In this episode of The Examined Life, Phil Kallberg welcomes Prof. Sarah Geis on the program to discuss her third option for dealing with religious disagreement. Prof. Geis says that rather than just telling the truth, or showing love, we can learn to tell the truth in love, if we make use of some good philosophical foundations. Phil and Prof. Geis also touch on many other issues. (February 8, 2019)

Phil talks about what narrative bias is, where it comes from, why it's bad, and offers some advice on how to avoid it. He also gives out another face palm and sigh award and briefly explains Aristotle's argument for the unmoved mover. (February 1, 2019)

In the light of recent events like the APA's classifying masculinity as a problem, Phil challenges the prevailing wisdom that American culture and society is dominated by masculinity and argues that American society is actually primarily feminine. (January 25, 2019)

In this episode Phil tackles the difficult and complicated question of how society should deal with poverty. Is it best for the government to handle it? Is it best to leave it to charities? Phil looks at the evidence and attempts to draw some conclusions.

In this episode of The Examined Life, Phil Kallberg explores the question of what Socrates, the spiritual father of philosophy, thought about God. Did the actual God speak to Socrates and push Socrates into philosophy, or was something else going on? (January 11, 2019)

In this week's episode of The Examined Life, Phil Kallberg discusses the apparent problem of hell with Michael Jones, who runs the Inspiring Philosophy channel on YouTube. Michael explains the choice model of hell and responds to several objections and misconceptions about the concepts of heaven and hell. (January 4, 2019)

In this episode of The Examined Life, Phil Kallberg interviews Prof. Zach Young, a Professor at River Valley Community College. In an essay, Prof. Young has advanced a theory that people who are undergoing intense suffering have lost the ability to make meaning out of their lives and that the way to help these people restore meaning to their lives is to bring them into community with other people and God. Phil and Prof. Young discuss the essay and this theory. (December 28, 2018)

Can we know or prove the Christmas Story is true? In this episode of The Examined Life, Phil Kallberg lists some reasons why we can trust that the gospel authors were telling the truth when they wrote of the birth of Christ. (December 21, 2018)

Tim Carter took issue with a few of the points in Phil's previous episode "Why Evil? Exploring a Framework for Understanding Suffering" so they discuss Tim's concerns and end up exploring some different approaches to free will and its implications. (December 14, 2018)

In this episode of The Examined Life, Phil Kallberg explores how social media like Facebook affects us and what we can do about it. (December 7, 2018)