In this episode, Kent Schmor introduces us to Rudolf Carnap's classic work, _The Logical Construction of the World_.

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In this episode, Susan James explains Spinoza's view that the mind and the body are really just different aspects of the same thing, and how that view led him to think of moral reasoning as having an emotional component.

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In this episode, Christel Fricke discusses a view in ethics according to which you determine the right thing to do by imitating the perspective of an ideal, impartial spectator.

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In this episode, Mark Lance defends the view that instead of answering to a central authority, our society should self-govern, only scaling up what it has to.

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In this episode, John Protevi discusses research across several different disciplines which supports the hypothesis that human beings evolved to cooperate with each other.

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In this episode, Haim Gaifman argues that there are mathematical facts about real, objective, mathematical entities.

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In this episode, Julian Savulescu argues that professional sports should change their regulations so as to allow for a certain amount of doping.

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In this episode, James Conant and Jay Elliott go into the history of the movement known as analytic philosophy.

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In this episode, Michael Devitt explains why we need a theory of what it means for a proper name to stand for a person or place.

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In this episode, Sally Sedgwick runs through Immanuel Kant’s idea that doing the right thing means doing whatever respects the dignity of all rational creatures, along with G. W. F. Hegel’s worry that Kant neglected how his moral theory was the product of a particular historical moment.

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