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Traditional economics measures the ways in which we spend our income, but doesn't attribute worth to the crucial human interactions that give our lives…
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In What Love Is, philosopher Carrie Jenkins offers a bold new theory on the nature of romantic love that reconciles its humanistic and scientific…
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Life is boring: filled with meetings and traffic, errands and emails. Nothing we'd ever call fun. But what if we've gotten fun wrong? In Play Anything,…
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We used to say "seeing is believing"; now googling is believing. With 24/7 access to nearly all of the world's information at our fingertips, we no longer…
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In our Ideas Matter segment we take time just about every week to check in with the state humanities councils in our 7-state region.Today, we will learn…
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Daniel Klein is a great friend of ours. Here is a guy who has a warm, humorous, and thoughtful way to shows how philosophy resonates in everyday life.…
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The University of California Berkley Philosophy professor, Alva Noë, is one for the foremost philosophers on consciousness and perception. In his book,…
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Confucius is perhaps the most important philosopher in history. Today, his teachings shape the daily lives of more than 1.6 billion people.Throughout East…
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Kimerer L. LaMothe is a dancer, philosopher, and scholar of religion.She also loves to dance, every day, feeling it is vital for her wellbeing. And when…
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Do we have a duty to be happy? Is there a connection between individual and collective happiness? Is happiness contagious?Frédéric Lenoir explores these…