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Today's show: Philosophy in Fiction
Philosophers think a lot about fiction. But do novelists think about philosophy? Do philosophers make good fictional characters? Can good stories be built around philosophical problems? When awarding its Genius prize to philosopher-novelist Rebecca Goldstein, the MacArthur Foundation ...said "[her] writings emerge as brilliant arguments for the belief that fiction in our time may be the best vehicle for involving readers in questions of morality and existence.'' Ken and John explore philosophy in fiction with Rebecca Goldstein, author of "The Mind-Body Problem" and "36 Arguments for the Existence of God."
Time:10:00AM Sunday, February 7th
Location:KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco and streaming live at www.kalw.org/listen.html

Philosophy Talk The Oscar picks are in -- but we want your nominations for the second annual Dionysus Awards, broadcast live from San Francisco on Sunday, February 28.
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Submit your nominations now to comments@philosophytalk.org for the year's best and most philosophical films. Please explain what you find philosophically interesting about the nominated movie. We will ...

Philosophy Talk just wrapped on two full-house tapings at the Marsh in San Francisco. Stay tuned to hear the programs on the air later this spring.

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Philosophy Talk Don't miss our live tapings at the Marsh in San Francisco this Sunday.
Location:1062 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
Time:12:00PM Sunday, January 31st

Philosophy Talk Don't forget to tune in for tomorrow's show - "Nihilism and Meaning" with guest Hubert Dreyfus, co-author of the forthcoming "A Life Worth Living After the Death of God: Luring Back the Gods in Our Secular Age."
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The ancients believed in an enchanted universe – a universe suffused with meaning and purpose. But with the dawn of modernity, philosophy and science conspired together to disenchant the universe, to reveal it as entirely devoid of meaning and purpose. ...

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Join Philosophy Talk and guest Paul Ekman for our second live recording session at The Marsh Theatre on Sunday January 31st: "Faces, Feelings, and Lies."
According to Proverbs, lying lips are an abomination to the Lord. But lies on human lips are as common as fleas on a dog. What is a lie? Are all untruths lies? Is lyin...g always immoral? Do our faces inevitably betray our lies? Join the hosts as they uncover the concept, practice, and detection of lies with pioneering psychologist Paul Ekman, author of "Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life" and "Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage."
Tickets and additional information at: http://themarsh.org/philosophy_01_31_10. html
Time:3:00PM Sunday, January 31st
Location:1062 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

Philosophy Talk Kierkegaard - This Sunday's show. Philosophy usually suggests a striving for rationality and objectivity. But the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard advocated subjectivity and the leap of faith – his conception of how an individual would believe in God or act in love. Kierkegaard, whose best-known work is Fear and Tr...embling, is often considered the father of Existentialism. Ken and John explore the life and thought of this passionate philosopher with Lanier Anderson from Stanford University.
This Sunday's show
Time:10:00AM Sunday, January 10th
Location:In the Bay Area listen Live on fm 91.7 KALW

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Join Philosophy Talk and guest Marilyn Yalom for our first of two live recording sessions at The Marsh Theatre on Sunday January 31st: "What is a Wife?"
Wives have been around since Eve, and the concept of being a wife has been embedded in cultures, religious practices, social customs and economic patterns of wildly dif...ferent sorts. Is there a core concept of what it is to be a wife? Is it a good concept, or one that deserves to be thrown on the junkpile of intellectual history -- like the concept of a witch -- because it perpetrates corrosive stereotypes of women? What conceptions of being a wife do Americans have today? Join John and Ken as they discuss wives and the concept of being a wife with Marilyn Yalom, author of "A History of the Wife."
Tickets and additional information at: http://themarsh.org/philosophy_01_31_10. html
Time:12:00PM Sunday, January 31st
Location:1062 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

Philosophy Talk Check out blog entry on the Philosophy Talk Philosophical Top Ten list for the 21st Century, generated on the occasion of our two hundredth episode.
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To mark the occasion of our200th episode, we invited three former guests, Brian Leiter, Jenann Ismael, and Martha Nussbaum, and also our listeners to help us come up with a list of the10 most pressing philosophical issues of the 21st Century. ...

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Some people think Jesus was the son of God, though many who are skeptical about that still think he was a great moral teacher. But if we really knew what Jesus would think about moral issues that he didn't confront while he lived – abortion, terrorism, euthanasia, gay marriage or the destruction of old-growth redwoods ...– would it be that helpful? Would his moral vision have any implications for these issues?
Ken and John discuss the moral philosophy of Jesus and its contemporary relevance with Andrew Fiala, Director of the Ethics Center at Fresno State University and author of "What Would Jesus Really Do? The Power and Limits of Jesus' Moral Teachings."
This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the College of the Sequoias in Visalia, California.
This Sunday's show
Time:10:00AM Sunday, December 20th
Location:In the Bay Area listen Live on fm 91.7 KALW

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Charles Darwin was born 200 years ago. His theory of evolution continues to shape our thinking, not only in biology, but also in psychology, economics, and all other attempts to understand human beings including philosophy. Ken and John delve into Darwin's theory and its implications for philosophy with Daniel Dennet...t of Tufts University, author of Darwin's Dangerous Idea.
In the Bay Area listen Live on fm 91.7 KALW or stream live at: http://www.kalw.org/listen.html
This Sunday's show
Time:10:00AM Sunday, December 6th
Location:In the Bay Area listen Live on fm 91.7 KALW

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