The Canadian Story is a podcast about what it means to be Canadian. Interviews cover a wide variety topics with the overarching goal of reminding Canadians why we are all so proud of our country. […]
The search for meaning
PODCAST: TRANSCRIPT: One of the questions that first attracted me to philosophy when I was a teenager is the perennial problem of the meaning of life. The search for meaning drove me to read widely […]
25 Rules For Life
PODCAST: TRANSCRIPT: I’ve always made it a point to listen to anyone who dispenses advice on how to live, whoever they are. Anything from ancient moral philosophy to clickbait headlines that read something like “Top […]
On specialists and interdisciplinarity
PODCAST: TRANSCRIPT: Many years ago I asked my former Ph.D. advisor why he chose to write a particular book that he had published some years back. His name was Gary Madison and the book in […]
On Fanaticism
PODCAST: TRANSCRIPT: Were I to set out to create a fanaticized society, I would begin by dividing its population into several inward-looking groups, to each of which I would relate a narrative about who they […]
The individual against the mass
PODCAST: TRANSCRIPT: If you’re anything like me, when you see a large mass of humanity going in one direction your instinct is to go another way. I can’t say what this instinct is exactly, where […]
Rural Royalty
PODCAST: TRANSCRIPT: On your next day off consider getting in your car and driving far out of the city and deep into the countryside. You’ll find some interesting things there. Some of them are funny […]
A New Book by Paul Fairfield
Professor and Philosopher Paul Fairfield has just released a new book. Philosophical Reflections on Antiquity: Historical Change addresses the question of whether there is a logic of historical change, and whether the collapse of teleology […]
The University
PODCAST: TRANSCRIPT: For several decades now, the corporate model has inserted itself into the university. The phenomenon gained momentum in the 1980s under the influence of political conservatism and the consequences are with us still. […]
Strange Beautiful Music
PODCAST: TRANSCRIPT: Strange Beautiful Music is the title of Joe Satriani’s “musical memoir” which was published in 2017, a book I read recently and highly recommend. It’s also the title of his record of 2002 and the […]
Philosophy Crush 