Since 2017, I’ve been co-hosting a nationally-syndicated radio show called “Philosophy Talk,” first with Ken Taylor and now with Ray Briggs. Here are the episodes I’ve been involved with so far.

(166) “The Examined Year: 2025,” December 28, 2025.

(165) “Gilbert Ryle and the Map of the Mind,” November 30, 2025.

(164) “Narrative and the Meaning of Life,” November 9, 2025.

(163) “Making and Breaking Habits,” October 12, 2025.

(162) “Robert Musil and Life as Experiment,” September 21, 2025.

(161) “Henri Bergson and the Flow of Time,” August 31, 2025.

(160) “The Value of Music,” August 10, 2025.

(159) “Schopenhauer: Living Your Worst Life,” July 13, 2025.

(158) “Private Lives,” June 29, 2025.

(157) “Philippa Foot,” June 15, 2025.

(156) “Mary Midgley,” May 18, 2025.

(155) “Are Rules Meant to be Broken?” April 27, 2025.

(154) “Iris Murdoch,” April 13, 2025.

(153) “Judith Jarvis Thomson,” March 16, 2025.

(152) “The 2025 Dionysus Awards,” March 2, 2025.

(151) “The Philosophical Worlds of Borges,” February 16, 2025.

(150) “Alan Turing and the Limits of Computation,” February 9, 2025.

(149) “Elizabeth Anscombe,” January 13, 2025.

(148) “The Examined Year: 2024,” December 29, 2024.

(147) “Crisis and Creativity in Mayan Mythology,” December 15, 2024.

(146) “What’s so Special about Humans?” December 1, 2024.

(145) “Emma Goldman,” November 17, 2024.

(144) “Simone Weil,” October 27, 2024.

(143) “Anna Julia Cooper,” October 6, 2024.

(142) “Marx and Morality,” September 22, 2024.

(141) “How to Do Things with Your Mind,” September 8, 2024.

(140) “Hildegard von Bingen,” August 25, 2024.

(139) “Who Speaks for You?” July 21, 2024.

(138) “Nísia Floresta,” July 7, 2024.

(137) “Daniel Dennett Retrospective,” June 30, 2024.

(136) “Summer Reading List 2024,” June 9, 2024.

(135) “Logic for Everyone,” May 26, 2024.

(134) “Mary Wollstonecraft,” May 12, 2024.

(133) “Why is the World so Weird?” April 28, 2024.

(132) “Mind-Sharing,” March 31, 2024.

(131) “Margaret Cavendish,” March 24, 2024.

(130) “The 2024 Dionysus Awards,” March 10, 2024.

(129) “Im Yunjidang,” February 25, 2024.

(128) “Can A.I. Help Us Understand Babies?,” February 4, 2024.

(127) “20th Anniversary Quiz Night,” January 28, 2024.

(126) “American Futures,” December 31, 2023.

(125) “In Awe of Wonder,” December 3, 2023.

(124) “Mary Astell,” November 19, 2023.

(123) “Zhuangzi: Being One with Ten Thousand Things,” November 5, 2023.

(122) “Elisabeth of Bohemia,” October 22, 2023.

(121) “Can Architecture be Political?” October 8, 2023.

(120) “Are we Living in a Simulation?” September 17, 2023.

(119) “Weird Wants,” August 20, 2023.

(118) “Making a Better World,” August 13, 2023.

(117) “Hypatia of Alexandria,” July 23, 2023.

(116) “Mexican Philosophy,” June 25, 2023.

(115) “Summer Reading List 2023,” July 9, 2023.

(114) “What is Gender?” June 18, 2023.

(113) “Can Art Save Us?” May 28, 2023.

(112) “True Contradictions,” May 21, 2023.

(111) “The Power of Prediction,” April 30, 2023.

(110) “Derek Parfit and your Future Self,” April 16, 2023.

(109) “The Philosophy of Smell,” March 26, 2023.

(108) “The 2023 Dionysus Awards,” March 5, 2023. (In 2024, the Roving Philosophical Report for this episode, written/produced by Holly McDede, Angela Johnston, and Devon Strolovitch, won an award from the San Francisco Press Club.)

(107) “Cancel Culture,” February 19, 2023.

(106) “Why Trust Science,” January 22, 2023.

(105) “The Examined Year: 2022,” January 1, 2023.

(104) “How to Create Virtuous Leaders,” October 30, 2022.

(103) “Liberty and Justice for Who?” October 16, 2022.

(102) “Climate Change and Collective Action,” October 2, 2022.

(101) “Who Owns Culture?”, September 18, 2022.

(100) “Effective Altruism,” August 28, 2022.

(99) “What is Political Inequality?”, August 14, 2022.

(98) “Is Optimism Rational?”, July 24, 2022.

(97) “Summer Reading List: Banned Books Edition,” July 10, 2022.

(96) “The Changing Face of Antisemitism,” June 19, 2022.

(95) “The Scandalous Truth about Memoir,” May 29, 2022.

(94) “What is Ideology?”, May 8, 2022.

(93) “What Would Kant Do?”, April 17, 2022.

(92) “Why Poetry Matters” (with Louise Glück), April 10, 2022.

(91) “The 2022 Dionysus Awards,” March 20, 2022.

(90) “#METOO: Retribution, Accountability, and Justice,” March 6, 2022.

(89) “Akan Philosophy and Personhood,” February 20, 2022 (earlier version: October 24, 2021).

(88) “Righteous Rage,” February 6, 2022. (In 2024, the Roving Philosophical Report for this episode, written/produced by Holly McDede, Angela Johnston, and Devon Strolovitch, won an “excellence in journalism award” from the Society of Professional Journalists.)

(87) “Marcus Aurelius,” January 30, 2022.

(86) “Could Robots be Persons?,” January 9, 2022.

(85) “The Examined Year: 2021,” December 26, 2021.

(84) “What Can Virtual Reality (Actually) Do?,” December 12, 2021.

(83) “Should All Ages Be Equal?,” November 28, 2021.

(82) “The Social Lives of Robots,” November 14, 2021.

(81) “Frege and the Language of Reason,” November 7, 2021.

(80) “The Mysterious Timelessness of Math,” October 10, 2021.

(79) “The Ethics of Awesomeness,” August 29, 2021.

(78) “Microaggressions,” August 15, 2021.

(77) “Referring to the World: Ken Taylor’s Final Work,” July 25, 2021.

(76) “Your Brain on Literature,” July 11, 2021.

(75) “Summer Reading List 2021,” June 20, 2021.

(74) “Nonduality and the Oneness of Being,” June 6, 2021.

(73) “The Lives and Ideas of the Vienna Circle,” May 23, 2021.

(72) “What has Replaced Freud?,” February 28, 2021.

(71) “The Rhetoric of Big Tech,” January 31, 2021.

(70) “Democracy by Numbers,” January 17, 2021.

(69) “The Examined Year: 2020,” December 27, 2020.

(68) “Minds and Matter,” December 13, 2020.

(67) “The Arts for All?” November 29, 2020.

(66) “Are we All to Blame?” November 15, 2020.

(65) “What’s in a Game?,” October 25, 2020.

(64) “Why We Hate,” October 18, 2020.

(63) “Science and Skepticism,” October 4, 2020.

(62) “Citizenship and Justice,” September 13, 2020.

(61) “The Merits of Meritocracy,” August 30, 2020.

(60) “Can Streets Discriminate?,” August 9, 2020.

(59) “The Ethical Jerk,” July 26, 2020.

(58) “Walter Benjamin and the Re-Enchanted World,” July 12, 2020.

(57) “Pet Ethics,” June 28, 2020.

(56) “Time for Summer Reading,” June 14, 2020.

(55) “Covid Conundrums And Moral Dilemmas,” May 31, 2020.

(54) “Comforting Conversations Part Two,” May 24, 2020.

(53) “Comforting Conversations Part One,” May 17, 2020.

(52) “(Why) Money Matters,” April 26, 2020.

(51) “Philosophy and the Superhero,” April 12, 2020.

(50) “The 2020 Dionysus Awards,” March 15, 2020.

(49) “Is the Self an Illusion?” February 23, 2020.

(48) “Death of the Sentence,” January 26, 2020.

(47) “Comedy and the Culture Wars,” January 12, 2020.

(46) “A Tribute to Ken Taylor,” December 19, 2019.

(45) “Sanctuary Cities,” November 17, 2019.

(44) “Hobbes and the Ideal Citizen,” November 3, 2019.

(43) “Conscious Machines,” October 20, 2019.

(42) “The Allure of Authoritarianism,” October 6, 2019.

(41) “Explanation at its Best,” September 29, 2019.

(40) “Changing Minds on Climate Change,” September 8, 2019.

(39) “Reading the Troubled Past,” August 11, 2019.

(38) “Is Postmodernism Really to Blame for Post-Truth?” July 14, 2019.

(37) “Summer Reading (and Misreading),” July 7, 2019.

(36) “What is Religious Belief?” May 5, 2019.

(35) “Is Philanthropy Bad for Democracy?” April 28, 2019.

(34) “Is Postmodernism Really to Blame for Post-Truth?” July 14, 2019.

(33) “Authority and Resistance,” April 21, 2019.

(32) “Hacking the Brain: Beyond the Five Senses,” April 14, 2019.

(31) “Immigration and Multiculturalism,” March 10, 2019.

(30) “Envy: Vice or Virtue?” January 27, 2019.

(29) “The 2019 Dionysus Awards,” February 17, 2019.

(28) “What do we Owe Future Generations?” February 10, 2019.

(27) “The Examined Year 2018,” December 30, 2018.

(26) “Foucault and Power,” December 2, 2018.

(25) “The Creative Life,” November 25, 2018.

(24) “Does Reputation Matter?,” November 11, 2018.

(23) “Can Reason Save Us?,” October 21, 2018.

(22) “The New Golden Age of Television,” September 30 2018.

(21) “The Psychology of Cruelty,” September 16, 2018.

(20) “The Athlete as Philosopher,” August 26, 2018.

(19) “The Ethics of Algorithms,” August 12, 2018.

(18) “Does Science Overreach?,” July 22, 2018.

(17) “Summer Reading List 2018,” July 1, 2018.

(16) “Are We Alone?,” April 29, 2018.

(15) “Trolling, Bullying, and Flame Wars,” April 15, 2018.

(14) “Monstrous Technologies?,” April 8, 2018.

(13) “The Culture Industry,” March 25, 2018.

(12) “How to Humbly Disagree,” March 11, 2018.

(11) “The 2018 Dionysus Awards,” February 18, 2018.

(10) “Frantz Fanon and the Violence of Colonialism,” January 28, 2018.

(9) “Fractured Identities,” January 21, 2018.

(8) “The Examined Year 2017,” December 31, 2017.

(7) “Can Speech Kill?” December 19, 2017.

(6) “Midlife and Meaning,” December 3, 2017.

(5) “The Philosophy of Retirement,” November 10, 2017.

(4) “The Internet of Things,” October 15, 2017.

(3) “Post-Truth Politics,” September 10, 2017.

(2) “Summer Reading List 2017” (as guest host), July 2, 2017.

(1)  “Should Our Beliefs Aim at Truth?” (as guest host), May 14, 2017.


I’ve also guest-hosted a few times at “Entitled Opinions” on KZSU:

“On Beauty,” parts one and two (with Alexander Nehamas), Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature), KZSU Stanford, February 15 2011.

“The Uses of Philosophy” (with John Perry and Kenneth Taylor), Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature), KZSU Stanford, February 13 2011.

“The Re-Enchantment of the World” (with Michael Saler), Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature), KZSU Stanford, May 19 2009.

“Language and Thought” (with Lera Boroditsky), Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature), KZSU Stanford, November 4, 2008.