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Unknown Host hosts Philosophy Talk Starters, a education show with 537 episodes published.
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More at https://philosophytalk.org/shows/shakespeares-outsiders. Over 400 years after his death, Shakespeare is still widely regarded as the greatest dramatist of all time. His many plays tackle questions about power, in
More at https://philosophytalk.org/shows/im-yunjidang. 18th-century Korean philosopher Im Yunjidang was the first Confucian to argue for women’s equality in matters of morality and to claim that women, just like men, can
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Jayati Ghosh
economist, professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, member of The Club of Rome · UMass Amherst
1 appearance on this show
Eric Schwitzgebel
author of The Weirdness of the World · University of California, Riverside
1 appearance on this show
Arvind Narayanan
co-author of AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference · Princeton University
1 appearance on this show
Michael Frank
Professor of Human Biology · HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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