind the Gaps!
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
Robot Rights?
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
Lethal Speech
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?
Social Status
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
Polyamory
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?
Transhumanism
Cognitive Bias
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
Pawns of ISIS
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
Queerness
[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
Why Vote?
Tricks for Political Persuasion
Phenomenology
[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
Captivity
[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
Against Santa
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)
Gun Control
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
Taoism
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
Spinoza
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
Heidegger
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
Reincarnation
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
Food Justice
January
Could Race be in Your Genes?
Is Anarchy Possible?
Categorizing Humans
Is There Life (or Anything) After Death?
Why Be Moral?
2014
December
The Sex Trade
Violating the Humanity of Others
Gut Feelings
Immortality: Hume and Boswell
November
Hypocrisy
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
Machiavelli
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
Moral Luck
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
The Self
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?
Mind Reading
March
Poetry As a Way of Knowing
Epicurus and the Good Life
February
Pantheism
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?
Kierkegaard
Is Nothing Sacred Anymore?
Miracles
October
Thinking Inside the Box
Cooperation and Conflict
From the Minds of Babies
September
Morality and the Self
Wisdom
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?
Free Will
February
John Locke
A dialogue on Biracial Identity
Lights! Camera! Think!
Too Much Information?
January
Procrastination
Different Cultures, Different Selves
Derrida and Deconstruction
Abortion
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
Disagreement
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
Digital Selves
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
Self Deception
Humanism
Bodies for Sale
William James
William James and the Squirrel Example
July
Social Reality
The Irrationality of Human Decision Making
Loyalty
Rawls on Justice
Democracy and the Press
June
What are Human Rights?
Corporations as Persons
Psychological vs. Biological Altruism
Hannah Arendt
May
Philosophy Talk's Fifth Annual Philosophical Summer Reading List
Culture and Mental Illness
April
Apologies
Faces, Feelings and Lies
The Ethics of Torture
On Being a Wife
What is a Wife?
March
Fear!
Food and Philosophy: Live at the Marsh
Science and Pseudo-science
What is Normal
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
Torture
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
Rawls
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Why not buy and sell kidneys?
November
Legal Ethics
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
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August
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Playful Intentions and the Problem of the Hypno-Flirt
Flirting as a two-step dance
July
Where Does Morality Come From?
June
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What's on your Summer Reading list?
May
Science, Censorship and Subsidy
Sixty-Seconds -- Really?
April
Journalistic Ethics?
March
SHOUT OUT NOW!
A Philosophical Shout Out
Wanting More Life
Afterlife
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
Odds and Ends
May
What the Imagination is For
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April
Does Truth Matter?
March
Strange Behavior (Or: On Watching Sports—a follow-up to Tuesday’s show on basketball)
February
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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
Caring
Descartes
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
Prostitution
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
Skin, Deep
Steroids and Baseball
Meaning from Meaninglessness
Earlier Birth and Later Death
The Only Mattering Worth Caring About
Schopenhauer and Prozac
March
Mohan's Question
Did I Cheat?
Freedom, Responsibility and Martian Anthropology
Responsibility and "The Actual Sequence"
Free Will
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