Crush #6 Bob Dylan has been called everything from a genius to an enigma, the original singer-songwriter, “the Shakespeare of songwriting,” and “the poet of our time.” Enormous legend has surrounded this artist for over […]
Philosophy Crush Podcasts Are Now On Google Play Music
Our podcasts are now available on Google Play Music. This makes our audio content available to all devices based on Android as well as Microsoft Windows. Podcasts published on this website will appear in Google […]
Philosophy Crush Podcasts Are Now Available On iTunes
Philosophy Crush podcasts are now available on Apple iTunes. You can listen to current and future podcasts directly from the iTunes app. Podcasts published on this website will appear in iTunes within 24 hours. Access […]
Post-Truth, and What Ever Happened to Journalism? Podcast
We live in a time when truth seems under siege. Can journalism ever be objective or truthful? Has democracy been corrupted by manipulators and liars? Has our culture killed off truth or just rendered the […]
Death For Beginners
Crush #5 How should we think about death? Philosophers have been thinking about this for two and a half millennia. For a topic that’s so elusive, they’ve had a lot to say. Let me focus […]
Our First Podcast Is Now Live
Hello Friends, Just three weeks ago, Philosophy Crush was nothing more than two words representing an idea between Paul Fairfield and I. In that time, I’ve been burning the midnight oil taking care of setting […]
Philosophy – Who Is It Good For? Podcast
Welcome to our inaugural podcast! Soon we will be live on iTunes and Google Play. In this podcast, Paul Fairfield, Professor of Philosophy at Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario, addresses the questions, what is philosophy? […]
The Art of Listening
Crush #4 Why is the act of speaking commonly thought more important than listening? As something of a natural listener myself, this has always puzzled me enormously. What is it to listen? Students, for example, […]
When You Get To The Top Of The Mountain – Then What?
Crush #3 Whatever you do for a living, you spend many years climbing the ladder. Going to school, getting credentials, chasing promotions, putting in the years. Through all these years the question is never why […]
Post-Truth, And What Ever Happened To Journalism?
Crush #2 We’re increasingly hearing that democratic politics has been corrupted by manipulators and liars, that old values of justice and truth itself have been sacrificed to corporate greed, ethno-nationalism, or populism. Most of the […]
