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The program that questions everything... except your intelligence – Sundays at 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco & online at www.kalw.org.

Outside the Bay Area: www.philosophytalk.org/stations
Subscribe: www.philosophytalk.org/get-the-podcast Philosophy Talk seeks to bring the richness of philosophical thought to a broad public. The show has been on the air since January 2004. It is currently broadcast on more than 100 public radio stations nationwide and can also be heard in international markets. Philosophy Talk is also a travel ro

PMJA 2026 Awards Announcement - Public Media Journalists Association 06/17/2026

BIG NEWS: Our series took 2nd place for Interview Program in this year's Public Media Journalists Association awards, one of three for our home station KALW in San Francisco 🏆

The sixteen-episode series about women in philosophy from antiquity to the 20th century was originally funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities that was abruptly terminated by the new administration in April 2025.

Check out all the winners at https://www.pmja.org/pmja-2026-awards-announcement, and of course listen to the series at https://philosophytalk.org/series/wisewomen

PMJA 2026 Awards Announcement - Public Media Journalists Association Public Media Journalists Association today announced the winners of its 2026 Annual Awards Competition, honoring the best in public media journalism produced during 2025. The 293 awards span breaking news, investigative reporting, features, audience engagement, science storytelling, video journalism...

06/16/2026

James Joyce's novel "Ulysses" is set on June 16, 1904. In 2008, our Roving Philosophical Reporter, Julie Napolin, explored how Joyce and his protagonist Leopold Bloom were influenced by the philosophy of William James.

More at https://philosophytalk.org/shows/william-james KALW

06/14/2026

An old friend at the Stanford Report sent us this article he wrote back in 2003 ahead of John & Ken's live KALW pilot—probably the first press feature on the program, making sure folks knew it would be different from Car Talk 😇

06/12/2026

Coming up: Is an oppressive system that sorts people into pink and blue boxes, or is it a critical part of people’s identities? Josh and guest-host Blakey Vermeule ask Josh's regular co-host Ray Briggs, co-author of "What Even Is Gender?"

🎧 Sunday at 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco & https://www.kalw.org/show/philosophy-talk/2024-06-20/what-is-gender

06/11/2026

It's LGBTQ+ , and for our next episode our Roving Philosophical Reporter brings us this excerpt from KALW's tbh podcast in which Cassidy Kanner-Gomes explains how the covid pandemic sparked a deeper exploration of gender identity.

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